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Description A newly belligerent Chinese govement leaves US President Jack Ryan with only a few desperate options in this continuation of the number one New York Times best-selling Tom Clancy series. Jack Ryan is dealing with an aggressive challenge from the Chinese govement. Pawns are being moved around a global chessboard: an attack on an oil platform in Africa, a terrorist strike on an American destroyer, and a storm-tossed American spy ship that may fall into Chinese hands. It seems that President Zhao is determined to limit Ryan's choices in the upcoming G20 negotiations. But there are hints that there's even more going on behind the sc...

As part of our coverage of Star Trek's 50th aiversary, I talked with a dozen cast members from across the franchise about everything from Star Trek's inclusive message to how it feels to be a sex symbol to nerds. Jeri Ryan didn't want the role at first. The then up-and-comer was trying to kickstart her career after eaing a theater degree and wiing the Miss Illinois beauty pageant (she later competed in Miss America, coming in fourth place). "I wasn't remotely interested in science fiction," Ryan said of her pre-Star Trek days. Sure, she'd watched some episodes of the original series. But she'd also heard the shows had a history of stymieing some actor's careers. ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.An intact Falcon 9. NASA/Getty Images It was just a routine rocket test.However, as the Space X Falcon 9 rocket stood on the launch pad with its Amos-6 satellite, there was an explosion.Video has now emerged of what that explosion looked like.Posted by nonprofit US Launch Report, the video shows a blast of considerable magnitude. A fire started immediately and the top part of the rocket fell to the ground.Then the fire continued the rage, as so many hopes were temporarily bued. As the video of the fire continues, small...

[embedded content] Hurricanes are scary enough at ground level. View them from space and they look almost unreal, like special effects created in a movie studio. NASA released a time-lapse video on Tuesday showing the Inteational Space Station orbiting over three separate hurricanes. They look both massive and frightening from the station's orbital vantage point.In order, the video shows twin hurricanes Lester and Madeline in the Pacific Ocean and then Gaston in the Atlantic Ocean. Both Lester and Madeline pose a potential threat to the Hawaiian Islands. Gaston is kicking across the Atlantic with wind speeds reaching 100 mph (about 160 kph). Les...

[embedded content] If the US presidential race hasn't felt bizarre enough for you, the latest installment of the YouTube series "Bad Lip Reading" offers up unreal yet hilarious moments from the Democratic National Convention.In the video, published Friday, faux voice-overs of Hillary Clinton, Beie Sanders, President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton and more rev up the crowd with statements that were never actually made (we don't think). As with all the clips in the series, the video dubs the words as closely as possible to the speaker's mouth movements. Highlights include Chelsea Clinton giving gal-pal shout-outs, Hillary talking about ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageRyan Lochte. Does he think swimming through social media can rehabilitate his image? Stephen Du Performing a media pivot is just like taking a routine tu in the individual medley.You reach the wall, head in the opposite direction and perform a completely different stroke.So it is that Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte has decided to issue something that approximates an apology.He took to Instagram on Friday to express his sorrow at last week's unfortunate tu of events. "I want to apologize for my behavior last ...

The '80s creature-feature sensibilities of horror-adventure series "Stranger Things" have struck a chord with fans who love everything from kids classics "Goonies" and "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" to terrifying movies like "Alien" and "Poltergeist." So it makes sense the Netflix show about kids searching for their friend lost in another, parallel world would become a perfect muse for fans wanting a retro-looking video game featuring characters from the show. Game artist Midio decided to do just that. On Monday, he tweeted an animated GIF of the the main characters Eleven, Mike, Lucas and Dustin looking for their friend Will where he disappeared into the creepy woods. ...

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[embedded content] When beloved graphic novel "Watchmen" was reimagined as a movie directed by Zack Snyder, some irate fans, including "Watchmen" comics creator Alan Moore, criticized the movie's depiction of the troubled superheroes. Leave it to Honest Trailers -- a YouTube series from Screen Junkies that features a classic movie-trailer voice-over but with a narrator who makes fun of films -- to lay down some blunt opinions about the 2009 film. In a video posted Tuesday, Honest Trailers points out that the Watchmen may have looked pretty, but the movie tried way too hard to squeeze in every plotline from the comics. "Stare in awe as Snyder...

Sling Blake Krikorian, the co-founder of Sling Media and a longtime fixture in Silicon Valley, died Wednesday at age 48.His brother, Jason confirmed Krikorian's sudden passing on Facebook. According to Recode's Kara Swisher, he was "apparently struck by a heart attack while surfing in the San Francisco area." Krikorian had recently served as the corporate vice president for Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, following the acquisition of his company, id8 Group R2 Studios, by Redmond in 2013. But he was best known (to me and many others) as one of the visionary founders of Sling Media, which he co...

[embedded content] When a video starts off with a bald Lex Luthor singing in jail, you know you're in for a treat. From the twisted and talented minds of remixers Craven Moorhaus and Zak Koonce, known as Auralnauts, comes the music video "Batman v Superman - Ding Ding (feat. The Flash)." The video, posted on YouTube Wednesday, shows not only a very aoying Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg), but also the ever-so-angry Batman (Ben Affleck) and the equally upset Superman (Henry Cavill). DC Comics characters Aquaman, played by Jason Momoa, and Wonder Woman, played by Gal Gadot, have cameos. But it's the dancing, bearded version of the Flash, rapping an...

Japanese researchers at the University of Tokyo showed off an interesting concept: a case that gives smartphones wheels and enables them to roll around on their own. Forget summoning your car; we want to summon our phones. We're also taking a closer look at SymGym, a machine made for working out while playing video games. It doubles as a game controller, so users end up pulling, pushing and otherwise getting resistance reps while they control a video game. Close ...

Videos by Coldplay, fronted by Chris Martin, are among the first that Vevo will add from its agreement with Waer Music. Tabatha Fireman/Getty Images Online music-video company Vevo said Tuesday is has sealed a license with the last of the three major labels, Waer Music Group, to add selections of Waer's official videos into the Vevo library. It already has videos from the two other majors, Universal Music and Sony Music Entertainment, which together own Vevo. (YouTube's parent Google and outside investor Abu Dhabi Media also hold stakes.)For Vevo, Waer Music checks off a big box as it prepares to launch a sub...

[embedded content] On August 1, 1981 -- 35 years ago today -- a chael launched that was to change music history. Music Television, or MTV, kicked off for the first time at 12:01 a.m., Easte Time, with the now legendary words: "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll."Then the opening chords accompanied Trevor Ho of The Buggles singing the first line of "Video Killed the Radio Star."It tued out to be prophetic choice for the chael's first music video. By October 1981, record sales of the artists played on MTV but not radio stations were starting to boom. Radio stores were reporting overall sales rising up to 20 percent, while bands such as Adam and th...

Enlarge ImageWatch some of the best cosplayers in action in this San Diego Comic-Con 2016 video from Sneaky Zebra. Video screenshot by Boie Burton/CNET For some geeky fans who attended San Diego Comic-Con this year, the withdrawal symptoms afterwards can be downright painful. Who wants to sit in a boring office meeting when you'd rather be attending a panel on "The Walking Dead" while dressed as a zombie? The real world is downright dull when you're not dressed up as Superman while eating a plate of nachos. This new video from Sneaky Zebra, posted July 27 on YouTube, showcases the most impressive cosplay co...

Enlarge ImageThis retro adventure game art captures the creepiness of "Stranger Things" perfectly. Jacob Janerka The creepy-yet-endearing Netflix series "Stranger Things" -- which debuted July 15 -- is a kind of throwback to '80s creature features like "Evil Dead" and "Alien" as well as the kid-centric adventure films "The Goonies" and "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."So when game designer Jacob Janerka decided to celebrate the series with retro video game art, it felt like the perfect choice for an homage. Janerka is currently working on an '80s inspired point-and-click sci-fi adventure game called Paradigm. Bef...

There are certain truths we hold to be self-evident. The sun rises in the east, day follows night, there'll always be a weird new Oreo flavor, my Miesota Vikings will never win the Super Bowl. And when you pour out a bottle of water, it flows down to the ground, not up in the air.Unless you're at Hoover Dam, apparently. Leslie Hutchings and Camila Higgs traveled there this month and shot a video of an amazing experiment. Yes, the water is going up, not down, when poured out over the dam."The structure of the dam creates an upward draft that makes water actually defy gravity -- instead of traveling downwards, it is carried upwards by the wind," Hutchings wrote on YouTube earlier t...

Enlarge ImageLive video has become the buzzword of social media lately. Jason Cipriani/CNET What a difference two years make.Back then, when live video apps like Periscope and Meerkat arrived on mobile phones, live video seemed like a lark for tech nerds and poor college students looking to watch cable TV for free. But within months, protesters in Ferguson, Missouri tapped into the shaky and visceral feel of live video because they understand they can share the emotion of breaking news events with observers who might otherwise just get the news through photos and news cameras.Fast forward to March, when Faceb...

Capcom has released a new behind-the-scenes development diary for Dead Rising 4, looking at what makes its protagonist unique and showcasing some of the crazy weapons in the game.Among these is a military-grade exosuit, which you can combine with other in-game items to create something new. One of the examples is hooking up a slurpee machine to the suit, which lets you to send delicious ice toados at zombies. We also get an overview of the three types of zombies in the game. The first are the traditional shambling hordes, but on top of them there's the Freshly Infected, which are frantic and more aggressive, and the Evos, which are capable of dodging attacks. Watch below. Dead Risi...

Now that Verizon is officially buying past-its-prime Yahoo for $4.83 billion, we figured it was time to dig up some vintage footage of a time when Yahoo was the coolest kid on the web.In fall 1995, Yahoo was just a tiny, unprofitable startup run by former Stanford University Ph.D. students Jerry Yang and David Filo. CNET Central reporter Desmond Crisis interviewed the dot-com entrepreneurs when the site was only 18 months old. They had just changed its name to Yahoo from "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web."At the time, Yang associated Yahoo with "fun, discovery and finding information." They talked about how Yahoo got its quirky name, their goals for the business and how it was k...