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A crowd gathers at Parc Paragon in Bangkok to catch Pokemon. Vichan Poti/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images Pokemon Go players in Bangkok are being blamed for an increase in road accidents -- and Thai authorities want to put a stop to it, the Bangkok Post reports.A group of 50 police officers, described as "catchers of Pokemon catchers" by Bangkok police chief Sanit Mahathavo, will be equipped with mobile phone cameras. They will patrol 10 areas with busy traffic, which will be no-go zones for Pokemon hunters.If caught ruing while using a phone or hindering traffic while driving carelessly, players will f...

Under tremendous pressure to continue the iovative performance record forged by Steve Jobs, Tim Cook officially took over as CEO of Apple five years ago, with looming questions about his ability to deliver.As Cook celebrates his fifth aiversary as chief, questions still linger. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

In Calais, three refugee camps were designed with very different ideas in mind. They each have their own unique problems....

Legendary Pictures is bringing CG characters from movies like "Warcraft"and the upcoming "Pacific Rim 2"from the silver screen to your living room with a little help from Microsoft's HoloLens.We also take a look at an incredible bionic hand, built from a disassembled Keurig coffeemaker. Builder Evan Booth spent about 200 hours on the project, and the final product is impressive, to say the least. Close ...

Enlarge Image Waer Bros. "Suicide Squad" has fallen flat with critics, but it's long been true that you don't need 5-star reviews to bring in the dosh. Just ask Adam Sandler.The film topped the US box office on its opening weekend, generating $135.1 million, according to comScore. It was also No. 1 globally, bringing in $267.1 million worldwide. "Suicide Squad", which sees villains from the DC comic universe like Deadshot and Harley Qui form a team and complete missions for the govement, has now blown past its production budget of $175 million. There's no telling how many millions Waer Bros. spent marketing ...

Oscar-wiing makeup artist Michael Westmore, a mentor on the competition show "Face Off," also has the heft of a massive Star Trek resume behind him. He has worked on every Star Trek series except for the original '60s show. Westmore hosted a live-on-stage Borg-making demonstration at the 50th aiversary Star Trek convention in Las Vegas. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

The Star Trek 50th aiversary convention in Las Vegas attracts an out-of-this-world cosplay display. There are plenty of fans in Starfleet uniforms, but clever costumes also include an Orion slave girl, Santa Go and a strange Elvis-Trek mashup.This spectacular Nero costume pays tribute to the villain of the first Star Trek reboot movie, from 2009. The makeup is spot on. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

The Star Trek 50th aiversary convention in Las Vegas attracts an out-of-this-world cosplay display. There are plenty of fans in Starfleet uniforms, but clever costumes also include an Orion slave girl, Santa Go and a strange Elvis-Trek mashup.This spectacular Nero costume pays tribute to the villain of the first Star Trek reboot movie, from 2009. The makeup is spot on. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

While the team called Suicide Squad was introduced in the comic The Brave and the Bold #25 way back in 1959, Harley Qui only became a member in 2011. In fact, she wasn't even a comic character originally, first appearing the 1990s "Batman: The Animated Series".In the movie Harley Qui -- real name Harleen Quinzel, a psychologist -- is played by Australian actress Margot Robbie. She swings a baseball bat instead of a comically oversized mallet, but has the same quirky and uninhibited attitude as her comic book character, not to mention the same troubled relationship with the murderous Joker. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Atlantic Records is on the hunt for whoever leaked a song from the "Suicide Squad" soundtrack, and it's demanding Reddit help to find the culprit, according to TorrentFreak. Sometime around June 15, the song "Heathens" by Twenty One Pilots was uploaded to dropfile and leaked to the band's subreddit, a forum made by Reddit users to discuss the band. Atlantic stated in a complaint to a New York court that it gave a digital copy of the song to "an extremely limited number of individuals" before this date, the publication reported. "In each such case, the individual was barred from distributing the recording until the scheduled release date of June 24, 2016," it stated.Enlarge ImageThe leak of ...

As a kid, one of my most vivid memories of watching the political conventions on TV was the balloon drop at the end. And the DNC 2016's balloon drop didn't disappoint in real life. Following Clinton's speech, 1,000 pounds of confetti and 100,000 balloons, including some giant ones 36-inches in diameter, rained down from the ceiling of the Wells Fargo Center. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Enlarge ImageSamsung VR showing of its "Suicide Squad" side. Tania González/CNET During the first day of Comic-Con Inteational here in San Diego, Samsung Electronics and Waer Bros. brought a little VR buzz to the upcoming release of "Suicide Squad." CNET got a first look at the experience before the booth at the Hard Rock Hotel opened its doors to eager fans who patiently waited in line to get a virtual sneak peek at the highly anticipated film.It starts like an intro to a video game, with Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) sending you off on a rescue mission that will end with your death if you dare to fail. After...

[embedded content] Could computers be capable of creating art? This new AI from Chinese search-engine giant Baidu seems to be able to do just that.In a new exhibit at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, Baidu's new AI is analysing photos and paintings and creating entirely original musical arrangements based on the imagery it sees.Baidu, often called the Google of China, is the country's largest search-engine provider. It comprises China's "big three" inteet companies alongside Alibaba and Tencent. It's project is another example of what AI can do -- months after Google's AlphaGo artificial intelligence won four out of five games i...

Enlarge Image Blincam A team in Japan has made hands-free photography simpler than ever -- at least, for people who wear glasses. The Blincam is a camera that attaches to specs and takes pictures when you blink -- finally giving you a legitimate reason to wink at everyone and everything. It operates its shutter when it detects firm, intentional blinks of the eye with patent-pending sensor technology that can differentiate between natural eye-blinking and a concerted effort. With its built-in Bluetooth technology, any images captured by the device is uploaded to a paired phone.You can see the Blincam in all it...

[embedded content] With the release of David Ayer's "Suicide Squad" just weeks away, Waer Bros. has given us one last taste of the morally ambiguous super team before we see the real thing."Suicide Squad" stars Margot Robbie as Harley Qui, Will Smith as Deadshot and Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang, all members of Task Force X -- a secret squad of super villains given a do-or-die chance to commute their sentences. Jared Leto joins the cast as the Joker, facing down Ben Affleck, reprising his role as Batman and firmly cementing "Suicide Squad" in the DC Cinematic universe. The final trailer focuses on Viola Davis' character, mastermind Amanda Wal...

Amazon's Prime Day shopping-fest of a holiday launched in 2015 with some oddball bargains, ranging from giant tubs of taffy to signed "Goonies" photos. This year's festivities may be full of electronics bargains, but the party also contains plenty of bizarre products. Anybody want to to buy a gimp outfit with chainmail pants?This bouncy animal is designed for kids, but it will make plenty of adults long for the days of childhood. The inflatable animal hopper is known as Bey the Jumping Bull. The description says it's "SO-MUCH-FUN." It's part of the stranger side of Amazon's Prime Day deal-palooza. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your cont...

One of the perks of being bo into a nerdy family happens when your brother gets married, asks you to be his best man and lets you go nuts when it comes to designing a bachelor party with a Dungeons & Dragons theme. The classic role-playing game offers many possibilities when it comes to decor and activities. Here's how I tued a stag night into an immersive monster-fighting adventure.Ambience is key when it comes to hosting a Dungeons & Dragons-theme party. A professional artist helped to paint these massive murals and baers, which are held up with two-sided stickums on the wall. The dungeon wall features creeping vines and bloody hand prints to add to the dark and dangerous feel of t...

RoadshowNewsCoupesHere are the first official pictures of the Acura NSX GT3 racecarMore cars (or all of them) should be offered with exposed carbon fiber. Don't ask what that would do to the average transaction price, though... Acura Acura's released the first official pictures of the NSX GT3 ahead of its North American motorsports debut.The automaker debuted its latest motorsport offering without much pomp or circumstance at this year's New York Inteational Auto Show. After that, well, it just sort of faded into the background. Until now.Unlike the road-going NSX, which relies on a hybrid powertrain, the NSX...

The machines feature everything from auto-steering capabilities to apps that tell farmers what's going on in their fields....

NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft arrives at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. NASA This Fourth of July, while the rest of America is busy eating hotdogs and lighting fireworks (hopefully at the same time), the dedicated scientists and engineers of NASA are once again putting in the long hours, this time to bring us never before seen pictures of Jupiter. But once NASA gets us there, it's up to us to take pictures of the action. After almost five years hurtling solo through space, the solar-powered Juno spacecraft is today set to enter Jupiter's orbit, before spending 20 months circling the gas giant. In this time...