en apple news

Description This program includes an author's note read by Michael Wolff. The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, best-selling author Michael Wolff tells the riveting story of how Trump launched a tenure as volatile and fiery as the man himself. In this explosive audiobook, Wolff provides a wealth of new details about the chaos in the Oval Office. Among the revelations: What President Trump's staff really thinks of him What inspired Trump to claim he was wire-tapped by President Obama Why FBI director James Comey was really fired Why chief strategist Steve Baon and Trump's son-in-law ...

Description Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Presidency is the ultimate behind-the-scenes account of how he became president of the United States. Corey R. Lewandowski, Trump's campaign manager who launched Trump's historic bid for the White House, teams up with David N. Bossie, the consummate political pro who helped steer the last critical months of the Trump campaign, to offer the first insiders' account of the most historic campaign in mode political history. Starting from the months leading up to Trump's aouncement all the way through staff shakeups within the White House, Let Trump Be Trump offers eyewitness accounts of the r...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageA wiing sell? Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Donald Trump hasn't quite become the rock star with milleials that he is with more disceing types.Neither has Hillary Clinton. Recent polling suggests that 37 percent of the young and restless have a strongly unfavorable opinion of the Democratic candidate. Then again, 50 percent feel the same strongly negative way about her Republican opponent.How can the Trump campaign address this troubling trend in the race to the bottom? On Friday, it offered a twin-pr...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageWill this move the African-American community? If so, to what? Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Recent analysis suggests Donald Trump doesn't write all his tweets.On Saturday moing, however, his Twitter account was adoed with a musing that felt as if it came instantly from his exalted mind.It read: "Dwayne Wade's cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago. Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!"On Friday, Nykea Aldridge, cousin of the Chicago Bulls guard, was...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageIn the interests of justice? screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I don't know whether you've heard, but there's no need to vote.The election is apparently going to rigged. At least that's what Republican candidate Donald Trump intimated on the campaign trail this week. It's unclear what evidence Trump has for this worrying assertion. What is clearer is that he's doing something about it.He's using the open and coected power of the web to hire so-called election observers. Well, when I say "hire," I of cou...

[embedded content] There are many fan-made Pokemon projects out there, but none were slaved over for nearly a decade.Pokemon Uranium, which took developrs JV and Involuntary Twitch nine years to make -- was released this week.The game is set in a new region, Tandor, and its developers designed and animated over 150 new, unofficial Pokemon. These include a new type not found in the actual Pokemon games, the Nuclear type.It appears to be developed on Gameboy Advance architecture, resembling the graphics in 2004's Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green games. The release is timely, with Pokemon Go putting the franchise back on the map over the last month o...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageThis is more of an Android expression. John Moore, Getty Images I have, over the last months, gained a certain impression of Donald Trump.He seems to be a man who has a toothy, charming side and a slightly more boisterous, blowhardy, thin-skied and insulting side.Naturally, I've gleaned this picture mostly from his Twitter feed. Where else should one go to get a sophisticated image of someone?In recent times, I've noted that there seem to be these two Trumps. One is determined to call Elizabeth Warren "Po...

Hackers for Hillary met in Las Vegas for a fund-raiser. David Becker/Getty Images Talk about a comment backfiring. Donald Trump continues to face fallout after saying he hopes Russian hackers find Hillary Clinton's "missing" emails. At a press conference in Florida last month, the Republican presidential nominee said he hopes Russia tracks down 30,000 personal emails that Clinton deleted during her tenure as secretary of state. Trump's campaign later said the candidate was being sarcastic.Trump's comments may have convinced some cybersecurity experts to rally behind Clinton.Around 60 security professionals at...

HP Meg Whitman is crossing party lines to endorse Hilary Clinton for President.In an interview with the New York Times on Tuesday, the President and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and former Republican candidate for Califoia goveor called Republican nominee Donald Trump a "dishonest demagogue" and encouraged other Republicans to follow her lead. "I will vote for Hillary, I will talk to my Republican friends about helping her, and I will donate to her campaign and try to raise money for her," Whitman told the Times.Whitman also stated that all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, should "put countr...

Enlarge ImageYou can soon expect to see new, interactive gaming experiences developed for Amazon's Alexa-powered smart speakers. Tyler Lizenby/CNET Amazon wants more gaming options for its voice-powered virtual assistant Alexa, and today, it's introducing a new set of tools that'll make it easier for developers to bring them to life. The gaming tools are the newest addition to the Alexa Skills Kit, a set of blueprints for creating Alexa's "skills" -- essentially the apps of the Amazon Echo and Amazon's other Alexa-enabled gadgets. Developers already had access to templates for crafting basic command-and...

Enlarge ImageI voted for Snow/Mormont. HBO Daenerys Targaryen, Jon Snow, Cersei Laister and Petyr Baelish don't technically qualify for the US presidency, but that isn't stopping HBO from proposing a GOT ("Game of Thrones") party as a third party during the American election year. At the website TheGOTParty.com, fans of the hit TV show can vote for their favorite leader in a fake primary election. HBO chose to narrow the massive character list down to four leading contenders. Each candidate has a platform. For example, Daenerys' platform rests on freedom for the known world, rebuilding the dragon population...

The US Constitution is hot.The document, which tus 229 years old next month, has become an Amazon best-seller after the father of a Muslim soldier killed in Iraq pulled out a miniature copy at the Democratic National Convention last week to criticize Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump."Donald Trump, you're asking Americans to trust you with their future. Let me ask you, have you even read the United States Constitution?" he asked, shaking the pocket edition in the air. "I will gladly lend you my copy." Since then, a $1 pocket edition of the document has climbed the inteet retailer's best-seller list, coming in second only to "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."However, the edition ...

[embedded content] "The Simpsons" has never been shy about making fun of American politics. After all, several presidents have been Simpsons-fied on the long-ruing animated comedy series. Bill Clinton, famously, was always hitting on Marge. George Bush Sr. was a neighbor for a while.But as the 2016 race for the US presidency increasingly resembles a "Simpsons" episode, it was inevitable that the animated series take aim at both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.In a short video clip called "3 a.m." -- posted on YouTube on July 30 by Animation on Fox -- we see Homer and Marge grappling with who to support in the upcoming election, as they watch a ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageShe's tittering at his Twittering. ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images If you're going to make a man feel small, you have two choices.You either go for his hands or you go for his Twitter habits.During her speech on Thursday to the Democratic National Convention, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton decided to go for the latter.In a line that might get repeated just once or twice in the future, Clinton mused: "A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons."Twitter soon declared ...

An online activist group is petitioning to keep Donald Trump out of security briefings after the Republican presidential candidate said he hopes Russian hackers get into rival candidate Hillary Clinton's email.Credo Action is seeking 10,000 signatures urging national intelligence Director James Clapper to not allow Trump to be privy to classified information after Trump said Wednesday he wishes Russia will find 30,000 personal emails that his Democratic challenger deleted from her term as secretary of state.GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump says he has no ties to Russia after the country has been accused of recently hacking of inteal Democratic National Committee emails. ...

Enlarge ImageThe Trump tower of sound. Sound of Power Finally, you can get Donald Trump to say or sing whatever, whenever and wherever you want. Sound of Power is commemorating Trump's official nomination for president by the Republican Party by adding a bust of The Donald to its line of high-end speakers in the shape of some of the world's more controversial leaders. "It's with pride we present the final character in the Sound of Power series, Donald the Great. Offering you to play Donald like he's been playing you," reads the catty description of the speaker on the company website. "Donald the Great i...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageDonald Trump eggs on the Russians, so that Hillary Clinton can have egg on her face. CBS News/ Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Will this election be decided less at conventions and more in cyberspace? It seems so. On one side, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton is dogged by her use of a personal server for govement business. She's also suffering from the release this week of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee. Speculation held that Russia was behind this hack. Evidence se...

Enlarge Image Amazon Like Apple and Facebook, Amazon wants a slice of India. And now, the Seattle-based company is taking action.On Tuesday, Amazon launched its Prime subscription service in the world's second most-populated nation. Through Prime membership, the e-commerce giant offers free and faster delivery options to customers. The service is available in only a handful of regions, including the United States, UK, Japan and Germany.As part of Prime, Amazon is currently offering Indian customers in "over 100 cities" one-day and two-day delivery options, and access to special deals. Customers in 20 cities w...

Michelle Obama took aim at Donald Trump and Twitter during her DNC speech Monday night, saying the issues a president faces "caot be boiled down into 140 characters." Well said. It's perfectly legitimate however to boil down reaction to such speeches to 140 characters. Let's tu to the eagerly anticipated address by Beie Sanders, who closed out the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. We can boil it down to "compare and contrast." The senator from Vermont endorsed his onetime rival for the presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton, amid the crowd's cheers, tears and boos (boos at times for Clinton but mostly for Trump). But he quic...