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Description In the first book of this brilliant series, Stephen King introduces listeners to one of his most powerful creations: Roland of Gilead, The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding jouey into ...

It's even bigger than it looks. Standing in front of it, my head tilted back -- it's huge. It's sci-fi come to life: an 18-meter/59-foot tall Mobile Suit from the anime series "Gundam." Built initially to celebrate the series' 30th aiversary, the enormous statue has traveled around a bit. It now stands guard in front of the DiverCity mall on the artificial island of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay. It doesn't walk around (sadly), nor can you climb up into it (bummer), but for fans of the anime, or anyone who just digs giant robots, it's pretty cool. Here's how it looks up close. Fundam with Tokyo's giant Gundam ...

Close WhatsApp to share data with Facebook Drag WhatsApp just aounced that it updated its terms and conditions to permit the company to opt-in all one billion of its users to share information with Facebook. Facebook will take that information to find friends and also target ads better. WhatsApp is also working on ways for b...

Your airline will soon be able to tell you when your flight is delayed via WhatsApp. WhatsApp WhatsApp users, get ready for messages from companies looking for your business.That's the upshot from Thursday's update to WhatsApp's terms and conditions. The company outlined in a blog post the kind of interactions it wants to enable, including being notified by your bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction or being waed about a delayed flight. These are things we might currently be informed about by a text message or phone call. WhatsApp hopes to enable these notifications too, all while keeping spam and th...

Enlarge Image YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images Gundam is big in Japan -- so big, it's spawned video games, manga and even an academic institute. Now, the giant Japanese robots are being brought into VR. One of the geekier tourist attractions of Tokyo is a to-scale, 35 toe, 18-metre tall Gundam statue. Using HTC's Vive virtual reality technology, Gundam fans can now bring this statue to life. Named the "Gundam VR Daiba Assault", the VR experience allows you to be cradled in that Gundam's mechanical hand as it comes to life to battle against its Zeon enemies. Using a mixture of a VR simulation of the area outs...

Close Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian detention Drag Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian detentionThis is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series "Life, Disrupted," about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis -- if at all.I was in the kitchen at my ...

When it comes to inteet-coected devices, I dare you to find something more intimate than a vibrator controlled by a smartphone app.That's what Standard Iovation offers in its We Vibe 4 Plus, which pairs with a smartphone via Bluetooth and can be controlled by a partner, near or far. What could go wrong? Well, two security researchers who go by the names followr and g0ldfisk found flaws in the software that controls the device. It could potentially let a hacker take over the vibrator while it's in use. But that's -- at this point -- only theoretical. What the researchers found more conceing was the device's use of personal data. Standard Iovation collects information on the temperature of the...

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[embedded content] Living in Florida during a summer heatwave can be brutal, but the Backyard Scientist is here to help, or at least make it more interesting by building not only a liquid nitrogen squirt gun but also a flamethrower. In his latest video "Liquid Nitrogen Freeze-Ray Vs. Flamethrower" -- posted on YouTube this past week -- the Backyard Scientist has some fun with liquid nitrogen.After filling a stainless-steel thermos with liquid nitrogen, the video maker shows how pressure from the liquid tuing into a gas makes the nitrogen come out the tube, which is attached on the top. The result is an impressive cloud of cold water vapor that c...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryToyota working with Japanese cab industry to create next-generation taxiI tried very hard to think of a good "Taxi Driver" reference to shoeho into this story, but I fell short. I'm sorry. Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images Mobility is a many-headed beast. For an automaker to keep thriving in a world where car ownership isn't on everyone's minds, it needs to keep branching out. Toyota understands mobility well, and it's keeping its assets diversified. To that end, it's working with Japan's taxi industry to create the cab of tomorrow...today!Okay, maybe it's not coming today, but it's definite...

RoadshowNewsHatchbacksToyota delays Prius Prime plug-in debut by an entire season Close AutoComplete: BMW gets the green light for 2017 diesel models Drag Enlarge ImageThe Prius Prime's styling isn't for everyone. Toyota Toyota's Prius Prime is t...

Traces of deleted WhatsApp chats can linger on an iPhone, says security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski. Photothek/Getty Images If you're a WhatsApp user with an iPhone, your chats might not be as secure as you think.Despite the popular messaging app's aouncement earlier this year that it would encrypt all user data, a security researcher said Friday that the latest version of WhatsApp for Apple's iOS software for iPhones leaves some information vulnerable. The researcher, Jonathan Zdziarski, found traces of deleted chats, which can be pieced together into conversations, he said, and that's even if you've clea...

Traces of deleted WhatsApp chats can linger on an iPhone, says security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski. Photothek/Getty Images If you're a WhatsApp user with an iPhone, your chats might not be as secure as you think.Despite the popular messaging app's aouncement earlier this year that it would encrypt all user data, a security researcher said Friday that the latest version of WhatsApp for Apple's iOS software for iPhones leaves some information vulnerable. The researcher, Jonathan Zdziarski, found traces of deleted chats, which can be pieced together into conversations, he said, and that's even if you've clea...

The Transportation Security Administration in the US has eaed a pretty bad rap for spending gobs of money on a simple app, getting mad at teenagers and gawking at naked passengers. Somebody in the social media department, however, has a sense of humor. The TSA shared a post on Instagram Tuesday about how it's A-OK to bring a mummified head on board your next flight.The TSA runs an AskTSA service through Twitter and Facebook Messenger that lets travelers inquire about what they can take on a plane and what needs to stay home. Someone sent in this rather odd request: "wondering if it's OK to bring this mummified head of Jeremy Bentham as a carry-on item. Thanks!"The TSA responded with "Jeremy ...

It could've been much worse. Enlarge ImageIowa football player Faith Ekakitie, left, was playing Pokemon Go in a park when he was searched at gunpoint by police looking for a bank robber. Matthew Holst, Getty Images A US college football player wrote in a poignant post on Facebook that he feared for his life after being mistaken by police for a suspected bank robber and searched at gunpoint while playing Pokemon Go. University of Iowa defensive end Faith Ekakitie's experience was a top trend Monday. The 290-pound senior was in an Iowa City park last Wednesday playing the immensely popular augmented reality ga...

It's official: Ghost Rider is coming to ABC's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." this fall. No, not Nic Cage (I mean Johy Blaze), but a more recent incaation: Roberto "Robbie" Reyes, who drives a muscle car instead of a motorcycle. Gabriel Luna of "True Detective" will play Reyes. In the comics, Reyes is a teenager resurrected by the Spirit of Eli Morrow and transformed into Ghost Rider -- he made his first appearance in "All-New Ghost Rider #1" in May 2014.The panel aouncement also came with a brief teaser of the fiery chain-wielding cast member. In other news, it sounds like Daisy (Chloe Beett) might get a new love interest next season -- wait, is Reyes the right a...

Got an HTC Vive headset? You can become a Jedi in the Star Wars universe for free this Monday.Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine, a lightsaber virtual-reality experiment we checked out in March, is coming to the Steam VR platform as a free download, said ILMxLab, Lucasfilm's immersive-entertainment division.During a panel discussion Saturday at Star Wars Celebration Europe, ILMxLab also said it's working on a future Star Wars VR experience that will focus on everyone's favorite Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vade...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageThe police weren't pleased to see him at all. Essex Police/Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET It's dangerous to think you're clever.You're not likely to be clever if, for example, you do something dangerous at an airport.But one man at London Stansted Airport seemed to think he was.There he stood with what looked like a gun in his back pocket.The local Essex police weren't pleased to see him.Indeed, in a Twitter post, they presented a picture of the man's rear.They added the caption: "You have a ...

WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum Albert Gea/Reuters/Corbis A Brazilian judge has frozen 19.5 million reais ($6.07 million, £2.2 million, $4 million AU) in Facebook funds after the social networking company repeatedly ignored federal orders to release WhatsApp messages related to a drug investigation. The messages could contain evidence linking a cocaine smuggling ring in Brazil to local cohorts in Bolivia, Paraguay and Spain, according to a Reuters report Thursday.Brazilian police have repeatedly asked WhatsApp for the messages, Reuters said. After determining non-compliance, a judge blocked parent company Facebook from...

Time to get ready for Jeff Bezos' favorite made-up holiday. No, not Festivus -- Prime Day.Amazon on Wednesday said Prime Day, a shopping event it introduced last year, is coming back on July 12, starting midnight Pacific Time for US shoppers. As the name suggests, all Prime Day deals are available only to Prime members, who pay $99 a year for unlimited two-day shipping and other perks. (But folks using a 30-day free Prime trial can join in, too.)The first Prime Day, held to celebrate the online retailer's 20th aiversary, proved a big success for the company, with new members pouring in and sales topping any prior Black Friday. However, Amazon faced a backlash on social media, with some compl...