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Publisher Description Bestselling author, speaker, and world-traveling success coach Jen Sincero cuts through the din of the self-help genre with her own verbal meat clea...

Description Number one New York Times Best Seller Do you ever suspect that everyone else has life figured out and you don’t have a clue? If so, Rachel Hollis has something to tell you: That’s a lie. ...

Description Audie Award Wier, Personal Development, 2014 Best-selling author, speaker, and world-traveling success coach Jen Sincero cuts through the din of the self-help genre with her own verbal meat cleaver in You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life. In this refreshingly blunt how-to guide, Sincero serves up 27 bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, life-changing insights, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word. Via chapters such as "Your Brain Is Your Bitch", "Fear Is for Suckers", and "My Subconscious Made Me Do It", Sincero takes you on a ...

If the price tag of a new phone makes you sweat, you're not alone.Since all four major carriers have done away with their device subsidies, US consumers for the first time are seeing how much their fancy phones actually cost. And it's not pretty. While we've all been trained to lust for the latest Apple iPhone or Samsung Galaxy gadget, which cost a small fortune, the reality is that you can still get a pretty sophisticated, good-quality phone for a fraction of the price. In this edition of Ask Maggie, I spell out options for a frugal shopper. Dear Maggie,My old phone is on the fritz. I need a new one stat, but the prices are horrifying. I've heard old iPhones drop in price right after the ne...

Close Are cloud services good enough to store our digital life? (Open_Tab) Drag Dropbox, Amazon Cloud, Google Drive -- these services all promise to make everything from baby pictures to work documents available on any device. But at what pain points? Jeff Bakalar, Roger Cheng and Ben Fox Rubin talk about the services they us...

Nobody likes getting socked with a charge for going over a monthly wireless data cap. And thanks to changes made by the nation's two largest carriers, those days may be over forever.Earlier this summer AT&T and Verizon said they'd eliminate charges for customers who bust their data caps, in exchange for slowing service to 2G speeds. It's a policy competitors T-Mobile and Sprint have offered for years. And it's likely to be a welcome change for many customers, who cringe every month when the phone bill arrives. But are the two big carriers really offering a good deal? In this edition of Ask Maggie, I help answer that question. Dear Maggie,I have two teenagers on my Verizon family plan, a...

Enlarge ImageSo many emoji, so little time. CNET Have you ever had that really important thing you needed to say, but just couldn't find the right emoji with which to say it?Emjoi 4.0 may finally offer an answer. It's the latest update for these popular little drawings, which is being plaed for release after a review later this year, and it promises to include new professions, flags and functionality to help us all communicate in that slightly more artistic way.Emoji of course feel like they've taken over the world. The tiny drawings, whose name comes from combining the Japanese terms for picture and character...

MIT recently unveiled Duoskin, and even though it looks like a simple fashion accessory, these faux tattoos have some cool functions: they're coected, and can receive input, coect wirelessly, and even light up with the right setup. We're also checking out a new HoloLens demo from N3S, an NES emulator team tuing 2D NES titles into slightly 3D experiences. The demo is in alpha, but it's another exciting showcase for what Microsoft's augmented-reality headset is capable of. ...

Happy National Vinyl Record Day!You might assume milleials are the ones lining up on Record Store Day to drop coin on the latest special edition, 180-gram, splatter-paint record of the month, but you'd be wrong -- at least in the United Kingdom.According to a new study by market research company YouGov, UK music fans between the ages of 45 and 54 are actually more likely to hit record stores in search of vinyl. By contrast, the study found 18- to 24-year-olds are least likely to purchase vinyl, suggesting last year's sales explosion could be attributed to vinyl nostalgia rather than discovery. The study also unearthed two very bleak statistics that are depressing enough to make any collector...

Enlarge Image Richard Heathcote, Getty Images Some athletes at the Rio Olympics have taken swipes at competitors from other nations -- but that's not the only swiping going on.The 11,000-plus athletes competing in the 2016 Olympic games have given Tinder's Brazil business a big boost. Matches in the Olympic Village have increased by 129 percent, Rosette Pambakian, VP of Global Communications & Branding at Tinder, said to the Associated Press. It appears such activities weren't totally unexpected. The Olympic organisers prepared 450,000 condoms for athletes to use, according to the publication. That truckl...

I fell in love with music at a very young age. I can remember sitting in my parent's living room, listening to the crackle and pop that accompanied each new song, only to be replaced with a thumping drum intro or a sick guitar lick that seemed to leap from our Klipsch coer hos. This experience stuck with me through the introduction of cassette tapes, CDs and finally the current digital-music age. The convenience and quality of digital music is unparalleled, but with the recent resurgence of records -- and as any vinyl enthusiasts (and certain audiophiles) will tell you -- vinyl has a special sound that digital music just can't capture or replicate. I'm not immune to its pull; I've recent...

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Thanks a lot, Steven Spielberg and John Williams, for forever creeping us out about sharks. Spielberg's 1975 movie "Jaws" wouldn't have been quite as terrifying without Williams' "duun dun" music, and we all know it. Now a study published Wednesday in the joual PLOS One has quantified our quivering. Researchers from UC San Diego and Harvard showed 2,100 people a shark clip from the BBC's "Blue Planet" documentary series and either set it to ominous or uplifting music or let it run silently. "Participants who viewed a video clip set to ominous music rated sharks more negatively and less positively than those who watched the same clip set to uplifting music or to silence," the researchers ...

Hi, I'm Liza Maloy, a product manager at CNET. Today I want to tell you about a project I've been working on: Photo galleries! As our Vice President of Product Jeremy Toeman mentioned in May, we are in the midst of a site redesign process. The updates to our front door and best pages are two recent wins (what, haven't seen them? go check them out!), and I'm excited to add galleries to the list!. Our amazing team of editors and photographers create galleries for everything, from technology shows, product reviews and our Road Trip around the globe to Pokemon tips, optical illusions, beautiful cars and Marvel characters, just to name a few. Behind the scenes, the engineers, designers, and I...

Enlarge Image Strava Strava, a popular app for ruers and cyclists, has aounced a new safety feature for premium members. The feature, called Beacon, lets users broadcast their real-time location to friends and family members. Here's how it works. You tu Beacon on before you start an activity and then select up to three contacts you would like to share your location with -- they don't have to be Strava users. The app will automatically send a text message to the selected contacts that contains a link to your activity. Your loved ones will then be able to see exactly where you are on a map and follow along duri...

Worried you aren't getting enough exercise this summer? Don't just sit there: Clip on a fitness tracker and get going.Fitness trackers are wearable devices that deliver a stream of data about your workouts, like the number of steps you've walked or the total calories you've bued, and nearly all of them can sync over Bluetooth with your smartphone, letting you review these vitals while on the go. But once you have all that data, what's the next step?Many to choose fromYou have a lot of options for fitness trackers, but I'll focus on two of the most popular brands: Fitbit and Jawbone. Fitbit, which introduced its first tracker in 2008, sells its One ($100 in the US, £80 in the UK and AU$130 in...

If Spotify is too expensive and your tastes don't get much more adventurous than Coldplay, Amazon Music wants to be the music-streaming service for you. It might not have as many songs as rivals, but Amazon says you don't need them when you have the rest of Amazon Prime at your fingertips.Launched in the US in 2014 and the UK in 2015, Amazon Music is the retail giant's streaming service that comes bundled with Amazon Prime. One year on from the British launch we caught up with Paul Firth, head of Amazon Music UK, to blow out the candles and find out how being part of the Amazon empire makes Amazon Music different from Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming services.Amazon Music is a "main...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageThe sort of lifeboat that the rescue services sent out. RNLI (with permission) By now, you'll have realized that it's hard to stop Pokemon Go players in full flow.They'll try and get into your garden. They'll even call 911 in search of monsters. They're even aoying Rihaa.Sometimes, though, they only do themselves harm.The volunteer Royal National Lifeboat Institution told me that on Thursday evening, six teens decided to go offshore in search of swimming monsters.They wafted off to a place called Bibeck I...

Enlarge ImageOracle paid $9.3 billion to acquire NetSuite, the first cloud-computing software company. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Oracle Corp. today aounced the purchase of NetSuite Inc., a provider of cloud-computing software, for $9.3 billion. The offer price is valued at $109 per share in cash.Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison owns the largest stake in NetSuite with almost 40% of the company's shares, according to a proxy statement NetSuite filed in April. NetSuite began as the original provider of cloud-computing software in 1998, just months before Salesforce got started. Today's acquisition reinforces O...

[embedded content] They had me at Rocket-ing. Saturday night during the Marvel panel at Comic-Con, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige had some epic (also: amazing, exciting, squeal-inducing) aouncements, including the big one that Disney's Califoia Adventure is headed for space. During the panel, it was aounced that Guardians of the Galaxy -- Mission: Breakout will be coming to the theme park in 2017, presumably around the same time as the movie "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" releases on May 5, 2017. Sadly though, it looks like this'll be replacing Tower of Terror, which means I'm now conflicted in my excitement for the new ride. Here are som...