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Description "The murderer is with us - on the train now..." Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By moing, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.... Customer Reviews Really Enjoyable! by Kamory531 ...

Enlarge ImageDead dinosaurs tell no tales, but their tails live on. ASOS Open the door, get on the floor. Everybody walk (like) a dinosaur! The 1988 song by Was (Not Was) can come true for you this Halloween -- or really, any random day -- with a strap-on dinosaur tail.The tails are in the inventory of British retailer ASOS, and the $40 dinosaur tail (£30, AU$53) comes in green and black, though only the green seems to be in stock. If you prefer a cuddlier costume accessory, the site sells cat, fox, wolf and leopard tails, all ranging from $19.34-$40.Maker Tell Tails.com notes that the green tail is from a (fi...

Mophie makes some nice exteal batteries for charging devices, with sleek aluminum housings, but the knock against them has been that they're expensive.Well, the company got the message and has priced its new models more competitively. It's also adding even more charging options, including an updated Powerstation Plus line with an integrated switch-tip Lightning to Micro-USB cable that charges both iOS and Android devices, a Powerstation USB-C, and a Charge Force Powerstation for Qi wireless charging-enabled devices. Prices start at $30.Enlarge ImageThe Mophie PowerStation Plus starts at $60 and has an integrated Lightning cable with a Micro-USB adapter. ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageKliff Kingsbury, on the right, appearing on the podcast. The HawkCast/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET College athletes live an interesting life.They're suddenly placed on a higher plane and asked to perform daily.They're fawned upon when they win and vilified when they lose. In some cases, it's said that colleges are so desperate to persuade these young men to join their athletic programs that schools hire attractive young women to increase the attraction of the school.Once athletes are on the ...

After the summer craze of Pokemon Go, Target is painting Pokeballs onto the ballards of some of its stores. Target A number of companies tried capitalizing on the popularity of Pokemon Go in the wake of its July launch; T-Mobile offered free data, stores bought lures to attract customers and so on. Even with the craze dying down to some extent and the time for this thing having already passed, Target's trying to get in on the action by, uh, painting those balls located out in front of its stores.As aounced in a bizarre news release on its website, Target aounced that select stores have painted the design of Po...

Can blind job screenings make for more-just hiring practices? Getty Images You can't judge a book by its cover.It's an old cliche, but it's one that even the most cutting-edge tech firms might want to revisit -- at least if they mean what they say about diversifying their workforces.On Thursday, Speak With a Geek, a technology industry recruiter founded in 1999, revealed the eye-opening results of its experiment with blind job auditions.In blind auditions, candidates' identifying details are stripped away and employers judge on qualifications alone -- gender, race or even where applicants went to school aren't...

[embedded content] Some people like to live on the edge, but daredevil Flaviu Ceescu prefers to unicycle on the edge. On Wednesday, Ceescu posted a YouTube video of himself and a friend having fun on top of a very tall abandoned factory chimney measuring 840 feet high (256 meters) at CET Targu Jiu in Romania. The video shows Ceescu riding his unicycle the chimney's rim, as well as performing various circus tricks such as balancing on pieces of wood and juggling oranges. He also shows how scary the climb down can be as he slowly maneuvers through bent metal railings, crumbling stone walls and the kind of rickety ladder not even Indiana Jones would...

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...

Enlarge Image Google Who doesn't enjoy a good pop-up ad? Everyone, that's who. Now Google is trying to be the ultimate bro, aouncing on Tuesday that it'll soon be punishing mobile sites with obstructive advertisements. "Pages that show intrusive interstitials provide a poorer experience to users than other pages where content is immediately accessible," product manager Doantam Phan wrote in a blog post. "This can be problematic on mobile devices where screens are often smaller. "To improve the mobile search experience, after January 10, 2017, pages where content is not easily accessible to a user on the trans...

[embedded content] Even if you might be suffering from Pokemon Go overload, this video of a musician playing the Pokemon theme song on flaming bagpipes while dressed as the Pokemon creature Charmander is very impressive. Considering the Charmander has a tail that can produce fire, it makes sense that the bagpipes used to play the Pokemon theme also ignite with flames.The talented musician who made this tribute possible is Brian Kidd -- best known as The Unipiper -- from Portland, Oregon. This isn't the first time The Unipiper has paid homage to something geeky. Earlier in the year, he dressed up as Superman and taunted Batman by playing his bagpi...

Close Let's build: Lego City airport, featuring an 18-inch Lego plane Drag It's the end of the working week, so grab a coffee and let's get stuck in to some plastic bricks, shall we? In the video above, I'm assembling one of the newest Lego City sets, the Airport Passenger Terminal, while below you'll get a blow-by-blow accou...

"Endless" is exclusively streaming on Apple Music. Screenshot/Xiomara Blanco The wait for a new Frank Ocean album is over -- kind of.Early Friday moing the artist released a visual album, "Endless," exclusively on Apple Music. Currently, it's only available to stream as a 45-minute long video, not as a typical audio-only album with individual tracks.The project was heavily teased, thanks to a mysterious live stream that unceremoniously debuted two weeks ago. It answers a few questions curious fans have patiently waited for (he really was building some type of staircase), but, it doesn't quite answer the most ...

Enlarge ImageWhat a moment. HBO Congratulations to Richard B. of South Richmond Hill, New York, for wiing our swag bundle from San Diego Comic-Con last week. On the downside, season 7 of "Game of Thrones" won't retu until summer 2017. On the bright side, we're giving away the complete sixth season on digital HD to tide this week's wier over. The download for iTunes, Vudu, Google Play or Flixster includes all 10 episodes so you catch up on your favorite characters from Westeros and Essos and find out what happened after the shocking season 5 finale. (If you've somehow managed to steer clear of spoile...

Enlarge Image Vantas Drones are increasingly becoming a go-to for both hobbyists and the workforce, with racing and aircraft inspection being two prime examples of how this technology is becoming a big thing.Tokyo's Vantan High School is now ensuring the next generation is abreast of this burgeoning tech by offering a three-year course on drones.The course offers more than just an understanding of how to pilot a drone, also providing lessons in maintenance, aviation laws and computer programming when the need arises for firmware updates. While hobbyists may feel this is the perfect opportunity for them, Vanta...

Enlarge ImageThe message Ivan Kwiatkowski's parents received waing them of the (fake) infection. Ivan Kwiatkowski Have you ever gotten a phone call, email or pop-up from someone trying to scam you with an obviously non-existent problem with your computer that will be expensive to solve?French security researcher Ivan Kwiatkowski knows how you feel, but he wasn't content with hanging up or uttering a few choice words of reprimand. He decided to give them a taste of their own medicine, as he described in a blog earlier this month.The tech support scam has been around for the better part of a decade, bilking an...

Enlarge Image Xinhua Apple has been losing momentum in China as of late, but CEO Tim Cook hopes to tu that all around.Cook is currently in Beijing, his second visit to the city in three months, meeting Tuesday with China's Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, reports the state-run Xinhua. At the meeting, Gaoli invited US companies like Apple to boost investments into the country, saying that doing so strengthens the global economy, according to the publication. Those words from a Chinese official would be music to Cook's ears. The country's govement has a reputation for being tough on foreign companies, something Apple...

Close Google's Hangouts on Air heading to YouTube Drag Hangouts on Air is a pretty good live-streaming app within Google's social network, Google Plus. However, Google is pulling the feature from Google Plus and a new version will head to YouTube Live. In mid-September, Hangouts on Air will no longer function on Google Plus. ...

NASA Goddard Institute of Space Science Three independent agencies have confirmed July 2016 as the warmest month since they started keeping temperature records, the Weather Chael has reported. July is usually the warmest month globally, since the northe hemisphere has more land mass, and land heats up faster and retains more heat than the oceans.NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies found it topped the previous warmest July on its record, 2011, by 0.1 of a degree Celsius, 0.84 degrees Celsius above average, making it the warmest since 1880. The Japan Meteorological Agency's found that it was the warmest ...

Enlarge ImageMinecraft team member Tommaso Checchi plays the virtual-world video game while wearing Facebook's Oculus VR headset. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET It's a match made in nerd heaven. Minecraft, Microsoft's tremendously popular video game, now works on Facebook's Oculus Rift headset, a highly regarded entrant into the new world of virtual reality. "We'd like to welcome you to the game all over again, because it's a fantastic new experience in VR, even if you're a Minecraft veteran," Mike McGrath, a Minecraft developer who helped build the software, said Monday in a blog post. The vers...

As the homogenization of social media continues, Twitter followed in Snapchat's wake by adding the ability to apply stickers with embedded hashtags. Now the business justification emerges: brands will be able to offer stickers with their own built-in hashtags so that you can promote for them and allow them to track your stickered tweets. The company's Promoted #Stickers initiative was aounced in a blog post on Monday, with Pepsi as the exclusive partner, and the option will be available to "select marketers" with managed accounts. They're pitched to advertisers as "a huge opportunity for brands to drive brand affinity and raise awareness of their message at...