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The Intercept on Friday published documents stolen from the NSA by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Handout, Getty Images The latest documents from Edward Snowden, published by The Intercept on Friday, appear to support earlier reports that the National Security Administration's "secret" cyberweapons are anything but.The Intercept, whose reporters have access to files Snowden took from the agency in 2013, says a top-secret NSA manual contains the same 16-character alphanumeric tracking code that appears throughout a portion of code released online earlier this week by a group called The ShadowBrokers. The group was auctioning off the code, which it said was stolen from the NSA.The relevant code...

Enlarge ImageFoundry workers built a tutable using melted steel from old bridges. Science Chael Believe it or not, you can fund your own DIY tutable for less than the cost of a trip to Whole Foods, and it only takes six steps to make it.It's so simple, in fact, the Science Chael recently built its own on an episode of the show "Made By Destruction." But instead of going the cheap route with plywood and batteries, the team sourced reclaimed steel from structurally faulty bridges to make the most metal record player ever. According to the clip posted below, there are more than 600,000 bridges in the United States alone. When some of them face unfixable structural issues, the steel parts are me...

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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 account as I construct the Lego Star Wars Encounter on Jakku, which renders characters from "The Force Awakens" in miniature brick form.The star of the 694-piece airport set (which will set you back $100,...

"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 important question -- where's the new album? There's no official word on when or if ...

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 spoilers this long, that is.)The downloadable complete sixth season from HBO Home Entertainment also...

Enlarge Image Blizzard On this week's Girt by CNET, the team has Hearthstone Lead Designer Ben Brode and Magic: The Gathering's Mark Purvis in the studio talking about the current card game renaissance.With One Night in Karazhan, the latest Hearthstone adventure, now open to players and the Magic Pro Tour and Grand Prix just wrapping up in Sydney, we chatted with Brode and Purvis about how they manage to keep their games on the tops of the respective piles, the competitive scene and designing for players of all skill levels. Girt by CNET podcast 83 Your browser does not support the audio element. Subscribe to Girt by CNETiTunes (MP3)RSS (MP3)Google PlayCNET RSSTune in RadioSound CloudSticher...

Here's our weekly bullet list of topics on today's long episode. Enjoy!Headline Deep Dive: We discuss MIT's DuoSkin tattoo technology, Audi's plan to coect its cars to street lights, and Intel's Project Alloy aouncement. Guest: We drag Producer Logan out of the control room to sit and chat a bit about the history of the show and where we're headed. Segment [Back It or Hack It]: Grow an organic chair made of grass with the help of Terra.Into It: Jeff raves about Kubo and the Two Strings, while Ashley loves the cute chaos of Overcooked on PS4. Close We say goodbye to the...

Don't like something some stranger is saying about you on Twitter? The social network has a solution.Twitter launched a new feature on Thursday that allows users to limit the notifications they see to only those sent by users they follow. It doesn't prevent strangers from mentioning you; it just insulates users from being exposed to those tweets. The new feature appear to be part of Twitter's attempt to address the chronic abuse and harassment that occurs daily on the social network. However, the move is little more than a band-aid since the offending tweets will still be present on the network; you are just choosing not to see them.Harassing and abusive tweets, while not a new occurrence on...

Enlarge ImageThe Ecobee3 Smart Thermostat and the Amazon Echo smart speaker. Ecobee Last year, Amazon established the $100 million dollar "Alexa Fund" for developers and manufacturers both large and small. The idea was fairly straightforward -- support people with good ideas on how to put the voice-recognition technology in the Amazon Echo smart speaker to good use. Now, the online mega-retailer is ponying up for its biggest investment yet and joining in on a$35 million-dollar funding round for the makers of the Ecobee smart thermostat. The funding round brings Amazon in with Thomvest and Relay Ventures, and comes several months after the Ecobee3 became the first smart thermostat to sync up ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageA threat to society? Niantic Labs We are gathered here today to discuss whether Pokemon Go is the work of the devil.The game that has captivated so many minds has disturbed some.Take Antonio Stagliano. The bishop of Noto in Sicily apparently isn't a fan. As Agence France-Presse reports, he's described the game as "diabolical." It seems he fears that the vast minds at Niantic Labs who created this summer phenomenon might be in the serpent's clutches.The bishop has very definite ideas about what the game has done to society. It's "alienated thousands and thousands of young people," he's re...

Close Uber to start using self-driving cars this month, says report Drag First reported by Bloomberg, Uber will be testing out self-driving cars in downtown Pittsburgh, Pesylvania. Uber riders will be assigned autonomous Volvos XC90 SUVs at random. Don't fear -- an Uber engineer will be present at the wheel along with a passenger taking notes for data collection....

Mike Coppola, Getty Images The New York Times aounced today that it will be retiring its NYT Now app. The app, launched in 2014, was developed to reach a younger audience than the broader Times readership. For a reduced subscription price of $8, users could access a curated collection of daily stories. The app will become unavailable to download starting the last week of August.In many ways, the travails of the NYT Now app reflect larger movements in the news industry. Last year, the app shifted from an $8 subscription-based service to a free one -- once again, in an effort to reach younger and more "mobile-savvy" readers. But now the NY Times is shifting its focus to optimize its presence o...

Enlarge ImageThe Airlander 10 is designed to fly for up to five days at a time. Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images The Airlander 10, the world's largest aircraft, took to the skies for the first time over Bedfordshire, England, on Wednesday and completed a lap of Cardington airfield before safely landing, the BBC reports.At 92 metres (300 feet) in length, the helium-filled airship is 19 metres longer than the Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger jet. The Airlander 10 has been nicknamed "The Flying Bum" due to its peachy behind's striking similarity to the human rump.While the airship was originally in production in the US for surveillance purposes, Defense department budget cuts meant the ...

The US govement's 20-year role in goveing a crucial part of the inteet is about to come to an end.From October 1, the US will no longer have power over the inteet domain naming system, or DNS, the US Department of Commerce aounced on Tuesday. The DNS is one of the core components of the inteet, linking every web address to the sites' servers using a unique set of numbers, commonly referred to as an IP address. Control of the system will be passed from the US govement to a multi-stakeholder nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles called the Inteet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN. For the world's inteet users, the hand-off will go largely uoticed -- day-to-day use of t...

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 parents' house when my phone vibrated. It was a WhatsApp message from a refugee in a camp in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.I'd been exchanging messages with Iranian joualist Behrouz Boochani for m...

Enlarge Image Blizzard Blizzard on Wednesday released a new Overwatch patch to its Public Test Realm, where players trial new changes before it gets pushed to the entire playerbase, and it's having fun messing with trolls.If you're one of the 15 million people who've played the team-based shooter, you've probably come across someone from the other team messaging "GG EZ", short for "good game, easy", following a loss.Blizzard evidently isn't too fond of this condescension, programming "GG EZ" to automatically change into embarrassing lines like "I feel very, very small...please hold me" and "Mommy says people my age shouldn't suck their thumbs." You can see the change in action here.The patch...

Enlarge Image Symantec We as a society may be more conceed about privacy and cyber security than ever, but that doesn't mean we're paying more attention to security alerts.People will ignore software security waings up to 90 percent of the time, according to a new study from Brigham Young University. The cause? Our inability to multitask."While these [alerts] provide timely information, research shows they come at a high cost in terms of increased stress and decreased productivity," wrote the BYU team. "This is due to dual-task interference (DTI), a cognitive limitation in which even simple tasks caot be simultaneously performed without significant performance loss." The study, which had par...

Enlarge Image Marvel Natalie Portman's Jane Foster was conspicuous by her absence in 2015's "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron", and it looks as though that was a sign of things to come."As far as I know, I'm done [with the Marvel Cinematic Universe]," she told The Wall Street Joual. "I don't know if maybe one day they'll ask for an 'Avengers 7' or whatever, I have no idea. But as far as I know, I'm done. But it was a great thing to be a part of," said the actress, who played Thor's love interest.The question was raised due to Portman's not taking part in "Thor: Ragnarok", the third fim in the Thor series, which is currently filming ahead of its November 2017 release date. "Captain America: Civil Wa...

Seven words was all it took. Kevin Bacon responded to a fan's suggestion that he play movie maniac Freddy Krueger onscreen with seven positive words, and fans went as crazy as the Elm Street maniac himself.On Friday, a fan tweeted that Bacon should take on the iconic horror role, and he surprisingly responded. Bacon's got a horror-movie pedigree. He was famously filleted in bed in the original "Friday the 13th" movie in 1980, and he's also starred in "Flatliners," the chilling "Stir of Echoes" and the original "Tremors" film, among others.Fans loved the casting suggestion, and let the world know it. As for Bacon himself, the actor and his brother Michael appeared on Chicago's WGN-TV on Wedne...