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We like to think Lucy would've found it all pretty fuy. In 2009, a 400-pound bronze sculpture of comedian Lucille Ball was installed in Lucille Ball Memorial Park in her childhood hometown of Celoron, New York. But Ball's friendly Vita-Meta-Vegamin slurping, chocolate-chomping face was almost unrecognizable. This wasn't sweet, snappy Lucy who always wanted to be in the show. This was a horrifying, grimacing Lucy with Chiclet teeth, a smashed nose and eyes that made her look as if she'd just caught Ethel making out with Ricky. Public protest, including from the We Love Lucy Facebook page, made it clear this wasn't how fans wanted to remember the comedy icon. And on Saturday, which would've be...

Enlarge ImageThe Apple Watch went on sale in April 2015. James Martin/CNET There could be new Apple Watch hardware around the coer, if a well-coected indus...

You might not recognize these people, but they were instrumental in making Star Trek the phenomenon it is today. Bjo and John Trimble were honored on stage at the Star Trek 50th aiversary convention. Let's go back into the '60s. "Star Trek" was in danger of cancellation after its second season. Bjo Trimble started a grassroots letter-writing campaign to organize fan support and call for a third season. It worked. "Star Trek" was renewed and then eventually revived in the late '70s with the start of the movie series. That may never have happened if the show was shut down after only two seasons. That's why Bjo Trimble is known as "the woman who saved Star Trek." Let's block ads! بخوانید...

You're streaming a stroll through Central Park on Facebook Live. You walk to Belvedere Castle and the feed freezes. You're in a dreaded deadzone.It's at this moment when you wonder who actually has the best wireless coverage. OpenSignal, a wireless coverage mapping firm, is attempting to answer that question. In a test of network quality, T-Mobile came out on top. T-Mobile beat out Verizon, Sprint and AT&T in the categories of fastest downloads speeds on 3G and 4G networks, the shortest 3G latency, or the response time between your phone and the network, and in overall performance, according to OpenSignal's report.Sprint walked away with shortest latency for 4G and Verizon won for best avail...

Shooting-star superfans are in for a special treat this month as the Perseid meteor shower -- one of the best aual opportunities to spot bright, fast bits of space rock buing up in the night sky -- is expected to be twice as nice as normal."Forecasters are predicting a Perseid outburst this year with double normal rates on the night of August 11-12," Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office said in a statement. "Under perfect conditions, rates could soar to 200 meteors per hour."You might think of the Perseids as arriving at Earth every August, but really we're the ones visiting their home turf each year. Our planet ventures through trails of debris left over from comet Swift-Tuttl...

Japanese researchers at the University of Tokyo showed off an interesting concept: a case that gives smartphones wheels and enables them to roll around on their own. Forget summoning your car; we want to summon our phones. We're also taking a closer look at SymGym, a machine made for working out while playing video games. It doubles as a game controller, so users end up pulling, pushing and otherwise getting resistance reps while they control a video game. Close Exercise meets Pac-Man on this workout machine (Tomorrow Daily 401) Drag...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. Why do bars exist? To make you feel a little better about the vicissitudes of existence. To make you commune with your fellow human and share life experiences. Why do phones exist? To make sure you post whatever you're doing to Facebook. To keep you from communing with your fellow human and sharing life experiences in real life.Enlarge ImageIt looks like a lovely place. Gin Tub/Facebook...

Musician Jack White's label Three Man Records recently launched a small craft into near-space with a special payload: a spiing vinyl album playing a remix of Carl Sagan's "A Glorious Dawn."We're also discussing Ripchair 3.0, a massive, tank-like machine that allows a disabled person to load in their wheelchair and head outdoors through rugged terrain and difficult weather conditions. Close Off-roading in a wheelchair, made possible by Ripchair (Tomorrow Daily 400) Drag...

Purchasing a virtual reality headset, such as the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, finding the right high-end computer to hook it up to, and getting the complex, sometimes finicky hardware up and ruing isn't the only hurdle to enjoying VR gaming. You also need a steady stream of quality content.The library of available VR games is growing every week, but almost all of the games and applications thus far are small, indie projects, rather than highly polished games from established publishers. What's more, many carry premium prices, from $20-$40, for short, buggy, unfinished games that are often little more than beta software. That may be keeping VR headset owners from sampling more new games and supp...

Enlarge Image Tyler Lizenby/CNET Drinking on the job is now required -- if you're a beer know-it-all that is.The National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. is looking to hire a beer expert to conduct research for a new project called the American Brewing History Initiative. The job title so...

Enlarge Image Thanko Sunshine is great, but let's face it -- summer can be the pits. And if you want to protect your pits from summer, a Japanese company has a quirky solution.The Thanko Electric Armpit Clip-on Cooler Fan is a 30-gram clip-on fan that attaches itself to the front buttons or the short-sleeve of a shirt, blowing cool air to the body's more perspiration-prone areas. Ruing on AAA batteries, it lasts between 5 and 9 hours, long enough for a fairly serious summer pilgrimage. It can also be charged up using a USB-based power bank.It's not the first f...

Enlarge Image WM Sykes & Son Comfort indeed is what can be found at Underhill, a luxury home currently for sale in the UK. Although no direct references are made to JRR Tolkien's classic novels in the property listing, the similarity to Bag End, the luxurious appointments and its name -- Gandalf gave Frodo the pseudonym Mr Underhill in "The Fellowship of the Ring" -- all scream Middle Earth, and Hobbiton.As...

"Supergirl" premieres its second season on its new network, The CW, in October. Boie Osboe The CW will be practically poxy with DC Comics-based superhero shows this fall, and on Saturday at the 2016 Comic-Con Inteational in San Diego, there was a quartet of panels to catch everyone up on what's going on when the shows retu.The four panels held in the big Ballroom 20 venue at the convention center were for "Supergirl," "DC's Legends of Tomorrow," "The Flash" and "Arrow." The panels were all a lot of fun, even if some were light on new details. There was even some singing involved. Supergirl"Supergirl" is moving to The CW from CBS for its second season, and it's adding a few new cast members. ...

Fans of Marvel character Black Panther, listen up. Best known from the film 'Captain America: Civil War', Black Panther's fictional country of Wakanda is the setting of Marvel's latest comics book endeavor, according to The New York Times. Marvel's 'World of Wakanda', which is expected to arrive in November, will feature the women in Black Panther's life, from female revolutionary Zenzi to Ayo and Aneka, lovers serving on the Black Panther's all-female security detail.Marvel did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The success of Marvel's Black Panther comics spurred the project, said the Times, allowing new writers Roxane Gay and Yona Harvey create complex black, female characte...

If you thought those shoes with built-in wheels were bad, you're going to love Modobag, a piece of motorized carryon luggage that you can physically sit on and steer through the airport on your way to catching a flight. Yes. Suitcase. Sitting. Vroom-vroom.Boasting specs like a cushioned seat and retractable foot pegs, a 6-mile range (based on a 180-pound passengers) and 80 percent charge in 15 minutes, the Modobag also comes with a tracking app in case you and the bag ever part ways. The battery-charged suitcase -- which can also charge your phone -- weighs 19 pounds (empty) and can tow a rider weighing up to 260 pounds. Super early-birds can buy the crowd-sourced case now for $995, or about...

GoPro cameras are good on their own, but what really drives them, what makes them so versatile, is the big range of accessories for them. That's what transforms them into something useful for your specific needs. For startup Vitrima, the goal was to tu a single GoPro camera into a stereoscopic 3D camera. The Vitrima 3D GoPro camera lens uses mirrors to split the image coming into a Hero3 or Hero4 camera into left and right images. Its successful Indiegogo campaign is about to end and the company is already ramping up to start shipping to backers. You can grab one today before it ends for $89 (about AU$120 or £70), otherwise the lens will be about $129 when it's widely available this fall. Tr...

Enlarge ImageWonder Woman's famed invisible jet is on display at San Diego Comic-Con. Richard Nieva/CNET The press release said I was here to see an invisible jet. More specifically, Wonder Woman's famed mode of transport. In theory, they could've just put me on an empty street coer, told me the jet was in front of me, and I'd have had no grounds for argument.And that's the fun of San Diego Comic-Con, which unofficially started Wednesday with a p...

Think those extreme eaters are daring, stuffing dozens of hot dogs down their gullets? There's a world of extreme makeup videos out there, and they can be just as fascinating.YouTube makeup chael host Mayra recently posted an 8-minute video in which she applies 100 -- that's right, 100 -- coats of liquid lipstick to her own lips. A counter in the coer tracks the applications. She uses 50 different colors, each one twice.[embedded content]After just four coats, she comments, "My lips right now, feel drier than ever." Soon the glossy buildup is so huge she can't even drink from a straw. But she soldiers on, for science! The process takes 8 hours (with one break), but Mayra never falters, even ...