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Description From Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen comes the next hit audiobook thriller, an instant New York Times bestseller! When you listen to this audiobook, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are listening to a story about a jealous ex-wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement - a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle. Assume nothing. Twisted and deliciously chilling, The Wife Between Us exposes the secret complexities of an enviable marriage - and the dangerous truths we ignore i...

Description From Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen comes the next hit audiobook thriller When you listen to this audiobook, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are listening to a story about a jealous ex-wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement - a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle. Assume nothing. Twisted and deliciously chilling, The Wife Between Us exposes the secret complexities of an enviable marriage - and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love. Listen for the...

Artist's representation of a crumbling Dyson sphere. Danielle Futselaar/METI Inteational Another weird signal from the cosmos has scientists checking for E.T. attempting to make an interstellar call. So far, it's looking like nobody's home and something natural or some sort of human interference is the real source. But if intelligent aliens did indeed tu out to be behind this latest blip, their tech would be the stuff of far-fetched science fiction.The latest SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) stir started when author Paul Gilster revealed he's seen documents from a presentation set for late Septe...

Enlarge ImageNow that the PlayStation Now streaming service is coming to Windows, could consoles end up losing out to the cloud? Mike Sorrentino/CNET Can streaming services like PlayStation Now end the console war? Or will the battle between Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation consoles continue forevermore? Chat with us live today on CNET's Livestream and YouTube pages at 3:30 p.m. ET, 12:30 p.m. PT and 8:30 p.m. UK, where the Open_Tab crew will dive into whether these machines could get displaced by the cloud. Plus, we check out the Geckobot -- a green robot that when assembled can climb up walls.[embe...

[embedded content]Ask not for whom the giant blue screen of death tolls, it tolls for thee.This all-too-nightmare-inducing photo was taken in Pattaya, Thailand, at the CentralFestival Pattaya Beach shopping mall, and shared on Facebook by Blake Sibbitt. Apparently, a problem has been detected, and the mall will be shut down. Or, you know, at least the outdoor signage.But forget reality, it's more fun to picture this five-story version of the infamous Windows system-crash screen as something out of a future "Terminator" movie, when Skynet has taken us over and is about to take the planet down for good. Or maybe out of a "Black Mirror" episode, where a skyscraper's crash is preceded by a skysc...

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...

Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBuer MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBuer videoYouTube | Livestream | Stitcher Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 50 Your browser does not support the audio element. [embedded content]APPLE BYTE EXTRA CRUNCHY SHOW NOTES:MACBOOK PRO NEWS:Apple Said to Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Four YearsApple's Notebook Shipments Rise 30% on Strength of New 12-Inch Retina MacBookAPPLE WATCH NEWS:Faster Apple Watch 2 With GPS, Barometer, Larger Battery, and Same Thickness to Launch Later This YearUpgraded Apple Watch 1 Models Said to Launch Alongside Ap...

Cell phone radiation can be a danger to soldiers, but maybe not for the reason you'd expect.Gen. Robert B. Neller, the top officer in the US Marine Corps, says those phones can give away a soldier's position. It's just one of the ways that mode comforts have made troops weaker, in his opinion. Speaking at a panel Tuesday on the future of expeditionary warfare, Neller told the audience that the military is now going back to basics, teaching sailors to navigate by the stars and soldiers how to use camouflage. Those skills hadn't been needed because the enemy didn't have planes, satellites, jammers and the ability to see the electromagnetic radiation spectrum, Neller said. [em...

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DC Universe films are broken. "Suicide Squad" didn't start this joke of a cinematic universe, but it sure isn't the savior it could have been. * The biggest sticking points with DC universe movies? DC makes disjointed films. DC thinks you need your hand held to cross a street. It thinks you won't be able to tell the difference between a music video and a movie. The DC Universe can never catch up to Marvel's films, and yet it still tries. Marvel's Cinematic Universe launched in 2008 with the smart and strong "Iron Man," and even though that year also saw the begiing of "The Dark Knight" trilogy, DC didn't seize the opportunity to build its own universe around the Caped Cru...

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'v...

Pokemon Go was released in Japan on July 22. Tomohiro Ohsumi, Getty Images Sometimes we need to be saved from ourselves. For those Pokemon Go addicts who couldn't seem to stop themselves from playing absolutely everywhere -- no matter how somber or sacred the place -- there are now some boundaries. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Japan and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum are now Pokemon-free, after the game's developer, Niantic Labs, honored the institutions' requests to remove all traces of the game at those places. The Associated Press reported the news earlier Monday. A spokesman for the Holocaust ...

RoadshowNewsDiesel CarsOh, not again: US reportedly finds new secret software in VW diesels Close AutoComplete: Nissan reportedly looking to sell its battery operations Drag I'm now operating under the assumption that this will never stop. I'll be retired in 2060 and they'll still be figuring things out. ...

Sony today released its monthly list of the best-selling PlayStation Store games for July 2016, and for the second month in a row, it was a bit of a weird one.Like in June, the PS4's top five in North America is not compromised of especially recent games. It wasn't a huge month for new releases, but it's still a surprising list: God of War III Remastered took the top spot, with The Last of Us Remastered, Minecraft, and Grand Theft Auto V also topping the charts. The only newer release in the top five was the No. 2 game, 7 Days to Die, which launched at the end of June.With even fewer releases on PS3 and Vita, it's a similar story on those platforms. LittleBigPlanet 3, The Last of Us, and Min...

Enlarge ImageDaniel Chao, CEO of Halo Neuroscience, holds the Halo Sport headphones. Josh Miller/CNET Olympic sprinter Mike Rodgers is hoping a pair of high-end headphones will help him win gold.He and a handful of other US track stars have been training with Halo Sport headphones, which shoot electrical impulses into their brains to sharpen focus. That focus, he says, might be enough to give him the slightest of edges -- a millisecond or so -- at the Summer Games, which open in Rio de Janeiro on Friday. "I like what it's doing to my body right now," Rodgers said of the shiny black headset. Rodgers, a member...

Enlarge Image Softbank Pepper, Japan's friendly neighbourhood robotic humanoid companion, is finally coming to the United States -- but just for a week.The robot will be greeting customers at B8ta, a tech store in San Francisco, Califoia, from August 11 to 18, according to the store's Facebook page. Pepper made its debut in Japan, where it's been sold in 1,000-unit batches. Each time Japanese telco Softbank sends Pepper to the market, it sells out in seconds. Pepper has since also made appearances in Europe. The robot is programmed to communicate with users, follow vocal commands, read human emotions and reac...

The '90s cartoons that were huge parts of many peoples' childhood are being recreated today for mode audiences. But are all the right ones coming back? We want to know what you think for CNET's Open_Tab.[embedded content]Enlarge ImageThe Power Rangers helmets and coins on show at San Diego Comic-Con recently. Lionsgate Join the crew today on both CNET's Livestream and YouTube pages at 3:30 p.m. ET (that's 12:30 p.m. PT or 8.30 p.m. UK) where we'll be discussing the high points and the low of this resurgence in nostalgia. Leave a comment below on what franchises you would like to see make a retu so we can brin...

Alphabet is a step closer to getting its proposed drone delivery service off the ground.The Google parent company will be allowed to test its unmaed aerial vehicles in designated areas in the US, the White House said Tuesday. The test flights were aounced as part of a new initiative unveiled by the US National Science Foundation, which plans to spend $35 million over the next five years on unmaed flight research. "Data gathered will be shared with govement partners to help regulators answer critical safety and human factors questions for UAV cargo delivery operations," the White House said in a statement.The aouncement comes less than two months after the Federal Aviation Administration fina...

The US Constitution is hot.The document, which tus 229 years old next month, has become an Amazon best-seller after the father of a Muslim soldier killed in Iraq pulled out a miniature copy at the Democratic National Convention last week to criticize Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump."Donald Trump, you're asking Americans to trust you with their future. Let me ask you, have you even read the United States Constitution?" he asked, shaking the pocket edition in the air. "I will gladly lend you my copy." Since then, a $1 pocket edition of the document has climbed the inteet retailer's best-seller list, coming in second only to "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."However, the edition ...

Anyone in the United States who purchased a GTX 970 may be eligible for a $30 payout from Nvidia, thanks to a proposed settlement in a class-action lawsuit.Last year, a series of lawsuits were filed against Nvidia and Nvidia card manufacturers over what amounts to false advertising. (The lawsuits were then consolidated into one in March 2015). The main issue raised in the lawsuit was that the GTX 970, advertised as having 4 GB of VRAM, in fact does not--at least not exactly.Within a few months of the the 970's launch in September 2014, owners discovered that games that used more than 3.5 GB of memory ran into performance issues that weren't happening on the GTX 980. The following January, Nv...