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Give Samsung credit: the Galaxy Book 2 boldly breaks from the first-generation Galaxy Book on both the inside and outside. The company’s new 2-in-1 not only ditches its flimsy folding keyboard in favor of a more traditional tablet kickstand, but also joins the small ranks of PCs that have adopted a battery-sipping Qualcomm Snapdragon microprocessor. Performance suffers [...]

When I told people I was going to Puerto Rico, they were jealous. When I told them I booked the trip through Costco, that jealousy transformed into confusion. “You can buy a vacation through Costco?” I was asked at least a dozen times in recent months. My answer: yes, and it’s incredible. I only became [...]

I’ve been obsessed with William Gibson’s last novel, “The Peripheral,” since it came out in 2014. It touches on many widely discussed themes in 2016, including growing economic inequality, rule by technology, and the catastrophic effects of climate change.  Gibson is most famous for inventing the term “cyberspace,” which he coined in his 1982 short story, “Burning Chrome,” and elaborated on in later [...]

CHENNAI/ MANGALURU, AUGUST 2:   J.K. Rowling’s new book and the last in the series, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, was released worldwide midnight on Jul 31 at precise embargoed times. This is the first time a Harry Potter book has ever been printed in India (or indeed Asia), in absolute secrecy. The publisher, Hachette [...]

Ready for the next round of Oprah’s book club? In a new collaboration with the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) and O, The Oprah Magazine, “CBS This Morning” revealed that New York Times bestselling author Colson Whitehead’s new work, “The Underground Railroad,” would be the club’s next read. “Race is one of the things I write [...]

LOS ANGELES – “The Jungle Book” dominated the weekend box office, grossing a massive $103.6 million, and extending the Walt Disney Company’s success in making live action versions of its classic animated features. That ranks as the second biggest April opening in history, behind only “Furious 7’s” $147.2 million launch. With “Cinderella,” “Alice in Wonderland,” [...]

Los Angeles (dpa) – The brave new world of visual effects opens a door for cinema audiences into otherwise inaccessible worlds: Mars, space, and the farthest corners of the imagination. In Disney’s new film version of The Jungle Book, the voyage is across the boundaries of nature, to a wilderness barely touched by human presence [...]

Oil fell slightly on Friday as investors booked profits at the end of a fourth consecutive week of gains, but prices remained close to 2016 highs on expectations of a production freeze by major exporters. U.S. crude was down 10 cents at $40.10 barrel, after rising to as high as $40.55 — higher than the [...]