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With Rafe out on vacation, Josh and special co-host Seth Rosenblatt team up to take magic USB pens and helmetcams that we borrowed from our CNET colleagues to the test, as well as helping CNET readers out with their tech problems. Topics discussed include: watching DRM'd iTunes videos on your TV, cloning that failing hard drive, getting Windows 7 to stop rebooting your computer every time it ...

Discovery Channel gunman had explosive devices

Montgomery County police say a man who was shot to death after taking hostages at Discovery Channel's headquarters in Maryland was carrying a handgun, propane tanks and pipe bombs.

Police kill gunman who held 3 at Discovery Channel

A man who railed against the Discovery Channel's environmental programming for years burst into the company's headquarters with at least one explosive device strapped to his body Wednesday and took three people hostage at gunpoint before police shot him to death, officials said.

In Search of a Case to Protect the iPad

The Apple iPad, so sleek and glassy, should be in a design museum, watched over by heavily armed guards with fierce dogs. But millions of iPads are bouncing around in backpacks or purses where they are gradually and inexorably scratched, dinged and pummeled by far less important objects.

Discovery Channel hostage-taker hated programming

A gunman police shot to death after he took hostages at Discovery Channel's headquarters said he hated the company's shows such as "Kate Plus 8" because they promote population growth and its environmental programming because it did little to save the planet.