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On today's show, we dive into Windows 10 and some of its new features, get excited about Netflix's plan to release an upcoming film the same day it hits theaters, and check out a weird 3D-printed hat that changes color based on your brain activity.

It's that time again! We've got a great show lined up for you today, including a discussion on what's new in Windows 10 that might pique your interest. Don't get too excited though, because it's not releasing until later next year (2015). You'll have to wait a while for those unlimited desktops.

As for us? We're off to play Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor. Seriously, that game looks so good.

Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking. Universal Pictures/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET

When they schedule the release of a movie near Christmas, you get the sense the studios think it might be good.

So the fact that "The Theory Of Everything" -- a movie about Stephen Hawking, his fight with motor neuron disease, and his relationship with first wife Jane Wilde -- is being released in the US on November 7 might bode well.

This week, the studio released a trailer that, as many trailers do, stops just short of telling the whole story.

Hawking is played by Eddie Redmayne, who is perhaps most famous for portraying Marius in the 2012 movie "Les Miserables."

At first glance, he appears to resemble Hawking physically and presents him as a charming dreamer.

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There's the feeling of a sweeping tragedy slightly reminiscent of "A Beautiful Mind."

Hawking's marriage to Wilde, played here by Felicity Jones, ended in 2006. His private life has sometimes been described as eventful.

I wonder, though, whether a movie about a man who wrote "A Brief History Of Time" -- one of those books that many bought, but I suspect far fewer finished -- will appeal to a wider audience.

There again, this one seems to have classic themes -- love, tragedy, defying the odds. That about sums up the history of time, doesn't it?

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. CNET

Amazon has restricted preorders of some movies from Disney in an apparent contract dispute with another media giant.

Preorder options are currently unavailable at the Internet retailer for physical copies of "Muppets Most Wanted," "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," "Million Dollar Arm," and "Maleficent." However, preorders of digital versions on Amazon Instant Video are still available.

The situation is reminiscent of an apparent dispute between Amazon and Warner Home Video in which preorders of discs for "The Lego Movie," "Transcendence," and "300: Rise of an Empire" vanished from the site earlier this summer. Amazon hasn't publicly commented on that situation, but it's thought that the move is intended to apply pressure on Warner to gain greater margin on each sale.

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Amazon has admitted to employing a similar strategy in a contract negotiations standoff with book publisher Hachette. Amazon said in May it was restricting sales of titles from the publisher after the two were unable to agree on mutually acceptable contract terms. Amazon did not elaborate on the terms proposed but defended the move as a legitimate negotiating tactic aimed at getting more value for consumers.

The apparent conflict was first reported HomeMediaMagazine. CNET has contacted Amazon and Disney for comment and will update this report when we learn more.

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