By Sean P. Aune |
Do you have a burning question about tech? Well, it’s time to ask Jon Rettinger and hear him answer one of your pressing queries on video. Until 3 PM PST on Thursday, May 23, leave a comment with your question for him, and then you’ll…
By Adriana Lee |
If there’s one thing hi-res photography’s good for, it’s showing an amazing amount of detail. Users can see the minutiae just by zooming in, and depending on the scale, they can do it without necessarily having to sacrifice zoom-out macro views. Now here’s something that…
By Jacob Kleinman |
If Siri’s just not cutting it anymore IBM might have the answer. The company’s Jeopardy-winning, cancer diagnosing supercomputer is being rebranded as a question-answering customer service web service and smartphone app called “Ask Watson” (we only hope IBM isn’t planning on dressing Watson up in…
By Adriana Lee |
When it comes right down to it, guns, rifles and other personal firearms are only as good as the shooters holding them. And people are fallible creatures. We get itches, sometimes shakes, our eyesight can falter or our arms can get heavy. Any number of…
By Brandon Russell |
To improve your listening experience and foster better discovery, Spotify is rolling out new Spotify 50 and Social 50 charts, essentially a Hot 100-style breakdown of the most popular songs across the service’s entire streaming music library. Not only that, but the lists can be…
By Adriana Lee |
I’m going to share something with you even my husband doesn’t know. You see, I’m a cheater. I promise fidelity, but sometimes things just catch my eye, and I can’t resist indulging myself. I feel guilty, but how can I ignore it when Hugh, Kevin…
By Todd Haselton |
Best Buy released its first quarter 2013 earnings on Tuesday and noted a net earnings loss of $81 million, representing a loss of $0.24 per share. The big box retailer said international revenue of $1.4 billion declined 9.6 percent over the same quarter last year…
By Adriana Lee |
Here on the site, we’ve been known to cover car things. We often cover Google things. Sometimes, we even share fun, geeky things (you know, just because). And then there are times when all those things come together in a perfect storm of awesome. When…
By Joey Davidson |
Target has dropped the price of the Basic version of the Wii U from $299.99 to $239.99 in the face of exceptionally slow sales. The discount is good both in physical stores and through their online service. It appears that the price drop is not…
By Todd Haselton |
Sprint’s 4G LTE network will eventually run on its 1.9GHz and 800MHz frequency spectrums in addition to Clearwire’s 2.5GHz frequency spectrum. Until now, however, the 800MHz spectrum was used as part of Nextel’s iDEN network, which will be turned off on June 30, and most…
By Jacob Kleinman |
What’s better than Galaxy S4? How about a stripped down, pure Android, Google Edition of Samsung’s “Next Big Thing?” Well, the good news is that the Galaxy S4 Google Edition will go on sale June 26, but the bad news (for non-Americans at least) is…
By Brandon Russell |
Pandora has a new Premieres station, sponsored by T-Mobile, that lets users listen to full albums a week before they launch. Think of it as a way to drum up hype in new music, to gauge user interest and also get a feel for listener…
By Joey Davidson |
Tearaway, in case you haven’t been following the game, is a papercraft adventure exclusively for the PS Vita. This charming little title comes from Media Molecule, the same studio that gave the world LittleBigPlanet. Today, Sony and Media Molecule elected to drop several brand new media…
By Todd Haselton |
The Galaxy S III is an old device that has since been knocked down a tier by the new Galaxy S4. However, SamMobile was recently sent a file that suggests Samsung considered, or perhaps is still considering, adding fingerprint scanning technology to its smartphones. We’ve seen this…
By Todd Haselton |
HTC has two entry-level devices coming down the pipeline, one likely destined for Asia and another probably set to launch in Europe, dubbed the Desire 200 and the Desire 600. The Desire 200 may be the Asia-only smartphone and it reportedly will launch with a…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Samsung‘s Galaxy S4 is one of the hottest devices on the market right now and the 5-inch smartphone cleared another hurdle this week with a glowing review from Consumer Reports, which praised the handset for its all around top-notch performance. “It dethrones the LG Optimus G, which occupied the…
By Ron Duwell |
We’ve seen a lot of Grasshopper Manufactures’ Killer is Dead ever since the announcement, but each new batch of screenshots adds another complicated element to the mix. This latest is the most bizarre yet romantic images of a tattooed man riding a tiger, a talking…
By Jacob Kleinman |
The Verizon Galaxy S4 wasn’t supposed to arrive until May 23, but a few lucky Android fans have already received their new smartphones two days early, according to Droid-Life. Here’s a tweet from one customer who appears to have a shipment confirmation: patiently waiting for my Galaxy s4 to…
By Joey Davidson |
After the Xbox One was unveiled, news hit that each game would be tied to your user account when you purchase it. You can only play it on your Xbox One… …unless you pay some sort of fee. Want to bring the game to a…
By Joey Davidson |
In Splinter Cell: Blacklist, agents will once again have the option to take on the world of high risk espionage in pairs. Ubisoft has released a brand new cooperative play trailer for the upcoming entry in the much loved Splinter Cell franchise. They’ve also tossed…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple’s executives, including CEO Tim Cook, recently swooped in on Capitol Hill for a Senate subcommittee hearing related to its corporate tax practices. We’ve covered many of the events in detail already, but Cook revealed one compelling tidbit of information during his speech: where Apple…
By Jacob Kleinman |
The first photo of LG‘s upcoming Optimus F3 for Sprint has leaked online, revealing a rectangular 4-inch smartphone with curved edges. The mobile tech manufacturer is still holding on among its OEM competition in the U.S., and its two latest devices, the F3 and the Optimus…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple’s iOS 7 could introduce deep integration with Flickr and Vimeo, similar to how Twitter and Facebook are currently built into the company’s mobile ecosystem. According to 9to5Mac, those partnership talks first mentioned back in April are turning up some exciting opportunities for the two…
By Brandon Russell |
Microsoft was brave enough to show off what its next-gen console, Xbox One, actually looks like, while Sony is content with a mere teaser. Less than a teaser. We’ll find out more when E3 comes around, or not. One individual—even with little information to go…
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