By Adriana Lee |
Do you commute via Amtrak? Then you might know the horrors known as Amtrak Wi-Fi. Indeed, the railroad has taken a lot of heat over spotty Internet access, but news came in this week that things are beginning to change for the better: The organization…
By Sean P. Aune |
A new image has appeared online with EXIF data that appears to have come from the rumored Galaxy Note III. As we always state in instances such as this, EXIF data can be faked. Should it be proven to be real, it appears that the…
By Sean P. Aune |
According to The Wall Street Journal, the Yahoo board of directors has unanimously approved the $1.1 billion purchase of blogging service Tumblr.…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple has a lot of unicorn products in the works, but none more infamous than its heavily rumored iTV. As the story goes, the late Steve Jobs excitedly exclaimed he’d cracked the traditional TV model in favor of something much better. So naturally the rumor…
By Adriana Lee |
Can’t afford $40,000+ to get a master’s degree in computer science? Well, how about $7,000? That’s the tuition price for a new degree program from Georgia Institute of Technology and Silicon Valley educational startup Udacity. Subsidized by AT&T, the three-year online program centers on curricula…
By Brandon Russell |
The Galaxy S4 is on pace to become Samsung’s best selling device ever, highlighting the company’s unstoppable popularity. According to Samsung’s co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun, the device could top the 10 million mark in the next few days, less than a month since the S4 launched…
By Brandon Russell |
Next to Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V, Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is shaping up to be one of this year’s biggest games. And when it hits, Sony will rightly give it the special treatment. As soon as the game is available digitally, on…
By Brandon Russell |
All evidence suggests Google would rather just forget the Nexus Q even happened. A year removed from its announcement, the company has said little about the orb streamer, and has even abandoned support with its own apps. None of this is particularly surprising—but a new…
By Brandon Russell |
One lucky individual has allegedly seen Nokia’s upcoming EOS handset—the company’s 41-megapixel, Windows Phone 8 monster—and it sounds like a cross between the Lumia 920, 925 and 928. Apparently the device rivals the 920 at its thickest point, but tapers off at both ends to…
By Brandon Russell |
Yahoo’s board will reportedly meet this Sunday to consider a $1.1 billion acquisition—supposedly an all-cash offer—of Tumblr in an effort to capture a younger audience. The company’s aging audience has played a critical part in Yahoo’s past success, but it has struggled to find a…
By Brandon Russell |
NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover—not to be confused with Curiosity—has concluded a 20 month-long study of an area that researchers believe has been “intensely altered by water.” In the nine years since Opportunity has been on Mars, the data is unlike anything researchers have seen. The…
By Ron Duwell |
The PlayStation 2 Classics line-up will be getting a serious dose of Rockstar this week, but not of the Grand Theft Auto brand. The entire trilogy is already available on PlayStation 3, so Rockstar only has a few smaller titles left to finish out its…
By Maximum PC |
There’s a new mobile sheriff in town. Mobile gamers rejoice, for AMD hasn’t forgotten about you. On the contrary, the Sunnyvale chip designer just unveiled its Radeon 8970M, which AMD claims is the fastest laptop GPU on the entire planet. And not only is it smoking fast,…
By Sean P. Aune |
As another version of Android is reportedly being prepared for release, it seems only fitting to take a look back at the version of the operating system that really seems to have been the turning point for its adoption. Android 2.3, also known as Gingerbread,…
By Roy Choi |
The U.S. Defense Department announced it has just approved the use of Apple’s iOS 6 devices for military use. Hey, just in time for iOS 7 to be announced soon. This news comes just a couple weeks after an earlier announcement stating the approval of…
By Adriana Lee |
I recently tried snorkeling for the first time. I was on the Big Island of Hawaii, celebrating my husband’s birthday, when he stated he wanted to eye some fish in the clear, blue waters off the Kohala Coast. I was nervous, but agreed to his…
By Sean P. Aune |
Rhett Reese, the writer and producer of Zombieland, took to his Twitter account last night with some bad news for fans of the franchise.…
By Ron Duwell |
Philanthropist and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates is once again the richest person on the face of the Earth. Despite leaving his former position, Gates still owns a large share in the company, and a five-year high in Microsoft’s stock pushed his fortune to an…
By Roy Choi |
Samsung announced Friday the availability of Galaxy S4 compatible TecTiles. The original TecTiles (and other NFC tags) are not compatible with the Galaxy S4 or the Nexus 4. Those two devices use a newer NFC chip that is not written on the same standard. If…
By Adriana Lee |
Is Google Glass hackable? Well, duh. Yes. Now, I can’t claim credit for that succinct brilliance. That’s pretty much a quote from one Google engineer’s tweet: Yes, Glass is hackable. Duh. goo.gl/HQpLC — Tim Bray (@timbray) April 26, 2013 No sooner was the developer model…
By Adriana Lee |
Some people long for small-town life — to live in a heartwarming place where everyone knows your name and your neighbors have your back. But these days, one could argue that the whole world is like one, well-connected community. At least that’s what a New…
By Roy Choi |
Satellite TV provider DirecTV is exploring acquiring at least a portion of online video streaming company Hulu. A source reports that discussions are in the early phase of a possible partial, or even full, buyout. This is the second time around for DirecTV to consider…
By Ron Duwell |
Never mind just the lack of Frostbite 3 or Madden 25 for the Wii U. EA doesn’t have any games in the works for Nintendo’s latest console. Period. EA spokesperson Jeff Brown confirmed with Kotaku that EA “has no games in development for the Wii…
By Adriana Lee |
Replacing a smartphone can be an expensive proposition. Many in the U.S. cost $200 subsidized, and $600 to $800 (or more) at full price. But the data on that handset? Well, that can be priceless — especially when you’re talking about irreplaceable images of lost…
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