By Sean P. Aune |
Xbox Live will continue to be a large part of Microsoft’s commitment to gaming on the Xbox One. 15,000 servers currently power Xbox Live, but 300,000 will be online for the launch of the new console. The same amount of computing power the entire world…
By Ron Duwell |
Microsoft has shown off the new Xbox One controller at its #XboxReveal conference. It comes with over 40 new design features including an integrated battery compartment, impulse triggers, Wi-Fi Direct, and a Precision Direction Pad. Microsoft says it was designed with core gamers in mind.…
By Joey Davidson |
Today, Microsoft spent time focusing on the next iteration of their Kinect for the Xbox One during their big reveal. The new Kinect will supposedly be faster, more conversational and better at recognition. More speed, more precision and what Microsoft calls “Rocket Science level stuff” will all be a…
By Brandon Russell |
Mark Whitten unveiled the Xbox One’s internals at its event on Tuesday, saying the console takes advantage of 8GB of RAM and a BluRay player. Additional specs include USB 3.0, Wi-Fi Direction, 802.11n, HDMI in/out, 500GB HDD, 8 core CPU and THREE OPERATING SYSTEMS. Three…
By Ron Duwell |
The Xbox One will allow Skype with the best living room camera available. It will be the only device which will allow widescreen group video chat. You can watch TV and movies and play games while talking to your friends face to face.…
By Brandon Russell |
By simply talking to the new Xbox One, you can switch between all of your entertainment, no controller required. It’s futuristic and crazy and super easy. I want it now. On stage at today’s announcement, Microsoft demonstrated how simple the new feature is. “Go to…
By Joey Davidson |
Aside from using voice commands to talk to your Xbox, the Xbox One will bring gesture-based television controls to the home viewing experience. Swipes, wipes and grabs will control all sorts of facets of your television viewing experience. Will these gestures encourage you to pick…
By Sean P. Aune |
Xbox One is going to bring Skynet to your living room. Say “Xbox On” and your system will come to life and give you control over anything else you have connected to it. Want to watch TV? “Xbox TV” and your cable box takes over.…
By Ron Duwell |
Microsoft has unveiled its new home entertainment console, the Xbox One. Take a look at the gallery below.…
By Joey Davidson |
Forget the Xbox 720, forget the Xbox Fusion, forget the Xbox Infinity and Forget the Xbox 360 2… or whatever. We officially have a name for Microsoft’s next console. During today’s press conference, Microsoft announced that their next generation console will be known as Xbox…
By Brandon Russell |
By now you should be intimately familiar with Nokia’s PureView prowess, which we’ve covered numerous times before. First introduced—at least on a wide-scale consumer smartphone level—in the company’s Lumia 920, the technology has changed our perceptions about what smartphone images should look like. It’s not…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple’s currently in the hot seat on Capitol Hill for apparently working the system to avoid paying taxes. Those are the allegations being leveraged against the company by the U.S. government in any case, even though Apple has argued that it’s following the law. One of the…
By Todd Haselton |
Sprint announced on Tuesday morning that both of its prepaid brands, Virgin and Boost, will soon offer the Galaxy S III. No, it’s not the latest and greatest Galaxy S4 handset, but it’s still a great smartphone and will support Sprint’s 4G LTE network in…
By Joey Davidson |
Today is the day! Today is the day that we’ll, hopefully, have something else to call the new Xbox that’s much better than Xbox 720. I’ll be able to sleep at night, folks. In celebration of my hotly anticipated slumber, I’ve decided it’s high time…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung has yet to announce the Galaxy S4 Active, but at the rate at which leaks are spilling out we expect that to happen any day now. Yesterday we saw a few photos of the device, which is similar to the Galaxy S4 but with…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple is still the most valuable brand in the world according to the annual BrandZ report published by Millward Brown. The firm valued Apple’s brand at $185 billion, a 1 percent change from last year. Apple is trailed by Google with a brand value of…
By Joey Davidson |
Late last week, a countdown ended on a Japanese PlayStation page. When the numbers drained out, a brand new trailer appeared. Dubbed “Panopticon,” the trailer showed a futuristic dystopia complete with more timers, a police state and a newborn baby. Overnight, that title was officially unveiled in Japan. “Panopticon”…
By Brandon Russell |
A meteorite the size of a small boulder recently struck the moon with such force the impact was visible down here on Earth—to the naked eye. That means had you or I been looking up at the moon at the precise moment of impact, we’d…
By Jacob Kleinman |
GrubHub and Seamless, two of the biggest online food delivery services in the U.S., announced a merger that will allow the newly formed company to serve over 500 cities with food from more than 20,000 restaurants across the country. GrubHub founder Matt Maloney will take…
By Brandon Russell |
NASA’s Mars Curiosity has again drilled into the barren Martian planet, puncturing a section 2.6-inches deep. The rock, known as Cumberland, gave NASA researchers the opportunity to remove a powdered sample that will then be delivered to Curiosity’s onboard analyzing instruments. NASA previously drilled into…
By Todd Haselton |
Verizon has the largest 4G LTE network in the United States and now it’s larger than ever. The carrier announced Monday that it recently activated its 4G LTE service in six new markets, bringing the total market count to 497. It covers a total of…
By Jacob Kleinman |
The HTC One, the Taiwanese mobile company’s hottest new gadget, became the first smartphone to make a video call from the top of Mount Everest in the hands of British climber Daniel Hughes. The Android phone may work from the highest point on earth, but make…
By Ron Duwell |
Sony is not releasing a PlayStation 2 Classic this week on the PlayStation Store. Making up for the lack of a new game is excellent deal on one of the best games available through the service. If you have a lot of time to spare,…
By Todd Haselton |
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings recently sat down with The Canadian Press to discuss a variety of topics ranging from the new season of Arrested Development to BlackBerry 10. Hastings hinted in his interview that his company isn’t preparing to deliver Netflix support to BlackBerry 10 in the near…
