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…
By Ron Duwell |
Final Fantasy X and X-2 are not the only Final Fantasy games getting an HD overhaul. Famitsu is reporting that Square Enix is also giving the hotly debated dark horse of the series, Final Fantasy VIII, a long overdue makeover on PCs. Don’t get your…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple’s Fifth Avenue Apple Store is a global icon for the brand. It sits in midtown NYC, flanked by Central Park, and its cap is made entirely out of glass panels. As such, the location has been a go-to store for tourists and locals alike…
By Ron Duwell |
Arc System Works has announced the latest in the Guilty Gear series via a teaser trailer. Even more telling about the game’s nature than the impressive graphics is the glorious choice of cheesy unintelligible J-Rock. Series mainstays Sol Badguy and Ky Kisuke have never looked…
By Adriana Lee |
In honor of YouTube turning 8, the Gregory Brothers put together one heck of an ambitious tribute — the “AutoTune the News” fellas stuffed eight years’ worth of YouTube history into one song for the site’s Comedy Week, which kicked off Sunday. So what have we…
By Adriana Lee |
I’ve long argued that one of the biggest things standing in the way of 3D printing’s mainstream potential was the price point. After all, not everyone has a couple of grand to plunk down on an emerging technology. So when news of an upcoming Kickstarter…
By Jacob Kleinman |
It’s been a busy day for Tumblr. First the massively popular blogging site was purchased outright by Yahoo for a whopping $1.1 billion, then it released an updated Web and Android interface for Flickr and, as if that wasn’t enough, the site also pushed out…
