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Nvidia Shield arrives in June for $349, pre-orders open now (update)

  • Posted May 17, 2013, 9:09 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Gaming, Hardware With Video | 131.2
  • Nvidia has decided to open pre-orders today instead of May 20th as originally announced. You can buy yours for $350 at Newegg, GameStop and Nvidia's Shield site. The estimated ship date also appears to have moved up from 'end of June' to June 4th.

Microsoft launches YouTube app, Google demands it taken down

  • Posted May 16, 2013, 6:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, Software | 116.2
  • Google yesterday issued a cease-and-desist letter to Microsoft, demanding Redmond pull its YouTube app from the Windows Phone Store. The app has been available for over a week; however, it violates YouTube's API usage terms. Google says Microsoft has until…

Bill Gates is once again the richest person in the world

  • Posted May 17, 2013, 10:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Microsoft | 109.4
  • Bill Gates is once again the richest man in the world thanks to the recent success of the company he helped create. The 57-year-old Microsoft co-founder surpassed Mexican investor Carlos Slim yesterday to reclaim the title according to the Blooomberg…

AT&T discontinues 'Facebook phone' after just one month, report says

  • Posted May 13, 2013, 11:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing | 76.9
  • It appears as though the HTC First will join the ranks of the Microsoft Kin and the HP TouchPad as the most recent flop in technology. Sales of the “Facebook phone” are so bad that AT&T has already decided to…

Google I/O 2013 Roundup: Learn about all the company's updates and announcements

  • Posted May 15, 2013, 12:27 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Software With Video | 73.2
  • Google will be live streaming their 3-hour I/O opening keynote Wednesday at 12PM ET / 9AM PT. Tune in to watch the full coverage here. We'll be posting periodic updates summarizing the most important bits and linking to more in depth coverage throughout the day.

Google, NASA join forces to build quantum computing laboratory

  • Posted May 16, 2013, 12:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News | 70.7
  • Google and NASA are teaming up to construct a laboratory built around a 512 qubit quantum computer from D-Wave. The endeavor, known as the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, will be used primarily for machine learning – a process that computers…

UK LulzSec hackers sentenced to varying prison terms

  • Posted May 16, 2013, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security | 70.7
  • Four LulzSec hackers have been sentenced in the UK to varying prison stints. The men pleaded guilty to denial-of-service attacks on 20th Century Fox, the CIA, Nintendo, Sony and others and accepted their sentencing as part of a plea bargain.

Confirmed: Windows 8.1 is Windows Blue, free upgrade due later this year

  • Posted May 14, 2013, 1:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Software, Microsoft Breaking News | 70.4
  • Past rumors purport that Windows Blue and Windows 8.1 may actually be one and the same. At a conference today, Microsoft CFO Tami Reller validated those rumors, stating that Windows 8.1 is not only Blue, but 8.1 is on track for…

Sony announces waterproof Xperia ZR smartphone

  • Posted May 13, 2013, 4:30 PM by Nir Kenner | Filed in Industry News With Video | 67.4
  • Sony has just announced the Xperia ZR, an Android-powered device featuring a rich 4.6-inch "OptiContrast OLED" screen with Bravia technology to reduce glare even in the brightest sunglight. It also packs a 13 megapixel camera, 2GB RAM and a Snapdragon…

Asus' new lineup of Z87 Haswell motherboards revealed

  • Posted May 17, 2013, 5:00 PM by Jesse Schoff | Filed in Industry News, Hardware | 54.5
  • Asus is showing off its new line of Z87-based Haswell motherboards, and one of the more immediate updates you’ll notice is the fit and finish. Asus has made moderate adjustments to the ROG and TUF product families, but has completely…

$1100 MSI laptop packs Radeon HD 8970M, AMD claims fastest mobile GPU

  • Posted May 15, 2013, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing | 54.4
  • In 2012, AMD began shipping its mobile line-up of Radeon HD 8000M-series just in time for the arrival of 2013. AMD unveiled today its latest addition to that mobile GPU line-up, its upcoming series of Radeon HD 8900M chips. The Radeon 8900M-series flagship, the 8970M, packs twice the number...

Amazon launches its own currency called Amazon Coins

  • Posted May 13, 2013, 9:39 AM by Dave LeClair | Filed in Industry News, The Web Breaking News | 49.4
  • Amazon has announced that, starting today, users can purchase apps, games and in-app items in the Amazon Appstore and on Kindle Fire using the company's own Amazon Coin currency. To get buyers up and running with the new payment option,…

Anonymous bidder pays more than $600,000 for coffee with Tim Cook

  • Posted May 16, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple | 48.1
  • An anonymous bidder has paid more than $600,000 to have coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook. The opportunity, which will take place at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, comes as part of a charity auction hosted by Charity Buzz.

Google to ship custom Galaxy S4 starting June 26th for $649

  • Posted May 15, 2013, 2:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing | 47.2
  • Google I/O is in full swing and as expected, the search giant is dominating today’s tech news. We’ve just received word that Google has unveiled a version of Samsung’s Galaxy S4 that’s unlike any other. That’s because the handset sports…

Connectify Switchboard combines your internet connections to maximize speed

  • Posted May 14, 2013, 4:30 PM by Jesse Schoff | Filed in Industry News With Video | 46.3
  • Connectify is back on Kickstarter hoping to crowdfund a new application that combines multiple internet connections to give you faster access to everything on the internet. Connectify Switchboard works by aggregating all available internet connections on your computer, and then…
  • Posted May 13, 2013, 1:26 AM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware | 40.7
  • It was 2011 and Intel saw a surging trend in mobile computing. Notebooks were to become thinner, batteries had to last more, optical drives were going away, and performance, performance didn't have to suffer too much. So Intel pushed forward by investing $300 million of its own money to make it happen. That's what we know today as the ultrabook initiative.

    Today we are checking out Gigabyte's flagship ultrabook, the U2442F which comes armed with a 3rd-Gen Core i7 processor, plenty of memory, and a quality SSD. The U2442F is as capable as a high-end desktop.

  • Posted May 14, 2013, 10:50 PM by Kirk Hamilton | Filed in TechSpot, Gaming | 39.6
  • The Metro series is set some years after nuclear war has ruined the surface of the Earth and put an end to civilization as we know it. In Russia, survivors have retreated to the Metro, re-forging a bleak semi-existence in the tunnels beneath the city. This is the sort of game that mentions, in its opening cinematic, the very real possibility that God is dead.

    Last Light assumes that players got the "bad ending" in Metro 2033 and took the option to blast the entire population of "Dark Ones" into oblivion. The subsequent discovery of a single surviving Dark One sets the plot of Last Light in motion.

Samsung shipped six million Galaxy S4s in less than three weeks

  • Posted May 16, 2013, 2:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing | 39.6
  • Korean tech giant Samsung is well on their way to setting new records with the recently released Galaxy S 4 smartphone. An unnamed Samsung executive recently told a Korean newspaper that the company supplied four million Galaxy S4 handsets to…

EA discontinues Online Pass program over player disapproval

  • Posted May 16, 2013, 10:15 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Gaming, Industry News | 34.4
  • EA has announced it will discontinue its controversial Online Pass in response to customer feedback. The company first introduced the program back in 2010 as a measure to deter used games sales -- or, at the very least, get something…

Google launches All Access music subscription service at I/O

  • Posted May 15, 2013, 12:22 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News Breaking News | 33.7
  • The streaming music scene is heating up rather quickly as multiple big tech players are trying their luck in the industry. The latest on that front is Google's All Access streaming subscription service that was just launched at Google I/O.…

Congress pressures Google on Glass privacy concerns

  • Posted May 17, 2013, 4:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News | 33.6
  • As I’ve said before, Google is garnering a ton of press from Glass – a product that isn’t slated for release until sometime in 2014. While the majority of attention has been positive, some have called into question what could…

Samsung announces first 5G mobile wireless technology

  • Posted May 13, 2013, 4:00 PM by Jesse Schoff | Filed in Industry News Breaking News | 32.9
  • Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the world’s first 5G mobile wireless technology. The technology operates in the millimeter-wave Ka bands for cellular communication, and provides data transmission several hundred times faster than existing 4G networks, said Samsung. …

Bill Gates discusses the last time he met with Steve Jobs

  • Posted May 13, 2013, 10:51 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple, Microsoft With Video | 32.8
  • Bill Gates sat down with 60 Minutes’ Charlie Rose last night for a one-on-one interview that has many in the tech industry talking today. That’s because the co-founder of Microsoft spoke candidly about longtime rival Steve Jobs and outlined much…

Newegg scores new victory against "corporate troll" Alcatel-Lucent

  • Posted May 17, 2013, 3:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, The Web | 31.9
  • For a few years now Newegg.com has made it policy never to settle with patent trolls. Following up from their victory over Soverain Software in January, who claimed to have invented the online shopping cart, now the retailer has scored…

Google strips 8.8 million lines of code from Blink engine

  • Posted May 17, 2013, 5:45 PM by Jesse Schoff | Filed in Industry News | 31.8
  • Google recently announced that it was forking WebKit to create the Blink rendering browser engine in an effort to pare down the WebKit engine to the essentials for Chrome. Since WebKit is used on over seven different platforms, it had…
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