From defending the world from invaders of the third kind to trying race down that road, arcade games have had their place in entertainment history and in our hearts.
Good morning! Here are some of today’s top tech links. We’ll cover some of these throughout the day in more detail, but feel free to get a head start.
It’s the perfect crossover promotion: Halo and the new Lexus CT 200h.
The U.S. army is considering a proposal to arm its soldiers with a new weapon for the 21st century battlefield: smartphones.
“Cord-cutting” – That is, dropping cable television services for internet – may be more myth than reality, but new research from Turner Broadcasting suggests that audiences’ appetites are changing, if not in the ways that people might expect. A new study commissioned by the company has found out that while consumers may not be abandoning [...]
Against all odds, the government has managed to make the issue of online privacy even more boring. It’s true! Several news outlets (including this one now) are referring to a recent proposal from the Commerce Department as “the privacy bill of rights,” to try to spice things up a bit.
After facing complaints filed by state attorneys in 50 states, DirecTV has agreed to pay state governments $13.25 million in addition to reimbursing individual customers who have filed complaints over misleading promotional deals and pricing. Complaints filed against the satellite company include failing to disclose price increases built into agreements, extending contracts without customers’ consent [...]
Google has updated its Google Maps Android app to include 3D buildings and offline storage capabilities. These are both features that Google’s Andy Rubin showed off at a recent tech conference, if you recall.
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan, Douglas Wolk and Evan Narcisse talk about Strange Tales II #3, Big Questions #15, and more!
The $250 ioSafe SoloPRO external hard drive promises protection against fire up to 1,550 degrees and water up to 10 feet deep. The internal hard drive is a standard one-terabyte desktop drive and the external enclosure connects via eSATA or USB 3.0.
Someone claiming to have detailed knowledge about the highly anticipated Marvel vs Capcom 3 game has released them via Twitter. Normally, we would brush off this sort of news – except that the Twitter account klennox22 was mysteriously blocked by the higher figures (who closed down this person in mere hours when it took days [...]
