Syfy’s Being Human may not be breaking new ground in terms of content – It’s a remake of a popular British series, already seen in the US on BBC America – but it is making technological moves no-one has seen before by becoming the first season-long “TV Tagging” series on the air.
It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
It’s official: Duke Nukem Forever will be released on May 3, 2011. I know we’ve been promised this several times over the last 12 years, but president of Gearbox Software and executive producer of Duke Nukem Forever Randy Pitchford says this time it’s for real to Game Informer.
A few days ago, Techland wrote about how Blizzard Entertainment asked YouTube to take down a video of a player-made Starcraft II MMO called World of Starcraft. Even though the MMO was made using Starcraft II’s Galaxy Editor, an Blizzard Entertainment approved map creator that the company has encouraged users to toy around with in the [...]
Since DVRs have basically eliminated the need to sit through commercials, we turn our attention to YouTube. That’s where Verizon’s first iPhone commercial has cropped up. It’s 30 seconds of clocks ticking, fingers and toes tapping, and a girl who smiles when one of the clocks strikes midnight—presumably on February 10th when the Verizon iPhone [...]
Good morning! Here are some of today’s top tech stories so far. We’ll cover a few of these throughout the day but feel free to get a head start.
Google’s Eric Schmidt announced today that company co-founder Larry Page would take on the role of CEO in April of this year, a huge shake up for the tech giant. In a blog post, now-Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt revealed that he’ll be overseeing things from a new chairman’s post while Page would inherit the day-to-day [...]
Will the end of Eric Schmidt’s nine and a half years as CEO of Google and the return of co-founder Larry Page to that role have an impact on the company’s direction? I’m no Google insider, but I’ll be startled if it has no noticeable effect. In announcing the news today, Schmidt said that Page [...]
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Evan Narcisse, Graeme McMillan and Douglas Wolk talk about The Invincible Iron Man #500, Supergirl #60 and Wolverine and Jubilee #1.
The December ruling in favor of new net neutrality policies has Verizon “deeply concerned by the FCC’s assertion of broad authority for sweeping new regulation of broadband networks and the Internet itself,” the company said in a statement today.
