Forget the Moon, we’re going to an asteroid, and this time, we’re bringing a piece of the rock back.
As rumored, Google has officially announced its new mobile payment system. The platform is called “Google Wallet” and is a joint venture between Google, MasterCard, Sprint and security company First Data.
Earlier this month Ryan Giggs, a professional soccer player who plays for the U.K.’s Manchester United, obtained a court-ordered injunction to keep secret the details of an extra-marital affair with British television personality Imogen Thomas. The short story is that he didn’t want the U.K. press writing about his misconducts.
“I come from the orcs, we eat with spoons and forks, we love to eat our pork!” That’s the sound of a male orc in online roleplaying behemoth World of Warcraft. In China, it may also be the sound of an orc male working on the chain gang, by which I mean an actual Chinese [...]
A couple years ago, Intel was keen on steering people away from netbooks. The chip maker asked retailers to warn consumers about what netbooks can’t do, and created the “ultra-thin” category to provide a more powerful — and more expensive — alternative.
If you’re still wondering what Activision’s version of World War 3 is going to look like after the ‘splosion-happy trailer, the publisher released a few new screens today. The scenes show off the global conflict as it’ll happen in New York and London. Based on Kotaku’s write-up, the levels portrayed here may have even been [...]
Okay, let’s just go through the nerdgasm checklist:
PlayStation Network member? Me too, man. Me too. I didn’t have my credit card number on file because I’m cheap like that but I think I may dip into this free identity theft coverage Sony’s offering just in case. The world does NOT need another Doug Aamoth. And I’d hate for an identity thief to [...]
The rumor mill is in overdrive with the suggestion that Facebook might have done a deal with European music streaming service Spotify. Why would they do that?
If you stumbled over yourself to download Lady Gaga’s new Born This Way album when it was priced at 99 cents from Amazon on Monday, you may have found Amazon’s servers to be working about as well as a porcupine at a child’s birthday party (does NOT work—trust me).
Keeping stride with Google’s recent run of green-friendly initiatives, a new data center in Hamina, Finland, takes advantages of the facility’s surrounding environment by using ocean water to cool its servers.
