A man takes his five-year-old daughter to a three-day game development festival in Toronto and CHANGES THE WORLD FOREVER.
Voltage Pictures, the studio behind director Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker from last year, is apparently pursuing legal action against 24,583 BitTorrent users for illegally downloading the video game-esque war thriller.
Down, down, to offline town: Sony says it’s shuttered online services in Canada, Indonesia, and Thailand this morning after detecting a ne’er-do-well on the (virtual) premises. This, after a 26-day PlayStation Network outage, followed by a veritable spree of copycat hacks.
Recently, our own Harry McCracken revealed that even he’d been hit by the Mac malware known as Mac Defender (also known as Mac Protector). Here’s how to remove it from, or avoid getting it on, your Mac.
It’s Oprah’s last show. A nation mourns.
There’s a lot of music online–more than most people have time to keep up with. That’s why you’ve got us. Every week, we’ll point you toward three excellent new downloads or videos from chart-topping stars, cult favorites and unknown geniuses.
In response to Barnes & Noble’s impressively small and simple touchscreen “Nook” e-reader announcement from yesterday, Amazon made an announcement of its own: an ad-supported Kindle with a built-in 3G connection for $164. The price for the device without ads is $189.
Opera’s littlest web browser, Opera Mini, just got a big update for iOS, with optimization for the iPad. This free browser underdog provides a great experience on Apple’s tablet, but it has too many frustrations to fully replace the iPad’s default Safari browser.
Consumerism meets environmentalism in a recently-signed deal between Liberia and the European Union that uses a tree barcode system to regulate timber trade.
It’s a good thing the detective thriller from Rockstar and Team Bondi’s doing so well, because it took a helluva long time to make. Team Bondi was cooking up Cole Phelps’ story for well over five years, much of that spent on just how to structure it. Years went by figuring out whether they wanted [...]
Judging from the evidence of last week’s Upfront presentations in which the broadcast networks revealed their fall 2011 schedules to advertisers and the public alike, television has finally realized how to deal with the threat of cord-cutting: Ignore it altogether. Instead of trying to fight the internet, broadcast television appears to have a new aim: [...]
