Everything You Need to Know About the Sony PlayStation Network Fiasco
Your worldwide network hacked, your online service in shambles, over 75 million user accounts compromised, US Senators writing letters scolding you for keeping mum longer than you should’ve–if Sony’s had worse weeks, I couldn’t name one.
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2012 MacBook Pros to Get All New Case Design?
Apple gives us plenty to complain about, but one thing I wouldn’t is the graceful design of my 13-inch mid-2010 MacBook Pro. It aces both form and function, a rare (well, not so rare if you’re Apple) technology coup. A year on, it’s still ultra-quick, reasonably light and portable, and a joy to work on (it better be when you’re …
Out of Gas and Stuck in Space? NASA May Have a Solution
You’re cruising round the moon, all engines go, having the time of your life, and then you notice your fuel needle’s jittering dangerously close to “E.” Tap-tap-tap, but no, it’s not stuck, and you’re about to discover how far past “E” the needle goes. What do you do?
Trade up for a spacecraft that uses a glass cockpit, for …
Did Custom ‘Rebug’ Firmware Kill Sony’s PlayStation Network?
Welcome to day six of Sony’s PlayStation Network debacle, as Sony’s original suggestion of “a full day or two” offline stretches to nearly a week. We’re no closer to an explanation than we were six days ago, though the company’s intimated in a handful of laconic PlayStation blog updates that the trouble began with an …
Hey Google, Ditch the Android OS Dogfighting App
Look out, it’s another app trawling for attention by mimicking felonious real-world activities. Meet Dog Wars, a game designed to play just as it sounds: Pit your virtual pooch against others in violent, bloody pit brawls.
“Raise your Dog to Beat the Best!” reads the description, boasting that Dog Wars is “A GAME THAT WILL …
Super Laser Could Output More Power than All Human Civilization
What do you get when you spend $1.2 billion on triple laser laboratories in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania? Try: The building blocks for a mind-boggling super laser that’s almost “didn’t I see that in a Keanu Reeves flick?” powerful.
How much power are we talking? Probably not enough, say, to take out a planet with one …
Yes, You Can Surf Porn at New York City Libraries
If you’ve always wanted to surf porn fearlessly and in full view of the world, it looks like New York City’s many libraries are happy to let you.
Or if not happy, at least obliged to. Put another way (and to invoke Cole Porter), it seems just about anything goes at the city’s more than 200 library branches.
Public libraries …
PlayStation Network Down for Fifth Day as Sony ‘Rebuilds’ from ‘Intrusion’ (Updated)
A holiday weekend without Portal 2 or Mortal Kombat matchups, a five-day grand total of uninterrupted void, and yes, Sony’s PlayStation Network remains in the fetal position as we pull into Monday, April 25.
[UPDATE: Sony Admits Personal Info at Risk, Claims PSN Back Up In a Week]
We still know virtually nothing about what …
Sony Admits PlayStation Network ‘Affected’ by External Attackers
Sony claims its PlayStation Network was attacked by unidentified outside forces, and said that it preemptively shut the 70 million subscriber service down.
In his third update since the outage began on Wednesday evening, April 20th, Sony senior director of corporate communications and social media Patrick Seybold wrote on the official …
A New Record? Microsoft Claims 350 Million Windows 7 Licenses Sold
Call it a record, or just a whole lot better than Windows “rhymes-with missed-ya,” Microsoft says Windows 7 can lay claim to 350 million licenses sold since it launched on October 22, 2009.
And that’s about all they said, meaning no, we don’t have the breakdown in terms of full copies, upgrades, versions bundled with new PCs, …
The Elder Scrolls Skyrim Looks Like Park City, Utah
Known for its ski resorts and the Sundance Film Festival, Park City may also be synonymous with…Skyrim? That’s right. Nestled among Utah’s picturesque, snow-capped peaks, the small town recently hosted Bethesda Softwork’s annual press event, where chapter five of fantasy-RPG franchise The Elder Scrolls stole the show. I didn’t …
Cloudy With a Chance of Outages: Amazon Web Service Disruptions Continue
Another day, another staggering mess for Amazon’s cloud-based web service, on the fritz since yesterday and causing chaos for sites like Foursquare, Hootsuite, Quora, and Reddit. As of this post, it looks like Reddit’s partly back, as is Box Office Mojo, but determining who’s up or not (or by how much) is like picking through a …
