Someday I swear I’ll get around to playing one of these games, but in the meantime, those of you racing to keep up with Team Plasma while kicking around “Unova region” (think bizarro-Manhattan) with Tepigs and Oshawotts on your Nintendo DSs can finally take your game global, starting tomorrow.
That’s when Pokémon (the actually …
It’s the saga no one knew or cared much about until David Fincher’s The Social Network turned up the volume: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg hoodwinks fellow Harvard students (and twins) Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss out of millions in Facebook profits. The twins sue and win some of those millions in a settlement. But it turns out …
Just as Sony’s settling its lawsuit with PS3 root-key hacker George Hotz, developer Jaimes Laird says he’s managed to crack the private keys for Apple’s AirPlay wireless streaming protocol.
Laird’s girlfriend moved and was having issues getting her music to stream properly, so he popped open her Airport Express, “dumped the …
NASA’s probably breathing easier this week after last’s near-catastrophic government shutdown, and what better way to pop a celebratory cork (or two) than with a couple big anniversary events.
Tomorrow marks both the 50th anniversary of humanity’s first trip into space, as well as the 30th anniversary of NASA’s first ever Space …
Google can go right ahead and snap up travel software company ITA Software for $700 million, but only if it agrees not to kick the competition to the curb, says the Department of Justice in a statement.
Well, sort of. The DOJ’s antitrust division filed a civil antitrust lawsuit this morning to block the proposed acquisition, then …
You’re probably all too aware of what could happen at midnight tonight if House leaders can’t reach a budget deal, but what about NASA’s Space Shuttle? You know, the imminent launch of a spacecraft supervised by a government-funded space agency?
“Given the realities of the calendar, however, prudent management requires that we plan …
Should lithium batteries be regarded as “hazardous material” by the U.S. government? It’s what the Obama administration wanted, but a House bill passed last week bars limits that exceed international standards on shipments of lithium cells and batteries–a move expected to save companies like Apple, Panasonic, and Samsung billions in …
Some of us measure our daily lives according to point releases: This-dot-that, or that-dot-this.
Well, those of us with iPhones, anyway–especially those of us with inexplicable battery troubles, or who gnaw our nails to nubs over security bugs.
Buck up, Apple’s next iOS update may be near. The rumor patrol at BGR claims iOS …
You’ve got your Toys “R” Us Geoffrey Giraffe umbrella, your Buzz Lightyear talking action figure, and your Sassy ring-o-links, but wait–aren’t you forgetting something? Your know, like an Apple iPad 2?
If you’d rather grab your toys and totable tech all at once, it looks like you’ll soon have the option: According to ModMyi.com, …
David Lynch says you’ll never really watch a movie on your phone, but what about full-on 24/7 ESPN sports events?
ESPN already breaks off bits of its live shows for occasional phone-based palm-gawking via an app drably dubbed ESPN Mobile TV. So what do you call the app that lets you simply stream ESPN live?
WatchESPN, of course, …
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When a brick-and-mortar retailer decides to go digital, one possible strategy goes something like this: Buy a smaller digital company or two, and hope to make them big.
That’s what GameStop did last week when it acquired Stardock’s Impulse game download …
Whether the world’s slimmest or simply Seagate’s trimmest, the GoFlex Slim packs an awful lot into a pencil-thin package.
Take 9 millimeters of black anodized metal casing, drop in a 320GB Momentus notebook/netbook hard drive, crank the rotations-per-minute up to 7,200 (conventional desktop speeds), and you get less than six ounces of …
