The PlayStation 4 exists, surprise! Bet you never saw that coming. Except it’s not called the PlayStation 4—not yet, anyway. But yes, Sony admitted it’s in the offing in one of those indirectly-traveling-from-New-York-to-L.A.-by-way-of-China references.
Perhaps you’ve heard Sony’s PlayStation division posted a profit for its fiscal …
From launch day press coverage bonanza to dismal other-shoe-drops lawsuit, it looks like Google Wallet may have some splainin’ to do. Or at least PayPal and eBay think it does.
Google took the wraps off its new mobile e-payment service yesterday, a service that promises to let you abandon plastic cards and just use your smartphone …
Forget the Moon, we’re going to an asteroid, and this time, we’re bringing a piece of the rock back.
So sayeth NASA, who just announced they’ve approved a robo-spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx (that weirdly translates as “fertility king,” in case you’re wondering) to swing by near-Earth asteroid 1999 RQ36 and scrape a few bits …
“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 prisoner playing an orc male in Blizzard’s mega-MMO to rack up very …
You just picked up Codemasters’ grit-flinging, gravel-grinding rally racer DiRT 3 for PlayStation 3, and let me guess—you can’t play online or swap YouTube video replays with pals. Bummer.
You’re not alone. It’s because the PS3 version requires a special piece of downloadable code to put its online mode in gear. And since that …
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.
Poor Sony, the world’s biggest cyber-pincushion. Every time I …
It looks like dust—that’s right, dust—was responsible for a deadly explosion at a Chinese factory that supplies Apple iPads. The blast, which happened last Friday (pictured above) killed three workers and injured 15 others.
Not just any dust, say Chinese investigators, but something called “combustible dust.” Yep, I had to look …
No, you can’t put money down on a copy yet, but it looks like Windows 8’s a-comin’ sometime next year. So sayeth Microsoft doyen Steve Ballmer in remarks yesterday.
“As we progress through the year, you ought to expect to hear a lot about Windows 8,” said Ballmer, addressing developers in Tokyo. “Windows 8 slates, tablets, PCs, a …
Imagine your phone ringing on the breakfast bar across the room. Could it be the job offer you’ve waited all week for? But—drat—you’re smack in the middle of changing your three-month-old, who’s made something otherworldly and possibly radioactive in his diaper. Not the best of times to swipe your potentially contaminated fingers …
File this slice of grapevine buzz under “what the heck for?” but it seems the latest ‘iPhone 5’ scuttlebutt has Apple’s next-gen iPhone packing a curved-glass touchscreen.
Today’s gossip-starter: DigiTimes, which cites “industry sources” as stating Apple just snapped up between 200 and 300 glass-cutting machines to make curved iPhone …
It’s the accusation every company’s fluff department dreads: abetting creepy privacy-quashing tools and supporting human-rights abuses, including torture—just a few of the charges Falun Gong practitioners are leveling at networking giant Cisco Systems in a federal lawsuit filed in California last week.
The suit filed by Washington …
Squaring off with the U.S. Senate, Apple’s singing a privacy-friendlier song that ought to please location-tracking skeptics—assuming they buy what Cupertino’s selling.
Appearing with Google and Facebook before the Senate’s Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Insurance Subcommittee, Apple Vice President of Worldwide Government …
