Remember what Charles Ingalls used to call daughter Laura on Little House on the Prairie? That’s right, “Half Pint.” Those two words popped into my brainpan when I got a look at Alienware’s new X51, something it calls its …
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The Looming Cloud-Streaming Game Wars: OnLive Partners with Google TV
Forget “what’s in your wallet,” what’s in your TV? If you’re looking to pick up one of these newfangled Google TV-based televisions, make that OnLive, the cloud-streaming game service that lets you play high-end video games over …
5 Things Not to Look for at CES 2012
Here we go CES, here we go — the annual tech-letting is nearly upon us, and with it, a deluge of rumors and PR-led ballyhoo. Let’s take a look at what not to expect from next week’s Vegas-based tech spectacular.
No new Xbox. …
Piano or Pretender? First Impressions of Yamaha’s AvantGrand N2
I just picked up a Yamaha AvantGrand N2, which if you pay any attention to the electronic music biz, you might recognize as the upright piano version of Yamaha’s newest hybrid piano series. They’re not cheap, but I needed …
Verizon FiOS Xbox Live TV Deal Is Another Disappointing Half-Measure
Giving people more options is generally a good thing, and the announcement on Tuesday that Verizon would offer a couple dozen FiOS cable TV channels through a new Xbox Live app certainly isn’t a bad thing. But it’s also a …
How Many Hours a Day Would You Guess People Watch Electronic Devices?
Before I tell you how many hours a day people spend watching content on tablets, TVs, phones and so forth, because a polling group’s done the legwork and compiled a bunch of numbers, let’s talk quick about technology. The word, I …
Meet Intel’s Crazy 50-Core ‘Knights Corner’, World’s First 1 TFLOPS Processor
Intel announces world’s first 1 teraflops processor—the power of a supercomputer on a single chip.
Who Really Invented the Computer?
If someone up and asked you “who invented the computer,” how would you respond? Bill Gates? Steve Jobs? Al Gore? Or say you’re more historically savvy, might you venture Alan Turing? Perhaps Konrad Zuse? Turing is the guy who, in …
