Diablo III on a MacBook Air? I know, it's like asking Steve Rogers to fight the Red Skull before guzzling the super serum, what with the Air's low-speed Intel CPU and anemic Intel integrated 3D graphics. Still, other players had me hopeful enough to give it the old college try.
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear the case of Joel Tenenbaum, who illegally downloaded music during college and now faces a $675,000 fine.
In late 2010, we heard whispers that newfangled fusions of technology and entertainment were being tested by none other than Comcast itself: Xcalibur was its name. And today, Comcast has officially announced "X1" – formerly known as Xcalibur.
Nobody has explained what happened to a much-ballyhooed $70 million project: the arrival of an undersea fiber-optic cable promised to end Cuba's Internet isolation and boost web capacity 3,000-fold.
New figures that show Chrome taking the lead are a big deal -- until you realize that nobody agrees on browser market share.
Remember Apple's futuristic "spaceship" campus? Well, it looks like it's gone beyond the fancy renderings stage to the ask-the-neighbors-for-permission stage.
Remember "Do Not Track," the initiative in the White House's Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights that called for an opt-out button for users who don't want to be tracked by different sites? Well, it's still alive and it has an influential new supporter.
Here's a handful of interesting tech stories from around the web for Monday, May 21.
Microsoft's Kinect motion sensor has revolutionary potential, but it's pricey at $250 for the Windows version. Enter Leap, which plans to sell a more accurate motion-sensing device called the Leap Motion for just $70.
Google's Chrome browser is now the most used browser worldwide, bypassing Microsoft's Internet Explorer, according to browser usage tracker StatCounter.
For Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it was quite a week - from birthday, to IPO, to I DO.
