Cloud gaming: the promise of playing games anywhere you can scare up high-speed Internet, the latest ones fired at you instantly and on demand — just like Netflix or Hulu video — and with all the visual trimmings. The ability …
I’m usually not susceptible to stunt-pitching, but when the speaker wonks at Soundmatters lobbed an email for the company’s $200 foxLv2 portable Bluetooth speaker at the universe with a blurb from The Great Kat, well…
I …
As an uncontrolled “super fire” near Colorado Springs rages, feeding off parched terrain and forcing tens of thousands from their homes and businesses, high-tech mapping tools are dishing up highly detailed, bird’s eye views of …
Our pick of this month’s best new Skyrim mods.
Yesterday I wrote about ReDigi, the digital music storefront where you can sell digital songs you’ve purchased through iTunes (or ReDigi) in trade for credits that let you buy new (or someone else’s used) digital tunes.
The …
Your music collection: a hodgepodge trove of CDs and cassette tapes or digital songs you downloaded from iTunes and maybe even digital versions of some of those CDs you ripped yourself.
Also: an altar to bygone eras, like that …
Yesterday the unthinkable happened: my local Apple Store got their mitts on a mid-grade MacBook Pro with Retina display they could actually sell. That’s right: Instead of putting it out on one of their tables with a security …
And they’re off: An electron and a positron race east toward Stanford’s main campus along a two-mile course — the longest of its kind (and straightest) in the world — that from high above looks like a giant chalk-colored dam, …
The other night while all the Windows tablet hoopla was going on, I was at the local mall killing time between a haircut and my wife shopping for maternity clothes, so I dropped by the Apple Store to play with their demo Retina …
A couple years ago, 11-inch laptop gaming was all the rage. Dell led the charge with the Alienware M11x, a netbook-style 11.6-inch laptop that weighed just 4.5 pounds, featured surprisingly high-end gaming specs, and was updated …
When I think about online commercials and embedded spots and advertising in general, I imagine Malcolm McDowell strapped into a chair, his eyes pried open.
I think about volume jacking — TV ads that suddenly blare from my …
Apple and Google have each announced visually dazzling 3D mapping software that lets you pan around major metropolitan areas rendered in beautiful, photographic detail from a bird’s eye view.
In Google’s case, it’s an update …