Facebook unwrapped its new “Messages” feature earlier this week, and announced that it’ll slowly be rolling out to users over the coming months. Here’s a quick, basic look at the upcoming service that aims to blur the lines between e-mail, instant messaging, and text messaging.
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Zynga, the company behind wildly popular Facebook games such as FarmVille and FrontierVille, has announced that CityVille will be rolling out “in the coming weeks.”
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Zynga is calling CityVille its “most social game to date.” You’ll be able to build your own city …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse and Graeme McMillan talk about Batman: The Return, Batman Inc. and The Extremist.
EVAN: After the weird emotional high of Batman and Robin #16, Batman: The Return felt like filler to me. …
The first trailer for DC Entertainment’s much-anticipated Green Lantern is out, and it’s… Well, I’m not entirely sure what it is, to be honest. For a movie with so much riding on it – Merely the hopes and dreams of both DC and DC fanboys, for whom nothing short of “Better than Iron Man” will be good enough – this is a curiously …
No, this isn’t the start to a really bad joke. Both Bill Clinton and a pastor based out of New Jersey have put bans on Facebook, though for completely different reasons.
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Though Clinton might have partnered with the man who created the Internet Al Gore, he’s banning …
If you’ve ever dreamed of movie screenwriting stardom but never quite known where to start, Amazon.com may be the place to go. The internet giant is branching out into movie production by launching Amazon Studios, a new user-controlled content generator and developer that aims to reward new filmmakers and screenwriters in addition to …
Brandon Graham’s King City project, about a future city full of spies and a young man trained as a “Catmaster,” has had a long, troubled publication history–its first half initially appeared as an Eisner Award-nominated English-language manga project in 2007, and beginning last year, the whole thing has appeared as a monthly serial from …
It’s been a phenomenal time for Futurama. Comedy Central resurrected the cartoon show from the annals of cancelled television this year. Keeping the spirit up through the end of the year, they’ve decided to close out 2010 with something a musical Holiday episode, which will air Nov. 21.
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The British are coming – and they want your free time and eyeballs. The BBC is planning to launch iPlayer – the corporation’s online video-on-demand player – globally, making hundreds of hours of British television and radio programming available internationally for the first time legally.
First introduced in 2007, the BBC iPlayer …
Are physics – not magic — the key to a Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak? New research indicates yes.
A recent study by researchers from Imperial College London involves a new class of space-aged material called metamaterial – fabric with ultra-complex internal wiring – which, at least in theory, may make it possible for …
Hulu Plus is now widely available to the general public for $8 per month, down from the beta-phase pricing of $10 per month. The online video service is jointly owned by ABC, NBC, and Fox, and features full episodes from many of the shows currently airing on the networks as well as access to a back catalog of shows from previous …
The DVD release of Disney’s A Christmas Carol starring Jim Carey as yuletide tyrant Ebenezer Scrooge, will reveal the tech process behind Carey’s transformation from live-action actor to cartooned character.
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The film, released in theaters last fall, hit store shelves today …
