You may not think you’re sharing with many people when using Facebook’s “Friends of Friends” privacy setting, but two degrees of separation actually goes a long way.
According to a new Pew study, Facebook users who share with …
Uh-oh, Moto: Refurb ‘Xoom’ Tablets Sold with Previous Owner Data Intact
Motorola recently provided 6,200 “Xoom” Android tablets to daily deals site W00t.com and of those 6,200 tablets, about 100 of them “may not have been completely cleared of the original owner’s data prior to resale,” the company …
Simpsons Arcade Game Finally Released for Consoles After 21 Years
It’s been a long time since you could pump quarters into The Simpsons Arcade Game, gleefully mashing buttons with a can of Mountain Dew by your side. Well, prepare to seriously embiggen your gaming library because the Simpsons …
Photos: The Founding Fathers of Video Games
The mad geniuses behind many of the most iconic video games of the 70s and 80s are reuniting to rethink and maybe even reinvent video gaming.
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8 Super Bowl Apps for Your Perusal
Haven’t you heard? Nobody just watches TV anymore — you have to be playing with a smartphone or tablet the whole time. So while you’re “watching” the Super Bowl this year, here’s a list of apps you can use.
Super Bowl XLVI …
WATCH: Tokyo Department Store Uses Android to Lure Shoppers
Have you, like Andrew McCarthy in Mannequin, ever looked up at a lifeless department store mannequin and wished it would come to life? Well, cue Starship’s “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now,” because your dream has come true.
Tokyo …
New Netflix Partner Halves Internet Bandwidth Without Cutting Quality
What if Netflix could offer the same selection of streaming content but only use half the bandwidth to stream it? If nothing else, the possibility that subscribers won’t be bumping up against monthly caps because they want to …
Oklahoma Bill to Tax Violent Video Games Is Clueless and Inconsistent
Once more into the land of moral foolishness: An Oklahoma lawmaker just introduced a bill that would impose a tax on games deemed “violent,” with the money from said tax going to battle bullying and childhood obesity.
Bullying …
Windows Phone 8: Microsoft’s 4 Big Challenges
The tech world is abuzz with new details on Windows Phone 8, the next major upgrade for Microsoft’s mobile operating system.
According to reports from PocketNow and Paul Thurrott, Windows Phone 8 will support a wider range of …
From Bleak to Bleaker in A Game of Thrones the Roleplaying Game’s New Trailer
A Game of Thrones the website has one of the best Flash introductions I’ve seen — granted it’s mostly to do with composer Ramin Djawadi’s theme song (from the HBO show), which now feels for me as much a part of the property as …
Why Are We Only Finding Out About the VeriSign Security Breach Now?
“Key Internet operator VeriSign hit by hackers” read the headline in Reuters yesterday. This is big news because, as the article casually points out, VeriSign Inc. “is ultimately responsible for the integrity of Web addresses …
5 Kinect Windows Apps I’d Like to See
Now that Kinect hardware is available for Windows, app developers can get busy bringing voice and motion control to desktop PCs. Microsoft is already working on Kinect Windows apps with hundreds of partners, including American …