Maybe it’s because it’s a fan show, but Seattle’s annual PAX show (the original one’s called PAX Prime now that Penny Arcade‘s set up an East Coast show in Boston) always sets a high bar for cosplay. From Nintendo stalwarts to newer cult favorites to games like League of Legends, this year saw a nice diversity of clever costumes. Here’s …
Top Five Monday Tech Deals
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Xbox 360 + $75 Best Buy gift card: $300 at Best Buy
Know what you’re going to need right after you buy your Xbox 360? Games. Also accessories and peripherals. There are all sorts of items you’ll need to buy—THAT’S HOW THEY GETCHA.
Best Buy is looking to ease the sting a bit …
Google TV to Launch in Europe ‘Early 2012’
American networks might not want to play ball in the U.S., but that isn’t stopping Google from pursuing its television dreams—it just means that other countries may experience the ideal Google TV dream even as the U.S. version languishes in the background, unloved.
Speaking at the prestigious MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh …
Irene Breezes Through Boston: A 24-Hour Time Lapse Video
By the time Hurricane Irene reached Boston, she was but a mere tropical storm. Her reputation as the most ruthless destructress the East Coast would see in decades had been overblown. She whipped through Boston more like a college freshman the first weekend she’d been away from her overprotective parents: Some trees were uprooted, some …
Nokia Admits Hack Last Week More Serious, Closes Developer Forums
Welcome to your weekly hack update, in which a major company admits its perimeter was breached and someone made off with piles of sensitive data. In this installment: Nokia, the Finland-headquartered mobile device manufacturer, and their online development community.
Yep, that community was reportedly infiltrated by ne’er-do-wells who …
No 4-Inch iPhone 5 After All, Report Says
Apple will buck the trend of bigger screens in the iPhone 5, either sticking with a 3.5-inch display or a slightly larger 3.7-inch screen according to the latest rumor.
A handful of reports from earlier this year claimed that the iPhone 5 would a have a 4-inch screen, thanks to an edge-to-edge design that makes better use of the …
Apple Puts New CEO Tim Cook’s Tenure on Timetable
How long will Apple’s Tim Cook sit on Apple’s CEO throne? Probably through the midpoint of 2021, according to the board of directors, who made the move last Friday to lock Cook in with one million shares of restricted company stock. Half of those shares are scheduled to vest between August 24, 2016 and August 24, 2021—so long as Cook …
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Amazon Tablet Pricing: How Low Could It Go?
The New York Post’s Garett Sloane is reporting that a source tells him that Amazon.com will start selling an Android tablet for “hundreds less” than the $499 iPad in late September or October. “Hundreds less?” That’s both a specific claim and a vague one.
Could Amazon sell a tablet for $399? Sure, that’s entirely …
Fake Photos of Hurricane Irene Were Plentiful on Twitter
Was that a photo of Irene approaching North Carolina? New York? No, that was actually from a storm from somewhere in Pensacola, Fla. from a couple of weeks ago.
But that didn’t stop it from being viewed some 270,000 odd times. Then there was another supposed image of the East River flooding. Pundits suspect it may have actually been …
How Many People Actually Use Twitter? Good Question
Here’s a shocker for you: Newt Gingrich probably didn’t pad his Twitter follower list with fictitious accounts. And, to make matters weirder, the reason that people thought that he had is the same reason why even Twitter isn’t sure how many users it actually has: inactive users.
Google Plus Adds New ‘Ignore’ Feature
Google Plus added a new “ignore” feature to grant you further control of your privacy. Ostensibly, it’ll be for users you still want interacting with your content, but who you don’t want to see popping up in your stream all the time. Think of it as a less intense version of the “block” feature.
(LIST: A Brief History of Google’s …
Apple Subscription TV Rumor Resurfaces, Still Shaky
You know what they say about tech rumors: If you repeat them for long enough, eventually they’ll come true. The Wall Street Journal is doing its share of repeating with a rumor on Apple’s subscription television plans, which have been coming together in whispers for years.
What sayeth the WSJ’s “people familiar with the matter” now? …