Facebook is all set to roll out its “simpler” privacy changes after this month’s backlash over the amount of user data that is available through the site. I’ll be live blogging the press conference here, set to begin at 10:30 a.m. PST (1:30 p.m. ET). Hit refresh to update.
(More on Time.com: Facebook Gives The Scoop On More Privacy …
A possible run-in with flying monkeys presents one of the greatest fears for just about anyone who’s lost outside a mysterious castle. No good comes from flying monkeys and, unlike most other animals, they don’t appear to be more afraid of you than you are of them. But you don’t have to be near a big, dark castle to have a run-in …
Sony is showing off an 80-micrometer thin flexible OLED display. It measures 4.1 inches, does full color, and has a resolution of 423×240 pixels. Sony demonstrated the display by playing video files on it while wrapping it around a 4-millimeter cylinder several times. Who knows, maybe your next phone will be little more than a …
Titan Books released this new anthology of all-things Firefly ($14, Amazon) yesterday, and I’ve got a fresh copy to give away.
The book itself is full of new Firefly fiction by the show’s writing team, glossy photos, memories from the cast and crew and previously unpublished behind-the-scenes photos and storyboards. (There are even a …
News quickly spread yesterday that J Allard and Robbie Bach were leaving Microsoft. For those that don’t know, Allard and Bach co-founded Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division, so it came as a shock that the guys behind the Xbox, for example, were bidding adieu to Redmond.
Allard’s e-mail to his colleagues is pretty …
Finally, now you can start hoping for that Defenders Of The Earth reunion: Comic publisher Dynamite Entertainment has announced that it now has the rights for Flash Gordon and Mandrake The Magician in addition to The Phantom, bringing the characters under the same publisher for the first time in over forty years.
The three characters …
Deadline is reporting that Transformer’s director Michael Bay has selected his Megan Fox replacement. English Victoria’s Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley will become Megan 3.0, and not unlike Miss Fox herself, Transformers will be 23-year-old Whiteley’s first acting gig.
(More on Techland: Transformers 3 Overhaul: Megan Gets …
Sure, the Wii doesn’t need HDMI output but there’s something about the simplicity of a single-cable connection from your console to your TV that’s very appealing. Hooking stuff up with five component cables or even three composite cables seems so archaic nowadays.
If you’ve been longing to connect your Wii to your HDTV via …
And possibly yours.
No seriously, check it out. If you were even remotely sentient in the 1980’s, you will recognize something fundamental here. Jour de la Comete appears to be a kind of collage-parody of vaguely science-fictional teen-comedy movies like Back to the Future, The Goonies, Weird Science, Real Genius, The Twilight Zone, …
Ah, summertime. It’s been quite a while since we last saw each other. I’m looking forward to this weekend. I hope you are too. Leading up to the long weekend, we’ll have a few things to help get you ready for summer.
Besides the potential surf the Atlantic has to offer this weekend, the fire pit, pool, and beer pong, I’m …
When you think of TiVo you think of recording television shows, right? In a move that seems odd at first but begins to make more and more sense as you sit on a pier bench gazing out over the vast ocean, alone with your thoughts, this recently announced Best Buy/TiVo partnership might just work.
The basic idea is that Best Buy will …