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BlizzCon is only a couple of months away and the Virtual Ticket is now available for purchase. The price of the virtual pass is $39.99 and grants access to a livestream of the developer panels, exclusive interviews, live contests hosted by Chris Hardwick, the closing ceremony, and various in-game it
Bridj, the on-demand private bus startup, said Thursday that it has raised $4 million in funding to help it expand beyond Greater Boston. The Cambridge company also said that it hired Gabe Klein, formerly a vice president at Zipcar, as its chief operating officer. Klein previously served as Chicago’
AmazonFresh, the grocery delivery service run by the retail giant in selected US west coast cities, has started a trial program which sees the US Postal Service shipping its items. The 60-day program, which started in August, tasks the USPS with delivering food items, toiletries, and other everyday
Hillary Clinton predicted Thursday the United States will become the leading 21st century “superpower” in clean energy if the nation confronts the “most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face.” “We shouldn’t have to state the obvious R
Rocket Internet has made a major move ahead of its upcoming IPO in Germany after announcing that it will merge five of its global e-commerce services into one single business. Dafiti (Latin America), Jabong (India), Lamoda (Russia and CIS), Namshi (Middle East), and Zalora (Southeast Asia and Austra
Sony-loving PlayStation 4 owners have some fancy new toys to covet, with the announcement that the company’s freshly announced Xperia Z3, Xperia Z3 Compact, and Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact all support the gaming console’s Remote Play feature. You can effectively turn your Xperia Z3 into an untethered m
It’s on. Well, according to Huawei at least. The Chinese manufacturer has just announced its 6-inch Ascend Mate7 to compete with the other big man on campus, the Galaxy Note 4. Huawei promises that the Ascend Mate7 is its most powerful phablet to date, with an octa-core Huawei Kirin 925 processor. W
The TI-84 Plus graphing calculator has a 15 MHz processor, 24 kilobytes of RAM, and a 96×64 black and white screen. It has an Amazon list price of $190. The Kindle Fire HD has a 1.5 GHz processor, 8GB of memory, and a 1280×800 color screen. Amazon list price: $140. And yet the TI-84 keeps
Tablet sales may be leveling off in mature markets like Europe and the US but manufacturers seem unfazed by the trend. Take Lenovo, for example. In addition to showcasing a brand new 17-inch gaming notebook and a budget gaming PC, the company announced a new Android tablet during IFA that’s drawing
Nest is about to turn all the data its thousands of Nest Protect owners have been delivering into some tangible new features. Since launching the $99 smart home smoke and carbon monoxide detector late last year, a follow-up to its popular Learning Thermostat, Nest, which is owned by Google, has been
About a week before Apple agreed to buy Beats for $3 billion, one of the company’s earliest employees filed a lawsuit against the headphone-maker, accusing it of cutting him and others out of potentially millions in royalties. That man is Steven Lamar who, in his lawsuit, claims that he came u
When it’s not producing flagship phones like the One (M8) or the Butterfly 2, HTC is flooding the rest of the market with several Desire models. These devices vary anywhere from mid-range to low-end, and everywhere in-between. This week, the company is launching another model called the Desire
