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You really have to wonder what, exactly, IBM will look like in a year. Talk revived this week about the tech giant trying to sell off its chip business, with a new leading candidate, Globalfoundaries, emerging, according to the Wall Street Journal and Reuters. Globalfoundries is the product of a joi
Children of the 1980s spent hours perfecting the art of playing Namco’s Pac-Man computer game. And now computers are teaching each other to play the popular game, which sees a player navigating a maze, trying to gobble up pellets while avoiding four colourful enemies. Researchers have managed to dev
To say The Elder Scrolls is a popular IP would be an understatement. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrimrecently surpassed the 20 million sales milestone. So what does that mean for The Elder Scrolls Online? Well, a LOT of people are interested. Bethesda has released an infographic that shows some interesti
People in the security community often criticize the code behind Cryptocat, an open-source encrypted instant messaging project. Ironically, Cryptocat’s policy of publicly releasing third-party code audits is what generates much of the criticism, which is a reason other projects often choose not to r
Remember when the BBC’s latest chief pledged to revamp the iPlayer? His bosses at the BBC Trust have just rubber-stamped the decision to extend the catch-up window from seven days to 30. The changes will take some time to implement, since there’s various technical and legal hoops to jump
I suppose it makes perfect sense – if you were to push parts of your body to the extreme or over the edge, there is bound to be pain, discomfort or injury which will happen. Your eyes are sensitive organs, and opticians have already shared their concern that one’s eyes could be over-exposed to light
Arlington-based energy software provider Opower went public Friday morning in an offering that could raise $115.9 million for the company. Opower intends to sell 6.1 million shares at $19 each. It will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “OPWR.” The firm’s software tracks a
Cherry trees aren’t the only things getting ready to blossom around Washington this spring. Arti Anand, 30, and Komal Kushal Raj, 33, cooked up a new women’s fashion Web sitethat could launch as early as this week. Numari, funded with $75,000 from the two MBAs, allows professional women to customize
T-Mobile head honcho John Legere’s assuring its BlackBerry-toting subscribers they’ve got nothing to worry about despite the companies’ falling out. But, just in case they are worried, or just want to try other platforms, he’s also offering them a $100 credit toward any devic
Kingsoft Corporation announced two months ago that it would spin off a business unit for Internet security and other services and list its shares in the U.S. Now, the spinoff, Cheetah Mobile, has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a splashy U.S. IPO Formerly known as “Kingsof
Samsung has made a breakthrough in a new ‘wonder material’ poised to build the next generation of wearable technology. The company’s biggest brains have cooked up a technique for growing graphene on a larger scale that could take the atom-thin material from the lab to the real worl
The venerable GameSpy game hosting service will shut down after 17 years in operation. A brief posting by parent company Glu Mobile noted that “effective May 31, GameSpy will cease providing all hosting services for all games still using GameSpy. Thanks for a great ride!” Hundreds of gam
