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Live streaming isn’t just what we’ll say when describing Netflix and Hulu this year. In the video game industry, live streaming is quickly becoming a very hot commodity, and Twitch is racing to the forefront. The platform, which has functionality built right into the PS4 (and soon the Xbox One), ann
The redesigned, slimmer version of the PS Vita is coming to North America. Already available in both Japan and the UK, the latest version of the handheld sports a smaller body and swaps out the original’s OLED screen for an LCD display — it’s 20 percent thinner and features slightly impr
If your desktop computer was small enough to fit in your pocket, would you take it with you everywhere? Tango thinks the answer is yes, and they are betting their crowdsourcing campaign will convince you they are right. There are several companies out there in the process of creating the everywhere
For the first time ever, scientists have managed to insert nanomotors into living cells. Once inside, the gold, rocket-shaped motors were propelled with ultrasonic waves and steered with magnets. The team of chemists and engineers from Penn State University developed the nanomotors after experimenti
CyanogenMod on Monday began rolling out CM11 M3 to a wide range of devices, including the HTC One, Galaxy S4 and a number of Nexus and legacy handsets. “M” builds in the Cyanogen world, as noted by Android Central, are known as milestones in the development cycle; they are billed as more stable than
Graphics hardware can rapidly drain a laptop’s battery. If Intel brings a new low-power graphics core to market, though, high-performance visuals and long battery life won’t be mutually exclusive concepts. The experimental design boosts the voltage of those components it needs the most,
With mind-blowingly cutting edge features such as a “clip that enables it to securely attach to clothes,” a “large LCD screen for easy on-the-move navigation,” and a “memory card slot for added capacity for even more music,” SanDisk seems to have inadvertently discovered backward time-travel: behold
Amazon has started selling its Kindle online in Brazil, expanding from e-books into retail for the first time in Latin America’s biggest and most challenging e-commerce market. By shipping its e-reader devices across this immense country, Amazon will now get a taste of Brazil’s notorious logistics p
Amazon might be working on a game console, after all. The online-retail giant on Thursday confirmed its purchase of Double Helix Games, the PC and console video-game maker behind Silent Hill Homecoming and the reboot of Killer Instinct for Xbox One, for an undisclosed amount of money. The deal “was
Traditional publishers are getting even deeper into automated buying, as evidenced by Condé Nast’s just-announced investment in programmatic buying platform iSocket. ISocket revealed today that it has received $5 million in new funding led by Time Warner Investments and Condé Nast, as well as includ
Hackers broke into at least 34 servers belonging to Comcast, dumping what appears to be a list of the company’s mail servers, passwords and a link to the root file that contains the vulnerability they used to penetrate the system. The hacktivist collective NullCrew has claimed to have hacked a handf
As chat apps evolve to become platforms, a social network for couples is also embarking on the same route. VCNC, the company behind Between, an app that originated from South Korea for couples to share their moments in a private social network, has just landed a strategic investment from billion-dol
