Battlefield 4 beta is giving us some pretty cool videos
If you want to see the state of first-person shooters today, you need to only look towards the videos coming out of the Battlefield 4 beta game play. The multiplayer...
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The rise of offshore Facebook like farms
There are always marketing farms of some sort in the world. As long as clicks, views, and links need button clickers to make them happen, low-cost farms are going to...
Is Lenovo going to buy HTC?
Rumors come a dime a dozen in the world of tech acquisitions, but this one would actually make a lot of sense for both companies. Could they compete with Samsung...
Six inches. Curved glass. Does LG have a winner coming out next month?
They haven't been a premier smartphone provider for long, but this play might have enough oomph to bring them into the mix. Then again, it may just be a fad....
The reasons the health care portal has failed so miserably
When you have three years to plan out a website that is supposed to service the country, you would think that they would put in the right effort to make...
Sony to focus on the real estate of your face
As strange as it may sound, it actually makes sense. The battle for wearable gadgets has the same basic advantages of real estate - location, location, location. If they can...
Brazil makes play to be the center of the internet world with secure email
Brazil has been making some moves lately to usurp the United States as the center of the internet. This latest move, to make "NSA-Free" email, is one that directly targets...
Pokemon geeks forever
Pokemon may be two decades old and designed for kids, but those who grew up with it are having a hard time letting it go. While iPhone launch days and...
Microsoft thinks “design-first”
In a shift away from the previous model, Microsoft will be taking a page out of Apple's book. A few weeks ago, I highlighted a new data-analysis tool from Microsoft that automatically...
Was Dick Costolo fired by Twitter in 2010?
When executives at major tech firms get fired, we normally hear about it. This time, we're hearing about it three years later. Twitter’s founding tale keeps getting more and more...
Galaxy S4 failure may accelerate S5 release
This was the first real setback for the Galaxy line by Samsung. The S4 simply didn't sell very well. This may have them ramping up their efforts to get the...
Yahoo email revamp leaves users in limbo
When UPS or FedEx lose a package, they can often identify why and try to correct the issue. When Yahoo loses emails, there really seems to be no good answer....
IT for the US government has always been awful
This isn't a trend. It's not a strange series of unrelated events. The way the US government handles its IT infrastructure has always fallen short. Here's why. The rocky launch...
2014 Apple rumors are already flying
Will the iPad get a better display? Will there be a 12-inch Retina MacBook? What about a cheaper iMac? The questions are already coming in and we haven't hit Christmas...
Twitter and American politics
There has been a love/hate relationship between politics in American (as well as around the world) and the microblogging site Twitter. Is the relationship a good thing? Is Twitter making...
Can parole software make predictions on future crimes?
It's not quite Minority Report, but the concept is the same (minus the future-seeing ladies in the water). By analyzing biographies, the software is supposed to help parole boards decide...
The complete Google Nexus 5 leak
It's rare that an upcoming device gets this many leaks well before release, but the Google Nexus 5 is all but completely known. A crystal clear 7-minute video of the...
Were Snowden’s four laptops empty?
According to a former CIA agent that met with NSA leaker Edward Snowden this week, the four laptops he carried with him on his travels to Hong Kong and Russia...
Google more trusted than General Motors in the driverless car race
General Motors has built millions of cars over the last century or so. Google hasn't technically built any. Their inexperience doesn't seem to be scaring people away, though, as a...
The homeless man given coding lessons instead of money set to launch mobile app
It's one of those stories that conservatives will latch onto as a show of "anything is possible with hard work" and liberals will show how "all they need is a...