Candy Crush maker's IPO values company at more than $7 billion
King, the company behind the Candy Crush saga filed its IPO today, but
is the maker another Zynga (Farmville), another Rovio (Angry Birds) or
something else again? Nearly 100 million users play Candy Crush every
day, and while the company's titles... Read More ...
MLB.tv and Epix streaming apps are coming to Xbox One
Xbox One owners already have their fair share of video services to
choose from in the US, but they're about to get a pair of welcome
additions. Major League Baseball now says that MLB.tv Premium should be
available to stream live games on the console... Read More ...
Apple engineer explains where the iPhone came from
Offering a rare interview in the run-up to another legal fray between
Samsung and Apple, the senior engineer behind the iPhone has explained
where it all started, part of Apple's plan to communicate how
groundbreaking the original iPhone was. Talking... Read More ...
Lenovo's new smart TV system grants greater processing power, more memory through swappable modules (hands-on)
Lenovo is best known for its ThinkPad laptops and newly acquired phone
business, but the Chinese firm started making TVs a couple years ago,
too. And now, it's the first one to build a set utilizing NVIDIA's new
Tegra K1 chip. It's that super-powered... Read More ...
Gmail experiment shows promotional messages as image-heavy cards
The promotions tab in Gmail is basically a glorified spam filter. Sure,
it's not really spam, but you probably don't bother to read many emails
in there. At best you give it a cursory glance to make sure Caskers
wasn't offering "the bourbon that beat... Read More ...
Oculus founders: Facebook lets us bring the best VR experience to a billion people
Oculus VR co-founders Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe had a vision for
their company: to bring virtual reality to as many people as possible,
in the best way possible, at the lowest possible price. And, according
to the duo, selling the company to... Read More ...
Daily Roundup: new HTC One review, Facebook acquires Oculus VR and more!
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news.
Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This
is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines
for the past 24 hours -- all... Read More ...
Missing tweets? It's a bug that Twitter is investigating
This afternoon Twitter users started noticing that they couldn't get to
certain tweets, including Ellen's most-retweeted Oscar selfie. From
Major Nelson to Justin Bieber, "Sorry that page doesn't exist" is all
that exists if you try to link directly... Read More ...
EE adds new entry-level 4G tariffs starting at £14 per month
Yesterday, the cheapest way to hop on UK carrier EE's LTE network, with
smartphone for keeps, would set you back £19 per month. Today, call it
£14, as EE's introduced a pair of lower price tiers in its 24-month,
handset-included plans. For that... Read More ...
UK's EE to launch own-brand LTE smartphone for just £100 off-contract
We got wind that EE was cooking up an own-brand smartphone for its 4G
network a couple of weeks ago, and now the UK operator's ready to come
clean about the device. It's called the Kestrel, and as we suspected,
it'll offer the cheapest ride on EE's... Read More ...
Palmer Luckey says Oculus' future 'just became crystal clear,' but Facebook's impact is still murky
If you're reading this, you're likely already aware that social
networking juggernaut Facebook has just announced plans for yet another
multi-billion dollar acquisition. This time it's spending $2 billion
dollars (that's $17 billion less than... Read More ...
Notch cancels Minecraft for Oculus Rift, but other developers still have interest (update)
It looks as if the Facebook and Oculus deal already has its first
casualty. Minecraft mastermind Markus "Notch" Persson has said that
he'll no longer be developing his game for the Rift after Zuckerberg's
purchase. "We were in talks about maybe... Read More ...
Instagram crosses 200 million users, welcomes Oculus to the family
In news that Zuckerberg, Luckey & Co. hope bodes well for
Facebook's latest acquisition, Instagram just announced it's crossed 200
million users, with over 50 million joining in the last six months and
50 billion photos shared so far. Facebook CEO... Read More ...
Chiropractors claim that excessive texting lowers your life span
You know those studies that say butter is bad for you one week, but
saying the opposite the next? Now those same unidentified gangs of
scientists are gunning for our smartphones. A study from the United
Chiropractic Association (nope, us neither) is... Read More ...
Facebook is buying Oculus VR for $2 billion, plans to 'unlock new worlds for all of us'
Mark Zuckerberg is following up his Whatsapp buy with another big
acquisition: virtual reality company Oculus VR for $2 billion in stock
and cash (curiously, news of the talks may have leaked on Reddit a month
ago). In a post on Facebook, Zuckerberg... Read More ...
Intel buys maker of the Basis Band, promises smarter wearables
Well, it's official. In a bid to boost its wearable clout, Intel
confirmed today that it bought Basis Science, the startup behind the
fitness-friendly Basis bands. The deal reportedly cost Intel a cool $100
million (according to TechCrunch, anyway),... Read More ...
Nike celebrates 'Air Max Day' with the first shoppable Google Hangout
Would you buy a pair of kicks from a Google Hangout? Nike certainly
hopes so. The company has teamed up with Asos to host the first
shoppable Google Hangout tomorrow at 9am ET. The video celebrates 27
years of Nike's Air Max trainer, and will appear... Read More ...
IRS says bitcoins are taxable property, but not currency
People love referring to Bitcoin as a "cryptocurrency," but the
Internal Revenue Service looks at it a little differently. According to a
new IRS statement, Bitcoin should be considered property, not currency.
What does that mean for US Bitcoin... Read More ...
Autographer wearable camera now lets you take hands-free photos underwater
If you just can't get enough of documenting every waking moment of your
life, then the Autographer life-logging camera, launched last July, has
its appeal -- it's designed to automatically snap pictures based on
what it deems to be the perfect shot... Read More ...
NVIDIA announces the Jetson TK1 dev-kit, calls it the world's first mobile supercomputer
Wish you had your own personal supercomputer? Soon, you'll be able to
buy one -- well, sort of. At its GPU Technology conference today, NVIDIA
announced the Jetson TK1, a $192 Tegra K1-based development kit built
on the same architecture that powers... Read More ...
NVIDIA Shield gets temporary price drop, soon to support remote PC gaming
The GameStream technology that powers the NVIDIA Shield's PC streaming
feature is neat, but it has its limitations. Games can only be streamed
from desktop PCs running specific GPUs, and only to devices connected to
a local network. That's about to... Read More ...
Portal comes to NVIDIA's Shield as an exclusive Android port (updated)
You won't have to stick to a PC or TV to play Valve's iconic games in
the future. The developer is teaming up with NVIDIA to bring the
original Portal to the Shield handheld -- in other words, Portal is
coming to Android. The two haven't said just... Read More ...
Report: AT&T and Verizon spent heavily lobbying for favorable LTE auction rules
If AT&T and Verizon manage to shut out their smaller rivals in a
critical LTE wireless auction, it would severely harm US wireless
competition, according to the Center for Public Integrity. In a report
it said that the pair of wireless giants spent... Read More ...
Instagram is testing Facebook Places integration for location tagging
It looks like Zuckerberg and Co. may be looking to make a big push for
Facebook Places, and an on-going trial indicates that it could start
with Instagram. The folks in Menlo Park are testing the social networks'
own service for adding location info,... Read More ...
Microsoft makes MS-DOS and Word for Windows source code public
Microsoft believes the children are our future, and to prove it, it's
teamed up with the Computer History Museum to make source code available
for two groundbreaking programs: MS-DOS and Word for Windows. In a blog
post that outlined the deal, Roy... Read More ...
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