Russian Satellite Launch Ends in Embarrassing Flames
Okay Russia, if you're going to threaten the US with locking our astronauts out of the International Space Station, at least have the rockets to back it up. Latest Russian satellite launch go boom: Paging Elon Musk!
It's one which US lawmakers aren't happy about, either, challenging NASA to come up with contingency plans should relations with Russia fail to recover.
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Retailers Form Cyber Intelligence Co-Op
The formation of a system of information-sharing between concerned parties has been created by a host of big named US retailers. The goal is ultimately to protect the stores' customers in general against cyber-attacks like the ones that occurred late 2013-early 2014.
We are confident that by sharing with our peers and industry stakeholders through the R-CISC, our industry will collectively strengthen its ability to protect critical customer information.
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Apple/Foxconn Suspends Vietnam Production Over Riots
Apple's main manufacturer in Asia, Foxconn is back in the news amid riots in Vietnam, but this time, it's not about Foxconn. The riots are directed at China and that country's oil drilling policies, but still ended shutting down six Foxconn factories in Vietnam.
"Employees at our manufacturing sites in Vietnam will take three days of leave from May 17 for safety reasons," Foxconn said in a statement Friday.
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Vudu Adds Movie Sharing Feature
Vudu announced this week the arrival of 'Share My Movies', a new Vudu feature which allows users to share their movie library with up to five other people.
The library owner can send an invitation to their content to one of their friends, who will then be granted their own password and username to access it.
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Emory Server Sends Reformat Request to All Windows PCs
I think that the IT guys at Emory University will be working some needed overtime to correct a slight glitch that somehow managed to send a message to all Windows computers to repartition and reformat themselves. This is the stuff of all IT nightmares.
What did we learn today? Always backup. Backup everything. Everything always.
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New Rockstar Game Due Out Before March 2015
Take Two has confirmed that a new Rockstar game is on the boards and is due out before March 2015. As is their way, Take Two furnished no further details on the upcoming game, but speculation points toward six possibilities.
So what is it? Naturally, speculation is already rife. Knowing the way that Rockstar tends to reveal major new titles – through a structured period of hands-off and hands-on demos over many months – we should perhaps not expect anything too Earth-shattering
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AT&T Set To Announce DirecTV Acquisition Sunday
Hold onto your set-top boxes if you are a DirectTV customer, you are about to join the AT&T family. In a deal worth about $50 Billion bucks, AT&T will be taking over DirectTV's 20 Million subscribers. A formal announcement will be made by AT&T spokesmen on Sunday.
"The deal is done," the source said, adding that DirecTV CEO Mike White has already informed senior executives that the deal is finished and plans to give public confirmation Sunday.
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Apple, Google Settle Smartphone Patent Litigation
In what seems like an anti-climactic ending to a celebrated battle of the Titans, Apple and Google (as Motorola Mobility) issued a joint statement announcing the agreement to end the patent litigation.
The two companies informed a federal appeals court in Washington that the cases should be dismissed, according to filings on Friday.
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Shocker: Cable TV Prices Rose Four Times the Rate of Inflation
The cable companies have found a simple way to combat the masses of customers fleeing their services: they just raise the prices to cover the cost. A report from the FCC puts the cable companies charging an average increase of four times the nation's average for inflation.
Additionally, "equipment prices for basic and expanded basic services increased by 4.4 percent and 4.2 percent, respectively, for the 12 months ending January 1, 2013," the report stated.
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Xiaomi Shows Off 49-Inch 3D 4K TV for Just $640
How would you like to be the proud owner of a 49" 4K 3D television with some even more impressive innovative tweaks for the low, low price of $640? Pack your bags, you'll be moving to China.
Powering the TV is a MediaTek MStar 6A918 chip (1.45GHz quad-core CPU, Mali-450 MP4 GPU), 2GB RAM and 8GB internal storage, although there is a microSD slot if you need more space. The TV is just 15.5mm thick.
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Air Force Prepares to Dismantle HAARP
The secretive $290 Million dollar project in Alaska rumored to possess the technology to control the ionosphere, will be shut down and dismantled by the Air Force after a 25 year run.
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SanDisk X300s is Company's First Self-Encrypting SSD
Last week SanDisk rolled out its new 4TB SAS drives and now this week SanDisk has just announced the addition of its first self-encrypting SSD, the X300s. Can't wait for next week.
Dubbed the X300s, the new drive features AES 256-bit hardware-based encryption and supports both TCG Opal 2.0 and Microsoft Encrypted Hard Drive security technologies
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Far Cry 4 Release Date Announced
Patiently awaiting the sequel to Far Cry 3? Well, your wait is almost over if you count November as being 'close'. Ubisoft announced the next installment will be available on almost all major platforms on November 18th.
Given the unique setting, we feel Far Cry 4 will stand out as a top first-person shooter and we're eager to reveal more about the game in the coming months.
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Videogame Software Keeps Sliding While Hardware Soars
In what has now become an ongoing trend, the software side of the gaming industry is failing to keep pace with its hardware counterpart.
Sales of new games at U.S. retail shops fell 10% to $240.8 million in April from $267.8 million the same time a year ago, according to surveys by market research firm NPD Group.
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Intel to Ship Open-Source Galileo 2.0 Computer Soon
Intel announced this week of the impending shipping date of the second version of its Galileo open-source computer. The micro-computer is powered by a 400MHz Quark processor and has 512KB of embedded RAM.
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EVGA SuperNOVA NEX650G 650W Power Supply Review
EVGA does not have a lot to say about its SuperNOVA NEX650G Gold Power Supply. It does however mention it being designed with enthusiast needs, and this PSU being the "the best choice to power next generation enthusiast computers" with exceptional features, and stunning efficiency. We of course will be the judge of those claims.
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