The Crew Revs Up Another PC Beta for August
Are you a member of the Crew? You want to be? If you have no idea what I'm talking about, it's Ubisoft's driving game; The Crew, and they are almost ready to crank up another closed beta for the PC beginning on August 25th.
The Crew is a massive open world racing game that spreads across the entire continental United States. It's driven by a story that pushes you to explore, open up new fast travel options.
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Zynga Stock Drops After Social Game Maker Lowers Forecast
Once the social media darling of Facebook gaming, Zynga has fallen on hard times lately and the latest numbers are not encouraging. On Thursday, Zynga lowered its financial forecast, causing another drop in Zynga stock pricing.
For the three months ended June 30, it reported a net loss of $62.5 million, or 7 cents a share, compared with a loss of $15.8 million, or 2 cents a share, in the same period a year ago.
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Destiny's Beta Guardians are Gone Forever
Bungie giveth and Bungie taketh away: it is the way of life. Sadly for all of you 4.6 Million players of Destiny beta, the 6.5 Million characters you created have all returned back to cyberspace where they originated. Adieu, adieu, parting is such sweet sorrow.
This is the last time we'll ask you to part with your hero," Bungie wrote. "On Sept. 9, you can create a Guardian who will keep you company for a good, long time".
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Senator Warns Fitbit Is a 'Privacy Nightmare'
Senator Chuck Schummer is worried about the privacy concerns associated with FitBit fitness trackers in particular and smartphone apps in general. The Senator issued a statement today pushing for federal protection against unauthorized information collection and third party sales.
In his statement, the senator called on the Federal Trade Commission to require companies to notify consumers if their fitness and location data could be sold to third parties — and to allow users to opt-out of these deals.
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Amazon Halts Preorders of Some Disney Movie Discs
Amazon is flexing its giant corporate muscles at another industry giant, Disney. First it was a contract dispute with Warner Home Video, then book publisher Hachette and now a contract spat with Disney. It's probably small beans to all three companies involved as well as Amazon, but the company looks to be making a statement for future negotiations.
The situation is reminiscent of an apparent dispute between Amazon and Warner Home Video in which preorders of discs for "The Lego Movie," "Transcendence," and "300: Rise of an Empire" vanished from the site earlier this summer.
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Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition Announced for Next-Gen Consoles, PC
Square Enix has officially announced the upcoming HD update release for Sleeping Dogs will be on October 10th. The release named Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, will run natively at 1080p on next-gen consoles.
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Library of Congress Finds Unreleased 'Duke Nukem' Code
A funny thing happened when the Library of Congress' Trevor Owens was poking around in some games being readied to be archived: he stumbled across an unreleased version of Duke Nukem: Critical Mass for the PlayStation Portable. Now that's definitely something you don't run across every day.
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Bing and Google Maps Will Soon Have Higher Resolution Images
If you think Google and Bing mappings are already pretty darn good, hold onto your hat; they are both about to go to much higher resolution thanks to relaxed US government restrictions and the satellite owners, DigitalGlobe. Pretty soon you will be able to count the number of squirrels in the trees around your house.
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Microsoft Kills Windows 8.1 Update 2 and Patch Tuesday
It's that time again for Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, er….wait, what? Microsoft will no longer refer to the monthly updates at Patch Tuesday and will be from now on known as Update Tuesday. The biggest news about Tuesday is there is no Windows 8.1 update bundle and improvements to 8.1 will be doled out in monthly increments along with the standard updates.
That's right, it's "Patch Tuesday" no more. As surely as if those two words were never spoken, LeBlanc has changed the name of Microsoft's monthly dump of security fixes to "Update Tuesday," meaning we can expect new features to show up along with our critical patches from now on.
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T-Mobile Surpasses Sprint as Top Prepaid Mobil Phone Service
T-Mobile might not be the biggest mobile service overall, but it has managed to beat out the rest of the competition in the prepaid mobile phone service category to take over the number one spot.
"The good news just keeps on coming for T-Mobile," said Legere. "The momentum we're seeing with our T-Mobile and MetroPCS brands is outstanding, and the fact that we've blown by everyone to take the No. 1 spot in prepaid is icing on the cake."
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September's Battlefield 4 Update Strengthens Its Core
Dice has revealed that the next Battlefield 4 update, due out next month, will address core gameplay improvements by giving players a varied field of options to see on the battle screen while cleaning up the clutter.
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FCC Is Requiring Text-to-911 on All Carriers
It's the chicken or the egg question all over again. The FCC has decreed that all mobile carriers will route all 911 texts to the local emergency agency, but the sticking point is that hardly any of the nation's services are ready to receive the calls. Ready or not, here we come.
But the big issues is that only about 2 percent of 911 response centers are capable of receiving SMS.
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2014's Starting Salaries for College Tech Majors
Just graduate from college? Have a degree in the tech field, but don't know what to expect as far as starting salaries go? Here's a hint: If you have a degree in Educational Services, go back and get your Masters.
And while compensation isn't always the biggest factor in their choice for a profession, it can be a good place to start.
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Trans-Arctic Internet Cable Project Made Possible by Climate Change
There's always a silver lining to every dark cloud and the melting of the polar ice may be bad news for the environment, but it has opened a pathway for the Trans-Artic Internet cable.
Undersea surveying will begin in the next few months, using side-scan sonar, digital cameras, electromagnetic probes, and core samples to plot a route across the sea floor. In the past, such a surveying trip wouldn't have been feasible due to year-round ice.
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