The Star Trek vs. Star Wars Trailer
Admittedly this has nothing at all to do with technology save the expertise of the editor of this mock mashup of Star Wars and Star Trek using digital technology to join two movie franchises into a trailer. This will appeal to the Nerd and Geek in all of us. Enjoy
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Microsoft's Patchwork Falls Apart … Again!
Microsoft once again has had to recall yet another patch, this one was supposed to improve Powerpoint and does nothing but render it useless after the update is applied. Microsoft hasn't had the best track record for its updates over the past months and it doesn't look to be improving over time.
By The Register's count, this is the sixth time in eight months that Microsoft has had to withdraw a patch.
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FAA Finally Outlines Drone Regulations for Commercial Use
Why is it that government agencies just love to release important news on the weekends? Today, the FAA finally released their proposals on the regulations to be imposed on small commercial drones.
The new FAA proposal doesn't apply to hobbyists. The agency already issued a policy for recreational use, with rules calling for flying less than 400 feet high and within sight of the operator, while keeping clear of other aircraft and notifying air-traffic control when flying within 5 miles of an airport.
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The Phorm Keyboard Bubbles Up When You Need It
Talk about having your cake and eating it too, that's the basic idea behind the new Phorm keyboard. It's a protective case designed by Tactus Technology that gives you look and feel of a physical keyboard on your iPad Mini when you want it and at the push of a button, morphs back to a flat surface.
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Dying Light is Going to Get Even Tougher by March
If you are one of the many Zombie killers out there playing Dying Light and finished the game thinking it was too easy, you're about to get an update. According to Polygon, Techland will be introducing a free update in March called Hard Mode that will increase the difficulty level to make the game more challenging.
A few gamers have already finished Dying Light and are asking for more. So we're going to give our community a new challenge that will put everything they learnt in the game to the test. Hard Mode is exactly that,.
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Titanfall 2 Likely to Seek Wider Audiences
IGN reports that Electronic Arts has hinted at a sequel to Titanfall is going to happen and sooner than later. EA wants to appeal to a wider audience across multiple platforms and drop its exclusivity to the Xbox platform.
Although that game was confirmed as a "lifetime" exclusive on Microsoft's machines, rumors prior to the launch suggested that a sequel would not be locked in to one family of platforms like its predecessor.
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Next Windows 10 PC Build Possibly Due in Late February
For all of you running the Windows 10 Technical Preview, it's looking more and more likely that the next Build will not make it out until late this month or early March. So much for Microsoft's promise of faster Build releases.
It was a long couple months between Builds 9879 and 9926. So, Microsoft has quite a span to work with when fulfilling its promise of quicker Build releases. 1 month, 29 days?
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Apple Has Hundreds Working On an Electric Car Design
Are you ready for the iCar or possibly the Applemobile? According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, you might want to get used to the idea, but don't hurry, it will take many months or possibly years to get everything in place to run an efficient production line. The stories of Tesla and Apple poaching each other's employees now looks more like just a friendly exchange of technology.
Apple has allotted for as many as 1,000 people to work on the project, according to the newest report, and the team includes former Mercedez-Benz head of R&D Johann Jungwirth.
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The New View-Master Is a $30 Google Cardboard Headset
Many of you older readers will fondly remember the time you spent as a kid looking through your View-Master at scenes from all around the globe. All it took to change locations was to switch the round viewer disk and you were in a different world. That same kind of satisfaction can still be found today along with some high-tech VR technology thrown in by Google Cardboard to give the View-Master a whole new dimension. Give it a try and be a kid again.
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Visa Wants to Track Your Smartphone to Prevent Credit Card Fraud
A new Visa program offers location tracking each time you use your card and compares it to your normal operational location to determine whether or not the purchase is legitimate. Just give me a few minutes to compile a list of how many ways to say No to Visa's proposition.
You have to opt into the service, so your banks won't track you — at least not wirelessly — without permission.
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Sony Releases a Massive List of Games Scheduled for 2015
Get your scrolling finger warmed up because you are going to need it. Sony revealed a complete listing of games scheduled to be released this year for PS3, PS4 and PS Vita platforms.
According to recent reports, the PlayStation 4 outsold the Xbox One in 2014 by quite a healthy margin, as Microsoft is looking to close the gap this year, a decent line up of games will surely allow Sony to boost even further ahead in the competition.
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Revenge Porn Is Becoming a Criminal Offense in U.K.
If you live in the UK and you are thinking about posting some type of revenge involving embarrassing your ex by posting sexual images on the Internet, you better think twice. Parliament just passed legislation making revenge porn a criminal offense with a monetary fine and imprisonment of two years.
It seemed to me that there really was a gap in the law which had been there for a long time, obviously, but had only really become important.
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Give Your Old Laptop a New Graphics Card with These DIY Kits
Think your old gaming laptop is ready for the scrap heap because it can't keep up with the newer games? Eurocom has video card upgrade kits that will bring your old rig back up to specs in no time.
Right now, Eurocom has upgrade kits for a handful of recent Alienware and Clevo laptops that'll see them sporting GTX 880M, 970M and 980M GPUs, and there's even a couple $2,000 setups that will outfit your machine with a dual-GPU 980M SLI configuration.
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What Will the Xbox Two Be Like and When Will We See It?
I know what you must be thinking: The next Xbox? We haven't even explored the parameters of the Xbox One yet. There are two sides to a device; one is the view from the consumer side and the other is from the developers'. Consumers are just settling in with Xbox One, while the developers are already planning out the next model sometime in the not-so-distant future.
So what can we learn from all this about the Next Xbox? Yes, the new one, because there will, inexorably, be another console. It's certainly some ways off yet, but will it be another eight year wait? There are differing opinions on that.
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