Tumblr replaces 'Ignore' with a more robust 'Block' feature
Tumblr
has made it easier to keep trolls out of your account. The feature has
been renamed "Block" -- "A proper, muscular name," the Yahoo-owned
company said -- and it's accessible from several locations on the
website. To shake off haters and weirdo... Read More ...
Amazon won't charge for shipping on small, light items
In
an effort to better compete with rival eBay, Amazon announced a new
service today that offers free shipping on small, lightweight items for
every customer -- not just Prime members. Dubbed "Fulfillment by Amazon
Small and Light" the new shipping s... Read More ...
Blizzard's 'Heroes of the Storm' officially launches today
You're
entirely forgiven if you thought that Blizzard's take on the MOBA genre
(or multiplayer online battle arena if you aren't into the whole
brevity thing), Heroes of the Storm was already released. What, with the
massive beta and equally sizable ... Read More ...
AMD's latest chips bring gaming and video chops to mainstream laptops
With
AMD's new sixth-generation A-series processors, laptops in the $400 to
$700 range could soon become far more capable. Formerly code-named
"Carizzo," the new chips offer twice the gaming performance of Intel's
Core i7, thanks to discrete Radeon g... Read More ...
'Gravity Ghost,' a game that heals, heads to PlayStation 4
Gravity
Ghost is currently in development for PlayStation 4, but it's already a
success. It launched on Steam in January, offering physics-based
platforming tucked inside of soothing, spiraling gameplay and wrapped in
a touching story. Ivy Games foun... Read More ...
What's on your HDTV: 'Sense8', 'The Wire' Blu-ray, 'Community' finale
First
up, for sports fans this week is all about the finals, whether NBA or
NHL -- it's time to take the trophy home. Otherwise, the Wachowskis have
a big week, with the release of Jupiter Ascending on Blu-ray, and the
new series Sense8 hitting Netfl... Read More ...
Logitech's Harmony remotes can control your PS4 too
The
PlayStation 4 is a lot of (mostly great) things, but easy to control
without its DualShock 4 paddle isn't one of them. That changes today so
long as you have a Logitech Harmony remote sitting on your couch or
coffee table. The company announced t... Read More ...
Magic Leap opens its augmented reality platform to developers
Magic
Leap's vision for the future of augmented reality is mind-blowing.
However, the mysterious startup, which Google backed with a hefty cash
investment, knows this won't be possible without support from
third-party developers. That's why it plans ... Read More ...
Senate passes USA Freedom Act (update: signed by Obama)
For
the first time since the 9/11 attacks, both houses of Congress have
agreed to limit the government's domestic surveillance powers. Earlier
today, the Senate voted 67 to 32 and passed the USA Freedom Act, echoing
the House's vote in May. The bill ... Read More ...
SoundHound takes on Siri and Google with new voice search app
While
SoundHound hasn't seen the tune-searching success as Shazam, the
company behind it is taking a similar stance as the competition. Like
Shazam's recent addition of product queries, SoundHound is looking to
tackle more than songs too, and it'll d... Read More ...
Instagram is opening its advertising floodgates
Today
Instagram announced sweeping changes to its 18-month old advertising
scheme in an effort to monetize all those loyal sets of eyeballs. The
company is essentially opening its platform to advertisers big and
small, rather than the "select" partne... Read More ...
Comcast's new Chief Product Officer hails from Xbox, Nike
As
Comcast keeps trying to turn around the negative reputation that it
(and the rest of the pay-TV industry) has, it has a new Chief Product
Officer to help. Enter Chris Satchell, who comes from Nike where he was
the Consumer Technology Officer worki... Read More ...
Who the @!#$&% is this guy? John Legere's strategy for taking new customers by storm
"The fuckers hate you.""I can't wait to watch the peckers scream and cry."
"I'm bombing their factories."...
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Chlorine leak injures five at Apple data center
It
hasn't been the best week for Apple. After a small fire broke out at
its Arizona facility, it's now dealing with a chlorine leak at its data
center in North Carolina. Catawba County Emergency Services swept in
with a HazMat team yesterday and five... Read More ...
Exploit can control older Macs even after they're formatted
There's
a new vulnerability that could let evildoers control your Mac, even
after you format the system drive. Discovered by OS X security expert
Pedro Vilaca, the exploit targets older machines after they wake up from
sleep mode. The problem is that... Read More ...
Japanese robot moves heavy objects by putting its back into it
When
you need to move something but it's too heavy to lift off the ground,
most of us default to one of two strategies: find someone stronger, or
shove it along the floor instead. Researchers from the University of
Tokyo's JSK Laboratory are now teac... Read More ...
Google Maps real-time transit info is now available in more places
Public
transportation info has been in Google Maps for quite some time, but
today the feature is seeing some handy improvements. First, when you
select a transit option in the app, you're served a a list of options
that will not only show you the nex... Read More ...
JXE Streams: 'Metal Gear?!' We're playing the 1987 original
Can
love bloom on the battlefield? Metal Gear elicits more questions like
these -- from both players and its characters -- than it ever answers.
In the wake of Konami's recent public relations meltdown and Metal Gear
Solid 5: The Phantom Pain's impen... Read More ...
Everybody still hates their cable provider
Two
of America's independent consumer ratings agencies have revealed
something we already knew: our cable providers suck. Picking up where it
left off last year, America's Consumer Satisfaction Index has revealed
that the pay-TV and internet business... Read More ...
Google hopes to count the calories in your food photos
Be
careful about snapping pictures of your obscenely tasty meals -- one
day, your phone might judge you for them. Google recently took the wraps
off Im2Calories, a research project that uses deep learning algorithms
to count the calories in food phot... Read More ...
Shop from your Pinterest board with Buyable Pins
You've
spent a lot of time collecting those dream dresses on your Pinterest
board, but at the end of the day, you still have to actually go to the
store to buy them. No longer. Pinterest has just introduced Buyable
Pins, which lets you buy items dire... Read More ...
US Air Force and DARPA team up on hypersonic weapons
"What
do we want to do with this technology? We want to weaponize it." The US
Air Force told Military.com it's planning to build on the X-51A
WaveRider's "scramjet" (supersonic ramjet) trials to develop hypersonic
weapons that compress air by sheer v... Read More ...
We played 'Assassin's Creed' with our eyes... partially
Taiwan's
big tech trade show isn't just about CEOs shouting about their newest
laptops and tablets. It's also the place for execs to shake hands, make
deals and do ole' fashioned business. One deal is putting Tobii's
eye-tracking tech inside high-end... Read More ...
This is 'Henry,' Oculus Story Studio's second VR film
Oculus'
big push into cinema began at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where it
introduced its VR filmmaking endeavor, Story Studio. Back then, the
company debuted Lost and revealed a list of other shorts it had plans
for -- though it didn't go into ... Read More ...
Play PC games on your Amazon Fire TV through GameFly
Amazon's
Fire TV devices may be focused primarily on Android games, but they can
now do some PC gaming in a pinch. The media hubs have just scored an
exclusive GameFly app that streams a mix of PC titles (such as the
Batman series and Dirt 3) in subs... Read More ...
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