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Xbox One: Microsoft's Big Bid To Pwn The Living Room
It's not every day one of the big three gaming powerhouses announces a new console. In fact, we've been waiting a solid eight years. In an event on its Redmond, Washington home turf today, Microsoft announced the Xbox One, its next generation...Show More Summary
Interview: How Brooklyn Bowl Uses Social Media
Brooklynites love Brooklyn Bowl for its 16 bowling lanes, live concerts, cushy leather seats, fried chicken from Blue Ribbon, and selection of Brooklyn Brewery beers, but how does the rest of the world discover a remote corner of Williamsburg...Show More Summary
Microsoft's Xbox One: Your Knee-Jerk Twitter Reactions
Microsoft made slew of Xbox announcements at its much-hyped "A New Generation Revealed" event, which was live streamed online and broadcasted on TV on Tuesday.
Viewers were treated to the new Xbox One console and its features, such as...Show More Summary
How iPads, YouTube help bands practice
Mark Crump at GigaOm has an interesting piece on how the iPad is becoming an important tool for music bands. Crump is an amateur musician whose band is rehearsing for a gig. What's interesting is Crump's realization that the iPad is almost all his band needs at rehearsal.
Crump explains how his iPad fits into band rehearses. Show More Summary
IT Hiccups of the Week: Latest LivingSocial Alert Not What Customers Bargained For
Plus: Glitches open prison doors, keep people off juries
Xbox One will not play Xbox 360 games; used game policy still unclear
Bad news, Xbox fans: Your current collection of Xbox 360 games will not work on Microsoft’s new Xbox One, and the company’s used games policy is very unclear. The company finally took the wraps off its next-generation video game console on Tuesday and while there was plenty of good news to be had, there were also some some troubling announcements. Show More Summary
QLogic Has Ace Up Its Sleeve After CEO’s Surprise Resignation
Simon Biddiscombe, the chief executive officer and president of QLogic, left his post to “pursue other opportunities” in an abrupt move that took many by surprise. Chief technology officer Jean Hu has assumed the role of interim CEO until a … Continue reading ?
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Xbox 360 games won't work with the Xbox One
Don Mattrick, president of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business, kicks off the Xbox event in Redmond, Wash. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled its newest gaming console, the Xbox One, with a slew of new capabilities. Show More Summary
Microsoft Reveals the Next Generation of Xbox: Xbox One
All has been revealed, at last!
A Great Pair of Wireless Desktop Speakers Is Your Deal of the Day
Just because a pair of speakers uses Bluetooth doesn't mean they're going to sound like crap. Audyssey's Wireless Bluetooth Speakers received several surprising rave reviews when they came out because they sound great and look handsome, too. But they were pricey. Read more...
This Week in Cybercrime: You Can Be Convicted of Hacking Even If You’re Not a Hacker
Plus: Critical infrastructure left unguarded, and cyberthieves hunt from up close
Development By The Numbers - Slides - Anthony Ferrara
Today, I'm doing a talk at DrupalCon Portland 2013 on Static analysis and code metrics. Here are the slides for that talk. When the videos are posted, I'll make a followup post that links to it. Click through for the slides! Read mo...
Memo to this year’s YC class: It’s damn hard to build an enterprise company
Among VCs and entrepreneurs like myself, there’s a lot of talk about the recent pivot from consumer startups to enterprise software. It seems that many young founders have now decided they’d rather start the next Box, not the next Facebook. The shift to enterprise is a bit of the “tail wagging the dog.” The poor short-term performance of a few consumer IPOs like...
The Hacked Tweet That Took Down Wall Street
A rogue AP tweet roils Wall Street; algorithmic trading on machine readable news partially to blame
Xbox One architecture panel liveblog!
We're not done from Redmond, folks. Microsoft's Major Nelson is hosting a panel of Xbox One architects, and we're going to bring it to you. Join us for the liveblog!
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Use iBooks 3.1 To Study Better – Highlight, Search, And Make Notes In The Text [iOS Tips]
iBooks is not only a fantastic e-reading app on your iPhone or iPad, but it’s also a fantastic study tool. If you need to read books for class or your own learning objectives, you can use iBooks to highlight words or passages, search the text for specific words or phrases, and make notes that appear [...]Show More Summary
'MLB.com Home Run Derby' Could Have Been Fun If It Wasn't So Freemium'd Out
Baseball season is in full swing, and in celebration of the 2013 All-Star Game coming in July Major League Baseball has released MLB.com Home Run Derby [Free], a free-to-play game that puts you in the shoes of an actual MLB player as they try to become the winner of the Home Run Derby competition. While [...]
