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'DmC: Devil May Cry' Review - Part One: Such A Beautiful, Ugly Game
Forbes - 22 Jan 2013 19:28
The new Devil May Cry reboot is a gorgeous looking game that still feels hollow on the inside.
Connect: iFixit.com tears down the GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition
DP Review - 22 Jan 2013 23:30
What makes a GoPro go? That's the sort of question that the curious folks over at iFixit.com love to answer. To find out, they've torn apart the Wi-Fi-enabled, 4K-capable GoPro Hero3 Black Edition to reveal its inner wor...
Russian Site Creates 5-Inch iPhone Mockup Video [iOS Blog]
Mac Rumors - 22 Jan 2013 20:53
Following Digitimes' report (and then debunking) that Apple planned to launch a 5-inch iPhone later this year, Russian site AppleDigger.ru has created a mockup of what such an iPhone could look like [Google Translate]. T...
Make Your Password 'Gooder' With Bad Grammar, Research Says
Mashable - 22 Jan 2013 04:31
According to a new study, including poor grammar in your passwords makes them safer. More About: algorithm, Newsy, password management, study, videos
Twitter's Bird Logo Was Inspired By a Middle Finger
Gizmodo - 22 Jan 2013 03:20
When Twitter rebranded its old fat whale of a bird logo into the svelte upward jumping bird logo it is now, it went through a lot of early concepts to get the angle of the bird jusssst right. One of my favorite conceptin...
Google Has Its First $50 Billion Year
Mashable - 22 Jan 2013 23:47
It looks like 2012 was a pretty good year for Google. The company hit $50 billion in annual revenue last year for the first time ever thanks in part to the strength of its fourth quarter earnings. Google generated $14.42...
Read-Me-The-News App Umano Launches On Android
TechCrunch - 22 Jan 2013 02:07
Umano, an app that provides commuters (and others) a curated selection of articles read by voice actors, launched a few months ago on the iPhone. Now it's available to Android users too. It seems pretty inevitable for a ...
AMD earnings continue decline with $1.16 billion in Q4 revenue, $5.42 billion in 2012
Engadget - 22 Jan 2013 23:45
We can't say AMD's declining momentum was unexpected, but these results don't necessarily have us excited about the future, nonetheless. For Q4, the company posted revenue of $1.16 billion, which is a 32-percent drop fro...
Google's Q4 2012 earnings: $14.4 billion in revenue, $2.9 billion in net income
The Verge - 22 Jan 2013 23:03
Google just announced earnings for Q4 2012, and the company had another strong quarter. The company earned $14.4 billion in revenue, up 36 percent over last year. $5.99 billion of that revenue came from the US, with the ...
Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ60 (FZ62)
DPhoto Journal - 22 Jan 2013 14:59
Last Updated (22 January'13): - Review & Sample Photos @ TechRadar Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ60(FZ62) is a 16.1-Megapixel High Sensitivity MOS Sensor Digital camera with Leica DC Vario-Elmarit 24x Zoom Lens. It features LSI ...
AWS beefs up cloud for super-fast data processing
GigaOM - 22 Jan 2013 14:57
Latching onto the trend toward in-memory storage for real-time computing, Amazon Web Services has added a new type of virtual server. The new option -- the 10th such available on the EC2 offering -- is called the High-Me...
Animals on Drugs, Elliot Smith's Lost Sessions, and Prohibitionsists Unclear on the Concept
Gizmodo - 22 Jan 2013 07:00
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NEC says two phone screens are better than one with Medias W
The Verge - 22 Jan 2013 06:21
Time was you could rely on Japan to provide some of the most off-the-wall phone designs in the world, but companies like Sharp and Fujitsu have largely settled into producing straightforward Android slabs that could have...
Use First, Ask Later: Don't Want to "Play Hardball"? Don't Publish Online
PetaPixel - 22 Jan 2013 03:55Photovine Grows Again As A New Photo App, Under A New Owner, Less Than A Year After Google Killed It
TechCrunch - 22 Jan 2013 03:05
Remember Photovine? This was the slick, social photo sharing app rolled out by Google via its acqui-hired Slide developer team in 2011, then relegated to the discontinuation column not one week later, and then finally sh...
Sasha Obama Takes Stunning Presidential Inauguration Duckface Photo
Gizmodo - 22 Jan 2013 01:20
Barack Obama is our president sequel, but more importantly, this photo. Duck face. Frog case. First place. Space race. Make haste. More
hipKey Proximity Sensor for iOS Devices Now Available Through Apple Online Store [iOS Blog]
Mac Rumors - 22 Jan 2013 23:55
After its announcement at CES earlier this month, Hippih has begun selling its hipKey smart sensor in the U.S. through the Apple Online Store for $90. It launched on European Apple Online Stores back in December, but qui...
Go ahead and text, but let the robots drive
NBC News - 22 Jan 2013 23:55Inauguration Interview Fail Will Leave You With No Hope
Mashable - 22 Jan 2013 23:53
Did you see that Beyonce concert on TV yesterday afternoon? Her opening act was some guy named Barack Obama. If you shook your head at any time while reading the last two sentences, then stretch your neck before pushing ...
Has Apple Lost Its Shine?
The Huffington Post - 22 Jan 2013 23:50Leaked HTC Sense 5 screenshots suggest a leaner, cleaner skin
Engadget - 22 Jan 2013 11:03
Did yesterday's uncertain glimpse at a new HTC phone leave you wanting? Then grab a tray and find a seat, because the right-hand image above comes from XDA developer mdeejay, who claims to have a working port of the fort...
Texas Instruments revenue beats Street, warns of weak demand
Reuters - 22 Jan 2013 23:45
(Reuters) - Texas Instruments Inc on Tuesday posted quarterly revenue that was ahead of Wall Street expectations but the chip maker warned of weak demand.