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Under Marissa Mayer’s guidance Yahoo’s been making some waves, snatching up smaller companies in its bid to rebuild its struggling brand. The latest is Qwiki, an iOS video sharing startup similar to Twitter’s Vine and Facebook’s Instagram (which recently added short video clip functionality). Yahoo reportedly acquired Qwiki for $50 Million dollars. The standout feature…
Conan O’Brien, host of the talk show Conan at night on TBS, stopped by at E3 2013 and ultimately ends up forgetting why he’s there. Between the intense gore in video games, spec talk from representatives that throws him into a daze, and the women scattered about, he has absolutely no idea what his purpose is.…
The biographical film based on Steve Jobs, entitled Jobs, has its first official movie trailer out. The movie stars Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs and Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak. It mostly portrays Steve in his earlier years just getting started with Apple, as well as when he left (and eventually returned to) the company. It…
We saw some amazing innovations from Apple at WWDC this week; the unveiling of a radically new iOS, iOS7; new Mac Book Air laptops and of course, the monolithic black cylindrical Mac Pro. But there was one kind of Mac that was lacking, and I’m not talking Fleetwood Mac. I mean the burger kind. Apple is following…
AT&T posted on its YouTube page today a teaser video of what appears to be a new waterproof Android smartphone coming soon to the network. The video shows a phone that looks strikingly similar to a Samsung Galaxy S4 being dropped by a machine into a bucket of water. The phone is then able to…
Among the pile of upcoming Nintendo releases that the company announced at the Nintendo Direct event today is Yoshi’s New Island, which expands on the amazing SNES title, Yoshi’s Island. Yoshi’s New Island retains the same cartoony graphics of it’s SNES predecessor, and includes similar gameplay elements, staying true to it’s 2-D platforming form, complete…
Sega and Nintendo’s recently announced collaboration, Sonic Lost Worlds, finally has a trailer out. It’s mostly gameplay footage, and it looks great! The speed is there and the physics look right (unlike the disappointing Sonic 4). There’s a new wall running move which is… whatever. I don’t care, as long as it’s fast, and Lost Worlds looks like it…
Feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian has released the 2nd video in her ‘Tropes vs Women in Games’ series. It continues her examination of the “Damsel in Distress” trope and its even darker aspects in modern games. It’s important to have these conversations as games advance as an art form. Both the causes and implications of sexist…
Sony’s latest flagship smartphones and tablet lineup is certainly the best we’ve seen from the company in a long time. We’ve seen some great videos that the Xperia Z can take from a trip to India, and much more from the new device, but Sony’s latest ads are — interesting. The two ads you see…
HTC has been getting a lot of bad press recently, with reports of employees being let go and the imminent demise of the HTC First. One thing most everyone can agree on though, is the success of the HTC One, which has proven to be one of the most sought after smartphones around. “We were…