James Farrell
Latest from James Farrell
Nightmare for furious Xbox One Live fans as service more down than up for long periods of time
According to reports Xbox One Live has been up and down for the last couple of days, and at the moment is still experiencing problems in the U.K. and North America. Right now Microsoft states on its Xbox support page that there is “limited” service for Social and Gaming services including: in-game matchmaking, cloud storage, ...
Be my Valentine LOL: Americans are turning to dating sites like never before
Online dating can sometimes be a frustrating affair, negotiating profiles that are less realistic than the one you’ve posted yourself, finding out the person you’ve spent countless hours sending emojis to is not really the one your heart desires. Nonetheless, young Americans are turning to dating sites and apps like never before. According to a ...
The reality is quite expensive: Oculus Rift and PC bundle preorders available soon
By itself the Oculus Rift headset priced at $599 isn’t cheap, but from the beginning we also knew that only a powerful PC would be capable of running the VR headset. Oculus has now announced that it will sell Rift bundles along with Oculus-ready PCs starting February 16, 8 am Pacific Time, and as we ...
Super Bowl 50 turned-out to be a streaming record breaker, but that’s not surprising
It turns-out that this year’s Super Bowl featuring the Broncos and Panthers, some amount of drama, and the usual avalanche of highly expensive advertising, also broke some records. According to CBS this year’s competition was the most streamed ever, with 3.96 million people streaming Super Bowl 50 across various devices. This works out at a ...
Inside the Dark Net episode 1: Isn’t that technically virtual pedophilia?
Showtime’s new eight-part documentary series Dark Net begins unsurprisingly disconcerting. For those of us that have lived sheltered lives, even with Google around to lead us astray, episode one of the series, Crush, delivers some amusing, frightening and provocative examples of what goes on in the deep web. Things you probably knew existed, but still, ...
Nintendo still dreaming about a mysterious device that helps you sleep better at night
Back in 2014 Nintendo Co. Ltd. announced its plans to release a “Quality of Life” (QOL) device that purportedly would help people sleep better at night. The company was to team-up with medical technology company ResMed to create a non-wearable, non-contact, non-operating (no human effort needed), non-waiting, non-installation effort gizmo that would watch you as ...
Google self-driving car faces its toughest test yet: Crappy weather in the Pacific Northwest
Google’s self-driving car is to experience a less enjoyable climate than it has been experiencing so far in Mountain View, California and Austin, Texas. It will now take to the often rainy streets of Kirkland, Washington, where, according to Google, the car will also have to face a more hilly terrain and traffic patterns to which ...
Ouch: Microsoft recalls power cords for Surface Pro models due to cases of fires and electric shocks
Earlier this month news broke concerning Microsoft getting ready to replace power cords for its Surface Pro, Surface Pro 2 and Surface Pro 3 models sold prior to March 15th, 2015 (first reported July 2015). This was confirmed by a Microsoft spokesperson to ZDNet who wrote in an email, “As a result of damage caused ...
More than one billion people are now using WhatsApp, making it the world leader in messaging
Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has seen a surge in popularity over the last few years with the number of users reaching a whopping one billion this week, according to a WhatsApp official blog post. That means one in seven people who live on our fair planet are active WhatsApp users. When Facebook acquired the app ...
Who the hell is Steve Jobs?
“I actually wanted him to die,” was the response I heard from the only person I could find who had also watched the film Steve Jobs. I can’t say I shared the sentiment; in view of my own understanding of the man behind Apple Inc.’s great ascent, concocted out of all the mostly negative data ...