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WWDC 2012: Apple Announces 11-inch MacBook Air, 15-inch MacBook Pro, Intel Ivy Bridge, Retina Display
In a bid to expand the market of the ultra-thin laptop, Apple is preparing to release a new version of the MacBook Air, providing for two versions one $999 and one $1099—making both of them extremely economically priced for similar offerings in the market—alongside two 15-inch MacBook Pros. During the WWDC 2012 conference in San ...
Bitcoincard Puts Cryptocurrency in Your Wallet with a Mycelium Smartcard
The technological event horizon to make digital-currency possible (or at least digital-wallet transactions low impact) is coming up fast; we’re seeing it with the push for NFC and other technologies that enable secure transactions between mobile devices. However, there’s also a push for miniaturization of user interfaces, screens, and even communication devices so small that ...
The March of Password Leaks Goes On Pulling in Last.fm
Thursday, music site Last.fm joined a parade of password leaks reported this week on SiliconANGLE and elsewhere including LinkedIn and eHarmony. A message appeared on the site Thursday speaking to the leak, and urging users to change their passwords. Details are sketchy and the remark does not suggest if the leak is linked to the ...
QLogic’s Rob Crawford Talks Infrastructure and Innovation at HP Discover 2012
Rob Crawford, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for QLogic, is now an alumnus of theCube so when Stu Miniman of Wikibon brought him in for interview there was a great deal to cover from the past year. He joined the California-based networking infrastructure solutions company in May of 2011 and has recently seen the ...
Cloud-Gaming Service Gaikai Inks Deal With Machinima
It looks like cloud-gaming service Gaikai is looking into being more than just a game-streaming service for gamers—but they’re looking at a foray into gaming centered TV scheduling. Earlier this week, the cloud-gaming outfit announced a deal with gaming video network Machinima; together they will seek to bring popular gaming-related entertainment to Gaikai’s open platform. ...
After 6.5 Million Passwords Leaked from LinkedIn Experts Urge Password Change
Earlier today, numerous reports hit blogs and news sites that a large file full of hashed passwords from LinkedIn has been released at the web. A Russian blog became the recipient of 6,458,020 hashed passwords from the social networking site LinkedIn with a user bragging about the one who breached their site and released them. ...
Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs: A Noir Cyberpunk Dystopia for the Era of Big Data and Cyberwarfare
Video game publisher Ubisoft recently unveiled their newest work of art Watch Dogs at E3 2012 and from the footage it looks like a beautiful masterpiece of contemporary-set science fiction mixed with technology people interact with every day. In it, the would-be antihero protagonist, Aiden Pierce, wanders a noir city controlled by a master supercomputer ...
Xbox’s Explosive New Streaming Lineup Makes Debut at E3: Music, ESPN, More TV Entertainment
It looks like Microsoft has used its massive PR vehicle at E3 to continue to ratchet up the pedestal for Xbox’s all-in-one entertainment box for the living room. The software giant has just announced the addition of over 30 million songs, numerous sports-related streaming venues, alongside connectivity with the Kinect for voice-control and search. Included in the ...
Vodafone Xone Hackathon Brings Expertmaker AI Insights to Mobile
The information ecology is a wild one, a jungle mired with millions of information sources bombarding people from every direction, each one vying for their attention. Storage and networking are no longer the bottlenecks to getting the information now we’ve even got a term for it: “information overload.” News sites, blogs, social media—Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, ...
E3: Sony’s SOEmote Will Add Emotions to Social Gaming
Sony’s upcoming SOEmote will use webcams to track the facial expressions and voice of players and translate them onto gaming avatars in order to convey a further sense of emotion into online gaming. Currently, massively multiplayer online gamming is crammed into its own box of animations and body language from in game characters that are ...