We’ve heard it all before. Gaming in the cloud, the ability to play the most demanding titles, regardless of the limitations of our own hardware. That was the dream of OnLive, way back in 2010. It was a dream that didn’t end particularly well for the company. Parsec co-founder and CEO Benjy Boxer, for one, believes the service’s ultimate failure was a matter of bad timing. Read More
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The White House petition portal established by the Obama administration is on pause, at the moment. The site, known as We The People, allows anyone to make a petition and collect digital signatures online. According to the site’s maintenance page, the relaunch won’t change the rules or erase the site’s archives: All existing petitions and associated signatures have been… Read More
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GoPro has always occupied a fairly tight niche of camera users. In fact, there are almost certainly more people that own the action camera than have lives gnarly or radical enough to actually need them. With this laser focus, has come GoPro’s ability to continue optimizing fully with each new update to its Hero series.
This action camera expertise is on full display with their latest… Read More
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Spherical cameras have seemed to be one of the more undesired tech trends to be pushed on people in the past couple years. Consumer tech companies have opted to develop these expensive products as a segue into capturing the user-generated VR vertical, but with VR itself in a rather tenuous position, the market for a fairly pricey spherical camera that captures more content than users can… Read More
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SplashData provided its annual list of the 100 worst passwords in use, and reveals that 123456 and password still rank in the top spots. Overall, the top 10 have remained mostly consistent since the first report in 2011.
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Twitch is planning to highlight some if its most promising users in a reality show called Stream On.
The Amazon-owned video game streaming service says the show is for participants who are “right on the cusp of making streaming full-time a possibility.”
More concretely, it’s holding auditions for users who have already achieved Partner status — the FAQ discourages… Read More
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The new tools come as the social network has been examining its effect on people’s well-being.
Source: CNET
As the US government points the finger at North Korea for the WannaCry ransomware epidemic, it also needs to acknowledge the role of its leaked hacking tools.
Source: Wired
Big data makes good and keeps you out of traffic trouble this Christmas.
Source: CNET
The video website improved vertical video playback for iOS devices in its latest update.
Source: CNET