If you’re missing email messages, don’t blame Facebook: the social network says you are simply “confused.”Facebook spent a second straight weekend dealing with complaints from users about a switch in the default user email a…
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At USC, attacking combat vets’ PTSD with virtual reality
Paul Debevec, who heads up the graphics lab at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies, holds a mirror ball inside the lab’s Light Stage dome. The dome is used to create extremely realistic virtual or animated human faces that c…
My life as a cyborg
Zeal Optics Z3 googles sport a tiny monitor inside to let skiers track their speed, see vertical distance covered, and even map their location when they connect to a computer later.(Credit: Zeal Optics)SEATTLE — It was an unseaso…
Adobe: Web standards match 80 percent of Flash features
SAN FRANCISCO–Adobe Systems, retooling as fast as it can for a future of Web publishing and Web apps, sees the technology as mostly caught up to the Flash technology that Adobe previously preferred.”I think it’s close to 80 perce…
Super Stealthy Shape Security Hires Google’s Former Click-Fraud Czar
Super stealthy security startup, Shape Security, has recruited Google’s ex-”click-fraud czar” Shuman Ghosemajumder to its executive team where he’ll be charged with leading the company’s marketing, strategy and partnership…
Mobile Startup Gymdeck Is Aquired By OptimisCorp, A Network Of U.S. Sports Centres
Gymdeck, a startup we wrote about over a year ago which was aimed at disorganised personal trainers is something of a typical startup story. After aiming at that market it soon realised the app was being used by all sorts of people …
Sony to buy cloud-gaming firm Gaikai for $380 million
Sony Computer Entertainment said on Monday it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Gaikai Inc., a California-based cloud-gaming company, in an all-shares deal for approximately $380 million.PlayStation Vita(Credit: P…
Windows 7 on majority of PCs for the first time
Windows 7 has taken the majority of the global operating system market for the first time, according to figures from web analytics company StatCounter.Windows 7 had 50.2 percent of the OS market for the month of June, while Window…
Windows 7 on majority of PCs for the first time
Windows 7 has taken the majority of the global operating system market for the first time, according to figures from web analytics company StatCounter.Windows 7 had 50.2 percent of the OS market for the month of June, while Window…
How Sony could disrupt itself and its console rivals with its Gaikai acquisition
The disruptive effect of Sony’s $380 million acquisition of Gaikai could send reverberations throughout the video game industry.As such, the deal will give Sony several strategic options that will help it fight the console war. W…
Sony buys Gaikai game streaming service for $380M
Sony announced tonight that it will acquire Gaikai, the streaming game service for $380 million. The deal officially closed on June 30, and Sony is purchasing the Aliso Viejo-based company as part of a move to disrupt the gaming b…
Apple settles iPad trademark dispute in China for $60M
Apple’s iPad trademark trouble in China appears to be behind it.The consumer electronics giant has settled its dispute over ownership of the name that graces its line of wildly popular tablets for $60 million, according to an Asso…
The New Google Gets In Touch With Its Emotions, Wants To Be “Delightful” and “Magical”
The Google+ project is changing Google. Watching the keynotes at I/O this week, it was hard not to notice how Google has become a company that doesn’t just want to catalog the world’s information anymore. The company has decided…
Twitter developers dismayed by promise of stricter API rules
(Credit: CBS/Twitter)Twitter’s announcement that it will tighten the rules governing its APIs sent a shock wave through the developer community, leaving many feeling jilted by the microblogging service and worried about the direct…
New MacBook Pro, Air prices get slash treatment at Best Buy
MacBook Pro with 15.4-inch Retina display.(Credit: Apple)Best Buy was quick to discount the newest MacBooks, offering savings up to $140 over the weekend.The biggest discount is on the $2,799.99 Retina Pro with 8GB of memory and a…