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Sony tells Eurogamer: PlayStation 4 will not block used games — Shuhei Yoshida confirms it. Plus: source tells EG patent wasn't PS4-related. — Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has told Eurogamer that PlayStation 4 will not block the use of second-hand games … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Sony announces PlayStation 4 with 8-core x86 processor, 8GB GDDR5 memory and DualShock 4 controller — Today at a gaming event in New York City, Sony announced the PlayStation 4. Sony's Andy House says that it is the ‘most powerful platform ever’. — “The living room is no longer …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Sony fails to show PlayStation 4 console at PlayStation 4 event — Sony just took the wrappers off the PlayStation 4 at a blowout event — but something was missing. Bizarrely, the company elected not to show any glimpse of the console hardware itself, instead focusing on internal details and a showreel of upcoming games.
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| James McQuivey / Forrester Blogs: |
Sony Bets On The Past, Forfeits the Future — Thursday night Sony hosted what was reported to be a crowd of more than a thousand people at a rare, Applesque new-product demo. There it debuted the next generation Playstation, officially dubbed the PS4. The event lasted two hours and featured …
| Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Google Looks to Make Its Computer Glasses Stylish — People wearing Google's glasses are transported to a strange new world in which the Internet is always in their line of sight. But for people looking at the people wearing those glasses, the view is even stranger — someone wearing a computer processor … | Amar Toor / The Verge: |
New Google Glass UI video shows off search, camera, and voice translation features — Google today posted a video preview of its forthcoming Google Glass wearable headset, providing a fresh, and more realistic look at the device's user interface. The video, embedded below …
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| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Developing Touchscreen Devices Using Chrome Operating System — Google Inc. has developed the first touchscreen laptops powered by its Chrome operating system to be sold later this year, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Internet giant tries to go toe-to-toe with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Pinterest Completes $200 Million Funding at $2.5 Billion Valuation — Pinterest, the popular social scrapbooking site, has completed a massive $200 million funding, which values the company at $2.5 billion, according to sources close to the situation.| April Underwood / Twitter Advertising: |
Announcing the Twitter Ads API — Since we launched Promoted Tweets in April 2010, marketers have come to Twitter to reach new audiences and engage with more than 200 million active Twitter users on the web, on mobile devices, and on tablets. As interest in Twitter has grown …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google ports Chrome OS app launcher to the Chrome browser Dev channel on Windows; Mac and Linux coming soon — Google on Wednesday announced a significant bridging of the gap between Chrome and Chrome OS: the app launcher, a little window that features all your apps in one place.
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| Brandon Butler / Network World: |
Microsoft Azure overtakes Amazon's cloud in performance test — Azure's cloud is faster at uploading and downloading files to the cloud, Amazon still more scalable, storage provider Nasuni finds — h(f)){c=a.createElement('script'); c.type='text/javascript';c.src= 'http …
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| Kurt Wagner / Fortune: |
Art Levinson, Apple's chairman, talks life after Steve Jobs — Steve Jobs' close friend and colleague Art Levinson describes what life at Apple has been like over the last 16 months. — FORTUNE — “Weird.” — That was the one-word answer given by Apple (AAPL) chairman Arthur D. Levinson …
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| Jen-Hsun Huang / NVIDIA: |
NVIDIA To Build A New Home, 20 Years After Our Founding — Twenty years ago this month, we founded NVIDIA. Our vision that computer graphics would revolutionize computing has propelled us into becoming one of the leading technology companies in the world.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC orders 2M people to power down cell phone signal boosters — Wireless signal boosters improve cellular connections to service provider networks. — FCC — The Federal Communications Commission today enacted a set of rules governing the sale and deployment of wireless signal boosters …
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| Darren Murph / Engadget: |
Qualcomm formally details lower-end Snapdragon 400 and 200 processors — We knew way back at CES that Qualcomm had a few lower-end chips up its sleeve, but now it's official: the Snapdragon 400 and 200 have been formally detailed in a company blog post thrown up today.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
How Anonymous accidentally helped expose two Chinese hackers — How did security firm Mandiant put names to two previously unknown Chinese hackers who, it says, steal American corporate secrets for the Chinese government? With a little inadvertent help from Anonymous.
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| Brian Heater / Engadget: |
myIDkey biometric password flash drive hits Kickstarter — Is it possible to remember all of one's passwords without the aid of a biometric Bluetooth flash drive? Possible, sure, but it's certainly getting harder and harder as the number of services we depend on continues to increase exponentially.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Firefox Enables WebRTC, H.264 And MP3 Support By Default In Its Nightly Release Channel — WebRTC, the plugin-free real-time video, audio and text chat protocol most browser vendors now support, is now activated by default in the latest bleeding edge Firefox Nightly release.
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| Jason Pontin / MIT Technology Review: |
Steve Ballmer On the Strategy Behind His Strangest Product — Windows 8 is radically different from any previous version of the Windows operating system. Designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers, laptops, servers, and even supercomputers, Windows 8 presents its users with virtually the same interface on any device.
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