Month: September 2013

Entertainment TV

Hundreds of ‘Breaking Bad’ props, including Walter White’s Aztek, are now on sale

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris How much would you pay for a piece of TV history? As the final episode of Breaking Bad draws ever closer, Sony Pictures has put hundreds of props from the show on auction. Bids start at $10 for trinkets like Jesse Pinkman’s DEA mug, all the way up to $5,000 for Hector Salamanca’s wheelchair, but expect the winning bids on the items to be far, far higher. After perusing the props…

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Business Cloud Microsoft

Microsoft’s Office 365 Consumer Edition Doubles To 2M Subscribers Since May

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILHELM Today at its analyst event, Microsoft announced a new milestone for its Office 365 Home Premium product: 2 million subscribers. That’s up 100 percent, or 1 million subscribers, since May 29. Office 365 Home Premium is the company’s cloud productivity suite for consumers that they pay for on a subscription basis. Previously, Microsoft touted that it had signed up its first 1 million consumer subscribersfor Office 365 Home Premium in…

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Apple Mobile

PSA: iPhone 5s now available on Apple Store

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As reported on Engadget. By Sean Buckley You’ve had a couple of days to mull over our review, but now it’s go time: the iPhone 5s is now available for order in Apple’s online storefront (if you’re not seeing it on the web yet, the official app is usually the way to go). The new handset appeared on the store after the typical pre-release downtime, listed in 16, 32 and 64GB flavors for $199, $299 and $399, respectively. Impatient…

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Business Hardware Dev

HP lays claim to the first fanless Haswell PC and the first Leap Motion laptop

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As reported on Engadget. By Dana Wollman What do a fanless PC and a motion-controlled laptop have in common? Nothing, really; just that HP is going to be first to market with both of these things. Afterteasing a fanless tablet back in June, the company has formally announced the Spectre 13 x2, which isn’t actually a tablet so much as a hybrid laptop. Additionally, HP unveiled a special edition version of its Envy 17 notebook with a Leap Motioncontroller built into the…

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Art Entertainment Games

Gran Turismo documentary ‘Kaz’ exposes series’ enigmatic creator (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Timothy J. Seppala To celebrate 15 years of Gran Turismo, Sony is releasing a documentary about the obsessions of series creator Kazunori Yamauchi. Kaz: Pushing the Virtual Dividechronicles Yamauchi’s creative process via interviews with car makers and journalists, all keen to heap praise on the mastermind. While the trailer (embedded below) does get a little bit heavy-handed — with slightly dodgy comparisons to Magellan, for instance — it’s nice to see an influential game designer’s work…

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Android Mobile OS

Fork in the road: Cyanogen raises $7 million to build a better version of Android

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As reported on The Verge. By Casey Newton The rebel ROM builder grows up — and starts making hardware plans Cyanogen, makers of popular software based on Android that extends the abilities of smartphones, is making a bid for the mainstream. The four-year-old company, which began as a one-person side project, said today that it has raised $7 million from Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures. The goal is to vault past Blackberry and Windows Phone to become the third-most popular…

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Politics

FWD.us Gives First Hard Numbers On Its Impact On Immigration So Far

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOSH CONSTINE  Is FWD.us really making a difference? Today it released its first quantified stats on its contribution to immigration reform, announcing that it drove 33,500 calls to Congress this summer and a total of 110,000 actions including social media shares. That’s not a stellar call count, but it represents solid work by the political action group founded and funded by tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg. In passing immigration reform, every little bit…

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Apple iPhone OS

A Few Tricks All The New iOS 7 Users Should Know

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREG KUMPARAK At long last, iOS 7 has just arrived. That is, it just arrived for everyone who didn’t say “Developer? Oh, yeah, I’m totally a developer. Cough.” and wiggle into the Beta months ago. iOS 7 is a strange new land, especially on day one. Out with the gradients, in with the trippy fluorescents. Your favorite app? It probably looks completely different, now. It can be confusing, but we’re here…

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Games

Hands-on with the new PlayStation Vita (update: video!)

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As reported on Engadget. By Ben Gilbert   Just like the PlayStation Portable before it, the PlayStation Vita comes in iterations. There’s the standard, original Vita, and then there’s the new, even nicer version. Sony unveiled that new iteration recently at a Japanese event, and we got our first hands-on with it today at Tokyo Game Show 2013. So, what’s different? Not too much. As it turns out, it’s still a Vita. The good news is that it’s…

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Apple

Apple now lets Windows users sync iCloud bookmarks with Chrome and Firefox

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As reported on Engadget. By Matt Brian While the release of iOS 7 was yesterday’s big news, Apple also dropped a number of other smaller, but no less important, software updates. Not content with allowing only Internet Explorer users import their iCloud bookmarks to Windows PCs, the company is now letting Chrome and Firefox join the party. The additional functionality comes by way of an update to Apple’s iCloud Control Panel for Windows, a small app designed to keep…

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