Day: February 10, 2014

Games

Freezing Sochi: how Russia turned a subtropical beach into a Winter Olympics wonderland

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As reported on The Verge. By Duncan Geere Organizers have hustled to transform a hub for beach holidays into a snow-filled athletic venue The Olympic Village in Sochi, Russia, on the shores of the Black Sea. ( Wikipedia) Sochi is not the most obvious place to host the Winter Olympics. The Russian resort, on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, is humid and subtropical. Temperatures average out at about 52 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter,…

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Google

Google Hopes Its Roadshows Will Help Normalize Glass

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Frederic Lardinois Google Glass is still months from its public launch, but after the initial hype, most of the recent news around Glass has been negative. It seems like for every positive round ofpublicity Glass gets, it soon gets hit by something negative soon after. Just a few days ago, for example, word spreadthat the New York Police Department was testing Glass. Google itself isn’t working with the NYPD, as far as I can tell, but somebody…

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Application

My Secret Life

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Ryan Lawler Open the app to see what’s new. Check updates that have been posted on the secrets I’ve commented on first. Click through each of them. Go into the main feed, read down to where I last left off. Scroll back to the top, pull down to refresh. Head back to updates. Lather, rinse, repeat. That’s been my life over the past week, as Secret has become all-consuming devourer of my time…

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Microsoft

Microsoft starts selling ASUS’ VivoTab Note 8 for $329

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As reported on Engadget. BY EDGAR ALVAREZ ASUS, like many other companies, took to CES 2014 to introduce a number of new products. Among these was the often-leaked VivoTab Note 8, an 8-inch Windows 8.1 tablet with support for Wacom pen input. If you were remotely intrigued back then, it looks as if Microsoft has now (quietly) placed it up for grabs in the US. Currently, Redmond’s online store is selling the 32GB model of ASUS’ VivoTab Note 8 for $329, which is slightly different…

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