Worried it might lose younger block-buying customers to video games and computers, Lego has teamed up with Sony to bring the two closer together. PCWorld reports that researchers at Sony's Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo have already started working on a number of experimental Lego...
Blocks Meet Tablets
A strain of German cockroaches has developed an intolerance to glucose, helping the pests to avoid sugar traps and glucose-laced poisons. Scientists at North Carolina State University tested "regular" cockroaches alongside the mutated strain by...
Microsoft believes it can sell 25 million more Xbox 360s despite announcing the console's successor, the Xbox One, earlier this week. The Xbox 360 launched back in 2005, and has sold an estimated 77.2 million to date. Growth has slowed significantly in recent months (despite the console outselling the PS3 in the US for over two years straight), and it only sold 1.3 million last quarter. S...
Following a limited release on Android last month, Verizon's Cloud app is now available on iOS. The app will let you backup your photos, and videos to cloud storage, as well as facilitating access to contacts, documents and music you've stored in the cloud via your PC. Additionally, if you're already using Verizon's Backup Assistant or Assistant Plus services, all your content will be available through the new app.
Due to the nature of iOS, Cloud isn't quite as full-featured as its Android counterpart, which also backs up text messages, call logs, and contacts. You will get the same 500MB of storage for free, though, and Verizon will happily sell you more storage at monthly prices ranging from $2.99 (25GB) to $9.99 (125GB). Separately, Verizon also updated the Android version of Cloud to support the newly-released Galaxy S4 yesterday....
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A motion-tracking mystery
Sony has confirmed it will release the PlayStation 4 in the UK by the end of the year. In a full-page advert in British newspaper Metro, the company teased the launch of its next-generation console by featuring its new DualShock 4 controller and the message "coming 2013." Today's announcement suggests it will embark on a worldwide launch during the holiday season, instead of limiting an initial...
HTC CEO Peter Chou
The Verge has learned that HTC's Chief Product Officer, Kouji Kodera, left the company last week. Kodera was responsible for HTC's overall product strategy, which makes the departure especially notable on the heels of the global launch of the make-or-break One.
It's not just Kodera. In the past three-odd months, HTC has lost a number of employees in rapid succession — most recently Jason Gordon, the company's vice president of global communications. Other fresh departures include global retail marketing manager Rebecca Rowland, director of digital marketing John...
Dubai's Burj Khalifa may have its status of "world's tallest building" usurped at the end of the year by a rival yet to break ground. BSC is set to begin construction next month on the 2,750-foot (838-meter), 220-story high Sky City in Changsha, China, and thanks to a process where the building's components are mass-produced in factories ahead of time, the project is planned for completion by the end of the year. A total of 19,000 workers will prefabricate the parts in four months before commencing a three-month assembly process on site.
On the eve of the international release of Alex Gibney’s WikiLeaks documentary We Steal Secrets, the organization is blasting the film, leaking a complete, annotated transcript reporting dozens of factual errors and instances of "sleight of hand" from the Oscar-winning director. In the transcript, WikiLeaks points to, among other things, the use of a "crude gay caricature" to paint Bradley Manning’s decision to leak US military and...
"The portrayal of Manning's alleged relationship to WikiLeaks and to Assange is grossly irresponsible." WikiLeaks
AT&T has introduced a new "Mobility Administrative Fee" to its postpaid contracts. The $0.61 monthly fee ($7.32 per year) is being categorized "below the line" alongside tax and fees as an administrative surcharge. The fee came into effect on May 1st, and applies to all consumer contracts as well...
Somebody at Lego built a life-sized, 5-million-brick model of a Rebel X-Wing fighter. Or rather, 32 somebodies, who spent 17,000 hours building the 43-foot-long, 45,980-pound replica — the largest Lego model in the world. Gizmodo reports that the fighter was assembled at the Lego Model Shop in...
Multibillionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is set to release his next project this summer: the major label debut of his band, The Underthinkers. The LA Times reports that the record features Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders, Neville...
Apple's latest ad campaign is all about plucking heartstrings, and the company has now succeeded twice in a row. On Thursday, it released "Music Every Day" on YouTube, a one-minute commercial that wistfully highlights the iPhone's claimed role as the most popular phone for...
US Senators’ indulgent treatment of Apple CEO Tim Cook at this week’s hearing on tax avoidance didn’t escape the writers at The Daily Show. On Wednesday’s episode, host Jon Stewart skewered lawmakers like John McCain (R, AZ) and Claire McCaskill (D, MO) with a supercut of fawning and...
Google Translate is coming to Chrome on Android. The Chrome Beta Android app was updated Thursday with a new feature that can automatically translate webpages into different languages. On a phone or tablet, the feature works a lot like the translation capabilities that are included in Chrome on the desktop counterpart — recognizing different languages by scanning websites and translating them after a user...
Google Maps just got a massive overhaul, but the company might be about to throw even more money at its navigation system. Bloomberg reports that Google has approached the popular crowdsourced mapping and traffic app Waze about a potential...
Hulu's future may be uncertain, but the company doesn't have any shortage of potential suitors. The Los Angeles Times reports that the first round of bids from potential purchasers were due this week, with Guggenheim Digital Media — a group led by former interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn —...
For 500 years, the death of King Richard III has been marred in mystery, and new details on his burial revealed today are adding to that. Richard...
Pandora, the web's top radio service, reported that the company's losses widened in its fiscal first quarter amid increasing competition and as the company prepares for another bruising fight on...
As if the devastation wrought by last year's Hurricane Sandy wasn't bad enough, federal forecasters have announced that the coming months will bring "an active or extremely active" hurricane season...
Scientists have confirmed that the deadly H7N9 bird flu strain is transferrable between ferrets. Six of the animals — which often serve as a good measure for the risk of transmission between...
In January Google reached a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission over an antitrust probe — but it appears the search giant may soon be facing yet another investigation. Both Bloomberg...
The Xbox One is a next-generation console, and as such, it's built with some future proofing in mind. It can do things you're not quite ready for...
The International Trade Commission has ruled that Microsoft did not infringe upon any Motorola Mobility patents with the Xbox 360. The decision represents the end of an investigation that stretches back to 2010. Motorola Mobility contended that Microsoft had infringed upon several of its patents with the device, which led to the ITC issuing a preliminary ruling in April of last year that sided...
Ashton Kutcher was one of the first celebrities to really embrace Twitter, becoming the first user to exceed 1 million followers back in 2009. However, there's no doubt his relationship with the service has diminished in recent years, and he admitted as such in a talk today at CTIA. "Twitter's...
