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Crowdfunding is probably the industrial revolution of our time. Its amazing the amount of success homegrown projects have been able to acquire, with both hard and soft products.

about 6 hours ago on How the $4,000 'Cards Against Humanity' Kickstarter became a multi-million dollar business

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The setup also requires an approved simultaneous dual-band Wi-Fi router to function well

Damn thats a lot of bandwidth they are asking for, I wonder if running the game streaming would starve out your local Wifi’s bandwidth at all.

4 days ago on Nvidia Shield gaming handheld priced at $349, pre-orders begin on May 20th (preview) 1 reply

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Except 99% of the people that have tried it say that its way better than they ever expected. They have proven that the technology is worthy of its cost, the industry is clearly willing to adapt it into their games, and the customer is clearly interested in what is offered.

8 days ago on Valve gives 'Half-Life 2' official Oculus Rift support 1 reply 3 recommends

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The movie opens with a 17 minute long-shot … holy crap I cant wait. Alfonso Cuaron is the king of shooting thrilling sci-fi scenes.

9 days ago on Panic in space: Alfonso Cuaron returns with terrifying 'Gravity' teaser 2 replies 9 recommends

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League is pretty insane, 5 million concurrent players (as of march 2013). In October they reported 3 million concurrent, 32 million active ‘subscribers’ (its free to play like dota2). I don’t think Dota will be able to touch that even out of beta, the game is just too intricate and less appealing to the super-casual players that league has in hoards.

9 days ago on 'World of Warcraft' subscriber base drops by 1.3 million in three months

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The key is whether they will launch Haswell fast enough or not. Sony is always lagging behind on specs, It will be sad if they revamp Vaio with the outdated Ivy bridges.

12 days ago on Sony's new VAIO Fit lineup refines its entry-level laptops, and its confusing naming scheme 1 reply

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Intel is the only entity that can … they have the most crucial component, fab facilities. While everyone eats up TSMC’s supply of 28nm die, Intel is struggling to fill up their fabs with enough 22nm demand. It just takes time to come up with good SoCs, but Silvermont looks very promising. Not only are they hitting some very good power numbers, their performance is far above and beyond ARM.

12 days ago on Silvermont: Intel's promise to power phones and tablets you'd actually want 1 reply 12 recommends

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Because carbon is the most compatible element we know of, and the 4th most abundant in the universe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elements . Survival requires complexity, and complexity requires building blocks that are simple and flexible, capable of providing structure to those that are complex and inflexible. It follows logic that carbon is the most likely building block for life forms.

To that end though, silicon, the second most compatible element is believed to be capable of supporting life as well.

16 days ago on Life on Venus? Scientists rethink the idea of 'habitable' planets 1 recommend

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They mention gaming but the advantages of on chip gpu go far beyond that. Mobile computing needs the powers and space saving this technology brings. The added performance is also good enough to make things like the retina 13" not lag in every day use.

16 days ago on Intel's new 'Iris' integrated graphics are up to three times better than last year's versions 1 recommend

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Classic internet badass overlooking the facts, exaggerating the stereotypes. He is a pretty down to earth guy that seems to understand the problems of our generation and communication methods. http://www.core-capital.com/toms_articles.aspx

17 days ago on Obama nominates former wireless lobbyist Tom Wheeler to lead FCC 1 reply 2 recommends

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I know Paul loves esports so he should definitely check out this biggest event in his time off the net http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TtpLE0ldUJ8#t=5s

18 days ago on You've chosen: #whatpaulshouldsee when he comes back online tonight

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Would be nice if you did some of your own research, reading just the headlines of his articles here gives a better idea of who this guy is than the random snippets you mention http://www.core-capital.com/toms_articles.aspx

In my opinion he seems to have a good balance of opening up public networks to competition while maintaining the influence of service providers (like Google). He is a fan of network neutrality too.

18 days ago on Sources: Obama will name former telecom lobbyist Tom Wheeler as FCC head 1 reply 2 recommends

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It was pretty unofficial and from the directors/writers, nothing from HBO (studios usually being the driving force and conveyors for copyright enforcement). Although I haven’t really heard of HBO being hard on copyright enforcing, seems like they are content with how much money they are making.

19 days ago on Pirates fail to trigger Copyright Alert System after torrenting TV, movie, and music files 1 reply

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Its not just to make self-repair easier, it also reduces the cost of support and warranty requests. I am not going to fault Samsung for trying to make the most money with optimal material and service costs, but lets not think they are doing this just for the benefit of the customer’s experience.

22 days ago on Galaxy S4 teardown reveals a design that values utility over aesthetics 1 reply 1 recommend

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Honestly, today the idea of building an extraterrestrial colony sounds far more appealing, for a non-scientific audience, than the possibilities of scientific discoveries and exploration, and the mundane quest for finding life by drilling into rocks or ice beds.

25 days ago on Star search: a non-profit group wants to send four people to Mars... forever 3 replies 7 recommends

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>This article is in some way relevant to people interested in tech?

You better be joking … lol.

25 days ago on Legal pot growers struggle to reap profits 1 recommend

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Is it just me or were the first few paragraphs really difficult to read / comprehend?? Not sure if it was the writing or just the absurdity of the prank.

25 days ago on Meet 'swatting,' the dangerous prank that could get someone killed 1 reply

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hmm this seems like a direct feed, should update immediately, I hope:

http://www.theverge.com/rss/group/the-vergecast/index.xml

28 days ago on The Vergecast 074 - April 18th, 2013 1 reply