Dear Satya Nadella: Make sure the Microsoft Surface phone has these features
This is all starting to remind me of the time Microsoft decided to bail on the browser market.After effectively shutting down their mobile division this week by firing 1,850 employees, most of them in Finland, Satya Nadella has shut the door firmly on any new smartphones....except one. He made it clear that Microsoft will stay in the mix and focus their efforts, which is one way of suggesting the famous tech juggernaut is making a Surface smartphone. Mark my words: It will happen.Here’s why..>> view originalCan Xiaomi dominate the drone market?
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... The Nexus Player was Google's first take on Android TV, and it wasn't very good. It's gone from the Google Store now, so good riddance? Well, there isn't exactly a replacement yet. The Nexus Player retailed for $100, but it was often on sale at other retailers. The box was designed to showcase Android TV, which is about all it was good at thanks to the dev previews. The game controller was expensive, the remote was flimsy, and it only had 8GB of storage. Still, I suppose it was a lot c..>> view originalPeter Thiel, Tech Billionaire, Reveals Secret War With Gawker
Photo Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal, has spent about $10 million to help the wrestler Hulk Hogan sue Gawker. “It’s less about revenge and more about specific deterrence,” he said. Credit Damien Maloney for The New York Times A billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur was outed as being gay by a media organization. His friends suffered at the hands of the same gossip site. Nearly a decade later, the entrepreneur secretly financed a lawsuit to try to put the media co..>> view originalWhen Hitman Fans Can Get Their Hands On Episode Three
Looking for new targets to take out in the latest Hitman game? Well, good news, agents! The folks at Square Enix have announced exactly when the highly-anticipated Episode Three will finally be made available. Hint: You won’t have to wait much longer. Today, over on the Hitman blog, Square Enix announced that Episode Three will arrive for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC come May 31. If you don’t have a calendar handy, that means you’ve got less than a week to prepare for your next super..>> view originalGoogle tootles into Detroit with its self-driving car project
Pushing ahead with the development of its self-driving technology, Google has decided to set up shop in the traditional home of the automotive industry – Detroit. The Silicon Valley company on Wednesday revealed plans for a 53,000-square-foot facility in the city of Novi, a short drive from Detroit. It plans to have the “self-driving technology development center” up and running by the end of the year. With some members of Google’s self-driving team already working in the area, the company said..>> view originalPayPal to shutter BlackBerry, Amazon Fire, and Windows Phone apps
PayPal has announced that it will be discontinuing its mobile applications on BlackBerry, Amazon Fire, and Windows Phone devices.As of June 30, PayPal customers with one of those three devices will need to rely on the phone's internet browser to use PayPal, with BlackBerry users still able to use the BBM app to send payments. In a statement made on Thursday, PayPal said shuttering the service comes in response to the evolving digital payments landscape."It was a difficult decision to no long..>> view originalSources: Smaller Xbox One Coming This Year, More Powerful Xbox One In 2017 [UPDATE]
Illustration by Sam Woolley Microsoft is preparing at least two new Xbox models for release in the next two years, sources tell Kotaku. Later this year we’ll see a cheaper, smaller Xbox One, and next year Microsoft will release a more powerful version of their premiere console. The 2017 Xbox, which is codenamed Scorpio, will have a more powerful GPU, according to three people familiar with this model, speaking anonymously because they were not authorized to speak about Microsoft’s plans. We ..>> view original
Thursday, May 26, 2016
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