Sony had a huge weekend celebrating the PlayStation’s 20th anniversary with the release of a special edition 20th Anniversary PlayStation 4 and hosting the PlayStation Experience, at which the company revealed many new titles coming to its gaming platforms. However, Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) suffered outages due to denial-of-service attacks over the weekend courtesy of…
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Meet Aros, the Wi-Fi (wireless) connected air conditioner that can help those energy-conscious consumers save some money. It can learn from your budget, location, schedule, and usage to automatically maintain the perfect temperature and maximize savings in your home. Best of all, you can control the unit from anywhere using the Wink app on your mobile…
Firefox drops Google and goes with Yahoo.
Firefox 34 has been released and it’s Googleless. That’s right — with the new upgrade, Mozilla has decided to make Yahoo its default search engine. But as any tweaker will tell you, it takes about 30 seconds to switch back to the Oh-So-Comfortable Google search engine. Don’t get me…
The demand for mobile airwaves is at an all time high as shown by the latest FCC bandwidth auction.
The current auction for 65 megahertz of spectrum in the AWS-3 band is sitting at $34 billion. Much higher than the $10 billion reserve price set by the FCC. As of now, there is no set…
In the past few years, there have been multiple news articles about spying and government data leaks. Since then, the U.S. government has ramped up their efforts to "spy" on citizens for any suspicious activities. Some of us are security conscious and don't like the fact that "Big Brother" may be watching over you. There…
Taco Bell sends "fourthmeal" to whole new level.
Taco Bell has joined the order by smartphone craze. Their new app will allow their customers to order ahead of time. Customers will have the option of going through the drive-thru or going inside to pick up their meal.While Taco Bell is the first of the major…
NASA Releases Sounds From Space On SoundCloud
NASA recently released over a half-century of sounds on SoundCloud. The U.S. space agency recently created a SoundCloud page to reveal some of the most unusual sounds ever recorded.Sounds in space are stifled by a vacuum, but scientists have discovered ways of capturing noise using special instruments on…
Expect to see more Microsoft gaming in 2015.
Microsoft's gaming boss, Phil Spencer, wants to show gamers how Microsoft being both the Windows company and the Xbox company can be a real win for them. He isn't talking about specifics yet (those details are coming in 2015, he says), though he stresses that he's committed to PC gaming."We…
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler wants to raise phone bills up by 16 cents a month, or $2 per year. This is part of a plan to fund faster Internet access in our public schools. Current phone bills have an "E-Rate" fee, which funds Internet access for schools and libraries.Wheeler and Sen. Ed…
The sides have been chosen, the line has been drawn, the battle of net neutrality begins.
President Obama and Congress, set to battle over net neutrality.Republican leaders criticized Obama's request that the Federal Communications Commission impose rules "protecting net neutrality and ensuring that neither the cable company nor the phone company will be able to…
A joint law enforcement operation has managed to seize hundreds of Dark Web domains that have been associated with over a dozen black market websites. On top of taking and shutting domains, various products such as computers, drugs, weapons, and gold were seized.The operation was revealed on Thursday, which involved the Federal Bureau of Investigations,…
Without admitting any real wrongdoing, Intel has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that the Santa Clara chip maker manipulated benchmark scores for its first-generation Pentium 4 processors. The suit also alleges that Hewlett-Packard helped Intel fudge its scores in order to cover up "pervasive design flaws" resulting in "dismal" performance compared to…