Jun 14
Gear4 gears up to release speakers shaped like the game’s stars, Red Bird, Helmet Pig, and Black Bird. Amplify the game’s squeals and jaunty tunes along with your music and video collection.
Jun 14
Nintendo’s Iwata talks about Wii U’s place in the living room
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Nintendo took some inspiration from the TV remote for its Wii controller, and it apparently thinks its new Wii U controller could well be the “TV remote of the future.” That’s just one tidbit from All Things D‘s sitdown with Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, who also talked more broadly about the Wii U’s new role in the living room. As evidenced by E3, that will include catering to more hardcore gamers than the Wii did, but Iwata says the Wii U is also an effort to take some of the couch time back from folks playing games on tablets, smartphones or laptops. To that end, Iwata says that Nintendo’s mission is to “shorten the distance between people and gaming” and remove some of the barriers involved with console gaming, further adding that it’s also trying to “reach out to the people who are not interested in video games.” Though it’s not saying much about it, Nintendo’s no doubt hoping to win back a few investors as well. As you may have noticed, the company’s stock slipped significantly following its E3 announcement and, while it’s bounced back a bit since, it’s still well off its Wii-fueled heights of recent years.
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Jun 14
Wang Xiao Kang made a good call going to the office with the Mark I version. Unfortunately, it’s not weaponized.
Jun 14
The 8 Most Bizarre, Intriguing, and Otherwise Cool Documents the NSA Just Declassified
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It was spring cleaning time at the NSA, who dropped a staggering 50,000 pages of declassified documents into the hands of the National Archives. A lot’s on the mundane side—so here are the best looking eight: More »
Jun 14
Ep. 130: Best and worst of E3, and Chrome OS laptops
This week: Scott and Dan are back from E3 with a detailed report on the best and worst from the big video game trade show. Meanwhile, Julie and Joe talk about how they came up with a plan to benchmark Samsung’s new Chrome OS laptop, which is no small feat, as the OS is basically just Google’s Chrome Web browser and nothing else.
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Jun 14
Keepin’ it real fake: Xperia Arc KIRF has KIRFy dual-core processor (video)
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Is that 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8255-powered Xperia Arc just too darn fast? We may have just the KIRF you’re looking for. A simple phone with a simple name: the “DR.” This petite pretender shaves 0.2-inches off of the Arc’s 4.2-inch display, adding only 0.03mm of thickness along the way. Forget that Adreno 205 graphics processor, this baby runs on a Meditek MTK6516 ARM compatible processor, a setup often mistakenly advertised as dual-core with a whopping 416MHz core for running Android 2.2.1, and a second 208MHz core dedicated exclusively for the wireless radio. For the record, radio-dedicated partitions are usually skipped on core counts. Wrap it up with premo luxuries like a 3.5-inch headphone jack and 2 megapixel camera, and you’ve got an Xperia knock-off that’s… well, pretty timid. But hey, it’s only 1000 yuan ($154), so at least you can get dangerously close to Xperia territory without shattering the bank. If that’s enough for you, check out a hands-on video (in Chinese) after the break.
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Keepin’ it real fake: Xperia Arc KIRF has KIRFy dual-core processor (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Jun 14
The carrier is readying additional options for subscribers looking to pick up Android tablets.
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Jun 14
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Continuing our Justin Yu-less week, we’ve got Joe Kaminsky filling in. We’ll ask him about his first initial impressions of the Wii U and if he thinks Nintendo’s next console has the goods. We’re starting to hear that it’s 50 percent more powerful than the PS3, but is that even impressive?
Speaking of things that are remarkably unimpressive, Duke Nukem Forever hits stores today and we’ll round up reviews from around the net. They are not positive.
Have you heard about the Airbus of 2050? It’s almost transparent! Tune in to see just how terrifying this sounds to Jeff and why he’d rather be put to sleep like how Bruce Willis was in “The Fifth Element.”
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Ep. 839: Where Obama drops the axe on Weiner
- The Airbus of 2050 really freaks us out.
- The Wii U is supposedly 50 percent more powerful than the Xbox 360/PS3. Big deal.
- Duke Nukem Forever? Not so much.
- Odds are we know your iPhone lock password.
- Apple starts selling unlocked iPhone 4s.
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Jun 14
Danger Room has an awesomely comprehensive look at all the cell phone jammers the US military used during the Iraq War. Those jammers proved incredibly important in stripping insurgents of their most powerful weapon—the IED. More »
Jun 14
Garmin to purchase Navigon, plans to complete acquisition by late July
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News of Garmin’s plans to acquire Navigon leaked out earlier this month, but we now have official word that the GPS giant will bring the smaller German company under its wing beginning in late July. Pending regulatory approval, the deal would have Navigon, one of the largest GPS brands in Europe, functioning as a subsidiary of Garmin, which has a much stronger presence in North America. The companies were unable to reveal any financial information, though previous estimates priced the deal in the “mid-double-digit million” Euro range. Navigon says it’s not ready to share any details concerning the acquisition, but we’re unlikely to see major effects in the US, where the company has smartphone apps but hasn’t sold dedicated GPS devices in several years.
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Garmin to purchase Navigon, plans to complete acquisition by late July originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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