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Microsoft’s big coming out day for Windows 8 is finally upon us. In celebration, Redmond’s throwing a launch party for its newest OS update on New York City’s Pier 57. You may not be able to join in on the fun in person, but we’ve got this handy stream beyond the break should you wish to play along virtually, and it’s starting any minute.

Update: Some folks are having issues with the primary stream, and if you’re one of those folks, you may wanna redirect your browser here for an alternative feed.

Continue reading Celebrate Windows 8 day with this livestream of Microsoft’s launch event (video)

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Celebrate Windows 8 day with this livestream of Microsoft’s launch event (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When the Wii U launches on November 18, Nintendo will sell the new console starting at $299, which isn’t a bad price at all for a new console, especially something as promising as the Wii U. However, Nintendo confirmed that it will be selling it under cost, meaning that the company will take a loss for each console they sell.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata confirmed the news to investors yesterday after the company’s latest financial briefing. Iwata said that “the Wii U hardware will have a negative impact on Nintendo’s profits early after the launch.” He said that instead of “determining a price based on its manufacturing cost, [they] selected one that consumers would consider to be reasonable.”

This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise, though. For Sony, it actually wasn’t until a few years after the PlayStation 3 launch when the company finally started seeing a profit on its hardware sales, and the same goes for Microsoft with its Xbox 360. However, Nintendo has always been about making a profit on its gaming hardware.

With the Wii U being sold under cost, Iwata says that the company may not achieve “Nintendo-like” profits within their fiscal year, but he expects financial performance to at least be “revitalized.” The Wii U goes on sale November 23 starting at $299, and early adopters will have 23 games to choose from right on launch day.

[via Eurogamer]

Nintendo will sell Wii U under cost is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Music is a great medium for self-expression. But if you can’t be bothered to play traditional instruments, what then?

Diego Stocco has made a name for himself with his multi-track music videos where the audio was provided by ‘playing’ common objects and modified instruments. Now he’s gone one step further and actually built his own orchestra of modified instruments.

See the Experibass and Arcophonica? There’s also the Harpiano and Glockenstrange, and I’m just getting started.

Now how’s that for musical self-expression?

[via Colossal]

Not every update Apple makes to its RAW support in OS X merits attention, but when a new revision covers several of the biggest camera launches of the year in one fell swoop, we’ll have our eyebrows raised. The company’s not very elegantly titled Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 4.01 supports the unprocessed photos from Nikon’s ‘starter’ full-frame DSLR, the D600, as well as a handful of hotter mirrorless cameras like the Canon EOS M, Nikon 1 J2, Panasonic Lumix G5 and Sony NEX-F3. Those who aren’t keen on swapping lenses still get native RAW support for higher-end compacts like Canon’s PowerShot G15 and Sony’s Cyber-shot RX100. Provided you’re running the necessary OS X Lion or Mountain Lion, Apple just gave you free rein to pick a cutting-edge camera and shoot (in full detail) to your heart’s content.

Filed under: Cameras, Software, Apple, Sony, Nikon, Canon

Apple camera RAW update for OS X supports Canon EOS M, Nikon D600, compulsive photography originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Windows. The central pillar of Microsoft and the modern computing world has also been, for the past several years, passingly easy to take for granted. Operating at varying degrees of mundane to tolerable, Windows has been a bore; a groan and a what-can-you-do shrug. No more. More »