EverQuest’s Terry Michaels talks gaming’s Craigslist: The SlashGear Interview

“Up until this game we have always tried to make a game that we thought people would like” Terry Michaels, senior producer for EverQuest Next and EverQuest Next Landmark admits, … Continue reading

Mark Zuckerberg Talks Fragmenting Apps, Anonymous Facebook and… Poke

Mark Zuckerberg Talks Fragmenting Apps, Anonymous Facebook and... Poke

Ahead of Facebook’s 10th anniversary on February 4th, Bloomberg Businessweek scored an interview with Mark Zuckerberg to chat about the company’s future. Here are some choice cuts from the social network’s head honcho, before you go read the whole thing.

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The True Literature of California Is Science Fiction

The True Literature of California Is Science Fiction

Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of many works of science fiction, including The Three Californias, a trilogy of novels about southern California; the Mars Trilogy; 2312, a novel about climate change; and his most recent novel, Shaman.

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iBuyPower: Steam Machines will battle consoles, not PCs

Each Steam Machine coming to the market later this year will be unique – that’s the message we’re getting from groups like iBuyPower and Falcon Northwest here in the first … Continue reading

Motorola talks Android, Wearables & Nest: The SlashGear Interview

It’s fair to say Motorola had a big 2013, and SlashGear sat down with Steve Horowitz, senior VP of software engineering, and Steve Sinclair, VP of product marketing, at CES … Continue reading

Steam Machine OEMs: ready when you are, Valve

This past week at CES 2014 we had the opportunity to have a chat with iBuyPower’s Marketing Manager Ricky Lee on their first Steam Machine and the potential for Valve’s … Continue reading

A Droid Apart: Motorola’s Rick Osterloh on Google, Moto, and More

A Droid Apart: Motorola's Rick Osterloh on Google, Moto, and More

The last five years have been full of reinvention for Motorola; it’s gone from being kind of a dinosaur, to launching the super-popular Droid line, to being swallowed up by Google, to making some of the best, easiest-to-use smartphones out there. It’s been quite a roller-coaster.

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Sony’s Phil Molyneux On How to Weird Your Way Back to Greatness

Sony's Phil Molyneux On How to Weird Your Way Back to Greatness

Sony is a consumer electronics beast with a lot of clout, but not necessarily a great product roster to back up its legendary status. Today, it’s hardly the company that put a Walkman in every backpack and a color TV in every living room.

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Sony’s Video and Music Entertainment chief wants the PS4 to be your everything

Sony Video and Music Entertainment chief Michael Aragon on original shows and a lack of musical options for PS4

The reviews are out, and the PlayStation 4 is, in fact, much of what we’d hoped it’d be: a fabulous gaming machine with a social personality. It has lived up to it’s next-gen label, thus far. But there’s another aspect to the PS4 that may prove to be equally as important to the console’s long-term success against its main rival from Microsoft. I’m talking about video and music services.

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The Glamour of Futurism: An Interview with Author Virginia Postrel

The Glamour of Futurism: An Interview with Author Virginia Postrel

Futurism and glamour are inextricably linked in American history. The sleek techno-utopian futures of yesteryear—the ones filled with flying cars, jetpacks, and automatic highways—couldn’t exist without the support of this concept that’s equal parts intrigue and attraction.

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