Mar 06
Spotify has announced plans to buy The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company which specializes in content curation for services like Nokia Music, as well as more unusual apps built … Continue reading
Mar 05
Asteriod DX110
Posted in: Today's Chili
Did you see it? Asteroid 2014 DX110 was set to pass by Earth today and come within 216,000 miles of our beautiful planet. The Slooh Space Camera was set up to live broadcast starting at 4pm eastern time. 2014 DX110 is one of the closest asteroids Earth has seen in recent months. Many asteroids fly past us everyday but none come within one lunar distance of us, so this is a rare and exciting event. Watch the replay of the live stream here.
Mar 05
Flipboard has bought rival newsreader Zite, spending $60m to bring the CNN app under its control, and with plans to integrate its technology into a single product. Zite, which CNN … Continue reading
Mar 04
Sony PS4 Hits 6 Million Units Sold
Posted in: Today's ChiliSony has announced another milestone for the PS4 game console. The company has revealed that the console has now reached the 6 million units sold mark. This achievement comes days after the console launched in Japan to very strong sales for the opening weekend. As of early February, the PS4 had sold 5.3 million units, so sales continue to grow quickly for the console.
Sony is also offering up a few more stats about the PS4 console and its features. According to the company, there have been over 3.6 million live broadcasts and over 56 million spectate sessions on the PS4. Those live broadcasts and spectate sessions were done via Twitch and Ustream.
Sony says that since January 1, 2014, PS4 users have accounted for 20% of daily broadcasts on Twitch. PS4 gamers have also hit the Share button on the controller for the console over 100 million times. The Share button allows users to share their content on Facebook and Twitter.
Mar 03
New Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has confirmed the latest executive shuffle, suggesting that he demanded his senior leadership team commit to being “all in” and that some execs were unwilling … Continue reading
Mar 03
Two high-profile Microsoft execs are tipped to make a surprise departure from the company, backing out shortly after new CEO Satya Nadella takes the reins. Tony Bates, EVP of business … Continue reading
Feb 26
Tesla has announced a surprise $1.6bn convertible notes offering, and plans to use the money to accelerate its Gigafactory project to mass-produce Li-Ion batteries at more affordable rates. The news … Continue reading
Feb 26
Google never made a play for WhatsApp despite reports of an unsuccessful $10bn bid for the messaging service, Senior VP Sundar Pichai says, though talks of collaboration between the firms … Continue reading
Feb 26
A woman posted on her Facebook page that she was attacked by fellow patrons as a result of wearing her Google Glass in a local San Francisco bar on Friday. Sarah Slocum posted that while wearing the device she was confronted by two women and then had the wearable device ripped from her face by a man.
“OMG so you’ll never believe this but… I got verbally and physically assaulted and robbed last night in the city, had things thrown at me because of some *** Google Glass haters …”
wrote Slocum.
From witness reports, it appears many people were interested and excited to see the new technology in action however others nearing the “last call” expressed concern about being video recorded in public which prompted a fight outside the bar between another man and Slocum’s male companion. Slocum recovered the Google Glass device but was also robbed of her purse and phone, which have not yet been recovered.
It seems apparent that this is not the first or the last report of concerns when individuals wear Google Glass in public, as Google has recently published a “How not to be a Glasshole” guide. Geeks pay heed.
Feb 26
The drama surrounding Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox continues as its CEO is reported to have confirmed the veracity of the Crisis Strategy Draft document leaked yesterday. The once popular exchange … Continue reading
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