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Twitter acquires analysis startup Lucky Sort

Brittany Hillen, May 13th 2013 Discuss [0]

Twitter is no stranger to buying up other companies, having officially announced back in April, for example, its acquisition of We Are Hunted. In October, the social network bought Vine, and earlier last year it bought Posterous, Summify, and Dansient. The service has gobbled up another company, this one Lucky Sort, a data analysis company, which made the announcement earlier today. Read The Full Story

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Xbox 720 prototype secrets leak: TV, DVR, streaming, AR and more

Xbox 720 Destiny teaser images head to Earth’s moon

Chris Burns, May 13th 2013 Discuss [0]

The game developer group known as Bungie have revealed several screenshot images of their upcoming top-tier title for Microsoft and Sony's next-generation gaming consoles: Destiny. This game has been teased several times before, this week's additions being a set of choice visions of our own planet's futuristic moon. Up close and personal, Bungie has given another look at what the Xbox 720 will be delivering in the way of graphics. Read The Full Story

Newt Gingrich “puzzled” by smartphone in 3 minutes of embarrassment

Craig Lloyd, May 13th 2013 Discuss [0]

Newt Gingrich, who is a former House speaker and was a 2012 Republican presidential nominee, is wanting to figure out a colloquial name for the cell phone in today's modern age. He's "really puzzled" about what these new contraptions are that run Android, iOS, Windows Phone, etc., and he's wanting your help with what to call these devices. Read The Full Story

Runtastic accessories bring hardware in-house: GPS and Bluetooth on-deck

Chris Burns, May 13th 2013 Discuss [0]

This week the folks at Runtastic have made it clear that their ability to track and bring together a community of runners and fitness fanatics is not limited to software. The company has today shown a Bluetooth heart rate monitor, a GPS watch, a "Runtastic Sports Armband" for holding your iPhone or similarly-sized Android phone, and a receiver and chest strap - for heart rate, altitude, distance ran, and more - each of these then fed wirelessly into your smartphone with a Runtastic app. While Runtastic has offered hardware like these accessory bits and pieces before in a more limited way, this week they've made their move to the USA. Read The Full Story

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Bitcoin mining operation tops world’s fastest supercomputers

Craig Lloyd, May 13th 2013 Discuss [0]

Bitcoin, the online currency that looks to revolutionize how we look at money in an online environment, is rising in popularity. However, in order to create Bitcoins, you have to mine them first, meaning that you give up a certain amount of computational power in order to process the creation of Bitcoins (similar to Folding@Home). In fact, Bitcoin mining is such a huge thing right now, that the entire mining network is faster than most of the world's fastest supercomputers combined. Read The Full Story

New York calls on Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung to cut down on phone theft

Craig Lloyd, May 13th 2013 Discuss [0]

Mobile phone theft is nothing new, and it happens more often than we think. In New York, especially, is where mobile phone thefts were said to be responsible for the city's increase in crime. As public safety officials continue to battle thefts, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has sent an open letter to Apple, Google (including Motorola), Microsoft, and Samsung to see if they can help to cut down on phone theft. Read The Full Story

PlayStation 4 hardware reveal fools the hopeful

Chris Burns, May 13th 2013 Discuss [0]

It would appear that some very skilled tricksters have taken to the web with a video advertisement amalgamation of images and flashing lights that are making even the best spotters look twice: is that the real PlayStation 4? Alas- it is not to be. Sony has confirmed that the video spot you're about to see was not generated by them or their PR agency - that's not to say that the console isn't going to be very, very similar, of course. Read The Full Story

Google unifies 15GB of shared storage for Gmail, Drive and Google+

Craig Lloyd, May 13th 2013 Discuss [0]

Google has announced that it'll be changing the way it does cloud storage across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google+. Instead of each service having it's own allotted amount of space. All three will be joined together and will share a pool of 15GB of cloud storage space, allowing Google Drive users to essentially have more free space than the previous 5GB that was originally offered. Read The Full Story

Google I/O 2013: What to expect from this year’s developer conference

Chris Burns, May 13th 2013 Discuss [0]

This year at Google’s developer conference, SlashGear will be in attendance at what’s guaranteed to be a celebration of convergence. What we’ve seen from the previews, leaks, and rumors of the contents of this conference point towards Android, Chrome, and Google TV devices moving in towards one another, keeping more than just their software in mind.

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Watch Dogs gameplay depicts 21st century ninja

Chris Burns, May 13th 2013 Discuss [0]

As launch time approaches, the game developer teams at Ubisoft have revealed a full 6-minute gameplay video of the upcoming title Watch Dogs. This game works with a hero character that, at the time this game began development, was a futuristic smart city dweller. Fast forward 4.5 years later when the game is about to be released and the entire environment has become so real that technology security experts have been brought in to consult on the final product. Read The Full Story