By Stephen Lambrechts Try to think back to a childhood spent standing at the counter of your local milk bar, waiting to exchange your fistful of shrapnel for a bag full of lollies. Now, replace the child in that nostalgic recollection with Activision Blizzard president and CEO Bobby Kotick, supplant the handful of coins for…

By Stephen Lambrechts Try to think back to a childhood spent standing at the counter of your local shop, waiting to exchange your fistful of shrapnel for a bag full of lollies. Now, replace the child in that nostalgic recollection with Activision Blizzard president and CEO Bobby Kotick, supplant the handful of coins for a…

By Alex Wilhelm,Drew Olanoff Following the bell, Fitbit announced its third-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $409.3 million, and earnings per share using normal accounting methods of $0.19. The company’s adjusted profit totaled $0.24 per share. The results are notably strong. Investors had expected the company to report a far-slimmer $0.10 adjusted per-share profit off…

By Nick Pino Starting November 12 the Xbox One will be a very different system. The long-awaited autumn update which rearranges the Xbox One’s UI, adds backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 titles and speeds up the system is almost here. Xbox One evangelist Major Nelson released a new video on his blog today explaining the…

By Nick Pino Starting November 12 the Xbox One will be a very different system. The long-awaited autumn update which rearranges the Xbox One’s UI, adds backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 titles and speeds up the system is almost here. Xbox One evangelist Major Nelson released a new video on his blog today explaining the…

By Drew Olanoff Today, Google shared their self-driving car project monthly report. Good news, there were no accidents. There were however, some interesting learnings that the team shared about how they’re training their software. Apparently, Halloween was a big help: Halloween’s a great time to get some extra learning done. This week, lots of little…

By Frederic Lardinois By now you have probably seen the WSJ report that says Google plans to fold its Chrome operating system into Android and phase it (and the “Chromebook” name) out over time. Google today published a story on virtually every blog it owns that denies this. “While we’ve been working on ways to…

By John Biggs When the Visigoths burned Library Of Alexandria you can bet that old Ptolemy I Soter would have loved to have had a Czur (pronounced “Cesar”) scanner in his palatial marble-clad staterooms. The Czur is basically a book scanner on steroids that allows you to scan a 300-page book – or priceless scroll…

By Sarah Perez Developers have been digging into the Apple TV App Store data in the absence of category listings and a Top Charts section on Apple’s newly launched version of its media player device, which now, for the first time ever, has opened up to third-party applications. Apple had “hundreds” of applications live at…

By Hugh Langley Introduction Fallout 4 is just a matter of days away, and we are SO ready to return to the Wasteland. This time we’ll have two companions that will be helping us on our quest – Dogmeat the dog, and the trusty wearable Pip-Boy. Unfortunately Bethesda wouldn’t let us take Dogmeat for an…

By Hugh Langley Introduction Fallout 4 is just a matter of days away, and we are SO ready to return to the Wasteland. This time we’ll have two companions that will be helping us on our quest – Dogmeat the dog, and the trusty wearable Pip-Boy. Unfortunately Bethesda wouldn’t let us take Dogmeat for an…

By John Biggs Imagine you’re a squishy cube. Imagine you need to climb a hill. How do you do it? With your tongue(s), of course. Researchers at CSAIL at MIT have created a little cube robot that can propel itself around by swiping at surfaces with metal tongues. The tongues turn around an axis and…

By Alastair Jennings best 3d printers Note: Our best 3D printers round-up has been fully updated. This feature was first published in May 2015. 3D printers print 3D models, in a process called Additive Manufacturing or AM. This process uses computer control to lay successive layers of material to build a 3D model. ABS (Acrylonitrile…

By Alastair Jennings best 3d printers Note: Our best 3D printers round-up has been fully updated. This feature was first published in May 2015. 3D printers print 3D models, using a process called additive manufacturing or AM. This process uses computer control to lay successive layers of material to build a 3D model. Two plastics,…

The Microsoft Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL just got new price cuts in Europe, although they are still in the preorder stage. Following discounts in the UK, the two Windows 10 flagships now sport lower prices in France. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones