By John Biggs Since I posted about a potential Mini Meet-Up in Barcelona I’ve gotten quite a few emails and requests to attend. To that end, I’ve decided to open Pitch-Off applications and RSVPs for a few days to get a rough number of how many people will attend. I don’t know if we’ll charge…

By Dealnerys Targaryen Did you hear? Valentine’s Day is approaching! Don’t panic though, we’ve got a handy guide to help you buy the perfect gift for your special someone. But right now we’re back with more hot deals from the world of tech and we’re kicking off with a couple of great bargains. You can…

By John Biggs Diego Corredor wanted to play guitar but lost his right hand at birth. While he could use a prosthesis to grab a glass of water or pick up objects, he wasn’t able to hold a pick and strum the strings. Then a group of makers at 3D Gluck came along. The team…

By Darrell Etherington While Lego’s own crowdsourcing platform exists, letting users submit ideas for community voting, eventually resulting in some being made, the process is slow and somewhat difficult to navigate. Now Lego set sharing platform Pley is debuting a crowdsourced set creation platform called PleyWorld that can see a submission go from concept to…

By Matt Swider Best tech-filled Super Bowl commercials Super Bowl XLIX just became the most-watched in history, and not only because Katy Perry performed the halftime show. It was actually a good game. However, while NBC decided to live stream the Super Bowl for free, online watchers didn’t get to see all of those pricey…

By Darrell Etherington Apple will build a $2 billion global command center located in Mesa, Arizona, the company revealed on Monday (via CNBC). It will employ 150 full-time personnel, and will also result in between 300 and 500 construction and trade jobs, and will play host to the company’s data operations across the globe. Apple’s…

By Michael Rougeau Sony Online Entertainment has been sold to investment firm Columbus Nova and renamed Daybreak Game Company, employees have revealed. Verified SOE – now Daybreak – employee SOE_Legion announced the news in a Reddit post, which is surely a sign of the times. Choose from among the best gaming laptops The game studio,…

By Michael Rougeau Sony Online Entertainment has been sold to investment firm Columbus Nova and renamed Daybreak Game Company, employees have revealed. Verified SOE – now Daybreak – employee SOE_Legion announced the news in a Reddit post, which is surely a sign of the times. Choose from among the best gaming laptops The game studio,…

By Lily Prasuethsut and Peter Dreyer Introduction and display More and more smartwatches are cropping up every month, making it harder for new ones to stand out from the increasingly crowded space. The Asus ZenWatch was a surprise when it was first announced, considering Asus wasn’t a company expected to enter the wearables world. But…

By Lily Prasuethsut and Peter Dreyer Introduction and display More and more smartwatches are cropping up every month, making it harder for new ones to stand out from the increasingly crowded space. The Asus ZenWatch was a surprise when it was first announced, considering Asus wasn’t a company expected to enter the wearables world. But…

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction With the launch of Haswell-E, Intel has introduced three new desktop processors and an updated chipset to support them, called X99. Although the new chips are based on a similar 2011-pin layout to the previous Ivy Bridge-E enthusiast processors, these processors are not backwards compatible with older generation motherboards. If you…

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction With the launch of Haswell-E, Intel has introduced three new desktop processors and an updated chipset to support them, called X99. Although the new chips are based on a similar 2011-pin layout to the previous Ivy Bridge-E enthusiast processors, these processors are not backwards compatible with older generation motherboards. If you…

By Darrell Etherington Apple selling the Apple Watch will be a big change for the iPhone-maker, and it is reportedly switching up its retail game to accommodate the new wearable. Last week on our weekly AppleCast, we discussed how retail strategy might shift with the Apple Watch, and now 9to5Mac reports on a number of…

By Kyle Russell Google-subsidiary Nest claims that the results of three studies based on longitudinal data show that its thermostat pays for itself in less than two years based on savings from heating and cooling costs. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Kane Fulton Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton is looking to spark a nostalgic Amiga emulation revolution following the launch of the Raspberry Pi 2. Thanks to a faster, quad-core ARM CPU and double the RAM of the previous model, Upton is confident that the new $35 (£22.85/AU$45) board is more capable of handling more…