The streaming site’s users recently began noticing show trailers before and after their videos, sparking speculation third-party ads could soon be on their way.
Most things I buy, I rest easy in the knowledge that if I don't like it, I can return it and get my money back. That new food processor I bought for Thanksgiving that broke on the first use? Returned. The headphones I received with a broken left ear? Returned. The monitor that showed up with not just a single dead pixel, but a whole dead But video games have always operated in a different sphere—especially as we've moved forward into an all-digital era. You buy a game on Steam and can't play it, that's it. There's no recourse. Or there wasn't, until now. Starting Tuesday, Steam is offering refunds on any title provided you meet the following conditions: You bought it within two weeks, and you've played it less than two hours. From
The app-controlled device uses multiple sensors to analyze your environment and make sure the air around you is fit to breath.
Pinterest, whose site is used by many to bookmark desired retail items, will now let its users buy those items directly from its site. Content on Pinterest’s site is organized into visual bookmarks or “pins,” which users can save to their own profiles. Starting later this month, a new type of pin called “Buyable Pins” will arrive in users’ feeds, to let them purchase a variety of items without leaving Pinterest’s site. More than 2 million different products will be sold on Pinterest, through partnerships with major retailers like Macy’s, Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus, as well as smaller boutique brands like Cole Haan, Kate Spade and Poler Stuff.
Microsoft Wunderlist lets people sync their to-do lists through applications for platforms including iOS, Android, Mac OS, Windows, and the web. It comes highly reviewed by users across platforms. The deal won’t immediately affect any existing Wunderlist users, company co-founder and CEO Christian Reber said in a
In yet another testament of the awful state of home router security, a group of security researchers uncovered more than 60 vulnerabilities in 22 router models from different vendors, most of which were distributed by ISPs to customers. The researchers performed the manual security review in preparation for their master’s thesis in IT security at Universidad Europea de Madrid in Spain. They published details about The flaws, most of which affect more than one router model, could allow attackers to bypass authentication on the devices; inject rogue code into their Web-based management interfaces; trick users into executing rogue actions on their routers when visiting compromised websites; read and write information on USB storage devices attached to the affected routers; reboot the devices, and more.
Hound is no puppy. It may be the newest voice-search app to hit Android, but it’s been training to learn complex voice commands for over a year. SoundHound founder Keyvan Mohajer
Instead of just sending out video game rentals by mail, GameFly plans to stream them over the Internet with a new app for Amazon Fire TV. GameFly’s service will offer several bundles of streaming games, with most bundles costing $7 per month. Similar to other services such as Nvidia Grid and Sony’s Playstation Now, the heavy graphics processing for these games is handled on remote servers and streamed as compressed video, allowing modern games to run on lightweight hardware. The streaming technology will come from Israeli firm Playcast, which GameFly has just acquired. Here’s a rundown of the subscriptions GameFly plans to offer: Anyone who’s familiar with streaming game services should recognize a lot of the titles on offer. The bulk of them come from the back catalogs of THQ and Warner Bros., which also make their games available on
A new low-power, high-speed memory technology on the horizon could replace solid-state drives, hard drives and DRAM in PCs, and bring higher levels of storage capacity to mobile devices and wearables. The new memory from Nantero, called NRAM (nonvolatile RAM), is based on carbon nanotubes. The memory is hundreds of times faster than flash storage used in mobile devices and SSDs, claimed Greg Schmergel, CEO of the company. Carbon nanotubes are cylinders made out of carbon atoms, with a diameter of one to two nanometers. The nanotubes are known to be stronger than steel, and better conductors of electricity than other known materials used in chips, making the technology an excellent candidate for storage and memory.
The Sony’s new Playstation 4 models currently filed with the FCC.
New Caseta Smart Bridge lets you use Siri to control Lutron dimmers and Serena window shades.
Code repository SourceForge said Monday it will stop including third-party offers without developers’ consent into projects that are no longer maintained, a practice it briefly tried but was widely criticized. “While we had recently tested presenting easy-to-decline third party offers with a very small number of unmaintained SourceForge projects, we discontinued this practice promptly based on negative community feedback, it The inclusion of third-party offers is a way for SourceForge to generate revenue, but not one that resonates with its community and its open-source software ethos. SourceForge, once a dominant site, has lost much ground to GitHub in recent years.
Rest in peace, Broadwell. We hardly knew ye. The big news out of Computex in Taipei this week is that Intel’s Skylake is imminent—if you go by what OEMs are saying. Corsair’s taking Skylake to the living room with Bulldog, and now Asus is talking up Skylake support in its newest systems.