• Amazon proposes a colossal biospherelike Seattle campus

  Forget the Space Needle, the e-commerce giant is planning to bring 3.3 million square feet of office space to Seattle in the form of mirrored towers and giant spherical domes filled with plant ...

• Must-see videos from CTIA 2013

  CTIA kicked off today in Las Vegas. The last event of the wireless show season, CTIA tends to be a bit quieter than Mobile World Congress and CES. Yet, there are plenty ...

• Ethernet turns 40 years old today

  the Ethernet protocol made its debut as a way to connect machines in close proximity, today it is the networking layer two protocol of choice for local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs) and everything in between. For many people Ethernet is merely the RJ45 jack on the back of a laptop, but its relative ubiquity and simplicity belie what Ethernet has done for the networking ...

• Bits Blog A Ruling Could Support F.C.C.’s Net Neutrality Defense

  Justice Antonin Scalia The Federal Communications Commission's high-profile attempt to defend its net neutrality rules against a court challenge got major support on Monday from the Supreme Court, which ruled in a separate case that regulatory agencies should usually be granted deference in interpreting their own jurisdictions. In a 6-to-3 decision, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that in ...

• Senate panel approves sweeping immigration bill

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved legislation that would bring about the biggest changes in U.S. immigration policy in a generation, setting up a spirited debate in the full Senate next ...

• GIF creator Its a soft g Mr. President

  Steve Wilhite, the man who created the GIF, is miffed that anyone -- be it the Oxford English Dictionary or the White House -- should imagine it's not pronounced like ...

• Comics Web site Comics Alliance to relaunch

  mysteriously silent toward the end of April, to the distress and consternation of comics fans. No word -- official or otherwise -- was heard from either parent company AOL or any of the Comics Alliance staff members. However, the lack of updates on the site since April 29, where it usually updated several times a day, seemed to confirm that Comics Alliance was being shelved and archived. This ...

• Chrome gets a touch faster

  (Credit: Google) Already known for its speed, Google just boosted Chrome's Web site rendering speed by another 5 percent. The latest stable release of the browser, Chrome 27 (download ...

• Spotify debuts weekly top 50

  (Credit: Spotify) This week the most streamed song on Spotify in the U.S. is "Can't Hold Us" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and the most shared song on social networks is "Lift Me Up" by Five Finger Death Punch. How did this information become available? Spotify launched a new feature Tuesday that provides weekly updates of the 50 most streamed and viral songs ...

• UK opposition party leader says Google tax behavior wrong

  By Andrew OsbornLONDON (Reuters) - Google Inc's tax affairs will come under renewed scrutiny in Britain on Wednesday when the leader of the opposition Labor party accuses the Internet company of wrongly going to "extraordinary lengths" to avoid paying tax.In comments designed to politically outflank Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of next month's G8 summit on what has ...

• The Irish loophole behind Apples low tax bill

  By Tom Bergin LONDON (Reuters) - Apple's ability to shelter billions of dollars of income from tax has hinged on an unusual loophole in the Irish tax code that helps the country compete with other countries for investment and jobs. A U.S. ...

• Mike Bell to lead Intels new devices unit

  (Credit: Intel) Former Apple and Palm executive Mike Bell has been picked by Intel to steer the company's newly-formed new devices ...

• Steven Spielberg Working on Live-Action Halo Series for Xbox

  today’s announcement of Microsoft’s new Xbox One came a special highlight for TV fans: the news that Steven Spielberg would be producing a live-action series based on ...

• Big Tech | After Apple’s Tax Grilling It’s Time for Tech to Shape Up

  is a crowd-sourced digital magazine made in just 48 hours, chronicling how our conversations with our things are thoroughly changing our world. Learn more ...

• Is Sony un-Japanese enough to entertain change

  TOKYO (Reuters) - Few foreign activist investors have made much headway in forcing change in Japan, where a conservative corporate culture favors long-standing ties with banks, business partners and workers rather than shareholders seeking ...

• What we know about the Xbox One

  CNET's Bridget Carey breaks down the new features of the Xbox One, including live TV and Kinect controls, and what questions Microsoft still needs to ...

• How to migrate a user account to another OS X system

  If you are using more than one Mac, or have replaced your Mac with a new one, there are several ways you can migrate your account to the new system. Conventionally, when you get a new system you are presented with the OS X Setup Assistant, which will guide you through migrating your data from an existing system or a backup. In addition to Setup Assistant, you can use Apple's Migration ...

• Staying at the Burj Al Arab Enjoy a 24-karat gold iPad

  iPad for the hotel last October in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. "The Gold & Co. London 24-carat gold iPad is the ultimate in luxury accessories, hence we wanted it to be paired with Burj Al Arab, the world's most luxurious hotel," Amjad Ali, CEO of Gold & Co. London, said in a release. "The symmetry is obvious, as both the gold iPad and the hotel are ...

• Used games are here to stay with Xbox One but details hazy

  Xbox One users must install games on the console's hard drive, which means a disc can't be easily sold or shared. But Microsoft says it will support secondhand ...

• UPDATE 1-Court revives lawsuit vs Electronic Arts over video game image

  Tue May 21, 2013 5:10pm EDT * Ex-Rutgers quarterback Hart may challenge use of image * Activision, Take-Two, media companies supported EA By Jonathan Stempel May 21 (Reuters) - A divided federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit against Electronic Arts Inc by a former Rutgers University star football quarterback, who accused it of using his image in a video game without permission. By a 2-1 ...

• Game on Microsoft new Xbox One powered by voice and facial recognition

  21 May 2013 Microsoft has launched a new Xbox video games console that it claims will become the single device that users need to control TV, video games, music and entertainment in the living ...

• Commodities Tomorrow All About the Fed

  CNBC's Sharon Epperson discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets. Traders remain focused firmly on tomorrow's testimony from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. And expectations for this week's oil ...

• Windows role at the core of Microsofts Xbox One

  (Credit: Credit: James Martin/CNET) Microsoft's Xbox One home-entertainment console has three operating systems at its core, company officials said during the Tuesday unveiling of the device. Why three? Marc Whitten, Microsoft's chief production officer of its Interactive Entertainment Business, explained during the hour-long reveal event in Redmond, that there'd be ...

• The new consoles from Microsoft Nintendo and Sony

  NEW YORK (AP) -- Microsoft is the last of the three big video game console makers to unveil its latest gaming system. Tuesday's unveiling comes nearly eight years after the Xbox 360 went on sale. It follows last fall's debut of Nintendo's Wii U and a preview in February of the upcoming PlayStation 4 from ...

• Apple CEO makes no apology for companys tax strategy

  1 of 7. Apple CEO Tim Cook (C), CFO Peter Oppenheimer (L) and Apple Head of tax operations Philip Bullock appear before a Senate homeland security and governmental affairs investigations subcommittee hearing on offshore profit shifting and the U.S. tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 21, ...

• Sony to assess spin-off proposal for entertainment business Nikkei

  (Reuters) - Sony Corp is considering evaluating a proposal from top shareholder Third Point LLC to spin off part of its movie and music business, Japanese daily Nikkei ...

• Samsungs men are pigs ad for TVs gets YouTube love

  You might have missed a Samsung ad for its Evolution TV Kit. However, almost 9 million have analyzed its depiction of men as Neanderthal slobs on ...

• Human-like opponents spur gamer aggression study says

  It's not the bizarre monsters that really bring out the aggression in gamers, concludes a study that monitored Quake 3 Revolution players. It's the human-like characters that get people ...

• Optical drives not working with Mountain Lion for some

  inability to access their systems' internal optical drives . Once installed, inserting a disc results in a couple of noises before the disc is ejected. While this can sometimes happen for burned discs that are no longer readable, it appears to happen for all discs, be they home-burned or commercial. If this is happening on your system, first try testing the problem with multiple operating ...

• Get a Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad for $39.99

  Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad for $39.99 shipped . It lists for $99.99 and sells elsewhere (like at Amazon) for around $75-80. True to its name, the Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad is an iPad cover with a built-in keyboard -- and it's ultrathin. It connects via Bluetooth, runs for months on a battery charge, and holds your tablet in either portrait or landscape orientation. ...

• Heres what we know about Xbox One games

  Xbox One , and it will be a machine that will wear many hats. But what did we learn about the games? First off, Microsoft tells CNET that the Xbox One will not be backward compatible with any previous Xbox game. Xbox One games will also need to be fully installed, and if the install disc is used on another console, there will be a small fee for doing so. We don't have a lot of the details ...

• Telecom Italia mulls mobile unit spinoff sources

  By Stefano Rebaudo and Alberto Sisto MILAN | Tue May 21, 2013 4:30pm EDT MILAN (Reuters) - Telecom Italia is mulling spinning off its mobile unit along with its fixed-line network to bring new investors on board, three people, including a senior political source, told Reuters on Tuesday. "The three-way split would allow the company to reduce debt and staff costs and favor the entry ...

• Microsoft announces its Xbox 360 successor the Xbox One

  Microsoft has launched the Xbox One, the entertainment and gaming hub that will replace the Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 was released in Winter 2005, and the replacement has been heavily hyped and heading towards us for years. The countdown has finished, the wait is over and we can now confirm that it is called the Xbox One and has an eight-core x86 processor with more than 5 billion transistors. A ...

• UPDATE 2-PayPal to increase marketing this year for offline push

  Tue May 21, 2013 3:53pm EDT By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO May 21 (Reuters) - PayPal, the online payment operation owned by eBay Inc, will increase marketing spending to support its push into physical stores, President David Marcus said on Tuesday. "You'll start seeing us amping marketing up later this year," Marcus said in an interview with Reuters. PayPal is trying to become a ...

• VMware launches network-savvy cloud service

  VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator from other established hybrid cloud ...

• 10 killer new features of Microsofts Xbox One

  Xbox game console Tuesday, touting a device it claims will revolutionize the experience of using your television. Eight years after the launch of the Xbox 360, which is currently the best-selling games machine in the U.S., Microsoft finds itself the last of the three big game-makers to show off new hardware. The device is due out later this year. No price was announced. Here's a closer ...

• Mr. Cook came to Washington and escaped unscathed

  an apology . John McCain (Rep., Ariz.), after a bout of tax dodging rhetoric, wanted to know why his iPhone was constantly updating its apps. Even Levin was having a hard time getting up a head of righteous steam. Working from staff-prepared notes (and whispered instructions) on material he didn't seem to have mastered fully, he was left, at the end, with no choice but to filibuster. ...

• Spielberg to work on new live-action Halo TV series

  (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Microsoft and 343 Industries have recruited film director Steven Spielberg in the creation of a new Halo live-action TV series. The companies announced the new series during ...

• The OEMpire strikes back -- Microsofts best buddies go Google

  With Windows PC sales falling like Steven Tyler at an Aerosmith concert, all the major PC manufacturers are unleashing a brace of innovative, competitive products based on Google's Android platform. In some cases, the Android alternatives go head-to-head with the same manufacturer's Windows 8 boxes, with the Android machines always cheaper and sometimes better endowed. It's almost ...

• 2013 is the year of the voice command

  Xbox One , I was struck by just how many voice commands Microsoft programmed into the device. Kinect brought a rudimentary set of commands to the gaming console, but now everything from opening movies to launching apps can be done via voice. "Xbox, Live TV" may be my new favorite phrase in the living room. Microsoft's not the only one who's betting big on voice commands. The ...

• Five unanswered questions about the Xbox One

  Live Blog: Next-Generation Xbox Unveiled With the pre-E3 announcement of Microsoft's next living room video game console, the parlor game of speculation about all the missing details can begin. As with ...

• NASA funds attempt at 3D food printer for pizza

  (Credit: Systems and Materials Research) "Star Trek" food replicators will always be the holy grail of space-snack technology, but we could be edging a step closer to the dream thanks to the work of mechanical ...

• EA announces Ignite engine for next-gen sports games

  (Credit: Screenshot by David Carnoy/CNET) Over the years, sports games have become more and more realistic, and EA is promising to take that realism to a whole new level in next-generation versions of many of its popular sports franchises. At Microsoft's unveiling of ...

• Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4

  With specs revealed for the Xbox One, we finally have a chance to directly compare it with that other yet-to-be-released gaming console, the PlayStation ...

• Supercharged Xbox Live enhances cloud support for Xbox One

  Live Blog: Next-Generation Xbox Unveiled The Xbox One was just announced, and with it, Microsoft unveiled a new Xbox Live. The service will include more capabilities, such as Skype and a dedicated game DVR for capturing in-game footage. The company also said that users can install games in segments so they can play without waiting for the whole program to install; the system will download and ...

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