| Title | Description |
| No new EA games in development for Wii U, company reveals |
Earlier this month, EA DICE’s Johan Andersson dropped a major bomb: Frostbite 3 won’t be ported to the Wii U. The news meant that the company’s next-gen franchises were doomed to skip the console: No Battlefield 4, no Star Wars games, no Mass Effect spin-off. Now, EA’s Jeff Brown is saying the same fate applies [...] |
| Yahoo, Twitter partnership brings tweets to your newsfeed |
The ever-changing web portal that is Yahoo under Marissa Mayer will receive its next tweak with help from Twitter. In addition to providing summarized stories, Yahoo newsfeed will soon include occasional tweets based on your interests. Folks in the US can expect to see the change in the coming days across desktop and mobile versions [...] |
| Skobbler updates Android app with turn-by-turn navigation and offline maps, offers free light option |
Skobbler has had some success in the mobile mapping market, thanks in part to iOS’s historical first-party weakness in the area. But, with Apple offering its own solution and Google breaking Maps free from the OS-update chains, it’s facing a more difficult landscape in which to make its mark. So it only makes sense to [...] |
| Archos intros Xenon 80 8-inch tablet, delivers Jelly Bean and 3G for $200 |
Just in case that recently announced ChefPad wasn’t suited to your tastes, Archos is now introducing a smaller, not-so-kitchen-friendly Android tablet, the Xenon 80. Naturally, the main highlight of this 8-inch slate is that it boasts 3G capabilities, and the company’s quick to point out it’s SIM-unlocked. Archos also endowed the Xenon 80 with some [...] |
| The Daily Roundup for 05.16.2013 |
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click [...] |
| MIT crafts analog circuits from living bacteria |
Previous work on using organisms as circuitry has usually involved shoehorning parts of the digital world into a very analog environment. MIT has just found an approach that uses the subtlety of the natural world to its advantage: the circuits themselves are analog. By combining genes that produce similar molecules in response to different [...] |
| Google Glass rooted and hacked to run Ubuntu live at Google I/O |
Today at Google I/O the company held a session entitled “Voiding your Warranty” where employees demonstrated how to root Google Glass and install Ubuntu on it. What you’re seeing above is a screenshot from a laptop running a terminal window on top and showing the screencast output from Glass on the bottom — here running [...] |
| Rumors mount for white Nexus 4, may launch with next version of Android |
The white Nexus 4 is stuff that dreams are made of, and the lucky son of a gun at Android and Me, Taylor Wimberly, has one in hand. According to Wimberly’s description, it’ll be a “carbon copy” of the black Nexus 4, with the same specs and hardware wrapped into the sparkly, snow white casing. [...] |
| Hands-on with BBM Channels: BlackBerry?s trojan horse social platform |
“It’s more like Tumblr.” That’s how one BlackBerry rep described BBM Channels to us, the company’s new social networking service announced this past week at BlackBerry Live in Orlando. While Channels, alone, may initially seem like nothing new — it’s an iteration of a social communication model we’ve seem countless times before — the service [...] |
| Google?s Blink team pulls 8.8 million lines of WebKit code in one month |
Google let us all know that it would strip out unneeded WebKit code to make its Blink web engine scream, but it never said exactly what kind of pace we could expect. The answer, it turns out, is “breakneck.” The company’s Alex Komoroske told Google I/O attendees that the Open Web Platform team has already [...] |
| Tim Cook says US-made Mac will be new model in an existing family |
When Apple’s Tim Cook revealed that his company would once more assemble a Mac line in the US, there was a flood of questions almost immediately: which model? Where would it be made? While the CEO isn’t revealing all his cards quite yet, he just gave us a better sense of those domestic production plans [...] |
| See Thorsten Heins, Alicia Keys and BBM during the BlackBerry Live keynote, now on YouTube |
While Google presented its nearly four hours of recorded keynote glory in one giant clip, BlackBerry had the decency to split things up into four more-manageable segments. In the first installment of BlackBerry Live Keynote 2013, you can catch CEO Thorsten Heins chatting up some stats before hopping into the passenger seat of a QNX-equipped [...] |
| Boeing tapped to build ViaSat-2 satellite, launch set for mid-2016 |
ViaSat-1 recently earned a Guinness World Record as the highest-capacity satellite in (or out of) the world, but it may need to hand off that title come 2016. ViaSat-2, the company’s next-gen bird, will double the capacity of its predecessor while also extending coverage to a larger portion of North America, Central America and the [...] |
| AT&T?s U-verse gets new On Demand hub, promises simpler discovery for movies and TV shows |
Considering it’s not one of the company’s key operations, it’s safe to say AT&T’s been successful in its efforts to build out U-verse. Now, in an effort to make life on the couch a little less complicated for subscribers, the Rethink Possible network is introducing an all-new On Demand storefront. With a focus on making [...] |
| Bill Gates regains title of world?s richest person as Microsoft stock hits five-year high |
Bill Gates may be more philanthropic than ever since leaving the top job at Microsoft, but he still owns a ton of stock in the company, which today just so happened to close at a five-year high. As Bloomberg reports, that shift was finally enough to push Gates’ net worth back above that of telecom [...] |
| Dell announces Q1 2014 results: $14 billion revenue, 21 cents EPS |
We doubt recent earnings reports at Dell have been met with balloons on the quad and sheet cake in the cafe. And that’s likely the case this time around as well. The PC maker reported revenue of $14.07 billion, but earnings of just $372 million or 21 cents per share — a bit shy of [...] |
| Corning intros Lotus XT Glass for next-gen mobile displays, touts more efficient production (video) |
Corning’s Lotus Glass promised a world full of thinner, more advanced mobile displays when it was unveiled in 2011, but it hasn’t always been easy to build with the volumes or features that customers want. Enter the company’s new Lotus XT Glass as the solution: clients can produce it more reliably at high temperatures, leading [...] |
| Google?s nearly four-hour I/O 2013 keynote is yours for the watching on YouTube |
Looking for some entertainment on an upcoming cross-country flight? That might just be the only reasonable excuse for sitting through all 3 hours, 51 minutes and 25 seconds of Google’s recorded keynote. The I/O presentation, now available for playback on YouTube, covers many of the company’s announcements from yesterday, including All Access, Hangouts, a bounty [...] |
| Hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy S 4 running stock Android 4.2 |
Despite being officially unveiled at Google I/O, the stock Android version of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 has remained the unicorn of the show, seldom seen by anyone not closely associated with the company’s top brass. We ran into Android VP Hugo Barra at the show, who was happy to give us a few brief [...] |
| KEF M500 and M200 headphones launched in Hong Kong, we go ears-on |
It’s been almost a month since KEF announced its first headphone series, and yesterday we finally got the chance to try out its M500 cans and M200 in-ears at the company’s Hong Kong launch event. In fact, it’s worth noting that while KEF originated from the UK 52 years ago, it’s been part of Hong [...] |
| Google changelog reveals upcoming Chrome devices with Star Fox-inspired codenames |
Though we know virtually nothing about any Chrome OS-based devices in development at Google, we at least know what their engineers are calling them. Google insider François Beaufort revealed that developers working on such projects might be Star Fox fans, as several possible x86 devices seem to bear the Fox, Falco, Peppy and Slippy monikers, [...] |
| iTunes 11.0.3 released with enhanced MiniPlayer, multi-disc albums |
Cutting through all the Google I/O news is this update from Apple: today, Cupertino released iTunes version 11.0.3. This isn’t just an incremental refresh, as several new features are on board, including an improved Songs View and the ability to view multi-disc albums as a single album. The update also brings enhancements to the MiniPlayer, [...] |
| Google Glass to get CNN, Elle, Twitter, Tumblr, Evernote and Facebook apps soon |
The I/O news faucet hasn’t quite dried up yet. During the San Francisco conference today, Google chatted up some new Glass apps. The new applications will come packaged as “Glassware,” delivering CNN breaking news alerts, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook posts, Evernote reminders and articles from Elle Magazine. The New York Times and Path were the [...] |
| Google announces Glass Developer Kit, will enable offline apps and direct hardware access |
Google I/O 2013 is entering day two in San Francisco and a Google Glass developer session is happening right now. The focus is on the current Mirror API, which allows for online, web services-based apps that push simple content to the headset. This enables current apps like the New York Times. But, the Mirror API [...] |
| Japan-bound Sony Xperia UL leaks out with 5-inch screen, reportedly packs Snapdragon 600 |
It was only a couple of weeks ago that we got an early peek of T-Mobile’s Xperia Z thanks to the FCC, but we’ve now already gotten word of another unannounced Sony handset. While the published FCC report doesn’t offer much more than a label, Blog of Mobile has turned up some images of what’s [...] |
