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Ars Technica: Hands-on (and on camera) with Xbox One’s new controller and Kinect
REDMOND, WA—The schedule for today's Xbox event on Microsoft's Redmond campus included time for what was billed as a half-hour "interactive experience." That experience unfortunately did not include a chance to sample any actual gameplay runn...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 7:46pm -07:00T (220 words)
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Ars Technica: This is cool: Qualcomm shows off its Mirasol display
Engadget
There have been rumors of Qualcomm's MEMS-based Mirasol display for years now. Once advertised as the "future" of e-reader displays, the company is now showcasing its proofs-of-concept. Engadget snagged a previ...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 7:46pm -07:00T (201 words)
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Ars Technica: New Opera for Android looks like Opera, tastes like Chrome
Opera users on Android have been able to download a next-generation version of the browser in beta for some time, but today the company finally introduced those changes to the "stable" version of its mobile browser.
The new Opera comes with big changes b...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 6:31pm -07:00T (202 words)
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Ars Technica: Prenda blows sanctions deadline, ordered to pay an extra $1,000 per day
The four lawyers linked to the Prenda Law copyright-trolling organization were slapped with an $81,000 sanctions order, which as of today, they have missed the deadline to pay. They did make time to file a last-minute motion to delay the sanctions, which...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 6:31pm -07:00T (218 words)
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Ars Technica: Fisheries could be in hot water due to climate change
As our planet warms from excess carbon in the atmosphere, some of that heat is absorbed by the ocean. Fish and invertebrates are responding to warming waters by moving to higher latitudes or deeper waters where the water is cooler, and it was expected th...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 4:01pm -07:00T (189 words)
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Ars Technica: VMware’s Amazon-style compute cloud will go live in four US data centers
Virtual reality is sorta like virtualization, right? Plus, this picture has clouds. No, we couldn't come up with a better image for virtualization and cloud computing. Sorry about that.
Ruslan Rugoals
VMware today unv...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 4:01pm -07:00T (166 words)
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Ars Technica: Xbox One: not always on, not backwards compatible
Microsoft has at long last provided confirmation that its next generation console, the Xbox One, will not require an always-on Internet connection.
The company says that it will require an Internet connection at least some of the time, however. The conso...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 2:46pm -07:00T (122 words)
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Ars Technica: Reporters use Google, find breach, get branded as “hackers”
TerraCom's website offers free cell phones to low income customers; its call center company gave customers' personal data away.
Call it security through absurdity: a pair of telecom firms have branded reporters for Scripps News as "h...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 2:46pm -07:00T (248 words)
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Ars Technica: Linking simple chemistry to something like life
A computer model of a growing membrane.
Szostak Lab
Origin of life researchers have made impressive progress in recent years, showing that simple chemicals can combine to make nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA a...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 1:31pm -07:00T (233 words)
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Ars Technica: Our first up-close look at the Xbox One
As expected, Microsoft took the wraps off of its next-generation Xbox at its press event earlier today. With the Xbox One, the company will continue to pursue the strategy it has cultivated in the later years of the 360's reign: the device is definitely ...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 1:31pm -07:00T (327 words)
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Ars Technica: Tim Cook tells Congress why Apple won’t move $100 billion back home
Apple CEO Tim Cook
Chris Foresman
There's a disconnect between how Apple CEO Tim Cook sees his company's tax strategies and how some members of the US Senate view it. That became clearer than ever today after Cook and ...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 1:31pm -07:00T (153 words)
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Ars Technica: Live-action Halo “TV series” coming to Xbox One
Little was shown of the upcoming series, but Master Chief will be live on small screens soon.
Microsoft and 343 Industries announced plans for a live-action Halo TV series in partnership with Steven Spielberg at the unveiling event f...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 12:16pm -07:00T (217 words)
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Ars Technica: Activision updates Call Of Duty franchise for XBox One
Microsoft said it plans on debuting eight new franchises during the first year the Xbox One is on the market. Toward the end of today's console presentation, Activison Publishing CEO Eric Hirhberg came out to reveal one such game—Call of Duty...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 12:16pm -07:00T (169 words)
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Ars Technica: Video: Edit your photos like a boss, the Ars way
What do you do when you have a decent photo that you want to turn into a great photo?
Making a great image often means you need to spend a long time editing, but that’s not always the case. Sometimes all you need is the right tool or approach.
We asked...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 12:16pm -07:00T (115 words)
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Ars Technica: Microsoft announces its next console, the Xbox One
Microsoft officially announced its next-generation video game console, the Xbox One, at a press event held at its campus in Redmond, Washington today.
In terms of hardware, the new console has "5 billion transistors," 8GB of RAM, 64-bit archite...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 11:01am -07:00T (144 words)
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