It’s a dark day for Lord of the Rings necklace collectors and elaborate pet furniture enthusiasts everywhere. This morning, SkyMall’s parent company, Xhibit Corp. ( different Xzibit ) has filed for bankruptcy. Let’s take a moment of silence for the garden bigfoots that may never be. Read more…
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America Enters Its Darkest Days, as SkyMall Lands in Bankruptcy
Microsoft put out the first Windows 10 preview right after its first big announcement. But now— following all of Wednesday’s chaos —there’s a new one . Here are some of its most notable features in GIF form. Read more…
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Windows 10’s Coolest Features In 5 Animated GIFs
Pro Tools is the industry standard for digital audio production, but if you wanna get with the pros, you’ve always had to pay. No longer! Now, there’s a free version of the software targeted at beginners, and that rules. Read more…
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Pro Tools Is Releasing a Free Version of Its Legendary Audio Software
Drones are expensive. Aircraft like General Atomics’s MQ-1 Predator or MQ-9 Reaper cost millions of dollars piece, while the cost of maintaining the fleet stretches into the high tens of billions dollars over their lifespans. The Pentagon’s internal watchdog is aware of this, and recently lambasted the Air Force for not justifying the purchase of 46 Reapers— potentially wasting $8.8 billion of taxpayers’ money . Read more…
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Pentagon Scolds Air Force for Wasting Nearly $9 Billion on Drones
Want Windows 10? You got it: for free. This is a sea change in Microsoft’s strategy when it comes to upgrades. Gratis upgrades will be available for Windows 7, 8.1 and even Windows Phone 8.1 users for a full year. Read more…
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Windows 10 Is a Free Upgrade for the First Year
It’s Windows 10 day! Again . This time though, Microsoft had a ton of in depth announcements about free upgrades, the future of Windows Phones, playing Xbox games on PC, and putting holodeck goggles on your face. Here are the highlights. Read more…
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Everything Microsoft Announced About Windows 10 Today
VR? Meh. Microsoft is going the holodeck route, with something called Project Hololens. They are Holographic Glasses and they’ll be coming out around the same time as Windows 10. Man this sure looks awesome and cool and probably also really janky and dumb! We’ll find out soon though; Microsoft will be showing off the tech to attendees later today. Read more…
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Project Hololens: Microsoft’s Audacious Plan to Make Anywhere a Holodeck
Star Wars: A New Hope hit theaters in 1977— the same year that Apple moved from a garage to a real office building and Microsoft hired its first official employees. And the fact that it came out as consumer computers were truly hitting the mainstream shows. Read more…
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And Now, Every Single User Interface In Star Wars: A New Hope
Following earlier reports that Google was finalizing a $1 billion investment in Elon Musk’s zany new space internet project, SpaceX has confirmed a new round of funding worth—you guessed it—$1 billion. The new investors include not only Google but also Fidelity, Founders Fund and others. The new investors now own slightly less than 10 percent of SpaceX’s new venture. Read more…
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Google (and Friends) Just Invested $1 Billion in SpaceX Internet
Somebody hacked the Lizard Squad’s super stupid DDoS-for-hire service last week, and guess what? The Lizard Squad sucks at cybersecurity. Not only did the hackers leave their so-called LizardStresser service vulnerable, the money-hungry kids left all their customers’ data in plain text and $11, 000 in bitcoin on the table. Read more…
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Lizard Squad Kept Its Hacker-for-Hire Customers’ Info in Plain Text