Microsoft ‘retiring’ Facebook and Twitter Xbox 360 Dashboard apps
By Alexis Santos posted Oct 20th 2012 8:40AM Eagle-eyed gamers may have already noticed that the Xbox 360’s dedicated Twitter and Facebook apps have gone missing after the latest Dashboard update, and now Redmond has confirmed it’s put the applications out to pasture. According to a Microsoft representative that spoke to IGN, the firm is “retiring the Facebook and Twitter apps” as it works to streamline...
13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display reportedly seen with 2,560 x 1,600 LCD, dual Thunderbolt ports
By Jon Fingas posted Oct 20th 2012 10:52AM We hope you didn’t want Apple’s little event next week to be a complete surprise. After promises of extra details for a prior leak, a WeiPhone forum goer has returned with photos of what’s supposed to be the active screen and ports of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display that might be on stage come October 23rd. If this is what we get alongside the similarly...
Shuttleworth ruffles feathers with Ubuntu Linux 13.04 ‘Raring Ringtail’ plans
Canonical’s launch on Thursday of Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal was met with considerable jubilation from Linux fans around the world, not least because of the bold slogan that launched with it. Avoid the pain of Windows 8 was the text that accompanied the new Ubuntu’s launch, and thousands of fans quickly made their approval apparent over the course of the day on Google+. For many, however, jubilation turned to...
Going to Extremes with Aperture
After running Palouse Falls, a 189-foot waterfall in southeast Washington State, 24-year-old extreme kayaker Rafa Ortiz of Mexico described experiencing part of the descent in what felt like slow motion. But for photographer Lucas Gilman, who covered the attempt, the drop was very much in real time. “Rafa was actually visible for only three frames of the 4-second free fall, because after he got over the tongue, he was engulfed in...
CEA officially brands 4K as Ultra HD, gets ready for a flood of new displays at CES
By Richard Lawler posted Oct 20th 2012 12:44PM Now that HDTV is “the new normal” according to Nielsen (its most recent stats say more than 75 percent of US households have one) then naturally, it’s time to upgrade to 4K. This week the Consumer Electronics Association officially dubbed such screens — with characteristics including at least eight million active pixels, and 3,840 x 2,160 resolution, among other...
