Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning. Here's everything that you need to know before taking that first sip of coffee today.
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week is like the Super Bowl of tech, and this year it will attract 140,000 attendees looking for the next big thing. What makes the show fun for us, though, is that there isn’t just one next big thing. Here are 7 of them.
That means it's again to look forward to new HD home theater products. Here's all our inside industry clues and trends to make 12 predictions for the HDTVs this year.
While Microsoft's Xbox 360 can now play live TV from the likes of Comcast and Verizon, and on-demand streaming video from a variety of partners, the system doesn't include include another function that's become a staple of TV viewing in recent years — digital video recording. That might be set to change soon.
Google, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga — and oh sweet baby Jesus no! — Etsy, along with other Internet-based companies take a "nuclear option" and "go simultaneously dark" in protest of the bill, and to "highlight the fundamental danger the legislation poses to the function of the Internet."
Doctors are expressing new hope about thecondition of Arfa Karim Randhawa, the 16-year-old computer programming prodigy from Pakistan who has been in intensive care since experiencing an epileptic seizure and cardiac arrest nearly two weeks ago, according to reports out of the country.
Did you shudder when you first saw the incredibly realistic Steve Jobs action figure that's supposedly becoming available in February? You're not alone — if Apple's attempts to ban the toy are anything to go by.
Don't feel like adding another box to the collection of boxes around your TV? You won't have to, with Roku's new Streaming Stick, estimated to cost between $50 and $100, and available the second half of this year.
Avast ... and amen. A Swedish group that favors digital piracy says it has received government approval to become an official church.
Microsoft and its advertising agency have reached a settlement with a company that accused them of copying its ads in a Windows Phone campaign featuring cell phone use in urinals and the bedroom.
In closing: The Darth Vader Burger Is Coming To Europe!
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