Microsoft announced today that it is revealing a next-generation Xbox console … – ABC News

Microsoft announced today that it is revealing a next-generation Xbox console … – ABC News

After eight years on the shelves and having sold some 70 million units, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is finally getting a successor today. The Xbox reveal comes a bit late to the party, as the last of the big three home console makers to announce a new system. Exactly three months [...]

May 22, 2013 0 comments Read More
Tumblr: Would more ads, sooner, have made a difference? – ZDNet

Tumblr: Would more ads, sooner, have made a difference? – ZDNet

According to the commentators — who, it seems, only discovered Tumblr over the weekend when Yahoo’s plan to bid on the service leaked — Tumblr is for cat pictures, memes of animated gifs and adult content. A slightly less bleeding edge 4chan, if you will. That [...]

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Call of Duty Ghosts preview – the next generation of CoD – The Guardian (blog)

Call of Duty Ghosts preview – the next generation of CoD – The Guardian (blog)

The first live footage we see is a forest. Well, this is Call of Duty – of course it’s a forest. A week before the big Xbox reveal, Infinity Ward is showing off Ghosts to a roomful of journalists in LA. Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing, has been onstage [...]

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Teens, Social Media, and Privacy – The Pew Internet and American Life Project

Teens, Social Media, and Privacy – The Pew Internet and American Life Project

Overview Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a variety of technical and non-technical steps to manage the privacy of that information. Despite taking these privacy-protective actions, teen social media users do not express a [...]

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Google’s cool new conversational search quietly hits Chrome – VentureBeat

Google’s cool new conversational search quietly hits Chrome – VentureBeat

With little fanfare, Google has added its cool new conversational search feature to Chrome on desktops, following a demonstration last week at Google I/O. Conversational search is a major upgrade from Google’s previous voice search feature, which merely dictated a search string. You can access it by clicking the microphone [...]

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