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Sailing the sea of pennies: Sub Pop’s digital salvation
'You can't deny the math,' Tony Kiewel says, with the slightest hint of defeat in his voice. 'The math is bad and continues to get worse for the whole pie.' Sub Pop's head of A&R's not particularly bullish when asked about the state of the music industry. It's been a rough couple of years -- ...
Google’s ‘breakfast with Sundar’ is today at noon ET, get your liveblog here!
We've been invited to a breakfast with Sundar Pichai, the man with the plan, and we know what you're dying to find out: will we feast together on bran muffins or jelly donuts? Coffee or orange juice? Kidding aside, we imagine one of the biggest fellas on Google campus just wants to have us ...
NVIDIA puts Project Logan on display at SIGGRAPH: Kepler gets cozy on a mobile chip (video)
We've known about NVIDIA's plans to bring Kepler to mobile for a few months now, but the component maker offered up an early glimpse of the SoC at SIGGRAPH this week. In terms of power usage, Logan's use of Kepler architecture translates to one-third the consumption of GPUs currently running in devices like the Retina ...
Xbox One first-party games priced at £50 in the UK, versus $60 in the US
Take the $59.99 official price (before tax) for first-party Xbox One titles in the States, run it through your favorite currency convertor and you get something like £39. Add in Royal Baby taxes (aka VAT), incomplete globalization and whatever else, and it seems the final amount for UK buyers comes to £49.99 -- a price ...
Sony reportedly planning Gran Turismo movie with producers of The Social Network
While it's not the Mario Kart movie we'd all been hoping for (c'mon, right?,) it's arguably the next best thing. Sony is reportedly developing a film about that other petrol head game -- Gran Turismo. It's claimed that Mike de Luca and Dana Brunetti (The Social Network / Fifty Shades of Grey) are onboard with ...
Ubuntu Edge pricing drops to $625 minimum on Indiegogo after initial sellout
So far, it seems that Canonical's $32 million Ubuntu Edge smartphone Indiegogo campaign has been a roaring success, having raised over $3.5 million in about 40 hours. But after selling out all 5,000 units in the lowest $600 pricing tier, Canonical has added three new pledge levels. Initially, those who missed out on the one-day-only ...
Toyota begins public testing of its Segway killer, reminds us Segway was a thing (video)
Originally teased five years ago, Toyota's Segway-killing Winglet is finally taking to the streets of Japan for public testing. While the original device was designed to be steered by users' knees, the revamped edition now contains a familiar steering pillar-and-wheels combination. The trials are due to run through March 2016 with the aim of proving ...
Slingbox update lets you invite Facebook friends to watch your cable in a browser
If you're an inveterate place-shifter and have the internet bandwidth to spare, there's no longer any reason to keep your cable TV feeds all to yourself. A Watch update has arrived for the Slingbox 350 and 500 media streamers that includes Facebook integration, letting you invite your friends to view your Slingbox streams on a ...
BlackBerry 9720 running BB 7.1 OS boldly shows its curves in hands-on video
BlackBerry confirmed that despite the launch of BB10, it'll still deploy one handset running BB7 later this year. We're almost certain that phone will be the 9720, and while the Thai site that got an initial look called it a Bold, it might actually be a new member of the Curve family, according to a ...
Nike+ Running iOS update adds social challenges, trash talk
Sometimes you need a little extra encouragement to hit the trail. The latest update to Nike+ Running for iOS should give you that friend-based push to lace up when you're feeling particularly lazy. Social competitions make up most of what's new in version 4.3, bringing in the same functionality between the app and its Nike+ ...