Facebook said it would buy mobile messaging company WhatsApp for about $16 billion in cash and stock. Facebook will pay $4 billion in cash and about $12 billion in stock. Facebook said WhatsApp co-founder and Chief Executive Jan Koum will join Facebook’s board.
As with last year’s premiere of the doc Mistaken for Strangers about the rock group The National, the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival will also be kicking off with the world premiere of a music-related doc, this time being Time is Illmatic about rapper Nas and the making of his debut album “Illmatic,” which celebrates its […]
Anchor Bay Films, in a joint distribution with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, will release In the Blood simultaneously in theaters, On Demand and on iTunes on April 4. They’ve also released a poster and a number of new stills from the action thriller, which you can check out in the gallery viewer at the […]
Nvidia has posted its new GeForce drivers, bringing a number of fixes, new profiles, and of course performance improvements. The driver will work for any modern-day GeForce labelled graphics card. The performance improvements are compared to the previous 332.21 WHQL-certified drivers. Below you’ll find a snippet of the release highlights: GeForce GTX 770/780/TITAN/780Ti: Up to […]
Nvidia has launched two new graphics cards: the GTX 750 and the GTX 750 Ti. These cards are the first graphics cards based on Nvidia’s new Maxwell architecture. The GTX 750 carries a total of 512 CUDA cores, as well as 32 TMUs along with 16 ROPs. The GPU’s base frequency sits at 1020 MHz, […]
After testing a handful of actors, Jai Courtney has been tapped to play Kyle Reese in Paramount and Skydance’s “Terminator” reboot. Emilia Clarke is on board to play Sarah Connor and Jason Clarke will play John Connor. Arnold Schwarzenegger will also return in his iconic role. Alan Taylor is directing. Plot details have not been […]
Browser-based RPG Therian Saga is available now in English. Developed by Quebec-based studio Virtys, the game has been building an audience of 50,000 French-speaking players for about a year, but is ready to explore the English lands for vous. “The focus of our open beta will be to gather as much final feedback from English-speaking […]
Canonical today announced that two smartphone makers have agreed to manufacture and sell devices running the Ubuntu mobile operating system. The two hardware developers include bq, based in Spain, and Meizu, based in China. Both companies committed to bringing devices to the market this year. Further, Canonical said it has support from several large network […]
Transit Wireless today announced that it has begun Phase Two of its project to bring cellular and Wi-Fi wireless service to New York City’s subway stations. T he first step of Phase Two is to light up service at 11 more midtown Manhattan stations, including those at Grand Central Terminal, 34th St. Herald Square, and […]
Nokia today announced Treasure Tag, an NFC and Bluetooth powered fob that will alert users when their phone is too far away from their keys and vice versa. The device, which Nokia says is about the size of a matchbook, can be attached to a keychain (or other item the owner wants to keep close […]
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