Having already aided The Mighty Thor several times, actress Jaimie Alexander is most definitely due to step into the spotlight on her own, which Deadline reports she will do as star of the NBC pilot “Blindspot.” In the Memento/Bourne Identity-esque story, Alexander will play a beautiful Jane Doe who finds herself at the center of […]
A&E Networks has debuted the new promo for the upcoming third season of their hit series, “Bates Motel.” Aimed to be filled with family strife, murder and mystery, the third season of “Bates Motel” is lead by Vera Farmiga as Norma Bates and Freddie Highmore as her son, Norman. This season focuses on the evolution […]
Fans of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U were doubtlessly celebrating when the GameCube adapter was announced alongside the Super Smash Bros. Invitational for this year’s E3; many say that the GameCube controller offers up the best control scheme for the fighting game. Nintendo clearly underestimated its popularity, however, and gamers who didn’t preorder theirs […]
Feb 18 2015 | Posted in
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Qualcomm today announced a series of new application processors for mobile devices, including the Snapdragon 620, 618, 425, and 415. Both the Snapdragon 600 series and 400 series receive new features previously reserved for higher-class processors. For example, the 620 jumps to 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A72 CPUs and Cortex-A53 cores, while the 618 runs two […]
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The first installment of “Silk,” a new Marvel comic book derived from the Spider-Man series, appears in stores February 18. The series, which tells the story of Cindy Moon and her crime-fighting, alter-ego named Silk, comes a year after another superhero, Kamala Khan, became the first Muslim character to headline one of Marvel’s comic books. […]
OmniVision Technologies today announced that it is working with Almalence to improve the low-light capabilities of its products. Specifically, OmniVision is pairing Almalence’s computational imaging algorithms with its own OV10823 and PureCel OV13850 image sensors. The result, says OmniVision, will be dramatically better image and video capture with these two sensors. For example, Almalence’s low-light […]
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Microsoft has begun informing owners of Windows Phone handsets that it will discontinue the Rooms feature in March. Users will still be able to see their rooms, as well as use existing photo albums, calendars, and notes, but users won’t be able to create new rooms or change permissions in existing rooms. The chat function […]
Sony today announced plans to spin off its audio and video business into a separate company. The unit will take the form of a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony. The move, explained CEO Kazuo Hirai, is to make the unit more autonomous and focused on generating profits. Sony made similar strategic moves with its television […]
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A court today said Nokia and ZTE did not violate patents held by InterDigital, a patent licensing firm. InterDigital had filed a case against the two phone makers with the International Trade Commission. The ITC said Nokia and ZTE were in the clear, and InterDigital appealed. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit […]
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Dan Mead, who has served as the CEO of Verizon Wireless since 2010, plans to retire according to filings the company made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mead will remain on the board of directors and serve as executive vice president and president of strategic initiatives. He’ll stay in that role until Verizon Communications […]