Technology 
5 ways Facebook’s Rooms stands apart from the anonymous app pack
Facebook’s long-rumored anonymous app is here, shattering common beliefs about what Facebook and anonymous apps are like. Rooms for iOS is a throwback to the Internet communities of old, when people used pseudonyms to comment but were as well-known as … Continue reading
You Should Play: Crush enemies in the mysterious endless-action game Helix
These days, keeping up with games can be a full-time job. So how do you separate the signal from the noise, the wheat from the chaff, the Temple Runs from the Temple Jumps? Allow us to help by regularly selecting … Continue reading
Nest acquires Revolv and immediately stops sales of one of the top smart-home hubs
So you bought a Revolv smart hub to manage your smart home. You obviously recognized a well-designed product. The only problem now is that Nest Labs saw the same potential. The folks who designed the world’s most famous thermostat, since … Continue reading
10 scary Halloween movies to stream on Netflix…if you dare
Halloween has changed over the years, but some things remain the same: pumpkins, trick-or-treating, costumes, and scary movies. We just love being creeped out, spooked, startled, and downright frightened, perhaps because the body craves sensations that life doesn’t dish out … Continue reading
Apple’s slipping iTunes sales prove streaming is the future
iTunes numbers looked solid, if not outright impressive, when Apple reported fourth-quarter earnings this week. Sales were up from $4.3 billion to $4.6 billion year-over-year. But Apple doesn’t break out music purchases from those numbers, so it’s difficult to tell … Continue reading
Assassin’s Creed Unity’s crazy minimum PC specs: $500 GPU, $200 CPU, 50GB storage
Ubisoft has announced the minimum requirements for the PC version of Assassin’s Creed Unity — and, well, they’re a little bit puzzling to say the least. At a bare minimum, the new Assassin’s Creed game will require an Nvidia GTX … Continue reading
Amazon triples the number of games and apps available for its Fire TV media streamer
Amazon wants investors to forget all about yesterday’s disappointing earnings announcement and its lowered sales guidance for the 2014 holiday season. The company released two bits of more positive news this morning: The number of games and apps available for … Continue reading
ET deals: Dell Inspiron 15 Core i5 Touch Laptop for $550
Somewhere around the $500 sweet spot you can usually find a premium spec, like Core i5, or a touchscreen, or upgraded RAM/storage, but they tend to come at the expense of the others. Right now thanks to a $100 coupon, … Continue reading
Analyzing the iMac 5K Retina display: How do you squeeze 5K out of a last-gen GPU? (updated)
Apple’s new 5K iMac is something of a puzzle – as is the resolution the display runs at. How’s Apple pulling this one off?
VISC CPU ‘virtual core’ design emerges: Could this be the conceptual computing breakthrough we’ve been waiting for?
A new CPU design concept, codenamed VISC, has broken from the shadows in the past 24 hours — and it might just be the breakthrough we’ve been looking for.
