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  • Microsoft announces its Xbox 360 successor the Xbox One

    Microsoft has launched the Xbox One, the entertainment and gaming hub that will replace the Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 was released in Winter 2005, and the replacement has been heavily hyped and heading towards us for years. The countdown has finished, the wait is over and we can now confirm that it is called the Xbox One and has an eight-core x86 processor with more than 5 billion transistors. A ...

  • 10 killer new features of Microsofts Xbox One

    Xbox game console Tuesday, touting a device it claims will revolutionize the experience of using your television. Eight years after the launch of the Xbox 360, which is currently the best-selling games machine in the U.S., Microsoft finds itself the last of the three big game-makers to show off new hardware. The device is due out later this year. No price was announced. Here's a closer ...

  • Mr. Cook came to Washington and escaped unscathed

    an apology . John McCain (Rep., Ariz.), after a bout of tax dodging rhetoric, wanted to know why his iPhone was constantly updating its apps. Even Levin was having a hard time getting up a head of righteous steam. Working from staff-prepared notes (and whispered instructions) on material he didn't seem to have mastered fully, he was left, at the end, with no choice but to filibuster. ...

  • The OEMpire strikes back -- Microsofts best buddies go Google

    With Windows PC sales falling like Steven Tyler at an Aerosmith concert, all the major PC manufacturers are unleashing a brace of innovative, competitive products based on Google's Android platform. In some cases, the Android alternatives go head-to-head with the same manufacturer's Windows 8 boxes, with the Android machines always cheaper and sometimes better endowed. It's almost ...

  • 2013 is the year of the voice command

    Xbox One , I was struck by just how many voice commands Microsoft programmed into the device. Kinect brought a rudimentary set of commands to the gaming console, but now everything from opening movies to launching apps can be done via voice. "Xbox, Live TV" may be my new favorite phrase in the living room. Microsoft's not the only one who's betting big on voice commands. The ...


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Food, Inc.

Food, Inc.

Robert Kenners disturbing and important documentary Food, Inc. is like an episode of Unwrapped, that late-night Food Network staple in which former Double Dare host Mark Summers cheerfully takes us behind the scenes of how our favorite foods are produced, recast as a horr ... ...

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  • Five unanswered questions about the Xbox One

    Live Blog: Next-Generation Xbox Unveiled With the pre-E3 announcement of Microsoft's next living room video game console, the parlor game of speculation about all the missing details can begin. As with ...

  • NASA funds attempt at 3D food printer for pizza

    (Credit: Systems and Materials Research) "Star Trek" food replicators will always be the holy grail of space-snack technology, but we could be edging a step closer to the dream thanks to the work of mechanical ...

  • EA announces Ignite engine for next-gen sports games

    (Credit: Screenshot by David Carnoy/CNET) Over the years, sports games have become more and more realistic, and EA is promising to take that realism to a whole new level in next-generation versions of many of its popular sports franchises. At Microsoft's unveiling of ...

  • Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4

    With specs revealed for the Xbox One, we finally have a chance to directly compare it with that other yet-to-be-released gaming console, the PlayStation ...

  • Spielberg to helm live-action Halo TV series

    (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Director Steven Spielberg will helm the creation of a new Halo live-action TV series. Microsoft and 343 Industries announced the new series during ...

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