First Click: How much would you pay for the Nintendo Switch?
One of the most important of those is how much the Switch will cost. Pricing is always critical for games consoles, which are typically sold at low profit margins or losses in an attempt to attract enough users to make money back on software in the long run. Nintendo has often bucked that trend in the past to pursue profitability for the hardware itself, but the company may not have that luxury with the Switch: after the Wii U, it needs a hit. Until the Wii, every Nintendo home console launched..>> view originalGoogle Pixel makes Android's long-press much more useful
Google's Pixel phones are the first to run Android 7.1, giving them a bunch of new features, including one that makes it possible to long-press on an app icon, revealing a list of shortcuts. For example, the app shortcut for Gmail brings up a Compose button. Long-pressing the Play Store app will take you directly to the My Apps section. The feature is primarily available on Google's own apps right now, but as developers begin optimizing apps for Android 7.1, expect to see app shortcuts become mo..>> view originalMicrosoft cloud annualized run rate hits $13bn in strong first quarter
reader comments 22 Microsoft posted revenue of $20.5 billion in the first quarter of its 2017 financial year, a negligible rise on the same quarter last year. Operating income was $5.2 billion, down 8 percent year on year, net income was $4.7 billion, down 4 percent, and earnings per share were $0.60, down 2 percent. As ever, Microsoft also offered alternative figures that book Windows 10 revenue up front instead of amortized over several years. Using that regime for both this year and la..>> view originalSamsung Orders Takedown Of 'Grand Theft Auto V' Mod Video That Shows Note 7 As A Bomb
Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 debacle has been a highly publicized one, as exploding batteries and smartphones catching fire eventually led to the end of the device's short life. A Grand Theft Auto V modder saw the opportunity to make light of the fiasco, creating a mod that added the Galaxy Note 7 into the game as a bomb. The smartphone replaced the sticky explosives, and it can be thrown and later detonated to cause chaos in the game. Created by HitmanNiko, the GTA V mod is the perfect parody of th..>> view originalBest Windows apps this week
Two-hundred-and-three in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 on Windows Store in the past seven days. Microsoft has started to remove applications from Windows Store that don't have an age rating. While they should continue to work if you have installed them already on a device, updates and new downloads are not available until the developer or publisher specifies an age rating. As always, if I missed an app or game that has..>> view originalIBM says Macs save up to $543 per user
By the end of 2016, roughly one in four IBM employees will use a Macintosh computer. The tech giant, which employs 400,000 people, bought and provisioned 90,000 Macs since it started to support Apple laptops in June 2015. It expects to have at least 100,000 Macs deployed by 2017.IBM now has the largest enterprise Mac deployment in the world, and it is Apple's biggest business customer for Macs, according to Mac maker. Apple declined to provide details on the other leading enterprise Mac cus..>> view originalAndroid 7.0 Is Now Rolling Out To Moto G4 & G4 Plus In India
Motorola had introduced some compelling smartphones this year, lead by the Moto Z and Moto Z Force flagship handsets. Now, we're not here to talk about the company's Moto Z phones, but their more affordable counterparts, the Moto G4 and Moto G4 Plus, ...>> view originalBattlefield 1 review: Satisfying chaos, solemn silence
“If history only remembers one in a thousand of us, then the future will be filled with stories of who we were and what we did. How we lived, how we fought, and how we died. When this is all over and the war is won, they will remember us.” These solemn lines close out Battlefield 1’s campaign, and it’s as bittersweet a note as I can think to start this review on. Total warfare Because the truth is we haven’t remembered. Not enough of us, anyway. To put a twist on a Churchill quote, “Never..>> view originalThe Only Thing on Autopilot at Tesla Is the Hype Machine
Just over a year ago, Tesla sent out a software update to its cars that made its "Autopilot" features available to customers, in what the company called a "public beta test." In the intervening 12 months, several of those customers have died while their Teslas were in autopilot mode. Cars have crashed, regulators have cracked down, and the headlines proclaiming that "Self-Driving Cars Are Here" were replaced with Tesla's assurances that autopilot was nothing but a particularly advanced driver-as..>> view original
Thursday, October 27, 2016
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