Sony to pay millions to settle spurned gamers' PS3 lawsuit

From CNET: Sony has agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit over the removal of support for the Linux operating system in its PlayStation 3 console.

The lawsuit stemmed from Sony's decision in 2010 to eliminate the "Other OS" option available in all pre-Slim...

Samsung's Gear 360 goes on sale in US on 'limited basis' for $350

From CNET: VR enthusiasts in the US can finally get their hands on Samsung's Gear 360 virtual reality camera -- if they're going to an online video conference in California.

The South Korean company on Wednesday said it will start selling the camera in the US "on a limited basis" for $350...

Amazon leapfrogs to third biggest video streamer by traffic

From CNET: Amazon's video service has surged in usage in the last year, jumping to third place behind Netflix and YouTube by traffic in North America.

Amazon Video accounted for 4.3 percent of downstream internet traffic during peak evening viewing hours in North America, according to network...

Microsoft invokes Supreme Court opinion in Ireland email case

From InfoWorld: Microsoft believes its refusal to turn over email held in Ireland to the U.S. government got a boost from an opinion of the Supreme Court on Monday, which upheld that U.S. laws cannot apply extraterritorially unless Congress has explicitly provided for it.

In a decision Monday in a...

Cooler Master MasterBox 5 First Look

Customization is an interesting thing when it comes to computers. For a while, just being able to swap out parts and components was as custom as you would get. This did not stop users from painting their cases, adding internal lights, and making it look nice. However, with Cooler Master's continuous campaign to "Make it Yours", it is no wonder practically all of their current products have some sort of customization in it. Today is another interesting case, but it is not anything new. Considering it was already showed to us at CES in January, it was just a matter of time when it would show up at our doors. Today we are taking a first look at the Cooler Master MasterBox 5, a more budget friendly case with a lot of ways to make it your own. Let us see what Cooler Master has delivered to us in today's preview.

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Twitter goes long(er) with users' video uploads

From CNET: Twitter is on a never-ending quest to make videos more attractive on the site.

The San Francisco-based social network said Tuesday that users will be able share longer videos on the platform as well as seeing longer-form videos on Vine, its short-looping video service.

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Apple fixes serious flaw in AirPort wireless routers

From PC World: Apple has released firmware updates for its AirPort wireless base stations in order to fix a vulnerability that could put the devices at risk of hacking.

According to Apple security, the flaw is a memory corruption issue stemming from DNS (Domain Name System) data parsing that could...

Intel pits monster 72-core Xeon Phi chip against GPUs

From InfoWorld: When introducing its monster 72-core Xeon Phi chip, Intel couldn't help but take a swipe at graphics processors for being sluggish for some tasks.

Ironically, Xeon Phi is a byproduct of Larrabee, which was supposed to be Intel's first major GPU but was abandoned in 2009 after...

Twitch fights view-inflating bot makers with lawsuit

From PC World: Twitch has just about had it with bots that artificially inflate view counts for videos. In fact, it’s taking the makers of such bots to court.

In a post published to the Twitch Blog on Friday, Matthew DiPietro, Twitch’s senior vice president of marketing, explained how the company...

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