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Microsoft Surface Pro Review: Too Much Future?
The Microsoft Surface was the biggest new tech of 2012. Its first iteration — Surface RT, a confusingly named and marketed tablet-with-a-keyboard — bombed. Pretty hard. So why believe in the full-powered Surface Pro? Simple. It’s a braver and more divergent take on the laptop-tablet convergence than anyone else has risked so far.
This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Vine Tries To Make A Vine Ad In Vine
Vine might be the communication tool of the future, but it’s not without its limitations. Not the least of which is how impossible it is to describe Vine in a Vine-length blurb. Irony, thou art cruel!
The New Pacific Rim Trailer Is An Orgy Of Everything You Love
Giant mechs. Intense score. Inspiring speech. That voiceover. Monsters. Check, check, check, check, and check. If you weren’t excited about Pacific Rim before, you are now.
First New Arrested Development Trailer: Thank You, Netflix
When news first broke nearly a year and a half ago that Netflix was resurrecting Arrested Development for a fourth season, the reception was joy followed by immediate apprehension. Could the expectations be met? Could it be as funny as it is in our memory? The answer, based on this just-released first trailer, is a very hopeful maybe.
10 Tricks To Make Yourself A Google+ Master
Unless you happen to work for the search giant that created it, Google+ is probably not your social network of choice. Nevertheless, there’s a ton of functionality hidden behind its walls, covering everything from photos to local searches as the influence of Google+ stretches across the company’s multitude of other products. Here’s how to get the most out of it.
Gaming League Employee Turns 14,000 Users Into Bitcoin-Mining Zombies
A good Bitcoin mining rig is hard to find. They’re expensive, they take up space, they wrack up huge energy bills. Not at all practical for your average ESEA gaming network employee. Nefarious code that turns 14,000 of your users into an unwitting personal bitcoin botnet? Totally doable.
The iPhone Is One Of The Best Android Phones You Can Buy
The addition of Google Now to the iOS App Store has granted iPhone owners access to one of Google’s most useful products. But it did something else, too. It made the iPhone a better Android phone than the vast majority of Android phones you can buy.
Splitsider Presents: A Place To Buy Awesome Comedy Where The Artists Actually Get Paid
The push towards DRM-free distribution has come in fits and spurts. Louis CK helped pioneer and popularise the model, but to date there still hasn’t been a centralised hub where you can buy high-quality comedy, for a little bit of money, that the artist gets to keep.
The Only Thing Apple Really Sells
A recent Wall Street Journal article posits an interesting question: Is Apple a hardware company or a software company? Does it sell iPhones or iClouds? The answer has deep implications for how analysts evaluate the company’s worth. It’s framed as an identity crisis, one with deep, dangerous implications for the most dominant consumer electronics company in the world. There is much gnashing of teeth.
