Robert Scoble

Steve Jobs' Dream Device Has Arrived, and It's Made by Microsoft

Just before he died, Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson about his dream for revolutionizing television. His fantasy device would control all the many doodads that crowd your living room-DVRs, game consoles, Blu-ray players-and would connect to the vast world of entertainment available online. Best of all, it would...

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Chrome 27 arrives with 5% faster page loads, FileSystem API for syncing data to Drive, prediction tweaks, and more

Google on Tuesday released Chrome version 27 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new version features a big boost to page loads (now 5 percent faster on average) as well as significant updates for developers. You can update to the latest release now using the browser's built-in silent updater, or download it directly from google.com/chrome.

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The all-seeing Kinect: tracking my face, arms, body, and heart on the Xbox One

"It's what's on the inside that counts" is something of an unofficial mantra of Microsoft's new Xbox One. The Kinect is perhaps the best example: externally, it's more or less unchanged from its predecessor, but it's actually a very different device. It's been upgraded in a huge way, but the end result is simple: the Kinect just sees more.

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Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4: the next console war pits living room against cloud

We think of video game consoles as being principally about, well, the games. But when the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 went head-to-head in 2006, it wasn't games that truly determined the victor.

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