Time Warner Cable Says Consumers Don’t Want Gigabit Internet

Hahahaha hehhh. Sorry, I couldn’t help but laugh. I don’t know where, Time Warner Cable CFO, Irene Esteves, got her information when she said, “we’re in the business of delivering what consumers want, and to stay a little ahead of what we think they will want…we just don’t see the need of delivering that to consumers. We’re already delivering 1 gigabit, 10 gigabit-per-second to our business customers, so we certainly have the capability of doing it.” Read the rest of this article…

Trion Worlds Unleashes New Multiplayer Trailer For ‘Defiance’

Since E3, last year, we’ve talked sporadically about Defiance, the upcoming MMOFPS from Trion Worlds, which will have ties to a major televisions series on the SyFy network, by the same name.

As much of a mystery as the key we received today in the mail is, the link between the game and the series is just as mysterious, with the only available details being that the game and the series will exist in the same time and place and they will, in some way, impact one another.

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We Were Sent a Key, Help Us Solve This Mystery

We get some random things at FleshEatingZipper but we have never received something that we couldn’t tell where it came from, until now. This package came in, attention to me for some reason. In the package a white box with a yellow ribbon. In that box a key wrapped in a small brown ribbon. I like mysteries so what could it be? Read the rest of this article…

I’m Upgrading My Android Phone This Year, But What Do I Get?

It’s been nearly a year since I told people to not buy a phone. The first half of the year is crowded with price cuts and secondary phone makers who are only bringing an extra half-step with their post-holiday offerings. That said, I don’t qualify for an upgrade until the end of August, so that’s giving me a lot of time to ponder the offerings and whittle down what I want in my next phone. Let me at least block out some absolute choices here.

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Google Chrome Audio Indicator Shows You Which Tabs Are Being Noisy

You know the feel all too well: you’re surfing the internet, probably looking at porn, and one of the tabs starts making noise because an audio ad started playing. You’re scrambling to not only mute your computer with one hand, but find the offending tab and close it with the other. You can’t find it, so you have to close Chrome entirely. Now you’re skittish, making sure no one heard anything. Read the rest of this article…

Star Citizen – Updated Information For The Masses

So I was going through the updates at Robertsspaceindustried.com, reading some new stuff I hadn’t gotten a chance to touch yet and going through some of the older stuff I had been through before and I was surprised at how much I had either too-casually glossed over or misunderstood, before.

I have been excited about Squadron 42 / Star Citizen since I first heard of it but after reading some things and re-reading some others, I’m finding myself more excited now than I had been when this thing kicked off.

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Oh The Humanity! Yahoo!’s New ‘Work From Home’ Ban Gets Parents All Lumpy

We read about innovation coming out of Silicon Valley all the time, but one company that’s been stuck in the mud for years is Dot-Com classic Yahoo!. You’ll recall last year, their board of directors hired Marissa Mayer, the Queen of Google, to turn things around. As a result, they’re doing some pretty radical things, like giving everyone smartphones, changing their entire home page, and in a recent move that’s irked Yahoo employees with kids, as well as other Valley watchdogs, Mayer wants everyone to come to the office to work. That’s right, employees at Yahoo! will have to physically leave their home and go to another place entirely to conduct their work. Wow. What a real abortion of worker’s rights this will be.

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‘Side By Side’ Review: Keanu Reeves Explains The Death Of Film

It’s hard to believe that it’s been twelve years since Star Wars: Episode II was the first movie to be shot entirely on high-definition digital cameras, ones that were still physically monstrous in proportion with footage dumped to large tapes. Of course, while it wasn’t shown digitally in many theaters at the time, camera manufacturers and digital projectors have come down in price thanks to names like RED, Sony, and Arri who have helped make filmmaking, end-to-end, an almost entirely digital process. Side By Side, a new documentary produced by and starring Keanu Reeves, goes through the paces of interviewing dozens of industry professionals, from iconic directors like Scorsese, Cameron, Lucas, and Nolan to cinematographers and color timers, through which we learn that, yep, film is pretty much dead.

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Snitch Review: Good Concept, Bad Execution

Snitch could have been a great film if the filmmakers behind it had either a) turned it into a straight-up action movie or b) tried to create a present day companion piece to other gritty crime movies like Donnie Brasco or State of Grace. Instead, writer/director Ric Roman Waugh attempts to steer a middle course, and the result is a middling film. Because Snitch can’t decide whether it wants to be drama or an action flick, it doesn’t work as either.

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Dark Skies Review: The Death of the American Dream

Great horror movies tend to be about more than monsters and demons. Invasion of the Body Snatchers tackled American paranoia in the wake of the Red Scare. The original Nightmare on Elm Street was one of the earliest movies to acknowledge the then growing trend of divorce. The Shining, depending on whom you ask, is about alcoholism, writer’s block, white man’s burden or some combination of the three. Many of the great horror movies contain rich subtext. Scott Stewart’s Dark Skies may not be a great horror movie, but it’s a surprisingly competent film that’s almost as ambitious as any of the movies I just listed. Why do I say that? Because in writing and directing Dark Skies, Scott Stewart didn’t just set out to make a disposable alien abduction movie, he set out to chronicle the death of the American dream.

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