How Consumer Technology Is Inspiring – And Limiting – Brand Advertising


The Internet may have torn up most of traditional media, but one area it has left relatively untouched so far is brand advertising, the image ads that television and magazines still dominate. Most of...
    






Liveblog: Valve’s CES 2014 Steam Machine Press Conference


Valve doesn’t make it a habit to visit the annual Consumer Electronics Show. This year is markedly different as the developer-turned-digital distribution leader-turned-hardware maker prepares to...
    






Microsoft Reveals 3 Million Xbox One Sales In 2013


It’s been a little while since we’ve gotten any further numbers from the great console sales race of 2013, and now as CES kicks off, Microsoft has given us an update. In a blog post from Yusuf Mehdi...
    






Lenovo Begins The New Year By Drowning Out And Undercutting Its PC Rivals


Lenovo has dominated the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas by unveiling more than ten new PC and tablet models. Rather than being just more of the same, the new lineup represents...
    






Privacy advocate exposes NSA spy gear at gathering


Infected iPhones, radar wave devices, and more: Activist pulls curtain back on NSA spy gear LONDON (AP) — A well-known privacy advocate has given the public an unusually explicit peek...
    






Gun Ban At Country Star Toby Keith’s Newest Restaurant Causes Outcry


In mid-December, the 15th in country superstar Toby Keith’s growing restaurant chain opened its doors in the North Virginia town of Woodbridge, around 20 miles south of Washington, D.C. It didn’t...
    






The Best Video Games Of 2013


2013 was a really great year for video games. Maybe not the best year of all time, but a year packed with ambitious, surprising new titles. It was also a year of new benchmarks, with games like ...
    






‘The Invisible Woman’ Star-Director Ralph Fiennes Talks Celebrity Bruises, Slow-Burn Relationships And ‘Total Interior Inhabitation’


For an actor best known for roles playing Nazis (Schindler’s List), doomed cartographers (The English Patient), British diplomats (The Constant Gardener), and wizards so evil their names must never...
    






‘The Invisible Woman’ Star-Director Ralph Fiennes Talks Celebrity Bruises, Slow-Burn Relationships And ‘Total Interior Inhabitation’


For an actor best known for roles playing Nazis (Schindler’s List), doomed cartographers (The English Patient), British diplomats (The Constant Gardener), and wizards so evil their names must never...
    






Cracker Barrel Chain Pulls Duck Dynasty Items Amid Phil Robertson Gay Slur Scandal


Southern restaurant and country store chain Cracker Barrel has taken a public stand in the Duck Dynasty controversy that has swiftly turned into a culture war. The company has removed “selected...