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VIDEO: Transform Into ‘Man of Steel’ at Superhero Supply Company

PC Magazine — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:52:00 +0000

You don’t have to have been born on Krypton to fly faster than a speeding bullet or see through walls. A small shop in Brooklyn sells enough capes, powers, and gadgets to turn anyone into Superman. The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company is part of 826 National, a network of non-profit organizations across the country that [...]

PS4 Game Bundles Available for Pre-Order on Amazon

PC Magazine — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:39:00 +0000

When Sony’s PlayStation 4 launches at the end of the year, you can pick up your plain, standard edition console for $399. Or, you can shell out a few extra bucks for one of Amazon’s four launch bundles, available now for pre-order. The PlayStation 4 Battlefield 4 Launch Day Bundle includes the game, and a [...]

Ford Using Robots to Test Truck Durability

PC Magazine — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:19:00 +0000

Robots may rule the roads one day, but for now, they’re limited to Ford test tracks. A pilot program within the automaker is using robots to test the durability of Ford’s new full-size Transit van family, set to launch next year. The robots drive the vehicles through accelerated high-impact on- and off-road tests. “Some of [...]

Brits Accused of Spying on G20 Attendees

PC Magazine — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:10:00 +0000

The British government monitored the phone calls and emails of those who attended the 2009 G20 summits in London, according to documents published by The Guardian. The spying was carried out by the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the U.K. equivalent of the National Security Agency (NSA) in the U.S., according to the documents, which were [...]

Klipsch S3m In-Ear Headphones

Brian Mitchell — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:47:59 +0000

Klipsch today introduced the S3m in-ear headphone, specifically engineered for mobile devices, which offers listeners a universal single-button remote to pause and skip music tracks or answer and end calls. Equipped with the patented oval ear tips for which Klipsch is known, the S3m allows for hours of comfortable, long-term wear. Unlike circular-shaped ear tips [...]

Tweet Added to Oxford English Dictionary

PC Magazine — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:07:00 +0000

Less than a decade ago, the word tweet only meant one thing: the chirp of a bird. Boy has that changed. As of this month, the lauded Oxford English Dictionary, the accepted authority of the English language, includes an official second definition for the word: “To make a posting on the social networking service Twitter. [...]

Fastest Mobile Networks 2013

PC Magazine — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:00:00 +0000

AT&T and Verizon are battling it out to build nationwide, high-speed wireless networks to feed Americans’ millions of hungry smartphones and tablets, and Sprint and T-Mobile aren’t far behind. So, for the fourth year running, we sent drivers out on the road to test our 4G nation and figure out which network is the fastest [...]

Samsung Galaxy Owners Get First Dibs on New Jay-Z Album

PC Magazine — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000

Samsung on Sunday announced that rapper Jay-Z’s next album will be available exclusively on Galaxy devices three days before its official release. The album, titled “Magna Carta Holy Grail,” will be available via a special Magna Carta app that hits the Google Play store on June 24. The first 1 million Galaxy S III, S4, [...]

Apple Mac Pro: Does Expandability Really Matter?

PC Magazine — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000

Apple has announced its new Mac Pro professional desktop workstation, and it is 1/8th the volume of the old one. To get it so small, Apple had to remove one of the primary reasons to get a Mac Pro in the first place: There is no significant internal expansion space in the new 2013 Mac [...]

At Apple, Steve Jobs’ Legacy Lives On

PC Magazine — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000

At WWDC last week, Apple announced a cloud-based version of iWork. As Apple demoed this, the whole Flash versus HTML5 brouhaha came back to my mind. Let’s back up a bit. When Steve Jobs and Apple decided to withdraw support for Adobe Flash in iOS, they got a lot of flak from many corners of [...]