Sohu founder and CEO Charles Zhang is, by the standards of most tech entrepreneurs, doing very well. His startup has long since blossomed into a full-blown tech giant, and success has brought him both prestige and heaps of money. Yet in a recent interview on Yang Lan One-on-One, Zhang told the host that he is [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment has launched its StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm expansion to thousands of fans around the globe tonight. If you’re locked out of SimCity, the always-connected game with connection problems, you might just be moving on to Heart of the Swarm. The real-time strategy sci-fi game has millions of fans, and now they’re [...]
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Anyone who follows tech news even a little bit should be aware of 3D printing by this point. If you’re not, here’s a quick video primer on the technology and how it works. The short version is that 3D printers are a little bit like the replicator from Star Trek: they take designs stored in [...]
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Remember the Indonesian folklore-themed app that we looked at a while back? Called the Adventure of Wanara: Garuda Riders, it combines gaming and a comic book series and was released back in November. Now the second episode, Garuda Riders Vol 2: The Chosen One, is now out on Android and it promises even more fun [...]
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Tencent is not a well-liked company at any of China’s major telecoms. First there was QQ, the instant messaging service that used massive amounts of 2G network bandwidth and kept users away from heavier text messaging habits, and now there’s WeChat, which is costing telecoms even more in bandwidth even as it threatens their telephone [...]
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There’s been a fair amount of attention on 3-D printing this week at SXSW, and most of it wasn’t focused on guns. Until today. Cody Wilson, a law student at University of Texas and founder of a nonprofit organization called Defense Distributed, spoke today about his process for 3-D printing guns at home. He appeared [...]
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There’s been a fair amount of attention on 3-D printing this week at SXSW, and most of it wasn’t focused on guns. Until today. Cody Wilson, a law student at University of Texas and founder of a nonprofit organization called Defense Distributed, spoke today about his process for 3-D printing guns at home. He appeared [...]
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There’s been a fair amount of attention on 3-D printing this week at SXSW, and most of it wasn’t focused on guns. Until today. Cody Wilson, a law student at University of Texas and founder of a non-profit organization called Defense Distributed, spoke today about his process for 3-D printing guns at home. He appeared [...]
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There’s been a fair amount of attention on 3-D printing this week at SXSW, and most of it wasn’t focused on guns. Until today. Cody Wilson, a law student at University of Texas and founder of a non-profit organization called Defense Distributed, spoke today about his process for 3-D printing guns at home. He appeared [...]
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Who better than Netflix to know how fast your ISP is? After all, the online TV and movie distributor has, on occasion, used up to a third of all bandwidth in North America singlehandedly. And Netflix’s 33 million customers currently stream more than a billion hours of TV and movies every single month. So the streaming [...]
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