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Rovi, the company that's buying TiVo, isn't very interested in staying in the hardware business.
The combined company will be looking to partner with set-top box makers instead of continuing to sell set-top boxes directly to consumers, Rovi Chief Financial Officer Peter Halt said at an investors conference last week. (See transcript and this Light Reading article.)
Halt noted...
Grocery stores don’t just place items on...
In rats, individual differences in risk preference and in sensitivity to gains compared with losses are controlled by a specific neuronal population, stimulation of which neutralizes risk-seeking behaviour.
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Intel's Skylake-based Pentium G4500. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
Our creative director Aurich Lawson is building a PC to power a custom arcade cabinet, and he was having trouble picking a processor. Not because he didn’t know what he needed, but because he was having trouble matching what he needed (the cheapest quad-core CPU that meets the recommended...
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If you serve it, they will eat it—or at least that seems to be a take-away from a new study on healthy menu options published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research.
Between 2010 and 2012, the Walt Disney Company experimented with kids' meal menus in 145 restaurants in...
Enlarge / "Big moon Horizons on Cobra and SRV," by CMDR [AEDC] Haridas Gopal. (credit: CMDR [AEDC] Haridas Gopal)
Ninety frames per second. That’s the new target for consumer VR gear: you need hardware capable of rendering two HD images with all the trimmings at a steady 90fps, or the whole thing starts to shake...
