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News Corp may axe MySpace if not turned around
Nov 4th
News Corp might chop MySpace if it doesn’t turn around within the next several months, the company’s Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey said during a quarterly fiscal results call today. After a $ 70 million drop in revenue and plummeting traffic, the executive said the results were “not acceptable or sustainable” and implied the site would shut down if it wasn’t fixed. A timetable wasn’t given, but MySpace’s timeframe would be measured “in quarters, not in years,” Carey said.
MySpace has been in decline for years since Facebook ultimately took the upper hand, but the company has made several unsuccessful More >
Multi-robot command center built around Microsoft Surface (video)
Aug 30th
While we’ve given up on ever winning an online match of StarCraft II, that doesn’t mean top-down unit control schemes are only for nerds in their mom’s basement with their cheap rush tactics and Cheeto fingers and obscene triple digit APMs (we’re not bitter or anything). In fact, we kind of like the look of this robot control interface, developed at UMass Lowell by Mark Micire as part of his PhD research. The multitouch UI puts Microsoft Surface to good use, with gestures and contextual commands that make operating an unruly group of robots look easy, and a console-inspired touch More >