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Nokia Lumia 720

The Lumia 720 bears the distinction of being Nokia‘s most svelte Windows Phone 8 device to date – clocking in at just 9mm in thickness and weighing 128 grams (4.5 ounces) thanks in large part to its is matte polycarbonate body. Featuring a 6.7 megapixel camera with f/1.9 lens, a research-intensive flash has been employed by Carl Zeiss labs which is softer than most – ensuring that photographs keep their original color. It also packs a dual-core 1GHz Snapdragon CPU (the same as the Lumia 520), 512MB RAM, 800 x 480 ClearBlack display, 2,000mAh battery, NFC, and an option for wireless charging. At present, the Lumia 720’s only set to launch in Asia (specifically China) and parts of Europe in five colors (cyan, black, yellow, red and glossy white) for €249 EUR (approximately $330 USD).

2014 Jeep Cherokee

America’s off-road specialist Jeep has unveiled the first photos of the 2014 Cherokee – resurrecting one of its most famous model names with plenty of new bells and whistles to meet modern demand. Sporting a more streamlined and futuristic look than its boxier predecessor, the Cherokee is built on the same platform as the Dodge Dart compact. Automotive News has previously reported that the Cherokee would be powered by a 3.2-liter V6 engine based on Chrysler’s 3.6-liter Pentastar engine, as well as an all-new nine-speed front-wheel-drive automatic transmission designed by ZF Friedrichshafen. The automaker released few other details but consumers can expect the Cherokee arriving in dealerships in the third quarter.

Character Based on Chris Brown Killed on ‘Law & Order: SVU’

On Wednesday, Chris Brown and Rihanna’s relationship will be on screen, but not in the way most might think. NBC’s crime drama Law & Order: SVU will depict the pop stars’ rocky romance and try to solve the murder of the character based on Brown, writes Shadow and Act.

Next Wednesday’s episode of NBC’s Law & Order: SVU will be based on the turbulent relationship between Chris Brown and Rihanna. Maybe the surprising thing is why it took them so long to do it.

The episode, called “Funny Valentine,” is based…what’s the point? Look at the promo and see for yourself. Oh yes, Wendy Williams makes a cameo appearance on the show as well. But then, of course she would.

But do you think this is tasteless, or it doesn’t really matter? Besides NBC has to do something. In case you haven’t heard, it’s currently fifth in overall ratings, coming in behind Telemundo, among all the commercial networks.

Read more at Shadow and Act.

Game of Thrones Season 3 Trailer

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Reebok Classics Re-introduces the Shaq Attack and Shaqnosis for 2013 Spring/Summer

2013 is set to become the year of Reebok Classics. With with the Classic Leather’s 30th Anniversary, Pump bring-backs and Kamikaze models already generating buzz in the sneaker world, it was recently announced that the Shaq Attack and Shaqnosis will also return for Spring/Summer 2013. Yesterday, with a press event at Project — part of the Magic trade show in Las Vegas —  Reebok Classics welcomed the legendary Shaquille O’Neal back into the family, a familiar sighting that harkens back to 1992. Seeking to to make the strongest possible statement on the court that year, Reebok needed a “larger than life” presence that it found in Shaq, at that time the most dominant big man in the game. The partnership yielded two of the most revered basketball shoes of all time – the Shaq Attaq and the Shaqnosis. The Shaq Attaq featured two of Reebok’s most innovative technologies of the era — Pump technology in the tongue and Graphlite — the latter being a plastic, incredibly strong fiber which allowed Reebok to strip away heavy rubber and create a sleeker, lighter silhouette, while still providing incredible stability. The silhouette was also was also revered from a design perspective, cutting a distinctive look and reflecting the imposing presence of the Big Diesel. The Shaq Attack will hit retailers in April at fine sneaker retailers worldwide and online, with the Shaqnosis set to follow sometime this fall.

A Closer Look at the New Sony PS4 Controller

At the recent unveiling of the new PS4, due out for a fall release this year, attendees to the event held in New York were kept in the dark with respects to the console itself, but were treated to a preview of the controller for the new console. Sony has recently released official images for the Dualshock 4 controller and just as the console hopes to be the next evolutionary leap for the gaming franchise, so too does the accompanying controller.

If we compare the Dualshock 4 with its predecessors, it makes several big changes that set differentiate it from successive upgrades to previous models. Where the first three Dualshocks shared a very similar shape with tapered handles and large flat surfaces for the D-pad and four main buttons, the fourth is significantly more stripped-down and streamlined in these respects.

The most noticeable change is the addition of a clickable capacitive touch-screen to the centre of the controller, forcing the logo-bearing Playstation button to migrate south resting between the two updated analog sticks and beneath a newly added speaker. New changes to the button layouts include the addition of a SHARE button to coincide with the new social media features of the PS4 and the merging of the former START and SELECT buttons into a single OPTIONS button.

For the complete specs on the new Dualshock 4, Sony has released a detailed press release on both the controller and the PlayStation®4 Eye camera.

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Google Introduces the Chromebook Pixel

Having already staked its claim on part of the smartphone market with the Nexus, Google sets its sights on mobile computing with the introduction of the Chromebook Pixel. The name is derived from the 239 pixels/inch density the laptop boasts on its 12.85-inch touch screen.

Essentially a next-gen tablet PC, its Gorilla Glass infused screen is combined with a backlit keyboard that responds to a room’s ambient light and how the laptop is being used. For example, the keyboard dims when watching a full-screen video. Other hardware features include a glass touchpad and a minimalist housing made of anodized aluminum alloy where “vents are hidden, screws invisible, and stereo speakers seamlessly tucked away beneath the backlit keyboard.” With this emphasis on simplicity and elegant design, this may represent Google’s answer to similarly priced and styled laptops like the MacBook Air and the new Windows 8 ultrabooks.

While its heavy integration with the plethora of existing Google software products such as Drive, Gmail and Google+ is a given, the Pixel promises other performance conveniences such as a boot-up time of seconds and little to no setup or maintenance along with built-in virus protection.

Available for order online or for purchase at select Best Buy locations, the Pixel is priced at $1,299 USD.

Bonner enlists Jackson for SXSW event

Set to host his own event next month at SXSW, it only makes sense that renowned music head Matt Bonner would enlist the services of teammate/rapper Stephen “Stak 5″ Jackson to fill out the set list.

Jackson will be one of six acts performing at Bonner’s Sneakers and Speakers extravaganza, to be held March 13 from noon to 6 p.m. at Club Deville. The event will serve as a fundraiser to help launch the nonprofit organization Bonner recently founded with his brother Luke, the Rock On Foundation.

Also performing will be Oh No Oh My — a personal favorite of Bonner’s young daughter — Feathers, Dallas Green, Reverend Python’s Big Damn Band, Chuck Inglish of the Cool Kids and, of course, Stak 5.

HOL UP!! –> Google Glass

Today marks news from Google that they’re moving out of the “project” phase and into a whole new testing cycle with a recently announced contest for Google Glass aimed at people who aren’t entrenched in the tech field. To kick off the “contest” they launched a new website that details simplistic questions for the augmented reality glasses like “how it feels,” “what it does” and “how to get one.” Google’s accepting applications until February 27 with those passionate about the project answering questions and paying a $1,500 USD fee to be the first to test out the built-in voice recognition, on-board, hands-free video recording, voice recognition, and photo and video capture. Up until now, the only people wearing Google Glass have been Google employees, developers and Sergey Brin. Head here to learn of the exact specifics to get your hands on a pair.

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Sony Announces the PlayStation 4

During a live event hosted at the Manhattan Center in New York, Sony announced the next generation of its gaming console franchise, the Playstation 4.

According to lead system architect, Mark Cerny, development on the console began about five years ago and included in its goals to create a system that was both “by game creators for game creators” and that “[freed] developers from technological barriers.”

In his words, the new console would feature framework “like a PC, but supercharged,” incorporating the X86 CPU, 8GB of memory, and a local hard drive as well as the same APU technology and GDDR5 memory typically seen in high-end graphics cards.

But beyond simply providing an upgraded technical experience where the goal is to provoke ‘oohs and aahs’ from gamers through increasingly better graphics or smoother performance, the PS4 seeks to expand on one of the key human factors involved in gaming: emotion.

It intends to do so by not only by captivating the gamer’s attention and imagination through the aforementioned realism generated by the new hardware, but through its relationship and increased involvement with the gamer and their lives.

The PS4 intends to build on its five pillars (Simple, Immediate, Social, Integrated, and Personalized) and takes the immediacy of the gaming experience quite literally by including a secondary chip for uploading and downloading in the background, meaning a game can be played as it’s being downloaded. But perhaps the most important change to the console is its aim to further socialize the experience through Facebook-like profile pages and the ability to watch and comment on friends’ sessions in real time likely beyond games that already support it.

As more and more aspects of our daily lives become share-able and gaming becomes more prevalent than it has ever been, it remains to be seen how Sony will integrate with existing social media technologies to connect users and how the actual dynamics of gaming will evolve. Naturally, in a very sly move to further build anticipation, Sony did not unveil the actual console itself, but did announce that the Playstation 4 would launch this holiday season.