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With the launch of the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Wii U in the video game industry's rearview mirror, the spotlight at this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles is expected to shift back to games. From online-only titles to virtual reality experiences, about 200 exhibitors will hype their latest software in hopes of becoming The Next Big Thing. A sampling: NEW TRICKS: Following the dawn of the new console generation, several publishers will use this year's E3 to push potential new franchises, such as Bungie's sci-fishooter "Destiny," Turtle Rock Studios' monster battle "Evolve," Insomniac Games' cartoony shoot-'em-up "Sunset Overdrive" and Ubisoft Massive's terrorist thriller "Tom Clancy's The Division." SAYING SORRY: A few apologies might be issued to E3 crowds, like Microsoft for backtracking on required features for the…

This year's World Cup will play out on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and messaging apps like WhatsApp just as it progresses in stadiums from Sao Paulo to Rio De Janeiro. Nearly 40 percent of Facebook's 1.28 billion users are fans of soccer, better known as football outside of the U.S. and Australia. On Tuesday, the world's biggest online social network is adding new features to help fans follow the World Cup - the world's most widely viewed sporting event -which takes place in Brazil from June 12 to July 13. Facebook users will be able to keep track of their favorite teams and players throughout the tournament in a special World Cup section, called "Trending World Cup." Available on the Web as well as mobile devices, the hub will include the…

iOS #01 - Heads Up! By Warner Bros. Category: Games Reguires !OS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 - Minecraft - Pocket Edition By Mojang Category: Games Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 - Afterlight By Simon Filip Category: Photo & Video Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 - Blek By Denis Mikan Category: Games / Price: $2.99 Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #05 - Geometry Dash By Robert Topala Category: Games / Price: $1.99 Requires…

Unstoppable Love Jesus Culture The California-based international Christian revivalist youth outreach ministry Jesus Culture continues to raise spirits with this latest release from its own record label. Consisting of mostly original rockers and ballads, the new set also shows off the formidable talents of longtime worship leaders Chris Quilala and Kim Walker-Smith. FIVE FACTS: 1. Jesus Culture is based in Sacramento, California, having previously been based at the Bethel Church of Redding. 2. The first Jesus Culture conference was launched in the fall of 1999. 3. The ministry was described by Cross Rhythms music editor Tony Cummings as "one of the most significant Christian movements in post-war America." 4. Previous albums released on the Jesus Culture Music label since 2006 include Everything, Come Away, Emerging Voices and Live from New…

FACEBOOK HAS REVEALED A NEW PHOTO-MESSAGING APP AFTER ACCIDENTALLY RELEASING IT ON APPLE'S APP STORE. Known as Slingshot, the app's features include sharing photos and videos with friends and sending "reaction shots". Like Snapchat, all images are deleted once sent and users can scribble or type over their photos. Facebook has confirmed Slingshot's existence, but it is not known when the app will be officially released. Reporters from The Verge and TechCrunch took screengrabs of the app's promotional material before it was removed by Facebook. The images appear to reveal many of Slingshot's features, the more unusual of which include an unlocking mechanism, whereby photos received from friends must be unlocked by sending a photo back to the original sender. It is thought that the back and forth "slinging" of…

HOW YOUR !PHONE IS FAR FROM JUST A PRODUCTIVITY TOOL When you reach into your pocket and pull out your !Device, what do you think you're holding? Is it a mere phone or tablet, good for phoning and/or emailing friends above all else? Or do you particularly prize your iPhone or !Pad as an Internet-ready device, perhaps using it to watch YouTube or Vimeo footage? Of course, there are loads more potential applications for the humble !Device, some better known and less unusual than others. But if there's anything you might have noted about those we have suggested above, it's that they're a little... how shall we put this... sedate. They don't get the pulse going too much. However, there's a reason why !Gadgets are so ubiquitous - they really…

A HOST OF FEATURES TO GET EXCITED ABOUT If you remember anything much about last year's launch of !OS 7, it will surely be the fact that it consigned Apple's previous love affair with skeuomorphism - the practice of making certain software functions physically resemble their real life equivalents - firmly to the dustbin of history. With Sir Jony Ive handed responsibility for the look of the software as well as that iconic outer casing of !Gadgets, we were given a feast of pleasing flatness. You might imagine, then, that the platform's follow-up would be something of a drab squib... maybe sporting some incremental changes here and there, but nothing all that radical, especially when so much of the rumor blog chatter about 'radical' stuff firmly centered on hardware, like…

Apple's resurgent stock may have as much to do with financial engineering as the company's technological wizardry. Monday marked Apple's first stock split in nine years, a move designed to make it more affordable to buy shares of the !Phone and !Pad maker. The maneuver provided a boost even before it was completed. Since the split was announced in late April, Apple's stock has climbed 25 percent, creating more than $100 billion in shareholder wealth while the Standard & Poor's 500 edged up just 4 percent. Other factors contributed to the Apple rally: The company raised its quarterly dividend, committed an additional $30 billion to buying back its stock, struck a $3 billion deal to buy headphone maker Beats Electronics and previewed its latest software for !Phones, !Pads and Mac…

It couldn't be any plainer if it were in a post by Mark Zuckerberg himself: Facebook, which was built on the idea that people want to share information with dozens of friends and acquaintances, is getting serious about more private communications. On Monday, the social network announced that it had hired David Marcus, the president of eBay's PayPal division and a former entrepreneur, to lead the expansion of its messaging products — and eventually, to figure out how to make money from them. A few hours earlier, Facebook signaled one area of messaging that it was exploring when it accidentally published the !Phone version of a new app called Slingshot that is aimed at competing against Snapchat, the popular service that allows people to send each other disappearing messages and…

I started using Instagram in late 2011 and was instantly hooked. I have always loved taking pictures but have felt overwhelmed by all the adjustment options offered by apps such as Snapseed and Camera+. Instagram made it easy. After snapping a picture, I could simply add a filter or hit the "lux" button. Voila! A slightly heightened version of reality -usually pictures off lowers or street scenes - went out to all my Instagram followers. So when Instagram gave its app 10 new editing tools last week, I was apprehensive. Sure, these tools give me more controls, the types available with more sophisticated editing apps. But I don't want to see the simplicity of Instagram go away. Fortunately, Instagram has made the newtools just as easy to use as its…

Telecommunications company Vodafone's report on government surveillance of its customers in 29 countries reveals more than first meets the eye - and is raising questions from Dublin to Delhi about how much spying on email and telephone chats happens in secret. In Friday's report Vodafone said most countries required the company's knowledge and cooperation to hear phone calls or see emails, but at least six governments have given their security agencies the power of direct access. Vodafone didn't identify the countries that have tapped into its network, but the report provided some clues. An 88-page appendix reveals that five countries-Albania, Egypt, Hungary, Ireland and Qatar - have provisions that allow authorities to demand unfettered access. In vague language, the report also indicated similar powers could exist in India and the…

iOS #01 - TwoDots By Betaworks One Category: Games Requires iOS 6.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 - FIFA Official App By FIFA Category: Sports Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 - Rival Knights By Gameloft Category: Games Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 - Facebook Messenger By Facebook, Inc. Category: Social Networking Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #05 - The Line By Ketchapp Category: Games Requires…

Non-Stop Starring Liarn Neeson, Julianne Moore, Michelle Dockery, Lupita Nyong'o and Scoot McNairy, Non-Stop charts a true thriller unfolding 40,000 feet in the air. U.S. Air Marshall Bill Marks (Neeson) has to call upon all of his training when he receives cryptic text messages threatening to kill passengers unless $150 million is transferred into an offshore account. FIVE FACTS: 1. Non-Stop was directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. 2. The film grossed $198,742,160 worldwide. 3. The original motion picture soundtrack was composed by John Ottman. 4. Liarn Neeson has admitted:"! don't think the film could have been made a few years ago [immediately after 9/11], of course. It would have been totally insensitive, but it's a backdrop to a thriller. That's what it is." 5. Despite the hairy situation faced by his…

Netflix will ease up on a month-long finger-pointing campaign that blamed Verizon and other Internet service providers for problems with its video subscription service. The decision, announced in a Monday blog post, follows a legal threat issued by Verizon last week. Netflix is feuding with Internet search providers such as Verizon and Comcast, saying they aren't doing enough to deliver the content that their subscribers want. In many cases, subscribers to high-speed Internet services are trying to stream Netflix videos, which generate about one-third of online traffic in the U.S. during evening hours. The inadequacies of the Internet services often caused glitches in online video streams, according to Netflix. To drive that point home to its users, Netflix has been sending notices to some subscribers that assert congestion on networks…

Sony Corp. announced Monday that it's bringing new installments of the popular video-game franchises "Uncharted" and "LittleBigPlanet" to the PlayStation 4 as it celebrated the 6-month-old game console's marketplace triumph. Sony also premiered "Abzu," an undersea odyssey from the creators of the award-winning "Journey" and "Entwined," a psychedelic 3-D flying game. And it showed new highlights from the steampunk thriller "The Order: 1886" during its annual presentation at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. On the hardware side, the company said it will bring PlayStation TV, its video- and gamestreaming device, to North America and Europe this fall. The $99 device lets users stream video, older PlayStation titles and games for Sony's hand-held Vita system to any TV. The "microconsole," which debuted in November in Japan as PSVita TV,…