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When Sony bought Gaikai 18 months ago for $ 380 million, it was clear that the entertainment titan had big plans for the cloud service. Now, Sony is hinting that we’ll start seeing products based on those plans within a year. A developer beta will supposedly begin early in 2014, with a full North American rollout before the end of ...

A picture claiming to be of a python that has swallowed a man has gone viral [TWITTER] The image posted by a user of the social networking site based in India has been retweeted almost 15,000 times and been favourited more than 4,000 times. The picture shows a huge snake lying on the ground with what looks like a person ...

Here’s a revolution in dining: At Contra, Jeremiah Stone and Fabian van Hauske’s new restaurant, waiters don’t come over to ask what you’ll be having. They tell you what you’ll be having. The premise is so simple that it’s actually controversial: The menu offers just a single prix fixe meal — and it changes daily, depending on the day’s best ...

Kyle Lambert via YouTube/via YouTube Can you tell the difference? The recreation is on the left, while photographer Scott Gries’ original picture is on the right. Just call him iPicasso. An English artist has captured international attention by recreating a portrait of Morgan Freeman using only his iPad and finger. Manchester-based painter Kyle Lambert spent more than 200 hours and 285,000 brush ...

Ronald Martinez/Getty Images How long until the Yankees are regretting giving Jacoby Ellsbury a 7-year contract? So here’s what happened: In the midst of a whirlwind day in which their two top priority free agents, Robinson Cano and Carlos Beltran, were rumored to have received offers far in excess of what they were willing to pay, the Yankees instead wind ...

Now that the PS4 is out in North America, Europe, and Latin America, we finally get to see for ourselves how the public is reacting to the new generation of consoles. Not everything has gone as smoothly as possible, but the traction has been quite impressive. A mere two weeks into the PS4′s life, and Sony has already sold more ...

Susan Watts/New York Daily News Madison Square Garden announces Billy Joel as the arena’s first-ever music franchise alongside the Knicks, Rangers and Liberty. Exactly how much Billy Joel does New York want? We’ll soon find out since Joel and the Garden announced Tuesday that, starting in January, The Piano Man will begin playing one show a month, for “as long ...

ERIC THAYER/REUTERS Metro-North engineer William Rockefeller Jr. is loaded into an ambulance after the train’s derailment in the Bronx. Rockefeller was described by an investigator as ‘consciously asleep’ during the incident. The conductor at the helm during Sunday’s deadly Metro-North crash has been described by investigators as “consciously asleep” leading up to the incident. “I was in a daze,” William ...

Chris Weeks/WireImage for Silver Spoon A Porsche Carrera GT, like the one involved in the crash that claimed the life of “Fast & Furious” actor Paul Walker.  “Fast & Furious” star Paul Walker is not the first high-profile passenger to die in a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT piloted by an experienced driver, if in fact autopsies prove that Walker was ...

ERIC THAYER/REUTERS Metro-North engineer William Rockefeller Jr. is loaded into an ambulance after the train’s derailment in the Bronx. Rockefeller was described by an investigator as ‘consciously asleep’ during the incident. The engineer at the helm during Sunday’s deadly Metro-North crash has been described by investigators as “consciously asleep” leading up to the incident. “I was in a daze,” William ...