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We’ve only had the feature for a couple of console generations, but nearly every gamer was unhappy that both the PS4 and Xbox One dropped backwards compatibility just a couple of generations after it made a huge impact. Sony, though, always said it was planning to bring the feature to the PS4 via the Gaikai streaming tech it purchased what ...

GoPro cameras have been around for a decade. Thousands are mounted on car dashboards to record breathtaking drives. Hundreds of journalists use them to spice up video reviews. One automaker is now on-board with the GoPro concept: Chevrolet will make a video Performance Data Recorder available on the Corvette Stingray when it goes on sale in September. The unpriced option ...

Qualcomm is kicking CES off with a brace of announcements targeting new markets for the company’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) products. The Snapdragon 602 is designed to drop into the vehicles of 2014 and beyond, while the Snapdragon 802 targets the next generation of smart TVs and 4K displays. This is part of Qualcomm’s own efforts to win space in the “Internet ...

It’s a common showbiz lament: No good roles for women. But while there’s always room for improvement in this area, Broadway’s 2014 roster of musicals is jammed with juicy female characters. They’re all dealing with hard decisions about love, career, marriage, fidelity and faith — and sometimes all at once. That doesn’t even include plays. This is all on tap ...

James Keivom/New York Daily News Bono and the rest of U2 will return with a new album in 2014. New year, new sounds. While 2013 seemed to have blown music’s wad by crowding so many superstar releases into the Fall – shoving in Beyonce and Justin Bieber in just the last few weeks – that clears the deck for some ...

Andrew Theodorakis/New York Daily News Mom Metok Dolma and dad Dorjee Choet­so, both of Queens, welcome baby girl Ten­zin Choetso, born at Elmhurst Hospital on Wednesday one second after the new year began. Three New Year’s babies born at or just after midnight made for a dramatic and happy beginning to 2014, and one of them has a blessed start ...

Michael P. Farrell/Albany Times Union Food prices are expected to rise by 2.5% to 3.5% in 2014, according to the USDA Consumer Price Index. Seems like everything is so expensive already and guess what. Prices in certain categories will be even higher in 2014. Jeanette Pavini, consumer savings expert for Coupons.com, gave us her top five categories that are ripe ...

Andrew Theodorakis/New York Daily News Tom Coughlin makes it clear he wants to be on the sidelines with the Giants next season. Tom Coughlin just endured his first losing season, going 7-9 and he is the oldest coach in the NFL. But that doesn’t mean he has any intention of riding off into the sunset. RELATED: MYERS: GIVE COUGHLIN ONE ...

2014 will be a year of tremendous change for both Intel and AMD. Both companies are responding to rapidly shifting market dynamics as the computing market continues its greatest product transition since the PC debuted nearly forty years ago. The two CPU manufacturers are attacking this shift from different directions and with different product strategies; we’ll start with Intel first. ...

The BMW 3 Series defined sporty sedan performance for three decades. Now the compact Bimmer is also a flag-bearer for driver assistance technology and engine efficiency. You can have the 3 Series with a gas engine, turbo diesel, or hybrid. Get the diesel and come summer, as BMW notes, you can make it from New York to the beach on ...