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Over the years I’ve been wowed by plenty of high-end TV sets at CES. Two years ago, when the first jumbo 4K (UHD) sets were unveiled they were eye-popping. Now that UHD sets are commonplace in vendors’ booths, I was expecting to be fairly ho-hum about this year’s models. Last night though, Sony showed that there is more to UHD ...

According to SugarDVD, the Netflix of porn, PS4 owners are watching three times as much porn as Xbox One owners. This massive discrepancy isn’t caused by the PS4 outselling the Xbox One, either: The latest figures put the PS4 at 3.4 million units sold, versus 2.4 million for the Xbox One. In short, it really does seem that PS4 owners ...

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Public health experts are concerned that e-cigarettes may encourage more young people to smoke, but a new study finds that the secondhand effects of the vapor, at least, do not present the same health hazards as tobacco cigarettes. People standing near someone using an e-cigarette will be exposed to nicotine, but not to other chemicals found in ...

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Public health experts are concerned that e-cigarettes may encourage more young people to smoke, but a new study finds that the secondhand effects of the vapor, at least, do not present the same health hazards as tobacco cigarettes. People standing near someone using an e-cigarette will be exposed to nicotine, but not to other chemicals found in ...

Silvina Salinas/AP A man is treated after he was bit by a palometa, a type of piranha, while wading on Christmas in the Parana River in Rosario, Argentina. A swarm of biting fish injured more than 70 people who were bathing at a popular beach in Argentina on Christmas, a medical official said on Thursday. A 7-year-old girl had her ...

MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS Garth Brooks will begin touring again next year after a more than 10-year hiatus. ‘It sure feels good to get to throw your hat back in the ring,’ he said. American country singer Garth Brooks, the top-selling recording artist of the last 20 years, on Monday said he would return to touring after more than a decade off ...

If you bought an Xbox One for $ 500, rest assured that you got a good deal: It cost Microsoft $ 471 to make the Xbox One, new Kinect, and everything else in the box. After the retailers’ cut, Microsoft loses money on every Xbox One sold. At $ 471, the Xbox One costs about $ 90 more than the ...

Over the past week, I’ve been playing with the Xbox One, and I have great news: It’s better than the PS4. The console is definitely not prettier or better designed than the PS4, and the Xbox One gamepad is slightly worse than the DualShock 4, but the Xbox One wins in every other way: Launch games, functionality, and overall polish ...

We’ve spent a lot of time comparing the PS4 and Xbox One in terms of hardware specs, software, and games — but one thing we haven’t discussed is their engineering; their form and design. Physically, the Xbox One and PS4 are very different consoles: While the Xbox is huge and boxy, the PS4 is much slimmer and lighter. Furthermore, despite ...

One of the defining features of the Xbox One is that it has an HDMI input socket, allowing you to plug a wide range of media devices into the console. The intended purpose of this HDMI socket is to allow you to watch TV and play games side-by-side on the same screen — but in practice, you can plug just ...