LOS ANGELES — Microsoft Corp. wants to build on the success of Nintendo’s Wii motion-capture wand — by getting rid of the wand entirely. On Monday, Microsoft detailed its new Kinect game technology, coming this fall for the Xbox 360 game console. Once known as Project Natal, the Kinect system recognizers users’ gestures and voices, so you can control on-screen avatars in racing, action and sports games just by moving your body.
Sequioa Pearce had to kneel before Las Vegas police officers who held her at gunpoint in her bedroom Friday night.
LOS ANGELES — Remember the MTV VJ? That’s so two decades ago. Now the network is looking to hire its first TJ, or Twitter Jockey. MTV officials say the search is on for a new social media maven who will engage with the MTV audience and serve as a liaison between viewers and network honchos.
CHICAGO — Was Rod Blagojevich a crook? Or was he merely a bumbler, a goof – naive, trusting and played for a fool by cynical campaign fundraisers and political fixers? Some who know him will have trouble swallowing the idea of Blagojevich, a veteran state lawmaker and congressman who was elected Illinois governor twice, as the all-American chump. He spent years climbing the political ladder, guided by his father-in-law, Richard Mell, an old-school Democratic who goes back to the Chicago Machine.
