Gadgetory

I am mollywood and welcome to the bus report the show about the tech news that everyone is talking about this week the speed read version of all the WWDC news who won III this year and embarrassing facebook photo tagging in one easy step but first it's the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the Nintendo Wii U which maybe it's just me made me think of sirens it's Nintendo's next-generation console and even though we don't know a lot about the actual console the controller is where it's really at its a 6.2 inch tablet like Dealey it's got a touchscreen and joystick and button controls a front-facing camera a mic and then motion control just like the original wiimotes it can act like a secondary display an actual controller a web browser a mini version of the game you're playing it looks basically pretty freaking awesome except that minus any other details or real time frame for release other than 2012 generally speaking it kind of smells like vaporware up in here I mean we'll see but stinky and now for the news alright let's get it over with Apple held its WWDC keynote this week which we covered to death here at cnet if you missed any single second of the two hour announcement of new OS 10 features new iOS 5 features and the iCloud push and sync service please visit cnet news cnet com or seen at TV for all the details in a nutshell for me iOS 5 will be just about exactly as awesome as Android when it finally gets around to arriving this fall OS 10 lion will look a lot more like iOS but for just 30 bucks as an app store download and Apple's iCloud will be just about exactly as awesome as Google Docs but slightly less awesome than Spotify or lolla and way less awesome than say flickr good good moving on there was more than just Nintendo at e3 in LA kind of this week Sony announced the Vita which is not tasty water but is a successor to the PSP it was kind of pedestrian overall but great if you like the PSP also Sony apologize for its big data breach kind of they really just apologized for your inability to play its amazing game con for that whole month but not for letting your credit card data get into the wild or for storing your passwords and clear text on web sites around the world kind of like other than that mrs. Lincoln how was the play and Microsoft announced some new cool looking Kinect games Bing search using your voice and connect and some kind of live TV thing involving some partners they didn't name at a date yet to be determined there's that vaporware smell again basically Nintendo 1e3 again speaking of Nintendo it's time for this week's hacker news blue plate special those go-getter lowsec boys apparently broke into Nintendo's servers but didn't steal any data really a lil SEC first PBS and now Nintendo yeah you're really fighting the good fight there what are you gonna do next pull a kitten's tail catch a dolphin in a fishing net push a nun down a stairwell Club a baby seal really nice guys and finally Facebook this week silently rolled out facial recognition tagging to all its users yes by default the feature scans photos you upload and then suggests tags based on who it thinks are in the pictures like an easier way to tag pictures except it's also a way easier way to be identified in potentially embarrassing photos and it's not totally clear what happens with public photos like what if you're in Egypt or Libya or Syria maybe you go to a protest you get photographed you get identified and suddenly you get arrested Plus not only did facebook optus all in of course they didn't even announce they were rolling the feature out or exactly how it works at this point I can't tell a facebook will never learn if Facebook refuses to learn or a Facebook is trying to learn us not to use Facebook anyway as always there's a simple 39 step process in your privacy settings to turn it all off or control who sees your photos anybody else interested in a Friendster reunion tour and that's the buzz report for this week everyone I'm Mollywood and thank you for watching this isn't the first time that have come to the stage in an e3 press conference with an elephant in the room and of course I'm referring to the playstation network outage my friends who are reporters tell me that there's absolutely nothing in the world that makes their editors day like controversy and bad news so to all our esteemed members of the press I say you're welcome