Gadgetory

it's Monday December 16 2013 I'm Sam sheffer and we finally installed our snack delivering pneumatic tubes at the verge office sorry the tubes are broken oh is this 90 seconds on them for no no no Judgment Day is coming google has acquired robot engineering company Boston Dynamics best known for building a robotic cheetah and an eerily convincing humanoid robot the company's role in future Google projects is currently unclear as is the price and terms of the deal in a tweet Google's Andy Rubin said quote the future is looking awesome which funny enough was the same tweet Skynet sent out before all hell broke loose steamos is here but some assembly is required on Friday valve released its linux-based operating system it's essentially a standalone version of the steam app for dedicated pc hardware no windows or mac required the steam OS will be used to power the company's so-called steam machines essentially pc game consoles that will be coming out next year alongside a somewhat unique steam controller as valve says itself only intrepid Linux hackers to try it for now everyone else should just stick with their current setup or wait until 2014 and finally after leaving the company in 2005 the Weinstein brothers are reuniting with miramax thanks to a multi-year agreement the weinstein company will produce new movies TV shows and live productions in partnership with miramax first stop on their agenda sequels to Shakespeare in Love and the underground poker drama rounders and that's it for today's top stories coming up tomorrow we take a closer look at china's moon rover and discover that things aren't always what they seem