Microsoft’s hotly-anticipated motion-sensing controllers for Xbox 360 videogame consoles made their debut before an invitation-only audience in a Los Angeles theater late Sunday. Technology developed by Microsoft under the code name Project Natal was re-christened “Kinect.” The potentially revolutionary device uses a 3-D camera and gesture recognition software to let…
At the semi-annual SF Music Tech conference, Raw Story sat down for an exclusive interview with Oakland-based journalist and hip hop impresario Davey D. He stirred up controversy in workshops and panels by pointing out that record label “greediness and shortsightedness” have killed innovation. His central argument, that majors hurt…
Amid increasing pressure to step down as chairman of the National Republican Committee, Michael Steele told the audience at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference that it was time to "move on" after revelations of his mismanagement of party funds.…
Glenn Beck told his audience in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday that Americans are “worshipping cars.” If that’s so, then his audience must have felt it was sheer blasphemy that their cars were towed from a nearby parking lot as they listened to the controversial commentator speak. According to WFTV channel…
Stephen Colbert presented his late-night audience with an interesting metaphor for health care reform Monday. Republicans and Democrats are like a husband and wife fighting over whether to have a health care baby. But “you’re never going to get pregnant while both of you are in bed with the insurance…
ORLANDO, Florida (AP) - A killer whale has attacked and killed a trainer in front of a horrified audience at a show at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, with witnesses saying the animal involved in two previous deaths dragged her under and thrashed her around violently.…