DIGITAL LIFE

Since the recent iOS update for Apple devices, users have noticed a decrease in battery life. Apple is working on the issue, with two betas released this week and an update expected soon.

Samsung's Focus Flash and Focus S are the company's latest smartphone offerings running on the Microsoft system instead of the Google Android system they have done so well with.

The much anticipated trailer for the game premiered Nov. 2. It looked more like a movie trailer showing off sandy beaches, golf courses, jets flying around a huge L.A. like city while a disembodied narrator talks about his wish to get out of the business.

Kindle-Fire has a been hit so far for Amazon, but an unexpected contender showed up on shelves a bit earlier than announced, Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.0 Pro. It was supposed to debut in the U.S. Nov. 13, but is now available on Amazon.

The Elder Scrolls is a series of fantasy role-playing games known for giving their players an incredible amount of freedom. Skyrim comes out Nov. 11 and developers have released a musical tour of the new game.

Hewlett-Packard announced today that it was getting back into the tablet business with the launch of the Slate 2, a Windows 7-based device geared specifically towards enterprise users, with its expanded touch capabilities enhanced multitasking performance and embedded security. Pricing for the Slate 2 starts at $699, with the tablet expected to be available worldwide later this month.

Research in Motion (RIM) launched BBM Music this week, a music-sharing app a spokesman for the company has said evolves the mixtape. Seeking to capitalize upon - and perhaps revive - its BlackBerry Messenger network of 45 million users, RIM's newest app allows users to choose 50 songs from an extensive cloud-based library of content licensed from music giants Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI, as well as from smaller independent labels.

NASA scientists find the more habitual parts of Mars were subterranean where most of the water was warm and wet.

The new Ultimate update releases only a year after the original MvC3 was launched and adds 12 new characters and a host of modes and gameplay balances.

Apple's Siri technology from the record-selling iPhone 4S has been only intermittently available today for hundreds of people, and the twitter-verse predictably went a bit crazy. People began tweeting earlier today that the Siri voice recognition would launch, but it would not answer questions or perform its other functions

iPad 3 could launch in early 2012, but the slew of competing tablets released this fall and anything that's already out there are having a tough time competing with the first two iPads

The new Modern Warfare offers some very familiar gameplay mechanics with perks but adds in Strike Packages and a new mode: Kill Confirmed.

HTC, the Taiwan based smartphone maker, is set to debut three new devices in the next week, the HTC Titan, HTC Vivid and the HTC Rezound. All three have distinctive characteristics and are really meant for three different types of customers, not a bad strategy with the shopping season closing in

Yahoo's new iPad app, Livestand, is now available in the App Store, and it's designed to be a one stop magazine content aggregator that lets you share what you're reading and discover new magazines.

Executives from some of the largest players in the supercomputing industry gathered in San Francisco on Wednesday to discuss the future of high performance computing (HPC) at the HPC Industry Roundtable, hosted by AMD and moderated by Carl Claunch, VP & Distinguished Analyst at Gartner.

Asteroid 2005 YU55 is scheduled to skirt Earth on Nov. 8, giving astronomers an unparalleled opportunity to make observations about the space rock. Over four hundred yards across, the asteroid is large enough to cause damage on a regional scale if it were to make contact. Luckily, it will just miss Earth, whizzing past at the decidedly cozy distance of 201,700 miles - closer than our own Moon.

A new trailer for the Devil May Cry reboot released Nov. 2 and was spectacularly creepy. The new game is set in a creepy and twisted contemporary backdrop.

Nightwing will join the cast of “Batman: Arkham City,” in new down loadable content released Nov. 2. Nightwing is the older version of Batman’s first sidekick, Dick Grayson, when he tired of being Robin and went solo.

A human tooth fragment unearthed nearly 100 years ago has given anthropologists a new window into the earliest time period of modern human existence in Western Europe.

Three NASA scientists have been given the go ahead to work on the science fiction invention. Tractor beams will we used to collect interstellar particles but is light years away from .

Google, ever the innovator, has taken upon itself to be a leading force in getting people to create mobile versions of their Web sites. Web search from mobile devices has quadrupled since 2010, Google's new project howtogomo.com reported in a neat little graphic

Google mail, known as Gmail, one of Google's most popular tools, has joined in the cavalcade of updates to the search giant's numerous applications. Google Reader joined the ranks of Google+ this week, and now Gmail users can switch to the tool's new look by finding the switch to the new look button in the bottom-right of Gmail

RockStar Entertainment released the trailer for the new 'Grand Theft Auto V.' Though it is pretty it still doesn't tell us much about the game's story or gameplay it seems to be set in Los Santos from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

On Wednesday morning, an unmanned Russian freighter makes cargo deliveries aboard the International Space Station. Among other needed supplies for astronauts in orbit, the spacecraft also delivered the first iPads to ever fly in space.

The hit indie game 'Minecraft' is coming to Xbox 360 and will be playable at MineCon.

Paul Dini was a major force behind Batman: The Animated Series, Justice League and the new game Batman: Arkham City. In a recent interview, He talked about the character he wants to take on in his next game.

By 2012, Samsung announced that they may be unleashing mobile devices with pliable screens.

Nokia my be the world's biggest smartphone maker, but in terms of smartphones, they are lagging way behind several other makers, especially in the U.S. Now comes word Nokia will take their new Windows Phone lineup of smartphones to the U.S. in early 2012 and will available on multiple carriers, Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop told Bloomberg.

With the Grand Theft Auto V trailer coming out on Nov. 2 details have been leaked about the game's specifics.