2013 was the first time in many years that Microsoft didn’t host the opening keynote for the Consumer Electronics Show here in Las Vegas. Instead, the show went to Qualcomm and its CEO, Dr. Paul Jacobs. We weren’t quite sure what to expect beyond a new series of processors, but what we got was weirder than anything we’ve seen in all of our collective years attending CES. While Chris Ziegler translated the surreal experiences into a liveblog and I took photos of the craziest moments, the rest of the Verge staff took to Twitter to react to the event. You can relive the insanity right here.
Do yourself a favor and read this piece on last night’s CES 2013 opening keynote from the folks at Qualcomm. They’ve also got video of the whole Qualcomm presentation; a bizarre, Rolls Royce infused event which prompted Verge editor-in-chief Josh Topolsky to say that “reality is jumping the shark.”
It was fun while it lasted: RickPerry.com no longer redirects to Ron Paul’s site.
Spot-on parody of bad design. The whole page is an ad, by the way. An amazing one. (EDIT: This came from Reddit, BTW. Mediaite noted this in their article but not in the Tumblr post.)
Someone was gonna call them out for this at some point, and it might as well be WePay, a competitor which focuses on setting up group payments (rather than PayPal’s person-to-person payments). They put this giant block of ice outside of a PayPal developer conference in San Francisco earlier today. Publicity stunt? Sure. But PayPal has only been freezing accounts without cause for years, and what a way to call them out on it. source
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