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NBA Jam is an updated and faithful recreation of probably the most popular standup arcade basketball game of all time. For those who never went through several dollars in quarters at the local arcade playing this fun classic many years ago, NBA Jam is not your standard five-on-five simulation you see on consoles. This game is all about two-vs.-two high-flying dunk basketball, where just about every play is worthy of a highlight reel.

The control system for NBA Jam on offense includes a directional pad on the lower left part of the screen, and pass, shoot, and speed boost … Read more

The rush to replace paper loyalty cards with app equivalents is on, and one of the hottest in the race -- Chicago-based Belly -- has just won a big nod of support.

Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz is investing $10 million in Belly, which the company will use to conquer new markets and keep up its pace of signing on more than 100 local merchants per week. Belly, which is currently available in six cities, today is launching in New York and Boston.

The $10 million investment, a series B round, comes with some star power. Andreessen Horowitz partner Jeff Jordan, … Read more

"This is my daughter, who just turned 9. She's amazing, and I want her to grow up to be a mad scientist and to take over the world."

So begins writer Jordan Stratford's Kickstarter pitch video for "Wollstonecraft," the first of what he hopes will be a series of steampunky, historical novels for kids and young adults that will "inspire a generation of girls about imagination and science."

Stratford says he wants to give young girls like his daughter "actual historical role models that show them that math and science and imagination are incredible tools that can shape their world." And he's chosen as his two heroines Mary Shelley, of "Frankenstein" fame -- the world's first science fiction writer, he calls her -- and Ada Byron, whom some regard as the world's first computer programmer.… Read more

Have you ever really thought about the difference between the way older and present-day recordings affect you? I'm not so much talking about sound quality; older recordings have a very different feel. They have more juice, more soul, more life, and that's why they connect with people in a completely different way than hyperprocessed contemporary music does.

Today, for example, Auto-Tuned vocals are so ubiquitous that my friend, mastering engineer Dave McNair, exclaimed, "The only way to know for sure a vocal hasn't been Auto-Tuned, is an out of tune vocal." So once a new … Read more

Some HTC smartphone users may find their Wi-Fi passwords and other information exposed due to a new bug, but the company is rolling out a fix.

The vulnerability leaks Wi-Fi credentials and SSID (network name) details to any application with basic Wi-Fi permissions on several HTC handsets, according to an alert issued yesterday by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). As a result, an attacker using the right application can potentially capture and harness the information to hack into the user's network.

The affected phones include:

As Yahoo's board mulls bids for some or all of the company, at least one thing has finally become clear: browser pioneer and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen won't be running the struggling Web giant.

Andreessen posted a note on his blog that neither he nor his partner at Andreessen Horowitz, former OpenTable chief executive Jeff Jordan, have any interest in leading Yahoo.

"To be crystal clear, neither Jeff, nor I, nor any of our partners at Andreessen Horowitz, are in the running for, or would accept, any operating role at Yahoo, including CEO, acting CEO, chairman, or … Read more

Three U.S. senators are asking Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to investigate recent reports that Internet-monitoring gear made by two California-based companies has found its way to Syria.

In a letter (PDF) made public today, the senators ask Clinton to investigate reports that devices made by NetApp and Blue Coat Systems were sold to Syria in a possible violation of U.S. law. The companies are both publicly traded and located in Sunnyvale, Calif., about an hour's drive south of San Francisco.

"We are deeply concerned about the reported sale of Internet monitoring and censorship technology to … Read more

While technology in general, and the video game industry in particular, is typically obsessed with the next big thing, this year's Game Developers Conference instead casts an eye back at the last 25 years of game development.

The theme runs through several parts of the show, starting with Wednesday's keynote from Nintendo's President, Satoru Iwata. The talk, titled "Video Games Turn 25: A Historical Perspective and Vision for the Future," turned the clock back to the beginning of what Iwata calls the "modern" era of gaming, anchored, not surprisingly, by the original Nintendo … Read more

The next Air Jordan 2011 sneaker drops in stores tomorrow, but Californians lucky enough to live near the Culver City Footaction store in the Westfield Mall, you'll have a chance to pick up the latest Skullcandy/Jordan Brand collaboration featuring the Jordan 2011 and the Air Jordan 3.

The pack isn't cheap, but it's definitely rare. Priced at $500 per pack, the headphones are based on Skullcandy's "Aviator" model with an exclusive alternating blue-and-red earcup colorway to match the sneakers' interchangeable "quick" and "explosive" insoles.

The package will include one pair of the new MJ signature shoes and a set of headphones, but the Culver City Footaction also pays tribute to the recently released Air Jordan 3 cement gray with an elephant-print headphone that goes with the pattern on the toe and heel rands of the shoe.

Both $500 sets will go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m. PT, so get there early and get in line!

More images after the jump.… Read more