The Boxee LiveTV dongle provides Boxee Box owners with live HD TV access. Image: Boxee

I abandoned cable TV years ago. I couldn’t afford to spend hours in front of the boob tube, absorbing Jersey Shore-isms and Two and a Half Manliness. But there are definitely times when I miss being able to watch TV, live and in HD.

Luckily, Boxee, maker of the Boxee set-top box, has come up with a solution that provides access to basic live TV, in HD, without the need for a cable subscription.

It’s the Boxee LiveTV dongle. LiveTV gives you access to basic channels like ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox in HD, all without...

The military’s newest digital training system is gonna open a can of whoop-ass on new recruits. And maybe a sonic blaster, too.

The use of gaming technology, from first-person shooters to virtual worlds, is quickly becoming the military’s mode of choice for training the troops of this generation. But those digital proving grounds come with one major disadvantage: They just don’t hurt enough. That could be about to change, according to a new request for proposals issued by the Army last week, which calls for technology to “create an impulse force that simulates the feel of debris… or bullet str...