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Circles was Google+'s most touted feature. It enabled users to quickly manage the different groups in their lives and offered an intuitive interface for sorting their contacts. Still, any sort of contact management is a chore so any improvement to the feature is welcomed.The Circles page has gotten several impro... |
14 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning was released last week by 38 Studios and Big Huge Games with the help of Electronic Arts for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. We’ve already reviewed the game and talked in depth about some of its features during this gamer diary series. From the tutorial to the gameplay variety or the st... |
14 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile is reportedly gearing up for the launch of new BlackBerry devices on its airwaves.
The company has already sent out invitations to an event set to take place on March 15th, and is expected to launch a new BlackBerry 7-based handset at that time. A magenta flavor of the BlackBerry Curve 938... |
14 February 2012
16:21 GMT |
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There’s a new e-book application for Android devices in the Android Market. Developed by txtr, “Foyles ebooks” allows users to read their documents stored in their eLibrary directly from their smartphones.
Even though it cannot be compared with Amazon’s app yet, Android enthusiasts should fin... |
14 February 2012
16:01 GMT |
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High-risk, high-reward missions to the Red Planet will no longer be possible with the new budget proposed for the American space agency, analysts say. Spacecraft such as the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) are currently placed on hold indefinitely.
NASA will only get $1.2 billion for its planetary science programs, w... |
14 February 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Cooler Master has just announced the introduction of a new series of power supply units designed for silent running, which feature a single 12V rail design and come certified by 80PLUS to deliver up to Silver-level power efficiency. The new Silent Pro M2 PSU series includes six models with a power output ranging fro... |
14 February 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Apple’s first retail location in the Netherlands is about to open, perhaps as soon as February 18. The Mac maker has ordered stunning orange window coverings for the store with typical "opening soon" signs written in white.
MacRumors points out that several Dutch sites, including One More Thing [Google transla... |
14 February 2012
15:41 GMT |
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As with every other awards show, the 2012 Grammy Awards also allowed for the creation of a worst dressed list and, you guessed it, you're reading it. Go here to see the best dressed ladies of the night. There's a very fine line between edgy and tacky and, as one can easily imagine, not all stars know how ... |
14 February 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Mozilla has big plans for 2012. While 2011 saw the introduction of Firefox 4 and the brand new user interface created for it, updates and changes were few after that. But there is a big redesign in the works, it's been in the concept stage for a while now.
Work is still being done, but the latest mockups are t... |
14 February 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Famous games designer Tim Schafer has finally talked about the massive outpouring of love that was showcased by fans who donated a huge amount of money to fund the next game project coming from his own studio, Double Fine Productions.
Both Schafer and Double Fine have been all over the news in the recent week after ... |
14 February 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Grooveshark, one of the most popular music sites out there, is now available on Windows Phones as well, courtesy of the recently launched HTML5-enabled mobile version. Owners of a Windows Phone-powered handset can now head over to the beta version of the mobile site right through the Internet Explorer browser to b... |
14 February 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Some motherboards, especially small ones, cannot support RAID storage configurations on their own, so AREA PC developed an add-in-board that will do it in their stead.
The product will be available for sale in Japan soon, if it isn't already, and bears the name of RAIDJet SD-PESA3-2RL.
There are only two RAID ... |
14 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Video game developer Double Fine has managed to gather more than 1 million dollars (about 755,000 Euro) in a little over 24 hours for an adventure game project using the Kickstarter crowd funding website and it seems that other developers might be interested in using the same route to finance their own ideas. Speaki... |
14 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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In conjunction with the Miami International Boat Show, Garmin International announces its BlueChart Mobile marine app for iPad and iPhone that lets mariners enjoy the same accurate BlueChart data in Garmin chartplotters on an iPad or iPhone.
The BlueChart Mobile app will be showcased in the Garmin booth (#1689) at t... |
14 February 2012
15:01 GMT |
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When made available for the public later this month, Windows 8 Consumer Preview will offer access to the Windows Store that will accompany the next-generation platform from Microsoft.
App developers have already been provided with the necessary tools to start building applications for the Windows 8 platform, and w... |
14 February 2012
14:51 GMT |
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So, the Grammys 2012 happened on Sunday. For all the celebrities, besides being a night to celebrate achievements in music, it was also an occasion to show some fabulous fashion on the red carpet. The red carpet ceremony ahead of an awards show has come to be as important as the actual ceremony, if not even more fo... |
14 February 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Since Google is based on Chromium, an open source project, many of the new features, improvements and changes are documented as soon as they go live in the latest dev channel builds or even the Chromium builds, as long as you're willing to scour the Chromium and WebKit bug trackers.
Google's Peter Beverloo... |
14 February 2012
14:31 GMT |
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With just a few more hours to go until the Radeon HD 7770 becomes official, a picture of an upcoming HD 7770 graphics card built by Sapphire has just reached the web giving us a glimpse at the successor of the popular Juniper HD 5770/HD 6770 solutions.
For this next-gen midrange graphics card, Sapphire decided to go... |
14 February 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Rockstar Games has confirmed that it’s always working on different projects and that a title like L.A. Noire 2 could appear at some point in time, after games like Max Payne 3 or Grand Theft Auto V are completed.
Rockstar helped Australian developer Team Bondi deploy L.A. Noire last year onto the PS3 or Xbox 3... |
14 February 2012
14:21 GMT |
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The Iconia Tab A200 isn’t the only Acer tablet that will receive an update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, as the outfit has just announced that its previous flagship, the A500, will also get an official ICS port. Two more months need to pass until the update arrives, but this is definitely good news for th... |
14 February 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announce that the Large Hadron Collider will operate at a higher energy level in 2012 than last year. The combined output the particle accelerator will produce will reach 8 teraelectronvolts (TeV), 1 TeV above 2011 levels.
This can be translated into... |
14 February 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has fired up its 4G LTE network in the United States some 14 months ago, but it already managed to cover 195 markets nationwide with it.
Over a dozen of these markets are in New Engand, and the carrier is happy with how things evolved in this area.
Last year alone, the opera... |
14 February 2012
14:01 GMT |
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2011 was a transition year for Mozilla, it moved from its tried and tested, but also slow, release cycle to a much faster one where a new Firefox comes out every six weeks. The move hasn't always been smooth, but Mozilla has worked out most of the kinks. Now, that the wheels are in motion and Firefox adds more ... |
14 February 2012
13:41 GMT |
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According to a new Taking the Pulse study from pharmaceutical and healthcare market research company Manhattan Research, online European physicians who own an iPad spend 27 percent of their professional online time on the tablet device.
The surveyed physicians rely on desktops and laptops for 55 percent of their pro... |
14 February 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Shuhei Yoshida, who is the leader of Sony Worldwide Studios, stated, “When you look at each title, not many of them really catered toward the Japanese market. Not something where Japanese gamers would say, ‘I have to have that’.”
He added, “Uncharted, it’s a great title, one of th... |
14 February 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Texas Instruments is one of the primary suppliers of chips that enable the sort of wireless connectivity all consumers have come to expect, and it looks like a new batch of such chips is ready to serve.Antennas may be the product component responsible for projecting wireless electromagnetic waves, but they are just ... |
14 February 2012
13:31 GMT |
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A new flavor of Minecraft - Pocket Edition for Android is now available for download via the Android Market, with a nice range of enhancements for all users to take advantage of.
The new flavor of the title, the mobile version of the popular Minecraft game, brings along the possibility to choose between a Survival ... |
14 February 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Although ZTE Tania was delayed for February 20, it looks like at least one UK-based retailer has the phone in stock. The under £200 (315 USD or 240 EUR) Mango-based smartphone can be purchased in the UK starting today.
Customers who want to try out this budget-friendly Windows Phone device can head over to Unl... |
14 February 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Google is enabling a sort of "Web History" for Google Maps and it's welcomed addition unless you're a bit paranoid about privacy. Now the My Places tab displays your previous Directions searches as well as the route you selected.The idea is to make it easier to go back to a search that you've already c... |
14 February 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Rockstar Games has decided to try and calm down fans that have been assaulting it with questions about Grand Theft Auto V, saying that more information about the game will be shared in a “few months.”
Millions of gamers from all around the world were thrilled to see the first ever trailer for Grand Theft... |
14 February 2012
12:21 GMT |
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The developers at EA Sports have offered yet another trailer for the upcoming FIFA Street reboot, showing players some actual action featuring players from two of the best teams in the world, France and Germany.
The two have developed a healthy rivalry over the years and are expected to do well at the upcoming Europ... |
14 February 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Remember those Special Edition Samsung Series 9 notebooks that went on sale in South Korea at the end of last year?
Well, UberGizmo now says that the Ultrabook is now also available in the US, sporting a stylish Night Blue color decorated with a series of crystals for an extra touch of class.
Measuring just 0.64-in... |
14 February 2012
11:50 GMT |
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More than 8,000 usernames and password hashes were leaked by RevolutionSec from the official website of China’s Trade Administration (trade.gov.cn). Cyberwarnews informs that the massive data leak was published on Pastebin in two parts, the hackers, part of Anonymous, claiming that the breach is part of OpChin... |
14 February 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Google's Map Maker has been responsible for populating great expanses of the world in Google Maps. With help from volunteers and their knowledge of the places they live in has helped Google Maps provide detailed data in many countries where it wouldn't have had otherwise, either because such data is non-exi... |
14 February 2012
11:31 GMT |
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We’ve just reported that UK-based retailer Clove UK will offer the Xperia S for £430 (675 USD or 515 EUR) along with £30 worth of free accessories and another authorized reseller is now offering a good deal on Sony’s Android smartphone.
The rather small BuyMobilePhones.net retailer is now tak... |
14 February 2012
11:19 GMT |
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KPN, a Dutch Internet service provider that has around two million account holders, discovered a data breach that affected their systems in January, but decided to keep everything a secret during the time in which the incident was being investigated.
Anonymous hackers took credit for the breach and even published a ... |
14 February 2012
11:11 GMT |
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You know how moviegoers are always complaining about the amount of vampire movies being made on a yearly basis in Hollywood? Here's another one.Directed by Timur Bekmambetov and based on Seth Grahame-Smith's novel of the same name, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” stars Benjamin Walker as the m... |
14 February 2012
11:09 GMT |
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In 2012, Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation might launch smartphones that have been PlayStation-certified, recent reports on the matter suggest. Apparently, HTC Corporation is planning to make an official announcement on this as soon as the Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona later this month. ... |
14 February 2012
11:06 GMT |
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The budget presented by the White House today proposes that the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receive a 3 percent boost in overall funding for fiscal year 2013. This would bring the total funds made available to the organization to $5.06 billion (€3.85 billion).
The good news is that the cr... |
14 February 2012
11:05 GMT |
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Toshiba gained recognition during a competition recently held in Japan, by the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy from the Energy Conservation Center, Japan (ECCJ).
The agency conducted some tests to see which solid state drives really excelled at power saving, and the results led to Toshiba's MKx001GRZB ... |
14 February 2012
11:00 GMT |
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Lana del Rey is one of the biggest names in music at the moment but watching her perform live, you wouldn't be able to understand why. Above is a video of her on Jimmy Kimmel. After the debacle that was her appearance on Saturday Night Live, Lana has been getting a lot of negative press, even after her debut alb... |
14 February 2012
10:58 GMT |
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Adobe released the 11.6.4.634 variant of Shockwave Player to patch a number of nine security holes that were identified in the previous versions of the product, for both Windows and Mac operating systems.
If exploited, the vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute malicious code on the affected system, whic... |
14 February 2012
10:55 GMT |
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The US Department of Commerce's (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will receive a total of $857 million (€651.92 million) for the fiscal year 2013. This represents a 14 percent increase from FY2012 levels, and sets the Institute on target for a budget doubling by 2016.
The funding... |
14 February 2012
10:54 GMT |
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It feels really nice to be able to deliver you a nice hefty BIOS assortment for today, despite the fact that St. Valentine has absolutely nothing to do with PC drivers. Today's stars are the EVGA BIOSes revision 033, released for the X79-based boards. Most of the 9 fixes which come with version 033 of this BIOS... |
14 February 2012
10:52 GMT |
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In the past two days AutoHotkey updated three times, increasing two builds since the major release, 1.1.06.00. Modifications are scanty, but worthy of consideration, especially since they improve the functionality of the application.
The current release is 1.1.06.02 and it features only two fixes, one taking care of... |
14 February 2012
10:47 GMT |
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Since we're devoted to offering you the best and the biggest selection of drivers of the whole Internet, we're also thinking about the users who have older boards in their computers.
Now, we just know that there are a lot of computer users out there who run various PCs with boards which are 5 years old or ... |
14 February 2012
10:47 GMT |
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After an extremely long wait, Mass Effect 3 is finally gearing up for its release next month. Until then, fans need to make do with the demo that’s just been released across the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 today.
We’ve played through the first level of the demo to see just how it manages to introduce player... |
14 February 2012
10:47 GMT |
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Matt Bomer, the handsome leading man from “White Collar,” has just confirmed gay rumors during an acceptance speech at an awards ceremony. You can see video of it below.
In all fairness, Matt has never denied the rumors, but he always managed to dodge questions about his orientation, which created the im... |
14 February 2012
10:40 GMT |
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Nomura Securities, an analysis firm in Japan, says it expects to see video game publisher Konami launch Metal Gear Solid 5 during the fiscal year 2014, which starts on April 1 of 2013. It is not clear whether the firm has actual knowledge from inside Konami or the Kojima development team or whether it is only guessi... |
14 February 2012
10:38 GMT |
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Apple is preparing to refresh its Mac Pro line of workstations, according to a report from China, but don’t hold your breath just yet, as the sources behind this leak say it’ll happen as late as the end of Q3 2012. M.I.C. Gadget has been reliable on Apple rumors in the past, so it should be worth noting ... |
14 February 2012
10:37 GMT |
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Astrophysicists from the Nagoya University and the University of Tokyo Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) have determined that dark matter is literally everywhere around us, creating a huge web of matter that encompasses everything we can see.
While the new study does not provide any ad... |
14 February 2012
10:36 GMT |
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The Radeon HD 7770 might not be out yet, but the first leaked pictures of an XFX HD 7770 have already reached the Web, letting us all have a look at this next-gen midrange gaming graphics card.
Right from the get-go, it becomes apparent that this new Black Edition HD 7770 is somewhat a replica of XFX’ Radeon H... |
14 February 2012
10:36 GMT |
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Turkey’s Information Technologies and Communications Authority was breached by Anonymous hackers as part of Operation Digiturk. The operation was launched after the one of the country’s satellite television providers, Digiturk, blocked a couple of blogs that were hosting copyrighted materials.
According ... |
14 February 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Samsung already confirmed it would upgrade most of its Galaxy family devices this year. Although a few of the most popular Android devices launched by Samsung have been left out, such as the Galaxy S and original Galaxy Tab, the majority of the high-end Galaxy devices will receive their Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade som... |
14 February 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Though most people don't complain overmuch, having to do away with everything from water bottles to toothpaste while going on a plane can be frustrating.Fortunately, Cobalt Light Systems has the solution: INSIGHT100.This scanner, looking like an oversized microwave, uses Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS... |
14 February 2012
10:28 GMT |
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Twitter has made a small but important change, the site now uses HTTPS by default for everyone. This means that connections to the site are directed via the secured HTTPS protocol rather than the typical HTTP.
All the data, written tweets, your subscriptions and so on, is sent encrypted making it close to impossible... |
14 February 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Intel releases a new driver version for their RAID-oriented utility/ driver going by the name of Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver.
The Intel RAID driver now reaches version 11.0.0.1032 and will support four arrays: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10. Like with almost any storage-related driver, users are requir... |
14 February 2012
10:10 GMT |
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Kyle Dyer, the Denver anchorwoman who was bit in the face by a dog during a live interview, is still recuperating from the injuries sustained. She's also prepping for a second reconstructive surgery to repair the damage. The incident occurred during a live interview, in which Dyer was speaking to the firefighte... |
14 February 2012
10:07 GMT |
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There is a new version for GPU-Z available and it adds support for new hardware, but it also takes care of some issues that affected the functionality of the program.
GPU-Z 0.5.9 can now retrieve information about AMD Radeon HD 7750 and HD 7770 graphics cards and adds voltage monitoring for HD 7950 and HD 7970 hardw... |
14 February 2012
10:05 GMT |
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OCZ’s popular Z-Drive line of high-performance PCI Express SSDs for enterprise applications has just received the addition of a new member with the introduction of the Z-Drive R4 CloudServ series of solid state drives.
Just as their name implies, these new PCIe SSDs were specially designed in order be used in ... |
14 February 2012
10:02 GMT |
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This time of year many users may be tempted to turn to online dating sites to find someone to spend Valentine’s Day with. Unfortunately, many internauts are not aware of the privacy and security risks some of these websites expose them to.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) made a list of factors that sh... |
14 February 2012
09:56 GMT |
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Ever since she started OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, the Queen of Media has been fending off rumors that she was in the ratings limbo and that she might never get back up in the saddle again. Her most recent tweet isn't helping either. On Sunday night, as a new episode of her show aired at the same time as t... |
14 February 2012
09:46 GMT |
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The popular Dolphin Browser for iPad just got an update that optimizes Dolphin Connect and offers an easier way to add Webzine columns, to name a few enhancements.
Version 3.5 of the application features an optimized Dolphin Connect feature, which means you can now use the bookmark sync service with a third-party ac... |
14 February 2012
09:46 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new study conducted by investigators at the Brigham Young University, it would appear that 7 hours of sleep per night is the optimal duration for teenagers.
This finding runs contradictory to federally imposed sleep guidelines for this segment of the population, which calls for abo... |
14 February 2012
09:43 GMT |
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, the open-world action title from publisher Electronic Arts and developers at 38 Studios and Big Huge Games, has managed to take the number one position in the United Kingdom video game chart for the week that ended on February 11, ahead of Final Fantasy XIII-2.
The new mix between acti... |
14 February 2012
09:37 GMT |
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Google Drive is coming, it's not a matter of "if" it's a matter of "when." And "when" is looking increasingly like "soon." The company has been testing its cloud storage and sync service for a few months now and the drive.google.com URL has been spotted before. But if you try to visit it by yourself, you�... |
14 February 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Enpirion has announced the completion of the EV1320 VTT 2 Amp source/sink DDR termination converter, which accepts input voltage of 0.95 to 1.8V.
This new converter measures 3 x 3 x 0.55 mm and can make do with a printed circuit board area of just 80 square mm.
Enpirion also made it possible to operate more than o... |
14 February 2012
09:25 GMT |
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Southwest Airlines has finally ceded to update its flawed iPhone app after warnings from a computer science student and coverage by several news stations and newspapers over the course of three months.
Via Slashdot comes word that a masters computer science student at the University of Colorado (Colorado Springs) di... |
14 February 2012
09:14 GMT |
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Sony has just released some more details about Resistance: Burning Skies, the upcoming shooter for the PlayStation Vita, including a concrete release and an impressive cover.
The PlayStation Vita is out next week, on February 22, alongside a variety of games that will accompany its launch. This effort will continue ... |
14 February 2012
09:11 GMT |
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The official websites of the US National Weather Service (weather.gov) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the US Department of Commerce (noaa.gov) were breached by a hacker that goes by the name of Codeinsec.
The hacker didn’t provide any details regarding the purpose for which the sit... |
14 February 2012
09:11 GMT |
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One of the first Xperia family devices to be branded with Sony’s logo, the Xperia S is expected to arrive in the UK next month. Several leading retailers even tried to attract customers by anticipating that the smartphone will be available earlier than next month. However, Clove UK seems to be one of the retai... |
14 February 2012
09:08 GMT |
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CNN anchor Nancy Grace wants to find out who is responsible for Whitney Houston's death and whether those people will be held accountable for what they did. Her comments during a recent CNN transmission have caused a frenzy online.
The first video below, embedded at the end of the article, shows Nancy linking ... |
14 February 2012
09:03 GMT |
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With love floating all around, Maxthon did not miss the opportunity to release a new version of their browser today. The new build is 3.3.4.3000 and apart from sporting a new, special Valentine’s Day skin, it also brings to the table improvements and fixes.
The latest build comes with a better extension platfo... |
14 February 2012
08:57 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 10 won’t be the only browser that Windows 8 users will be able to enjoy on their devices starting later this year.
Mozilla is also looking into bringing its Firefox browser to Windows 8, and has already offered some details on how it aims to make the move.
However, the company notes that ... |
14 February 2012
08:52 GMT |
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Google has gotten the go-ahead to buy Motorola from both EU and US competition regulators, on the same day. It still needs approval in China and a couple of other places, but the major hurdles have been cleared. Regulators said that the deal posed no real threat to competition and so would approve the acquisition, h... |
14 February 2012
08:51 GMT |
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We have already seen that the prices of existing Ultrabooks are going down, but it looks like there may be some extra good news coming our way.
People thinking of buying a new PC but who aren't sure if this is the best time may want to learn about this latest tidbit.
Though it was only an off-hand mention at... |
14 February 2012
08:49 GMT |
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Many say that with age comes wisdom, but I wanted to share with you the results of a study that shows this is not necessarily true. During the investigation, the experts found that going through a lot of life experiences does not improve one's decision-making skills.
French and American scientists, writing in ... |
14 February 2012
08:48 GMT |
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As expected, Samsung Galaxy Note has just hit shelves in Canada. All three major carriers, Bell, TELUS and Rogers are now offering the smartphone for only $199.99 (150 EUR) with a new three-year agreement.
Customers who do not want to commit to a long-term contract can purchase the Galaxy Note for $700 (530 EUR) fro... |
14 February 2012
08:45 GMT |
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Capitalizing on her exposure at the Grammys 2012, Taylor Swift has just released a brand new video – and it's just as pretty and sad as one would expect, having already heard the track.
Swift and The Civil War teamed up for the leading track for the upcoming “Hunger Games,” which was released... |
14 February 2012
08:44 GMT |
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A rare Bell & Howell MICRO Computer Apple II Plus that was assembled specifically for educational purposes is now available on eBay where it’s currently fetching around 400 bucks for its lucky owner.
If you want a piece of Apple history, seller christique1 says “it is a model that was built for education... |
14 February 2012
08:40 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft is offering free Windows Phone devices to users in an attempt to celebrate Valentine’s Day differently.
Users who would like to win one of the available handsets will have to head over to Twitter today, until midnight.
Microsoft is offering the phones to those who will follow @windowsphone... |
14 February 2012
08:33 GMT |
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We have seen how Huawei was just about ready to release the Ascend D1 Q quad-core phone, but that is not all that the company has prepared for its upcoming launch event.
As people may or may not know, Huawei will hold a product launch event on February 26.
One of the items it will showcase is the aforementioned s... |
14 February 2012
08:24 GMT |
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As the world is still reeling from the loss of Whitney Houston, celebrities are doing their best to tell us that it's her music we should always remember, through touching tributes. LeAnn Rimes is also among them.
While in Reno, LeAnn incorporated one of Whitney's most famous songs into her number, to pay... |
14 February 2012
08:22 GMT |
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Entertainment company Lucasfilm and the LEGO Group have renewed their licensing deal linked to the Star Wars intellectual property, which means that toys and video games linked to the well-known franchise will continue to be developed and launched during the coming ten-year period. The two companies have not disclos... |
14 February 2012
08:19 GMT |
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Orange UK confirmed several weeks ago that it would carry the BlackBerry Bold 9790, though the operator did not disclose any details regarding the phone’s exact release date.
Customers expecting the smartphone to hit shelves in the UK will be happy to know that Bold 9790 is now available for purchase on Orange... |
14 February 2012
08:12 GMT |
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Following the successful completion of Vega's maiden flight, the path is now clear towards launching two spacecraft belonging to the Sentinel Earth-observing constellation aboard the small rocket. A successful launch was all that stood in the way of validating a contract signed in December, 2011.
At that time, ... |
14 February 2012
08:10 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Hotmail webmail service is more effective when it comes to blocking spam than rival leading similar services, a recent study has shown. In the past years, Microsoft has been hard at work with upgrading Hotmail so that it would filter spam better than before. Spam that makes it to the inbox has de... |
14 February 2012
08:08 GMT |
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Valve, the development studio behind some of the most popular video games ever created, has announced a discount for three Grand Theft Auto games on the Macintosh platform. Via steampowered.com, the official Steam portal accessible through any web browser, Valve confirmed today that “Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand ... |
14 February 2012
08:00 GMT |
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It takes an extraordinary voice to do justice to any of the tracks Whitney Houston sang and made famous but, luckily, Ashanti has it. Above is her tribute to Whitney on Good Morning America.
The singer, rocking a skintight leotard and braids, sang Whitney's “I Have Nothing” while photos of the late... |
14 February 2012
07:55 GMT |
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The developers of the popular open source Webmail solution Horde identified a number of manipulated files on one of their FTP servers. They concluded that the server has been breached, the files stored on it being altered to allow unauthenticated remote PHP execution. “We have immediately taken down all distri... |
14 February 2012
07:53 GMT |
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Using a series of complex techniques, investigators at the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom, announce that they were able to calculate two critically-important properties of graphene for the first time ever. The material may one day replace silicon in electronics.
Graphene is a bi-dimensional carbon com... |
14 February 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Motorola officially introduced the MOTOLUXE affordable Android smartphone in the UK last week. It was just a matter of time before the handset maker announced the upcoming availability of the Motorola DEFY MINI as well. According to Motorola, the DEFY MINI will be available in the UK starting late-March. No word on ... |
14 February 2012
07:46 GMT |
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OLED panels are really expensive at present, but this situation may not last for very long now that Konika Minolta has released a breakthrough device.
What the company did was build the world's first inkjet printhead capable of printing OLED displays, marking the first step towards roll-to-roll printing of OLE... |
14 February 2012
07:45 GMT |
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Kim Kardashian and her family are still trying to get back in the good graces of the public by playing the hopeless romantic angle in the press. Today, it's Kris and Bruce Jenner's turn.
The two were on the Ellen DeGeneres show the other day, trying to defend Kim's 72-day marriage to Kris Humphries,... |
14 February 2012
07:43 GMT |
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With a one week delay, The Document Foundation company launched a few minutes ago the final and stable release release of the LibreOffice 3.5 open source office suite for Linux, Windows and Macintosh platforms. LibreOffice 3.5 brings lots of new and attractive features, as well as overall stability improvements to ... |
14 February 2012
07:30 GMT |
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Xvision, a hardware maker that is better known to users living in Asia than to us Westerners, has just announced the an4 tablet powered by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, which is expected to make its debut in Japan in April this year. While at first glance the an4 doesn’t seem to differ much from other Asian... |
14 February 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Amazon has just updated its Kindle application for Android devices. The e-reader that allows users to read books on their phones received a bug fix and a few new features. According to Amazon, the latest update addresses a critical bug where the app would not open on certain devices. Although it’s unclear wh... |
14 February 2012
07:18 GMT |
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In the wake of Whitney Houston's death, celebrities are speaking out on the terrible loss the music industry has suffered and, at the same time, on how fame and drugs are a fatal combination.
Celine Dion is just one of these stars.
In a phone interview with Good Morning America, the singer opened up on the t... |
14 February 2012
07:13 GMT |
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Who would have thought that in the time of a major economic crisis a county can afford to use money as a heat source? Well, probably no one can afford to burn money that’s currently in use, but Hungary’s Central Bank came up with a great way to dispose of old bills. They’re giving charities tons of ... |
14 February 2012
07:12 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita handheld was launched in Japan at the end of 2011, and the new device failed to reach the sales levels that analysts and Sony expected, but the hardware maker is sure that the Western launch will show the real potential of the new gaming platform.
Shuhei Yoshida, the leader of the Sony Worldwide... |
14 February 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Nokia Asha 201 made its debut in the UK last week via major carrier Vodafone. Given the fact that no other carrier announced plans to offer the handset, we thought that the Asha 201 would be exclusively available from Vodafone UK. However, SoMobile has just reported that Nokia Asha 201 is now available for purchase ... |
14 February 2012
07:03 GMT |
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The UK Metropolitan Police’s Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) is warning Internet users about the massive malware campaign that locks computers allegedly in the name of the law enforcement agency.
Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center informed us a while back that the campaign is targeting users from all acro... |
14 February 2012
07:02 GMT |
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A new version of the popular benchmarking tool Quadrant is available for download for devices running under Google’s Android operating system.
The new application flavor brings along a series of great enhancements compared to the previous version, such as support for multicore application processors and for t... |
14 February 2012
06:51 GMT |
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While Twitter is on fire with praise for Nicki Minaj and Chris Brown and their respective performances at the Grammys 2012, Miranda Lambert seems to be the only celebrity bold enough to speak up against them. Taking to the social networking website shortly after the awards show, Miranda held nothing back when it came... |
14 February 2012
06:42 GMT |
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Video game publisher SEGA has announced that tomorrow players who are interested in the upcoming squad shooter Binary Domain will be able to see what the game has to offer via demo which will be offered on the Xbox 360 via the Live service and on the PlayStation 3 through the PSN.The demo version of Binary Domain wil... |
14 February 2012
06:22 GMT |
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Three years after beating his then-girlfriend Rihanna to a pulp, Chris Brown made what can only be described as a glorious comeback into the spotlight at Sunday's Grammy Awards 2012. Reactions to his performances are disturbing and very sad.As we also informed you yesterday, Chris Brown performed twice during th... |
14 February 2012
06:16 GMT |
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After many rumors and speculations, Acer has finally launched the Nvidia Tegra 3 powered Iconia Tab A510 in France with prices starting at 399 EUR (about $524 US) making it the second Android 4.0 powered tablet to reach Europe after Asus’ Transformer Prime. The 399 EUR starting price is for the Wi-Fi only vers... |
14 February 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Canonical issued last night, February 13th, new versions of the Linux kernel packages for the Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) and Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating systems, fixing vulnerabilities found recently in the official Linux kernel packages. The following four Linux kernel vulnerabilities were found: CVE... |
14 February 2012
06:11 GMT |
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CD Projekt Red, the developer behind the upcoming The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition for the PC and Xbox 360, has posted a fresh video, this time with some of its staff discussing the story in the RPG.
The Witcher 2 was already released on the PC last year and now CD Projekt Red is getting ready to deploy its Enhanced ... |
14 February 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Google and Motorola are now one step closer to finalizing the proposed acquisition and merger that were announced last year.
On Monday, both the European Commission and the US Department of Justice announced that they approved of the deal.
The European Commission has announced that it had cleared under the EU Me... |
14 February 2012
06:06 GMT |
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In a move that may or may not be surprising, depending on how much of Samsung's legal troubles one is acquainted with, the chairman of the company just got slammed with a lawsuit of his own.
In this instance, at least, it is not Samsung, as a company, that is feeling the hard part of the gavel, but its chairma... |
14 February 2012
06:02 GMT |
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After 38 years of service, and 33,004.1 hours of flight, one of only two NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) is being retired from active service. Codenamed NASA 911, the heavily-modified Boeing 747 saw plenty of action during the days of the Space Shuttle Program (SSP).The SCA were responsible for carrying the shutt... |
14 February 2012
05:54 GMT |
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High-ups at some of Apple's suppliers have reportedly confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that the Cupertino giant is considering an 8-inch version of the iPad and that it has already shown screen designs for the new device.
The officials declined to be named, but did say that Apple was qualifying suppliers fo... |
14 February 2012
05:48 GMT |
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Bitdefender researchers came across a Facebook scam that promises 10,000 eBay gift cards worth $200 (140 EUR) for users who complete a few “easy steps.” Unlike other schemes, where a simple Like and a Share are enough, in this situation the crooks request much more than that. They urge the unsuspecting ... |
14 February 2012
05:46 GMT |
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If and when robotic spacecraft or human explorers reach the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, they could begin exploring it based on data collected by a team of Russian experts currently digging their way into Lake Vostok.
This particular lake is very special. Buried under 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of Antar... |
14 February 2012
05:44 GMT |
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Korean handset maker Samsung has just announced the availability of three brand new dual-SIM smartphones in India, Galaxy Ace DUOS, Galaxy Y DUOS and Galaxy Y Pro DUOS.
According to the company, these are the first dual-SIM smartphones launched by Samsung on the Indian market. Although the Galaxy Y DUOS and Galaxy Y... |
14 February 2012
05:38 GMT |
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Nicki Minaj has come under serious fire from the Catholic League for her performance at the Grammys 2012. The League's president Bill Donahue, for one, believes Nicki made a complete fool of herself and is very likely possessed. As we also noted the other day, Nicki took to the stage at the Grammys and perform... |
14 February 2012
05:31 GMT |
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Some time ago, researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) announced the development of a brain-imaging technique that enabled them to assess the neurological changes produced by cognitive decline. Now, they report that the approach can also predict dementia risks.
In a paper published in the F... |
14 February 2012
05:29 GMT |
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Orders placed by Apple for iPad 3 panels at LG Display and Samsung would suggest that the Cupertino giant expects to ship between 65 and 75 million new tablets this year alone.
Via the Chinese-language Commercial Times comes word that shipments for the new LCD panel used by the iPad 3 are already at 65 million to 75... |
14 February 2012
05:25 GMT |
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It's Valentine's Day again and this means one thing and one thing only, Google is running a customary doodle. This time around, Google pulled no punches and has created a video animation for the occasion.
The video depicts one boy's try at winning the affection of the girl he likes, to little avail. T... |
14 February 2012
05:25 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has just announced the availability of its Samsung Wave 3 (SHW-M410) smartphone on the homeland market.
The smartphone will be released on the airwaves of wireless carrier KT with a price tag of 400,000 won ($356 / 270 Euros) attached to it.
The handset packs appealing hard... |
14 February 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Microsoft confirmed that the official online store from India has been breached, the issue being currently investigated by the company.
“Microsoft is investigating the limited compromise of the company’s online store in India. Customers have been notified and provided with guidance to reset their passwor... |
14 February 2012
05:19 GMT |
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A couple of hackers known as Bch195 and HaxOr managed to breach the website of the world renowned electronics manufacturer Philips, defacing one of the official site’s subdomains. Cyberwarnews informs that the hackers not only defaced the microsites subdomain, but they’ve also leaked tons of information ... |
14 February 2012
05:11 GMT |
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The Endeavor leaked several weeks ago as HTC’s first quad-core Android smartphone. Initially, the phone was known as HTC Edge, but for unknown reasons the Taiwanese company decided to change the name of the smartphone to HTC Endeavor.
A few days ago, an official RUU for the Endeavor leaked courtesy to the guys... |
14 February 2012
05:04 GMT |
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A team of engineers and physicists at the Stanford University announce the development of a new technique for welding together crisscrossing meshes of metal nanowires. The group says that shining beams of light on the edges of the diminutive structures is enough to glue them together.
According to scientists, there ... |
14 February 2012
05:01 GMT |
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People who receive text messages from an unknown number soliciting their cooperation in beta testing the next Apple iPhone are advised to steer clear of this scam. Moreover, those who feel motivated enough to point a finger at the bad guys can report the spam to Apple and at www.donotcall.gov. An Apple forum poster ... |
14 February 2012
04:57 GMT |
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Despite losing much of their market share in favor of AMD’s Brazos-series APUs, Intel’s Atom processors are still popular among industrial computer designers such as Advantech, who recently unveiled the ARK-1120 embedded PC.
The compact system is housed inside a small form factor aluminum enclosure which... |
14 February 2012
04:55 GMT |
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Video game developer DICE has announced that it is working on a new patch for Battlefield 3, the first-person shooter that it has published together with Electronic Arts, saying that more details will be offered in the coming weeks.
On the official Battlefield Blog, DICE states that it is working on such issues as &... |
14 February 2012
04:54 GMT |
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In Japan, Sharp has made the official introduction of a beastly liquid crystal display, one that almost puts LG's new 3D, glasses-free monitor to shame as far as pricing goes.
Sharp's new liquid crystal display TV set is a large and high-quality product that, even without featuring support for 3D, has a p... |
14 February 2012
04:46 GMT |
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Canonical announced last night, February 13th, that it updated the Mozilla Firefox web browser to the latest version, 10.0.1, fixing an important security issue. The security vulnerability (CVE-2012-0452) was discovered by Andrew McCreight and Olli Pettay in the XBL bindings, which allowed an attacker to cause a deni... |
14 February 2012
04:46 GMT |
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The Mass Effect 3 demo will finally be available for download later today, on the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, according to BioWare, which has just posted approximate release times for each of the platforms.UPDATE #1: The Mass Effect 3 demo for Xbox 360 can be downloaded at this link. Mass Effect 3 is S... |
14 February 2012
04:28 GMT |
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Rice University scientists discovered in a new study that plants begin their preparations for the day's battle with hungry insects even before the Sun comes up. They studied a case where the plants were getting ready to fend off hungry caterpillars.
Researches such as this are conducted in order to gain a bette... |
14 February 2012
04:28 GMT |
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Publishers, like Electronic Arts, have already taken some of their biggest franchises, from Dragon Age and Mass Effect to The Sims, to the Facebook social platform but their main rival, Activision, is not yet ready to jump into the genre although it sees its potential.
Speaking to Gamasutra, Eric Hirshberg, the chie... |
14 February 2012
04:19 GMT |
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Apple has kicked off Back to School in Japan, targeting the April 1 start date of the country’s schools, offering a redeemable Gift Card worth ¥10,000 (around US$130) that can be used to purchase content from the iTunes Store.
Apple’s annual Back to School promotion is already live in Japan, offering... |
14 February 2012
04:17 GMT |
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LG may not be making the same choices as Samsung in regards to its OLED TV, but that does not mean it is slacking off, as its newest product announcement all too clearly shows. The company has announced the impending availability of a new, special monitor, bearing the name of D2500N-PN. The name alone does not exa... |
14 February 2012
04:16 GMT |
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Less than a day after Intel’s Core i7-3820 Sandy Bridge-E processor reached retail, iBuyPower has announced that this new quad-core part will be available in its high-performance desktop computers.
This includes the company's Paladin XLC and Erebus custom built systems equipped with liquid cooling, but th... |
14 February 2012
04:10 GMT |
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Australian mobile phone users will soon be able to purchase a new high-end Android-based smartphone on the airwaves of local carrier Vodafone, namely the Samsung GALAXY Note.
The handset has already been rumored to be on its way to Australia, and now all is official, as Vodafone has confirmed via its Twitter accoun... |
14 February 2012
03:50 GMT |
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It may be hard to believe but Grand Theft Auto IV was released back in 2008. While that may not seem that apparent, you can always boot it up and see that the game, although it had impressive graphics for its time, isn’t looking so sharp when compared to current titles.
Thankfully, at least on the PC, modders ... |
14 February 2012
03:48 GMT |
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While yardsticks may be sufficiently-suited for measuring snow levels for some applications, they are entirely inadequate for planning vital decisions in terms of transportation, water management and other such situations. Scientists are now using GPS and lasers to develop a new measuring method. Specialized lasers ... |
14 February 2012
03:47 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices and VIA may not make the news as often as Intel does on the enterprise computer market, but HP has decided to change this a bit by releasing both types of thin clients.
The company has two new thin clients to offer, dubbed HP t610 Flexible Series Thin Client and HP t510 Thin Client.
The form... |
14 February 2012
03:45 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the Kansas State University (KSU) say that the disposition of heat waves and droughts within a year plays a huge role in determining the effects these phenomena will have on ecosystems. A new study the team conducted looked at over 25 years-worth of data.
In other words, what the resea... |
14 February 2012
03:31 GMT |
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A notice on Apple’s Investor Relations page confirms that the company will be offering a live webcast (audio only) of a presentation at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference where CEO Tim Cook will be the speaker.
Cook's presentation will kick off at approximately 12:30 PM Pacific, accordin... |
14 February 2012
03:30 GMT |
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Looks like that 3D-ready OLED TV we last saw at CES 2012 may be headed to the shores of the United Kingdom.
Even though it wasn't expected before summertime, the company reportedly told CNET that it had sped things up quite a bit.
In other words, the product is now scheduled for a release during spring.
Al... |
14 February 2012
03:23 GMT |
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Kim Kardashian likes to pride herself with being a fashionista but she was anything but at the pre-Grammy Clive Davis party held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel over the weekend, where she showed plenty of cleavage and, according to some, too little respect. As it must already be common knowledge, singer Whitney Housto... |
14 February 2012
03:20 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is set to bring its Nokia Lumia 710 smartphone to the market in Australia as soon as next month.
Lumia 710 is the second device that Nokia launched with Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform on board, and is also cheaper than the Lumia 800.
In Australia, the new mobile phone w... |
14 February 2012
03:17 GMT |
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Chinese company Huawei has big plans for this year’s Mobile World Congress trade fair. After introducing the world’s slimmest Android smartphone, the Ascend P1 S, during the International Consumer Electronics Show, Huawei is about to announce its most powerful smartphone. The handset maker has started to... |
14 February 2012
03:17 GMT |
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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) may receive a budget of $1.1 billion (€840 million) for Fiscal Year 2013. The President's 2013 budget request is about $34.5 million above 2012 levels, an increase that reflects the high performances that the federal agency displayed this year.
Studies such as th... |
14 February 2012
03:14 GMT |
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In less than a day from now, AMD is expected to make official the Radeon HD 7700 graphics card series, but for those of you that can’t wait to see how these new Cape Verde-based GPUs perform, a Chinese website has posted a benchmark of the HD 7770 running 3DMark 11.
The Radeon HD 7770 card used by the tester w... |
14 February 2012
03:12 GMT |
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Upcoming games like Ninja Gaiden 3 or Dead or Alive 5 will highlight just how much developer Team Ninja has evolved in terms of mentality since the resignation of its former boss, Tomonobu Itagaki.
Team Ninja, the Japanese studio part of Tecmo Koei, is set to debut quite a few games this year, including full-fledged... |
14 February 2012
03:10 GMT |
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The developers at Ironclad Games, who is best known for creating the strategy series Sins of a Solar Empire, have put up a website that teases a new project to be published by Infinite Game Publishing, a Canadian company handling digital distribution and currently working on MechWarrior Online as well. The website i... |
14 February 2012
03:01 GMT |
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Reports citing reliable sources are confirming that Apple’s iPad 3 event will be held Wednesday, March 7, and that AT&T and Verizon Wireless will be carrying the new tablet on their LTE networks, hoping to spur widespread adoption of the standard.
A report from iMore reveals that Apple is holding its iPad 3 an... |
14 February 2012
02:58 GMT |
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Since the Ivy Bridge collection of Intel CPUs is almost upon us, Biostar has decided to introduce a motherboard that supports all their features, and more.
Called TZ77XE4, the new platform from Biostar has not been given a price, and probably won't get one before CeBIT 2012.
For those who don't know, the... |
14 February 2012
02:54 GMT |
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The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration requested a budget of $17.7 billion (€13.46 billion) for Fiscal Year 2013. NASA says that this level of funding will be sufficient to allow the United States to maintain its leadership status in space.
The budget includes $627.6 million for the James Webb Spa... |
14 February 2012
02:49 GMT |
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Before the end of this year, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is expected to bring to the market devices that pack its new BlackBerry 10 operating system inside.
The company already confirmed plans to launch these devices in 2012, but has yet to confirm any details on what the platform will arrive on... |
14 February 2012
02:41 GMT |
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Even though a week separates us from the release of Uncharted: Golden Abyss, the game’s launch trailer has already been posted by Sony and its developer Bend.
Seeing as how the PlayStation Vita is getting ready for its release next week, Sony has started heavily promoting some of the games for the device, chie... |
14 February 2012
02:31 GMT |
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Developers Ryu ga Gotoku Studio and publisher SEGA have released another trailer for Binary Domain, their third-person shooter with robotic themes, showing players interested in the idea what they can expect from the multiplayer game mode.
The footage shows squads from the resistance movement and the government faci... |
14 February 2012
02:29 GMT |
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Greg Kroah-Hartman announced last evening, February 13th, that the sixth maintenance releases of the stable Linux kernel 3.2 are available for download and all users should upgrade to it as soon as possible. Linux kernel 3.2.6 includes the usual DRM fixes, ALSA improvements, a few ARM updates, and lots of other small... |
14 February 2012
02:25 GMT |
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A composite image of the oldest known supernova, called RCW 86, has just been released by NASA. The photograph contains X-ray data from the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton Observatory, as well as infrared data from the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope and the Wide-Field Infr... |
14 February 2012
02:17 GMT |
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Nicki Minaj is the ultimate diva. Ripping a page out of Lady Gaga's style book, the rapper made herself noticed on the red carpet at the Grammys 2012 – by bringing a fake Pope as her date. Without taking anything from her in terms of originality, Nicki did seem to go the Gaga way at the prestigious music a... |
14 February 2012
01:57 GMT |
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Motorola Mobility is one of the handset vendors planning the release of devices that feature Intel’s Medfield platform inside, and some info on its first such device has just emerged online. The handset that can be seen above and in the photo attached below is reportedly the first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwic... |
14 February 2012
01:37 GMT |
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We have lost so many amazing artists, two of them in less than a year, that it's time to learn a valuable lesson from such a massive loss. Speaking at Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy party, Tony Bennett has asked for the legalization of drugs.In the wake of Whitney Houston's death, who is believed to ha... |
14 February 2012
01:27 GMT |
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