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Having electronics devices recharge their own batteries is the sort of Sci Fi dream that few would be opposed to, so Freescale decided to contribute to making it reality.
The step currently being taken by the industry is the one where wireless charging is implemented. That is, having batteries somehow recover their... |
1 June 2012
21:01 GMT |
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Although flash manufacturers like Intel or Samsung are not happy with this, NAND flash prices keep on falling and SSDs are becoming more affordable by the week. OCZ’s Petrol SSD has just been listed for just 0.5 EUR per GB and that’s quite close to our own prediction of 0.4 USD per GB. The particulars of... |
1 June 2012
20:31 GMT |
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Sony is ready to increase its catalog of digital-only releases and work on making them as accessible as possible because they tend to also push up the sales of boxed products that the publisher launches. Robert Walker, who is the manager in charge of game releases for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, has told MCV... |
1 June 2012
20:31 GMT |
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Famous Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer Asustek has started rolling out the update to Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich for the Asus Eee Pad Slider tablets that are sold in Australia. The update will simply arrive over-the-air, and as such, you’ll be able to install it directly on your original tablet device.... |
1 June 2012
19:51 GMT |
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Insomniac Games is continuing the celebration of the 10th anniversary of its Ratchet & Clank series and has announced that a whole new game, in the form of Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault will be out this fall in North America, as well as in Europe, where it will be renamed Ratchet & Clank: QForce. Insomniac G... |
1 June 2012
19:41 GMT |
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The development teams at EA Sports and Bright Future have announced that they are working on FIFA Manager 13, a new installment in the management game that has struggled for years to get out from under the shadow of Football Manager. The main new addition to the game will be the new Team Dynamics feature, which will... |
1 June 2012
19:41 GMT |
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Rockstar Games is set to release Max Payne 3 on the PC later today so, in order to really show off the improved visuals and effects in the game, the studio has revealed the launch trailer for this version of the third-person shooter.
Max Payne 3 already arrived on the PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles earlier this month and... |
1 June 2012
18:21 GMT |
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Porsche Design and Research In Motion have just announced the immediate availability of the Porsche Design P’9981 smartphone from BlackBerry in Singapore.
According to RIM, the BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9981 is now available for purchase at all Porsche Design stores across the country, as well as auth... |
1 June 2012
18:01 GMT |
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The current generation of hardware is still going strong and neither Microsoft nor Sony is ready to talk about new devices during E3 2012, which does not worry at least one leading video game executive.
Strauss Zelnick, the chief executive officer at Take Two, has told MCV that, “There is still ample opportuni... |
1 June 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Quantum Conundrum, the puzzle game coming from Portal co-creator Kim Swift and her team at Airtight Games, is now available for pre-order on the PC platform, via Steam, in two different versions - a standard one that includes just the game, and a Season Pass one that includes the game, its soundtrack, and free access... |
1 June 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: This is my last weekend at home before I head to Los Angeles to take part in the video game bonanza that is the E3 trade show, taking a look at the most interesting titles that are set to arrive during the next one-year period. I plan to keep a light schedule during the weekend in order to make su... |
1 June 2012
16:31 GMT |
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MightyText is a nifty extension for Google Chrome, designed to push text messages you receive on your Android smartphone to the screen of your computer. It works with all Android builds starting 2.2.
The functionality of this instrument is extended by the fact that you can use it to reply to any received message or ... |
1 June 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Google is holding a big press event next week to discuss the "next dimension" of Google Maps. The title alone is suggestive so, yes, this is going to be something about 3D."At this invitation-only press gathering, Brian McClendon, VP of Google Maps and Google Earth, will give you a behind-the-scenes look at Google Ma... |
1 June 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Kelly Clarkson has long struggled with her weight, though never with her self-esteem. In recent interviews, the singer looked considerably slimmer and more toned – and Us Weekly knows exactly just how much weight she's lost. The latest print issue of the celebrity magazine (story via CB) offers more deta... |
1 June 2012
15:11 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Windows Embedded Developer Update is now available for download, namely version 1.1.92.0. Windows Embedded Developer Update is a tool designed to provide developers and users with the possibility to automatically search for, download, and install new updates for Windows Embedded Standard 7. The... |
1 June 2012
15:01 GMT |
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We don't really think staring at tablets is what toddlers should be doing, but parents will have to decide for themselves. That said, Vinci figured it might as well make that decision possible.
Dropping by this page will put people face to face with the information on a certain product called The Vinci Tab II.... |
1 June 2012
15:01 GMT |
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The Last Story might have been created from the ground up for the Nintendo Wii home console, but the development team still had to work hard to fit their concept inside the limited graphical capabilities of the device.
Hironobu Sakaguchi, who is best known for creating the core of the Final Fantasy franchise, told I... |
1 June 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts’ Sports division has just posted a brand new batch of screenshots with its upcoming FIFA 13 football simulator, showing off not just the action on the pitch, but also how players will actually see it when they experience the game. FIFA 12 set new sales records in terms of sports games, so you c... |
1 June 2012
14:21 GMT |
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The Mozilla-proposed Do Not Track header is picking up steam. Advertisers are behind it, the FTC is behind it, browser makers are behind it. Even Microsoft is behind it. In fact, Microsoft is such a fan that it took the concept behind Do Not Track and ran away with it, almost literally. The company has decided to e... |
1 June 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Experts managing the NASA Cassini spacecraft believe that instruments aboard the orbiter may have identified a state of matter known as dusty plasma in the plumes of water-ice and organic molecules released by geysers on the icy Saturnine moon Enceladus.
These geysers are located inside landscape features called tig... |
1 June 2012
14:01 GMT |
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The final pre-release flavor of Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system has just arrived, with a series of enhancements for all users to benefit from, as well as with a polished app development process for developers. Developers already familiar with building applications for Windows 8 will see only small chan... |
1 June 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Over the weekend, the “fatkini” movement went viral. Fashion blogger Gabi Gregg, who happens to be plus-size, posted photos of herself in a 2-piece swimsuit, aiming to tell women like her that they should not be ashamed of their body. She's now addressing critics in a new interview on The Today show.... |
1 June 2012
13:41 GMT |
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MoboTap is particularly proud to unveil the latest version of their flagship iPad app, Dolphin Browser 5.0, which adds the ability to save passwords and to auto-complete forms, much like AgileBits’ 1Password application. MoboTap introduces the update with this opening statement: “Now you can say a Dolphi... |
1 June 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Small-size channel distributors will find that, to their likely dismay, Samsung won't be shipping them microSD cards anymore, at least for a while. One wouldn't have expected that, even after the whole HDD crisis, however overblown, NAND Flash memory would experience a low demand period. Alas, the flash... |
1 June 2012
13:01 GMT |
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The upcoming Dragon Quest X Japanese role-playing game will ask gamers to create three different characters in the first few hours of the game and will use them for very different gameplay purposes.
Initially, the game will require the player to create a player character from scratch and then design a sibling of the... |
1 June 2012
13:01 GMT |
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After plenty of rumors and leaks, Electronic Arts has officially confirmed that a new Need for Speed title is coming from developer Criterion Games, in the form of Need for Speed: Most Wanted.The NFS series has been around for quite some time and, even if it came out in 2005, Most Wanted represents one of the high po... |
1 June 2012
12:34 GMT |
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It seems that the problematic launch of Diablo 3 earlier this week and the lack of refunds offered by Blizzard have caused some serious issues for the studio in South Korea, where government authorities raided its headquarters.
Blizzard encountered quite a few problems this month when it launched Diablo 3, as poor p... |
1 June 2012
12:21 GMT |
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For the longest time, Google has been the synonym for free, at least as far as regular users were concerned. Likewise, any site could reasonably expect to be included in the search results, providing Google deemed it relevant enough. The only people who paid were those that wanted to promote their sites on Google via... |
1 June 2012
12:11 GMT |
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ESA launched its geostationary Earth orbit satellite (GOES) for telecommunications, Artemis, on July 12, 2001. At first, it had troubles reaching its intended destination, since it was injected in a much lower orbit. After engineers managed to get it to its correct spot, it finally began its science mission. The spac... |
1 June 2012
12:03 GMT |
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AstroForm is a small jQuery plugin for converting web forms into a stepped wizard form.
There's nothing that makes a web user question and abandon his intentions than huge web forms with lots of fields and details to fill in.
While sometimes big large forms are a must, like in e-commerce stores, most of the ti... |
1 June 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers recently snapped an amazing image of the massive elliptical galaxy Centaurus A, at radio wavelengths. This is the highest-quality radio image ever obtained of this object.
In optical photos, the core of the galaxy is obscured by ve... |
1 June 2012
11:48 GMT |
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As most people focus on renewable energy sources such as solar, wind or tidal power, some researchers seem to believe that these alternatives are so last year's. Thus, they turned to generating energy by means of living organisms instead. Interestingly enough, their choice of guinea pig was your ordinary, not-e... |
1 June 2012
11:46 GMT |
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Scientists analyzing data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite have recently compiled a chart showing just how much humidity soils across the continent have lost this year.
The readings are very worrying to authorities, since soils appear to be very dry. This... |
1 June 2012
11:39 GMT |
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Crytek, the developer of the upcoming Crysis 3 shooter, has talked about the new elements introduced by the game, chief among them being the new bow, who'll join the array of weapons already present in the shooter franchise.
Crysis 3 is set to appear in 2013 and, from the screenshots and videos we’ve seen... |
1 June 2012
11:31 GMT |
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The Eisriesenwelt labyrinth of caves, in the Dachstein region of Austria, was recently home to a series of studies meant to simulate the exploration of Mars. Such endeavors are essential for space exploration, since they teach us what to expect when traveling to our neighboring world.
The surface of the Red Planet i... |
1 June 2012
11:28 GMT |
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It was back in April that Intel revealed the “Letexo” sliding ultrabook design, but nothing else was heard from it after that.
We've now learned, thanks to TechPowerUp, that Micro-Star International will introduce such a device at Computex.
This is strange because, last time we heard, MSI wasn&#... |
1 June 2012
11:26 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft made available for download the Release Preview of its Windows 8 operating system, which is the final pre-release flavor of the operating system.
We already had a look at some of the main enhancements included in this release, but we should wait for more of them in the upcoming development milestone... |
1 June 2012
11:12 GMT |
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Earlier this week, Google unveiled Google+ Local, a new section that replaces Places and becomes the new home of all local web efforts at Google. It's a bigger move than it seems at first glance. But it wasn't a complete surprise, Google+ source code revealed that the site would soon get two new features. O... |
1 June 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Well-known Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer ECS has just announced the company’s first AMD FM2-compatible motherboard. This is most likely the first AMD desktop Trinity motherboard announced. ECS’ new baby is baptized A85F2-A Deluxe and is built around AMD’s A85 FCH chipset. We’re used to ... |
1 June 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Recent press releases from BMW representatives inform us that the company is soon to display an upgraded version of its ActiveHybrid 7 in showrooms throughout the northern parts of America.
Unless unexpected incidents alter the course of events, the car is to meet its public and most importantly its fans in the mon... |
1 June 2012
11:10 GMT |
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Micro-Star International hasn't released its first Intel Z77 Express chipset-based motherboard yet, but it is getting close to the time when the curtains are parted.
The name of the mainboard will be Big Bang ZPower, or at least that's what the folks at TechPowerUp think.
Speaking of which, they are the o... |
1 June 2012
11:10 GMT |
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Presumably after she recovered her senses – she collapsed when she heard of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's engagement – Jennifer Aniston decided to be the better person and send flowers to the future bride, says a new report.
Even more shockingly, the two have actually called a truce on their longs... |
1 June 2012
11:10 GMT |
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You can love it or hate it, but when Canonical releases a new Ubuntu operating system, people take notice and when that distribution is an LTS (Long Term Support) version, the standards of quality are twice as high. Is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, dubbed Precise Pangolin, up to the challenge? I will begin by praising other Li... |
1 June 2012
11:01 GMT |
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The latest version of VectorLinux, 7.0 SOHO, has just been released and it comes with a lot of updates and new features.
VectorLinux 7.0, dubbed SOHO, is built upon the latest KDE SC 4.8.3. The developers of this distribution boast with the best speed for a system that uses KDE.
The usual packages are present in V... |
1 June 2012
10:50 GMT |
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These days, Kristen Stewart is doing more to support boyfriend Robert Pattinson than just show up on the red carpet for the premiere: she's also gushing about his most recent performance to the press. Famous for never speaking about her personal life, Kristen is less discrete when it comes to praising a fellow... |
1 June 2012
10:47 GMT |
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Experts determined that birds are the living descendants of dinosaurs a long time ago, but they never really understood why the winged creatures appeared in the first place. A new study suggests that shifts in the evolution of dinosaurs are what prompted this entire group of species to develop.
Scientists from the ... |
1 June 2012
10:46 GMT |
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Right on the heels of the OCZ Agility 4 SSDs come the Intrepid 3, Z-Drive R5 and Lightfoot units, each with their own strengths and specializations.
OCZ has revealed the solid-state drives that will be on display in Taipei, during this year's Computex trade show (Computex 2012).
By this, we mean more than ju... |
1 June 2012
10:43 GMT |
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Microsoft is making even more development tools available for those interested in coming up with apps for its latest Windows platform releases. In addition to making available for download the Release Preview of Windows 8, the Redmond-based company also launched RC flavors of Visual Studio 2012, Premium and Ultimat... |
1 June 2012
10:32 GMT |
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During her stint on X Factor UK, Cher Lloyd was a disputed contestant, with many saying she couldn't possibly make it as an artist because she was too young, too bold and too inexperienced. They were proven wrong. Cher sat down with Billboard to cover a song of her choice for the Candid Covers segment and, con... |
1 June 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Hackers part of the Anonymous-affiliated k0detec collective have gained unauthorized access to the systems of MOAB Training International, a company that provides courses on the management of violent and aggressive behavior.
As a result of the breach, a number of 1,763 customer record sets comprising usernames, ema... |
1 June 2012
10:24 GMT |
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With just days to go until the release of “Prometheus,” a new featurette has emerged online, aiming to show “Alien” fans just what they're to expect from the film – and the spaceship that gives it its name. Granted, when you have a film that's named after a ship, you'd b... |
1 June 2012
10:23 GMT |
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Whether because of the new 22nm CPUs from Intel or some other market factors, ASRock is quite determined to make the best of 2012.
According to Digitimes, ASRock intends to finish 2012 with 9 million motherboard shipments under its belt.
One would think it odd, since only 3.7 million of these units have been sold... |
1 June 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Although the decision to go green is quite an easy one to make, difficulties may arise when one tries to figure out which type of renewable energy would best suit his/her needs. Aware of this dilemma, some researchers decided to put their backs into it and compare and contrast your most common two types of alternativ... |
1 June 2012
10:19 GMT |
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Google Chrome is now officially the biggest browser in the world, as it was able to overtake Internet Explorer in May. According to StatCounter data, Chrome was able to grab a 32.43 percent market share, just enough to pass Internet Explorer's 32.12 percent.
Of course, the numbers are still too close, and IE st... |
1 June 2012
10:10 GMT |
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A prolonged analysis of the supermassive black hole at the core of the galaxy NGC 4151 revealed signs of a proposed phenomenon called relativistic reverberation. This is produced by mysterious X-ray sources located above the black holes themselves.
Radiations released by these objects bounce from the highly compres... |
1 June 2012
10:06 GMT |
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Along with the Release Preview flavor of Windows 8, Microsoft also made available for download the Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Express RC for the platform, the tool meant to provide developers with the possibility to easily come up with applications for the Metro interface. The SDK arrives with Windows 8 SDK, Blen... |
1 June 2012
10:05 GMT |
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Every huge role-playing game, especially if it uses the open world structure, needs a solid hook, something to get the player interested enough in the early game to give him the energy he needs to move past the first few hours, discover the game world and its charms and then engage with the offered quests. The Elder... |
1 June 2012
10:01 GMT |
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A critical SQL Injection vulnerability has been found to affect the Ruby on Rails web framework and, as a result, the developers have released the 3.2.4 and, shortly after, the 3.2.5 variant to address this and other issues. The SQL Injection security hole was present in Active Record and affected all versions start... |
1 June 2012
10:01 GMT |
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People thinking that gaming hardware is the same as high-end hardware are usually right, but Roccat decided to make an exception.
And by exception, we meant a piece of gaming hardware for people that want something good-looking but not as expensive as a car.
The product is a mouse, named Lua. It has an ambidextrous... |
1 June 2012
09:57 GMT |
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Robert Pattinson has already denied being involved in the “Hunger Games” sequel “Catching Fire,” or even being approached to play the role of Finnick Odair. Now, Taylor Kitsch too is out of the picture. For some days now, three names have been circulated in connection to the character that i... |
1 June 2012
09:52 GMT |
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Although TELUS initially promised the hotly anticipated Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for HTC Amaze 4G would be available beginning May 28, the Canadian carrier pushed back the release with a few days.
TELUS seems to have found some minor issues in the build and needed extra time to prepare the delivery of t... |
1 June 2012
09:49 GMT |
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Algoriddim’s popular DJ application for iPads has a new Automix queue which allows you to add and remove songs on the fly, as well as auto-gain, an improved full-screen library, and faster loading. Djay 1.5 contains “major new features,” according to Algoriddm, including the ability to add/remove s... |
1 June 2012
09:40 GMT |
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The internet and the web have managed to evolve up to this point largely because they were permitted to evolve on their own, without much interference. Many of the large-scale decisions concerning the internet are taken by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
The organization handles thing... |
1 June 2012
09:40 GMT |
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It appears that HTC decided to launch the One S smartphone in Taiwan with different specs. Instead of the usual Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor clocked at 1.5 GHz, the Taiwanese people will be able to grab a slightly different smartphone that comes equipped with 1.7 GHz CPU.
The handset maker announced that the HT... |
1 June 2012
09:38 GMT |
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The Dragon space capsule returned from the International Space Station on May 31, reentering Earth's atmosphere in about 30 minutes after being placed on its descent course. This image provided by the spacecraft's manufacturer shows the strain reentry placed on the vehicle. The unmanned capsule is shown he... |
1 June 2012
09:36 GMT |
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A few days ago, a video from Katy Perry's upcoming concert movie emerged online, showing her without makeup. If you thought she resembled someone else, you weren't wrong. The video above is confirmation that Katy Perry is secretly connected (perhaps even related, if not actually the same person!) to Loki,... |
1 June 2012
09:34 GMT |
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Only recently made public, the Africa Ecological Footprint Report from 2012 pin-points two major issues this continent must address as soon as possible. Firstly, it seems that, throughout the past forty years, Africa has lost roughly 40% of its biodiversity.
Secondly, the increase in population means that the count... |
1 June 2012
09:27 GMT |
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AlienVault has released an interesting report in which it details the impact of security breaches on large private companies. One of the most notable findings is the fact that a quarter of the information security experts questioned believe that an incident could result in the loss of human lives.
Of course, this do... |
1 June 2012
09:26 GMT |
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Portronics may have just made the day of people who travel but would like to have some means of working on their laptops while still sitting normally wherever they go.
There is a new laptop desk in town, so to speak. Or at least, there will be as soon as Portronics gets around to the part where it starts shipping i... |
1 June 2012
09:25 GMT |
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Scientists with the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) say that iron did the job of magnesium some three million years ago, when it helped ribonucleic acid (RNA) take on the molecular shapes that ultimately enabled it to support complex biology.
It could be ... |
1 June 2012
09:14 GMT |
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Today’s availability of Windows 8 Release Preview marks another milestone in Microsoft’s intent to provide consumers and businesses alike with a new, modern operating system that would work on a variety of devices. Microsoft has been long touting Windows 8 enhancements aimed at its enterprise users, and... |
1 June 2012
09:08 GMT |
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Namco Bandai has confirmed quite a few new things in regard to Dark Souls, the most important of them being the fact that the upcoming Prepare to Die Edition will also be sold through Steam, after fans had petitioned the company to drop the clunky Games for Windows Live service.
Dark Souls impressed lots of PS3 and ... |
1 June 2012
09:04 GMT |
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Whatever Kim Kardashian does is bound to grab headlines, so it's probably no wonder she managed to get media attention for an offense she never meant to cause. The star has apologized for saying that Indian food is “disgusting,” stressing that it's only a matter of taste. One of the most recent... |
1 June 2012
08:55 GMT |
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This week, Dell launched a powerful all-in-one PC and, today, we have the drivers and apps listed for users to download. XPS One 27 differentiates itself from other all-in-one PCs by the WQHD resolution (Wide Quad High Definition), an outstanding 2,560 x 1,440 pixel density. The actual name is XPS One 2710, where 27... |
1 June 2012
08:51 GMT |
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The controversial UGNazi hackers have done it again. They have taken down the website of the Wounded Warrior Project (woundedwarriorproject.org), a non-profit organization launched to help United States service members who have been wounded or who need assistance. If until now the hackers have provided somewhat ser... |
1 June 2012
08:50 GMT |
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Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, has just got a taste of enhancements meant to make the user search experience better and more socially-connected than before. Through these changes, which include a new, three-column view on the Bing search results page, users can easily get in touch with their friends over so... |
1 June 2012
08:37 GMT |
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Nowadays, being environmentally responsible is more than just an option: it's a must. This seems to be the conclusion reached both by your average Joes and plain Janes, and major corporations world-wide. Interestingly enough, on-line retail companies are also starting to invest more in managing their affairs ... |
1 June 2012
08:35 GMT |
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Facebook's stock price tumble may finally be ending as the company managed to end the day in the green. Granted, stock price is still significantly below its IPO price, but things may finally be improving. The price was helped by a general market trend, but several analysts are finally starting to upgrade their... |
1 June 2012
08:33 GMT |
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A bug that did not allow the experience and statistics for players to update after multiplayer matches in Battlefield 3 has been linked to just one weapon, the FAMAS.
The official statement from DICE reads, “While we are working to resolve this issue we have also identified what can cause this problem to occur... |
1 June 2012
08:29 GMT |
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A fortnight ago, word got out that DC Comics was getting ready to change history and out one of its established characters as gay, which sent fans into a frenzy of speculation as to his or her identity. It's Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern. As one of our readers also pointed out at the time, chances of D... |
1 June 2012
08:29 GMT |
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A new stable build is currently available for Maxthon. Among the chief modifications there is fixing of some bugs that were present in the previous two beta revisions.
Along with incrementing the version number to 3.3.9.1000, the new release does away with problems such as incorrect display of some Chinese character... |
1 June 2012
08:28 GMT |
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Just when we finish talking about how not well the NAND Flash storage market is doing, we end up stumbling upon a report saying that DRAM market could finally be getting back on its feet.
Not long ago, we reported on Samsung's alleged plans to stop shipping microSD cards to certain vendors, in an attempt to co... |
1 June 2012
08:27 GMT |
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A group of Anonymous hackers claim to have leaked the details of 131 individuals who have purchased tickets to attend the F1 Grand Prix that’s about to take place in Montreal, Canada.
The record sets comprise names, phone numbers, email addresses, purchase dates, ticket types and the amount of money paid by e... |
1 June 2012
08:14 GMT |
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Android tech-savvy and developers rejoice as Samsung has just released Galaxy S III’s kernel source code. This means that modders will now be able to start creating custom kernels based on Samsung’s Android flagship smartphone.
Devs should take into consideration that the source code released is only val... |
1 June 2012
08:10 GMT |
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A new trailer for “The Bourne Legacy” has been released and, unlike the previous one, it goes to great lengths to tie in with the other 3 films starring Matt Damon. Check it out in full above. This time, it's Jeremy Renner who plays the memory-challenged spy who takes on the entire system in a bid ... |
1 June 2012
08:09 GMT |
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Sony’s Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich rollout for 2011 Xperia smartphone started earlier this month and will probably run through June and July.
The first handsets to receive the update, Xperia neo V, Xperia arc S and Xperia ray have been plagued by numerous bugs and issues that made them perform slow and e... |
1 June 2012
07:58 GMT |
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Just as expected, Microsoft is preparing a special offer for those users who want to purchase a PC before Windows 8 is available to them, but who also want to upgrade to the new platform version after it is released. Thus, the company announced that a Windows Upgrade Offer is set to kick in as soon as tomorrow, Jun... |
1 June 2012
07:47 GMT |
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NASA officials have recently announced that the American space agency's latest mission to study high-energy phenomena in the Universe will launch no earlier than June 13. The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) will study neutron stars, black holes, the first galaxies and the Sun.
These are just som... |
1 June 2012
07:47 GMT |
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The legal battle between video game publisher Activision and former Call of Duty developers Vince Zampella and Jason West has come to an end as both sides have agreed to a settlement just hours before the trial was set to start before a judge in California.
Michael McWhertor, who is the lawyer representing Jason Wes... |
1 June 2012
07:42 GMT |
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Justin Bieber and glass windows and doors don't really go together, as he found out (again) during his recent concert in Paris. The pop star walked into a glass wall and later passed out cold. After nearly forcing authorities to declare a state of emergency in Norway after fans turned up by the thousands for a c... |
1 June 2012
07:38 GMT |
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In spite of the fact that considerable amounts of energy can be produced by means of solar energy, it seems that, both during night-time and whenever the weather decides to act out, we no longer have access to the “goodies” our dear, old sun has is store for us.
Thus, aerospace engineers in Scotland wa... |
1 June 2012
07:34 GMT |
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The development for Opera 12 is more intense than ever, with snapshots released almost on a daily basis this week. Today they rolled out a new development build that focuses mostly on out-of-process plug-ins fixes on Windows. Build 1440 does away with issues on Windows, such as freezing of the browser after resizing... |
1 June 2012
07:32 GMT |
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Satechi, a mobile accessories manufacturer, has just announced the company’s new USB hubs, on its official website. These two are called Premium Aluminum 2.0 4-Port USB Hub and Satechi 3.0 4-Port USB Hub. The beautiful Premium Aluminum 2.0 4-Port USB Hub targets the Apple users, and the small aluminum device w... |
1 June 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Quirky, high-end flash drives come out from time to time, but they don't really do much for all the people who just want a random memory stick, so Team Group decided to launch a mid-range USB drive this time.
The product in question is called C123 and is “designed to let everyone enjoy the sensation of U... |
1 June 2012
07:30 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft made available not only a new version of their Windows 8 platform, namely the Release Preview, but also the latest flavor of its Windows Store, through which users can download and install applications specifically designed for the Metro UI of the OS. The Windows Store comes with a unique app catal... |
1 June 2012
07:26 GMT |
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Activision has confirmed that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on the PlayStation 3 will finally get the Face Off mode as a free downloadable add-on later this month, on June 15.
In between receiving all sorts of new maps for its multiplayer mode and missions for its Spec Ops one, Modern Warfare 3 got a free new gamep... |
1 June 2012
07:16 GMT |
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Most nations are currently doing their best to cut down on their gas emissions and to switch to more environmentally friendly energy sources such as biofuel, or solar, wind and tidal power. However, as praise-worthy as these attempts and achievements are, it seems that things are not moving as fast as our Mother Eart... |
1 June 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Just found out about Apple’s MobileMe off some old promo materials and you are looking to sign-up? Tough luck! The service is going to be dead in 30 days. But that’s ok, because Steve Jobs himself agreed that it sucked. Plus, we have iCloud now. MobileMe is no longer accepting new subscribers as of... we... |
1 June 2012
07:04 GMT |
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Clement Lefebvre proudly announced a minutes ago, June 1st, the immediate availability for download of the OEM installation images of the recently released Linux Mint 13 operating system. Dubbed Maya and powered by Linux kernel 3.2, Linux Mint 13 was released a week ago and it is based on Canonical’s Ubuntu 1... |
1 June 2012
06:51 GMT |
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The openSUSE Project unleashed earlier today, June 1st, the first Beta release of the upcoming openSUSE 12.2 operating system.
Delayed one week, the openSUSE 12.2 Beta 1 operating system has been released to bring the latest technologies from the Linux world, such as Linux kernel 3.4, KDE Software Compilation 4.8.3... |
1 June 2012
06:31 GMT |
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UK broadcaster ITV has launched version 2.0 of their TV streaming application which now offers access to ITV1 and ITV2 Live streams, over both WiFi and 3G. When the broadcaster has an event that isn't on ITV1 or ITV2, customers get an extra stream and they can connect that stream to an Apple TV via AirPlay mirr... |
1 June 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Microsoft has made the final pre-release flavor of Windows 8 available for download a few hours ago, in the form of Windows 8 Release Preview, enabling users to get a taste of the latest enhancements the platform has suffered. However, given the fact that it is not the final release, the new Windows 8 iteration com... |
1 June 2012
06:11 GMT |
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The heavily criticized new generic top level domains are seeing their first victim, or maybe, their happy customer. Google has just announced that it has applied for several gTLDs, mostly related to its existing products. Several other companies have applied for gTLDs, the results will be announced in a couple of wee... |
1 June 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Michal Zalewski, aka lcamtuf, a Polish Information Security Engineer at Google, has demonstrated the presence of a vulnerability in popular web browsers that could allow cybercriminals to serve their malicious elements to unsuspecting users who are led to believe that they’re downloading the files from legitim... |
1 June 2012
05:56 GMT |
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Research In Motion teased the upcoming release of the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 a few days ago and promised that it would deliver the new platform soon. Today, the Canadian company announced the immediate availability of the PlayBook OS 2.1 Beta. Even though this has yet to be released to the public, developers can... |
1 June 2012
05:44 GMT |
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Apple has quietly released a PDF document that details the iOS system architecture, encryption and data protection, network security, and more such topics in an apparent move to switch away from the stringent regime instated by the former Apple CEO, Steve Jobs. Particularly aimed at organizations considering the sec... |
1 June 2012
05:41 GMT |
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Famous mainboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company MicroStar International – also known as MSI – has just announced the availability of the famous GT70 gaming notebook, on its official website. This is the well-known GT70 gaming monster that we reported on here. MSI’s new gaming GT70 beast is powered... |
1 June 2012
05:41 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft made available for download a new flavor of the Live SDK Preview, namely version 5.2, with various enhancements to make app development an easier task. The SDK, designed to provide app developers with programmatic access to Live web services, was meant to enable the building of applications that can... |
1 June 2012
05:40 GMT |
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Video game developer EA Sports has announced that a simulation run on the FIFA 12 title with the Euro 2012 downloadable content shows that Germany will win the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship.
The German team will beat the Netherlands 2 to 1 at the Olympic Stadium on July 1, in Kyiv, in order to secure the ... |
1 June 2012
05:37 GMT |
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Oracle has lost its lawsuit against Google over copyright and patent infringement in Android entirely as Judge William Alsup decided that the Java APIs can't be copyrighted. The jury had previously decided that Google didn't infringe on Oracle's patents, which it acquired from Sun. With the copyright... |
1 June 2012
05:31 GMT |
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Valve has confirmed that its upcoming Dota 2 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) title will be completely free-to-play, although users will be able to customize their heroes with different gear that can be sold via the in-game store, just like in Team Fortress 2. What’s more, add-ons for the game can also be... |
1 June 2012
05:30 GMT |
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Officials at the Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems announce that their Dream Chaser spacecraft has recently completed a captive carry test successfully. The vehicle is being developed for both suborbital and orbital missions.
The spacecraft – which as a lifting-body design – is being develop... |
1 June 2012
05:22 GMT |
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The updated new Bing is now available for more people in the United States, after being launched a few weeks ago for some of them. Today, the new version of Microsoft’s search service brings socially-connected features to all users who would like to take advantage of them. Among these, we can count a three-... |
1 June 2012
05:19 GMT |
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The infamous AutorunInf Trojan and the Conficker worm are threats that show up in most of the quarterly or yearly reports released by security solutions providers and it’s well known that one of their favorite ways of spreading is via USB storage devices utilized by computer users to transfer data from one mach... |
1 June 2012
05:18 GMT |
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The developer and publisher Paradox Interactive has officially announced that they are working on new downloadable content for Crusader Kings II, called Sword of Islam, designed to allow gamers to select and play as rulers that are not Christian. The development team plans to introduce the new DLC at the same time a... |
1 June 2012
05:08 GMT |
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As was the case with most technological breakthroughs along the centuries, it seems that electric cars simply can't find a firm footing in today's society, simply because it is human nature not to trust things that are utterly new and innovative. As well as this, it seems that the kind of attention ele... |
1 June 2012
05:05 GMT |
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Sharp didn't wait for Computex to show off its newest display projects. Instead, it chose the Society for Information Display show in Boston, which will take place between June 03 and June 08. Visitors will be able to check out four displays, two of which are LCDs, while the others are OLED panels. Said OLED... |
1 June 2012
05:04 GMT |
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Swiss-managed cooling company Gelid has just announced the new ICY VISION-A video card cooler on its official website. This is an AMD-exclusive solution especially designed to fit AMD’s Tahiti reference cards. The new ICY VISION-A video card cooler has five heatpipes in an original configuration that lead the ... |
1 June 2012
05:01 GMT |
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Google has introduced an enhanced search experience in mainland China, or rather, a less frustrating one. Searches are often interrupted in China, the "Great Firewall" is the cause of most if not all.
Certain search terms are blocked and this could lead to a rather annoying experience since the connection to the si... |
1 June 2012
04:52 GMT |
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After lots of rumors and some leaked screenshots yesterday, Electronic Arts has confirmed that it will unveil Dead Space 3 at E3 2012 next week.
EA is preparing quite a lot of big surprises for the E3 expo next week but, unfortunately for the large publisher, many have already been spoiled, like a new Need for Speed... |
1 June 2012
04:49 GMT |
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The Boeing Company has delivered a new series of software test bed computers to NASA, enabling agency engineers to begin work on developing the flight software for the new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The vehicle is scheduled to carry out its maiden flight in 2017.
The American space agency is developing this r... |
1 June 2012
04:48 GMT |
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The Voice may be ratings gold in the US (in the UK, not so much), but Snoop Dogg is not a fan. Granted, the show might do well with audiences but it fails where it matters the most: it can't make an artist, he believes. In a new interview cited by ContactMusic, the rapper says that, indeed, the new show can tu... |
1 June 2012
04:46 GMT |
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We have recently learned about the Holy Lulz Crusade of Canada campaign initiated by Team Dig7tal and we reported that the hackers demonstrated vulnerabilities in government, law enforcement and university websites, in some cases leaking database information to prove their point. One of the victims is the Toronto Po... |
1 June 2012
04:36 GMT |
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The moment word got out that Kim Kardashian was dating rapper Kanye West, speculation began on whether she and Beyonce, the wife of Kanye's best friend, Jay-Z, would ever get along. The first indications that they would are here. Recent reports have claimed that Kim was quite infatuated with the singer, whom s... |
1 June 2012
04:29 GMT |
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Video game developer Epic Games has announced that it is planning to unveil a new installment in the Gears of War franchise at the upcoming E3 2012 trade event, which will only be available on the Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft. Details of the game are not yet available and more information will be offered dur... |
1 June 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Blizzard, in between working on patches for Diablo 3's variety of issues, has also discussed about the Player-versus-Player mode that will be brought forth by update 1.1, saying that it will be available for testing at a later time on a special Public Test Realm. While Blizzard has an army of testers to try out... |
1 June 2012
04:12 GMT |
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Having agreed that global warming resulting from gas emissions is no longer something to be controlled in an effective manner, geoengineers have turned instead to coming up with ways to prevent sunlight from reaching the surface of the earth and thus over-heating it. Natural history teaches us that during periods ... |
1 June 2012
04:11 GMT |
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Much like “Iron Sky,” which was completed after the director reached out to fans and asked them to donate, a new docuseries, called “We Are Ready,” is striving for the same support from the community in order to be released. The brainchild of Florin Anghel, the new series, conceived in the sa... |
1 June 2012
04:08 GMT |
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The next iPhone will have 1GB of RAM, according to unnamed sources handling prototypes at Apple. iOS 6 was the big giveaway, and it appears Apple will not have trouble launching this phone by October, as “Apple is far along in its iOS 6 development.” The prototype unit responsible for this information is... |
1 June 2012
04:06 GMT |
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Windows 8 Release Preview, the latest pre-release flavor of Microsoft’s next-gen operating system, has landed with various improvements inside, including a new flavor of Internet Explorer 10. This is the sixth IE10 release in Windows 8, and it comes with a series of touch optimizations for all those who are u... |
1 June 2012
04:04 GMT |
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US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physicists have recently determined that quantum computer will be able to simulate some of the most complex problems known today, including the collision of two particles. This will shed new light on the origins of the Universe.
Quantum computers are proposed... |
1 June 2012
03:57 GMT |
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A group of hackers called k0detec that describes itself as a “fraction of the Anonymous faction that is AntiSec” claims to have found major vulnerabilities in systems owned by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS).
The hackers whose location is spread out across the United States, UK a... |
1 June 2012
03:55 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer Sony has announced that it plans to release another three discovery applications for the PlayStation Vita handheld.
Ecolibrium is described as an eco-system simulator and is the most ambitious of them, allowing gamers to collect species and swap them with one another in a concept that l... |
1 June 2012
03:49 GMT |
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The Dragon capsule reentered Earth's atmosphere successfully yesterday, May 31, after being separated from the Harmony module on the International Space Station on Thursday. The unmanned spacecraft landed a few hundred miles off the coasts of Baja California, Mexico, at 11:42 am EDT (1542 GMT).
The event was ha... |
1 June 2012
03:41 GMT |
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Canonical announced on June 1st, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system is now available.
These are the five kernel vulnerabilities found in the Linux kernel 2.6.38 packages: CVE-2011-4131, CVE-2012-1601, CVE-2012-2121, CVE-2012-2123, and CVE-2012-... |
1 June 2012
03:26 GMT |
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LucasArts has announced a brand new Star Wars game, in the form of Star Wars 1313, a “third person cinematic action adventure” that will see players guide a mysterious bounty hunter through the underworld of Coruscant, one of the many planets from the franchise’s universe.
Star Wars games haven&rsq... |
1 June 2012
03:17 GMT |
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As many of those who are constantly striving to raise awareness with respect to the environment probably already know, the biggest issue in this particular research field is not necessarily coming up with highly innovative solutions and technologies, but being able to educate people into paying closer attention to t... |
1 June 2012
03:13 GMT |
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On May 31th, Canonical announced that new vulnerabilities were found in the Linux kernel packages, this time affecting the OMAP4 edition of the Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems. The following two vulnerabilities affect the Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS OMAP4 kernel: CVE-2012-1601... |
1 June 2012
03:11 GMT |
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For the past couple of days or so, the media and the security industry have been buzzing over the existence of what many have called the new Duqu, or the new Stuxnet. However, after a good night’s sleep and additional research, a number of experts have come to realize that Flame isn’t something that sho... |
1 June 2012
03:11 GMT |
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It's been a long time since major titles were added to Ubuntu Software Center, but Bastion and Limbo are certainly great games and they are part of a newly released Humble Bundle 5. The Humble Bundle initiative has brought us a great number of games over time, but the latest, Humble Bundle V, is probably the ... |
1 June 2012
03:11 GMT |
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In a study conducted using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, researchers in the United States have discovered that the Milky Way will collide with its neighbor, M31 (the Andromeda Galaxy), in a head-on event.
Many astronomers believed that the two would only give each other a glancing blow, but the latest data o... |
1 June 2012
03:08 GMT |
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NVIDIA has recently held its annual meeting between its leadership and its investors. There, it brought a certain slide that raises as many questions as it gives answers.
The slide is a vague chart of how GeForce GTX 680 graphics card sales compare to shipments of GeForce GTX 580 boards.
Apparently, the former ha... |
1 June 2012
03:07 GMT |
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Developer Crystal Dynamics and publisher Square Enix have announced that the launch date for the rebooted Tomb Raider is now set for March 5, 2013, when the game is available on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Windows-powered PC.The trailer embedded below is the first time fans have b... |
1 June 2012
03:07 GMT |
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A video comparison of the new iPhone’s touch panel and the iPhone 4S shows a clear difference in size, particularly on the vertical. According to the footage released by Japan’s Macotakara, the next-generation iPhone will be at least 1 centimeter (0.3 inches) taller. The front panel covering the iPhone&r... |
1 June 2012
03:06 GMT |
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Ex AMD-owned foundry, along with its partners, is going to demonstrate an enhanced silicon-validated design flow for its 28nm Super Low Power (SLP) manufacturing process, using the Gate First High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) approach. Remember when we told you that GlobalFoundries is going to produce volume 28nm chips ... |
1 June 2012
03:01 GMT |
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Parsix, a standard desktop distribution that comes with a full desktop environment and packages suite, and which can be installed on desktops and laptops, is now at version 4.0 Preview. Parsix 4.0 Preview is a major improvement over the previous versions, as can be seen from the following list of changes and update... |
1 June 2012
03:00 GMT |
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Since Computex 2012 is barely a week away, the companies that will participate are already offering product previews, so, naturally, Intel has gone on record in regards to ultrabooks. Computex Taipei will take place between June 06 and June 09, meaning that it will be less than a week before a new wave of ultrabook... |
1 June 2012
02:32 GMT |
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The renown Hewlett-Packard is soon to cut down on its use of energy by approximately 30% and reduce its dependence on the national power grid by a staggering 80%, all thanks to its brand new Net-Zero Energy Data Center. Designed by some of the company's own researchers, this data center allows for the use of en... |
1 June 2012
02:30 GMT |
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Pro Cycling Manager 2012 (aka Tour de France 2012) has received its first official trailer, showing off the improved game engine that the development team at Cyanide is using and how close to the real world the faces and the equipment of the teams can be. For the new game the team has also increased the draw distanc... |
1 June 2012
02:30 GMT |
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Ubisoft is set to reveal a brand new Splinter Cell game next week, at E3 2012, in the form of Splinter Cell: Blacklist, which will act as a sequel to Conviction although it will feature plenty of classic stealth elements.
Ubisoft is preparing quite a few big announcements for next week’s E3 2012 conference in ... |
1 June 2012
02:30 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft made available for download a new pre-release flavor of its Windows 8 operating system. Called Release Preview, the new platform version is the equivalent of a Release Candidate. The Release Preview of Windows 8 was made public today in 14 languages, and it is said to be the final pre-release versi... |
1 June 2012
02:15 GMT |
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