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Serious Brew indie developer and publisher Digital Tribe have just released “Cargo Commander” platformer for PC.
The game is now available for purchase via Steam for only 5.59 EUR. Fans of the genre who wish to grab Cargo Commander might want to hurry as the promotional price is only available until Nove... |
1 November 2012
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The world’s largest professional network, LinkedIn, can be easily accessed while on the move via mobile devices.
The Android application that allows users to connect with their friends, co-workers and other people in their network has just been updated.
Just like previous iterations of the application, the l... |
1 November 2012
22:31 GMT |
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Indian company Intex Technologies has just announced the immediate availability of one of the cheapest Android smartphones launched in India, the Aqua 3.2.
Starting today, customers can purchase the Aqua 3.2 for only Rs 3,790 (70 USD or 55 EUR) off-contract. The handset is now available through most leading retailer... |
1 November 2012
22:01 GMT |
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Yes, as promised, we have more news from UDS-R, the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail), due for release of April 25, 2013.
After we've announced earlier that Ubuntu 13.04 will be powered by Linux kernel 3.8, now it's time to tell you that Jason Warner, Ubuntu Desktop Manger, talked... |
1 November 2012
21:41 GMT |
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IPVanish VPN, a provider of high-performance VPN services, has released its official VPN client for OS X computers, allowing users to seamlessly connect to and switch between 2500+ IPs on 54+ servers. Available to all new and existing IPVanish customers free of charge, the IPVanish Mac client brings auto-connect cus... |
1 November 2012
21:31 GMT |
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Today, Chinese maker Lenovo went official with no less than five new Android-based mobile phones for the Indian market, including the IDEAPHONE K860, the flagship of the series.
The smartphone is not completely new, as the company had previously made it available in China, but that does not mean that its features a... |
1 November 2012
20:51 GMT |
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One of the best file managers for Android devices, File Expert has just received a consistent update that bring lots of fixes for bugs reported by users, as well as new customization features.The latest version of File Expert supports Wi-Fi hotspot connection in Web PC Suit and FTP Sharing. In addition, it includes a... |
1 November 2012
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We reported on the immediate availability of Karbonn’s new Android handsets, Smart A21 and A9+ about two weeks ago, but the mobile phone manufacturer officially introduced the devices in India today. There are no changes when it comes to price tag, so expect the Smart A21 to be up for purchase for Rs 11,990 (2... |
1 November 2012
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You think you have a pretty good idea of how it all came about, the Universe that is, but do you really? Probably not, but neither does anyone else, so it's OK.
The best we can do is speculate, but if history has taught us anything is that we usually get it very, very wrong in the long run.
Still, if yo... |
1 November 2012
19:41 GMT |
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Take-Two Interactive has confirmed that its recently released XCOM: Enemy Unknown game is a success in terms of sales as well as reviews and that more DLC will come out for it in 2013.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown was eagerly awaited by fans of the original strategy series, as well as by those who already knew about the stun... |
1 November 2012
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VLC Mobile Team has just released the seventh beta for VLC multimedia player for Android devices. The latest update adds several bug fixes for issues brought by the previous version, but it also brings some improvements to the UI.
It appears that VLC for Android Beta 0.0.6 included some audio glitches and synching i... |
1 November 2012
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China Mobile, the largest wireless carrier in the country, and also the largest in the world by number of subscribers, will bring Nokia’s Lumia 920 smartphone to its network in the not too distant future.
The company has already announced plans to make the move, and the Windows Phone 8 device has recently rec... |
1 November 2012
19:21 GMT |
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After losing an internal power struggle with fellow executives, Scott Forstall is no longer Apple’s senior vice president of iPhone Software. Instead, he is now a mere advisor to the CEO, and not for long either. According to Apple’s 10K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), &ldq... |
1 November 2012
19:21 GMT |
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It’s been almost two months since Apple announced the iPhone 5, but the smartphone has yet to arrive in some markets.
However, starting November 2, the list of countries where the iPhone 5 is not yet available will be a bit shorter as Apple has just confirmed the device will arrive in India on that date.
Indi... |
1 November 2012
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The newest operating system from Canonical, Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), is shipping with Linux kernel 3.5, but the upcoming Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) could arrive with Linux kernel 3.8. According to Michael Larabel from phoronix.com, the upcoming Ubuntu 13.04, due for release on April 25th, 2013, will prob... |
1 November 2012
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A new Jelly Bean build has leaked online for the Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone at Verizon, with version I535VRBLI5 attached to it and with Samsung’s own TouchWiz interface packed inside.
Some enthusiasts have already managed to include the build in custom ROMs for the smartphone, and those who would like to... |
1 November 2012
18:21 GMT |
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Teasers are a common sight in the entertainment business, but the IT industry sees its share of such things as well, as proven by Thermalright, whose HR-22 cooler has just showed up.
Then again, it isn't actually accurate to say that the product has showed up. Thermalright only provided a teaser photo of it aft... |
1 November 2012
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A few minutes ago, November 1, Jaroslav Reznik sadly announced that the upcoming Fedora 18 Beta (Spherical Cow) release has been delayed, yes again, for the sixth time!
The Fedora 18 Beta operating system was supposed to be out for testing next Tuesday, on November 6, 2012, but because of some serious bugs and an in... |
1 November 2012
17:59 GMT |
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Introduced by Softpedia at the beginning of October 2012, the first Release Candidate of the upcoming openSUSE 12.2 ARM operating system got a lot of attention from both ARM and openSUSE fans.
Today we’re announcing that openSUSE 12.2 ARM is getting closer to a final release, as Jos Poortvliet announced the i... |
1 November 2012
17:57 GMT |
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Browser bookmarks have been around as long as browsers themselves and haven't really evolved much. But, spurred by the surprisingly little use of bookmarks on the mobile Firefox, Mozilla started asking why people used bookmarks and how they could be made better.
Mozilla's UX team studied how several people... |
1 November 2012
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As previously reported, hurricane Sandy's storm surges caused the New York Aquarium to flood.
Several American citizens are now quite concerned about what will happen to the animals residing at this marine park.
More so since one of them is Mitik, an orphaned walrus calf that caused quite a stir when it was f... |
1 November 2012
17:41 GMT |
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A few minutes ago, November 1, the Fedora development team proudly announced the immediate availability for download of the first Alpha version of the upcoming Fedora 18 operating system for the ARM architecture.
After announcing openSUSE 12.2 ARM RC2, we’re once again proud to inform all ARM fans, as well as... |
1 November 2012
17:25 GMT |
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A group of cybercriminals appears to be on a mission to gather Yahoo!, Gmail, Windows Live, AOL and any other email account credentials they can lay their “hands” on.
According to GFI Labs experts, for this, they’ve set up a cleverly designed phishing page on a website called microsofts.us.
When... |
1 November 2012
17:21 GMT |
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In the aftermath of hurricane Sandy and its devastating effects on the US East Coast, the country's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decided that it would be best to waive ongoing rules and regulations concerning the use of various gasoline fuels, at least for a short period of time. Thus, the gasoline so... |
1 November 2012
17:21 GMT |
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A professor of psychology working with the University of Chicago has recently decided to investigate what happens inside an individual's head whenever the time comes for him/her to do math. According to Sian Beilock, in the case of people who suffer from a so-called mathematics anxiety, the brain responds very... |
1 November 2012
17:21 GMT |
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On Monday, Microsoft officially launched its new Windows Phone 8 operating system, unveiling new features for the OS and confirming the near availability of handsets running under it, including those coming from Nokia.
The Finnish handset vendor is betting a lot on the new flavor of Microsoft’s mobile platfor... |
1 November 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Gmail's new pop-up compose window is a major departure from the current way the feature works. As such, Google is taking it slow rolling it out. Users are notified that there's a new compose feature and asked to opt in. Those who don't like change may pass on this, for now, but plenty of people may h... |
1 November 2012
17:11 GMT |
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The mobile games market has been hyper-active in the last few years. Everyday hundreds of games for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Java, Symbian or Blackberry platforms are being launched on the market making it difficult for consumers to keep track on what’s coming out. Today, Amazon made its first move on this... |
1 November 2012
17:01 GMT |
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The Orion Nebula Cluster is relatively close by, at about 1350 light years away, and can be seen with the naked eye in the night sky. While it's one of the most observed objects in the sky, there are plenty astronomers still trying to figure out about it.
One team has been using computer simulations to try and ... |
1 November 2012
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Electronic Arts is quite surprised that its recently launched Medal of Honor: Warfighter hasn’t received positive reviews, as the company is convinced that the first-person shooter has a high level of quality.
Medal of Honor: Warfighter came out last week and delivered a hyper-realistic shooter experience that... |
1 November 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Recent news concerning the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline informs us that the presidential candidate for the Green Party, Jill Stein, also got arrested for going against its being built.
While most of the individuals arrested thus far for interfering with the construction of this pipeline did things such ... |
1 November 2012
16:41 GMT |
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While others are busy looking for the pets various families had to leave behind when fleeing from Hurricane Sandy's path, a group of New Yorkers lent a helping hand to a distressed swan.
As the people who helped rescue this bird explained, the swan was merely standing in the middle of the street and was anythi... |
1 November 2012
16:41 GMT |
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If you call yourself a superfan of the James Bond franchise, you haven’t met or heard of Emma Louise Hodges yet – or, by her current name, Miss Pussy Galore Honey Rider Solitaire Plenty O'Toole May Day Xenia Onatopp Holly Goodhead Tiffany Case Kissy Suzuki Mary Goodnight Jinx Johnson Octopussy Domino... |
1 November 2012
16:31 GMT |
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CyanogenMod 10, the popular custom mod for Android-based devices, has just seen another appealing enhancement, the team of developers behind it announced.
The new CyanogenMod 10 builds should arrive soon with the CM File Manager merged, a recent post on Google+ reads.
A file manager for AOSP, the application has ... |
1 November 2012
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The sequel to HTC’s Android flagship smartphone One X is about to make its debut in Canada via TELUS. The carrier has just listed the HTC One X+ on its website with the “Coming Soon” tag on it.Although there’s no word on the exact release date or price, we expect the smartphone to hit shelves ... |
1 November 2012
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One of the most popular Poker games for the iPhone, Poker by Zynga has received a new update that secures your chip stack in case of an Internet outage.
Zynga Poker lets you choose a 5 or 9-person poker table or jump right into a tournament against your friends and over 6 million others on a daily basis.
Such a big... |
1 November 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Hurricane Sandy scams have started making the rounds ever since the natural phenomenon became a trending topic. We’ve already covered some of them, but researchers from Symantec and Commtouch have also come across some noteworthy ones. Commtouch came across spam messages that encouraged recipients to purchase ... |
1 November 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Danger Den sold water coolers and other enthusiast-grade hardware for years, but its leaders decided it was time to halt all operations, permanently.
Without offering any explanation, Danger Den has cut the prices of everything on its website by 75%.
The promotion will last until Monday (November 5, 2012), but most... |
1 November 2012
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Making sure that developers don’t feel neglected over the public release of iOS 6.0.1, Apple has rolled out a beta build of iOS 6.1 (labeled 10B5095f) alongside a new version of Xcode, the company’s standard developer toolset for iOS and OS X coding.
iOS 6.1 has now officially entered internal testing an... |
1 November 2012
16:08 GMT |
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It was not very long ago when Mitt Romney decided to stir some laughs by mocking ongoing phenomena such as climate change and global warming. Thus, he pretty much made fun of Barack Obama's green energy policies, and argued that, “President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal ... |
1 November 2012
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Verizon Wireless plans to launch a sequel to the Samsung Stratosphere slider smartphone. The Stratosphere II leaked for the first time back in August, but no additional details have emerged until now.
The guys over at EVLeaks have just published the first press image of the Samsung Stratosphere II handset, which poi... |
1 November 2012
16:00 GMT |
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Apple has released a surprise update for owners of iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch delivering improvements and bug fixes, including a patch for some widely-reported issues. As usual, the update is free for everyone who owns a supported device.
Weighing in at 47.6 MB as an over-the-air (OTA) update, iOS 6.0.1 is a bug-f... |
1 November 2012
15:46 GMT |
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Created by Digital Reality and Grasshopper Manufacturer and launched on Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Arcade back in March, Sine Mora shoot 'em up game has been confirmed to arrive on PC platform next week.
Although Digital Reality has previously announced that the game will be ported on Vita and PS3, details on their... |
1 November 2012
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Universal Password Manager (UPM), an application which allows users to store usernames, passwords, URLs, and generic notes in an encrypted database protected by one master password, is now at version 1.9. Universal Password Manager (UPM) is very easy to use, it runs on multiple platforms, has database syncing (a fea... |
1 November 2012
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Viruses may be tiny, but it's not hard to see their effects, when you get sick you notice. Still, actually being able to see them is very useful to researchers.
A couple of researchers at the Australian National University’s School of Molecular Bioscience set about taking a snapshot of a virus as it infe... |
1 November 2012
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Canadian carrier Bell has just released the LTE-enabled Samsung Galaxy Rugby on its airwaves. The smartphone is now available for purchase for as low as 80 CAD (60 EUR) with a new three-year agreement.Aside from LTE support, the Galaxy Rugby packs a powerful 1.5 GHz dual core processor built on Krait architecture, wh... |
1 November 2012
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Shortly after confirming the Halloween challenge for Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer mode, BioWare has released its weekly balance update for the online experience, this time adding a new character, in the form of the Batarian Brawler Vanguard, while improving the stats of different sniper rifles.
Mass Effect 3&rs... |
1 November 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Today, Amazon announced the availability of a new application for devices powered by Google’s Android operating system, namely Cloud Drive Photos for Android.
Users can download the app to receive access to their photos while on the go straight from the smartphone or tablet PC in their hands, while also benef... |
1 November 2012
15:11 GMT |
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The Presidential elections can be a very stressful time, but not just for the two politicians in the running. The video above is of a 4-year girl expressing her anguish and exhaustion.
You may think that kids this age don’t really have much reason to feel this way, but this girl is the exception.
She&rsquo... |
1 November 2012
15:11 GMT |
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The Penumbra games collection developed by Frictional Games and distributed by Paradox Interactive, have appeared in the Steam for Linux application database.
The current rumor on the Internet regarding the Steam for Linux launch places the event in the middle of November.
We shouldn't put too much trust in t... |
1 November 2012
14:51 GMT |
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ASUS shipped 16.7 million motherboards during the first three quarters of the year (2012), and wanted to ship 8.3 million more in the fourth.
Due to low demand in Europe, the US and, oddly enough, even China, the company has been forced to lower its expectations.
No longer does ASUS think it can scrounge up 25 mill... |
1 November 2012
14:51 GMT |
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As we were also telling you earlier today, Kate Moss rarely likes to talk in detail about herself, insisting she’s a model and, as such, she can keep silent if she feels like it. Her new book is the exception, as the latest issue of Vanity Fair can confirm.
Excerpts from the book have been included in VF, tac... |
1 November 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Sony Mobile confirmed last month that the Xperia T, also known as the Bond Phone, would be available in Canada this month.
The smartphone will go on sale through various carriers across the country, including Rogers, Bell, Mobilicity, MTS and Videotron.
Today, the guys over at MobileSyrup have learned the Xperia T ... |
1 November 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Xcache, a fast, stable PHP opcode cacher that has been tested and is now running on production servers under high load, is now at version 3.0.0.
Xcache 3.0.0 is an important milestone in the development of the application and is marked by numerous fixes and new features.
Highlights of Xcache 3.0.0:
• Caching ... |
1 November 2012
14:21 GMT |
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The iPhone Dev-Team is out with a new update for redsn0w jailbreakers on Windows who are experiencing errors with older builds. The Team is also proud to inform fans that the ultrasn0w unlock tool will be compatible with iOS 6 jailbreaks tomorrow.
Dev-Team leader MuscleNerd tweets to his 368K followers that “r... |
1 November 2012
14:21 GMT |
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US Cellular has just announced it will expand its 4G LTE network to 30 new cities and states next week. The carrier hopes to have almost half of its customers covered by LTE by the end of the year. In this regard, US Cellular has teamed up with King Street Wireless, a company that owns 700 MHz licenses in 27 states ... |
1 November 2012
14:01 GMT |
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The latest installment in the popular Civilization franchise has just received a humongous patch that includes a buck load of balancing fixes, which are meant to improve players’ overall gaming experience.
Patch 10.0.2.13 has just been released on Steam and brings a slew of bug fixes as well:
- Mod Browser - The "G... |
1 November 2012
14:01 GMT |
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An unidentified woman has won the $23 (€17,8) million SuperLotto Plus jackpot at the California State Lottery, and she doesn't even know it.
The winner is on the clock, as winners are only allowed 180 days to claim their prize, and it has already been five months since the ticket was purchased.
She was f... |
1 November 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Dolphin Browser for iPhone 6.2 is out with drag & drop support, tab sync, gesture support, automatic update fetching and more.
If you’re not a fan of Apple’s mobile Safari, don’t worry, lots of people aren’t. It’s not that it’s not a good browser. Far from it, actually. Some peopl... |
1 November 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Six months after its launch at Sprint, LG Viper 4G LTE is finally getting the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade. The update is currently pushed OTA (over the air), in stages.
This means that not all LG Viper 4G LTE owners will receive it simultaneously. According to Sprint, the following changes have been inclu... |
1 November 2012
13:31 GMT |
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One of the appealing new features that Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 platform will arrive on shelves with includes the availability of a new series of emoticons for users.
Windows Phone already provided users with the possibility to include a series of smileys in text messages (SMS), but the system has been upd... |
1 November 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Chrome for Android isn't really keeping up with the regular Chrome, it's still a few versions behind, but at least it's getting updated.
The latest is Chrome 18.0.1025464 for ARM devices and 18.0.1026320 for x86 devices, which would be the Motorola RAZR i and a couple of Chinese phones.
The update i... |
1 November 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting ready to debut Halo 4 next week and has just offered a new series of figures concerning its popular shooter franchise, confirming that over 46 million copies had been sold worldwide, resulting in $3 billion (around €2.3 billion) in revenue. Halo games have been extremely popular, managing t... |
1 November 2012
13:11 GMT |
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A bug that was first introduced into Linux kernel 3.6.3, and that got backported into 3.4x and 3.5.x branches, causing quite a ruckus because it could have led to some serious data loss, was patched by none other than Theodore Ts'o, a maintainer of the EXT4 file system. “If the journal's starting blo... |
1 November 2012
13:06 GMT |
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T-Mobile USA confirmed a few days ago that it would carry the Nexus 4 smartphone though the operator did not unveil any details on availability and pricing options. However, we expect the LG Nexus 4 to arrive at T-Mobile USA in mid-November. With Samsung Galaxy Note II already available for purchase, Android enthusi... |
1 November 2012
13:01 GMT |
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The Mars Simulation Project, a free software Java project to create a simulation of future human settlement of Mars, is now at version 3.03. The Mars Simulation Project takes its job very seriously and even if it might look like a game, it's actually a social simulation. The software is modeling the human beh... |
1 November 2012
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Japanese handset maker Sony released the promised Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for Xperia U about a month ago. However, the upgrade was only rolled out in selected markets. Today, Sony Canada confirmed the update is now available for Xperia U owners in Canada: “We’re excited to announce that ICS... |
1 November 2012
12:31 GMT |
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If you’re ever on the market for prank ideas or you’re still hard on the Halloween party circuit, the video above might be of real help to you.
The guy’s name is Rich Ferguson and he’s a magician by profession. He considers this his best Halloween stunt ever: he sneezes and his head falls off... |
1 November 2012
12:28 GMT |
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An Algerian hacker called SanFour25 has managed to breach and deface a number of seven high-profile websites belonging to Indian government and law enforcement agencies.
The targets are the Recruitment and Assessment Centre site of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (rac.gov.in) and the one of the Adv... |
1 November 2012
12:24 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion will not bring to the market handsets running under its new BlackBerry 10 operating system until the first quarter of the next year, but we can now have another look at what the first such devices might look like.
A new photo with a BlackBerry 10 L-Series smartphone ma... |
1 November 2012
12:21 GMT |
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The Document Foundation has announced that LibreOffice 3.6.3 is now available for the Linux platform, bringing a lot of bugfixes and improvements. Besides the usual changes and updates that accompany these types of releases, The Document Foundation had a few other announcements to make, especially in regard to the ... |
1 November 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Halle Berry may have an Oscar, but she’s no stranger to box office flops either. One such stinker came out this year, it’s called “Dark Tide” and, as Halle herself puts it, it’s a very, very regrettable project.
Check out the video below to hear Halle trash her own movie.
“You d... |
1 November 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Google has a fix for the issue of NPAPI apps not being supported on all platforms despite this being their entire reason for existence. The fix is quite simple and ingenious when you think about it.
No, apps will not work in Chrome OS or Windows 8, but now you won't even know about it since NPAPI apps will be ... |
1 November 2012
12:10 GMT |
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Manjaro, a Linux Distribution based on well-tested snapshots of the Arch Linux repositories and 100% compatible with Arch, is now at version 0.8.2 RC1.
Highlights of Manjaro 0.8.2 RC1:
• Some resume and hibernate bugs have been fixed for laptops;
• syslinux menus have been updated;
• The installer ha... |
1 November 2012
12:04 GMT |
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WordPress Nginx is a plugin for the open source self-hosted version of WordPress allowing webmasters to adapt the platform to Nginx Web servers. When WordPress was released for the first time, Apache was undeniably the king of Web servers, and that's why for many years to come, the WP core was optimized for LAM... |
1 November 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Buildings need periodic checkups to make sure they aren't about to collapse on top of us, especially the big blocks and skyscrapers.
Normally, to check a building's foundation, a worker had to crawl underneath said building, regardless of how tight the space and how poor the air quality were. Then they wou... |
1 November 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Mobile browsing has seen an impressive increase in the past quarters, and has managed to account for over 10 percent of the total market in October.
According to a new report coming from NetApplications, the browsing on mobile devices managed to top a 10 percent market share for the first time.
However, the compa... |
1 November 2012
12:00 GMT |
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Edward Furlong, best known for his role in “Terminator” but also praised by critics for his harrowing performance in “American History X,” has been arrested at LAX for alleged domestic violence.
Furlong, who has a long history of drug and alcohol abuse, and is considered just one of those ma... |
1 November 2012
11:53 GMT |
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Minecraft, the insanely popular building puzzler from Mojang, is getting a fresh update shortly. But the developers are so excited about these changes that they’ve already released them in the wild in Minecraft 1.4.3 Pre.
A less stable release, Minecraft 1.4.3 Pre packs so many changes and enhancements that yo... |
1 November 2012
11:50 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Sprint is reportedly gearing up for the release of a new appealing device on its network, one that would sport a 1.5GHz dual-core processor inside, along with a large 4.5-inch touchscreen display. The handset is said to arrive on shelves as Sprint Flash, and is none other than the ZTE Flash tha... |
1 November 2012
11:45 GMT |
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Irish woman Catherine Gowing disappeared on Friday, October 12, in the town of New Brighton, Flintshire, North Wales. Police made a breakthrough in the Gowing case, as they discovered a body believed to be Catherine's.
The 37-year-old vet had worked at Evans Veterinary Practice in the neighboring town of Mold f... |
1 November 2012
11:45 GMT |
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Saying that Lenovo's ThinkPad T430u ultrabook is three months late in arrival might not be as correct as some may think, since the initial demo happened all the way back in January (2012).
Still, the company, who so happens to be the newest leader of the PC market, did say it would release it in August, so the... |
1 November 2012
11:40 GMT |
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In the past period, numerous experts and even government organizations have issued warnings about the cyber threats that stalk medical devices such as insulin pumps, pacemakers and defibrillators. Bitdefender has issued a warning of its own, along with some important advice for medical centers. The main problem st... |
1 November 2012
11:40 GMT |
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AT&T Locker is a free photo and video sharing service for AT&T customers, now available in the App Store as a dedicated iOS client for iPhone users. It also holds your music.
AT&T Locker users get 5 GB of storage, which AT&T says is enough for up to 5,000 average sized photos.
In addition to offering a quick and se... |
1 November 2012
11:40 GMT |
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A few days ago, the New England Aquarium got a new resident: a Halloween-themed lobster whose body is half-black, half-orange.
One could suspect that this means that, once measurements are taken, these colors are found to spread across 50% of its body surface each.
However, in the case of this marine creature it ... |
1 November 2012
11:39 GMT |
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Hangouts has always been a key feature of Google+ and it remains one of the most popular to date. Google has done its share to update the feature and make it more widely available. Indeed, since its introduction, Hangouts has become more detached from Google+.
But now it's getting a visual revamp that should b... |
1 November 2012
11:30 GMT |
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Motorola Mobility officially introduced the RAZR M back in September, but the smartphone has yet to hit shelves. US Cellular has just announced it will carry the handset starting November 8.
However, the Android phone will be available as Motorola ELECTRIFY M at US Cellular. Beginning next week, customers can purcha... |
1 November 2012
11:28 GMT |
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LG’s Nexus 4 smartphone is still about two weeks away from arriving in users’ hands, but a system dump with all of the goodies it will bring along has already emerged online.
The Android 4.2 Jelly Bean platform release will provide users with some appealing new features when compared to the existing OS versio... |
1 November 2012
11:24 GMT |
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As if it were possible to get Twi-hards even more hyped about the release of the fifth and final installment in “The Twilight Saga,” “Breaking Dawn Part 2,” Summit Entertainment has released a brand new video from the film.
Check it out above.
It’s short and not of the finest qualit... |
1 November 2012
11:22 GMT |
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Most researchers and scientists tend to beat about the bush when it comes to summing up an idea in a single, straightforward sentence.
However, Bloomberg Businessweek's new cover does not shy away from calling things by their name.
“It's Global Warming, Stupid” reads this particular cov... |
1 November 2012
11:20 GMT |
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A flare set-off at the Telefonica Arena in Madrid, Spain, caused a stampede that killed three young women and injured another two, on Halloween. The women, aged 18 to 25, attended a "Thriller Music Park" themed party at the indoor stadium, and were crushed as crowds fought to exit the facility, following the launch ... |
1 November 2012
11:13 GMT |
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Nicole Kidman has a kind of aristocratic beauty that makes a perfect casting choice for the upcoming “Stoker,” which, judging by the video below, is just as beautiful as it’s weird.
Coming from the “Oldboy” director Park Chan-Wook, “Stoker” is his first English-language fil... |
1 November 2012
11:03 GMT |
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Assassin’s Creed 3 was released earlier this week around the world for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 home consoles. We’ve already posted our review and praised its huge scope, while criticizing the complicated mechanics it has added on top of the already tricky ones seen in previous games. Now, it&rsquo... |
1 November 2012
10:58 GMT |
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Annel Snyman, now living in South Africa, shares her home with a pet dog named Diesel and a pet lion named Timba. The lion is now 8 months old and all grown up, but when Annel first took it under her roof, back in March, it was merely a cub. Sources say that, according to Annel, Timba helps her when it comes to p... |
1 November 2012
10:57 GMT |
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OpenTTD, an open source simulation game based upon the popular Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" written by Chris Sawyer, is now at version 1.2.3. Younger readers might not remember, but Transport Tycoon Deluxe was a major simulation, back in the day. OpenTTD tries to mimic the original game as closely as po... |
1 November 2012
10:56 GMT |
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The budget-friendly Huawei Ascend G300 has just received the long-awaited Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade at Vodafone UK.
The smartphone was launched back in May with Android 2.3 Gingerbread platform out of the box, but Huawei promised an Ice Cream Sandwich update would be available at some point this year.... |
1 November 2012
10:48 GMT |
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A new mobile game is now available for purchase for Tegra-based Android devices, namely Zombie Driver THD, which arrives with a great deal of optimizations for the powerful mobile processor.
The new title should provide the owners of Tegra 3 quad-core smartphones with a great experience at only $6.99, as it can tak... |
1 November 2012
10:44 GMT |
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Born November 1, 1960, Timothy D. Cook is turning 52 today. After one year as fully-instated CEO, the Apple boss has had a profound impact on Apple Inc., and appears to be at it still, going by his latest actions.
As Apple’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) under Steve Jobs’ lead, Cook established most of A... |
1 November 2012
10:44 GMT |
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Vesta, the protoplanet Dawn has been studying for the past year or so, is full of surprises, one being how it manages to look so young despite its venerable age.
Scientists looking at data retrieved by the Dawn probe found that their expectations of what Vesta was supposed to be like were wrong, as is so often the... |
1 November 2012
10:44 GMT |
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As weird as this may sound, it seems that one grey owl named Gandalf the Great is so afraid of flying around in open spaces, that it would much rather spend its days indoors.
This picture of Gandalf shows that the bird does not nurture hatred towards the great outdoors, otherwise it would not spend numerous hours a... |
1 November 2012
10:41 GMT |
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A well-made 8-core Intel central processing unit would easily demolish every high-end CPU on the consumer market right now, but Intel does not think that single bragging right is worth the bother.
One might say that it is quite curious how Intel doesn't actually want to enable the seventh and eighth cores on th... |
1 November 2012
10:35 GMT |
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Diver Mariko Haugen suffered a shark attack in Hawaii, while she was on holiday with her husband. The beast was 12 ft (3.7 meters long), but Mariko wasn't intimidated. The woman from Folsom, California, managed to escape the attack with no bites, all because of her knowledge of Tae Kwan Do. The Sun notes that,... |
1 November 2012
10:34 GMT |
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After the lip-sync “scandal” that put her career in the water, Ashlee Simpson quietly went away for a while, seeing to her personal life and waiting for people to forget that she was never the singer she pretended to be. She’s also done some recording as well.
Here is a teaser for her new single a... |
1 November 2012
10:30 GMT |
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Cybercriminals have replicated the Steam Trading website which allows Steam account owners to exchange gifts and in-game items with other members of the community.
Experts from security firm GFI Software have come across a phony site that mimics the news page on which Valve announced the launch of the feature. This ... |
1 November 2012
10:23 GMT |
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ARM is involved in many partnerships, most of them having to do with mobile devices, since phones are where it started off and became dominant, but a new one never hurts, so the company signed it.
There are many deals that ARM has made over the past couple of years, many that do not fit with the previous policy.
T... |
1 November 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Canadian carrier Rogers has already started to ship the Nokia Lumia 920 to customers who pre-ordered the smartphone. However, the device is only available in limited quantities, so it will take some time until all pre-orders are fulfilled. The good news is that Rogers Nokia Lumia 920 comes unlocked and with pentab... |
1 November 2012
10:20 GMT |
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Yesterday, the people inhabiting Alaska's Kodiak Island got a tad scared when volcanic ash began to build up in the air surrounding their households and businesses.
Although some feared that a volcano had erupted somewhere nearby, it seems that the ash that showed up in this part of the world was in fact about... |
1 November 2012
10:15 GMT |
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In my book, Dwayne Johnson aka “The Rock” can do no wrong. However, even I have to admit that his costume for Halloween was a surprise, perhaps the most awesome pick from all the other celebrities.
While other male stars went for Batman, Superman, caveman or Braveheart, The Rock opted for a costume that... |
1 November 2012
10:15 GMT |
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Microsoft believes its Xbox 360 is the perfect upgrade choice for current Nintendo Wii owners who aren’t so interested in the upcoming Wii U, at least according to its General Manager of Product Marketing, Matt Barlow.
Nintendo is getting ready to debut the Wii U this month all around the world and you can bet... |
1 November 2012
10:08 GMT |
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The new Mega, designed to replace MegaUpload and do a much better job at helping people host and share files online, is seeing the first signs of life. The site is not ready yet, it should go live sometime early in 2013, but Kim Dotcom is going ahead with the preparations and has launched a page for people to sign ... |
1 November 2012
09:58 GMT |
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Apple has been ordered to pull an “incorrect” statement regarding a UK court ruling that deemed Samsung tablets as non-infringing on the design of the iPad. The Cupertino giant will now have to post a new statement, front-page, with an 11-point font.
At the court’s request, Apple initially posted a... |
1 November 2012
09:56 GMT |
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48-year-old Copa Burse from Des Moines, Iowa is bringing farm-implement company Deere to court, claiming her employer did nothing to stop racial discrimination against her, at the work-place. The woman has been employed at the Deere plant in Ankeny since 2010, the Inquisitr writes. During this time, Burse claims she... |
1 November 2012
09:56 GMT |
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Greg Kroah-Hartman announced yesterday, October 31, that another update to the 3.0.x Linux kernel branch, the fiftieth, is now available for download.
Linux kernel 3.0.50 doesn't bring anything major and just bolsters some new drivers and improved Arch support.
“I'm announcing the release of the 3.0... |
1 November 2012
09:55 GMT |
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While local authorities and high officials are busy doing some damage control in the areas struck by hurricane Sandy, several environmental scientists saw fit to investigate how beaches in the eastern US would be affected by this major storm.
Hurricane Katrina ended up transporting considerable amounts of harmful ch... |
1 November 2012
09:52 GMT |
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The other day marked what some are calling a new era in the movie industry: The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm for the whopping amount of $4.05 billion (€3.12 billion). Most of that sum will be going to charity.
In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, a publicist for George Lucas, the sole owner of Lu... |
1 November 2012
09:50 GMT |
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At the beginning of October, cybercriminals started spreading some nasty pieces of malware via Skype by using messages such as “lol is this your new profile pic” to trick users into clicking on malicious links.
According to security firms, millions of users might have infected their computers after click... |
1 November 2012
09:48 GMT |
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Mobile phone users in the UK can already pre-order Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 flagship handset, Lumia 920, ahead its launch tomorrow at wireless carrier EE.
The smartphone was made official in early September, but specific info on its availability was provided only this week, when Microsoft officially launched t... |
1 November 2012
09:40 GMT |
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French doctor Matthieu Ricard is a molecular geneticist, a Buddhist monk and a confidant of the Dalai Lama's. Neuroscientist Richard Davidson, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, monitored his brain activity four years ago, during a study about the effects on meditation on the human brain, and r... |
1 November 2012
09:38 GMT |
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Sprint confirmed several days ago that LG Optimus G would be available for purchase on its airwaves on November 11.
Starting today, Sprint customers can pre-order the smartphone for as low as 200 USD (155 EUR) with a new two-year agreement.
Those who do not wish to commit to a long-term contract can grab the LG Op... |
1 November 2012
09:38 GMT |
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Take-Two Interactive, the publishing partner of Grand Theft Auto V developer Rockstar Games, has just revealed its financial earnings and forecast, hinting that the open-world game might be released after March 31, 2013, in its next fiscal year.
Take-Two has been a longtime partner of Rockstar and helped with the pu... |
1 November 2012
09:36 GMT |
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In October (2012), Gigabyte installed UEFI BIOS on all its AM3+ motherboards. Now, the company is updating some socket FM1 models too.
Gigabyte used legacy Phoenix AwardBIOS on its FM1 lineup, but the time has come for UEFI BIOS to settle into their special chips as well.
The new firmware will allow the platform to... |
1 November 2012
09:32 GMT |
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Google updated the beta channel for Chrome browser. The new revision is 23.0.1271.60 and it is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame).
The fresh build brings to the table an updated V8 engine (3.13.7.5) that carries stability and performance improvements, as well as a small bat... |
1 November 2012
09:28 GMT |
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Michelle Duggar, star of TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,” isn’t exactly known for being too fashionable, up to speed with the hottest trends in styling and haircare. This is why her kids and best friend decided to surprise her on her 46th birthday.
The strictly religious Duggar got a special mak... |
1 November 2012
09:15 GMT |
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It looks like HTC’s 5-inch superphone is about to make its entrance at Verizon Wireless. We first heard about the HTC DLX less than a month ago, though no details on the phone’s release date and price tag were available at that time.
About a week ago, the handset surfaced again in a MAP list and today Ve... |
1 November 2012
09:14 GMT |
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Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope was launched in 1977 and since then there have been countless versions released, ranging from laser discs to the latest Blu-ray, but now it's available at the highest quality possible, ASCII. Who would have thought that an ASCII version of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope would ... |
1 November 2012
09:12 GMT |
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There are many gaming competitions around the world. The final of one of them took place quite recently, in Shanghai, China. Colorful has decided to celebrate it somehow.
The method to do so turned out to be quite straightforward: create a video board dedicated to the occasion.
The result was the GeForce GTX 660 Ti... |
1 November 2012
09:11 GMT |
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After rolling out a couple of days ago a development build that did away with the “black window” bug, Opera launched today the first release candidate for version 12.10.
The set of modifications integrated in this revision is pretty short and, as expected, contains only repairs. Several crash bugs have b... |
1 November 2012
09:10 GMT |
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An interesting piece of ransomware has been spotted. Unlike its predecessors, it doesn’t leverage the name of a law enforcement agency to scare its victims, but the name of the infamous hacktivist movement Anonymous. Ransomware is a piece of malware that locks up computers and asks victims to pay a certain amo... |
1 November 2012
09:08 GMT |
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Google Chrome continues to be the top browser in the world, distancing itself even further from Microsoft's Internet Explorer. But it's Firefox that had the best month – it only managed to lose a very small percentage of its market share. It's still safely in third place though.
The latest StatCounter... |
1 November 2012
09:02 GMT |
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Apparently, the fact that most men choose to shave their facial hair places considerable amounts of strain on the environment.
However, a green-oriented initiative known as “Movember” (which apparently has been around for quite some time now) wishes to put an end to this problem, simply by asking men to... |
1 November 2012
09:01 GMT |
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The word is out that iFixit has kicked off its iPad mini teardown, with plans to dissect the tablet right down to the smallest chips. Although the analysis is still underway, they’ve already removed pretty much all the parts making up the diminutive tablet.
iFixit reports that “The iPad Mini continues Ap... |
1 November 2012
08:47 GMT |
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On Monday, Google announced the upcoming availability of new devices in the popular Nexus lineup, including a Nexus 4 smartphone, two new Nexus 7 versions, and a large Nexus 10 tablet PC. All these devices will receive access to 13 mobile games from Electronic Arts right from the day when they become available for ... |
1 November 2012
08:41 GMT |
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22-year-old Andre Curry, from Chicago, was acquitted on charges of unlawful-restraint, after he bound his daughter with tape and posted the picture on Facebook. "This is wut happens wen my baby hits me back ; )," Curry had written in the description of the controversial photograph, ABC News informs. The wrists and ... |
1 November 2012
08:36 GMT |
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Calligra 2.6 Beta, an integrated suite that offers a comprehensive set of eight applications which satisfies the office, graphics and management needs of users, has been officially released. Highlights of Calligra 2.6 Beta: • Plan, the project management application, has updated scheduling information; • ... |
1 November 2012
08:35 GMT |
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Hackers part of the NullCrew collective continue to take aim at high profile websites as part of their operation against governments from all over the world.
Their latest targets are The Department of Defense Pharmacoeconomic Center (pec.ha.osd.mil), Department of Defense (defense.gov), the US National Security Age... |
1 November 2012
08:35 GMT |
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Charlie Sheen is back to his old ways, snorting cocaine and smoking crack, and burning the candle at both ends, a new report claims, citing the words of an inside source who has spent the past several months with him.
Before the meltdown that got him fired from CBS’ “Two and a Half Men,” Charlie Sh... |
1 November 2012
08:34 GMT |
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Google Earth has just been updated, but it's not just the app that's getting some attention, it's the data inside it as well.
Google has just introduced new satellite imagery, available only in Earth right now, in several areas, crucially, also in some parts of the US affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Th... |
1 November 2012
08:34 GMT |
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BitTorrent has rolled out the first release candidate for version 3.2. There aren’t too many modifications available in the changelog, but the developer has definitely improved the performance of the application.
The fresh new build number is 28407 and it incorporates a set of only two changes. The first one t... |
1 November 2012
08:26 GMT |
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Being one of the companies against the idea of Microsoft joining the hardware industry with the Surface tablet, Acer didn't get to be among the first providers of Windows RT tablets.
The earliest it is allowed to enter the fight is in 2013, around CES (Consumer Electronics Show), in January.
Between remarks ab... |
1 November 2012
08:24 GMT |
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Orcs Must Die 2, the popular action strategy game from Robot Entertainment, will receive its third downloadable content pack later today, November 1, in the form of the “Are We There Yeti?” add-on, which brings new levels and monsters, as well as spells and costumes.
Orcs Must Die 2 delivered a great act... |
1 November 2012
08:21 GMT |
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uTorrent, owned and created by the BitTorrent company, is the most popular BitTorrent client out there. It's also free, as it has always been, and it used to be lightweight as well. The price isn't changing, but BitTorrent needs to make some money. For many years, the biggest revenue source for the c... |
1 November 2012
08:11 GMT |
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The official Twitter account of famous actress and star of the movie “Liz & Dick,” Lindsay Lohan, has been hacked.
Unlike other cases in which the attackers attempted to advertise all sorts of malicious links, in this case, the hacker simply posted this: “How does Hitler tie his shoes? from @oatme... |
1 November 2012
08:05 GMT |
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Only yesterday, we reported on how, according to Greenpeace, the massive deforestations now taking place in Indonesia must be held responsible for the fact that the people inhabiting rural communities in these parts of the world are ever more often attacked by tigers. As said green-oriented organization explains, t... |
1 November 2012
08:04 GMT |
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On Thursday, a fuel truck crashing into a concrete flyover caused a massive explosion near the capital city of Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia. The first video captured after the explosion has emerged on YouTube, and it depicts a horrific incident. The blast affected traffic, having occurred in the vicinity of a major tran... |
1 November 2012
08:01 GMT |
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DataCleaner, a tool used to manage and monitor data quality, to establish the starting point and goals of a project, and to ensure a process of following up on data quality issues, is now at version 3.0.3. DataCleaner 3.0.3 focuses on stability, performance and convenience for monitoring repository maintenance. Hig... |
1 November 2012
07:39 GMT |
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Cybercriminals are advertising a shady Facebook app with the aid of posts that leverage the popularity of the latest Apple product, the iPad Mini. According to Sophos experts, it all starts with a Facebook post that reads: “Are you a Apple fan ? The Free iPad mini offer is on. Go here - [Link] to get Free iPad... |
1 November 2012
07:05 GMT |
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Apple has filed its Form 10-K annual report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), revealing changes regarding the number of people it employs, how it makes money (and how it pays it taxes), what its plans are with the real estate it owns, and more.
Apple now employs 72,800 people as "full-time equi... |
1 November 2012
07:04 GMT |
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The beta version for Google Earth 7 has been rolled out by the search giant. It follows in the footsteps of the mobile version, delivering features such as the tour guide or viewing cities in 3D.
The tour guide is exactly what it sounds like, an expert carrying the answers about nearby places, thus helping you learn... |
1 November 2012
06:56 GMT |
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We've known for some time that Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, can be blunt and even harsh when speaking his mind, so we aren't all that surprised at his attitude towards laptop displays. Torvalds has decided to pick up a matter that has been boggling the minds of the media, and... |
1 November 2012
06:51 GMT |
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While everyone was out trick or treating on Halloween, Fox kicked off the live shows of X Factor USA, now on its second season, which, as fans must know, brings a lot of changes.
One of them is Khloe Kardashian and Mario Lopez’s audition as co-hosts, which has already gotten mixed reviews because of Khloe&rsq... |
1 November 2012
06:51 GMT |
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The battle for email may seem unfashionable, but webmail clients still attract huge number of users. The three big providers, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, are battling it out and have been doing so for years. Google is the upstart, if you can call it that, and though it's taken almost a decade, Gmail is slowly... |
1 November 2012
06:50 GMT |
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Today, Lenovo made official a number of five smartphones running under Google’s Android operating system, all of them aimed at the mobile phone users in India, namely the IDEAPHONE K860, S880, S560, P700i, A60 devices.
The company appears set to assault the smartphone segment in the country on all fronts, thu... |
1 November 2012
06:47 GMT |
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Fake antivirus programs have been around for many years now, but most of them claimed to offer protection for Windows XP, Windows 7 or other older versions of the Microsoft operating system. However, with the launch of Windows 8, cybercriminals have adapted their scams.
Trend Micro experts have started spotting Fake... |
1 November 2012
06:44 GMT |
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Great-grandmother Gloria Knowles of Morden, South London, UK, was killed as she went to feed her daughter Beverley Mason's five dogs, on Tuesday night. The woman lived next door to her daughter, the Daily Mail reports. 65-year-old neighbor Kevin Hamilton heard “hysterical screaming and barking” comi... |
1 November 2012
06:40 GMT |
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Unveiled less than three weeks ago, Samsung Galaxy S III mini is available for pre-order in the UK for quite some time now.
Although Samsung promised more details on the smartphone’s exact release date would be offered in the weeks following its official launch, rumors on the upcoming availability of Galaxy S ... |
1 November 2012
06:26 GMT |
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Google Translate is not perfect. Everyone knows this, including Google. It's getting better, but it still does stupid, by our standards, mistakes.
Now, Google is acknowledging that even more and is using the strengths of machine learning translations to provide people with better results.
Google introduced se... |
1 November 2012
06:24 GMT |
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In the past period, many website owners have been complaining that Text Enhance links (advertisements) appear on certain keywords when they publish blog posts despite the fact that they’re not utilizing a free host and they haven’t installed any plugins for this purpose.
Text Enhance is a text advertisin... |
1 November 2012
06:20 GMT |
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Hurricane Sandy, the huge superstorm, called frankenstorm by some, is thankfully passing without too huge a death toll, at least compared to the disaster in Japan, in March 2011. Last we heard, there were 74 who lost their lives, which really doesn't compare to the 15,870 deaths of last year, and the 6,114 inj... |
1 November 2012
06:20 GMT |
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iTunes Match users who opted to use the paid service when it debuted last year are being reminded that their subscriptions are about to get renewed automatically.
With iTunes Match, all your music gets sucked up to iCloud for easy access from all your devices.
Aiming to avoid any confusion among iTunes users who ap... |
1 November 2012
06:18 GMT |
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Receiver, a first-person shooter created with the Unity engine, featuring a unique gameplay concept, is now available for Linux.
According to its developers, Wolfire Games, Receiver was created for the 7-day FPS challenge to explore gun handling mechanics, randomized levels, and unordered storytelling.
This means ... |
1 November 2012
06:09 GMT |
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Less than two weeks ago Google confirmed Verizon customers would be able to make purchases via Google Play store and add it to their monthly carrier bills. Although the company did not unveil exactly when this option might be available, it did mention that carrier billing for Verizon customers would be rolled out in... |
1 November 2012
06:03 GMT |
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A new flavor of the foursquare application is now available for download for the owners of BlackBerry smartphones, namely version 5.5.
The new app release did not arrive with a changelog attached to it, which makes it difficult to say what changes it was packed with.
Just as CrackBerry notes, foursquare 5.5 arriv... |
1 November 2012
06:02 GMT |
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A demo for DmC Devil May Cry might come out in late November, at least according to a retailer that claims inside information from Capcom itself.
DmC promises to reboot the entire Devil May Cry series with a bold new visual style and reimagined origins for its characters, while keeping the same stylized hack and sla... |
1 November 2012
06:00 GMT |
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Microsoft has released an updated version of its Windows Phone management software for OS X customers, adding support for Windows Phone 8 installations and several other goodies. Released with a simplified interface that blends well with OS X, Windows Phone 3.0 delivers support for smartphones equipped with the Wind... |
1 November 2012
05:59 GMT |
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The X Factor USA went live just hours ago but, despite months of speculation on how judge and mentor Britney Spears will do, it was Khloe Kardashian who actually stole the show. It wasn’t for the reason you’re thinking of. Apparently, on her first night as co-host (with the much more experienced Mario L... |
1 November 2012
05:58 GMT |
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Confirming previous revelations and reports, Sharp has announced its expectations for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2012, which happens to coincide with the third calendar quarter of this year. The numbers aren't that bad. In fact, Sharp thinks it might actually make a profit for the July-September per... |
1 November 2012
05:50 GMT |
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A Halloween party went wrong on the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles, as four people were wounded, and one is in critical condition. Four or five shots were fired on the Tutor Campus Center on the University Park campus, last night at 11:30pm local time (06:30 GMT), Los Angeles Times writes. ... |
1 November 2012
05:50 GMT |
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The looks of Apple’s iOS platform, the one that powers the iPhone, iPad and iPod devices out there, has been long seen as the base of modern smartphone interfaces, at least from Apple’s perspective. However, other mobile operating systems out there have come up with new looks to set themselves apart fro... |
1 November 2012
05:44 GMT |
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A couple of days back, police officials in Tanzania succeeded in confiscating 214 elephant tusks and 5 elephant bones hidden in several fertilizer bags.
Authorities explain that, taken together, these elephant body parts are worth roughly $1.32 million (€1.01 million) on the black market.
Moreover, it is qui... |
1 November 2012
05:35 GMT |
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Yahoo! experts warn users that a SWF security hole exists in Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) 2.
According to a post published on the YUI Blog, the vulnerability affects self-hosted YUI 2 SWF files, but customers of YUI 3 and those of YUI 2 via yui.yahooapis.com or a different CDN are not affected by the flaw.
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1 November 2012
05:30 GMT |
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BioWare is celebrating Halloween in Mass Effect 3 and has just kicked off a special series of challenges for the game’s multiplayer mode, tasking players with completing certain objectives in order to unlock a unique Halloween banner.
Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer mode has become a much more dynamic experi... |
1 November 2012
05:26 GMT |
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E=mc2 is the world's best known equation. "Best known" here means that people know what it looks like, few actually understand what it means.
But few people know that it's an incomplete equation; it only applies to static objects which, relatively speaking, aren’t many, if at all.
The full equation, E2 ... |
1 November 2012
05:26 GMT |
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It looks like Japanese handset maker Fujitsu decided to enter the Indian mobile phone market. The company has just announced it has teamed up with Indian carrier Tata Docomo to bring Android enthusiasts the Fujitsu F-074 smartphone. The folks at AndroidOS report the device has been originally launched in Japan last ... |
1 November 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Jessica Simpson is looking mighty foxy these days. Hours ago, the star unveiled a Halloween family portrait on Twitter, in which she’s rocking some serious vampy fashion and a much slimmer figure.
Ever since she was still pregnant, there was a lot of talk and, unfortunately, negative attention, on Jessica&rsq... |
1 November 2012
05:19 GMT |
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There's nothing like celebrity endorsement when trying to promote a product, but Acer's commercial involving Megan Fox and the Aspire S7 Windows 8 ultrabook seems to have missed the point.
Yes, Acer has released a commercial involving Megan Fox and the aforementioned ultrabook. Unfortunately, the S7 only g... |
1 November 2012
05:18 GMT |
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We reported about the Ubuntu Powered Parallella Supercomputer and the company that tries to build it when they were raising money through Kickstarter. It seems that their initiative was more than successful.
Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone is a project that will provide an affordable supercomputer for regul... |
1 November 2012
05:18 GMT |
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The MegaUpload saga continues, as usual. Users hoping to retrieve lost files they stored on MegaUpload, for safekeeping, are going to have to wait for a long time, that's if the judge decides they can retrieve their data. One Ohio man, Kyle Goodwin, with the help of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sued the... |
1 November 2012
05:14 GMT |
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Motorola is one of the companies holding a great deal of patents for wireless technology, which provides it with the high ground when engaging into battles with other smartphone makers out there.
Apple is one of the vendors that entered such a dispute with Motorola, and the Cupertino-based giant appears to be on th... |
1 November 2012
05:05 GMT |
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Shortly after announcing Lumia 820 and 920 are shipping to selected markets, Nokia launches a new budget-friendly feature-phone in the 1xx series. Nokia 109 will be available for purchase this quarter for only $42 USD (32 EUR) before any local taxes or carrier subsidies. The handset will be initially launched in C... |
1 November 2012
05:05 GMT |
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As expected, scammers and spammers have already stepped into play, trying to make a profit from those directly or indirectly affected by Hurricane Sandy. Experts have started spotting spam emails advertising all sorts of shady products and services. One of the unsolicited emails that might land in your inbox these d... |
1 November 2012
05:03 GMT |
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The hard drive market has been declining over the past few years, but Seagate is one of the few companies that has firmly held on.
The company definitely has something to celebrate now: it has finally crossed the 2 billion sales milestone.
The way Seagate reached that number is strange. It took 28 year (Seagate was... |
1 November 2012
05:00 GMT |
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Apple on Wednesday tapped select members of its developer community to inform them of a new testing initiative involving the upcoming version of Mountain Lion – OS X 10.8.3.
People familiar with the matter say the invites were only sent to a select few developers, suggesting Apple is looking to keep development unde... |
1 November 2012
04:58 GMT |
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A woman was caught on tape verbally abusing black commuters on a train in Woolwich Arsenal to Abbey Wood in south-east London, in the UK, on October 30. "Go home where you belong... You might have been born here, but I bet your grandparents weren't," the woman yells at black passengers on the subway, unprovoked.... |
1 November 2012
04:57 GMT |
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This Halloween, Ellen DeGeneres tried to walk a mile in the high heels of “Modern Family” stunner Sofia Vergara, as the video above will confirm. If not for the ridiculous fake accent, at least for the wardrobe malfunction, this video is a must-see.
At the Emmys 2012, the zipper on Sofia’s gorgeous... |
1 November 2012
04:55 GMT |
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Zope is a Python-based framework for building secure web applications and Zope 2 is a legacy framework, which is kept alive to support existing applications built on top of it. Even though Zope2 is no longer the framework of choice for new projects, it doesn't mean that there aren't any new updates for it.... |
1 November 2012
04:54 GMT |
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This past Sunday, the staff at the Lindsay Wildlife Museum, California had to part with three orphaned gray foxes which were returned to the wild after being looked after for roughly six months at said wildlife sanctuary.
The baby foxes were found abandoned in a backyard quite a while ago, and the people who helped... |
1 November 2012
04:50 GMT |
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Borderlands 2 has shipped over 5 million units since its launch in September, with publisher Take-Two Interactive confirming that it’s on track to become one of the most successful titles ever released under its 2K Games label.
Borderlands 2 has been awaited by millions of fans from all around the world and de... |
1 November 2012
04:47 GMT |
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Google is making it a bit easier to share stuff from Google Drive with friends, fans and colleagues by adding a "share on Google+" option. If you use Google+ and if the people you're trying to share with also use Google+, a couple of big "ifs," the new method could come in handy, compared to the alternative, s... |
1 November 2012
04:44 GMT |
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Kingston's latest product is a strange piece of work, not because of its nature or performance capabilities, but due to the sales policy that the company chose to implement.
For a microSDXC memory card with a capacity of 64 GB, one might say that the price of $100 (77-100 Euro) is more or less fair.
We aren&... |
1 November 2012
04:42 GMT |
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Several cadets suffered concussions, cuts and even a bite during a brawl, at the Air Force Academy in Denver, Colorado. The incident happened during an initiation ritual marking the first snowfall this year. According to the Huffington Post, what was meant to be a "teachable moment," as Academy officials put it, bec... |
1 November 2012
04:40 GMT |
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Lumia 920 and Lumia 820, Nokia’s first handsets to arrive on shelves with Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 8 operating system loaded on them, will also offer support for 4G LTE networks when made available.
They are not the first handsets to provide users with this capability, but they are offering it to m... |
1 November 2012
04:38 GMT |
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Apple has set up an iTunes page for customers looking to help the survivors of Superstorm Sandy. You can use it to make a monetary donation to the American Red Cross knowing that all proceedings from the donation will go to the ones affected by the hurricane.
Users only need to click the Donate button under the amou... |
1 November 2012
04:38 GMT |
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Only yesterday, the World Wildlife Fund made is public news that, according to one of their latest estimates, roughly 18,704 tonnes of live bluefin tuna were traded via Panama between 2000 and 2010. This was done without the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas ever hearing a word ab... |
1 November 2012
04:34 GMT |
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano claims that hackers are constantly attacking financial institutions from the United States. “Right now, financial institutions are actively under attack. We know that. I'm not giving you any classified information,” Napolitano said at a cybe... |
1 November 2012
04:34 GMT |
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Kate Moss rarely does in-depth interviews, often saying she likes to keep some things to herself, especially if they concern only her. In her new book, excerpts of which are published in the latest issue of Vanity Fair, Kate talks about the breakdown she had when she first started in the industry.
Few are those wit... |
1 November 2012
04:34 GMT |
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Dead Island: Riptide, the upcoming sequel to the 2011 surprise hit Dead Island, will be released in April 2013, according to publisher Deep Silver, who has also confirmed two special versions of the game.
Dead Island impressed a lot of people back in 2011 with its pretty decent first-person zombie-killing experience... |
1 November 2012
04:18 GMT |
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Ben Hutchings announced yesterday, October 31, the immediate availability for download of Linux kernel 3.2.33. Linux kernel 3.2.33 introduces a lot of various fixes, as well as driver improvements, network fixes, and improved Arch support. Highlights of Linux kernel 3.2.33 LTS: • ptrace interaction with force... |
1 November 2012
04:10 GMT |
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Yet another multi-touch monitor has made its appearance, one whose name clearly spells out what the product has that others do no. The release of Microsoft's Windows 8 prompted its creation. LG's press release is long and verbose, but the company doesn't actually specify exactly what the technical de... |
1 November 2012
04:05 GMT |
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Yesterday's online edition of the journal ACS Nano witnessed the publication of a new study stating that, based on previous long-term laboratory work, a team of scientists working with the Stanford University succeeded in developing the world's first all-carbon solar cells. As these researchers explain, t... |
1 November 2012
04:04 GMT |
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A new flavor of the popular ES File Explorer is now available for download for devices powered by Google’s Android operating system.
Released today as version 1.6.2.2, the new app iteration brings along some new features, including the possibility to send .apk files using the Bluetooth connectivity of the dev... |
1 November 2012
04:03 GMT |
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Famous rapper Lil Wayne has been declared dead once again by pranksters. False rumors circulating on social media networks claim that he died because of a drug overdose. Twitter is currently being flooded with tweets such as “RIP Lil' Wayne 1997 – 2008,” “Lil Wayne dead! RIP king of rap,... |
1 November 2012
03:58 GMT |
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Accountant Jitender Kumar Mohla has been imprisoned since 2009 for giving the pilots on a Goa-Delhi Indigo Airlines flight a scare. As the man's trial came to an end, he was sentenced to life in jail. According to Mid Day, the man walked into the cockpit on February 1, 2009, and claimed he was armed with infect... |
1 November 2012
03:54 GMT |
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Even though he usually steers clear from endorsement deals because that would imply spending more time with the media, Robert Pattinson has signed a new deal with Dior, thus becoming the face of the brand.
Nothing is confirmed at this point, but E! News notes it has it on excellent authority that the actor is &ldquo... |
1 November 2012
03:52 GMT |
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Apple has released a new version of its Configurator application that makes it easy to mass-configure and deploy iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch in schools, businesses, and institutions in general.
Configurator presents administrators with three workflows that let them prepare new iOS devices for distribution. The util... |
1 November 2012
03:47 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has just shared some interesting details about its financial performance, confirming that it’s recorded a massive increase in terms of profit from digital ventures, like the Battlefield Premium bundle which has just sold over 2 million units. Battlefield 3 generated a huge amount of sales for f... |
1 November 2012
03:39 GMT |
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BlackBerry 10, the next-generation mobile operating system coming from Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion, is already being tested by over 50 carriers around the world, the company confirmed on Wednesday.
The handset vendor is determined to make the first devices running under the new platform available... |
1 November 2012
03:29 GMT |
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As it has already been a while since the first hybrid HDDs (more recently called solid-state hybrid HDDs / SSHD) were introduced, Seagate figured it was time it broadened the scope of these storage devices. Seagate's hybrid hard drives have been available only to notebook makers for the past five years. The co... |
1 November 2012
03:27 GMT |
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Little Elm, in Denton County, Texas, is now home to the Dark Path Haunt, a $12,000 (€9,260) haunted house built in one man's backyard. Dan Baker built his very own thrill house for Halloween, with the help of neighbors and friends' donations, and he is offering free admission. “We’ve ... |
1 November 2012
03:18 GMT |
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Famous and famously virgin American football quarterback Tim Tebow has found a new lady love or, as some media outlets are calling her, a new temptation. He and Camilla Belle were photographed out on a date just a few hours ago.
TMZ has the photo, as well as a possible indication that the romance might actually go ... |
1 November 2012
02:23 GMT |
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Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a few hours ago, October 31, the immediate availability for download of the fifth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.6 kernel series.
Linux kernel 3.6.5 includes mostly updated drivers, some ARM fixes, a few filesystem improvements, and network drivers updates.
“I'm ... |
1 November 2012
02:05 GMT |
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