99 articles found
This has certainly been an interesting week. Hackers from all around the world have celebrated Guy Fawkes Day in a typical manner, researchers have found vulnerabilities, and hacktivists of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters collective have offered us an exclusive interview.
The interview focuses on the group&r... |
10 November 2012
23:31 GMT |
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Baldur’s Gate 2: Enhanced Edition will get a launch date during summer of 2013 and will allow players to get access to the much-loved role-playing game, complete with support for modern devices and new content.
Baldur’s Gate 2: Enhanced Edition is being developed by Overhaul games, the company that is cu... |
10 November 2012
21:31 GMT |
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Pulse News 3.0.1 is out with a bunch of new features for those who enjoy reading the news on their iDevices, including the new iPad mini. Pulse News has been optimized for the diminutive tablet PC, and now features unlimited pages. More, below.Alphonso Labs Inc. says the new Pulse News in the iTunes App Store has bee... |
10 November 2012
20:41 GMT |
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The classical point and click adventure Memento Mori has just landed on Steam. Created back in 2008 by the folks at Centauri Production, the game's graphics has been overhauled to meet the minimum requirements for today's standards.Although the Steam variant of Memento Mori uses an enhanced version of the g... |
10 November 2012
20:31 GMT |
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When World War II finally started, I decided to do the only honorable thing that could be done, something that in real life my country has never managed, and send my limited ground forces, no more than three full army groups with 15 divisions to try and slow down the German advance into Poland.
At the same time, I s... |
10 November 2012
18:51 GMT |
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Following our previous articles, Ubuntu GitHub Lens, Ubuntu Shopping Alternate Lens, Photo Lens, Radio Lens, RuneScape Wikia Lens, German Ubuntu Forum Lens, Web History Lens, Rotten Tomatoes Scope, Clear Dark Sky Lens, DuckDuckGo Lens, News Lens, Pidgin Lens, Bliss Lens, Wikipedia Lens, Bookmarks Lens, ManPages Searc... |
10 November 2012
17:33 GMT |
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A researcher working with the University of Missouri (MU) now claims that a chemical compound typically found in grapes and red wine can successfully be used to up the efficiency of radiation treatment intended to tackle prostate cancer.
Apparently, this chemical compound, known as resveratrol, has long been known ... |
10 November 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Glib, the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME and that provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces, is now at version 2.34.2.Highlights of Glib 2.34.2:• Support for GNU/FreeBSD distribution has been added to the library;• Annotatio... |
10 November 2012
16:21 GMT |
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The entry-level Alcatel One Touch 903 has just landed at Three UK. The carrier offers the smartphone from £10/€12/$16 a month with no upfront cost on the Essential Internet 50 plan. Both the Essential Internet and Ultimate Internet plans are a perfect match up for this Alcatel device.Additionally, customer... |
10 November 2012
16:01 GMT |
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OpenMW, a new engine for The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind that aims to be a fully playable and improved open source implementation of the game's engine and functionality is now at version 0.19.0. Highlights of OpenMW 0.19.0:• ‘Sleep’ and ‘wait’ options have been implemented;• The ... |
10 November 2012
15:52 GMT |
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Valve announces that the Warcelona campaign for Left 4 Dead 2 is now available for download for all those who have the base game and are interesting in playing four more missions designed to test their undead killing skills.
The maps included in the campaign, as the name indicates, are set in the beautiful Spanish c... |
10 November 2012
15:48 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 10, the one that’s currently available for Windows 8 exclusively, is a much more secure version of the Microsoft browser, a security expert has confirmed a couple of days ago.
The InPrivate browsing tool, the App Container sandbox and the built-in Adobe Flash Player make Internet Explorer 10 ... |
10 November 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Only recently, the US Forest Service decided that, despite several complaints filed by environmentalists and concerned citizens, corporate giant Arch Coal must be allowed to expand one of its coal mines (i.e. West Elk) into the Colorado wilderness.
More precisely, the US Forest Service ruled against an appeal filed... |
10 November 2012
15:21 GMT |
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It was not very long ago when diver Dylan Mayer saw fit to throw a live octopus in the back of his truck, drive it home, kill it and feed on it.
Although several Asian and Mediterranean countries are quite fond of eating representatives of this marine species, it seems that Dylan Mayer's actions fueled rather ... |
10 November 2012
15:21 GMT |
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A new support document has appeared on Apple’s web site titled “Macbook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012): Subtle white lines may appear in Mission Control.” The Mac maker acknowledges a graphical glitch on 13-inch Retina systems, offering a fix.The Cupertino giant says “When you use Mission Co... |
10 November 2012
15:11 GMT |
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After getting an estimated release schedule, as well as lots of artwork and screenshots, Grand Theft Auto V has finally received some official details this week, in the form of a massive cover story on Game Informer magazine.
While we’ve learned plenty of impressive things from the reveal, like the fact that its vir... |
10 November 2012
15:11 GMT |
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The hardware market is slowly but surely migrating to Windows 8 and because Microsoft clearly needs all consumers to make the move to its new OS, the company is working with its partners on some very special discounts.
According to a report by Digitimes, Microsoft and Intel are planning to cut prices of Windows 8 de... |
10 November 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Mexico City is now home to a so-called Portal of Awareness, which is basically an urban installation made up of 1,497 metal coffee cups fitted on reinforcing bars.
Inhabitat reports that Nescafé (i.e. the company responsible for this project) wished to make a case of how most of the items that cross our path... |
10 November 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Pentoo, a security-focused livecd based on Gentoo with lots of customized tools, customized kernel, tons of other features, is now at version 2012.0 Beta 3.The Pentoo development team has acknowledged that every single 32-bit release they have done so far has been a failure. As a result, version 2012.0 Beta 3 of Pent... |
10 November 2012
14:43 GMT |
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Samsung ATIV S, the first Windows Phone 8 handset from the South Korean mobile phone maker, is now available for purchase in the UK via online retailer Expansys.
The handset was put up for sale at £449.99 ($715 / 563 Euro) with 16GB of internal memory, and is listed as shipping in less than 5 days to those wh... |
10 November 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Most people know football from the Champions League, the European top club competition that has the best players and the biggest teams in the game, and from the World Cup, the competition that focuses on national teams and showcases extraordinary solid matches.
Here the passes are accurate, the shots mostly on targe... |
10 November 2012
14:11 GMT |
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After about three years of research and numerous experiments, researchers in Taiwan have finally succeeded in growing the world's first fluorescent pink angelfish.
In order to obtain this new breed, scientists had to collect florescent proteins from a species of corals that usually live in the waters near Taiw... |
10 November 2012
13:21 GMT |
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For the third year in a row, Apple Inc. has been named the world’s most innovative company by analysts at Booz & Co. The study also found that Apple, for all its impressive earnings, continues to spend a lot less than its rivals on research and development.Booz & Co says Apple not only topped the rankings again... |
10 November 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Now that Windows 8 is already on the market, Microsoft’s biggest challenge is to convince users to abandon previous Windows versions and migrate to this new OS build.
Although it’s 11 years old, Windows XP remains one of the most popular Windows versions out there and it still runs on millions of compute... |
10 November 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Kwort, a modern Linux distribution based on CRUX that combines useful applications in order to create a simple system for advanced users, has just reached version 3.5 RC1. Highlights of Kwort Linux 3.5 RC1:• Linux kernel has been updated to version 3.5.4;• The latest Chromium internet browser has been updat... |
10 November 2012
12:22 GMT |
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Lumia 920, Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone 8 handset, will arrive on shelves in China as Lumia 920T, apparently with a series of enhancements over the international flavor of the device.
The phone is expected to hit shelves in the country with a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus processor inside, with an Adreno 320 ... |
10 November 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Kirby is a flat-file CMS that takes its structure from the folder tree and stores all content in simple .txt text files. Developed out of the need of managing a website from the file-system instead of a Web-based admin panel, Kirby allows webmasters or simple users to change the content and structure of a site just ... |
10 November 2012
12:01 GMT |
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The Redmond-based technology company Microsoft thinks that partners could really take advantage of its recently-released products, as consumers are pretty interested in what the Surface RT and Windows 8 have to offer.
Microsoft’s execs said at Tech Data's TechSelect conference in Puerto Rico that partners... |
10 November 2012
11:51 GMT |
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AntiX, a fast, lightweight and easy to install Linux Live CD distribution based on Debian Testing and MEPIS, for Intel-AMD x86 compatible systems, is now at version 12.5 Alpha 2. AntiX 12.5 Alpha 2 comes with just a few changes and updates, but, more importantly, with a version for the 64-bit architecture. Highlig... |
10 November 2012
11:51 GMT |
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In recent years, a great number of applications and plug-ins for controlling iTunes have sprung up and, since this kind of utility is on high demand nowadays, more and more developers still create them. iTunes controllers vary from really simple to quite complex ones. Some of them can even control desktop clients f... |
10 November 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Much has been said (and written) about Rihanna and her on and off relationship with Chris Brown, and perhaps more will be said once her new album, “Unapologetic,” comes out, because it features another duet with him. Called “Nobodies Business,” the song has already gotten many people talking... |
10 November 2012
11:31 GMT |
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HTC's Windows Phone flagship handset, the 8X is now available for purchase in the UK from multiple carriers and leading retailers.Three UK is now offering the HTC 8X for £30/€35/$45 a month with an upfront cost of £29/€35/$45 on the Ultimate Internet 500 plan. The smartphone is available bo... |
10 November 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Handsome Tim Tebow, the American football quarterback famous for his skills on the field, his good looks and the fact that he’s saving himself for marriage, has finally found the “woman of his dreams,” an unconfirmed report says.
That would be Camilla Belle, who previously dated Joe Jonas (another ... |
10 November 2012
11:01 GMT |
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In a knowledge-base article posted online this weekend, Apple informs photography fans that “Aperture may quit on launch after update to Aperture 3.4.2.” The company proposes a clean re-install as a fix, providing the necessary instructions to get the job done properly.Under Symptoms, Apple notes that &ld... |
10 November 2012
10:51 GMT |
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The folks at Klei Entertaiment, creators of Mark of the Ninja stealth-based game, are back with another title, “Don't Starve.”Although this is a work in progress, the game has been listed on Steam and is now available for purchase for 20%. Check it out here.Those who pre-purchase “Don't St... |
10 November 2012
10:50 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola is gearing up for the release of new operating system upgrades for some of its users, and has just announced a series of changes to the manner in which users have access to them.
In addition to officially announcing the upcoming availability of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean for its DROID RAZR M... |
10 November 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Sylpheed, a simple, lightweight and easy-to-use e-mail client, which features an intuitive user-interface designed for keyboard-oriented use, is now at version 3.3.Sylpheed 3.3 is an update of the stable branch and packs quite a lot of new features and changes. Highlights of Sylpheed 3.3:• The ability of opening... |
10 November 2012
10:38 GMT |
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Here's a cool photo in which you can see Jupiter and its moon Europa in 3D without any glasses or any sort of equipment, or go crazy trying to cross your eyes to see the effect. Either way you win. The photo, photos actually, were taken recently from the Jaicoa Observatory in Puerto Rico. It's a shot of Jup... |
10 November 2012
10:31 GMT |
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One of the many applications that allows users to take control of their LED functionality, Light Flow has just been updated to expand compatibility with additional devices and apps.Although most Samsung Galaxy S III owners have troubles using this Light Flow app, it appears that it's Samsung fault and not develo... |
10 November 2012
10:04 GMT |
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CNN anchor Don Lemon and actor Jonah Hill are the latest celebrities to take their personal feuds on Twitter and, from there on, on TV. It all started from a chance encounter in a hotel lobby when, Lemon says, Hill treated him “like the help.”
Oh No They Didn’t has a screencap of the things they sa... |
10 November 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Those who are new to the Mac, or just getting acquainted to the latest additions in OS X, might want to check out Apple’s “Mac 101: Launchpad” Support document, as it describes the functionality of OS X’s application launcher in great detail.Apple says “Launchpad lets you see, organize, ... |
10 November 2012
09:33 GMT |
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Microsoft has just released a brand new Windows 8 commercial that tries to make the most of Angry Birds and its dedicated version for this new operating system.
As you’ve probably heard, Angry Birds Star Wars has landed not only on the traditional PC platform, but also on Windows 8 and can be downloaded in les... |
10 November 2012
09:31 GMT |
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The latest Xbox 360 dashboard update that appeared back in October has delivered a variety of impressive things, but one of the more hidden features has now been uncovered. This allows console owners to store up to 32GB of data onto memory sticks connected via the device's USB port, a massive increase over the 1... |
10 November 2012
09:31 GMT |
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It's been only a few days since Team17 Digital released the Worms Revolution Mars DLC Pack, and now the original game is getting its first patch.
The first update for Worms Revolution brings several major changes, including improvements and bug fixes.
Firstly, developers added Player Profiles, which means pla... |
10 November 2012
09:12 GMT |
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This week, owners of Windows Phone 8 devices have had the chance to get a taste of two games from the popular publisher Rovio, namely Angry Birds Space and Angry Birds Star Wars.
Owners of handsets powered by Windows Phone 7.5 were left out of the deal, but it seems that thing might change in the not too distant fut... |
10 November 2012
09:11 GMT |
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One of the young girls to rise to international stardom thanks to the Internet is Valeria Lukyanova, a Russian girl who is both a model and a singer. In a new interview with V Magazine, Valeria denies she’s ever had any work done.
Valeria rose to fame earlier this year, when websites like Jezebel and Gawker fo... |
10 November 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Google's a large enough company that it's working on a lot of things at the same time. For a while, there was a focus on creating small relatively independent teams inside Google working on whatever they wanted to. This didn't work out so well for the Slide team, but it may be working for the Niantic L... |
10 November 2012
09:11 GMT |
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A few months back, BitTorrent managed to get a lot of its users up in arms by announcing that uTorrent will start featuring ads. BitTorrent needs to make some money, but people were obviously annoyed at the idea of having ads inside their app. The backlash got to BitTorrent who backed down and promised to make the ad... |
10 November 2012
08:51 GMT |
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With the Mitt Romney catastrophe avoided, as far as NASA is concerned, the US agency is safe to announce more ambitious plans for space exploration. Well, they would be ambitious if this were 1960, but we'll take what we can.
NASA plans to go beyond Earth orbit in manned missions for the first time in decades.... |
10 November 2012
08:11 GMT |
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It only took two release candidates for uTorrent 3.2 to reach a stable version. The list of modifications for transitioning to this development stage from the last RC consists in a single entry, which notes that the problem with peer ID bug causing disconnects has been eliminated.
However, in order to get here, uTor... |
10 November 2012
07:56 GMT |
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In addition to Nokia’s Lumia 920 and Lumia 820, AT&T has also made available for purchase on its network the new Windows Phone 8X by HTC, providing users with a wide range of options when it comes to choosing a Windows Phone 8 device.
HTC’s flagship handset is available with either 16GB of internal memo... |
10 November 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Facebook, being the largest site on the planet and not content with that, is always testing new features and changes, to the despair of most of its users.
But while the users moan and complain, they don't go anywhere and most of the time, the changes are for the best, people just don't like to change all ... |
10 November 2012
07:41 GMT |
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After the cheating scandal of last summer, word got out that Universal no longer wanted to work with either Kristen Stewart or director Rupert Sanders, so a sequel to “Snow White and the Huntsman” became an impossibility. Not so fast, Kristen says in a new interview, as the video below will confirm. W... |
10 November 2012
07:41 GMT |
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22-year-old store attendant Denise Helms, from California, was fired over a racist Facebook post. Employer Cold Stone Creamery, in Turlock, California, removed Helms from her position after being flooded by angry tweets about her disturbing political and social views, Sacramento Fox 40 reports. Helms referred to the... |
10 November 2012
07:31 GMT |
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China has churned up a fake iPhone 5 called Hero H2000+. It replicates the look and feel of the original (to some extent) and runs Android OS version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Scambook gave the phone a quick video review concluding that the “H2000+ could still be considered a reasonable alternative.” The ... |
10 November 2012
07:27 GMT |
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Sony has confirmed that it will be taking the PlayStation Network offline for maintenance in Europe on Monday morning.Sony's PSN is playing a bigger and bigger role in the future of the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Vita, with more and more big games being distributed digitally via the PS Store right when th... |
10 November 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Reports reveal that Paula Broadwell is the infamous “other woman” that led to the CIA director's demise. Petraeus is not the only one taking the heat on this matter, as Broadwell is now facing an investigation, following her alleged break into the director's email account.
General David Petraeu... |
10 November 2012
07:17 GMT |
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This week, UK wireless carrier Three has made available for purchase a new Android-based smartphone from Japanese handset vendor Sony Mobile, namely the Xperia J.
The handset comes with a price tag of £149.99 plus a top up on Pay As You Go plans, and is available for £13 a month with no upfront cost on ... |
10 November 2012
07:16 GMT |
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One of the biggest pop stars since Justin Bieber is, without a doubt, Carly Rae Jepsen, who actually happens to be Bieber’s protégée. An Ukrainian singer Aza is now saying that Carly’s “Call Me Maybe” is a shameless ripoff of her “Hunky Santa.”
Aza has filed a copyri... |
10 November 2012
07:13 GMT |
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With more than 20 years on the market, WinZip is among the veterans when it comes to file compression. It has recently switched to version 17 and, this weekend, we have 20 licenses to give away for the latest version. All you have to do is “concoct” a comment, sprinkle it with a pinch of “awesome&... |
10 November 2012
07:01 GMT |
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Ruby 1.9.3-p327 has been released. The update brings a number of bug fixes, but it also addresses a serious hash-flooding denial-of-service (DOS) vulnerability which affects all older Ruby 1.9 versions and 2.0 variants prior to the 37575 trunk revision.
The security hole – identified by Jean-Philippe Aumasson,... |
10 November 2012
06:59 GMT |
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Tom Cruise may be going through hell in his personal life but, as far as his career goes, he’s never been in a better place. Next year will see him in another sci-fi action film, “All You Need Is Kill,” directed by Doug Liman.
Above is the first official photo from the film, click on the image to ... |
10 November 2012
06:40 GMT |
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Calibre is one of the best ebook management software available right now, but its strength lies in the abundance of plugins available for it.
This week, we’ll take a look at an interesting plugin called “Medical Reader.” According to the developer, this plugin allows users to create an ebook articl... |
10 November 2012
06:37 GMT |
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28-year-old businessman Tse Man-lai has been sentenced to nine months in prison for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against the news website of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx).
The attacks, which forced the organization to suspend trading for several stocks, were launched on August 12 and ... |
10 November 2012
06:35 GMT |
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Barack Obama remains the president of the United States, but we all know that such a historical moment has a pretty strong impact on the WWW industry too.
Microsoft has decided to release the top overall election searches, revealing that “Barack Obama” was the second most used search query on its very ow... |
10 November 2012
06:24 GMT |
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The arrival of iCloud last year improved numerous Apple services that got inherited from its predecessor, MobileMe. But not iDisk. In fact, iDisk was completely phased out, leaving numerous customers without their handy sync folder.All that is history now, as Sebastian Hallum Clarke has this nifty little app for you ... |
10 November 2012
06:23 GMT |
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After Barack Obama was re-elected President of the United States, one woman from Turlock, Denise Helms by her name, took to her Facebook page to vent, saying she hoped someone would assassinate him on his second run. The Secret Service is looking into the threat.
Below, embedded at the end of this article, is a vid... |
10 November 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Only yesterday, the World Wildlife Fund made it public news that a man guilty of having illegally traded rhino horns taken from animals in South Africa was sentenced to 40 years in prison by Johannesburg’s Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court. Apparently, the man was left with no choice but to plead guilty t... |
10 November 2012
06:15 GMT |
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ESET experts warn that the volume of Win32/TrojanDownloader.Wauchos malware detections has spiked over the past days in the United Kingdom. Although the malware is somewhat old (from May 2012), it currently accounts for 24% of UK detections.
The malware has been detected in other European countries as well, such as ... |
10 November 2012
06:11 GMT |
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ClamXav 2.3.3 Build 270 is out for security-aware Mac users who prefer to spend their money on something other than a paid anti-virus app. A free anti-virus checker designed exclusively for OS X computers, ClamXav uses the popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as its back-end to spot threats that target both M... |
10 November 2012
06:00 GMT |
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Many Google services were blocked in China on Friday. Sites such as YouTube have been blocked for years, but now services that regularly work became inaccessible from mainland China. Google confirmed that it saw a drop in traffic from China to some of its properties and said there was no problem on its side. Howev... |
10 November 2012
05:53 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion announced a few days ago the availability of a slew of premium apps for free for customers in its homeland market, and the company appears to have extended the offer to users in India as well.
Various apps worth a total of Rs. 2000 ($37 / 29 Euro) are now available for... |
10 November 2012
05:50 GMT |
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It was not very long ago when Donald Trump argued that wind turbines were plain ugly and ruined landscapes.
The time has now come for Stephen Colbert to draw attention to the “dangers” of wind turbines and other means of harvesting renewable energy sources.
As he points out, people living close to win... |
10 November 2012
05:43 GMT |
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Iran’s nuclear facilities weren’t the only ones affected by Stuxnet back in 2010. The same year, the malware also made its way to the systems of Chevron – the American oil giant.
Mark Koelmel, the company’s general manager of the earth sciences department, told The Wall Street Journal that al... |
10 November 2012
05:42 GMT |
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On Friday, November 9, 2012, Motorola and Verizon Wireless started the deployment of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean for the owners of DROID RAZR M devices in the United States.
The software update has been confirmed as rolling out in phases, and should reach all users in a matter of weeks.
At the moment, the new platform... |
10 November 2012
05:28 GMT |
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2-year-old Dante Berry, declared missing from his home in Mildura, Australia, on Tuesday, November 6, at around 8:30 p.m., is now safe and sound. Police found Dante alongside his loyal German Shepard, who never left his side throughout his ordeal. Parents alerted the police of the toddler's disappearance as h... |
10 November 2012
05:25 GMT |
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An Indian hacker that goes by the name of Godzilla claims to have breached a server operated by Bangladesh’s Army, on which the army.mil.bd website is hosted.
To demonstrate his findings, the hacker has published some server and internal network configuration details on Pastebin.
“Stop supporting terro... |
10 November 2012
05:24 GMT |
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It may be hard to believe, but WinZip has been around for more than 20 years. With each release, the application has proved that it can keep up with the times, and has improved and extended its functionality. WinZip 17 has recently been released, bringing to the table features that turn it into a central hub for arc... |
10 November 2012
05:21 GMT |
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With the first Windows Phone 8 devices already available for purchase in various markets around the world, Microsoft is putting its marketing machinery in motion to start promoting the mobile operating system.
We’ve already had the chance to have a look at some video ads for the platform, and a new one is now rolli... |
10 November 2012
04:59 GMT |
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Hackers of the ZComany Hacking Crew (ZHC) have breached and defaced the website of the English Defence League (englishdefenceleague.org) – a far-right British organization.
The hackers accuse the site’s administrators of “harassing innocent people and stealing money from them to fund their racist a... |
10 November 2012
04:59 GMT |
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If you listen closely, you will hear millions of teen girls screaming for joy that their idol, Justin Bieber, is back on the market. The Biebs and his girlfriend of almost 2 years, Selena Gomez, have called it quits.
As of now, there’s no official confirmation on the breakup but E! News says it has it on very... |
10 November 2012
04:48 GMT |
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Windows 8 comes with a factory-installed version of DirectX 11.11, the latest version of the 3D graphics API that features plenty of improvements, including stereoscopic 3D support.
While this could pretty much improve the viewing experience of any game or application designed for new-generation graphic cards from N... |
10 November 2012
04:47 GMT |
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Owners of a Galaxy S III smartphone on Verizon Wireless' network can now download and install a new leaked Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean ROM for their devices.
The ROM has made an appearance over at the XDA-Developers and is said to be a final build of the official platform release for the smartphone.
No specific... |
10 November 2012
04:46 GMT |
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Indian army troops deployed along the China-India border report over one hundred appearances of UFOs, hovering in the sky in the Indian Ladakh in Jammu, Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh areas. The sightings span over the last three months, according to the India Times. Reports describe “yellowish spheres” h... |
10 November 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Blizzard Entertainment, the company behind hit games like World of Warcraft, StarCraft 2 or Diablo 3, has been sued in a class-action suit by angry users who are upset over the recent hacking suffered by the studio's Battle.net system, as well as the fact that they're pretty much forced to buy Authenticator... |
10 November 2012
04:04 GMT |
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Lindsay Lohan has pulled out of a scheduled promotional appearance on ABC’s 20/20 segment with Barbara Walters, it has emerged. Reports say that Walters planned to make the interview too personal, so Lohan bailed.
Her big comeback is supposed to be Lifetime’s biopic “Liz & Dick,” which she s... |
10 November 2012
04:04 GMT |
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Reports of splitting Surface Touch Cover keep coming, but the Redmond-based technology giant Microsoft has finally confirmed that this is a problem affecting a “limited” number of units.
Consumers turned to online forums to complain about the issue and contacted Microsoft’s Stores for a solution, b... |
10 November 2012
04:03 GMT |
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Cosmo the God, the now-famous 15-year-old UGNazi hacker, has been sentenced by a juvenile court. The sentence doesn’t involve prison, but something that could be described by some as being worse: for the next six years, he will not be allowed to use the Internet.
According to Wired, until he turns 21, Cosmo c... |
10 November 2012
03:42 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto V might be more than six months away from launch, but the development team at Rockstar says that it will enhance the side activities system of the game significantly, making it more interesting for players to spend hours in the game world away from the core quests. The biggest inspiration has been t... |
10 November 2012
03:40 GMT |
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Franco Banfi, 53-year-old diver, photographer and snake aficionado from Switzerland, has captured a gigantic anaconda on camera, while scouting the Mato Grosso do Sul river, in Brazil. He saw six 26-foot (8 meter) long anacondas in Mato Grosso, but wasn't attacked by them, nor was he scared. These snakes prey o... |
10 November 2012
03:38 GMT |
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Mobile phone users in the United States can now head over to AT&T’s stores and purchase one of the two handsets that Nokia has made official with Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 8 operating system, namely Lumia 920 and Lumia 820. Both devices are now available for purchase on the wireless carrier’s ... |
10 November 2012
03:37 GMT |
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GOG.com announces that it has introduced a promotion involving video games from Interplay and Telltale Games, which can be downloaded for significant discounts until November 16.
The included Telltale Games are: Sam & Max Seasons One, Two and Three, Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures, Back to the Future: The ... |
10 November 2012
03:19 GMT |
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Version 0.9.6 of the e-book reader and management software Calibre was announced on November 10, marking an important milestone for this amazing software.
If you have an e-book reader, the Calibre software is a must have. It does so many things for the avid reader, that it would take a lot of time to just enumerate ... |
10 November 2012
03:04 GMT |
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Two male penguins living as a couple at a Danish zoo are now the proud parents of a chick which does not seem to mind that instead of one mother and one father, it has two fathers.
Apparently, the penguin chick's mother abandoned the egg, and zoo keepers were left with no choice except to try and find new pare... |
10 November 2012
02:55 GMT |
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Jesper Kyd, one of the most well-known composers for video game music, says that he is interested in working with developer BioWare in the future and that the soundtrack for Assassin’s Creed 2 is the most successful product of his career up to this point.The composer tells The Official PlayStation Magazine that... |
10 November 2012
02:37 GMT |
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Alexandre Julliard announced on November 9 a new development version of the Wine app, which brings assorted bug fixes and improvements.As usual, the number of new features and bug fixes in the development version of Wine (Wine is Not An Emulator)is quite large, even if we don’t take into account the important c... |
10 November 2012
02:20 GMT |
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Call of Duty Elite will kick off a new season of TV content next week, on November 16, as Activision has released a special video that shows what things will be aired online to all Elite members.Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is out next week, on November 13, and right alongside it Activision will debut the new, improved,... |
10 November 2012
01:45 GMT |
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Dead Space 3, the upcoming title from Visceral Games, won’t fall into one specific genre, like action or horror, as the developer wants to deliver a cohesive experience that blends all sorts of aspects instead of focusing on just one.Dead Space games have already impressed by their pretty decent blend of action... |
10 November 2012
01:31 GMT |
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Seven U.S. Navy SEALs who consulted Electronic Arts and its Danger Close studio on the recently launched Medal of Honor: Warfighter, have been sanctioned by the Navy because they shared classified material with the video game companies.Medal of Honor: Warfighter hyped up on more than one occasion that actual U.S. Nav... |
10 November 2012
00:12 GMT |
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