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It’s been less than a week since GO Power Master for Android devices got its last update and developers have just announced that a new version is available on Google Play Store.
According to GO Launcher EX, the latest version comes with a few new features and improvements, which are meant to make it easier for... |
10 December 2012
22:31 GMT |
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The development team in charge of Dance Central 3 has decided to take a break from launching more musical content for the title in order to give players a chance to use two political figures as characters.
David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, are ready to e... |
10 December 2012
21:41 GMT |
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VPlayer, the popular video player for Android devices, has just been updated with several fixes and new customization options.
Developed by ABitNo, VPlayer Video Player is close to reaching the 5 million downloads milestone on Google Play Store.
In order to give the application a download boost, developers have jus... |
10 December 2012
21:31 GMT |
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Owners of HTC Desire Z and G2 smartphones now have the possibility to download and install CyanogenMod 10.1 builds on their devices, to see how well they would fare when running Android 4.2. One thing that users should take into consideration, however, is the fact that these are test builds, and that not all featur... |
10 December 2012
21:31 GMT |
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Building on the success that XiaoMi Phone 2 reportedly registered in China, a successor might arrive on shelves soon, said to sport the name of XiaoMi Phone 3, or Mi3.
No official confirmation on the matter has emerged so far, but rumor has it that the device might arrive on shelves with an Nvidia Tegra 4 processor... |
10 December 2012
20:51 GMT |
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The Wii U home console from Nintendo initially consisted of just two Wiimotes, a monitor and sticky tape, according to the leader of the team that created the new device. Katsuya Eguchi, the general manager at the entertainment and development division in charge of Wii U, tells the Iwata Asks segment that, “We... |
10 December 2012
20:41 GMT |
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Ghost Commander is a classic file manager for Android devices, which allows users to efficiently manage their files, copying and moving them from one panel to another.
The application features dual panel and offers both basic and advanced file managing functions. The latest update for Ghost Commander brings the foll... |
10 December 2012
20:31 GMT |
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Microsoft Advertising has just announced that former TalkSport and Emap creative Duncan Stafford has been appointed to the new position of creative lead. While this move may be a bit surprising, the reason behind this new appointment makes much more sense if we analyze Microsoft’s efforts to streamline the col... |
10 December 2012
19:41 GMT |
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All the Achievements for the upcoming Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance are available after a leak from Konami.
Be warned that the list below, coming from Exophase, includes quite a few spoilers:
File R-00: Status – Closed – 15G
Complete File R-00: Guard Duty.
File R-01: Status – Closed – 15G
C... |
10 December 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Alcatel has been long said to plan the release of a Windows Phone-based device, and it seems that the company is gearing up for the launch of this device in the near future.
Dubbed Alcatel One Touch, it should be the cheapest WP7 handset out there when launched in Russia on December 15, with specs that include a 4-... |
10 December 2012
19:21 GMT |
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Indian handset maker Lava Mobiles has just released a new dual-SIM Android phone, the Iris N400.
Unfortunately, the Indian market is flooded with dual-SIM handsets and the latest devices released are prone to go unnoticed if they don’t come out with anything new.
Sadly, aside from dual-SIM capability, the La... |
10 December 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Australian retailer Mobicity has just announced that Google’s Nexus 10 32GB tablet is now available for pre-order for $600/€485.
For the time being, the retailer did not mention any release date for the Nexus 10, though we suspect the tablet will hit shelves by the end of the year.
It is also worth menti... |
10 December 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Ken Levine, the leader of Irrational Games and main developer working on BioShock Infinite, is interested in creating a version of the game for the PlayStation Vita handheld, but the final decision about such a project rests with publisher and hardware maker Sony.
The game creator tells Eurogamer that, “Where... |
10 December 2012
18:31 GMT |
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PopCap Games, the developer responsible for casual titles like Plants vs. Zombies or Bejeweled, is looking to recruit an experienced software engineer for an AAA console title that will run on the Frostbite 2 engine.
PopCap has specialized in lightweight downloadable games over the years, generating huge amounts of ... |
10 December 2012
18:11 GMT |
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Samsung’s Galaxy Premier smartphone might not arrive on shelves until next year, but it is already receiving the necessary approvals for use in various countries.
The handset has emerged at the Federal Communication Commission this weekend with model number SHV-E220S attached to it and with support for LTE / ... |
10 December 2012
18:11 GMT |
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We reported a few weeks ago that Motorola had already informed customers that it would close its operations in most European and Asian countries.
Motorola claims that it wants to streamline its business and support system, which is why it needs to close multiple dedicated websites for various countries.
Today, the ... |
10 December 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Japanese carmaker Toyota and Redmond-based technology titan Microsoft are working together on a brand new technology that could bring a driver gesture recognition system in millions of cars.
The new device won’t be developed to control the car, but to access specific features of the infotainment system, naviga... |
10 December 2012
17:41 GMT |
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The development team at Capcom is offering more details about the changes it is introducing to its Street Fighter x Tekken via the new Version 2013 update.
There are a number of characters who get significant changes, most of them on the Street Fighter side of the roster, and core game features are also tweaked in o... |
10 December 2012
17:40 GMT |
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TeslaCoil Software, creators of the highly acclaimed Nova Launcher application for Android devices, has just announced the availability of a new version of its launcher.
Nova Launcher 1.3.4 brings various tweaks and optimizations for Google’s latest Android operating system, as well as some bug fixes.
First o... |
10 December 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Japanese handset vendor Sony Mobile is reportedly gearing up for the launch of a nice range of smartphones next year, with a 5-inch flagship handset planned for Q4 2013. Previous rumors suggested that the company would aim at releasing full HD devices in the first half of the year, including the ones codenamed Odin... |
10 December 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Rayman Legends now has an official release date, as Ubisoft has confirmed the actual launch days for the game in different territories, namely March 1 for Europe or March 5, in North America.
Rayman Legends was supposed to be one of the biggest third-party games for the recently released Nintendo Wii U, but Ubisoft ... |
10 December 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Developer 2x2 Games and publisher Dvaput are launching new downloadable content for their strategy game Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign, designed to allow players to take control of the Soviet forces as they launch a counter-attack after the Battle of Kursk.
The new content, called Red Turn, costs 9.99 dollars... |
10 December 2012
17:10 GMT |
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Microsoft doesn’t talk too much about the number of apps available in the Windows Store, but several unofficial sources confirm it’s growing at a reasonably fast pace.
MetroStore Scanner, one of the services that allow you to browse the Windows Store content straight from your browser, suggests that ther... |
10 December 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Starting with December 10 and until December 21, Anonymous hacktivists plan on leaking “an unprecedented amount” of corporate, financial, military and state data as part of the campaign called Project Mayhem 2012.
According to the hackers, the information has been secretly gathered by whistleblowers, vig... |
10 December 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system is expected to enjoy a significant increase in sales during the fourth quarter of the year, at least when compared to the same time frame of 2011.
According to a recent article on WMPoweruser, the number of people using the built-in Facebook app in Windows Phone has ... |
10 December 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Since all high-end mice follow the same principles, Tesoro had to get creative in terms of looks and feel when it designed the Shrike H2L.
For those who haven't guessed it yet, Shrike H2L is the name of the new peripheral in the photos above and below.
Its long, braided cable is just one of the features buyer... |
10 December 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Mozilla is getting closer to launching Firefox OS and, as with any mobile operating system, its success depends almost entirely on developers. Luckily, Mozilla has a big thing going for it, Firefox OS runs apps built on standard web technologies, making it possible for a huge number of people to work on them. Even s... |
10 December 2012
16:41 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 “Search the Internet.” According to the developer, this plugin was designed to allow quick navig... |
10 December 2012
16:36 GMT |
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The US Natural Resources Defense Council and Protect Our Winters (i.e. a non-profit organization) have recently released a new report stating that, as a result of climate change, the country's winter tourism lost roughly $1 billion (€0.77 billion) and 27,000 jobs between the years 1999-2010.
As the r... |
10 December 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Although Microsoft is heavily criticized for its legal strategy of dodging UK taxes, the company received support from the British authorities for opening a new technology development center in London.
The United Kingdom government has granted $81 million for a larger program supposed to revamp Silicon Roundabout, a... |
10 December 2012
16:11 GMT |
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According to various estimates carried out by specialists working with the UN, developing countries are in dire need of receiving yearly investments of roughly $100 billion (€77.34 billion / $62.32 billion) yearly by 2020.
It now seems that the UK is ready and willing to make its contribution to raising said s... |
10 December 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Research In Motion’s BlackBerry 10 operating system should arrive on shelves with a nice range of enhancements packed inside, including the already presented BlackBerry Hub, which got detailed once again.
The BlackBerry Hub was designed to provide users with fast access to all of their conversations, includin... |
10 December 2012
16:01 GMT |
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On December 10, Canonical published in a security notice details about a GIMP vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10 Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, GIMP could have been made to crash or run programs as the user’s login, if it opened a specially crafted file.
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10 December 2012
16:00 GMT |
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The development team at Capcom confirms that it will introduce support for the original Japanese voice work for Dragon’s Dogma in the coming Dark Arisen expansion.
The action role-playing game will be launched via a new game disk in Japan, complete with a new dungeon on Bitterblack Isle, the largest the team h... |
10 December 2012
15:54 GMT |
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The Dark Knight Rises continues to be the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent this week, for the fourth week in a row.
It's probably going to stay that way for a while longer as there aren't that many big releases yet to be made available on BitTorrent.
Christmas is just around the corner though and we&... |
10 December 2012
15:51 GMT |
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It looks like the Big Red plans to launch Samsung's Galaxy note 10.1 tablet in the following weeks. The slate has been recently spotted at Wi-Fi Alliance and received its certification for dual-band Wi-Fi.
The folks over at Ameblo have found out that the Galaxy Note 10.1, also known as Samsung SCH-I925, will be... |
10 December 2012
15:31 GMT |
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If you’re searching the web for a hotel room or if you’re looking for a job in this field, you’re advised to be extra careful, since fraudsters have started setting up fake hotel websites.
Experts from security firm Bitdefender inform that these sites can help the crooks in accomplishing various ma... |
10 December 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Frugalware, a general purpose Linux operating system designed for intermediate users (who are not afraid of text mode), has reached version 1.8. Pre2 and is now available for testing.
Frugalware 1.8 Pre2 has been dubbed Cinna and is the second technical preview in this new development branch.
Highlights of Frugalw... |
10 December 2012
15:19 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to spend heavily on Surface advertising, this time for a campaign launched with the Grammy organization and supposed to allow a band to perform during a Grammy Live event.
The Grammy Awards ceremony will take place on February 4 and, in addition to the live concert on the stage, the band will als... |
10 December 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Today, wireless carrier AT&T announced the availability of its 4G LTE service in a series of new markets in the United States, providing more users with the possibility to enjoy fast data transfer rates while on the go.
Starting today, users in Grand Rapids, Michigan; Nashua, New Hampshire; and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsy... |
10 December 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Rare metals and their scarcity aside, it seems that helium is not having such a great time either.
A chemist working with the University of Cambridge recently decided that, during this year's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, he was to make a speech pointing out the fact that, but for governments' wor... |
10 December 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a few hours ago, December 10, the immediate availability for download of the tenth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.6 kernel series.Looking at the raw changelog, we can see that Linux kernel 3.6.10 brings a couple of ARM and x86 fixes, some Radeon and i915 patches, wireless... |
10 December 2012
14:32 GMT |
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TapeDeck, the vintage-themed audio recorder from SuperMegaUltraGroovy, has finally added Retina display support, as well as several improvements and bug fixes that will delight existing users.
TapeDeck 1.5 now fully supports Retina display Macs and, according to its makers, “it looks great.” No question ... |
10 December 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Fido introduced the Motorola RAZR HD about a month ago, but the smartphone was only available to “select customers.”
However, starting today, the device is available to all Fido customers for no less than $575/€440 off contract.
Those who are willing to commit to a long-term contract can grab the ... |
10 December 2012
14:31 GMT |
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The developers at Crystal Dynamics and publisher Square Enix are releasing a full High Definition version of the To Be a Survivor trailer for the upcoming Tomb Raider, which was shown initially during the VGA 2012 ceremony.
The trailer is quite long and allows players to see main character Lara Croft exploring the m... |
10 December 2012
14:22 GMT |
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BlackBerry fans are certainly anxious to find out what Research In Motion (RIM) has in store for them next year.
The Canadian company has already confirmed it will launch its next-generation BB10 smartphones, along with the new BlackBerry 10 OS on January 30, 2013.
In order to keep the hype around its upcoming BB10... |
10 December 2012
14:13 GMT |
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On December 10, Canonical published details about MySQL vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, MySQL could have been made to run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic from an authenticated user.
It was... |
10 December 2012
14:04 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has been long rumored to plan the release of a Windows Phone device that would sport its own logo, yet nothing has been officially confirmed on the matter for the time being. However, that did not prevent enthusiasts from imagining what such a device might look like if ever br... |
10 December 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Developer Alkemi and Valve have announced that Transcripted is now available with a 75 percent price cut on the Steam digital distribution service, which means that interested players can get it for 2.49 Euro or dollars for the next day.
The gameplay of Transcripted mixes two types of popular mechanics, those of th... |
10 December 2012
13:34 GMT |
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All the big tech companies do their best to avoid paying more taxes than they have to. This is why they all have offices in Ireland in the EU, where tax rates are much lower than in the rest of the union.
But even that is not enough and some, like Google, funnel revenue from Ireland to tax havens like Bermuda, to a... |
10 December 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Lu Zesheng, of Jiangsu province in China, is convinced his dog is smarter than others, even calling his Samoyed, Potato, a “genius.”
As you can see, the pooch is made to add, subtract and multiply. It responds to its owner's questions by barking a certain number of times.
Asked how many digits 10M ... |
10 December 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Windows 8 comes with a wide array of improvements, including a reinvented GUI often described as confusing and difficult to get used to. Others, however, think that Windows 8 is an evolutionary operating system and praise Microsoft for the desire to push its famous product beyond the desktop environment. Windows 8... |
10 December 2012
12:41 GMT |
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THQ and Obsidian Entertainment have revealed the first full gameplay trailer from their upcoming South Park: The Stick of Truth role-playing game over the weekend during the 2012 Video Game Awards.
There haven't been a lot of great South Park games even if the beloved animated series has quite a lot of interest... |
10 December 2012
12:31 GMT |
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With only a few weeks left until Christmas, carriers prepare to kick off their promotional offers in order to attract as many customers as possible.
Thus, Bell Mobility is targeting MTS customers with an interesting offer. The carrier offers a free iPhone 5 to each MTS customer willing to switch to its airwaves.
Ob... |
10 December 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Video game publisher Ubisoft says that the new Shades of Darkness expansion for its turn-based strategy Might & Magic Heroes VI will be available at retail on the PC on February 28 of next year, with new content to satisfy long-term fans of the universe.
The company says, “Starring the cult hero Raelag, first ... |
10 December 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Beats' acquisition of MOG is starting to make some sense, as it looks like the headphone maker is indeed working on a streaming service to launch sometime next year. MOG was acquired mostly for its technology, as music licenses are not transferable in a sale like this.
Most likely, Beats was interested in using... |
10 December 2012
12:11 GMT |
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pickadate.js is what the name hints it to be, a simple JavaScript-based date picker for easily inputting date values in Web forms.
Created for the jQuery JavaScript framework, pickadate.js has extensive support for a multitude of date formats, lots of customizable options and a default skin to integrate with any web... |
10 December 2012
12:01 GMT |
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MKVToolNix, a set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files under Linux and other platforms, has now reached version 5.9.0.
Highlights of MKVToolNix 5.9.0:
• Reading seek position values bigger than 2 GB is now possible;
• Appending non-empty tracks to empty tracks has been fixed;
• mkvmer... |
10 December 2012
11:57 GMT |
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MacPhun LLC has released a new version of FX Photo Studio that fully supports the four-inch display of the iPhone 5 and iPod touch fifth-generation players.
Now compatible with the latest Apple gear as well as iOS 6, FX Photo Studio 5.0 brings performance improvements and fixes some minor bugs, though MacPhun fails ... |
10 December 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Samba, an app that seamlessly integrates Linux/Unix servers and desktops into Active Directory environments using the winbind daemon, is now at version Samba 3.6.10.
This new release in the stable branch of Samba integrates some pretty important changes and fixes, including some for Solaris.
Users have to know that... |
10 December 2012
11:48 GMT |
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The month of December is proving remarkably sparse in new product announcements, but at least there are some hints about what will happen later on on the IT market.
One of them comes from Samsung, or rather the SamsungTomorrow YouTube account.
The video embedded below is a very, very short teaser saying that the ... |
10 December 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Check out this video of a professional basketball player, if you want to feel like you are very skilled. He attempts a free throw, but ends op on YouTube, in the site's fail niche.
Over the weekend, this clip uploaded by Western Carolina University, under the username wcu62TV, has gathered almost 1.75 million v... |
10 December 2012
11:32 GMT |
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SoundCloud is big enough that changes to the site or service rarely go unnoticed. And a change as the big redesign of last week could hardly have gone unnoticed.
While plenty of users were happy to see some of the most requested features finally being implemented, there were plenty who didn't like the new vers... |
10 December 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Lindsay Lohan is in very troubled waters, financially speaking. A short while after the IRS seized all her bank accounts because of her outstanding debts, she is in a position in which she can’t even pay her rent, it has emerged. The actress, whose acting comeback hasn’t exactly been as smooth as she mi... |
10 December 2012
11:30 GMT |
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Two Colorado students are facing felony charges, after bringing pot-laced brownies to school, and feeding them to their classmates and to a teacher. 21-year-old Thomas Ricardo Cunningham and 19-year-old Mary Elizabeth Essa intended it to be a prank, however it got out of hand when the CU professor complained of dizz... |
10 December 2012
11:20 GMT |
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Random access memory already benefits from a high degree of energy efficiency, but there is always room for improvement, something that Toshiba has actively been searching for. MRAM (magnetoresistive random access memory) is a next-generation memory based on magnetic materials and has emerged as an alternative to S... |
10 December 2012
11:14 GMT |
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Security researchers from Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center have identified a variant of the Exforel backdoor malware, VirTool:WinNT/Exforel.A, that’s somewhat different from other malicious elements of this kind.
That’s because the backdoor is implemented at the Network Driver Interface Specif... |
10 December 2012
11:11 GMT |
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The World Conference on International Telecommunications organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is still underway in Dubai. It's scheduled to end on December 14th and the parties involved are still discussing the proposals and even making new ones.
It's hard to know how the process is... |
10 December 2012
11:05 GMT |
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Working under the radar until recently, indie developer Epiphany Games has just released their first project into the wild: Frozen Hearth. Being a non-conventional RTS game at its base, but, also combining various RPG and MOBA elements, Frozen Hearth aims to bring a somewhat fresh approach to this gaming genre. This... |
10 December 2012
11:01 GMT |
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7digital has just announced that all Acer Windows 8 devices, be they desktop computers, laptops or tablets, would feature its very own MP3 download app. Already available on Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Windows Phone, the MP# store will be pre-installed on all Windows 8 units produced by Acer, providing access to mo... |
10 December 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Although less than two years old, the Nexus S by Samsung smartphone will not get a taste of the latest Android release out there, namely 4.2 Jelly Bean. At least officially it won’t since enthusiasts have already started to work on building custom ROMs that will be delivering the new platform release to this ... |
10 December 2012
10:59 GMT |
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This picture showing a baby panda flying first class from China to the US first hit the online community about a year ago, yet it took some time before it became a viral sensation.
And this only happened because of an accompanying hoax press release which many mistook for accurate, and because of its being reposted... |
10 December 2012
10:57 GMT |
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I love any game that allows me to control more than one character at a time and I was disappointed when the Dragon Age series only allowed me to have four party members in its most recent installment. A return to the main character and five companions structure of Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition is therefore wel... |
10 December 2012
10:53 GMT |
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A new effort on behalf of a Czech Republic developer aims to open the Mac App Store to Linux users, effectively doing for the open source community what Wine does for the Mac – run Windows apps.
Led by Luboš Doležel, a Linux developer based in the Czech Republic, Darling is an open source Darwin / OS X emulat... |
10 December 2012
10:50 GMT |
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Zabbix, an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution, released under the GPL (free of charge for both commercial and non-commercial use), is now at version 2.0.4. Highlights of Zabbix 2.0.4: • Flicker-free screen shadowing for old screen data has been implemented; • The global scripts f... |
10 December 2012
10:45 GMT |
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Justin Bieber was one of the biggest snubs at the 2013 Grammy Awards but, if you ask him, Grammys be damned. As long as he has his fans, he says he’s happy even without an award from the most esteemed industry board. The Biebs was on the Z100’s Jingle Ball on Friday, and he used the opportunity to let h... |
10 December 2012
10:45 GMT |
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Police are treating the case of Craig Loughrey as an accident, reports say. The 7-year-old boy shot outside a gun store this weekend lost his life in the incident.
Loughrey was killed by his father in East Lackawannock, Pennsylvania, as his gun went off. Doctors that examined him before had ruled that he was on the ... |
10 December 2012
10:40 GMT |
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People probably won't flock to low-end PCs this Christmas, or any other Christmas for that matter, but that didn't stop Giada from launching one of those things anyway.
The new barebone personal computer is called i35GB and relies on an Intel Atom D2550 dual-core processor, with 1.86 GHz clock speed.
An N... |
10 December 2012
10:38 GMT |
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With Lumia 920 now sold out at AT&T, customers are turning to other Windows Phone 8 alternatives and the only one that may compete with Nokia’s flagship smartphone is the HTC 8X. Obviously, Samsung Ativ S is a much better choice, but the smartphone has yet to make its entrance in the United States. In fact, it... |
10 December 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Before you rush to the comment section and criticize me for picking Mass Effect 3 as the game with the best narrative of 2012, please consider that we're talking about a story, not about an ending, no matter how controversial it might be.
At first, I was a bit disappointed with Mass Effect 3's conclusion, ... |
10 December 2012
10:28 GMT |
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A poor community in Cateura, Paraguay now takes great pride in having its very own youth orchestra, whose members do more than just play amazing music: they play it on instruments made entirely from trash.
An upcoming documentary titled Landfill Harmonic is to provide us with all the details concerning this youth o... |
10 December 2012
10:28 GMT |
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Artifex Mundi has just announced that its popular game Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden (Full) for Windows 8 is now 40 percent off as part of a limited time offer rolled out for the holiday season.
If you’re into adventure games and you wish to explore the dark abyss of the ocean from your Windows 8 device, this gam... |
10 December 2012
10:25 GMT |
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Being built on the same core as Windows 8, Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 platform comes with Internet Explorer 10 as well, though with the mobile version of the application, and not with the full desktop software. There are a lot of enhancements packed inside the app for all users to enjoy, and Microsoft has de... |
10 December 2012
10:23 GMT |
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Just like Gaming PC released a new gaming PC earlier, Roccat is launching a new gaming device, a keyboard in this case.
Called ISKU FX, it has one major trait that makes it stand out amongst all other keyboards: a multicolored backlight. The choice of color is of 16.8 million hues.
The other features and specificat... |
10 December 2012
10:22 GMT |
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Not long ago, reports were saying that Demi Moore had found love again, this time in the arms of young art dealer Vito Schnabel but, as it turns out, he’s just broken up with her. Apparently, he thinks her too much of a handful right now.
Hot on the heels of the release of photos of the actress partying with ... |
10 December 2012
10:19 GMT |
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If you’re tired of the slide-to-unlock message appearing on every one of your iPhones since 2007, developer To Van Tinh has a solution. His Private Folder app has just gone free, and you can grab it to add “connect-the-dots” unlocking to your iDevice.
My Private Folder is a security app which creates a special... |
10 December 2012
10:18 GMT |
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James Honeywell, the head of the consumer marketing division at Nintendo Europe, says that his company has big plans for the Christmas season and for the first quarter of 2013, designed to keep the Wii U home console relevant.
The executive tells MCV that, “We definitely want to maintain momentum in Q1 –... |
10 December 2012
10:18 GMT |
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Valve has experimented with tablets, according to its boss Gabe Newell, as the studio even tried to make the upcoming Dota 2 work on certain mobile devices.
Dota 2 is one of the most anticipated games coming from Valve nowadays and the company is working hard on making the game as balanced and as feature-rich as pos... |
10 December 2012
10:16 GMT |
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Advanced Comic Book Format (ACBF), a distribution and interchange format for digital comic books, is now at version 0.94.
Advanced Comic Book Format 0.94 can be used for automatic processing, indexing, comic book collection management, and conversion into other formats.
Highlights of Advanced Comic Book Format 0.94... |
10 December 2012
10:13 GMT |
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Apple is mistakenly displaying holiday games and apps on the Apple TV version of iTunes, though some consider the error to be a sign that Cupertino is finally opening the device to more content, including games.
Originally reported by Mac OS Ken, the discovery is credited to a guy named Blair from Hollywood who sent... |
10 December 2012
10:08 GMT |
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Maxthon 4 has been released today, and it integrates cloud features. This also caused a change in the name, as the browser is now called Maxthon Cloud Browser.
The new features added to the list are Cloud Push, Cloud Tabs and Cloud Download. Push function lets you send text, images, links and tabs to Mac, Android an... |
10 December 2012
10:05 GMT |
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Seeing how forcing elephants to share their natural habitats with humans rarely ends well for both of the parties involved, Sri Lanka has recently decided that perhaps it would be best to relocate several such animals.
Their goal was that of making sure the elephants and local human communities were kept well apar... |
10 December 2012
10:05 GMT |
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Instagram is busy with more than just feuding with Twitter these days; it's looking at ways of expanding its audience, with a clear focus on the web for now, but also fixing some of the big problems with Instagram. One of the biggest that hasn't been addressed so far is spam.
As with any popular service, t... |
10 December 2012
10:03 GMT |
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The latest figures revealed by Net Applications confirm that users are finally dumping Windows XP in the favor of newer Windows versions, with the 11-year old software recording a market share of 38.98 percent for the week of December 2.
That’s a decline of almost 1 percent in a fairly short timeframe, as Wind... |
10 December 2012
10:02 GMT |
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Ukrainian artist Svetlana Ivanchenko spent her entire childhood close to the Back Sea, in Yalta, hence her decision to make stunning mosaics using nothing but natural materials such as sand, seashells, tree roots and tree bark.
Despite her choice of materials, the result is strikingly similar to a painting, as seen... |
10 December 2012
10:01 GMT |
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On December 9, John McAfee, who is currently detained by Guatemalan authorities after illegally entering the country, held a video press conference. The press conference came shortly after six posts that contained proof on the corruption that plagued the Belizean government had been published on his blog. In the fi... |
10 December 2012
09:58 GMT |
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An altered form of the AIDS-causing virus has been used to genetically modify a girl's immune system in order for it to be able to neutralize cancer cells, doctors at the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia announced. The experiment is the first of its kind to be performed on a child and one of the extreme... |
10 December 2012
09:57 GMT |
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LG, HTC, Samsung and other handset manufacturers have already launched Android smartphones that pack full HD displays, or are about to release their first devices in the following months. It looks like Pantech is among the latter. An unannounced Vega IM-A860 smartphone has just been spotted at GLBenchmark by the fol... |
10 December 2012
09:52 GMT |
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The Internet isn’t good only to dig up dirt on people and make the unlikeliest and most untalented people famous (I’m overgeneralizing, but bear with me). Every once in a while, some of the most beautiful things also come up online and go viral, daring to show us that beauty is not all lost. Take the pho... |
10 December 2012
09:49 GMT |
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The development team at InterWave Studios is giving players a chance to take a look at the first gameplay footage for the upcoming Dark Matter, a game that will mix classic platforming exploration with a new system based on light and darkness.
Dark Matter will allow gamers to inhabit the character of Ensign as he ex... |
10 December 2012
09:47 GMT |
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Microsoft and 343 Industries have just released the Crimson Map Pack add-on for Halo 4 via Xbox Live for the Xbox 360, bringing three new maps as well as a new game mode to the multiplayer of the popular shooter.
Halo 4 once again set new sales records on the Xbox 360 console when it appeared one month ago, marking ... |
10 December 2012
09:46 GMT |
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I came across this amazing video of a French magician displaying his sleight of hand in an act that involves as little as 3 balls and 2 cups.
Illusionist Yann Frisch specializes in what he likes to call "Baltass," which just means he uses balls and cups. His act is not over-the-top, he doesn't get back from the... |
10 December 2012
09:45 GMT |
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Passively-cooled power supplies are rare, for the simple reason that all the electricity going through them makes a lot of heat, but Chieftec managed to remove the need for a fan when it made the GPS-500C, and that's just a part of the new power supply's charm.
The latest member of the Smart Series family ... |
10 December 2012
09:42 GMT |
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It may be teaming up with Apple to buy a bunch of Kodak patents, but Google is still a big critic of the patent system and software patents in particular. In theory you can't patent an idea or a mathematical formula, yet most software patents are a little more than that. Google along with Facebook, Zynga, as we... |
10 December 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Pakistani hackers are very busy these days. While some of them have started targeting Bangladeshi sites, others are focusing their efforts on India’s cyberspace. Over the weekend, a total of over 400 domains and subdomains have been defaced by a couple of hackers calling themselves Sizzling Soul and P@khTuN72.... |
10 December 2012
09:38 GMT |
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Peter Baldwin from the ClearFoundation announced that ClearOS Community 6.4.0 Alpha 1 is now available for download.
According to the developer, this release adds a new reports engine, a storage manager, an antimalware file scanner, a basic POP/IMAP server as well as upstream proxy support.
Highlights of ClearOS Co... |
10 December 2012
09:35 GMT |
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RoboForm moved to a new revision recently and increased the build number to 7.8.5. It addresses issues affecting both the functionality and the stability of the application.
The installer for Opera should no longer have problems with the path and in the case of Firefox the “FillFormsInWindow” function sh... |
10 December 2012
09:34 GMT |
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Israel and Palestine have signed a ceasefire agreement and some Anonymous hackers have urged all hacktivist collectives to stop their attacks. However, some groups have decided to continue their “raids” on Israel.
Teamr00t, the hacker collective that breached over two dozen government websites last week,... |
10 December 2012
09:30 GMT |
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Since about 15 years ago, Santa Claus has made it his duty to gift the animals residing at the Heritage Park Zoological Sanctuary in Arizona, US with some of their favorite dishes.
The event is locally known as “Santa with the Animals,” and this year about 40 people gathered around to watch Cassie, a 35... |
10 December 2012
09:30 GMT |
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A young boy in Wuhan, Hubei province (China) came home crying from school after hearing that his crush had been “bought” by another with an iPhone 4.
You read that right. As the story goes, 8 year-old Xiao Xiao (pseudonym) had written a love letter to a girl in his class, but didn’t get any reply. ... |
10 December 2012
09:28 GMT |
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Brandi Glanville, reality star and controversial tabloid fixture because of the many times she’s badmouthed her ex husband’s current wife LeAnn Rimes, is going under the knife to have a tumor removed from her breast.
Brandi herself has confirmed the news on Twitter, presumably thinking that her fans des... |
10 December 2012
09:26 GMT |
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Those familiar with powerline network adapters might have noticed something strange about these things: they create a network through electrical lines but they accomplish nothing else.
One might argue that this is already enough, but then people could start wondering why the adapters don't supply energy strai... |
10 December 2012
09:25 GMT |
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With Washington state legalizing gay marriage, the Seattle City Hall and offices all over several counties in the state have gotten crowded, as couples rushed to unite their destinies.
Washington, Maryland and Maine allowed gay marriage last month, with Washington offering a 3-day waiting period for obtaining a cer... |
10 December 2012
09:19 GMT |
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Abdullah Al-Saadan, Saudi Aramco’s VP for corporate planning, and Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman, Major General Mansour al-Turki, have revealed the results of the investigation into the cyberattack that hit the oil giant’s systems back in August. Initial reports said that some of the company’s e... |
10 December 2012
09:17 GMT |
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There are already several ways to pin your Steam games to Windows 8’s Start Screen and launch them with just a single click, but Steam Launcher is by far the easiest to use. And the most affordable, that is.
Although it doesn’t boast the same feature-rich package as Pin Steam, this new tool is available ... |
10 December 2012
09:14 GMT |
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Imgur, the popular photo sharing service, has been working on ways to start making some money. The site is loved because of its simplicity and ease of use, but it's precisely those qualities that prevent it from making any serious money. Imgur has recently revamped the site to keep people hanging out for longer... |
10 December 2012
09:11 GMT |
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The recently confirmed Dark Souls 2, the next chapter in the challenging role-playing game series from Japanese developer From Software, will be a more approachable experience, as there are two new directors helming the game who will just be supervised by the director of Demon's Souls and Dark Souls.
From Softw... |
10 December 2012
09:07 GMT |
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Although HTC has already confirmed that some of its newest Android smartphones will receive a Jelly Bean upgrade in the following weeks, additional info on the devices that will get the long-awaited Jelly Bean update has just emerged. The folks over at Football4PDA claim they have been able to confirm with sources c... |
10 December 2012
09:06 GMT |
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Over the weekend, the first poster for director Joseph Kosinski’s second film, a sci-fi post-apocalyptic action movie called “Oblivion,” came out. The full trailer is now online and, as usual, you can see it in full above.
Starring Tom Cruise as a drone repair man / Everyman who walks the Earth al... |
10 December 2012
09:05 GMT |
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Last week, Archos updated the firmware for their 101XS tablet, that now runs Android 4.1.1 or “Jelly Bean,” as dubbed officially. Besides the new user interface of the OS itself, version 4.1.0 of the tablet’s firmware brings major improvements with simplified video information retrieval and media in... |
10 December 2012
09:01 GMT |
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PyQt, a set of Python bindings for Nokia's Qt application framework that runs on all platforms supported by Qt including Linux, Windows, and MacOS/X, is now at version 4.9.6.
Highlights of PyQt 4.9.6:
• The missing constBits() and constScanLine() methods have been added to Qimage;
• A QPoint can now... |
10 December 2012
08:55 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts announces that Big Boi and B.o.B., two of the biggest stars in hip-hop, are involved with the upcoming Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel, creating the official theme song for the game, Double or Nothing. The pair will also appear in the new title Charles “Chuy” Ren... |
10 December 2012
08:53 GMT |
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Today, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has made available for download through the official BlackBerry App World a new flavor of the BBM 7 application for its users. The new application release brings along a nice range of enhancements, the most important of which is the inclusion of BBM Voice. Thr... |
10 December 2012
08:49 GMT |
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Adele is a first-time mommy, spending her time out of the spotlight with her baby boy and her fiancé Simon Konecki. Admittedly, she’s so in love with her son that she actually forgot to register him, it has emerged. Reports in the British media claim that Adele has failed to register her son within the... |
10 December 2012
08:49 GMT |
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The stable revision of uTorrent has been updated to a new major build recently. The version bump, however, was forced by a bug (auto-update version verification bug) and did not occur as a consequence of development progress. Additional fixing available in this release address a crash problem in magnet URI. Furtherm... |
10 December 2012
08:46 GMT |
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European users of the new eShop for the Wii U home console say that they are now unable to access any 18+ rated content before 11 PM each day, as the company has introduced a blanket restriction to access that’s not linked in any way to the actual parental permission settings.
A representative from the company... |
10 December 2012
08:42 GMT |
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Naughty Dog has just revealed some official details about The Last of Us, its upcoming survival game, including an official uncut version of the trailer from the 2012 Video Game Awards, as well as an actual release date for the game and a couple of pre-order bonuses. The Last of Us is out next year and will deliver ... |
10 December 2012
08:41 GMT |
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The Document Foundation has announced that the first beta version for LibreOffice 4.0 is now available for the Linux platform, bringing a lot of bug fixes and improvements. The Document Foundation has announced that a LibreOffice 4.0 Test Marathon would take place between December 14 and 19. Users from all over the ... |
10 December 2012
08:38 GMT |
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You’d think that two infamous hacker groups would be enough to fill the jailbreak scene. Dream JB wants to debunk this theory and plans to make a name for itself on December 22 when it wants to release an untethered jailbreak for the latest iDevices and iOS firmware. Dream JB, a one-man team, says the “f... |
10 December 2012
08:38 GMT |
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Meggings, or male leggings, are sweeping the fashion world, and celebrities are setting the tone. It used to be that only men in ballets or musical productions of Robin Hood would wear tights, but, this winter, male tights have a chance of going mainstream.
Uniqlo, Barneys and Nordstrom are apparently already sellin... |
10 December 2012
08:37 GMT |
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Harps aren't exactly the sort of musical instrument one would expect to see converted into an electronic version, unlike guitars for instance, and a certain developer managed not to raise the issue at all even though he did use lots of electronic equipment in his latest creation.
Rather than try to turn a harp... |
10 December 2012
08:35 GMT |
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If you always thought that tiredness was only linked with sadness and an overall drooping feeling, the new smiley-face tattoo sensors come to prove there are other ways to see it.
It's not about the way it functions or some complicated operations it performs, but it is a simple, brilliant idea instead. The tatt... |
10 December 2012
08:23 GMT |
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QTGZManager, a powerful tool to manage Slackware Linux 1 TGZ/TXZ packages has reached version 1.0 RC2.
QTGZManager 1.0 RC2 comports just like a file manager and basically consists of four configurable panels.
Highlights of QTGZManager 1.0 RC2:
• A crash which occurred when a malformed package was detected, ha... |
10 December 2012
08:20 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has confirmed that it's going to release a patch for the PC version of Need for Speed: Most Wanted that should fix the stuttering and frame-rate issues reported by those who play the racing game on that platform. NFS: Most Wanted came out last month and delivered a pretty intense racing experien... |
10 December 2012
08:13 GMT |
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It's official, Pinterest has grown up, now that the White House has set up shop there. The White House on the one hand and Barack Obama on the other have been extending their reach online.
The White House has official accounts on most social networks and is quick to adopt new ones as they become popular.
This... |
10 December 2012
08:11 GMT |
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Those who think that The Beast is powerful are definitely right, and those same people would also be right in assuming that the newer gaming PC from Gaming PC is also very powerful. Before we say anything more, some background information is in order: The Beast is the gaming PC that Gaming PC released a few days ag... |
10 December 2012
08:10 GMT |
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As Oscar buzz around “Les Miserables” is building up even though it’s not even out in theaters yet, a new featurette for it has been released to help audiences better understand the creation of this unique, most times off-putting musical world.
The featurette embedded above doesn’t focus so ... |
10 December 2012
08:09 GMT |
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Ever since I heard her sing the role of Christine in “The Phantom of the Opera” at the Royal Variety Show in 2011, I completely changed my mind about Nicole Scherzinger. Her recent performance on the X Factor UK final should only confirm that she is a true professional.
Nicole and her protég&eacu... |
10 December 2012
07:54 GMT |
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A bar in east London was recently raided by local authorities after several conservationists and animal rights activists had contacted them and told them that those who came to have a drink or two at this location could opt for a so-called “Moby Dick” cocktail. Naming an alcoholic or nonalcoholic bevera... |
10 December 2012
07:54 GMT |
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Team GhostShell returns with another massive data leak. On this occasion – which represents their last project for this year – they’ve leaked around 1.6 million account details from fields such as banking, law, education, military, government and aerospace, as part of a new project called ProjectWhi... |
10 December 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Upstart, an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles the starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running, is now at version 1.6.1.
Highlights of Upstart 1.6.1:
• The re-exec performance has been improved;
• M... |
10 December 2012
07:45 GMT |
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The Los Angeles Police Department is apologizing for the publicized release of Notorious B.I.G.'s autopsy report from 1997. Authorities cite “an administrative error” in the disclosure of the report.
Detectives unsealed the document without giving the family prior notice, which they are also apologi... |
10 December 2012
07:42 GMT |
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Next year might bring to the market a new flagship Android-based smartphone from Samsung, one that will reportedly be released as Galaxy S IV.
The upcoming smartphone will be released as the successor of this year’s highly successful Galaxy S III, and has been long rumored to hit shelves with a nice range of ... |
10 December 2012
07:41 GMT |
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A handy utility that automatically fades your music back in after you’ve finished distracting chores, Take Five for Mac now sells for just $0.99 / €0.89 in the Mac App Store.
The Iconfactory says the tool came about as many of us often realize that our headphones are silent because we’ve forgotten t... |
10 December 2012
07:41 GMT |
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Two weeks ago, Rihanna performed “Diamonds” on X Factor UK and earned very warm praises about how that was her best performance to date. She’s topped it – also on X Factor UK. On last night’s finale, which saw James Arthur named the winner after the public vote, Rihanna took to the stag... |
10 December 2012
07:35 GMT |
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There have been plenty of video games this year that tackled story in video games in a simple but effective way, giving me a basic set of rules and then allowing me to create my own narrative by confronting my failures and reaching my own goals.But when it comes to pre-determined stories, 2012 was a little barren and... |
10 December 2012
07:35 GMT |
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Ubisoft has confirmed that the servers for Far Cry 3, its latest first-person shooter, are down for scheduled maintenance today, December 10, and that it doesn't know just when the servers are back online.
Far Cry 3 came out at the end of last month around the world and, while the game's release went off w... |
10 December 2012
07:30 GMT |
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With the cheapest model available for only $499 (€380), Microsoft Surface is considered one of the top 15 most overpriced gadgets of all time. The ranking published by Laptop Magazine claims that Microsoft’s tablet comes with a worse screen than the iPad, it lasts 5 hours less on a charge and has only a f... |
10 December 2012
07:27 GMT |
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Developer Aladdin s.r.o. sells this nifty little app called MouseX that calculates the traveling distance of your mouse cursor and also records keystrokes and other types of input for your own reference. The developer is now offering the app free of charge.
Previously available as a paid application, the free MouseX... |
10 December 2012
07:24 GMT |
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Children who, as fetuses, have suffered a certain oxygen deprivation caused by ischemic-hypoxic conditions are more likely to experience an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) later in life, study shows. The research shows that the child's condition before birth plays a greater role ... |
10 December 2012
07:22 GMT |
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People who don't visit Amazon every day might miss this daily offer, but it is good enough that we feel everyone with cash to spare should know about it.
The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 tablet is already well-known, and has been selling all over the world too.
Amazon still hopes to score some extra sales though, especi... |
10 December 2012
07:19 GMT |
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Clement Lefebvre proudly announced a minutes ago, December 10, the immediate availability for download of the OEM installation images of the recently released Linux Mint 14 operating system. Dubbed Nadia and powered by Linux kernel 3.5, the Linux Mint 14 operating system was released three weeks ago and it is based... |
10 December 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Normally, private companies know better than to go against a political party, it's much easier just to pay lobby to get them on their side. That's not the case of The Pirate Party we're talking about, both because it has little political power and that it still has some integrity. The UK branch has b... |
10 December 2012
07:11 GMT |
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The stars of this video are William and Ellenita Trykush, the amazing twins from Cirencester, Gloucestershire, who, at just nine months, can do an entire lap in a 25-meter pool.
The babies were born prematurely, by an emergency caesarean performed six weeks before their due date, Daily Mail writes.
Even as they can... |
10 December 2012
07:06 GMT |
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The development team at Relic is offering fans of the Company of Heroes franchise a new video linked to the coming real-time strategy sequel, while also setting the date for a closed beta stage for the title for some time after Christmas. The video shows developers Brett Pascal, Greg Wilson, Jasen Torres and Rob Wes... |
10 December 2012
07:04 GMT |
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Scammers have often leveraged the names and reputations of famous World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestlers in order to lure unsuspecting users to their scam sites. In the latest scheme, no one has died, but that doesn’t make it any less effective.
A shady website apparently dedicated to the current WWE ch... |
10 December 2012
07:00 GMT |
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Video game developer Mojang says that it will make sure that Minecraft will include fireworks in time for Christmas, via a new update which will be launched close to December 25.
The official statement says, “Thing is, we suddenly decided we wanted to make sure that you have fireworks for New Year’s Eve,... |
10 December 2012
07:00 GMT |
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Reading applications are a dime a dozen but few offer a cleaner interface than Readability, a universal app for iPhone and iPad. Available as a free download from the iTunes App Store, Readability 1.2.4 comes with a number of improvements and fixes.
With the Readability app users can catch up on their reading offlin... |
10 December 2012
06:59 GMT |
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Security researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with experts from Coherent Navigation, have identified new attack vectors against the Global Positioning System (GPS). Numerous studies have demonstrated the fact that GPS is vulnerable to jamming and spoofing, but by viewing the GPS as a com... |
10 December 2012
06:58 GMT |
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We’ve already told you that Microsoft is planning to sell the Surface tablet in some third-party stores, but it seems that the Redmond-based software titan is already close to reaching an agreement with some Australian retailers.
Smarthouse reports that JB HiFi and Harvey Normal are two of the retailers that m... |
10 December 2012
06:53 GMT |
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You have to admit, recent months have made us quite immune to bad music, mostly because of the many bad music videos to go viral. However, nothing could have ever prepared us for the one above. This dude is named Yasha Swag and hails from Ireland. His song is called “Pickles” and has over 10 million hits ... |
10 December 2012
06:52 GMT |
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Liquid Robotics Company was and still is a pretty young company, but it did the job when it was enlisted to create some self-powered robots meant to cross the world's greatest ocean.
Liquid Robotics came to be in 2007, but its biggest commission, or at least the most important, was for two pairs of Wave Glider... |
10 December 2012
06:50 GMT |
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The Cr OS Linux developers announced yesterday, December 9, the immediate availability for download of the Cr OS Linux 2.4.1290 Live CD Linux operating system, which brings numerous important updates and fresh software.
Being powered by Linux kernel 3.6.5, the Cr OS Linux 2.4.1290 distributions comes with the beaut... |
10 December 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Less than a week has passed since HTC made its 5-inch HTC Butterfly official for the international market, and the device has already started to pop up at retailers.
Expansys UK is one of them, currently listing the device on its website as available for reservations, although the company does not provide specific ... |
10 December 2012
06:31 GMT |
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While Twitter and Instagram are battling out over who gets to control more of what you do online, some users have resigned themselves to not being able to share photos on Twitter, not as easily anyway.
But some are looking for solutions and luckily for them, there are options, several of them in fact.
The reason is... |
10 December 2012
06:21 GMT |
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UC Web has just launched a new update for its popular mobile browser for Android devices.
Although this is not a major release, we recommend users to update to the latest version, which is said to fix some of the browser’s issues.
According to developers, the latest update for UC Browser for Android solves a... |
10 December 2012
06:21 GMT |
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X Factor UK, the 2012 edition, has found its winner. Thanks the four judges and, most importantly, to the people at home voting, last night’s edition of the show saw James Arthur leave home as the winner. Shortly after the results were announced, runner-up Jahmene Douglas said he couldn’t have been happie... |
10 December 2012
06:12 GMT |
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It looks like UK customers will be able to purchase the Lumia 920 from other carriers very soon.
The smartphone is currently exclusive to Everything Everywhere (EE) and the only other option in the UK is to grab the device SIM-free from various major retailers.
Luckily, Windows Phone enthusiasts won’t have t... |
10 December 2012
06:00 GMT |
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Feral Interactive Ltd. has announced a considerable price drop on Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Ultimate Edition slashing 50% off the popular first-person role-playing game.
Winner of an Apple Design Award as part of the 2012 Mac Developer Showcase, Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Ultimate Edition now sells for $19.99 / &... |
10 December 2012
05:52 GMT |
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Google has been branching out to support companies doing things online and the tech startup medium as a whole in several places. It makes sense for it to do it, more companies doing cool things online means more people going online, which in turn means more ad sales. But the biggest effort to date has been in Londo... |
10 December 2012
05:51 GMT |
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A fresh trailer has just appeared and it shows off the second half of the first season of Spartan Ops, Halo 4's special cooperative mode that relies on weekly downloadable episodes to keep the story going.
343 Industries and Microsoft confirmed over the weekend that the first season of the Spartan Ops mode woul... |
10 December 2012
05:40 GMT |
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The official PlayStation Blog confirms that Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is launching on the PlayStation 3 home consoles from Sony on December 12.The game was rated by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board in the first half of the year and the Hong Kong office was the first to mention the official launch date.The... |
10 December 2012
05:35 GMT |
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Iran is on its way of debuting its very own, self-sustained, internet. It's not quite there yet, but it's working towards it. The latest milestone is a new site, dubbed Mehr, which is supposed to be the answer to YouTube.
But, while YouTube is full of smut, as we all know, Mehr will promote healthy family... |
10 December 2012
05:35 GMT |
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Some may be aware that Sony, Panasonic and Sharp have been having problems, but they might not know exactly how severe those problems are. Data compiled from some reports and JEITA has revealed the truth. JEITA stands for the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association. A read through its re... |
10 December 2012
05:33 GMT |
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The Slovak government is paying millions of Euro to Microsoft in order to use the company’s latest software, but local authorities are still running Windows XP on more than 76 percent of their computers.
According to data provided by DSL.sk, 76.6 percent of Slovak government computers use Windows XP, even thou... |
10 December 2012
05:28 GMT |
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A surgery to fill a spinal gap with leg bones has been performed for a 5-year-old girl suffering from a rare disorder called spinal segmental dysgenesis. Rosie Davies from Mallsall, West Midlands, was born lacking five of her spinal bones causing a 10-centimeter gap in her back. The disorder meant the upper part of ... |
10 December 2012
05:26 GMT |
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Scammers are once again leveraging a legitimate news article in order to make their stories more convincing. In the latest scam, they’re relying on the fact that Switzerland will return $700 million (546 million EUR) representing part of the money stashed in the country’s banks by Nigeria’s former p... |
10 December 2012
05:25 GMT |
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Developers playing around with the latest Apple TV beta software have discovered that Apple now allows Bluetooth keyboards to be paired with the set-top box for easier navigation and text input. The latest Apple TV beta software includes a new Bluetooth menu and the ability to pair wireless keyboards, according to 9... |
10 December 2012
05:24 GMT |
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What could have been a silly prank turned into a tragedy when a nurse who fell for the prank of two Australian radio DJs inquiring about Kate Middleton killed herself. Mel Greig and Michael Christina, the DJs in question, have now emerged out of hiding.
The two, working for Sidney-based 2Day radio station, called t... |
10 December 2012
05:23 GMT |
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iBomber Defense Pacific is a tower defense game published by Chillingo on Steam and now it seems it will also be available for the Linux platform. iBomber Defense Pacific has been quite a hit on the mobile platforms and the publisher has also promoted the game on the PC. In iBomber, players will get to experience a... |
10 December 2012
05:21 GMT |
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A man opened fire at the Tule Indian Reservation near Porterville, California, this weekend. 5 people have died in the incident, including the shooter, KGET reports.
On Saturday, December 8, the Tulare County Sheriff's Deputies office was called on Chimney Road, to follow up on reports of a shooting. The scene ... |
10 December 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Just three days ago, the news broke that a beach in Malibu had become the resting place for a young whale that died as a result of its being hit by a passing ship and which washed ashore fairly close to the homes of several Hollywood celebrities. After being allowed to decompose on this beach for several days, simp... |
10 December 2012
05:20 GMT |
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Over the past weekend, a number of 30 websites owned by the Egyptian government were taken down by Anonymous hackers as part of OpEgypt.
The list of victims includes the sites of the Presidency, the Maritime Transport Sector, the Egyptian Accreditation Council, the Armed Forces, the Parliament, Ministry of Interior... |
10 December 2012
05:08 GMT |
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The first rumors on the LG Optimus G2 emerged more than a month ago, though there were only speculations that the smartphone might arrive next year packed with full HD display.
Today, more info on the Optimus G successor has leaked in South Korea, which points to a possible release of the smartphone before June 2013... |
10 December 2012
05:03 GMT |
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Surprising no one, Instagram photos are now completely gone from Twitter. The two companies had a falling out last week, though the tension between them had been rising since Instagram was bought by Facebook.
Instagram cut off Twitter's access to the API last week, resulting in botched Twitter cards for Instag... |
10 December 2012
05:02 GMT |
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The next Assassin's Creed game might take place in Brazil, at least judging by a statement made by the Managing Director of Ubisoft's Brazilian, who practically confirmed to a local website that next year's game will be set in the South American country.
Assassin's Creed 3 has just been released ... |
10 December 2012
05:00 GMT |
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American customers who ordered a 27-inch iMac just as Apple was making them available are beginning to receive notifications that their computers are “preparing for shipment.”
Customers are reporting that Apple is still listing the 2-3 weeks shipping quota, which means some iMacs may not arrive in time f... |
10 December 2012
05:00 GMT |
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With just days ahead of the official premiere of the 9-minute prologue to “Star Trek Into Darkness” in theaters ahead of “The Hobbit,” a special screening took place for members of the press. It blew them away – well, most of them, either way.
A non-spoiler reaction to the prologue is ... |
10 December 2012
04:56 GMT |
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Gabe Newell, the leader of Valve, believes that all PC-based companies will launch new types of living room oriented hardware packages, which will allow them to compete directly with the next generation of gaming consoles from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.
The game developer tells Kotaku that, “I think in gene... |
10 December 2012
04:45 GMT |
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Both visitors to the Yellowstone National Park and researchers whose main focus is on studying the biodiversity found in this animal sanctuary must now figure out a way to come to terms with the fact that the Park's favorite alpha female wolf was shot and killed by hunters. Granted, the wolf was killed outside... |
10 December 2012
04:44 GMT |
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San Antonio Spurs player Stephen Jackson has been fined $25,000 (€19,000) for a tweet dubbed threatening, against Oklahoma City's Serge Ibaka.
“Somebody tell serg Abaka. He aint bout dis life,” he posted on Twitter.
“Next time he run up on me im goin in his mouth. That's a promise.... |
10 December 2012
04:35 GMT |
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Cybercriminals, apparently from Russia, have encrypted sensitive information – including patient records – stored on the servers of Australian Miami Family Medical Centre. Now, the attackers are demanding $4,000 (€3,100) to decrypt the data.
According to ABC News, the organization’s representa... |
10 December 2012
04:35 GMT |
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Ken Levine, the main developer working on Irrational Games, says that the team he is leading has appreciated the character Elizabeth so much that they’ve decided to expand her role in the game as they worked on BioShock Infinite.
The developer tells Joystiq that, “By the time we showed Elizabeth at E3 her pers... |
10 December 2012
04:30 GMT |
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Capcom has confirmed that it's going to help a fan release his own crossover game called Street Fighter X Mega Man, which combines the two different franchises owned by the Japanese company and celebrates their 25th anniversaries.
Capcom has marked in recent weeks the 25th anniversary of its Street Fighter fran... |
10 December 2012
04:26 GMT |
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Google's been honoring a lot of computing pioneers this year and it's doing it again with a doodle dedicated to Lady Ada Lovelace, the creator of the very first computer algorithm, more than a century before any actual computers were built. She's best known for her work with Charles Babbage's An... |
10 December 2012
04:23 GMT |
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It’s already common knowledge that Nokia Lumia 920 is a hard-to-come-by smartphone these days.
The Finnish company is struggling to meet the high demand for its Windows Phone 8 flagship device, but to no avail.
Most carriers and retailers have depleted their Nokia Lumia 920 stocks since day one and they have... |
10 December 2012
04:19 GMT |
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Prince William does have a sense of humor and it appears it came out at a recent charity gala, where he attended alone, while the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton is still recovering from the recent hospitalization.
The Duchess, now pregnant with the couple’s first child, is suffering from hyperemesis gra... |
10 December 2012
04:12 GMT |
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CloudMosa is offering up Puffin Web Browser 2.3.4, a new version of the company’s ultra-fast mobile Internet browsing app which borrows some UI elements from Microsoft’s Windows 8.
Featuring a live-tile imitation akin to the Windows 8 start screen (screenshot above), Puffin Web Browser is touted as one o... |
10 December 2012
04:11 GMT |
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Microsoft will roll out a total of seven different updates tomorrow, most of them aimed at Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10, but it seems like the Redmond-based technology giant is also planning to release some patches for its first tablet in history. Twitter user MS_nerd has hinted that Microsoft would unveil an ... |
10 December 2012
04:11 GMT |
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The market of graphics adapters often welcomes new video cards, which makes EVGA's new product release something of a foregone conclusion, especially for the winter holiday season.
The name of the new video card is EVGA GeForce GTX 670 FTW LE, where LE stands for Limited Edition.
As the name implies, it is on... |
10 December 2012
04:10 GMT |
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Siduction 2012.2.0, a Linux distribution that ships with four desktop environments, KDE SC, XFCE LXDE, and Razor-Qt, for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, was announced.
Siduction 12.2.0 has been dubbed Riders on the Storm and is based on Debian's unstable branch. The developer’s goal is to try and release ... |
10 December 2012
04:09 GMT |
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“When you're out drinking, drink smart, drink save, drink Savvy” is the tagline which introduces a new revolutionary drinkware that changes color when rape drugs are being slipped in. A pretty genius idea! With the colorless, odorless, tasteless rape drugs now made visible, the danger people put the... |
10 December 2012
04:08 GMT |
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Earlier today, we learned that the members of the Pakistan Cyber Army hacked and defaced a total of 26 Bangladeshi government sites. In response to these attacks, Bangladesh Grey Hat Hackers took aim at several high-profile sites from Pakistan.
They’ve defaced the sites of the Finance Department of Batagram, t... |
10 December 2012
04:00 GMT |
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A few days ago, green-oriented organization Oceana launched their seventh “Adopt a Marine Creature” initiative, which takes place yearly during the winter holidays.
The idea is fairly simple: check out the organization's website, see which marine animals are up for adoption, make a donation ($30 - ... |
10 December 2012
04:00 GMT |
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Nokia’s Lumia devices can already provide users with a series of exclusive features and apps, but it seems that the company is also looking into delivering more of them to users.
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) app that has just landed in Nokia Collection in the Windows Phone Store is one of them, targeted ma... |
10 December 2012
03:52 GMT |
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Video game developer BioWare says that it will take down the servers for Star Wars: The Old Republic on December 11 in order to update them with the mechanics and the new content introduced in update 1.6, called Ancient Hypergate.
Gamers will be able to get to the new Ancient Hypergate Warzone, where players will be... |
10 December 2012
03:52 GMT |
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While Samsung announces that it has sold more than 30 million Galaxy S III devices since its launch back in May, South Korean handset maker LG reports 10 million L-Series smartphones sold. According to LG Electronics, the sales of its Optimus L-Series smartphones have exceeded the 10 million-unit milestone. The co... |
10 December 2012
03:52 GMT |
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Best Buy is not shy of making considerable discounts when it comes to Apple products. They did on Black Friday and it appears they’re at it still with a new discount on the iPhone 5.
Sold with a two-year carrier plan (AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint), the 16GB version of the iPhone 5 currently costs just $149.99 (€11... |
10 December 2012
03:48 GMT |
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Last week, US intelligence officials claimed to have discovered that Syria was loading components of sarin gas into bombs, possibly preparing for an attack involving chemical weapons. The US President even issued a warning, saying that the use of chemical weapons was “totally unacceptable.”
However, some... |
10 December 2012
03:48 GMT |
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Skype is definitely a great platform for chatting with friends and families, but it’s also quite a helpful tool for those ready to spice things up a little bit. A Cottonwood Heights man ended up blackmailed by a woman he had met on an adult website after he agreed to get naked in front of the camera on Skype. ... |
10 December 2012
03:46 GMT |
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More often than not, specialists who take the time to develop ways of improving the living conditions of people in developing countries focus on harvesting either solar, kinetic or wind power in order to provide them with access to clean and cheap electricity.
Still, two London-based designers, Martin Riddiford and... |
10 December 2012
03:45 GMT |
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The official trailer for Dark Souls 2 is finally available on the web, showing off quite a bit of cinematic footage from the upcoming role-playing game, teasing a bit of the title's story. From Software impressed millions of gamers from all around the world with Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, two extremely ... |
10 December 2012
03:40 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation won’t launch its flagship HTC Butterfly smartphone in Malaysia. Responding to user inquiries on when the smartphone would be launched in the country, HTC Malaysia said on Facebook that the smartphone is not planned for release on the local market. The company als... |
10 December 2012
03:36 GMT |
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46-year-old Jacintha Saldanha took her own life on Friday, following a prank call by an Australian radio station, in which presenters pretended to be the Queen of England and prince Charles.
As we wrote last week, what seemed like a harmless joke turned tragic as, 48 hours after the incident, she was found dead.
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10 December 2012
03:36 GMT |
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The NPD Group has made public the fact that Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, the first-person shooter from developer Treyarch and publisher Activision Blizzard, manages to sell 7.5 million units during the month of November in the United States.
According to Gamespot, the impressive number was delivered to players in 11 d... |
10 December 2012
03:29 GMT |
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Jenni Rivera, known to her millions of fans and the press as La Diva de la Banda, has died. She was 43 years old and was flying out of Monterrey on a small private jet which crashed in Mexico, as we also informed you earlier today.
The singer had performed in Monterrey and was supposed to land in Toluca just one ho... |
10 December 2012
03:24 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is gearing up for the launch of its new BlackBerry 10 operating system on at the end of January next year, and it is offering more bits of info on it via its website.
The company has just revamped the BlackBerry 10 landing page on its official website with some new det... |
10 December 2012
03:22 GMT |
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The Redmond-based technology giant has just rolled out the Next at Microsoft for Windows 8 app, a very useful software solution aimed at Windows 8 adopters who want to stay up to date with the latest projects developed by Microsoft.
The application also comes with support for Windows RT, so Surface RT buyers can fi... |
10 December 2012
03:18 GMT |
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Hackers of the Pakistan Cyber Army have defaced a number of Chinese government sites, including several hundred domains managed by the Xuchang City People’s Procuratorate.
Other Chinese government sites defaced by the hacktivists are the ones of the Lushan County, Henan Province People's Government portal... |
10 December 2012
03:17 GMT |
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For the third time in 16 months, Russian Proton Breeze-M rocket has failed to place a communications satellite into the right orbit, Russian space agency Roscosmos and the International Launch Services (ILS) announced. The failure rises major concern about the Proton Breeze-M's building quality as well as for t... |
10 December 2012
03:10 GMT |
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Lionel Messi just broke a 40-year-old record this weekend, scoring 86 times in a season. One uploader captures all these moments, including the 86th goal that made history, in a 10-minute video.
On Sunday, December 9, Messi scored twice for Barcelona, leading to the team winning 2-1 in front of Real Betis, in a Span... |
10 December 2012
03:05 GMT |
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Semplice Linux, a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian's Sid unstable branch with the goal to provide a simple, lightweight, fast and cool environment, is now at version 3.0 RC. The current release of Semplice, 3.0 RC, is based on Linux kernel 3.2.16 and is pretty stable as a Live CD. Keep in mind though that... |
10 December 2012
03:04 GMT |
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Hynix is one of the semiconductor manufacturers that haven't yet abandoned the random access memory industry, unlike PQI, Elpida and others.
That is why its RAM chips are going to be used in more than the usual number of DRAM modules and kits from now on.
The OCM2400CL10D-8GBN from Japanese company OCMemory ... |
10 December 2012
03:04 GMT |
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GLU Mobile, the new owner of GameSpy, a pretty popular multiplayer service provider, has decided to completely shut down the system, effectively turning off the online modes of lots of older games, from Sniper Elite, to Star Wars: Battlefront, Microsoft Flight Simulator X, and more.
GameSpy made a name for itself by... |
10 December 2012
03:03 GMT |
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Last week, Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Mobile unveiled to the world two new cheap smartphones running under Google’s Android platform, namely Xperia E and Xperia E dual, and both of them have already been priced in Germany.
Just as expected, the two smartphones will retail at very affordable price tags, ... |
10 December 2012
02:56 GMT |
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Two young boys attempted armed robbery in a church parking lot in Portland, Oregon. On Saturday, December 8, two boys, one aged 7 and the other 11, cornered a woman and tried to rob her. According to The Oregonian, the report came from another 11-year-old boy at around 12:15 p.m. on Saturday. He called 911 to infor... |
10 December 2012
02:49 GMT |
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A number of 26 Bangladeshi government websites have been defaced by members of the Pakistan Cyber Army. For a while, the cyber war – or cyber skirmish, as some like to call it – between Pakistan and Bangladesh appeared to have faded, but the feud is far from being over.
According to bdnews24.com, the lis... |
10 December 2012
02:43 GMT |
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This isn’t a new trick, but Microsoft is reportedly using it again in the United Kingdom. The Redmond-based technology giant turned to a legal loophole to avoid paying £159 million ($254 million / €196 million) in UK taxes every year, according to British media.
It seems that Microsoft is channeling... |
10 December 2012
02:41 GMT |
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In the last two months Australian authorities have been forced to rescue a total of six people who used Apple Maps. A number of motorists recently became stranded within the Murray-Sunset National Park after following directions on their iPhones. In what is considered a potentially “life threatening issue,&rdq... |
10 December 2012
02:41 GMT |
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With End of Nations development brought in house at Trion Worlds and with Petroglyph seeing a number of layoffs, the company has issued an official statement that addresses its future and the recent events.
The statement we’ve received via e-mail reads: “Petroglyph Games Inc., an innovative studio that has cre... |
10 December 2012
02:40 GMT |
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This past weekend, one of Ikea's stores in Toronto got a rather unexpected customer: a monkey sporting a winter coat.
Apparently, the monkey was first spotted in the upper parking garage, and it took some time before the store's security officers managed to get their hand on it and restrain it.
Either b... |
10 December 2012
02:37 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is on a quest to make its Galaxy S III flagship device even more appealing than it already is, and it has just offered some more details on what the Premium Suite upgrade for the smartphone comes with. Previously, the company offered a series of details on the new software, y... |
10 December 2012
02:33 GMT |
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Ubisoft chose to unveil the first trailer for its upcoming Tyranny of King Washington expansion for Assassin's Creed 3, showing off the basic premise of the add-on that casts George Washington, the first president of the U.S., as a tyrant that chooses to rule over the country.
Assassin's Creed 3 came out a... |
10 December 2012
02:32 GMT |
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Magnetic tape storage is still used as a backup solution by enterprises, for their data centers, but consumer applications are quickly becoming extinct, especially with Sony's latest decision.
According to a report from My Navi, the company has decided that cassette tapes and players have become obsolete.
As s... |
10 December 2012
02:31 GMT |
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I fully support the idea of recycling and finding new uses for things that would otherwise go to waste, and I’ve very much enjoyed seeing Honey Boo Boo have her portrait made entirely out of trash.
However, the idea of taking the ashes of those who died in concentration camps, mixing these remains with water and us... |
10 December 2012
01:36 GMT |
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With less than a month left until Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013 kicks off, Samsung teases “something new” for early Q1.The South Korean company has just released a new teaser announcing new devices at CES 2013, which is set to take place on January 8-11, 2013, in Las Vegas.It's unclear what de... |
10 December 2012
00:50 GMT |
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For almost two decades, Jennie Garth and Peter Facinelli were one of the most beautiful and, apparently, time enduring couples in showbiz. They were divorced this year, but Jennie says it’s still painful to see him moving on from the marriage.
Just recently, the “Twilight” star stepped out in publ... |
10 December 2012
00:16 GMT |
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