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Keith Packard announced earlier today, July 10th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the first Release Candidate of the upcoming XOrg Server 1.13. The final version of XOrg Server 1.13 will be available in September, and it will have features like support for PRIME DRI2 offloading, RandR 1.5 wit... |
10 July 2012
21:21 GMT |
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Created by BareBones Dev, SocialBox Live is the first and only application on Windows Phone that allows users to find other users of Microsoft’s WP operating system with the same Xbox Live games.
Furthermore, this is among the fastest application for Windows Phone when it comes to messaging from a push notific... |
10 July 2012
20:31 GMT |
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Version 2.6.0 of the eBay shopping app is now out for iPhone and iPad delivering a bunch of new features on smaller screens, and the usual bag of fixes and tweaks on the 10-inch tablet. The iPhone version of the official eBay app gets an improved selling flow and landscape support for easy typing of eBay item descri... |
10 July 2012
19:41 GMT |
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Sony Mobile announced the Xperia P would be available in black, red and silver color options. However, it looks like the Japanese company plans to release a pink-themed version as well. The new pink flavor of the Xperia P has been recently spotted at Sony’s Wibo event and is expected to go on sale in the follo... |
10 July 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Randy Pitchford, the boss of independent developer Gearbox Software, has talked about the eagerly-awaited Brothers in Arms: Furious 4 shooter, confirming that it’s still in development, although it won’t make its 2012 release date because it’s being reworked into a better experience. Gearbox Softwa... |
10 July 2012
19:31 GMT |
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South Korean handset maker LG has just introduced its L-Style series of phones in Australia. LG Optimus L3, L5 and L7 will be available for purchase through leading carriers and retailers across the country by late August.
However, LG also announced the upcoming availability of a new L-Style series phone, the Optimu... |
10 July 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Dropbox is by far the most successful cloud storage service around, it's got tens of millions of users and it keeps on growing. It's also the best known and, arguably, the easiest to use.It's going strong, but the competition is quite fierce. Not only are there several big players clamoring for a piece... |
10 July 2012
18:51 GMT |
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Apple is featuring a promotion that allows college students to buy an iPad between now and mid-September and get a $50 Back to School Gift Card usable in the iTunes Store. College students can buy an iPad until September 21 “and receive a $50 Back to School Gift Card to use on apps, books, music, and movies,&r... |
10 July 2012
18:51 GMT |
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The folks at GitHub has just released an Android client of their popular application. GitHub for Android allows users to create, manage and talk issues, as well as stay up to date with an integrated news feed.Moreover, users will be able to check their issues dashboard in order to stay connected with everything they ... |
10 July 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola has just announced a new Android-based handset destined for the Canadian market, namely the RAZR V. The new device, a thin member of the RAZR family at only 8.4 mm, comes with DuPont Kevlar fiber on the outside, which provides increased sturdiness. It also sports a scratch-resistant scre... |
10 July 2012
18:11 GMT |
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CSC Holdings has released new versions of its Optimum applications for iOS platforms, adding a completely enhanced interface designed to make it easier to discover and enjoy video programming, as well as new ways to control your DVR. Optimum 3.0 features a newly designed Home Screen that offers quick access to popul... |
10 July 2012
17:31 GMT |
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LucasArts has just posted a job listing for a senior core engineer and a senior animator that will both work on a new first-person shooter title, which will be released on current and future generation platforms. LucasArts is making a comeback in terms of games and has already impressed plenty of people by releasing... |
10 July 2012
17:21 GMT |
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It's been almost a year since Google introduced interior maps. The is most at home on a mobile device and, ever since, Google has been adding more and more locations, some it got on its own some it got with help from the owners.Now, it's adding a new batch of locations, one that are in desperate need of a b... |
10 July 2012
17:10 GMT |
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Comedienne Lisa Lampanelli is turning over a new leaf and, as expected, her husband Jimmy Cannizarro is right there by her side. Both have had surgery on their stomach and have already lost a considerable amount of weight.
Lisa was on bethenny the other night to talk about how much lost she's dropped since she... |
10 July 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Among the various details it shared with the audience at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Microsoft let slip only few of them about the upcoming Office 2013 suite. In fact, the Redmond-based software giant made no info official on the upcoming product, but said that additional details on the matter woul... |
10 July 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Bad news for Canadian customers waiting for Bell’s release of LG Optimus L5 as the carrier quietly pushed the launch of the smartphone to July 13.
The guys over at MobileSyrup have been tipped on the said delay, but no reasons have been unveiled so far. LG Optimus L5 was initially slated for a July 10 release,... |
10 July 2012
16:31 GMT |
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After the disastrous launch of the Syndicate remake earlier during the year, the development team at Starbreeze is exploring a number of new business models, but it has no plans to try and create a free-to-play title.
Mikael Nermark, the chief executive officer at Starbreeze, tells Edge that, “We’re neve... |
10 July 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Here's something you don't get to see everyday every raining evening: one street performer has managed to become the latest Internet sensation after posting a video of his incredible skill online last month. His name is Eric Nash and he does these things for a living. Inspired by Michael Jackson's ... |
10 July 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Sony Mobile is reportedly gearing up for the release of a new series of Android-based devices in its Xperia lineup, one of which was previously spotted online with model number ST26i attached to it. According to info that emerged on the Indonesian Postel regulatory site, the new device should arrive on shelves as S... |
10 July 2012
16:21 GMT |
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For Nokia, MeeGo is dead. The company is shifting its entire focus on the development of Windows Phone devices, thus leaving aside all other smartphone platforms it has been working on. For enthusiasts, however, the platform is alive and kicking, and promises a great future. We’re referring here to the Jolla ... |
10 July 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Some time ago, Warner Bros. said that, even if he might not direct other Batman films, Chris Nolan would still be involved in their development as a producer. It won't happen, the director says in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly. Once he's done with “The Dark Knight Rises,” Nolan is ... |
10 July 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Office 365 service is gaining momentum, and the company appears determined to cash on that as much as it can. Thus, it has made official during its annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Toronto new opportunities for its partners interested in what the service has to offer to them. Overall... |
10 July 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Square Enix is set to re-release Final Fantasy VII on the PC later this year with a special Character Booster option and now the publisher has revealed that it won’t charge players real-life money for the special feature via microtransactions. After lots of petitions from fans, Square Enix is going to re-relea... |
10 July 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Reports have come in about several facets of the laptop industry, and the one we are going to look at now has to do with original device manufacturers. ODMs are companies that manufacture certain products only for them to be taken and sold under a brand by corporations like Acer, ASUS, HP, ADATA, etc. Many of the... |
10 July 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Since a “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie is in the making and the trilogy remains one of the best-selling of today, many have wondered how its charming male character might look. Click on the image above to get an idea of that. The Daily Mail claims that this is more or less the “first photo” of... |
10 July 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Late last month, in a post on her official webpage, British songstress Adele took the world by surprise by announcing she and her boyfriend of almost one year, Simon Konecki, were expecting their first child together. As it turns out, she only has a couple more months to go. A source tells British tabloid Heat that... |
10 July 2012
14:51 GMT |
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In addition to providing info on the upcoming release timeframe of its Windows 8 operating system, Microsoft took its time at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Canada, to offer some details on the release of Windows Server 2012. The Redmond-based software giant announced that the server platform is set t... |
10 July 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Following our previous articles, Web History Lens, Rotten Tomatoes Scope, Clear Dark Sky Lens, DuckDuckGo Lens, News Lens, Pidgin Lens, Bliss Lens, Wikipedia Lens, Bookmarks Lens, ManPages Search Lens, Full Text Search Lens, GMusicBrowser Scope, Launchpad Lens, Dictionary Lens, Stock Quotes Lens, Cooking Lens, Music ... |
10 July 2012
14:41 GMT |
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HTC continues to update One series devices with bug fixes and new features meant to improve the phones’ stability and overall user experience.
Although HTC One X received the most software updates since its launch back in May, the One S also got its fair share of bug fixes.
The folks over at MobileSyrup have ... |
10 July 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Google has already decided to play nice and confirmed it would release the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean source code today.
Until then, those who own Ice Cream Sandwich device will be happy to be able to install some of the apps that are only included within Jelly Bean platform.
The folks over at XDA Developers made it p... |
10 July 2012
14:31 GMT |
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YouTube has been rolling out new "professional" channels for the past few months and more are scheduled to debut this year. They're all part of a new program to fund shows that go straight to YouTube but are produced by pros with experience in the field. Whether that's an advantage over the people that star... |
10 July 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Michael Phelps, who won 8 gold medals at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, has had his highs and lows but he likes to consider them all a good learning experience. He is featured in the latest issue of Details magazine, where he opens up more on that. After his amazing run in the previous edition of the Olympics, ... |
10 July 2012
14:21 GMT |
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The upcoming Tekken x Street Fighter crossover might be set to launch in late 2013, but it seems that its main platforms will be the currently available PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and not next-generation devices.
Katsuhiro Harada, who is the main producer working on Tekken x Street Fighter, has told Eurogamer that, ... |
10 July 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Valve has just revealed an upcoming feature for its Steam digital distribution service called Greenlight, which will allow users of the platform to vote on what games they want to be released on Steam. Valve’s Steam is the most popular digital download service for the PC and Mac platforms so you can bet that a... |
10 July 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Nokia Lumia 900 can deliver impressive user satisfaction, a recent report from Nielsen shows. Apparently, owners of this device are not only in love with it, but they are also happy to recommend it to other people due to its great capabilities. The independent research company Nielsen has conducted a recent survey ... |
10 July 2012
14:11 GMT |
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RIM recently announced that the first BlackBerry 10 devices would arrive in January 2013. The official statement came as a disappointment for BlackBerry fans, especially given the fact that RIM promised it would bring the first 10 OS smartphones in Q3 2012.
However, in order to sweeten the wait for US customers who ... |
10 July 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Sony’s Xperia ion (LT28i) smartphone is a highly appealing device, but it can be made even more attractive than before, it seems. The guys over at XDA-Developers managed to root the smartphone and also made available an unsecure kernel for it, for all those who would like to customize their devices to be able... |
10 July 2012
14:01 GMT |
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A brand new teaser for season 7 of Showtime's killer show “Dexter” has just been released. Check it out above in full and HD. Whereas the previous teaser crammed up several minutes' worth of footage from the upcoming season into a few seconds, this one doesn't appear to include footage fr... |
10 July 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Notebook manufacturers may have gotten mixed results from the second quarter of 2012, but that doesn't mean all brand vendors had a hard time scoring order, as made clear by ASUS and Pegatron. Pegatron used to be an ASUS subsidiary, but it became a spin-off back in June 2010. The press still seems to like to t... |
10 July 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Serious Sam 3: BFE is set to receive a brand new DLC later this year called Jewel of the Nile, with Croteam and Devolver Digital revealing that three new missions await the protagonist of the franchise. Serious Sam games have delighted fans by offering simple, yet hectic shooter experiences that put them in the shoe... |
10 July 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry PlayBook 4G is expected to hit shelves in the following weeks. Although the tablet has been confirmed, the Canadian company has yet to announce the exact release date of the slate. However, more details surface every week, which points to an imminent launch in the coming w... |
10 July 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Today, mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility announced the release of a new high-end device for the Canadian market, namely the MOTOROLA ATRIX HD LTE. Tagged a superphone, the new device will be released exclusively on the airwaves of Bell Canada later this summer, being capable of providing them with access to the ... |
10 July 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Galaxy S III, the latest flagship Android-based smartphone from Samsung, is expected to become available for purchase at Verizon Wireless on Thursday, July 12th. The handset has been available for pre-order for the past several weeks and, although it appears to have issues meeting demand for it, Verizon did manage t... |
10 July 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Interest in JavaScript is at all-time high. With the web more powerful than ever, thanks to HTML5, CSS3, WebGL and beyond, interest in web apps or mobile apps built with web technologies is growing. But increasingly powerful apps need an increasingly powerful ecosystem to draw from. Official.fm Labs is doing its par... |
10 July 2012
13:01 GMT |
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We talked about Calxeda’s impressive energy efficient quad-core processors here. We also reported about the performance and energy efficiency here. Now, server maker Boston Limited is announcing the new “Viridis” server line using Calxeda’s EnergyCore SoCs. SoC is short for System on Chip, wh... |
10 July 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Research In Motion is in deep trouble, but the Canadian company hopes to boost its market share once BlackBerry 10 OS gets launched next year. Previously slated for a Q3/Q4 launch, BlackBerry 10 OS has been recently delayed by RIM due to the fact that there’s a large amount of coding needed and the company&rsq... |
10 July 2012
13:01 GMT |
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While most US-based carriers have yet to launch the Samsung Galaxy S III, Sprint has already released two software updates for the Android smartphone.
Samsung’s Android flagship device has been introduced at Sprint in early July and got a few security updates, which are meant to make the smartphone safer for e... |
10 July 2012
12:31 GMT |
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The development team at High Moon Studios has confirmed that the comic book-based project it was working on was called Hit-Monkey and was based on the character of the same name that Marvel Comics has introduced during 2010.
The game and the comic book will star a Japanese Macaque who has managed to become a very ca... |
10 July 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Capcom has begun airing a brand new commercial for Resident Evil 6 in its native country, Japan, which contains just a few bits of footage from the game while highlighting its emphasis on horror. Resident Evil 6 is out this October and Capcom has already begun hyping up the horror game by releasing a variety of vide... |
10 July 2012
12:21 GMT |
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A report from Taiwan says Apple is working with suppliers to mass produce a 13-inch version of the MacBook Pro equipped with a Retina display in time for the company’s Back to School promotion. Not only is DigiTimes convinced Apple has a 13-inch Retina-enabled MacBook Pro on the table for this year, but t... |
10 July 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Motorola Mobility and AT&T have finally confirmed the upcoming availability of the Motorola ATRIX HD featuring Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and LTE support.
Leaked online last week, Motorola ATRIX HD will go on sale at AT&T on July 15 for as low as $99.99 with a new two-year agreement.
The good news is that the A... |
10 July 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Rhinoslider is part of the new wave of jQuery-based content sliders, highly configurable, designed especially for modern websites where webmasters might want to spice up a showcase or portfolio section with great animations and effects.
While in the old days of the Internet, any container fading between two or more ... |
10 July 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Monash University Center for Health Economics investigators found in a new study that middle-aged women who work longer hours are more likely to become overweight or obese as a result. The results apply to women who worked for more than 35 hours weekly. In a paper published in the latest issue of the esteemed Intern... |
10 July 2012
11:54 GMT |
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Sony is reportedly gearing up for the release of a successor for its Tablet S device, one that would carry the model number SGPT1211. No official announcement on the matter was made for the time being, but the device in question has made an appearance over at the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), where it re... |
10 July 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Using the NASA Terra satellite and its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument, experts from the American space agency snapped a new image of Hurricane Emilia yesterday, July 9. Currently flying over the eastern Pacific Ocean, the tropical storm was cataloged as a Category 2 hurricane by the... |
10 July 2012
11:47 GMT |
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Even though the NASA New Horizons mission is still in hibernation mode, it was recently given the go-ahead to begin collecting data on interplanetary space. The mission is currently on its way to fly by Pluto. The point of closest approach will be reached in 2015. Already, the vehicle – which is the fastest s... |
10 July 2012
11:39 GMT |
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The announcement that Mozilla was stopping development on Thunderbird came as quite an unwelcomed surprise to a lot people.
Given that the desktop app has over 20 million users, there were quite a few that were upset and confused. Mozilla clarified some details in the days following the announcement and has now ans... |
10 July 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Rumors on the new LG Android flagship smartphone emerged a few days ago, but now there are more details on the upcoming device’s specs sheet.
It looks like new details on the possible hardware configuration of the next-generation LG smartphone have just surfaced online.
Apparently, the device is codenamed LG... |
10 July 2012
11:31 GMT |
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With Windows 8, Microsoft is about to change many of its other products, but only to make them better and to grab more advantage over rivals, it seems. On Monday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer presented to the attendees to the company’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto some of the latest achieveme... |
10 July 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Just when you thought today couldn't get any better: the official score for Chris Nolan's “The Dark Knight Rises,” officially the hottest release of the year, has been released online – in full! You can listen to it in the player below: just press Menu when you get at the end of a song to... |
10 July 2012
11:18 GMT |
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After a long and well-serviced life, some of AMD’s famous Penom II X4 and X2 processors will reach EOL in December this year. AMD’s Phenom II processor line is considered what “Barcelona” was supposed to be in the first place, and it’s the company’s first desktop architecture able ... |
10 July 2012
11:11 GMT |
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A newly-discovered molecule holds great potential for treating inflammation, researchers at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (FIMR) explain. They say that their latest study on the issue revealed the existence of a molecule that would make an excellent target for next-generation drugs.
What the research ... |
10 July 2012
10:57 GMT |
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We just finished talking about how the PIXMA MG4220 Wireless, PIXMA MG3220 Wireless have driver-free support for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices form Apple, but we didn't actually say what the products could do exactly. We also did not speak about the PIXMA MG2220, a little brother, of sorts, to those two,... |
10 July 2012
10:54 GMT |
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Insider data theft has become a major issue for most companies and identifying such incidents is certainly not an easy task. However, researchers have found a way to spot these cybercrimes based on stochastic forensics.
Jonathan Grier, an independent security researchers, will present his findings on July 26, at the... |
10 July 2012
10:51 GMT |
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On Monday, Microsoft has made available for download the Microsoft Endpoint Protection for Windows Azure Customer Technology Preview version 1.1, designed to provide the option to include antimalware protection agent in each Windows Azure VM. The new tool comes as an extension of the Windows Azure SDK through enabli... |
10 July 2012
10:46 GMT |
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Recently, the US Humane Society decided to look into how large-scale commercial breeders treat the animals they supposedly have in their care.
Taken aback by the living conditions at various puppy mills across the country, the organization now asks the American Kennel Club (AKC) to step up and do its job of prevent... |
10 July 2012
10:45 GMT |
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University of Zürich investigators announce a significant finding – the discovery of a gene that plays an important role in promoting the development of melanoma, a particularly aggressive and increasingly common form of skin cancer.
The Swiss research team explains that melanoma is currently increasing ... |
10 July 2012
10:43 GMT |
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You would think that after eight full stages the organizers would throw in a much-needed rest day, but instead they decided to torture the riders just a little more with a time trial on Stage 9, one that runs for 41.5 km between arc-et-Senans and Besancon.
The race against the clock is often said to be the purest of... |
10 July 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Verizon customers who own the HTC Rezound are probably disappointed by the fact that the Taiwanese handset maker has yet to push the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update.
Although HTC confirmed about three weeks ago that the update would arrive in June/July, we did not expect it to be pushed to late July.
Accordin... |
10 July 2012
10:31 GMT |
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4MLinux Server Edition, a special distribution based on Busybox, Dropbear, OpenSSH and PuTTY, is now at version 3.3. According to the developers, 4MLinux Server Edition 3.3 is just an updated version of 4MLinux 3.2 Server Edition using 4MLinux 3.3 as the core system. Highlights of 4MLinux Server Edition 3.3: &m... |
10 July 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Printers work great with any and all PCs, whether they link to them wirelessly or through cables, but not all of them can easily communicate with other products. Fortunately, companies are doing their best to enable printing off smaller, mobile gadgets like smartphones and, of course, tablets. The latter aren'... |
10 July 2012
10:31 GMT |
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SlimBrowser 6.01 has been updated to a new revision that mostly continues the bug fixing and improvement process.
Build 050 of the browser does away with a bug that caused a blank URL to be added unexpectedly into the address bar drop-down history menu. Photo Salon feature has also been improved as two bugs affectin... |
10 July 2012
10:30 GMT |
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The Secret World is an MMO created by developer Funcom, which aims to change the core gameplay elements of the genre while creating a complex world combining elements from our own reality with myths and mysteries from a variety of cultures.The Secret World starts with the usual character creation process and a rather... |
10 July 2012
10:23 GMT |
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Intel Corporation has apparently decided to forget about all its clients that have invested hundreds of dollars in their LGA2011 mainboards. Most of us might think that the higher-end the mainboard is, the greater the platform longevity is. In a shocking turn of events, it reportedly seems that Intel’s LGA2011... |
10 July 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Maureen Jett, a product Director from VanDyke Software, has announced that SecureCRT 7.0 is now available for Linux, for both Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. SecureCRT 7.0 provides terminal emulation for computing professionals, raising productivity with advanced session management and a host of ways to save t... |
10 July 2012
10:19 GMT |
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Environmentalists and conservationists worldwide grieve at the news that nearly 20,000 endangered baby leatherback turtles were accidentally killed in Trinidad.
Apparently, while trying to redirect a river that was eroding a nearby beach, the workers somehow made a calculation mistake and ended up digging up these a... |
10 July 2012
10:17 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch a new mission to study the very nature of the Universe. Scheduled for takeoff no earlier than 2019, the Euclid spacecraft will have an extremely complex goal – map the cosmic distribution of more than 70 million galaxies.
Compiling an atlas detailing the positio... |
10 July 2012
10:15 GMT |
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The Nexus 7 has been giving headaches to a variety of people, for multiple reasons, but that is not what we are going to talk about today. Instead, we are going to look at the different color options that the covers will be available in. The hardware will be mostly the same all around, but that doesn't mean ... |
10 July 2012
10:12 GMT |
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Angelina Jolie never made any attempts to hide her wild side from back in the day, mostly because it would be useless to try it since she was once so open about it. A new book aims to reveal just how wild it was, detailing her torrid affair with Mick Jagger – among many others. To this day, when she opts to l... |
10 July 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has just posted the update schedule for its Xbox Live Marketplace online service and mentioned that Mass Effect 3 would receive a new bit of downloadable content for its multiplayer mode called Earth, on July 17. Mass Effect 3 received a lot of downloadable content in recent months, from two impressive mul... |
10 July 2012
10:10 GMT |
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GParted Live, a small bootable GNU/Linux distribution for x86 based computers that enables users to take advantage of all the features of the latest versions of the GParted application, is now at version 0.13.0 Beta 1.3. Highlights of GParted LiveCD 0.13.0 Beta 1.3: · Aspell was updated to version 0.60.7; &... |
10 July 2012
10:09 GMT |
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It is a known fact that coal is one of the world's dirtiest energy sources. Apart from the negative impact it has on the wellbeing of our natural world, it seems that the coal industry is now to be held responsible for countless miners' suffering from black lung disease.
Information recently made public ... |
10 July 2012
10:01 GMT |
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This week started off with Savannah Guthrie's debut as co-anchor on The Today Show with Matt Lauer, as the video below will confirm. She comes to replace Ann Curry, who was fired a short while ago, after just one year. Speculation has it that Lauer blamed Curry for the dip in ratings and used all his weight to... |
10 July 2012
09:57 GMT |
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In a speech he held at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) on Monday, General Keith B. Alexander, the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) director, shared some interesting insight on the cyber security issues that currently affect the country. Once again, the subject of China and the cyber threats that com... |
10 July 2012
09:57 GMT |
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Google has been under a lot of scrutiny lately about its privacy practices, with at least part of it warranted. All the hysteria about its privacy policy was for nothing; however, the issue of its ads bypassing default settings in Safari and placing cookies in spite of those settings.
The US Federal Trade Commission... |
10 July 2012
09:56 GMT |
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As expected, AT&T and Samsung have just started the rollout of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade for Galaxy Note. The smartphone can now be upgraded via Samsung Kies desktop software. Keep in mind that this is an improved Android 4.0 ICS upgrade that features a Premium Suite enhancing productivity and usabi... |
10 July 2012
09:55 GMT |
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In the middle of the second biggest race of the year, the Italian Il Giro, I have a dilemma that is pretty much paralyzing me: should I push Frank Schleck hard in order to try and secure a final victory, despite the problems with his time trials skills, or should I just focus on one or two stage wins with my supporti... |
10 July 2012
09:51 GMT |
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There are many PC and laptop case makers in the world, especially in Taiwan and China, but Microsoft somehow managed to scare all of them away, or very nearly. By now, users will know that Microsoft will enter the hardware market when it finally launches the Windows 8 operating system. Since its OS will support both... |
10 July 2012
09:45 GMT |
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The United States Industrial Control Systems – Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) is warning organizations to be extra cautious when handling removable media flash drives since there are a lot of malicious elements that utilize them to spread.
They’re not necessarily referring to Stuxnet, Flame or ... |
10 July 2012
09:26 GMT |
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Traditional AMD video card manufacturing partner Sapphire is apparently preparing to release three new updated models in the AMD Radeon HD 7850 line of products. Two of these cards will come with 2GB of GDDR5 video memory and one will only sport 1 GB. AMD’s HD 7850 video card design is powered by the company&r... |
10 July 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Western Digital continues to expand its hard disk drive line, this time having launched a set of models that are much more specialized than its usual flavor. The beauty of network-attached storage devices is that they can house and manage any hard drive, so long as the interface is compatible. Since mSATA and SATA... |
10 July 2012
09:20 GMT |
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The Fedora Project developers approved yesterday, July 9th, in a FESCo meeting the 256-color terminal support for their upcoming Fedora 18 operating system. OK, so what does 256-color terminal support mean, right? Well, it enables terminal programs to use the enhanced color capabilities of modern terminals, by defa... |
10 July 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Speaking of new iPads, the one that Apple downright advertises as “the new iPad” is set to arrive in China next week, Friday, July 20th, according to an official news release from Cupertino. Apple today updated its PR site with the confirmation that its third-generation tablet computer, dubbed “the... |
10 July 2012
09:09 GMT |
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Kickstarter has been gathering steam for the past few years only to explode in the last six months or so. A number of record-breaking projects, be them music albums, indie games or gadgets, have raised the profile of the site and have opened the eyes of many to the power of crowdfunding. "All of a sudden," artists d... |
10 July 2012
09:06 GMT |
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A new study conducted by researchers working with the US Department of Agriculture argues that collisions between birds and aircraft can be avoided simply by forcing the birds to pay more attention to the planes.
Apparently, this can be achieved either by asking pilots to turn on the aircraft's lights, or by m... |
10 July 2012
09:04 GMT |
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Using the Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on its Terra satellite, the American space agency was recently able to capture an amazing image of more than 30 wildfires burning in the Siberian taiga, in Russia.
ITAR-TASS, an important Russian news agency, reported that the natural disast... |
10 July 2012
08:54 GMT |
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Yesterday, Microsoft unveiled some interesting details on its products and services during the company’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Toronto, Canada. In addition to offering details on the upcoming releases of Windows 8, the Redmond-based software giant also offered info on some other product... |
10 July 2012
08:48 GMT |
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Samsung started to deliver the hotly anticipated Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for Galaxy Tab 7.7 about a week ago, and today the South Korean company announced the availability of the upgrade for Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus.
According to the folks over at Sammobile, Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus owners in Austria are now el... |
10 July 2012
08:47 GMT |
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A group of researchers recently argued that two bod mummies found in Scotland do not, in fact, belong to a pair of distinct individuals. The group was able to determine that the bones making up the mummies came from 6 different people, and that they were pieced together before being buried.
The team says that detai... |
10 July 2012
08:42 GMT |
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A bug causing the release notes of some upcoming apps to get leaked through the App Store in iOS 6 betas has been patched by Apple. The public release of iOS 6 may be far away still, but hackers believe Apple is about to refresh the mobile OS with a new build this week.A report by 9to5mac says the iOS 6 App Stor... |
10 July 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Samsung’s Android-based devices have a lot to offer to their users, and the handset vendor is making sure that people can get the best experience possible. For that, the company has released various applications that expand the phone’s functionality, the latest of which is the Official Top 40 Chart App ... |
10 July 2012
08:41 GMT |
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World renowned security solutions provider Imperva has made available new variants for two of its products: SecureSphere Database Activity Monitoring and Scuba.
SecureSphere Database Activity Monitoring 9.5 is a solution designed to allow enterprises to secure and audit data warehouses – databases utilized for... |
10 July 2012
08:40 GMT |
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Prominent sources in the tech industry are reporting without a doubt that Apple is preparing to unleash hell on earth for the likes of Google and Samsung whose tablet PCs are the primary target of a so-called "iPad mini." It comes as no surprise then that Bloomberg, one of the most reliable of the lot, says the new ... |
10 July 2012
08:36 GMT |
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Not long ago, St. Lucia racers were abundant in the Caribbean region. However, once humans began interfering with the natural balance in these islands, the snake population began to decline at a quick pace.
One of the most affected species was that St. Lucia racer, of which only 18 representatives still remain in t... |
10 July 2012
08:33 GMT |
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Square Enix might be pushing the limits of gaming technology with its new Luminous engine, demoed via Agni’s Philosophy, but the company says that it’s unlikely that characters will ever look photorealistic, mainly because of the uncanny valley effect.
Julien Merceron, who is the worldwide technology dir... |
10 July 2012
08:23 GMT |
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The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has released a new study called “Smart Grid Security – Recommendations for Europe and Members States.” The paper highlights the measures that should be instated to ensure a secure roll-out of smart grids.
Before revealing the recommendations, l... |
10 July 2012
08:22 GMT |
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Last time we wrote about Philips, the company was trumpeting the availability of a 27-inch high-quality monitor, but now we are looking at something a bit more ambitious. At least, we would be looking if there was actually anything for us to behold. As it is, we have to make do with a document presumably leaked to ... |
10 July 2012
08:20 GMT |
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Ever since it was announced that Benedict Cumberbatch had been cast in the highly anticipated “Star Trek 2,” it was assumed he'd be playing the villain. However, everyone involved did their best not to reveal which villain that would be – until now, that is. In a new interview to promote his ... |
10 July 2012
08:18 GMT |
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It recently became public news that Enel Green Power, an Italian company that is in the business of producing and selling green electricity, has begun work on Mexico's first wind farm.
Seeing how this particular country is presumed to be extremely “rich” when it comes to wind power, it should come ... |
10 July 2012
08:12 GMT |
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Great news for “Hunger Games” fans: Oscar-winning Philip Seymour Hoffman has been cast as Head Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee in the sequel “Catching Fire,” which is now in pre-production. The first rumors that the actor was wanted for the part started making the rounds about a month or so ag... |
10 July 2012
07:52 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft officially announced the winners of its 10th annual Imagine Cup competition, which attracted a wide range of students from all around the world. Imagine Cup 2012, meant to honor student technology innovations aimed at addressing some of the toughest problems of the world, had as its Software Design... |
10 July 2012
07:48 GMT |
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Environmentalists and conservationists worldwide have been struggling to put an end to the practice of testing cosmetics on animals for quite a long time. It now seems that former Beatles member Paul McCartney has decided to offer his support to this cause.
Thus, the celebrity is to back up the Be Cruelty-Free camp... |
10 July 2012
07:45 GMT |
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We've seen the word tablet being used and misused by many electronics devices, but seldom have we encountered it as the name of something that isn't at all portable. There was, admittedly, something of the sort on show at a couple of trade shows last year, but that was an exception. Japanese computer mak... |
10 July 2012
07:45 GMT |
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Ubisoft has confirmed that it’s going ahead with its Assassin’s Creed movie project and that it’s already worked out a deal with famous Hollywood actor Michael Fassbender, who’ll play the protagonist and co-produce through his DMC Film company. The Assassin’s Creed franchise started lif... |
10 July 2012
07:45 GMT |
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Zack Snyder's “Superman” reboot “Man of Steel” is one of the most anticipated films of next year, even though Warner Bros. has been very ungenerous with details. Ahead of its Comic-Con 2012 moment, the official synopsis for the reboot has been released. With it comes the (not quite surp... |
10 July 2012
07:36 GMT |
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Man-in-the mobile (MITMO) attacks powered by pieces of malware such as Tatanga and SpyEye (SPITMO) have been spotted targeting users from Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and Germany.
It all starts with web injections in the browsers of Windows users. The injections are utilized to convince the potential victims to ... |
10 July 2012
07:35 GMT |
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Last week, Maxthon was threatened to be blacklisted from Niels Leenheer’s HTML5 test page because he discovered the browser enabled HTML5 features that did not work.
As much as everybody thinks of this deal as an unfair way for Maxthon to promote itself as the browser with most support for HTML5, the “mi... |
10 July 2012
07:32 GMT |
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Google might have developed Android, yet it seems that Microsoft is winning big on this mobile platform. At the moment, the company claims it is receiving royalties for 70 percent of all devices powered by this OS, and they are a lot. On Monday, July 9th, the Redmond-based software giant announced that two more An... |
10 July 2012
07:32 GMT |
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gMaps Pro is a Windows Phone 7 client for Google Maps, but the developers are not related to Google in any way. The application has just been updated with new features and improvements that promises increased usability. First and foremost, the latest version of gMaps Pro comes with improved and slick StreetView (v2.... |
10 July 2012
07:31 GMT |
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A well-known analyst with investment bank Piper Jaffray has issued a new research note which includes his estimates on the event Apple has scheduled for this autumn to release the new-generation iPhone 5. The key takeaway of Gene Munster’s research note is not the iPhone 5, which most pundits agree will have a... |
10 July 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Nokia continues to lose market share in most regions of the world, even though the company inked a partnership with Microsoft.
The Finnish handset maker decided to drop Symbian operating system and bet everything on Windows Phone, which is one of the reasons for the company’s latest failures.
Nokia’s ne... |
10 July 2012
07:21 GMT |
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In a surprising move, Imagination Technologies seems to be on a plan to take the tablet and low-power GPU market by storm. Not only do PowerVR GPUs rule 78% of the mobile GPU market like we unveiled here, but now the company is announcing much more powerful GPUs, on its official website. This market dominance only s... |
10 July 2012
07:11 GMT |
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This week, an application called “Find and Call” was found guilty of spamming users after being installed on iOS devices. Apple has removed the software from its App Store, citing violations of its guidelines. Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab sounded the alarm this week regarding an app that was feedi... |
10 July 2012
07:04 GMT |
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Apparently, Verizon Wireless indeed has some troubles meeting demand for the new Galaxy S III smartphone, and that those who pre-ordered it might not receive their units in due time. The flagship Android device was announced for the wireless carrier in early June, and was expected to land at the end of the month, bu... |
10 July 2012
07:01 GMT |
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Today, Google made available for download the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean bits in the Android Open Source Project, and announced that it is available for Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 devices. Oddly enough, Google also listed there Verizon’s flavor of Galaxy Nexus, which was said only a few weeks ago to be rather diffi... |
10 July 2012
07:01 GMT |
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A perfect example of the fact that almost anything can be hacked was seen a few days ago in Anchorage, Alaska. Hackers tapped into the boxes of road construction signs and programmed them to display a message that read “Impeach Obama.”
The incident occurred on Wednesday night or in the early hours of Thu... |
10 July 2012
07:00 GMT |
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Cupertino has issued an email to all registrants of the Apple Developer Program notifying them that the Mac App Store is now accepting Mountain Lion submissions. Apple asks developers to make sure their apps take advantage of the new stuff made available in Mountain Lion, as the company prepares to ship its ninth ma... |
10 July 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Google+ Recommendations for websites, which were announced a few weeks ago, are now finally rolling out. What this means is that you'll start seeing "recommended" pages every time you click on the +1 button on a website.
Those pages will be from the same site, they're intended to help you discover more of... |
10 July 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Motorola Mobility delayed the release of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade for its smartphone until Q3, though the US-based company promised it would deliver the hotly anticipated update as early as Q1 2012.
The first smartphones to receive the Ice Cream Sandwich update, DROID RAZR and DROID RAZR MAXX are exclu... |
10 July 2012
06:21 GMT |
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LEGO Batman 2: DC Superheroes, the game based upon the DC Comic universe that uses LEGO bricks to recreate Gotham and a number of villains and adventures, has managed to spend a third week at the top of the United Kingdom video game chart.
The game has benefitted from the upcoming release of the third Batman movie c... |
10 July 2012
06:17 GMT |
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During a new scientific study, aging female rats were administered estrogen and MPA, a synthetic form of progesterone, for prolonged periods of time. Though the rodents' front cortices were supposed to degenerate on account of old age, the chemicals appeared to boost synapse strength. The finding is remarkable,... |
10 July 2012
06:02 GMT |
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Just recently, the people who were supposed to embark on a U.S. Airways flight found that their journey must wait, as the plane got stuck in the tarmac on the runway.
Apparently, the heat waves that hit America these past few weeks eventually melted the ground at the Reagan National Airport, making it impossible fo... |
10 July 2012
06:01 GMT |
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Developer Cody Cooper was playing around with Apple’s iOS 6 beta when he stumbled upon references to the new Maps application with hints at the possibility of integration with Macs.Cody reportedly found some interesting code strings in the file altitude_manifest.xml, where “there is a reference to a set o... |
10 July 2012
06:00 GMT |
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As online gaming evolves, the scene attracts all sorts of shady characters, especially since in some cases real money is just used to make trades. To ensure that gamers have a secure experience while playing online, experts from Trend Micro have released an advisory.
The small guide – Level Up and Secure Your ... |
10 July 2012
05:59 GMT |
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There comes a time when all features and innovation avenues are exhausted for a product type, forcing their designers to start doing something else as well, or add unusual traits to their existing projects, much like Wacom is doing in the field of graphics tablets. The last graphics tablet from Wacom was announced ... |
10 July 2012
05:53 GMT |
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GitHub is well known outside of programmer circles and has become the premier code-hosting site out there, despite being just four and a half years old. Even more impressive, it did this while not taking any outside investment, just by pouring any money they got back into the company. But that's all in the past... |
10 July 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Alongside two new developer releases of OS X this week, Apple has rolled out Xcode 4.4 GM (Golden Master), a near-final build of the company’s latest coding toolset for OS X and iOS developers. The Xcode 4.4 changelog has been leaked in the wild. The literature discusses “new features and issues present ... |
10 July 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Many of you may not remember the days of the PowerVR Kyro and Kyro II cards. These GPUs were made by French semiconductor specialist STMicro and were designed by today’s well-known Imagination Technologies. The novelty of PowerVR’s architecture was the fact that the design was concentrating on a specific... |
10 July 2012
05:42 GMT |
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This year's July reiterates a 400-year-old tradition of Spanish men tackling and cropping the manes of wild horses. The end goal: those who win this battle with untamed horses get to prove their strength.
Rapa das Bestas, which literally means “cropping the beast,” is a festival that takes place in... |
10 July 2012
05:41 GMT |
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The development team at EA Sports has launched another trailer for the upcoming Madden NFL 13 American football simulation, this time focusing on the Ultimate Team game mode.
The mode is designed to appeal to those players who like their fantasy football action and their card trading.
The meta-game will be free-to-... |
10 July 2012
05:39 GMT |
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For the past few weeks, there has been a lot of talk about how Kris Humphries, Kim Kardashian's soon-to-be-ex-husband, had fathered a child shortly after the reality star dumped him – to ex-girlfriend Myla Sinanaj. Myla is now speaking out on Twitter. Posting online a photo of herself in a pair of short ... |
10 July 2012
05:36 GMT |
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Over the past few years, a number of studies have proposed that a correlation exists between the amount of time a person spends on Facebook and their chances of suffering from depression. A new research now refutes these claims. The study was carried out on university students, and covered their online habits, inclu... |
10 July 2012
05:36 GMT |
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On Monday, wireless services provider AT&T announced the upcoming availability of a new software update for its Nokia Lumia 900 smartphone. In a post on AT&T’s blog, Steve Conn announced that the Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh would land on Lumia 900 in the not too distant future, bringing along various enhancemen... |
10 July 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Best Buy has started sending out notification emails to alert customers that hackers may be attempting to access their accounts.
Apparently, Best Buy itself hasn’t been hacked. Instead, cybercriminals are using username and password combinations obtained from older breaches to access the accounts of the retail... |
10 July 2012
05:17 GMT |
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Officials from Mojave, California-based XCOR Aerospace announce that the company will open its new Commercial Space Research and Development Center Headquarters in Midland, Texas. The announcement was made on Monday, July 9.
The company is currently developing a suborbital space plane, which it plans to use for bot... |
10 July 2012
05:11 GMT |
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More often than not, poachers who set out to hunt Indian elephants for their tusks prefer to take down fully grown bulls, as this allows them to collect as much ivory as possible. A recent study focusing on India's elephant population argues that, as a result of this “preferential” treatment, the e... |
10 July 2012
05:11 GMT |
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The Russian Wikipedia is protesting against proposed internet censorship laws that are put forward as filters for what is widely accepted as "illegal" content, but could easily be used to block any website the authorities deem fit.
Given the history of abuse in Russia and the lack of freedom of the press, the dange... |
10 July 2012
05:11 GMT |
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DICE has confirmed that it would release the Matches feature for Battlefield 3 later today, July 10, at 1 PM UTC. Battlefield 3 came out last year and, since then, developer DICE has been hard at work on new features and expansions for the shooter. The latest feature to appear for the game is the Matches one, which... |
10 July 2012
05:10 GMT |
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Panasonic Corporation, formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial is Japan’s biggest private employer that’s traded publicly on the stock exchange. The company was hard hit with huge losses recently and now it’s working hard on getting back to profitability. The company was founded in 1918 an... |
10 July 2012
05:01 GMT |
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Experts at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are currently making their effort forays into the intricacies of a space program first proposed in 2011. The purpose of the Phoenix endeavor is to service old satellites, or harvest important components from these spacecraft.
According to officials... |
10 July 2012
04:53 GMT |
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The NPD Group is set to release the official sales figures for June in the United States before the end of the week, and at least one analyst believes that the decline, when compared to the same month in 2011, is likely to reach 34 percent. In a note to investors, Michael Pachter, who is watching the video game indu... |
10 July 2012
04:43 GMT |
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If you own a company and you want to register it in an online directory, you should beware of these shady emails. They purport to come from the World Trade Register and they try to trick customers into paying fairly large amounts of money for services that, at first glance, appear to be free.
MX Lab experts reveal ... |
10 July 2012
04:42 GMT |
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Former developers that worked at Kaos Studios during the creation process of Homefront have revealed a few interesting things about the game and how THQ changed the enemy from China to North Korea by force. Homefront appeared last year and was supposed to establish THQ as a large scale publisher and confirm the tale... |
10 July 2012
04:40 GMT |
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The land iguanas of Galapagos are under the law's protection as an endangered species, therefore all attempts to smuggle them off the island result in legal charges.
This is precisely what happened to 31-year-old Dirk Bender from Germany, who recently tried to hide four representatives of this species in his l... |
10 July 2012
04:38 GMT |
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As Windows Phone 8 is nearing its availability window, more device names related to it started to emerge online. These handsets were spotted in the WP device database by the developer of Love Wallpapers HD (via WPDang), and supposedly show Windows Phone 8 models that are currently being tested out there. Among the... |
10 July 2012
04:37 GMT |
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Aurora borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, can produce faint, clap-like noises, scientists confirmed following a recent study. The phenomenon was first revealed in folktales and travel journals, but no conclusive evidences to support the claim were ever produced.
Now, researchers at the Aalto Universiyt, i... |
10 July 2012
04:36 GMT |
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The MegaUpload case, perhaps unsurprisingly, is not going well for the FBI and the lobbying groups behind it. The extradition hearing of Kim Dotcom, who has been labeled as the "kingpin" of this allegedly illegal business, has been pushed back from August to March 2013, at the earliest.
This may look like a victory ... |
10 July 2012
04:34 GMT |
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In tandem with the Mountain Lion GM release, Apple this week rolled out OS X Lion 10.7.5 build 11G22, a new incremental update to the current Mac operating system. Full documentation and other tidbits can be found below.Having no official release date set, OS X 10.7.5 may well arrive after Mountain Lion is launched t... |
10 July 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Adam Lambert is, without a doubt, one of the most popular and successful American Idol contestants ever and he didn't even win the season he was featured on the show. As such, producers are thinking he would be ideal as judge on the new panel of judges. Now on hiatus, the show is about to see some drastic chan... |
10 July 2012
04:22 GMT |
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Apple has seeded developers with the Golden Master build of OS X Mountain Lion in anticipation of its public debut this month. Mountain Lion introduces more than 200 new features.Developers enrolled with Apple can visit the company’s Mac Dev Center and redeem a code that enables them to download the latest Moun... |
10 July 2012
04:17 GMT |
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Google released new major versions for the Dev and Beta channel of Chrome. The builds are available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame) and bring to the table important modifications.
In the case of the Dev, the version number is 22.0.1201.0 and the most significant change is reserved... |
10 July 2012
04:10 GMT |
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Splinter Cell: Blacklist might be released on March 29, 2013, at least according to retailer Amazon UK, which has just put up a listing for the game that mentions not just a launch date, but also a special Upper Echelon Edition. Ubisoft presented Splinter Cell: Blacklist back at E3 2012 last month and now more and m... |
10 July 2012
04:10 GMT |
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According to a collaboration of American and Danish researchers, molecules extracted from the Mediterranean Basin weed called Thapsia garganica proved extremely effective at addressing cancer tumors in mice. The active ingredient in the plant is a compound called thapsigargin.
What is interesting about this chemical... |
10 July 2012
04:03 GMT |
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Many of the big contract manufacturers like TSMC and UMC started charging their fabless customers “by wafer” instead of charging them “per working chip.” This has increased the costs for the fabless companies like AMD and Nvidia, but has assured the FAB owners that they won’t operate at ... |
10 July 2012
04:01 GMT |
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Themis Computer, a supplier of high-performance board and system-level products, has announced its newest NanoPAK Small Form Factor Computers. NanoPAK are small, light and sturdy computing devices meant for robotics, mobile computing, wearable systems, embedded computing, real time control and standalone applicatio... |
10 July 2012
04:00 GMT |
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A study made available to the public just yesterday argues that, as a result of climate change and of improper agricultural practices, rice production in South East Asia might soon find itself considerably affected. Interestingly enough, the researchers who looked into this issue come from various research institut... |
10 July 2012
03:57 GMT |
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Internauts, especially those who work in a corporate environment, should be on the lookout for an alert that notifies them on a meeting. The simple-looking emails carry a dangerous piece of malware that’s currently detected by only around half of the existent antivirus solutions. Apparently originating from sp... |
10 July 2012
03:49 GMT |
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The first title from Robert Bowling and his Robotoki team will allow players to interact directly with the real world in order to collect a number of resources that they will then be able to use in the game.
The Human Element will include versions for a number of mobile devices that will communicate constantly with ... |
10 July 2012
03:44 GMT |
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What promised to be one of the nastiest, juiciest celebrity divorces has just been wrapped, days after official papers were filed. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have reached a divorce settlement, it has been confirmed. Katie filed divorce papers in New York a little over a week ago, reportedly blindsiding Tom in doin... |
10 July 2012
03:40 GMT |
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Mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, say that the Cassini spacecraft is now moving into an orbital position that enables it to capture images of the massive and beautiful rings surrounding the gas giant Saturn.
Cassini has been studying the planet, its ring system... |
10 July 2012
03:39 GMT |
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The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is now available for download for a new handset on AT&T’s network, the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket. The phone is reportedly getting the new software update as version i727UCLF6, bumping the platform it runs under up to 4.0.4 and adding a host of new features into the mix. ... |
10 July 2012
03:38 GMT |
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Expedition 31 astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were recently able to capture this image of an elusive atmospheric phenomenon, which was believed to be the stuff of legend for many years. Called a sprite, the event is intimately tied to thunderstorms and lightnings.
The short-lived, red flashe... |
10 July 2012
03:32 GMT |
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In a notification sent to subscribers, Stay Smart Online, an initiative of the Australian Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE), admitted to having lost a DVD containing their personal information.
Stay Smart Online is managed by Australia’s Computer Emergency Response Team (A... |
10 July 2012
03:28 GMT |
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The developers at Team 17 have released another diary for their upcoming Worms Revolution, talking about how the game will integrate such new features as overhauled physics, 3D landscapes and dynamics water.
The Worms franchise has been launched in 1995 and since then Team 17 has launched a number of core titles and... |
10 July 2012
03:23 GMT |
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Solar physicists operating the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) announce that Active Region (AR) 1515, a sunspot that has been acting up for the past week or so, has just produced a new solar flare, an M6.9-class event.
The flare began at 12:23 pm EDT (1623 GMT) on Monday, July 9, and peaked at 12:32 pm EDT (1... |
10 July 2012
03:22 GMT |
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The other day, all hell broke loose as word got out that Brad Pitt's mother, Jane Pitt, had written an open letter to a local newspaper, urging Christians to vote against abortion, same-gender marriage and Obama by voting for Romney. Doug Pitt, Brad's brother, is now speaking out on the issue. Doug, a ver... |
10 July 2012
03:20 GMT |
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In spite of offshore drilling operations posing great threats to marine wildlife, it was recently made public that Shell might begin exploiting the Arctic waters without having any kind of “safety-net” at hand.
More precisely, the Arctic Challenger, the company's oil spill recovery barge, is to rem... |
10 July 2012
03:19 GMT |
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Valhalla Game Studios, the Japanese developer that’s currently working on Devil’s Third, has revealed that the franchise will be a multimedia one, as the company is trying to make things like manga, novels, animated videos or films based on it. The development of Devil’s Third hasn’t exactly ... |
10 July 2012
03:14 GMT |
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Intel has a huge capital, which means that it can afford to make many investments, so it comes as no surprise that yet another company has earned its attention. ASML Holding NV is the name of the firm that will soon become a factor in Intel's manufacturing R&D expertise. This is not just another buyout thoug... |
10 July 2012
03:11 GMT |
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COR Entertainment has released Alien Arena: Reloaded Edition 7.60, a new and improved of a great first-person shooter multiplayer.
According to the developers, Alien Arena: Reloaded Edition comes with a ton of new stuff, ranging from new maps, to improvements of the engine.
Highlights of Alien Arena: Reloaded 7.6... |
10 July 2012
03:05 GMT |
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Although it claimed that customers were not at risk because of the vulnerability reported by members of the Tor Project, Cyberoam rushed to release a hotfix that would forcefully generate unique CA certificates for each deep packet inspection (DPI) device. Initially, the network security company stated that the priv... |
10 July 2012
03:03 GMT |
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Lily Allen has never made a secret of wanting a family, as large as possible. However, just days after announcing on her Twitter that she was back in the recording studio, supposedly ending her time off work, word is out that she's expecting again. If true, this can only mean one thing: fans waiting to hear ne... |
10 July 2012
02:58 GMT |
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Microsoft is currently working on the release of the next-generation Windows Phone 8 operating system. The company already managed to grab a fair share of the smartphone market, mostly due to the partnership with Nokia.
However, Windows Phone is still far from being an important player in the smartphone market, but ... |
10 July 2012
02:51 GMT |
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The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement was endorsed just recently, as a result of an on-going collaboration between Canada's Forest Industry and various environmental groups.
More precisely, 21 companies in the business of trading wood and 9 green organizations have decided that it is high time to develop wiser ... |
10 July 2012
02:50 GMT |
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On July 9th, Karanbir Singh announced the immediate availability for download of the CentOS 6.3 operating system for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. The CentOS 6.3 Linux distribution is based on the acclaimed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 distribution, bringing all its features, with which it is 100% binary co... |
10 July 2012
02:50 GMT |
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Paul McCartney, the former member of The Beatles and successful composer and performer, has confirmed that he was working with video game developer Bungie, creating the soundtrack for their coming first-person shooter project.
Via a Twitter message, the legendary musician has stated, “I’m really excited ... |
10 July 2012
02:41 GMT |
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Tekken Tag Tournament 2 producer Katsuhiro Harada has expressed his thoughts on the Nintendo Wii U and revealed that the console’s unique controller, the GamePad, can be quite distracting when playing a fighting game. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is set to appear this September for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 an... |
10 July 2012
02:39 GMT |
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True to its promise, Google has made the source code for its Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system available for download. Through pushing the new platform release in the Android Open Source Project, Google is providing developers with the possibility to have a better look at the features and capabilities packed ... |
10 July 2012
02:33 GMT |
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A few months back, Advanced Micro Devices believed its second quarter would bring it more money than the first, but only now does it realize how wrong it was. The revenue for the April-June period would rise by 3%. That was the forecast for the quarter, and though the company did account for a possibility of weaker... |
10 July 2012
02:30 GMT |
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On Monday, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung made available for purchase in its homeland market a new flavor of Galaxy S III, and has registered quite a success with it. This new flavor of Galaxy S III features a quad-core application processor and was enhanced with 2GB of RAM, as well as with support for LTE... |
10 July 2012
02:24 GMT |
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Galaxy Note, the largest Android smartphone in the world at the moment, is expected to get a taste of the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system today. Moreover, in addition to the actual platform upgrade, the handset is also expected to receive a series of additional features from Samsung, all included in a so-called... |
10 July 2012
01:54 GMT |
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