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Kristoffer Touborg, a lead game designer on EVE Online: Retribution, believes that the space-based MMO needs new mechanics like bounty hunting in order to create new situations for players and new stories to share with the rest of the community.
He tells VG247 that, “There are also unexpected consequences. I&... |
11 December 2012
22:51 GMT |
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The folks at Glu Mobile have just updated their Eternity Warriors game for Android devices. The dungeon-crawling title is free to play, but players can choose to pay real money for extra items.
The latest version of Eternity Warriors II provides access to a new dungeon called Dragon's Lair, which is, obviously,... |
11 December 2012
22:31 GMT |
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A new Android-based handset with a full HD screen on the front is now official in Asia, namely the Sharp Aquos Phone SH930W, which has been launched in Taiwan.
The new device packs a 5-inch touchscreen display capable of delivering a 1080p resolution, while also packing a dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 MSM8960A pro... |
11 December 2012
21:51 GMT |
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Bitdefender Parental Control, the Android application that allows parents to monitor their child’s mobile phone, has just been updated with a few tweaks.
Developers have added an “Uninstall” option right from the Parental Control menu for easier access. In addition, the folks at Bitdefender ha... |
11 December 2012
21:31 GMT |
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The developers working on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Metro: Last Light are trying to deliver a solid experience for players, comparable to what they can get from a mainstream gaming PC.
Huw Benyon, the leader of the communications department at publisher THQ, says, “I think PS3 and 360 owners a... |
11 December 2012
21:31 GMT |
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Brian Horton, the senior game director working on the reboot of Tomb Raider at Crystal Dynamics, believes that the new game can impose a modern filter on the classic franchise because it shows the first adventure that Lara Croft went through. The developer tells AusGamer that, “There’s been hints at her ... |
11 December 2012
20:41 GMT |
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Quickoffice has just released a new version of its productivity application for Android devices, which allows users to edit, create and delete Office documents while on the move. In fact both Quickoffice Pro and Quickoffice Pro HD apps have been updated and have received the same changes. Keep in mind that the fir... |
11 December 2012
20:31 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is expected to make two new high-end Android devices available for purchase in India as soon as next month, namely the Optimus G and Nexus 4.
Both these phones, which are very similar in terms of hardware capabilities, are expected to hit shelves in the country in Janu... |
11 December 2012
20:21 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Hulu Plus application is now available for download for devices running under Google’s Android operating system, with a nice range of enhancements packed inside. The most important of them is the addition of a new Hulu Kids section, which was meant to highlight ad-free kids content. Ther... |
11 December 2012
19:41 GMT |
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My Wallets is a simple money manager for Android devices, allowing users to manage their expenses and incomes while on the move.
Updated recently with new functions and improvements, My Wallets provides users with a slew of options, including:
- Keeping parishes and loss bound to wallets and groups;
- Conducting mo... |
11 December 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Officially announced for China last week, Nokia’s first Windows Phone 8 devices, namely Lumia 920 and Lumia 820, are now available for purchase in the country. The high-end Lumia 920 was made available for purchase with a price tag of RMB 4,599 ($736 / €566) attached to it, while the Lumia 820 is availab... |
11 December 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Company of Heroes 2 is making the move to the Eastern Front and the new setting means that developers at Relic have a new approach to the question of realism, one that haunts all teams dealing with a World War II setting.
Quinn Duffy, the leading developer working on Company of Heroes 2, tells VG247 that, “But... |
11 December 2012
19:31 GMT |
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It’s been quite a while since Maxthon updated its Android browser. Today, developers are back with a range of important features that are delivered via a new update.
First of all, Maxthon Cloud Browser can now be launched at the same time on multiple platforms, including PC, Mac, Android and iOS.
In addition,... |
11 December 2012
19:31 GMT |
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As expected, LG has just announced the upcoming availability of the Nexus 4 smartphone in Hong Kong. The device is expected to hit shelves at some point in mid-December at authorized resellers.
According to GSMInsider, customers will be able to purchase the Nexus 4 for no less than HKD$4398 off contract, which is ab... |
11 December 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has just managed to sign a new patent deal with IT vendor Hoeft & Wessel, with the Redmond-based technology titan to receive unspecified royalties from the German company. Microsoft hasn’t provided too many details on the new agreement, but it’s just another effort supposed to demonstrate compa... |
11 December 2012
18:51 GMT |
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Huw Benyon, the head of communications at THQ, says that the upcoming Metro: Last Light will focus on the guilt that main character Artyom is feeling and the game will give him plenty of chances to redeem himself.The executive told CVG that, “He has this huge burden of guilt upon him as he considers the ramific... |
11 December 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Today, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has announced the availability of the gold flavor of its BlackBerry 10 development toolkit, which appears to have been complemented by the release of a new software update for the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha OS.
Pushed to developer devices as version 10.0.9.1675 (or... |
11 December 2012
18:21 GMT |
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A brand new report has surfaced on the web regarding the next generation of home consoles, saying that the next Xbox device (aka the Xbox 720) is codenamed Kryptos and will be released in fall of 2013, while the PlayStation 4 is codenamed Thebes and will be launched in spring of 2014.
Next-generation platforms have ... |
11 December 2012
18:11 GMT |
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Motorola’s DROID RAZR HD is one of the latest smartphones to get a taste of Google’s Android 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system, via an unofficial CyanogenMod 10.1 build.
The new release is said to be compatible with both the consumer and the developer’s versions of the mobile phone, as long as SafeStrap3 ... |
11 December 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Google60 sounds like an endurance race, but it's actually a very clever app that reimagines search as a service from the 60s running on IBM mainframes. Obviously, you're not going to use this for any practical searches, but it's a great way of interacting with (replicas of) machines created before most... |
11 December 2012
17:51 GMT |
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Safari AutoFill in iOS 6 is no longer working, despite being listed in the Settings menu as an available option, customers are reporting. Apple support reportedly told one customer that the company suspended the feature for security reasons.
Using the AutoFill pane in the Safari preferences customers on iOS 5 could ... |
11 December 2012
17:51 GMT |
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The development team in charge of The Lord of the Rings Online at Turbine says that the game is launching Update 9 for the MMO, which offers gamers three new instances designed specifically for three-player teams, along with other changes to classic game areas.The Riders of Rohan Instance Pack – Road to Erebor ... |
11 December 2012
17:44 GMT |
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According to security experts from GFI Software, one of last week’s most prevalent spam campaigns leveraged the name of TLO, a company that provides investigative research and risk management solutions.
The bogus notifications, purporting to come from TLO’s Department of Investigation, only inform recipi... |
11 December 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Even though Microsoft hasn’t released any official sales figures on the Surface RT, analysts point out that this particular tablet is yet to take off, especially because of the limited distribution and the high price.
And the latest statistics revealed by ad firm Chitika do nothing more than to confirm this sc... |
11 December 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Blizzard is continuing to tease the possibility of launching Diablo 3 on consoles like the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, saying that it already has builds of the game running on such devices, although it's yet to actually start working on such a project. Diablo 3 came out for the PC and Mac platforms back in May o... |
11 December 2012
17:11 GMT |
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The development team at Trion Worlds says that it will launch a new patch for the MMO Rift on December 12, which will introduce new raids and events, but will also prepare the game for the holiday festivities that will take place later during the month.
The new raid included in the patch is called Eternal Eclipse an... |
11 December 2012
17:04 GMT |
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Back in October when Microsoft officially released the new Windows 8 and the Surface RT, the company also started what it called “the biggest advertising campaign ever,” with a budget of $1.5 billion (€1.1 billion) prepared just for marketing purposes.
Fast forward one month and a half and we get plenty of unof... |
11 December 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Google Chrome, a browser built on the WebKit layout engine that aims to be minimalistic and versatile at the same time, is now at version 23.0.1271.97.
The dev version of Google Chrome is now out for Linux users, and even if it's not a major release, it sports quite a few fixes.
Highlights of Google Chrome 23.... |
11 December 2012
16:52 GMT |
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In case you receive an email entitled “Ending of your CPA license,” “Income improper tax return accusations,” or “Your accountant CPA License Termination,” purporting to come from American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), you should know that it’s most likel... |
11 December 2012
16:51 GMT |
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With the help of data provided by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, meteorologist Jeff Masters has reached a rather troubling conclusion: the year 2012 has basically been the hottest year on record for the US. Apparently, the country has a warm November and a stunningly early December to than... |
11 December 2012
16:41 GMT |
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The latest version of the Blackberry Messenger arrived in the BlackBerry App World with a brand new feature, long awaited by many, namely BBM Voice. The enhancement provides users with the possibility to easily start a voice chat from a BBM text conversation. The feature is currently available in BBM 7 for all de... |
11 December 2012
16:31 GMT |
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On December 10, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the immediate availability for download of the twentieth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.4 kernel series. Linux kernel 3.4.23 LTS (long-term support) has arrived sooner than expected and it only sports just a few updates, and most of them are just new drivers. ... |
11 December 2012
16:31 GMT |
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It was not very long ago when the news that Susan Rice, the most promising US candidate for Secretary of State, had big money in tar sands made headlines. Another conflict of interests concerning environmental issues and the US energy industry is now drawing significant amounts of attention. A researcher working... |
11 December 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Jono Bacon, Ubuntu’s Community Manager, had to apologize to Richard Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation, after a rather harsh blog post. Richard Stallman is not a friend of Canonical. He criticized the company and their operating system, Ubuntu, in the past. Recently, he had some pr... |
11 December 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Nokia’s Lumia 920 smartphone, launched with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 operating system loaded on top, is one of the most appealing handsets on shelves this quarter, but more is expected from Nokia in the coming months. With Android devices already rocking quad-core processors and full HD screens, it&r... |
11 December 2012
16:11 GMT |
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One of the features that Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 operating system did not include when brought to the market was FM Radio support, yet it seems that the company might add it to its mobile OS in the not too distant future.
According to WindowsPhoneMania.pl, while Microsoft did not have time to include the ... |
11 December 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Velvet Assassin, the stealth action mix set during World War II, is now available on Steam with a big price cut, which means that players can get the game for 1.25 Euro or dollars, a reduction of 75 percent over the normal cost.
Velvet Assassin was developed by Replay Studios and published by SouthPeak Games during ... |
11 December 2012
15:57 GMT |
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A new Kickstarter campaign is now asking people to help jump-start the large-scale manufacturing of the ELF electric vehicle, which is basically a solar and pedal powered hybrid.
Its manufacturers claim that this innovative three-wheeler is basically “the cleanest, most efficient vehicle on the planet.”... |
11 December 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Git, a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency, is now at version 1.8.0.2.
As releases go, Git 1.8.0.2 is quite a large one, with tons of changes and updates.
Highlights of Git 1.8.0.2:
• Various codepat... |
11 December 2012
15:47 GMT |
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Just like Acer was forced to reveal unflattering financial numbers, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has admitted to a drop in revenue during the month of November.
TSMC made NT$44.253 billion last month, which is about the same as $1.52 billion / 1.16 billion Euro.
The sum is, as shocking as it may sound... |
11 December 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Another phishing scam that relies on the old “account update” theme is currently making the rounds, attempting to trick Gmail users into handing over their usernames and passwords.
“As part of our security measures, we regularly update all accounts on our database system. We are unable to upda... |
11 December 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Fetchmail, a full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over on-demand TCP/IP, is now at version 6.3.23.
Fetchmail 6.3.23 supports every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet, including POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, ETRN, ODM... |
11 December 2012
15:33 GMT |
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Gnote, a free and open-source desktop notetaking application written for Linux, ported from Tomboy to C++, is now at version 3.7.1.
Highlights of Gnote 3.7.1:
• A new special notebook called PinnedNotesNotebook has been added;
• A new special notebook called Active Notes has been made active;
• Switc... |
11 December 2012
15:21 GMT |
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VideoLAN has already announced that VLC would be ported on Windows 8, and the company has even launched a Kickstarter page to raise funds for the new project.
Since it’s all about such an important multimedia player, Microsoft has decided to lend a hand to developers and help them create the new VLC for Window... |
11 December 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Google is getting ready for the holidays, while Easter is still months away, Google is already dropping quite a few Easter Eggs. Do a search for Festivus, the alternative winter time holiday, and you'll find the search results page all adorned for the celebration.
In this case, it means a plain aluminum pole t... |
11 December 2012
15:21 GMT |
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A new flavor of the popular Twitter application is now available for download for BlackBerry devices, namely version 4.0.0.10 beta. The app can be found in the BlackBerry Beta Zone, and is accessible to all those who have an account on the portal. The new application release was made available for download with n... |
11 December 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the Canonical, has provided some insights in the future of Ubuntu and talked about his plans to conquer the Linux world.
It’s not a secret that Mark Shuttleworth has big plans for Ubuntu and it’s been clear for some time that he wants Ubuntu on all the major platforms, i... |
11 December 2012
14:55 GMT |
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Just in case you had any doubts left as to Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman’s musical talents, the video above should help you rid yourself of them. Check it out.
Crowe was performing at Joe’s Pub in NYC, during an intimate show called The Indoor Garden Party, when he asked Hugh, one of his best friends, ... |
11 December 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Street Fighter x Tekken, the recent cross over fighting game from Capcom, is being offered by the publisher and Valve on the Steam digital distribution service with a massive 75 percent price cut as part of the Midweek Madness promotion, which means that the offer is available until 4 PM on Thursday Pacific Standard ... |
11 December 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Developers X1 Software and AWAR are offering their Iron Front: Liberation 1944 with a price cut of 66 percent on the Steam digital distribution service from Valve, until Thursday at 4 PM Pacific Standard Time.
The action and strategy title allows player to use either a first-person or a third-person perspective in o... |
11 December 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has just released the seven updates included in this month’s Patch Tuesday cycle and addressing 12 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Word and Windows Server.
Although all updates must be deployed as soon as possible, Microsoft recommends users to prioritize the installation of two critic... |
11 December 2012
14:02 GMT |
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Today, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion announced the availability of the final flavor of its BlackBerry 10 developer toolkit. The gold version of the SDK was announced last month, and is now available for download with the final version of tools, components, and APIs that would allow developers to bu... |
11 December 2012
13:41 GMT |
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It seems as though everyone, including the Hasidic Orthodox Jewish world, is catching the Gangnam bug.
This is just one example of a celebration in which playing PSY is a must. I can tell that everyone at this wedding party knows the moves to the famous hit song. It is most likely that they practiced before the par... |
11 December 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Online retailer GameFly is running a special Not so Scary End of the World sale nowadays and has just slashed the prices on two very impressive games, in the form of XCOM: Enemy Unknown and The Walking Dead. GameFly has entered the digital distribution market in an aggressive manner, offering free copies of BioShock... |
11 December 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Jack Reacher will be officially released on December 21, but Tom Cruise fans finally have the option to customize their computers with official goodies released by Microsoft. The newly-launched Jack Reacher theme comes with five different wallpapers from the upcoming Paramount Pictures movie and provides support for... |
11 December 2012
13:21 GMT |
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The Samba development team, through Jeremy Allison, proudly announced a few minutes ago (December 11, 2012) that the final and stable release of the highly anticipated Samba 4.0 authentication and print server suite for Microsoft Windows clients is now available for download.
After 10 years of hard work, the Samba ... |
11 December 2012
13:18 GMT |
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Apple has posted new documentation for OS X Server customers looking to learn about the advanced settings they can use with the brand new Caching service introduced in version 2.2.
Apple reveals to IT administrators that OS X Server’s advanced configuration settings for the Caching service can be configured wi... |
11 December 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Ever since announcing its focus on the release of Windows Phone devices, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has left Symbian smartphones aside, and the newest platform releases did not arrive on all the latest such phones from the company. Nokia C6-01 RM-718 & RM-601 is one of these smartphones, currently powered by ... |
11 December 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Samsung confirmed several weeks ago that it would bring the Ativ S in Canada by the end of November. The smartphone should have been released via multiple carriers, including Bell and Roger, but that did not happen yet.
It appears that the South Korean handset maker was forced to delay the launch of the Ativ S until... |
11 December 2012
13:01 GMT |
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An employee at Bed Bath & Beyond chose an original way of resigning, by writing what he thinks about his boss on a product tag. He wrote the tag for the Nuwave Pro Infrared Oven on his computer, and placed it in the store. The tag, which you can read in full here, includes his honest opinion of the product and on h... |
11 December 2012
12:51 GMT |
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WordPress 3.5 has arrived. After several months in development and several beta and RC builds, the final, stable release is here. It's about a week behind schedule, but that's to be expected for such a big project.
The big new feature in WordPress 3.5, codenamed "Elvin," is a new media manager. The t... |
11 December 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Living aboard the International Space Station is already quite fun, apart from the grueling work and training schedule that is. If you're aboard the ISS though, chances are, you like that type of things anyway.
And it's about to get even better as astronauts there are to get a pet robot to play do experim... |
11 December 2012
12:24 GMT |
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The developers at Trion Worlds who are offering support for the MMO Rift announce that all former players of the game are invited to log into it on December 14 starting with 12:00 AM Pacific Standard Time in order to access the entire Storm Legion expansion for free.The offer is available until December 20 at 11:59 P... |
11 December 2012
12:21 GMT |
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The new Yahoo Mail is here and, while it's not live for most people, we've got a few screenshots of the new website. At first glance, it doesn't seem like much has changed, but there's plenty to like about the new mail app. For one, it's a lot cleaner than before, it's strictly white, li... |
11 December 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Publishing photos online can be a real hassle if you don't want to deal with Facebook, Picasa, PhotoBucket or any other third-party photo service. GalleryShuffle is a tool for hosting pictures on your own servers, without any privacy or security issues.
Written in PHP & MySQL, GalleryShuffle is filled with feat... |
11 December 2012
12:01 GMT |
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We've spoken, repeatedly, of what a disappointment ultrabooks have proven to be, and how they don't seem to be selling well regardless of what companies and consumers do, but this might finally change in 2013.
Intel hoped, expected even, that its Ivy Bridge central processing units, as well as the Microso... |
11 December 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Sony Mobile is expected to unveil to the world a nice range of highly appealing devices at the beginning of next year, and it seems that it is also planning the official release of these smartphones before the end of Q1 next year. According to the latest rumors on the matter, Sony will be ready to make the leaked Y... |
11 December 2012
11:45 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is expected to launch a new affordable device in the near future, namely the previously leaked Lumia 505 handset at Mexico’s Telcel.
The mobile phone was spotted online not too long ago, and is now said to have been included in the carrier’s holiday catalog, with the Win... |
11 December 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Webconverger, an evolution of the hybrid client for deployment in places like offices or Internet cafes, where only web applications are used, is now at version 16.0. Webconverger 16.0 now displays the DOOH Neon Web signage OS, under the new chrome=neon which switched to Webconverger users. Highlights of Webconverg... |
11 December 2012
11:22 GMT |
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Owners of a Galaxy Note or Note 10.1 device will soon be able to get a taste of the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system via custom CyanogenMod 10.1 builds.
One developer currently working on such releases says that the Nexus 10.1 build looks promising, and that a test build for the international Note (GT-N7000)... |
11 December 2012
11:21 GMT |
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Everyone who's ever flown an airplane knows that all electronics, especially those that transmit wireless waves (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth) need to be turned off during take-off and landing.
Even the so-called “flight mode” that some gadgets can enter doesn't spare owners from having to comply with this... |
11 December 2012
11:10 GMT |
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Blender Foundation, the developer of Blender, an integrated 3D creation software suite, has announced that their software has reached version 2.65.
Blender 2.65 is a massive update and it was deemed by the developers as the most stable release in the 2.6 branch, with over 200 bug fixes.
Highlights of Blender 2.65:
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11 December 2012
11:00 GMT |
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Hackers are attempting to revive the notorious UGNazi collective. One of their first orders of business was to deface the website of Panasonic Brazil. Shortly after, the hackers rushed to take credit for the outages experienced by Facebook and Gmail yesterday. “We took down gmail. We created a tool that expl... |
11 December 2012
10:54 GMT |
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Martin Sheen might have died on “The Amazing Spider-Man” as Uncle Ben but he’s not done with the new superhero film franchise, he’s revealed in a recent interview cited by Comic Book Movie.
Fans know that, in the Spider-Man original story, as well as in both movie franchises (with Tobey Magu... |
11 December 2012
10:51 GMT |
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The Intel Core i5-3320M (MAX 3.3) or 2.9 GHz Core i7-3520M CPUs may not be Haswell chips, but they are still quite powerful.
In fact, they are the main reason why the Getac V100 and V200 rugged convertible tablets are 251% and 177% faster than the previous-generation models.
At least, this is what Getac claims in i... |
11 December 2012
10:49 GMT |
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The unidentified female operative who allegedly tracked down and brought down Al Qaeda's leader is having trouble with other CIA agents.
According to the Washington Post, she joined the Agency before 9/11 and worked as a targeter in Islamabad, Pakistan. Her job was recruiting assets, who could be turned into ag... |
11 December 2012
10:47 GMT |
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As soon as I left the shop in Nasckel, my former faithful companion Minsc decided the time was right to attack me and the rest of my companions.
The fight was swift, with Imoen the thief getting killed first, which was reason enough to reload and try and avoid the situation, and my own character quickly following he... |
11 December 2012
10:40 GMT |
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Video games, ultimately, are judged on their gameplay. Sure, their story, graphics, or sound also impact the overall score but if a game doesn't play well, then it can have a story worthy of the Song of Ice and Fire books or the most realistic graphics ever devised, but it still wouldn't matter.
2012 has b... |
11 December 2012
10:37 GMT |
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It was only yesterday when the news broke that the lack of snow brought about by climate change had to be hold accountable for the fact that the tourism industry in the US was losing both profits and job opportunities. Coupled with the severe droughts that have recently hit the country, the same record low snowfall... |
11 December 2012
10:33 GMT |
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US-based carrier T-Mobile has just released a new software update for HTC One S, which brings some improvements and lots of bug fixes.
The new software version 2.35.531.10 is pushed OTA (over the air) as we speak, though not all HTC One S owners will receive it at the same time.
However, it is important to mention ... |
11 December 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Yahoo's Marissa Mayer has been all talk so far, but she's starting to churn out some actual results, starting with a major redesign of the most important piece of technology the company has, Yahoo Mail. The new Yahoo Mail is a complete revamp on the web and the Android app. What's more, there are now ... |
11 December 2012
10:21 GMT |
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A talented actor and just as talented a singer, a gorgeous man and an even more gorgeous husband and father, Hugh Jackman is also a softie at heart, as his recent interview on 60 Minutes can confirm.
Check it out below – it’s 12 minutes you won’t regret having spent here.
After talking about his ... |
11 December 2012
10:18 GMT |
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Besides offering free copies of Metro 2033, THQ has also revealed a brand new gameplay video for the upcoming Metro: Last Light title, showing off all sorts of impressive footage from the new shooter.
Metro 2033 was an impressive game that was let down by certain problems and issues. With Metro: Last Light, develope... |
11 December 2012
10:12 GMT |
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4MLinux Rescue Edition, a special distribution that includes a wide set of system maintenance and recovery applications, is now at version 5.0.
As expected, it uses 4MLinux 5.0 as the core, but has a few other applications: X File Explorer 1.33, Midnight Commander 4.8.1.6, 4MLinux Backup Scripts 5.0, Partimage 0.6.9... |
11 December 2012
10:09 GMT |
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Haswell is being looked upon as a sort of holy grail that could save the notebook market and catapult the ultrabook segment forward by a few thousand miles. Whether or not any of this comes true will become clear next year, during the second quarter most likely (Q2 2013). That doesn't mean we have to stay in... |
11 December 2012
10:05 GMT |
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As many in North Carolina are opting for plates such as the one you see above, a federal judge rules against the marking on the plate.
The problem is not the distracting coloring and scribbled face of children that usually adorn such plates, it is the fact that they are discriminatory.
“The State’s offe... |
11 December 2012
10:03 GMT |
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The popular VLC player for Windows computers (and for other desktop and mobile platforms) will soon become available on Windows Phone 8 handsets as well, it seems.
The team behind VLC for Windows 8 has announced plans to come up with a new flavor of the app, to provide mobile phone users with all the benefits of th... |
11 December 2012
10:00 GMT |
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The Maxis development team working on SimCity is offering a new trailer for their city-building game, which focuses on the new Multi-city features, all of them designed to allow a player or a group to work together in order to develop a region.
Stone Librande, the leading game designer working on SimCity, stars in t... |
11 December 2012
09:59 GMT |
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This week's edition of the journal Nature Methods witnessed the publication of a new study arguing that, given the right “incentives,” the run-of-the-mill cells usually discarded as part and parcel of human excreta can be made to shift into so-called neural progenitor cells. Seeing how these neural... |
11 December 2012
09:58 GMT |
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At least this year most people waited until it was actually December to post their yearly reviews, apart from Yahoo at least. Twitter can't wait any longer though and revealed 2012.twitter.com to celebrate all the awesome moments on Twitter, big and small.
Which is to say, the big moments of the year overall, ... |
11 December 2012
09:57 GMT |
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If there’s anything better than a Will Smith movie, that’s probably a movie with Will Smith and his son Jaden, preferably one in which they play father and son. “After Earth” is exactly that and has just gotten a first trailer.
Check it out in full above.
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan (th... |
11 December 2012
09:55 GMT |
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Yahoo! has just announced it has improved its email client for iOS, Android and Windows 8 with new features and enhancements.
In addition, the Android application has been completely redesigned and features more reliable push notifications.
Developers also renamed the application to “Y! Mail” and made it more secu... |
11 December 2012
09:54 GMT |
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THQ is offering codes for free copies of Metro 2033 on the PC platform through its Facebook page, which can be redeemed on the Steam service. THQ has offered fans some great deals recently, not just through the Humble THQ Bundle, but also through other price cuts that celebrated either Black Friday or the upcoming w... |
11 December 2012
09:47 GMT |
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Disney has released the brand new, official full trailer for its upcoming blockbuster (you know it will be just that), “The Lone Ranger,” with Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer as leads.
The film is a retelling of the classic story of Tonto and the Ranger, an unlikely duo who join forces to fight crime and, ... |
11 December 2012
09:45 GMT |
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Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer has announced a few updates for users of Yahoo!’s email services targeting both desktop users and mobile clients as well. On iOS, customers are getting a clutter-free email experience via a brand new Yahoo! Mail app. Released as a free download in Apple’s iOS App Store, Yahoo! Ma... |
11 December 2012
09:42 GMT |
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Acer has been having financial problems ever since netbooks fell into disfavor, thus eliminating its greatest revenue source.
The situation hasn't changed much. In fact, Acer's revenues fell quite a bit during the month of November (2012).
The sum ended up at NT$24.36 billion (US$837.43 million / 644.52 m... |
11 December 2012
09:41 GMT |
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According to security researcher Janne Ahlberg, who has thoroughly investigated the latest incident as a result of which thousands of Tumblr blogs have been hijacked, the stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that has allowed the hackers to pull of the stunt remains unfixed.
The expert highlights the fact ... |
11 December 2012
09:39 GMT |
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Rovio’s original Angry Birds was released on Google Play Store, formerly known as Android Market, exactly three years ago. Today, creators of the amazingly popular game and owners of the franchise have just announced that a new version of Angry Birds is now available for download. Check out the update’s... |
11 December 2012
09:32 GMT |
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Peter Molyneux’s original Curiosity game is now at version 2.0 which 22Cans is very proud of. According to the development house, “Curiosity V2 is what the experiment always should have been.” Curiosity is a highly original game that has players worldwide collectively chipping away at the layers of... |
11 December 2012
09:28 GMT |
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Yahoo has just released the official Mail app for Windows 8, allowing users to read the latest messages landing in their inbox without leaving the Modern UI.
The app comes with an impressive feature package that includes dedicated options to send and receive messages, share photos, videos and documents and quickly s... |
11 December 2012
09:28 GMT |
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Minecraft for Xbox 360 will receive two major updates in the near future, according to developer 4J Studios, which has just confirmed a few more details about the popular game.
Minecraft took the world by storm on the PC platform and is currently earning lots of money and fans on the Xbox 360 console, thanks to a sp... |
11 December 2012
09:25 GMT |
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As browsers and, indeed, operating systems become more and more connected to the internet, they're also becoming more vulnerable to the problems that affect web-based services, namely outages.
Google had a big problem yesterday, some changes to the infrastructure underpinning all of its services.
It was a maj... |
11 December 2012
09:24 GMT |
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We've seen many electrical toothbrushes, so we suppose it was only a matter of time before something electronic landed in hairbrushes too. Given how adamant women tend to be about their hair, we are actually surprised this hasn’t been done before. Japanese company Thanko has created a hairbrush that has ... |
11 December 2012
09:22 GMT |
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In one of his most recent interviews with ABC's Christiane Amanpour, Robert Ballard (i.e. the underwater archaeologist who managed to locate the remains of the Titanic) has explained that, as far as he is concerned, the biblical flood actually happened.
Whether or not this flood came as a result of people'... |
11 December 2012
09:20 GMT |
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Rovio Entertainment has released a major update for the original Angry Birds game on iOS platforms featuring 30 new levels and a cake that packs “a BIG punch,” according to the Finnish studio. Rovio is celebrating three years of Angry Birds (yeah, we can’t believe it either) with a uber update pack... |
11 December 2012
09:19 GMT |
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Say what you will about them or their reality show, but glamour girl Coco and rapper Ice-T also happen to be one of the most solid and, for this reason, beloved couples in showbiz. Fans should be happy to know that they’re not breaking up. Somehow out of the blue, Ice-T took to his Twitter page the other day t... |
11 December 2012
09:17 GMT |
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David Vonderhaar, the Treyarch developer in charge of balancing the multiplayer experience for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, believes that player feedback is less important to his work than a focus on solid data acquisition and error-free math.The developer is using Twitter to teach the player base about the process, sa... |
11 December 2012
09:15 GMT |
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Olga Oleynik has emerged as the new Barbie-like face in Ukraine. She joins fellow Barbie Valeria Lukyanova, who recently modeled in New York, on a “spirituality” tour.
Olga is 24 years old and lives in Odessa, as well. According to the Huffington Post, she is often mistaken for Lukyanova, or dubbed her ... |
11 December 2012
09:09 GMT |
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Apple’s US online store is listing an attractive price for a refurbished MacBook Air from 2011 with 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor and 64GB of flash storage.
The 11-inch Air listed by Apple sells for $719 / €533, which translates into a $180 (€138) saving, according to the Cupertino giant.
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11 December 2012
09:07 GMT |
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Flash storage devices are only as good as their controller chip allows, which is why VIA might get quite a few orders for the VIA VL752 and VIA VL753 USB 3.0 integrated controllers.
The former is a dual-channel USB 3.0 to NAND Flash chip, while the latter is a single-channel model.
They measure 8 x 8 mm and 6 x 6 m... |
11 December 2012
09:03 GMT |
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The creator of BioShock Infinite, Ken Levine, has talked about the tough departures having affected his studio, Irrational Games, and has emphasized that the addition of Rod Fergusson, the producer of the Gears of War series, onto the Infinite project resulted in some great improvements.
BioShock Infinite is out soo... |
11 December 2012
09:01 GMT |
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We reported last week Nokia Lumia 505, the first smartphone to come with Windows Phone 7.8 operating system out of the box, is about to make its debut in Mexico via Telcel. It looks like Nokia is willing to bet big on Windows Phone 7.8, which will be the main platform for its budget-friendly lineup of smartphones. ... |
11 December 2012
08:59 GMT |
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Australian users should beware of emails entitled “Approved Payment Receipt” that purport to come from the “team” at Australian Power & Gas. According to Hoax Slayer, these emails carry a piece of malware that’s disguised as a harmless-looking PDF file. The emails you should look out ... |
11 December 2012
08:58 GMT |
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A few select customers are reporting that Apple has loaded their iMacs for shipping with an estimated delivery date of December 13. Apple has recently changed the delivery estimates on its high-end iMacs to January. Previously thought to ship in as much as four weeks, some 27-inch iMac configurations are now slated ... |
11 December 2012
08:55 GMT |
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Caroline Wozniacki was in Sao Paolo just recently, facing Maria Sharapova on the tennis court. She did not emerge a winner but she’s probably finding some consolation in knowing that she’s the latest viral star.
Check out the video above to see how that came to be.
Sometime during the game, Caroline th... |
11 December 2012
08:47 GMT |
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The news has just broken that Costa Rica has officially become the first country in Latin America to ban hunting as a sport.
Information concerning this major breakthrough in terms of conservation comes shortly after the world's most famous wolf was killed just outside the Yellowstone National Park in the US, ... |
11 December 2012
08:45 GMT |
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Developer ArenaNet is offering players a chance to take a look at the official schedule for the upcoming Guild Wars 2 Wintersday event, which is designed to celebrate the holiday season in the recently launched MMO.
Wintersday will run from December 14, 2012 to January 3 of 2013 and gamers can take part in a variety... |
11 December 2012
08:35 GMT |
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Designers, movie makers, engineers, and pretty much everyone else who uses the hardcore graphics board in the Quadro/Tesla family should download the new release that fixes some of the nasty bugs users have been complaining about.It's called the 310.70, and is the latest driver to come out from NVIDIA. It has WH... |
11 December 2012
08:34 GMT |
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The name of the Olympian god king has been overused for years, which is probably the reason why CyberPowerPC didn't mind using it again when it put together its new all-in-one system.
CyberPowerPC actually seems to name its products after mythical figures, just like Gaming PC names its computers after grand an... |
11 December 2012
08:24 GMT |
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Duncan Jones, David Bowie’s son, has married longtime girlfriend Rodene Ronquillo on the same day she was diagnosed with breast cancer stage 2, he reveals on his Twitter page.
The filmmaker used the weekend to catch up with his fans and followers on the social networking site, letting them know what a hectic ... |
11 December 2012
08:22 GMT |
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Twitter has announced a major new update for mobile platforms that will undoubtedly make a dent in Instagram’s universe – photo filters. Users can now snap a photo, make a few edits and share it with their followers with just a few taps. Twitter announced on its blog that “Starting today, you&rsquo... |
11 December 2012
08:18 GMT |
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On December 10, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the immediate availability for download of yet another maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.0 kernel series.
Linux kernel 3.0.56 has been made available just a few days after the previous version. It usually takes a little more time between releases, but the kernel ... |
11 December 2012
08:17 GMT |
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With so many rumors swirling around and claiming that Microsoft is planning to debut an iOS version of its popular Office productivity suite, it was only a matter of time before reports hinting at a potential Microsoft – Apple clash came out. The Next Web writes that the two technology giants are now fighting ... |
11 December 2012
08:17 GMT |
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Video game developer and publisher Paradox Interactive is announcing that it will offer a new piece of downloadable content for its grand strategy title Crusader Kings II via a new The Republic expansion, designed to focus on those countries that aren’t ruled by monarchies.
The developers say that, “Trad... |
11 December 2012
08:17 GMT |
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Cyber espionage is highly common these days. To sum it all up, China is suspected of spying on the US, the US is accused of spying on France, and everyone is throwing the blame on Iran.
However, a new cybercriminal campaign, identified by experts from security firm FireEye, involves two other interesting actors: Rus... |
11 December 2012
08:10 GMT |
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Brooke Mueller, one of Charlie Sheen’s ex wives, has checked back in rehab, this time to get professional help for an addiction to Adderall, a prescription drug she’s taking for her ADD, it has emerged.
Over the weekend, Brooke was rushed to the hospital after her personal assistant found her unresponsi... |
11 December 2012
08:02 GMT |
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An online petition that has gathered more than 16,000 signatures asks that the White House seriously start looking into the possibility of designing and manufacturing a Death Star.
As far as the people who signed this petition are concerned, construction activities should debut in 2016 at the latest, and by then, t... |
11 December 2012
07:59 GMT |
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It appears that Dream JB is nothing more than a scam, going by one of our sources and even renowned hackers like Stefan Esser (@i0n1c).
Earlier today I got a poke from one of my Twitter followers regarding Dream JB, an alleged new jailbreak service that promises to have an untethered hack ready for all iPhone users ... |
11 December 2012
07:55 GMT |
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New developments in the Aurora, Colorado shooting case are making headlines, as the defense attorney is planning to bring a new witness to the stand.
James Holmes was seen by several witnesses walking into a movie theater in Aurora, dressed as the "Joker," and opening fire in the cinema. 12 people lost their lives ... |
11 December 2012
07:55 GMT |
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Salvation Prophecy: A Military Space Epic is a complex game developed by the Firedance Games studio and intended to launch on Steam for Linux.
Salvation Prophecy: A Military Space Epic is already available on the Windows platform and the developers are looking to port it to Linux, preferably distributed by Steam thr... |
11 December 2012
07:49 GMT |
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The Humble Bundle team has just confirmed that yet another game has been added to the Humble THQ Bundle, this time in the form of the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Game of the Year Edition.
The Humble Bundle team offers all sorts of great deals on games made by independent developers, but its latest offer ta... |
11 December 2012
07:40 GMT |
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Security researcher Prakhar Prasad has identified an open-redirect vulnerability in the popular instant messaging platform Meebo.
Open-redirect vulnerabilities can be leveraged by cybercriminals to lure their victims to arbitrary domains. The user believes that he/she is visiting a legitimate, reputable site, when t... |
11 December 2012
07:40 GMT |
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Twitter's big news of late is the photo filters it's adding to its mobile apps. But it's not the only news, Twitter is also rolling out the new profiles for everyone. It's likely that the profile were scheduled to become available now, but Twitter pushed the date on the photo filters.
Whatever th... |
11 December 2012
07:38 GMT |
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Since the peripheral market isn't going anywhere, Elecom figured it would always be at the top of its game, so it created the M-NV1BRBK Bluetooth mouse.
While it doesn't have too many buttons (five plus a 4-way tilt scroll wheel), it does possess the required memory to store sensitivity and key settings f... |
11 December 2012
07:36 GMT |
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Kingston has entered a partnership with security firm ESET and ClevX. This allows Kingston to extend the ClevX DriveSecurity solution, powered by ESET anti-malware technology, to the company’s enterprise-grade DataTraveler 4000 (DT4000) and DataTraveler Vault − Privacy (DTVP) secure USB Flash drives.
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11 December 2012
07:35 GMT |
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The official Sky Go application for Android devices has just been updated with support for 14 new devices, including LG 4X HD, Nexus 4, Nexus 7, Sony Xperia S and Xperia T.
Developed by BSkyB, the application’s user interface has been improved, along with the Navigation feature to further enhance the overall p... |
11 December 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Samsung’s Galaxy S III Mini I8190 smartphone, released for those users who would rather purchase a smaller device than go for the flagship Galaxy S III handset, has been rooted too.
Although featuring the same name as the predecessor, the Galaxy S III Mini smartphone is a bit different from it, but the rootin... |
11 December 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Maria Ridulph, 7, was kidnapped and murdered in Sycamore, Illinois in 1957. Now her slayer, 73- year-old Jack McCullough, is facing life in prison, the maximum sentence for his crimes.
In December 1957, Maria was abducted from the rural region where she lived, around Sycamore. She had been playing with a friend by t... |
11 December 2012
07:23 GMT |
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Now that Bryan Singer has confirmed that both Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are reprising their roles in the upcoming “X-Men” sequel, “Days of Future Past,” only one question remains: how will the old versions of the characters fit in with the younger ones?
Well, if you ask Sir Ian McKell... |
11 December 2012
07:20 GMT |
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The latest updates from Adobe enable support for the new HiDPI / Retina displays on the 13” and 15” MacBook Pros released this year “for a dramatic improvement in image fidelity and resolution.”
Photoshop 13.0.2 and Illustrator 16.0.3 were made available Monday at 9PM Pacific Time according t... |
11 December 2012
07:19 GMT |
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Google is still home to some experimental projects, one of the most interesting is the Niantic Project, or Ingress as the app is called. It's an alternate reality game that's been slowly uncovered over the past month under the guise of a global conspiracy.
The game requires users to lurk around certain loc... |
11 December 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed that it's going to deploy a special SkyDrive application for the Xbox 360 later today, December 11, allowing users of the online storage service to watch their photos or videos right on the console.
SkyDrive is Microsoft's answer to the likes of Dropbox or Google Drive and allows us... |
11 December 2012
07:04 GMT |
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Developer Full Control and publisher Games Workshop announce that they are working on a PC-based version of the Sin of Damnation campaign of the Space Hulk board game, which was first introduced in 1989.
Gamers will be able to control Space Marine Terminators as they fight Tyranid Genestealers in the confined space ... |
11 December 2012
07:02 GMT |
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Today, Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation announced that UK’s wireless carrier EE would be the strategic partner in the country for the launch of the HTC One SV. The new handset will arrive on shelves in the country with support for the wireless carrier’s 4G LTE network, while also delivering ... |
11 December 2012
07:01 GMT |
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Emerging from a period of relative silence, storage and PC memory maker Team Group is once again trying to hitch a ride on the train known as the ultrabook market, however slow it may happen to be.
The company has revealed the Team Ultra L1 SSD, measuring 7 mm in thickness and, thus, suitable for notebooks in gener... |
11 December 2012
07:01 GMT |
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We’ve already told you that an illegal app allows users to quickly download the full version of a Windows 8 app without paying for it, but a Nokia engineer has now released detailed instructions on how to do it. While this is clearly bad for Microsoft and its new operating system, it all comes down a fairly co... |
11 December 2012
06:50 GMT |
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Some time ago, rumors were saying that, now that “The Twilight Saga” was over, Kristen Stewart was totally freaking out at the thought she might not land a new job. She’s just confirmed a new project.
Word that she and Ben Affleck would star together in a comedy about two con artists first started... |
11 December 2012
06:44 GMT |
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Nexus 4, the latest Google phone out there, arrived on shelves without LTE connectivity loaded on it, though it has been proven to actually pack the necessary hardware. The handset was said last month to be able to connect to specific LTE networks in Canada, and it seems that the guys over at XDA-Developers also ma... |
11 December 2012
06:31 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has reportedly started to deliver the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean OS upgrade to the owners of the international flavor of the Galaxy Note II smartphone.
Pushed to devices as firmware version JZO54K, the update brings along new additions in Notification Toggles, a customizable No... |
11 December 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Major developer and publisher of mobile games Gameloft has just released its action FPS game Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour on Google Play Store. The new title made it on iOS platform a few days earlier, but Android users can now grab the game as well. The fourth installment in the Modern Combat series features even bet... |
11 December 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Nokia India has just announced the upcoming availability of the Asha 205 dual-SIM feature phone. Nokia fans looking for a cheap handset will be able to purchase this one starting December 24.
The Asha 205 is aimed at emerging markets, which is why it will be available in India for only Rs 3,499 outright, which is ab... |
11 December 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Not one to miss an opportunity to show off some spectacular images, Google has integrated the breath-taking "Black Marble" photos from NASA, published last week, into Google Maps. The images were already made available by NASA for Google Earth, but they're now online integrated into the Google Maps viewer. The ... |
11 December 2012
06:21 GMT |
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The last Patch Tuesday updates of the year will be released in a few hours and will include important fixes for Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10.
Just like it usually does with Patch Tuesday fixes, Microsoft keeps everything secret until it officially rolls out the updates, just to make sure that no one tries to e... |
11 December 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Google has released a new update for the dev channel of Chrome browser. The new revision has incremented the build number to 25.0.1354.0 and it is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame).
It looks like the Chrome development team is preparing a fresh New Tab p... |
11 December 2012
06:09 GMT |
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According to a report provided by the Indian government, a considerable increase has been recorded in the number of cybercrime-related arrests over the past years.
The Minister of State for Communications Milind Deora – cited by The Times of India – has revealed that in 2011, 1,184 individuals were arrested for cyb... |
11 December 2012
06:03 GMT |
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On December 3, an electrician from La Mesa, who doubles as a fisherman stumbled upon the biggest yellowfin tuna ever caught on rod and reel. According to La Mesa Patch, the behemoth pictured above weighs a whopping 445 lb. (201 kg). John Petruescu, of Romanian descent, landed the fish near Hurricane Bank off the coa... |
11 December 2012
05:53 GMT |
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Gameplay is a big category and there have been some standout experiences this year, with interesting new mechanics and significant impact on players, but for me, the most impressive was XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the strategy title from developer Firaxis and publisher 2K Games.
XCOM is a game of two layers, a strategic on... |
11 December 2012
05:52 GMT |
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A few days ago, several deer somehow ended up running around a horse racetrack in Pennsylvania.
This might not have been such an interesting piece of news if it hadn’t been for the fact that, at that time, a horse race was set to take place on that particular track.
Race announcer Roger Huston keeps his calm and,... |
11 December 2012
05:46 GMT |
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Popular photography app Instagram has received a complete overhaul on iPhone and iPod touch with a series of enhancements that cover every aspect of the software.
Users get a new Willow filter, an all-new camera, improved tilt-shift quality, the ability to scroll infinitely on user profiles and other grid views, and... |
11 December 2012
05:46 GMT |
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Borderlands 2 will receive a sixth playable character class, as developer Gearbox Software is already working on this special add-on, at least according to its president, Randy Pitchford.
Borderlands 2 came out back in September and, since then, Gearbox has released quite a few add-ons for the shooter, including a f... |
11 December 2012
05:40 GMT |
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There is no denying that Megan Fox is a gorgeous woman but, according to ongoing reports, she could easily be one of the Angels from Victoria’s Secret, seeing how they’re famous for bouncing back into shape weeks after giving birth.
The actress too has made a spectacular return to the spotlight after the... |
11 December 2012
05:39 GMT |
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Google continues to expand its media offerings in the Play Store to more places. It introduced books and movies in Brazil last week and it's now down to the second country in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) block of countries with a surging internet market. Google is now selling and renting movies and b... |
11 December 2012
05:39 GMT |
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SuperTuxKart, a Free 3D kart racing game, with many tracks, characters and items for gamers, has reached version 0.8.
SuperTuxKart 0.8 fixes over 230 bugs and comes with some exciting new features such as a new story mode and improved AI.
The game supports up to 4 friends on one PC, racing against each other or jus... |
11 December 2012
05:36 GMT |
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Peripheral makers have been especially active of late, something that always happens around the winter holidays, and Genius has been in the thick of it from the very start, and is making another move now.
We cannot exactly say that Genius thought of Christmas when it made the latest announcement in the worldwide pr... |
11 December 2012
05:32 GMT |
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Fisherman Zach Donnell has found a rare specimen of lobster, which has four claws. The man from Wells in Maine caught the lobster in one of his traps.
WCVB writes that Donnell has no intention of selling the lobster. He was planning to take it to a market, but since finding out he stumbled upon a possible once-in-a... |
11 December 2012
05:27 GMT |
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The development team at Firaxis in charge of XCOM: Enemy Unknown have launched a new Facebook memorial wall which allows players to remember all the soldiers that have fallen as they tried to stop the alien threat.
The slogan that Firaxis has put together is “Though they are gone, they are not forgotten”... |
11 December 2012
05:25 GMT |
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On Saturday, we learned that a massive Facebook scam campaign was making the rounds, trying to trick users into participating in surveys by deploying various methods. Researchers have continued to monitor the operation and they reveal that the number of scams multiplied considerably over the past days.
According to ... |
11 December 2012
05:22 GMT |
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Lea Michele is going on the record with confirmation of her romance with “Glee” co-star Cory Monteith, he who plays the handsome Finn Hudson. She calls herself “the luckiest girl in the world” because of it in her new interview with Marie Claire.
Of course, fans of the singer and actress mus... |
11 December 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) has managed to disrupt the activities of another criminal ring responsible for fraudulent online activities.
The group, comprising a number of 20 individuals, is believed to be responsible for defrauding over $4 million (€3.1 ... |
11 December 2012
05:15 GMT |
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Augmented reality apps aren’t quite a new thing on the market and iOS users know this very well, as the App Store comes with plenty of such tools aimed at iPad and iPhone owners. The Windows Store also has a couple of such apps, but Microsoft is looking to get involved into the world of augmented reality tools... |
11 December 2012
05:13 GMT |
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If you thought the $249, €192 Chromebook was cheap, Google is now selling one for $99, €76.5, granted, only to schools. But this isn't the ARM-powered Samsung Chromebook, it's the Series 5 Chromebook which comes with an Intel processor and sells for $399, €308 regular... |
11 December 2012
05:12 GMT |
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Following widespread coverage of a new problem with its mapping services, Apple on Monday commissioned some adjustments to its Australian maps.
Apple this week fixed a glitch in its iOS Maps application after reports broke out that several motorists got stranded in the Australian wilderness seeking Mildura, a town i... |
11 December 2012
05:09 GMT |
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VIA would have been in for a real treat if a certain rumor had proved to be true. Alas, it did not, so the company will have to proceed as before.
The rumor we are talking about said that ASUS was thinking of adopting VIA's, or rather WonderMedia's (VIA subsidiary), ARM-based processor platform for entry-... |
11 December 2012
05:02 GMT |
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Daedalic Entertainment announces that the final title in its adventure game trilogy based around a trash planet will be called Goodby Deponia. This will focus on main character Rufus and on his beloved Goal as they finally find a way of reaching Elysium, in order to save their world from being destroyed.
The develop... |
11 December 2012
04:56 GMT |
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The US National Intelligence Council has recently decided to piece together information concerning future weather patterns and technologies, and their impact on all aspects of human society.
Thus the “Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds” report was born, a study which claims that, all things consider... |
11 December 2012
04:55 GMT |
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The World Conference on International Telecommunications is still underway and, despite being held behind closed doors, some interesting things are coming out. Reuters reports that Russia has backed down from the proposal to hand over control of IPs and domain names to individual countries, from organizations such ... |
11 December 2012
04:54 GMT |
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The Snapshot feature for the Bing search engine was released back in May to show relevant information on a number of keywords right on the results page and thus help Microsoft make the most of the displayed content.
Microsoft has decided to update this particular tool with two new categories, namely people and landm... |
11 December 2012
04:51 GMT |
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Slax, a modern, portable, small and fast Linux operating system with a modular approach and outstanding design, is now at version 7.0. Slax 7.0 has been dubbed Green Horn and arrives after a three-year hiatus of the project. The developer revealed in the previous announcement for the intermediate versions what kind ... |
11 December 2012
04:50 GMT |
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The Crimson Map Pack can now be downloaded by Halo 4 players who either got the game's Limited Edition or bought the War Games Season Pass, as the DLC was unavailable for them ever since its release yesterday.
Halo 4 received quite a bit of downloadable content in the form of new episodes for the Spartan Ops co... |
11 December 2012
04:49 GMT |
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The words “entry level” are used quite loosely these days, which is the only reason why the new laptop from Australian company Pioneer Computers is described as such, even though the price of $750 / 750 Euro isn't the best.
Then again, as far as ultrabooks go, there are very few who go below this m... |
11 December 2012
04:45 GMT |
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Mobile game publisher Rovio managed to achieve a new milestone with its Angry Birds Space and Angry Birds Star Wars games when making them available for download for devices running under Windows Phone 7.5. The company promised that both of them would become available for all these handsets starting with November, ... |
11 December 2012
04:42 GMT |
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A stolen iPhone 4 equipped with an app that snaps photos of people attempting to unlock it spoke back to its rightful owner with a photo of the potential thief and her location. The iPhone owner received the photo in question (on the left) as she tried to unlock the phone. The security application working in the bac... |
11 December 2012
04:41 GMT |
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The loss of the Christmas spirit and the conversion of the holiday into a commercial practice have brought the same concern for decades, history shows, but the attitude toward the issue has changed significantly in time: whereas now people only tell their discontent to one another, a century ago, Americans waged a wa... |
11 December 2012
04:32 GMT |
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Police in London are yet to uncover the identity of a man who fell from the sky near Heathrow Airport, in September this year.
As we wrote at the time, his body fell in the Mortlake residential neighborhood near Heathrow on September 9. The presumably North African man, in his mid-30s, was most likely hiding out in ... |
11 December 2012
04:30 GMT |
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Security researchers from ReVuln have published a video to show how a remote attacker can leverage vulnerabilities in Samsung Smart TVs to access sensitive information, monitor the devices, and even gain control over them.
The video shows how an attacker can access files and other information, including TV settings ... |
11 December 2012
04:29 GMT |
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The stable version for Blender 2.65 has been released. The goal with this build was to make it the most stable in the 2.6 development cycle. And the team managed to eliminate more than 200 bugs.
Fire simulation has been added to the smoke simulator, which also received important improvements touching on performance ... |
11 December 2012
04:26 GMT |
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A report released by AdDuplex reveals that Microsoft’s very own Surface RT remains the most frequently used Windows 8 device right now, although it has lost some ground as compared to last month’s figures.
Microsoft Surface with Windows RT currently holds a market share of 6 percent of the entire Windows... |
11 December 2012
04:24 GMT |
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With Nokia struggling to replenish Lumia 920 stocks, HTC and Samsung would be the real winners of the Windows Phone 8 race. Although Nokia Lumia 920 is arguably the best-selling Windows Phone 8 handset available on the market, word is that the smartphone was available in limited quantities globally, which is why th... |
11 December 2012
04:24 GMT |
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Customers purchase 1.2 games with each Nintendo Wii U they buy, according to an analyst that dissected the numbers offered by the NPD group last week, who also claimed that Activision shouldn't brag about the performance of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Nintendo released the Wii U last month all around the world a... |
11 December 2012
04:16 GMT |
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Staff at the Rosamund Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, New York, didn't expect they would be delivering a human baby when they came to work on Friday, December 7.
A 21-year-old customer visiting the premises along with 5-7 friends went into labor, and her contractions became closer apart. By the time the ambulance arri... |
11 December 2012
04:11 GMT |
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Even though neither the first teaser trailer nor the extended preview, the 9-minute prologue of “Star Trek Into Darkness” reveals the identity of Benedict Cumberbatch’s villain, the movie studio is doing that on its own.
Ever since J.J. Abrams started shooting for the sequel to the 2009 film, this... |
11 December 2012
04:11 GMT |
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As expected, the Facebook vote to decide the future of the site's two main policy documents didn't get too much attention. Some 670,000 people voted, but Facebook needed 300 million for the vote to count.
What this means is that Facebook will very likely drop the vote process and implement the other method... |
11 December 2012
04:04 GMT |
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Musician Rob Thomas has recently decided to draw both his fans' and the public's attention towards the story of an abandoned one-year-old terrier, now looked after by the staff at the Carson Animal Care and Control in Gardena, California.
What touched the musician's heart first and foremost was the f... |
11 December 2012
04:01 GMT |
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As its popularity among users grows, Instagram is becoming more and more exploited by cybercriminals. Security experts from Trend Micro have spotted a new Facebook clickjacking scheme that relies on the photo sharing app to lure users to malicious sites.
It all starts with a Facebook post that advertises an app whic... |
11 December 2012
04:00 GMT |
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An analyst with investment bank Jefferies has issued a research note according to which Apple will roll out an incremental iPhone 5S this summer, breaking away from the recently-established fall refresh cycle. Peter Misek reportedly sees the iPhone 5S boasting a new “super HD camera/screen, a better battery, a... |
11 December 2012
03:52 GMT |
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After all the promises of sub-$750 / 750 Euro ultrabooks, one would think that these ultrathin mobile personal computers would actually sell for that much, but expectations are, once again, shattered.
Granted, there are a few ultrabooks that manage to sell for that amount, but they are very few and have definitely n... |
11 December 2012
03:51 GMT |
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If you’re a Justin Bieber fan and a Windows 8 adopter at the same time, you will probably be delighted to hear that the first app for Bieber’s fans has been officially released.
Called “Justin Bieber Top 10 Song Lyrics,” the app does exactly what its name suggests: it shows the lyrics of Just... |
11 December 2012
03:51 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has recently claimed that Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 has managed to sell enough games to deliver revenue of 1 billion dollars (773 million Euro). One analyst, however, believes that the company has distorted the data and sales for the series are actually in decline.
James Hard... |
11 December 2012
03:50 GMT |
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A father and son team now claim that they should go in the Guinness Book of Records following their managing to drive more than 400 miles (423.5 miles / 681 kilometers, to be more precise) in a Tesla Model S on a single charge.
David Metcalf, the father, and his son, Adam, explain that, prior to their trying to se... |
11 December 2012
03:49 GMT |
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Perhaps spurred by the whole Instagram kerfuffle, Twitter has unveiled photo filters, the weapon it hopes will help it win the war.
Photo filters in a mobile app haven't been original since 2010 and including them in the Twitter apps seems like a desperate and unnecessary move, but there are a few things going... |
11 December 2012
03:47 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, the first-person shooter from developer Treyarch and publisher Activision Blizzard, has managed to keep the top position in the United Kingdom for the week that ended on December 8.
The new game in the record-breaking series continues to sell well primarily because of its multiplayer modes... |
11 December 2012
03:44 GMT |
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Sony is continuing its 12 Deals of Christmas sales spree on the PlayStation Store for PAL regions, this time slashing the price of Medal of Honor: Warfighter for the PlayStation 3, which has received a whopping 50% discount.
Quite a few big sales were run by Sony in the last few weeks, starting with special Black Fr... |
11 December 2012
03:39 GMT |
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Microsoft has released two new security features for its browser-based email service Outlook.com, as the number of registered users continues to grow on a daily basis.
The new support for DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) and for EV (Extended Validation) Certificates is supposed to... |
11 December 2012
03:38 GMT |
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Former Florida police officer Manuel Pardo is to be executed today, Tuesday, December 11, for 9 killings from 26 years ago. Pardo's attorney tried to make a case for his client being mentally ill, The Hollywood Gossip writes. However, his request for a pardon was denied yesterday, according to American Live Wir... |
11 December 2012
03:37 GMT |
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Towards the end of November, a Bernese mountain dog named Ohly decided to explore one of British Columbia's snowy mountains, and found himself stranded in a ravine referred to as the Suicide Gully. Because the terrain was very tricky to explore by foot, Ohly's owners pretty much lost all hope that they mi... |
11 December 2012
03:35 GMT |
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Everything that Beyonce touches turns to gold, so it’s no wonder Pepsi too is rushing to capitalize on that. The singer has signed a $50 million (€38.5 million) endorsement deal which will also see her receive funds for whatever projects she might choose to support. In other words, Forbes notes, though B... |
11 December 2012
03:31 GMT |
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It looks like Sony preps a new software update for its slightly older Xperia smartphones. The new update is likely to be pushed in the following weeks, though we don’t have a time frame for the moment.
The folks over at XperiaBlog report that there’s a new firmware version 4.1.B.1.13 waiting to be delive... |
11 December 2012
03:26 GMT |
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A hacker collective called “Freedom for the Mujahideen,” claiming to be a group of Muslim freedom fighters, have breached and defaced the official website of Morecambe and Lunesdale Member of Parliament (MP) David Morris. “My website has been hacked, currently working on the situation please e-mail... |
11 December 2012
03:25 GMT |
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The ARM processor technology continues to control the mobile processor market, and by extension the mobile phone and, for the most part, the media tablet segment as well. Intel hopes to finally change that.
The reason Intel continues to fail in its attempts to score smartphone and tablet design wins at ARM's e... |
11 December 2012
03:21 GMT |
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BioShock Infinite creator Ken Levine believes that loyal fans shouldn't care about the recently revealed cover artwork for the game as, although it's quite bland, it serves to attract uninformed gamers who might not have heard of BioShock Infinite or previous games in the series.
BioShock Infinite is one o... |
11 December 2012
03:10 GMT |
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If you’re looking for an easy to use app that’s able to automatically change your wallpaper using an online source, Bing Desktop is exactly what you need.
Microsoft has recently unveiled Bing Desktop 1.1.1650, an updated application that provides support for most Windows versions, including XP, Vista, 7 ... |
11 December 2012
03:06 GMT |
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ArchBang, a simple GNU/Linux distribution which provides you with a lightweight Arch Linux system combined with the Openbox window manager, is now at version 2012.07.02.
ArchBang 2012.12 is now available for grabs, but users who already have the operating system installed and up-to-date don't have to upgrade. T... |
11 December 2012
03:03 GMT |
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The beginning of the next year is expected to bring to the table a series of new, high-end devices from Sony, running under Google’s Android operating system and loaded with the latest features on the market today.
Two of these handsets appear set to stand out in the crowd, spotted before with the codenames of... |
11 December 2012
03:02 GMT |
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Some people would do anything to be on a reality show but the Amish are definitely not amongst them. Even so, Discovery is stepping on almost virgin territory with a new reality show, “Amish Mafia,” which aims to depict a group of vigilantes within the community who don’t really play by the rules.
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11 December 2012
03:01 GMT |
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The developers at Epic Games are now offering a High Definition version of the campaign gameplay trailer for Gears of War: Judgment that was first shown off during the VGA 2012 ceremony.
The trailer allows fans of the franchise to take a look at the type of action the game will offer as it stars both Cole and Baird ... |
11 December 2012
02:50 GMT |
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Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft has mistakenly confirmed plans to roll out a mobile version of its Office productivity suite for Apple’s iOS platforms, including iPhone and iPad.
The leak reportedly occurred via Microsoft’s Support site in Romania, but all that remains on the web is a bunch of screen... |
11 December 2012
02:49 GMT |
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Kiam Moriya of Birmingham, Alabama was born on Dec. 12, 2000, and this lucky kid will have a special birthday date this year. He will be 12 on December 12, or 12/12/12. According to the Examiner, for his birthday tomorrow, Kiam just wants Krispy cream donuts, which would make out a 12, of course. I definitely agree ... |
11 December 2012
02:48 GMT |
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After taking a one-and-a-half month break from launching distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against the websites of United States financial institutions, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters came forward to announce the second phase of Operation Ababil. “Now, we acclaim that the second phase of the A... |
11 December 2012
02:48 GMT |
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The two electromagnetic frequency bands used most today are the 2.4 GHz and the 5 GHz. Caltech may have pulled one over the entire wireless community though, with its newest chips.
The 2.4 GHz frequency band is the most common for Wi-Fi networks, but the 5 GHz band allows for faster transfers.
Some companies have ... |
11 December 2012
02:47 GMT |
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As it turns out, green-oriented organization Sea Shepherd also has a sense of humor.
Thus, they’ve just debuted their latest anti-whaling weapon: a $2 million (€1.54 million) ship which used to belong to the Japanese government, and which will from now on be used to fight Japanese whalers.
The SSS Sam Simon ... |
11 December 2012
02:43 GMT |
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A new flavor of Amazon’s Flow for Android application is now available for download through the Google Play Store.
Aimed at providing users with the possibility to compare prices of products in Amazon’s inventory through scanning barcodes in brick-and-mortar locations, the app now offers support for the... |
11 December 2012
02:39 GMT |
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Google Chrome, a browser built on the WebKit layout engine that aims to be minimalistic and versatile at the same time, is now at version 25.0.1354.0. The dev version of Google Chrome is now out for Linux users, and even if it's not a major release, it sports a huge number of fixes. Highlights of Google Chrome... |
11 December 2012
02:38 GMT |
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The hackers responsible for the infamous Homebrew Channel application for the Nintendo Wii have now released a new version of the app that works on the recently released Nintendo Wii U, albeit only in the virtual Wii sandbox. The Nintendo Wii has become extremely popular since its release many years ago, not only be... |
11 December 2012
02:36 GMT |
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Instagram, the highly popular Android application that allows users to share their photos while on the go, has just received a minor update.
Although this is not a major release, but a mere update, we recommend Instagram users to update to the latest version in order to benefit from the new fixes included.
In fact,... |
11 December 2012
02:33 GMT |
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A medical helicopter crashed yesterday, Monday, December 10, in Compton, near Rochelle, Illinois.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Rockford Memorial Hospital owned the chopper, which was traveling to a medical facility 60 miles (96 km) south of Mendota, Illinois.
At 8:30 p.m. local time the helicopter crashed, as ... |
11 December 2012
02:30 GMT |
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Windows 8 is built around apps and Microsoft obviously knows that, so its efforts to get closer to developers and encourage them to create apps for the new platform are not at all surprising.
This struggle continues with a new video showcasing a “new world of apps,” as Microsoft calls it, which basically... |
11 December 2012
02:29 GMT |
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The development team at Warhorse Studios says that it is working on a new Medieval role-playing game. This will use an entirely new game engine and will probably be launched on the next generation of home consoles from Sony and Microsoft, as well as powerful gaming PCs.
Daniel Vavra, a former producer on the Mafia g... |
11 December 2012
02:28 GMT |
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A video flicker issue experienced by owners of new-generation Mac minis has been patched in the latest EFI Firmware Update from Apple. The package weighs in at 4.53 MB and applies to Late 2012 Mac mini models exclusively.
Confirmed by Intel late last month, the screen flickering issue had already been wrapped up in ... |
11 December 2012
02:27 GMT |
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Windows Phone 8X by HTC, the first smartphone that the Taiwanese mobile phone maker has brought to the market with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 platform on board, has just received a software update.
Pushed to handsets over the air, the update will bring the firmware on HTC’s 8X up to build 10211, and wi... |
11 December 2012
02:25 GMT |
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It is quite often that renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power are dismissed on account of their being unreliable, especially given the ever more unpredictable climate.
Still, the Journal of Power Sources has recently witnessed the publication of a new study stating that, given the right storage techn... |
11 December 2012
02:24 GMT |
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The official YouTube application for Android devices has just been updated with visual improvements and numerous bug fixes. Developers have confirmed that the application’s user interface has been refreshed for tablets boasting 10-inch displays, though smartphones still run on the same UI. However, these are ... |
11 December 2012
02:19 GMT |
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Futuremark has already confirmed a long time ago that it would release a dedicated version of its 3DMark benchmarking software for Windows 8, but company officials initially said that this new build would be unveiled in 2012.
Well, Futuremark has just announced in a press release that 3DMark for Windows 8 wouldn&rsq... |
11 December 2012
01:48 GMT |
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After eight Release Candidate versions, Linus Torvalds proudly announced a few minutes ago, December 11, the immediate availability for download of the highly anticipated Linux 3.7 kernel. Linux kernel 3.7 brings numerous breathtaking features, among which we can mention support for 64-bit ARM, support for multi-pl... |
11 December 2012
01:22 GMT |
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Twitter for Android has just been updated with new features and enhancements, which are meant to improve the overall user's experience.The latest version of the official Twitter app for Android devices comes with photo filter and allows users to crop and scale photos to frame the action as they wish.There are no... |
11 December 2012
00:53 GMT |
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As expected, Arkane Studios and Bethesda have just released the first DLC for the amazingly-popular first-person action game Dishonored, Dunwall City Trials.The new add-on pack features 10 distinct maps with lots of challenges, which will allow players to put their assassination skills to the test as they mix superna... |
11 December 2012
00:43 GMT |
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Rick and Corey Harrison, stars of the reality show “Pawn Stars,” and the friends they spent Thanksgiving with, were fined for trashing a state campsite in California. Despite the Harrisons’ best efforts, the fine was not negotiable. The incident occurred during that holiday weekend, but it’s... |
11 December 2012
00:34 GMT |
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Until not long ago, Breanna Bond was just one of the millions of overweight children from around the world. Today, after losing a staggering 66 pounds (29.9 kg), the 9-year-old girl is an inspiration for many, regardless their age.
Breanna’s weight problems began when she was much younger. By the time she hit... |
11 December 2012
00:20 GMT |
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Just like the rest of the world, celebrities too are expected to pay their taxes. This seems to have slipped Pamela Anderson’s mind for the past couple of years, because she now owes $371,000 (€286,796) in back taxes, it has emerged.
The former “Baywatch” beauty is no stranger to bad finances,... |
11 December 2012
00:00 GMT |
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