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The Evince developers have announced earlier today, January 12, the immediate availability for download and testing of the fourth development release of the upcoming Evince 3.8 document reader for the GNOME 3 desktop environment.
In preparation for GNOME 3.7.4, the Evince development team surprised everyone with a ... |
12 January 2013 18:21 GMT |
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Xperia ZL, the high-end Xperia Z sibling that Sony Mobile made official at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas at the beginning of this week, will arrive on shelves in three different flavors, it seems.
The mobile phone maker has published the white paper for each of them, unveiling that they will be di... |
12 January 2013 18:01 GMT |
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The GNOME Disk Utility developers have announced earlier today, January 12, the immediate availability for download and testing of the GNOME Disk Utility 3.7.1 storage device management tool for the GNOME 3 desktop environment.
GNOME Disk Utility 3.7.1 comes with many new features and improvements, all done by Davi... |
12 January 2013 17:11 GMT |
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Euro Truck Simulator 2, a game developed by SCS Software in which the players will be able to cross an entire continent at the wheel of a truck, will be launched on Linux.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 is part of a very well established genre that relies more on realism than probably most of the games that involve cars, in... |
12 January 2013 17:05 GMT |
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Far Cry 3 was seen by many as the best video game of 2012 and Vaas, the main villain, is one of the most memorable enemies that players have faced during the same period.
But the development team working at Ubisoft originally had a very different version for the character, which focused more on physical power and hi... |
12 January 2013 16:31 GMT |
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Apple informs in a Support document on its web site that Apple TV (2nd and 3rd generation) devices can access content from many third-party content providers. If you’re having issues, talk to them, says the Cupertino giant.KB article HT4799 explains that the content from these services is only routed through th... |
12 January 2013 16:11 GMT |
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This past Thursday, US President Barack Obama signed a bill which turned the Pinnacles National Monument into the country's newest national park. Needless to say, the initiative was welcomed by conservationists and environmentalists across the country.
The signing of this bill means that the US can now take pr... |
12 January 2013 15:51 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is set to bring to the market a new smartphone running under Google’s Android operating system, one that should sport model number E980 when brought to the market.
The handset hasn’t been officially introduced as of now, but it made an appearance online in ... |
12 January 2013 15:41 GMT |
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There is no denying that beluga whales are both adorable and quite photogenic. Judging by this picture, they are also quite aware of the fact that their cute faces stand to draw significant amounts of attention whenever photographed.
The picture was taken by the children's mother at an aquarium, and became qui... |
12 January 2013 15:41 GMT |
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The long- awaited 2013 Consumer Electronic Show (CES) took place this week and, while quite a lot of interesting devices were showcased by different companies, ranging from Android-powered ovens to all sorts of phones, there were also plenty of great gaming announcements.
The first thing to appear from the trade sho... |
12 January 2013 15:41 GMT |
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The South African government recently made it public news that, according to a new report put together by conservationists in charge of looking after wildlife in this part of the world, as many as 668 rhinos inhabiting these regions were killed by poachers throughout the course of the year 2012.
Given the fact that... |
12 January 2013 14:51 GMT |
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The folks at Rdio have just updated their Android application with new features and improvements that promise a better performance and smoother user experience.One of the most popular music streaming services, Rdio provides subscribers access to more than 18 million songs. Keep in mind that developers add new songs e... |
12 January 2013 14:01 GMT |
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On January 11, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the immediate availability for download of the second maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.7.x kernel series. Linux kernel 3.7.2 comes with quite a few patches and an upgrade is recommended to all the users of the previous versions, even if it’s just a maintena... |
12 January 2013 14:01 GMT |
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Developer James Hoover has released an update to his simple word processing application for Mac OS X, Bean 3.2.4. The new version doesn’t deliver any new features, but it does squash some nasty bugs.If you’re the type who loves a clean word processor, you may have been acquainted with Bean. Arguably one o... |
12 January 2013 13:41 GMT |
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Southington is a town in Connecticut that sits close to Newtown, the side of the horrific shooting that left many killed and injured, so sadness and a desire for blame is a natural human tendency.
Unfortunately, an organization called SouthingtonSOS has decided that violent video games are to blame for the shooting ... |
12 January 2013 13:31 GMT |
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One of the most popular note-taking applications for mobile devices, Evernote has just been updated with new features and improvements.After updating the Android version of Evernote, developers released a new Windows Phone iteration as well. However, the changelogs for these updates are different, which means each ve... |
12 January 2013 13:31 GMT |
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Over the past period, the US government has invested a lot of resources to make sure that the country’s networks are protected against cybercriminals. When it comes to the US Army, the Criminal Investigation Command’s Computer Crimes Investigative Unit (CCIU) is the one that handles the threats from cyber... |
12 January 2013 13:01 GMT |
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On Friday, Microsoft made available for download a new flavor of its SkyDrive application for Windows Phone devices, providing users with the possibility to enjoy a better experience on their handsets.
Unfortunately, the company did not offer specific info on what was changed on the latest app release, but we can a... |
12 January 2013 13:01 GMT |
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Peter Baldwin from the ClearFoundation announced that ClearOS Community 6.4.0 Beta 1 is now available for download.According to the developer, this release adds a new reports engine, a storage manager, an antimalware file scanner, a basic POP/IMAP server as well as upstream proxy support.Highlights of ClearOS Commun... |
12 January 2013 12:59 GMT |
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FTL: Faster Than Light, a game developed by the Subset Games studio in which the players get to experience what's like to command a starship, is now available on Steam for Linux with a generous discount.Steam for Linux is still in Beta, but it doesn't mean that uses can't benefit from Valve's deal... |
12 January 2013 12:05 GMT |
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While phpMyAdmin has been the undisputed king of MySQL Web-based GUIs, people are starting to notice its ever increasing slow page speed and have been migrating to faster solutions. One of those is DbNinja.
It does almost all of the things phpMyAdmin does, but faster. At least in our Scripts testing department’s opi... |
12 January 2013 12:01 GMT |
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National Geographic has redesigned its World Atlas app completely, adding an exquisite new look, improved functionality, and a bunch of new features as well. Version 3.0 is out now in the App Store as a free download for all existing users.National Geographic World Atlas has been rewritten from the ground up with a b... |
12 January 2013 11:21 GMT |
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System Essentials is one of few apps that could come in very handy for those who wish to get information about their Windows 8 device without too much effort.
The app comes with an impressive list of features that includes dedicated options to collect information about the software and the hardware configuration of ... |
12 January 2013 11:01 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Flipboard application is now available for download for the owners of devices running under Google’s Android operating system, with some appealing new features packed inside.
Among them, we can count the inclusion of support for Daydream for Android 4.2, which provides users with the possi... |
12 January 2013 10:31 GMT |
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Bing and even Yahoo managed to gain a bit of market share in the US in December, at the expense of Google, according to Google numbers. It wasn't a huge growth, but the fact that Yahoo actually gained market share is remarkable and the only such occurrence in 2012.Bing added 0.1 percentage points, to rise t... |
12 January 2013 10:21 GMT |
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The latest Consumer Electronics Show (CES) from Vegas clearly shows that more and more devices are being connected to the Internet. However, Internet-enabled devices can always attract the attention of cybercriminals.
In a recently-published infographic, Trend Micro explains how vulnerable the automated home of tomo... |
12 January 2013 10:11 GMT |
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Microsoft said a few days ago that it had managed to sell a total of 60 million copies of Windows 8 in approximately two months after its launch, emphasizing that sales of the new operating system are in line with those of Windows 7.
But when it comes to the business industry, Windows 8’s sales performance is ... |
12 January 2013 10:11 GMT |
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Mozilla is keeping its promise of having full support for WebRTC in Firefox by the end of the year (more or less). But it never promised it was going to be enabled by default or that you're going to be able to use it in any meaningful way.
In fact, getUserMedia, one of the first components of WebRTC to get supp... |
12 January 2013 09:11 GMT |
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Gearbox Software, the developer of big games like Borderlands 2, received an offer from Activision to make a Call of Duty game, at least according to a supposed interview with the studio's president, Randy Pitchford.
Gearbox is an independent developer that has worked with many different publishers on many diff... |
12 January 2013 08:31 GMT |
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More wireless carriers are announcing their support for Research In Motion’s upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system, with Canada’s Koodo, WIND and Mobilicity being the last of them.
All three have already confirmed plans to add Blackberry 10 devices to their offerings, with Koodo making the announcemen... |
12 January 2013 08:21 GMT |
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BitTorrent, the company, has been working on both educating the public on the benefits of the technology and expanding its use. BitTorrent Surf, a BitTorrent client that also happens to be a Chrome extension does the latter. It makes it possible to put a full client inside your browser and grab content via BitTorrent... |
12 January 2013 08:11 GMT |
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With so many rumors regarding the launch date of the new Office 2013 productivity suite swirling around, we bet it’s only a matter of time until Microsoft makes an official announcement on this.
And still, some sources familiar with the matter told ZDNet.com that the Redmond-based technology giant could introd... |
12 January 2013 08:01 GMT |
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Developer Visceral Games and publisher Electronic Arts announce a new Dev-Team Edition for Dead Space 3, designed to give big fans of the series access to extra physical and digital content.The official package will include: SCAF Tin Crate, polyresin Black Marker statue, aluminum data pad, Med Pack water bottle,... |
12 January 2013 07:57 GMT |
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As the sun is getting closer to the peak of activity in its 11-year weather cycle, things are becoming interesting. Astronomers observed a massive solar flare erupt on the sun yesterday and it's only the beginning.
The flare spewed off huge amounts of superheated plasma into space, heading our way in fact. The... |
12 January 2013 07:41 GMT |
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Facebook is expanding its messaging experiment with one version where users can pay $100, €75 and send a message to anyone on the site. Previously, Facebook made it possible to pay $1 to make sure a message to a friend didn't end up in the Other folder where it's easy to overlook.
The experi... |
12 January 2013 07:21 GMT |
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Paul Emsley is responsible for the first official portrait of Kate Middleton, an oil painting that brought about mixed reviews, to put it lightly.
Many photoshopped versions of the painting are circulating, but I chose to post the two which I find funnier.
In one of them, Kate is dubbed the Grandmother of the Vamp... |
12 January 2013 07:17 GMT |
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As previously reported, the Burmese pythons now inhabiting Florida's natural ecosystems constitute a threat to local wildlife. However, this invasive species will soon cease being a threat, courtesy of a one-month hunt organized by the Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission. This year's so-called python c... |
12 January 2013 07:14 GMT |
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iOS jailbreaker pod2g (real name Cyril Cattiaux) is proud to announce that his awesome podDJ mixing app is now available for download worldwide. The developer promises you’ll be mixing with “the most realistic virtual turntable you have ever seen.” We’ve already detailed podDJ for iPad in a s... |
12 January 2013 07:07 GMT |
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As far as mobile workstations go, the Altus XT released by NCS doesn't stand out, no more than other mobile workstations at least.
But here is the crux of the matter: mobile workstations always have better than average hardware, because they need to be prepared for everything from large Power Point presentation... |
12 January 2013 07:00 GMT |
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Untangle Gateway Platform, a Linux-based network gateway with pluggable modules for network applications like spam blocking, web filtering, anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, VPN, SSL VPN, and firewall, is now at version 9.4.
Highlights of Untangle Gateway Platform 9.4:
• A new Captive Portal and ... |
12 January 2013 06:59 GMT |
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Details of the case of an Indiana boy abducted in 1994 emerge, as he is found alive. For the last 19 years he was living in Minnesota, for some of that time under a different name.
We reported about Richard Wayne Landers Jr.'s alleged abduction yesterday. The man, now going by the name Michael Jeff Landers, liv... |
12 January 2013 06:50 GMT |
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Britney Spears won’t return as judge on X Factor for another season, the star herself confirms in a statement to People magazine.
Though the decision wasn’t an easy one, it was the only possible one considering that she’s started working on a new album and she wants to give it her best.
“I... |
12 January 2013 06:41 GMT |
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Though 4K TVs dominated CES 2013, there were plenty of other things for visitors to feast their eyes upon and, in this, case, to fool around with.
Being a Consumer Electronics Show, there weren't many boundaries for what was acceptable.
Thus, Zivix felt completely at ease with the JamStik, a MIDI guitar that... |
12 January 2013 06:40 GMT |
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Apple has promptly updated the Xprotect.plist blacklist on OS X computers to address a zero-day vulnerability that has recently been discovered in Oracle’s Java 7. The anti-malware system now requires an unreleased 1.7.0_10-b19 version of Java 7. Users are confirming that systems running Java 7 are failing to ... |
12 January 2013 06:38 GMT |
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An external hard drive containing the details of 583,000 student loan borrowers has been lost, Human Resources and Skills Development (HRSD) Canada revealed on Friday.
Staffers noticed that the hard drive, used to backup information, was missing on November 5, 2012. One month later, they learned what was stored on t... |
12 January 2013 06:29 GMT |
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Nokia’s Windows Phone 8-based Lumia 920 in still seeing great demand in the UK, more than two months after officially landing on shelves.
Online retailer Clove has managed to sell all its stock of this device even before it actually landed on shelves, and has now put it on backorder.
“Backorders of RE... |
12 January 2013 06:25 GMT |
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Tails, a live system that aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity and that helps you use the Internet anonymously, is now at version 0.16.
Tails 0.16 has just arrived and it features a lot of changes, but surprisingly a new version of the Linux kernel hasn't been implemented.
Highlights of Tails 0.16:
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12 January 2013 06:24 GMT |
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CES 2013 has ended, but there are still a few products that we didn't get around to mentioning, like the Zalman TM215, the TM230, TM270 and TM270VA LED-backlit LCD monitors.
In that order, the displays measure 21.5 inches, 23 inches, 27 inches and, again, 27 inches.
The only difference between the TM270VA and ... |
12 January 2013 06:21 GMT |
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Checks with industry sources at CES 2013 have led analyst Brian White to believe that Apple is planning to release two new iPad models in March 2013, one of which will be the second-generation iPad mini. In addition to a rumored iPad 5, which is said to be even thinner and lighter than the current-generation model, ... |
12 January 2013 06:08 GMT |
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Twins run in the Sanders family, in which 2 identical twin sisters married a pair of identical twin brothers.
As it goes, Darlene and Diane Nettemeier met their sweethearts at a twins' festival in Twinsburg, Ohio. They both spotted Mark Sanders (far right in the picture), and were relieved to know his sibling w... |
12 January 2013 06:08 GMT |
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A new version of the popular Sysinternals Suite for Windows is now available for download, bringing three different improvements supposed to resolve reported bugs.
Sysinternals Suite 1.0 build 11.01.2013 comes with Autoruns 11.4 that adds some new startup locations and fixes multiple issues related to image patch pa... |
12 January 2013 06:06 GMT |
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Case fans aren't the most celebrated computer components, but they are quite widespread, even though they aren't really necessary for a PC to run well.
Still, better ventilation means lower in-case temperatures and, thus, higher stability and longer product life.
The two new fans that Scythe has released ... |
12 January 2013 06:01 GMT |
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Yesterday, the famous security researcher known as Moxie Marlinspike announced that he was parting ways with Twitter’s security team.
“Today is my last day working at Twitter. I've learned a lot here over the past year, and have worked with some great people. Farewell!” he wrote on Friday.
H... |
12 January 2013 05:53 GMT |
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Microsoft is expected to unveil the new Surface with Windows 8 Pro this month, with our sources hinting that January 29 may be the day when the new tablet could go live.
Microsoft has started sending out invites to media officials in Brazil for an event due to take place on January 29, but the company refuses to pro... |
12 January 2013 05:53 GMT |
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SparkyLinux, a lightweight, fast and simple Linux distribution designed for both old and new computers featuring customized Enlightenment and LXDE desktops, is now at version 2.1 RC1.
SparkyLinux 2.1 RC1 “Eris” Ultra Edition was built on Debian testing branch “Wheezy” and synchronized with De... |
12 January 2013 05:52 GMT |
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UCWeb, the company behind one of the most popular browsers for mobile devices, announced a few hours ago the debut of a private test version of the UC Browser 8.6 for Android.
The new flavor of the mobile browser arrives on devices with various enhancements packed inside, although none of them is a major one.
Acc... |
12 January 2013 05:50 GMT |
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If you're looking for a bargain on the latest iPhone from Apple, look no further than Walmart. The American retailer is offering a $60 (€45) discount on its already attractive offer, slashing the price to an all-time-low $127 (€95) with a two-year contract. The fine print on Walmart’s web site s... |
12 January 2013 05:44 GMT |
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I stumbled upon some of the weirdest, funniest, fashion looks for men this winter, and I decided to share my top 5 favorites with you. These outfits were all premiered at this year's London Men's Fashion Week, covered by Glamour. J.W. Anderson gave viewers a glimpse into what the modern man that embraces... |
12 January 2013 05:41 GMT |
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Whether or not Intel will stop making LGA CPUs, or other sorts of socketed CPUs, in the years to come is a matter of some debate, and the believers just got some more food for thought.
Currently, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices design two sorts of central processing units: those that can be removed from the socket ... |
12 January 2013 05:36 GMT |
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25-year-old Teah Green, who worked as a clerk at the Palm Beach County Health Department, was fired from her job and charged with multiple counts of fraud after investigators found that she stole the details of 111 individuals.
The suspect leveraged a flaw in the department’s computer system to obtain patient ... |
12 January 2013 05:30 GMT |
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Sources from Germany say Apple might roll out iOS 6.1 Gold Master (GM) to developers on Monday. iOS 6.1 is known to include new features for ordering movie tickets via Siri, iCloud security enhancements, and the ability to integrate third-party apps with the Apple Maps application.
Apple has so far released four iOS... |
12 January 2013 05:30 GMT |
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About a month ago, the news that several American citizens had set up a petition hoping to raise enough signatures to convince the White House to build a Death Star cause quite a stir. Later on, the news that this petition actually managed to get all the signatures it needed in order to reach Barack Obama's de... |
12 January 2013 05:27 GMT |
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Walking Dead: Survival Instinct might have been described as a first-person shooter, but the team working on the game wants to focus on the survival elements of the game, which include stealth and the possibility to distract enemies.
Glenn Gamble, a producer working at Terminal Reality, tells Eurogamer that, “... |
12 January 2013 05:26 GMT |
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Even though an official VLC media player for Windows 8 is yet to be released, some software developers across the world are trying to make the most of VideoLAN’s success with similar apps that copy one or more of the original features.
After VLC Media Player 8 was completely removed from the Store, another app... |
12 January 2013 05:21 GMT |
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Much like in previous years, most of the solid state drives revealed during the latest trade show ended up flaunting the abilities of SandForce controller ships, and this holds true for ADATA, just like it does for Mushkin, and OWC.
True, two of the collections of SSDs use JMicron chips instead of SandForce, but we... |
12 January 2013 05:08 GMT |
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The development team at Funcom says that it has seen an increase of 400 percent in activity in its MMO The Secret World after it has eliminated the monthly subscription for the game during December.GamesIndustry cites information from a stock report that shows a number of players have returned to The Secret World bec... |
12 January 2013 04:57 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile UK has started the delivery of a new software update for some of the most popular Android devices on its network, namely the Samsung Galaxy S III, HTC One X and HTC One S.
The new update is none other than the Jelly Bean update that many have been waiting to arrive for quite some time now.... |
12 January 2013 04:48 GMT |
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Oracle has published its January 2013 Critical Patch Update (CPU) pre-release announcement. According to the company, the CPU – which will be released on January 15 – will address a total of 86 security vulnerabilities that affect hundreds of Oracle products.
The upcoming CPU addresses flaws in products ... |
12 January 2013 04:48 GMT |
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Microsoft is apparently having a change of heart over the recently-released jailbreak tool for Windows RT devices, with the company now suggesting that it may block the hack after all. A downloadable software solution that provides a one-click jailbreak option for Windows RT users was released on the web a couple of... |
12 January 2013 04:39 GMT |
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Small form factor personal computers were well represented at CES 2013, so the fact that Xi3 Company has one in the pipeline isn't as hard to believe as it would otherwise have been.
The name of the IT player's system is Z3RO Pro Computer, and the reason it qualifies as a mini PC is the size of 1.875 x 4.8... |
12 January 2013 04:38 GMT |
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As previously reported, lions at a zoo in China are being hit with snowballs, for visitors' amusement purposes. The big question here is whether or not this registers as animal cruelty, since the animals cannot defend themselves in a situation such as this one. The incident occurred at Hangzhou Zoo lion... |
12 January 2013 04:34 GMT |
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Canonical has published a list with the most downloaded free applications on Ubuntu Software Center, for December.
The top 10 free apps for December don’t hold any major surprises with regard to the previous month, but there is one new entry.
IntelliJ IDEA 12 Community Edition manages to remain in the top, al... |
12 January 2013 04:05 GMT |
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Aurora shooter James Holmes had booby trapped his apartment with explosives, as we previously wrote. He was most likely preparing for the event in which it would be searched.
Holmes' trial reveals new elements of his plan for that day, as his methods for a getaway are brought to light.
According to I Science T... |
12 January 2013 04:01 GMT |
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Hewlett-Packard continues to be one of the most important IT corporations in the world, but 2012 proved quite troublesome for the company, and 2013 is starting off in force as well.
The company has been sued by a number of tech support employees for intentionally “misclassifying” them.
To elaborate, H... |
12 January 2013 03:56 GMT |
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It's starting to look like browser makers should just block all Java versions and then whitelist the ones that aren't vulnerable rather than just keep adding more and more to their blocklist.
Yet another Java exploit is out in the wild with no patch from Oracle leaving browser and OS makers scurrying to f... |
12 January 2013 03:55 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Swype for Symbian application is now available for download through the Nokia Beta Labs website, namely version 2.1.4436. Pushed out on January 11, the new app release arrives on handsets with a series of fixes for issues that were previously found to affect users’ experience with it. Th... |
12 January 2013 03:45 GMT |
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Those concerned about the possibility that 2036 will be the year our planet gets hit by Apophis, a.k.a. the “doomsday asteroid,” can now rest assured: the world as we know it will not end in 23 years' time.
According to researchers working with NASA, this space rock will indeed pay us another two v... |
12 January 2013 03:42 GMT |
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Canonical has published a statistic about the top paid applications that were sold through Ubuntu Software Center in December. Every month, Canonical makes a list with the top applications, either paid or free. This particular top deals with the paid apps, featuring some pretty interesting newcomers. DareUp is a ne... |
12 January 2013 03:40 GMT |
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A major leak has just appeared on the web concerning Valve's Half-Life franchise, as apparently Arkane Studios was working on a Half-Life 2: Episode 4 title, otherwise known as Return to Ravenholm, and a few images with the project, which has since been shelved, have surfaced.Half-Life 2 was one of the greatest ... |
12 January 2013 03:37 GMT |
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A student at Taft High School in Bakersfield, California has shot a classmate, after arriving at school on Thursday, January 10. He has since been identified as 16-year-old Bryan Oliver.
The gunman's motive has been revealed yesterday, when we wrote about the boy feeling bullied by the victim. He attempted to s... |
12 January 2013 03:35 GMT |
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Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Mobile has confirmed that its newly launched Android-based Xperia Z smartphone will arrive on shelves in the Middle East, although a specific release date was not made official as of now.
The confirmation came through Twitter, where Sony Mobile has been answering to users’ inq... |
12 January 2013 03:34 GMT |
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Microsoft officially rolled out the first Patch Tuesday updates of the year this week, but the company continues to release improvements for its software solutions.
The Xbox Music app available on Windows 8 platforms has just received an update on both the desktop version of the operating system and on Windows RT.
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12 January 2013 03:32 GMT |
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Britney Spears and Jason Trawick are officially done, the singer’s publicist Jeff Raymond confirms for People magazine. The two have mutually decided to end their 1-year engagement but will remain friends.
Speculation about the pop star’s relationship with her former manager and co-conservator has been ... |
12 January 2013 03:24 GMT |
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What we know: Metro: Last Light is the successor of Metro 2033, an atmospheric first-person shooter based on the famous book that tasks players with surviving in a post-apocalyptic version of Moscow by exploring its subway tunnels, fighting off mutants caused by the radiation of nuclear bombs, and trying to save hum... |
12 January 2013 03:07 GMT |
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The case of Brooke Greenberg is getting plenty of traction in the international media right now – and has been doing so for years, which coincides with the amount of time doctors have spent trying to solve the medical mystery that prevents her from growing old or growing up.
Above is the TLC documentary shot ... |
12 January 2013 03:04 GMT |
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Mozilla increased the build number for Firefox Aurora to version 20. The novelty in this release is the availability of a refreshed private browsing feature, which has been completely re-written in order to make the experience more comfortable.The new method eliminates giving up the regular browsing session in favor ... |
12 January 2013 02:52 GMT |
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For the briefest of while, Megan Fox was on Twitter. The gorgeous “Transformers” actress, joined the social networking website on January 4 but, 5 days later, had already decided there was no point to it.
“I'm incredibly late to the party but I'm here nonetheless, so what now?” the... |
12 January 2013 02:46 GMT |
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After one quick glance at Brooke Greenberg, pretty much everybody would “label” her as a toddler and move on to going about their business.
However, they could not be more wrong: Brooke is actually 20 years old, seeing how she was born in 1993, yet somehow both her mind and her body failed in developing... |
12 January 2013 02:41 GMT |
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One Seattle woman, legally named Beautiful Existence, is choosing to live her life in the fast lane (her words, more or less), by pledging to spend an entire year eating and drinking only from Starbucks.
Her challenge kicked off on January 2, but it’s only now getting international media attention, which has ... |
12 January 2013 01:59 GMT |
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Demi Lovato’s problems with addiction and self-harm are well documented, mostly because she agreed to be open about them for the sake of her fans and other teens who might be going through the same. Her resolve to stay on the right track is just very strong, it has emerged.
The X Factor US judge and beloved p... |
12 January 2013 01:36 GMT |
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Gearbox Software has decided to hype up the release of the next add-on for Borderlands, in the form of Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt, and is organizing a special Gear Up Weekend that brings better loot for players who log into the game.Borderlands 2 relies on the ever changing loot to keep players hooked on the... |
12 January 2013 01:15 GMT |
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After a pretty lengthy wait, Blizzard has just confirmed the first actual details about its upcoming patch 1.0.7 for Diablo 3, which introduces a whole new mechanic in the form of player versus player dueling and will be out soon on the Public Test Realm (PTR).
Diablo III came out back in May of last year and, while... |
12 January 2013 00:14 GMT |
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