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The Heart of the Swarm expansion might not yet have a launch date at the moment, but the development team at Blizzard working on it has proven that the game is going full steam ahead by detailing the changes that have been made to the unit rosters since players have seen the game at the Blizzcon during late 2011.
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12 April 2012
20:11 GMT |
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Chinese handset maker Huawei has just introduced the Honor and Ideos X5 Pro Android smartphones in the India.
Both smartphones are expected to hit shelves within the next few days at India’s leading retailers like Reliance Digital, Croma, online channels Flipkart, Tradus, Letsbuy and in multi-brand outlets in ... |
12 April 2012
20:01 GMT |
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Netflix recently updated its official Android and Windows Phone applications with more features and improvements. We already reported a few days ago on the changes added to the Android version. However, Netflix for Windows Phone got more important changes like expanded availability and several enhancements meant to ... |
12 April 2012
19:31 GMT |
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With only two months left until the kick-off of UEFA EURO 2012, those who plan on going to Poland and Ukraine for the sports event can now download the official application for mobile phones. Simply dubbed “Official UEFA EURO 2012,” the application is the result of the partnership between major carrier O... |
12 April 2012
19:01 GMT |
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An analyst watching the video game industry for PiperJaffray believes that the decline in overall sales for the most recent installment of the Call of Duty series is another reason for the recent slide that the video game market has seen in the United States.Michael Olson says that Modern Warfare 3, the Call of Duty ... |
12 April 2012
18:41 GMT |
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BioWare has once again talked about the upcoming Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut DLC that will be released for the sci-fi role-playing shooter this summer, saying that it will add lots of extra content to the game’s ending, not just new cinematics.
Mass Effect 3 was a stunning game with a great story but its contro... |
12 April 2012
18:31 GMT |
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While Intel's Ivy Bridge approaches, Advanced Micro Devices readies its Trinity APU series, and there seems to be some new information on a concern regarding the latter.
Granted, concern may be too strong a word, since this isn't about some flaw or necessary weakness, but it is close enough.
Essentially... |
12 April 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Video game broadcasting network, TwitchTV has announced its free iOS application designed to meet growing consumer demand for access to live gaming broadcasts on the go.Available as a single, universal app for both iPhone and iPad, TwitchTV for iOS offers the ability to view all of TwitchTV’s streaming content ... |
12 April 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Since gamers began experiencing the end of Mass Effect 3, a significant number of them criticized the BioWare-made finale to the series and even filled complaints about it with a number of organizations, in an effort to get the developers to make significant changes. Now the Better Business Bureau, an organization t... |
12 April 2012
17:31 GMT |
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More rumors on the unannounced Samsung Galaxy S III have just emerged online. It appears that OLED Association recently released an ample article on Samsung Mobile Display success on the market and the launch of the YOUM branding for flexible displays. There’s nothing unusual here. However, while explaining ho... |
12 April 2012
17:30 GMT |
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After yesterday’s leak about Crysis 3, developer Crytek confirmed that a full-fledged announcement about its next big game will take place on April 16. The Crysis series delighted fans by offering a great first person shooter experience with stunning visuals. After last year’s Crysis 2, Crytek is gettin... |
12 April 2012
17:21 GMT |
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The team behind the highly acclaimed radio application for Symbian devices, Soundtracker, has announced their MeeGo version has just received a new update.
The application offers users quick and easy access to more than 10 million songs and loads of social and location-based features.
For the time being, the applic... |
12 April 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Amazon is adding another product to the Web Services rooster, CloudSearch. The name leaves no room for interpretation, it's a search service powered by the cloud. It's designed for websites and apps that want to add search functionality that scales well relatively easy.
"Amazon CloudSearch is a fully-manag... |
12 April 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Splashtop Inc. has released a 20-dollar app that promises to be the only piece of iPad software that allows you to experience the true Windows 8 Metro UI on your Apple device. “Win8 Metro Testbed - powered by Splashtop” is available at a special price for a limited time (the app regularly sells for $49.99... |
12 April 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Intel's IDF 2012 show in Beijing, China, is underway, which means that, in addition to triple-display demonstrations of Ivy Bridge graphics capabilities, actual products based on the chips are being put through their paces as well.
IDF 2012 is an Intel event, which means that, naturally, it is going to be choc... |
12 April 2012
16:41 GMT |
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The leaders of the recently relaunched GOG digital distribution service have said that they fully expect the gaming industry to drop any and all Digital Rights Management solution in the future, although it might take some time for all publishers to make the move. Guillaume Rambourg, the managing director of GOG, an... |
12 April 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Facebook is making an, albeit small, step towards offering users more control over their data and their ability to extract it from Facebook. The Download Your Information feature now contains more details such as past names, friend requests and even IP addresses you used in the past.
"Starting today, you will be abl... |
12 April 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Jennifer Lawrence has managed to get on PETA's toes. Consequently, the president of the animal rights group has issued a scathing statement to put her back in her place and, at the same time, show her the error of her ways. In her most recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Lawrence, who can now be seen ... |
12 April 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Even though the first quarter of every year is considered the “slow” season in terms of product sales, the PC market somehow managed to exceed forecasts.
Originally, Gartner expected shipments of personal computers to decrease by 1.2% in Q1, 2012 compared to the same period of 2011.
Now, though, prelim... |
12 April 2012
15:41 GMT |
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NetherRealm has just unveiled some more details about its upcoming Mortal Kombat game for the PS Vita platform, detailing the extra content that’s included besides the full experience seen last year on the PS3 and Xbox 360. Mortal Kombat impressed lots of people with its return to the franchise’s violent... |
12 April 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Geekbench 2.3.0, the latest version of Primate Labs’ performance-measuring tool, no longer supports Macintosh computers relying on processors built on the PowerPC architecture. This, and other changes, are detailed further below. Posted earlier this week, Geekbench 2.3.0 is an important update to an even more ... |
12 April 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Sprint has finally unveiled the exact release date for the LG Viper 4G, along with the smartphone’s full pricing options.
Moreover, the carrier also kicked off pre-orders for customers who want to purchase an affordable 4G-enabled Android phone.
Currently, LG Viper 4G is available for pre-order from Sprint fo... |
12 April 2012
15:01 GMT |
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The South Park role-playing game is one of the biggest titles in THQ’s portfolio, but the experience was under development for about one full year at Obsidian before the publisher became involved in the creation process. Danny Bilson, who is the leader of the core games division at publisher THQ, has told Ript... |
12 April 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Readdle, the developer of quite a few popular iOS apps, has announced Scanner Pro 4, which promises to deliver the best scanning experience on your iPhone and the new iPad. Scanner Pro integrates with Dropbox and Evernote. With version 4.0, owners of both iPhone and iPad no longer have to handle two separate apps. S... |
12 April 2012
14:31 GMT |
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These days, Miley Cyrus is looking fitter and thinner than ever, and she says it has nothing to do with an alleged eating disorder, but rather with cutting gluten from her diet. She's now being criticized for recommending the diet to everyone. As we also noted the other day, there was plenty of speculation onli... |
12 April 2012
14:31 GMT |
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The Google+ redesign made quite a stir, though not necessarily for the right reasons. While plenty of people are questioning the decision to leave a huge portion of the page blank on wide screens, one of the biggest and most interesting changes is the new dynamic ribbon to the left. The ribbon is designed to allow e... |
12 April 2012
14:21 GMT |
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After posting an impressive video yesterday with DmC: Devil May Cry, Capcom has now revealed a fresh batch of screenshots from the upcoming game, this time focusing on Dante and his impressive combat skills. DmC may be a departure from the classic Devil May Cry recipe but Capcom has shown, through videos and screens... |
12 April 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Taking complex systems such as the Internet and social networks as examples, a group of experts at the University of Cambridge was able to create a mathematical model of the brain. Though simple, their tool provides a surprisingly complete statistical account of how different regions interact.
This is one of the mos... |
12 April 2012
14:01 GMT |
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In February, HTC and T-Mobile USA confirmed the upcoming release of the One S Android smartphone. However, the carrier has yet to reveal the exact launch date and pricing options.
Several internal documents leaked online suggested that the HTC One S might be released at T-Mobile USA on April 25. This seems to be ac... |
12 April 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Security researcher Shadab Siddiqui identified a number of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in websites owned by the mobile phone manufacturer HTC, TATA-owned IT solution provider CMC Limited, IT firm Collabera, and Quick Heal, an Indian company that offers security products. The screenshots provided by th... |
12 April 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Video game developer and publisher Bethesda has announced that it has plans to re-launch the Xbox 360 version of Quake 4 on June 19 in North America and three days later in the European countries of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland and Austria.
The game will be sold for ... |
12 April 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Pinterest is one of the success stories of the last few months due to the huge interest it's managed to attract, along with a massive and growing number of users. Part of the appeal is the simplicity and the aesthetics of the site, to be expected since the whole essence of it are the pinned thumbnails that you g... |
12 April 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Today, a new iteration of the highly popular UC Browser became available for download for devices powered by Java and Symbian platforms.A few hours ago, the team of developers behind the application announced the upcoming availability of a new flavor of UC Browser 8.2, and users can already get a taste of the applica... |
12 April 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Adobe’s popular tool for reliably viewing and interacting with PDF documents on iOS devices has been enhanced with sticky notes, comments, forms, Ink Signatures, as well as performance and memory fixes. Users can now mark up content with sticky notes, the freehand drawing tool or the highlight, strikethrough, ... |
12 April 2012
13:21 GMT |
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The resolution commonly associated with HD video-capable TVs has apparently become more widespread among displays, around the world, than 1,024 x 768 pixels.
It was only a matter of time before the HD resolution, 1,366 x 768 pixels, became the most commonly used in the world.
Until not too long ago, that position ... |
12 April 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Today, two new themes made their way on the long list of similar software available for download for all Windows 7 users interested in additional personalization options on their computers. Dubbed Aqua Dynamic and Fauna Dynamic, these two themes will make use of RSS feed capabilities to pull images from the web and... |
12 April 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Although Samsung already announced the Galaxy Tab 2 series of tablets back in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the South Korean company did not unveil any details regarding pricing and availability.
The latest hearsay pointed to a possible late March launch in the UK, but rumor had it that Samsung... |
12 April 2012
13:01 GMT |
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She might occupy her own judge / mentor seat on The Voice, but that doesn't mean that Jessie J isn't game when it comes to showing contestants how it must be done. Below is her performance on the latest US show. The British pop star, currently seen on The Voice UK, traveled Stateside to perform with Team ... |
12 April 2012
12:12 GMT |
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Blizzard continues sharing more details about the different classes included in its upcoming Diablo III role-playing dungeon crawler, this time shedding some light on the Barbarian, with new details and a fresh video being released.Diablo 3 is getting ready to appear next month, so developer Blizzard has begun reveal... |
12 April 2012
12:11 GMT |
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We already reported last week that Samsung postponed the Galaxy Note 10.1 for June. Although the company has yet to make anything official, sources in the industry claim that Samsung want to change the tablet’s specs before release.
As we mentioned in a previous article Samsung is likely to replace the dual-co... |
12 April 2012
12:01 GMT |
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HTC One V has been available for pre-order in the UK for quite some time now. However, only the SIM-free version of the smartphone has been offered by various retailers across the country.
Starting today, customers who want to purchase the cheapest smartphone in the HTC One family will be able to do so via BuyMobile... |
12 April 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Cyanide might be best known for creating a recent number of games based on the Game of Thrones intellectual property. However, the company has long been involved with cycling simulations and it plans to deliver a new Tour de France game for the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, even if no clear... |
12 April 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Point of View may be best known for its graphics cards, but it has been doing its best to establish a presence on the tablet market too.
As it happens, the company has completed the development of a new such product, one that supposedly runs on a Cortex A8 CPU.
Going by the report, we think it is a single-core chi... |
12 April 2012
12:01 GMT |
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WP-FAQ is an advanced system for creating a Q&A section on a WordPress-powered website.
The plugin creates a new WP taxonomy that handles questions and question groups.
After adding all the questions, along with their respective answers in the WP admin panel, the FAQ section can then be inserted into any WP page o... |
12 April 2012
12:01 GMT |
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There's no denying that the Robert Pattinson we saw on the beach the other week is fuller than the Robert Pattinson we saw in “Breaking Dawn Part 1.” The British actor is trying to quit smoking but he's not happy at all about gaining weight. At least, that's what a new report cited by Holly... |
12 April 2012
11:58 GMT |
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In some cases, it's best if you leave modesty at the door, especially if you're looking to send a powerful message. This is a lesson that “House M.D.” star Lisa Edelstein has learned before the latest PETA campaign.
The gorgeous actress is baring it all in the new ad, a preview of which you ca... |
12 April 2012
11:35 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Sprint is getting ready to add the LTE flavor of Galaxy Nexus to its offering in the coming weeks.
The company announced plans to make this move several months ago, but hasn’t provided specific info on when the device will become available for purchase.
Today, however, a new rumor on th... |
12 April 2012
11:17 GMT |
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She might be sitting 2012 out in terms of not recording new music, but Rihanna is definitely not taking any time off. Above is the official artwork for her upcoming single, “Where Have You Been.”
It will also be getting the video treatment, with reports online saying Rihanna must have wrapped shooting fo... |
12 April 2012
11:16 GMT |
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We've picked some nice BIOS for today's list and we're delivering the latest EVGA software for the motherboards based on Intel's X79 chipset, together with BIOS for one of Gigabyte's new boards.
You can read detailed info on the new EVGA BIOS in a short blog entry we've posted earlier t... |
12 April 2012
11:11 GMT |
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It looks like lots of people brought devices over at the IDF 2012 trade show taking place in Beijing.
Samsung is one of them, and its range of devices includes a Chromebook prototype that shows off those Coreboot improvements we've been hearing about.
For those unaware, Coreboot is a Linux layer in the Chrom... |
12 April 2012
11:10 GMT |
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Skype development team rolled out a new version of the product. It’s no major build, as the set of modifications available is quite small.
New in the current release is the confirmation message triggered by introducing a contact into a group conversation and a very much needed hotkey for taking snapshots durin... |
12 April 2012
11:10 GMT |
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Lenovo’s IdeaPad Yoga convertible notebook has reportedly been presented at a conference by Lenovo UK complete with sale prices.At a price of 1,199 pounds in the UK, almost $1,900 for the USA, the Yoga tablet is not really the steal we’ve been hoping for. For Europeans, this means around 1,450 EUR, but th... |
12 April 2012
11:05 GMT |
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There's no shortage of cloud storage/file sync services these days, a new one seems to be popping up every week or so. Yandex recently opened up a service, Microsoft is working on adapting Skydrive and Google is said to finally be launching a Dropbox competitor, dubbed Drive.
In the meantime, we have Cubby, yet... |
12 April 2012
11:02 GMT |
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Today is a good day for fans of Chris Nolan's Batman. After a still with Catwoman from “The Dark Knight Rises” emerged online earlier today, here is a first look at the upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly. Click on the image above to see the cover of the summer preview of EW issue. Anne Hathaway... |
12 April 2012
11:00 GMT |
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Treating depression in patients suffering from Parkinson's disease is not easy. Usually, the drugs also cause a host of side effects that lead to a worsening of the neuromotor condition. However, there may be hope still. The newest antidepressant drugs appear to work well in Parkinson's patients as well. ... |
12 April 2012
10:58 GMT |
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Dolphin Browser, the team behind one of the most popular mobile browsers for Android devices, has just released a new version of the application. Dolphin Browser HD 8.0 received major visual improvements, including new Dolphin Sonar and Gesture interface, design, along with easier access to help menu. Moreover, the... |
12 April 2012
10:54 GMT |
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Seven mobile games are now available for purchase on Windows Phone devices for only $0.99 a piece, Microsoft has just announced officially. These are the same titles that, last week, were said to become cheaper for Windows Phone users, and include Angry Birds, Burn the Rope, de Blob, Doodle God... |
12 April 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Barnes & Noble may not have managed to get its Nook e-readers the same level of fame as Amazon got its Kindles, but it still has a loyal fanbase.
In other words, the bookstore chain has a pretty stable ecosystem, so it makes sense that it would be devising a new e-reader.
According to The Digital Reader, the next-g... |
12 April 2012
10:51 GMT |
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New statistics indicate that the number of cohabiting couples that go on to have babies outside the boundaries of marriage is growing. The government report indicates that people in this group are in stable relationships and live together, but did not get legally married.
The investigation covered the period from 20... |
12 April 2012
10:50 GMT |
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Microsoft is nearing the launch of the next generation of its key products, including Office 15 and Internet Explorer 10, among others, but hasn’t provided specific info on when these will arrive on shelves as of yet. Today, however, a series of leaked screenshots from documents that Microsoft has sent to its... |
12 April 2012
10:46 GMT |
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They're still to confirm being a couple but they're already pegged as the next Jay-Z and Beyonce. Fresh reports suggest that Kanye West and Kim Kardashian have more than just a fling – this is real love we're witnessing here. Us Weekly notes that the rapper is convinced that Kim is “the one... |
12 April 2012
10:44 GMT |
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Sony has begun teasing a brand new game that will be revealed on Tuesday, April 19, with a simple image that contains the question: “Will vengeance bring redemption?” Sony is getting ready to unveil plenty of big games in the next few months, but one of the most speculated is certainly God of War IV, the... |
12 April 2012
10:41 GMT |
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In the light of America’s Department of Justice suing Apple Inc. and others over antitrust violations regarding e-book pricing, Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), has issued a public statement expressing his dismay towards the Obama Administration’s decision.The... |
12 April 2012
10:40 GMT |
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EVGA readies revision 36 for their X79 motherboard trio: X79 Classified, X79 FTW and X79 SLI. It’s a funny thing that it's only been around a fortnight since the previous BIOS release, not that having new software wouldn't be just great.
With EVGA usually delivering new BIOS for these three boards at... |
12 April 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Although Sony’s presence at this year’s Mobile World Congress was pretty consistent, the Japanese company saved some launch announcements for after the trade fair.
The Xperia sola is the first device that Sony announced right after MWC 2012, so we didn’t have the chance to play with the smartphone ... |
12 April 2012
10:31 GMT |
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MalSec, the group that recently defaced the website of Security Center Ltd., a Cayman Island security firm, returns with other data breaches. The hackers also released a video to introduce the group and its objectives. This time, the list of targets includes the Development Bank of the Philippines (www.dbp.ph), a Ro... |
12 April 2012
10:30 GMT |
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Apparently, Intel has begun shipping the second-generation Thunderbolt controllers codenamed Cactus Ridge.
That doesn't mean that Cactus Ridge is finally available to everyone who needs it though, and some PC motherboards have even had to hold off on their release because of it.
Still, the controller chips are... |
12 April 2012
10:29 GMT |
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For someone who tries her best to keep out of the spotlight, Amanda Bynes' DUI arrest over the weekend certainly made her tabloid fodder. A source close to the actress is now revealing more details about said DUI bust. According to the spy, who only agreed to speak with celebrity publication People on the cond... |
12 April 2012
10:22 GMT |
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American-Israeli company Intel is reportedly planning to keep its promise and introduce server CPU products based on the ill-famed Atom design. Although these CPUs were never faster than AMD’s Fusion designs, nor ARM’s A-series, they’ll benefit from Intel’s money and market influence an... |
12 April 2012
10:19 GMT |
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Rockstar Games has released Max Payne Mobile on the App Store for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Max Payne is the first game to feature Bullet Time, a special power used by Max and Mona Sax. When activated, everything around them slows down, but the duo are still able to aim just as fast, giving them a unique advantag... |
12 April 2012
10:19 GMT |
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Ryan Payton is a former developer on the blockbuster Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, the most recent full installment in the saga of Solid Snake. He has also been a creative director at 343 Industries, the studio created by Microsoft to handle the future of the Halo franchise.
However, the game creator cho... |
12 April 2012
10:19 GMT |
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University of Western Ontario epidemiology & biostatistics professor, Amit Garg, says that reduced kidney mass – such as it results from donating a kidney – does not boost the risk of cardiovascular disease.
The expert says that reduced renal mass is not the same as reduced kidney function, a condition ... |
12 April 2012
10:18 GMT |
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As much as this might sound like a belated April Fools’ joke, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on the Xbox 360 will get a special update in the near future, which brings support for the Kinect sensor.
Skyrim was Softpedia’s game of the year, impressing us with great gameplay, a complex story and a wide variety of t... |
12 April 2012
10:13 GMT |
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People who want to buy a new USB 3.0 storage device might want to check out Buffalo's SSD-PEU3 series, assuming they live in Japan that is.
Long story short, the company has released three new solid state drives with capacities of 64 GB, 128 GB and 256 GB, respectively.
In that order, they bear prices of $105,... |
12 April 2012
10:06 GMT |
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Because there's nothing the media loves more than pitting artists against each other and, apparently, fans claiming one artist has copied another, Nicki Minaj and Lady Gaga are two names often used in the same sentence. Speaking with ABC just recently in order to promote her new album, “Roman Reloaded,&rd... |
12 April 2012
10:05 GMT |
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Nest Labs, Inc. has just announced that they’ve hired a former Apple staffer as vice president and general counsel. Richard “Chip” Lutton, Jr. is the former Chief Intellectual Property Officer of the Cupertino, California-based Apple Inc. Nest makes this cool, Apple-inspired, learning thermostat wh... |
12 April 2012
10:02 GMT |
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If you're the owner of a Crucial SSD from the M4 series, you should rejoice, as new firmware is up for grabs and we also have it for free download.
The new SSD firmware reaches now revision 000F and brings some generic improvements that will add both functionality and reliability to everyday use. With the M4 SS... |
12 April 2012
09:59 GMT |
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This amazing image, collected shortly after 1200 UTC on April 12, 1981, shows Columbia launching to space in the first-ever flight conducted under the NASA Space Shuttle Program (SSP). Unlike subsequent missions, STS-1 had only two crewmembers. NASA astronauts John Young and Bob Crippen launched from the Kennedy Spac... |
12 April 2012
09:52 GMT |
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After many photos and videos from the set of the latest James Bond movie, “Skyfall,” leaked online, it's nice to note that the movie studio is also thinking of those fans who chose not to have their fun spoiled with leaks. In the gallery below, you will find four new stills released from the upcomi... |
12 April 2012
09:48 GMT |
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Sky and UK Wi-Fi provider The Cloud have teamed up to offer the former’s customers free access to all Wi-Fi hotspots across the country.
Those who install the Android application will be required to sign in with a Sky ID in order to have access to The Cloud’s Wi-Fi hotspots.
However, once all log-in det... |
12 April 2012
09:43 GMT |
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Spect, a hacker part of the newly formed Team Digi7al, managed to gain unauthorized access to the email account of Silvia Elena Alfaro Espinosa, the ambassador of Peru in Bolivia since January 2011. The hacker not only published the username and password that protect the account, but also dumped the entire contents ... |
12 April 2012
09:42 GMT |
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A form of energy introduced in theoretical models in order to explain the ever-accelerating expansion of the Universe has been confirmed yet again in a new study. Astrophysicists say that dark energy must indeed exist, even if all efforts aimed at identifying it have thus far failed.
This quantity is currently beli... |
12 April 2012
09:42 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft announced that the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) branch of India’s Ministry of Human Resources and Development has chosen the deployment of Microsoft Live@Edu to more than 10,000 technical colleges and institutes in the country. Through this move, Microsoft will sustain the... |
12 April 2012
09:40 GMT |
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Today Alcohol Soft released a new version for their disc burning and drive emulation software, Alcohol 120%. It is not a major revision, but it brings to the table plenty of novelties and improvements as well as fixes. Alcohol 120% 2.0.2 comes with support for Windows 8 Consumer Preview, improves reading and writing... |
12 April 2012
09:35 GMT |
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Calligra 2.4, an integrated suite of applications that covers office, creative and management needs, on both desktop computers and mobile platforms like tablets and smartphones, has made its debut. According to the developers form the Caligra Team, the office suite has been in development for almost one year and a ... |
12 April 2012
09:31 GMT |
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The name Jenna Talackova might have rang no bells with people until not long ago, but today, she is credited with making one small but much needed step towards the ban of discrimination against transgender women. The 23-year-old beauty was booted from the Miss Universe Canada competition a short while ago for being... |
12 April 2012
09:24 GMT |
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A structure discovered on the Red Planet, and believed to be a monolith left behind by alien civilizations, may in fact be nothing more than a rectangular boulder, scientists from the Arizona State University (ASU) say.
The rock was first discovered several years ago, by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's (MRO) ... |
12 April 2012
09:17 GMT |
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The Japanese weekly video game chart has shown an overall slowdown in sales for all the big console hardware players while the video game chart was dominated by the launch of 2nd Super Robot Wars Z Saisei Volume from Namco Bandai. The Nintendo 3DS handheld has seen the biggest drop of the week that ended on April 8 ... |
12 April 2012
09:17 GMT |
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A new version for Maxthon Browser has been released today, featuring mostly bug fixes. The only improvement listed in the change log of build 3.3.7.1000 of the application announces an updated JavaScript engine.
The set of repairs in this revision eliminate problems with the Side Bar and Status Bar, which could not ... |
12 April 2012
09:05 GMT |
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The 1.5 million individuals and companies that may be affected by the data breach that targeted the payment processor Global Payments should be on the lookout for malicious messages or phone calls that purport to come from Visa or other financial institution.
According to Visa representatives, most of the scammers c... |
12 April 2012
08:59 GMT |
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After releasing the GLEAM+ feature-phone in the UK, Motorola and Tesco have teamed up once again to offer customers the affordable MOTOLUXE Android smartphone in ice white version.
Android enthusiasts living in the UK can grab the white Motorola MOTOLUXE for free from £20 a month on Tesco Mobile. It is now ava... |
12 April 2012
08:58 GMT |
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A new still from Warner Bros.' insanely anticipated “The Dark Knight Rises” has made its way online. Click on the image above to see it in full. As fans must know, “The Dark Knight Rises” is the third and final installment in the Batman franchise by Chris Nolan. Aside from regular Christi... |
12 April 2012
08:52 GMT |
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Facebook is going back to its roots, in a way, with the recently introduced Groups for Schools. As the name suggests, the feature is designed to make it easier for people that go to the same school to create groups.
The way it does this is by only allowing people with the same .edu email address to join these groups... |
12 April 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Microsoft is working on the next version of its Windows 8 operating system, after making available a Developer Preview in September last year, and a Consumer Preview in February 2012. The latest platform release was, in fact, the Beta version of the operating system, which should be followed by a release candidate ... |
12 April 2012
08:50 GMT |
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There are some new external Blu-ray drives selling in Japan, courtesy of Logitec. Dubbed LBD-PME6U3V, LBD-PME6U3LBK and LBD-PME6U3MSV, they can be colored black, silver or red and are essentially the same, except for the software they are bundled with. In that order, they get the TotalMediaExtreme 2 Blu-ray authori... |
12 April 2012
08:49 GMT |
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Video game tech developer Gaikai and Facebook have announced that they are partnering to bring the streaming game experience to the world of social networking via a new application that is now in beta stage.
Those who are interested in trying out Gaikai on Facebook need to get the app and make sure that they have bo... |
12 April 2012
08:49 GMT |
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The Japanese tech giant SONY released its new VAIO E Series 14P line of notebooks on Tuesday, on its official website. It may not be an UltraBook but it’s a small and powerful little toy. It is a 14” model with a DVD optical drive included that weighs 5.07 pounds. That is 2.29 kilograms in standard ... |
12 April 2012
08:48 GMT |
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Experts have found that the main command and control (C&C) server that was used by cybercriminals to host the piece of malware known as GoldDream is still active.
Back in July 2011, malware analysts studied the Android Trojan that was designed to send SMS messages, place phone calls, install applications and even up... |
12 April 2012
08:41 GMT |
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UK-based carrier Vodafone announced two days ago that it will try and make the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update available for customers who purchased a Samsung Galaxy S II through its official channels. Although Vodafone UK specifically mentioned in the short announcement that April 12 is just a temporary relea... |
12 April 2012
08:34 GMT |
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Samsung is slowly rolling out the affordable Galaxy Y Duos smartphone in Europe. Announced back in February, along with Galaxy Y Pro Duos, the handset is already available in several countries.
Today, the handset manufacturer announced the upcoming availability of the Galaxy Y Duos in Germany. The smartphone is pric... |
12 April 2012
08:24 GMT |
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Google plans to fill the big chunk of whitespace in the new Google+ with something, but it is not ready to tell us yet. In the meantime, Google+ users are left to their own devices. Luckily, at least a few Google+ users are developers and there are already solutions to the problem. If you're a Google Chrome use... |
12 April 2012
08:23 GMT |
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One of the most important problems affecting natural gas and oil extraction operations conducted at sea is the formation of frozen methane hydrates inside wells and well casings. They are very difficult to break up, and cost millions of dollars to remove. Scientists now believe they have found a solution.
Investigat... |
12 April 2012
08:16 GMT |
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Unofficial Android app stores have been found to serve a malicious variant of the popular Angry Birds Space game.
Identified by Sophos as Andr/KongFu-L, the application seems to be legitimate at first glance, but once it’s installed on a device, it leverages the GingerBreak exploit to gain root access and inst... |
12 April 2012
08:15 GMT |
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Adobe revealed the new features of the upcoming Premiere Pro CS6, slated for release this year, in the second quarter. Modifications touch more on the looks and layout of the suite rather than on the engine powering it. The new package, which includes Encore CS6 and Media Encoder CS6, has a new interface that focuse... |
12 April 2012
08:13 GMT |
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Quickoffice, Inc., the company that has provided the first real office suite for iOS devices, has rolled out version 4.5.0 of its flagship product for iPad owners - Quickoffice Pro HD. The new release adds new localizations, the ability to create MS Office 2007 and 2010 (PPTX) files, and more. The release notes for ... |
12 April 2012
08:04 GMT |
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Microsoft has made yet another step towards increasing the cloud security transparency of its products through publishing a new self-assessment in the CSA’s STAR, this time for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Previously, the company has provided a series of details on how its Office 365 and Windows Azure products can ... |
12 April 2012
08:00 GMT |
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As “The Avengers” is already opening in select venues from around the world, here's a new video meant to make the wait shorter for fans who still have a while to go until they see it in theaters on May 4. It's called “Head Count” and comes courtesy of MTV. It shows Robert Downey ... |
12 April 2012
08:00 GMT |
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Japanese company Buffalo has announced today the release of its new external Blu-ray drive on its official website. The new drive is connected through a fast USB 3.0 interface. The new device is called BRXL-14U3 and is able to write a single layer BD-R at a speed of 14x. A double-layer BD-R will be written at a fa... |
12 April 2012
07:52 GMT |
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Figuring out how much pressure develops in the skulls of people who've suffered traumas, tumors or concussions is very difficult today. Researchers in the United States have just developed an approach that should facilitate such measurements.
The only way experts can use to measure intracranial pressure today i... |
12 April 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Video game publisher Namco Bandai has confirmed that the PC version of its Dark Souls action role-playing game will be launched on August 24 and will be sold under the name Prepare to Die Edition, using the Games for Windows Live service from Microsoft as its Digital Rights Management solution.
The core content of t... |
12 April 2012
07:36 GMT |
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The Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux Mint Debian Xfce Edition 201204 operating system has been announced by Clement Lefebvre on April 11th, 2012. Linux Mint Debian Edition (LDME) Xfce 201204 RC features the lightweight Xfce 4.8 desktop environment. Linux Mint Debian Edition 201204 RC Xfce is powered by Linu... |
12 April 2012
07:28 GMT |
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Mac OS X and Linux users who rely on Samba, the open source file and print service, are urged to update the software to ensure that they are protected against attacks that leverage a remote code execution vulnerability.
Samba 3.6.4, Samba 3.5.14 and 3.4.16, along with patches for older variants, have been released t... |
12 April 2012
07:25 GMT |
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The Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux Mint Debian Edition 201204 operating system has been announced by Clement Lefebvre on April 11th, 2012. Linux Mint Debian Edition 201204 RC comes in two editions: the first one features the MATE 1.2 and Cinnamon 1.4 desktop environments, and the second one features the Xf... |
12 April 2012
07:13 GMT |
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A malicious email warns HSBC customers that their account is suspended because someone entered the “Internet Banking Password” incorrectly three times.
According to Hoax Slayer, this is what the fake notification looks like:
Dear [email address],
Your Internet Banking Password was entered incorrectly ... |
12 April 2012
07:09 GMT |
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Video game developer 343 Industries and publisher Microsoft have announced that Neil Davidge, known from his work with Massive Attack, will be the composer for the score of the upcoming Halo 4, which will be launched exclusively on the Xbox 360 before the end of the year.
Davidge has stated, “As a passionate &... |
12 April 2012
07:04 GMT |
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The new Google+ design may look pretty great, but there's one glaring problem with it that becomes obvious as soon as you load the new site, there's a big chunk of space left empty for no apparent reason. The space between the feed and the chat box is as large if not larger than the feed, on large monitors... |
12 April 2012
07:03 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone carrier Rogers is reportedly set to make the HTC One X smartphone available as soon as April 20th, after putting it up on pre-order a few weeks ago.
Nothing has been officially announced on the matter for the time being, but leaked documents from the company show that things might indeed be th... |
12 April 2012
06:51 GMT |
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Scientific Linux, a recompiled Red Hat Enterprise Linux put together by various labs and universities around the world, has reached version 5.8 RC1. Scientific Linux 5.8 RC1 should be installed from scratch because, most likely, a "yum" upgrade to this version will not work.A number of updated packages made it into t... |
12 April 2012
06:49 GMT |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic, the popular online game from BioWare, is set to receive its second big patch later today, in the form of Update 1.2, entitled “Legacy”.
BioWare set out to deliver a sprawling online experience based on the hugely popular Star Wars franchise and, judging by its pretty big numb... |
12 April 2012
06:31 GMT |
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The world renowned hardware manufacturer HP issued a security bulletin to warn HP ProCurve 5400 zl switch owners who purchased the device after April 30, 2011, that the compact flash cards contained in them may be infected with a virus that can spread to computers. The company proposes two ways of resolving the issu... |
12 April 2012
06:18 GMT |
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After promoting a set of Terminal commands to manually remove the Flashback Trojan, software security vendor F-Secure has released a Flashback Removal Tool that automates the detection and removal of the widespread Flashback Mac OS X malware.Mac users fearing that they might have contracted the malware that reportedl... |
12 April 2012
06:06 GMT |
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Japanese company Century Tech started shipping its new CRAS2U3CP SATA HDD/SSD cloning dock in stores around the Land of the Rising Sun.The dock allows the user to clone a SATA HDD/SSD, without using a computer or a laptop. This method is much faster, simpler and even cheaper and eco-friendly, as you don’t need ... |
12 April 2012
06:05 GMT |
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In a new study, anthropologists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) determined that people tend to perceive those holding guns as being larger in size, and more muscular, than they are in reality. This has been known anecdotally for some time, but now scientists have proof.
During a series of test... |
12 April 2012
06:00 GMT |
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Anderson Cooper has said before that, when it comes to giggling uncontrollably, he's worse than a 13-year-old girl who's about to meet her idol Justin Bieber. Further proof of that, if more was needed, is below. On the latest CNN RidicuList segment, which was dedicated to the Polish-American holiday Dyngu... |
12 April 2012
05:56 GMT |
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A huge batch of screenshots with Halo 4 has just been posted by Game Informer magazine, showing off both the protagonist, Master Chief, his trusty sidekick, Cortana, as well as quite a lot of gameplay from the story and the multiplayer modes. We’ve been hearing quite a lot about Halo 4 in the last few days, as... |
12 April 2012
05:51 GMT |
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One of the most popular cross-platform instant messaging applications, WhatsApp has just been updated with new features and bug fixes.
MyNokiaBlog reports that the WhatsApp Messenger for S40 has been updated with emoticon support. No other detail has been revealed on this Java client.
However, the Windows Phone app... |
12 April 2012
05:50 GMT |
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The first public beta of Adobe’s Flash Player 11.3 is available for Macintosh computers with key benefits like texture streaming, a background updater, and more. Regarding the and-more, Adobe has “relaxed” driver gating hardware acceleration to 2006, and improved support for the Mac App Store (as i... |
12 April 2012
05:39 GMT |
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Dropbox shipped a new build for the Experimental release of their file sharing and synchronization product. Revision 1.3.36 continues to improve on the functionality and performance of the program.
First on the list of changes in the latest release is better handling of photos taken in the same second. Further enhan... |
12 April 2012
05:32 GMT |
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The Ascend G300 is one of the cheaper Huawei Android phones. The device was silently launched back in February at the Mobile World Congress, but the handset maker did not reveal any additional details on price or availability.
This why Vodafone UK’s recent announcement comes as a surprise, especially that Huaw... |
12 April 2012
05:32 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new study by experts at Brown University, it would appear that two types of neurons in a region of the brain called the inferior temporal cortex are involved in the complex mental process of recognizing objects.
Even though we do this automatically, without conscious processing, the... |
12 April 2012
05:27 GMT |
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UC Browser, the team of developers behind the popular mobile browser featuring the same name, has just announced plans to make available for download a brand new flavor of their app for Java and Symbian devices. Today, owners of such handsets will be able to download a new version of UC Browser 8.2 with new feature... |
12 April 2012
05:21 GMT |
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As we draw near to the official launch of Intel's first 22nm Ivy Bridge central processing units, the web is starting to look into those CPUs that won't actually appear then.
This time, VR-Zone has provided info on the Core i3 chips that will be utilized in desktop computers later in the year.
And by lat... |
12 April 2012
05:17 GMT |
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Google's Maps API is taking a beating lately, mostly because Google had the audacity to start charging really big users. Foursquare has stopped using it on its site, Wikipedia chose OpenStreetMap for its Android app and so on. But Google is showing that, for all the bad blood, there are plenty of people doing r... |
12 April 2012
05:11 GMT |
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The most recent title update for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 versions of Mass Effect 3 has been reported to cause crashes when the game is loading, essentially making the game unplayable for a number of gamers. Two main problems are being reported: not being able to get past the contacting EA servers connecti... |
12 April 2012
05:03 GMT |
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Benchmark tests carried out on the latest Ivy Bridge processors from Intel have revealed a significant graphics boost, compared to the Sandy Bridge CPUs currently featured in Apple’s MacBook Pro line.With Apple rumored to refresh the MacBook Pro line in the coming weeks, the news couldn’t be more welcome.... |
12 April 2012
05:03 GMT |
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Devil-Linux, a distribution created by IT administrators for IT administrators, which is primarily used as a router/firewall, is now at version 1.6.0. After three release candidates, the developers added a number of new packages and have included a few updates for existing ones. Other changes include:· Linux k... |
12 April 2012
05:00 GMT |
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Anonymous hacktivists breached Bucharest’s - Romania’s capital - city hall website (pmb.ro). As a result of the hack, all the messages sent by citizens to the mayor’s office were published online, along with the sender’s email address. Thousands of records, dating back to 2005 were published... |
12 April 2012
04:56 GMT |
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Madonna launched her twelfth studio album, “M.D.N.A.,” last week and, despite mixed reviews, sales were initially very strong. In its second week, they bowed by almost 90%, thus making Madonna the first artist to record such huge second-week drop since 1991. Because of the numbers cited by Billboard, t... |
12 April 2012
04:53 GMT |
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Memory company Crucial, a subsidiary of Micron Technology Inc., has announced today the availability of its new “000F” version of firmware for the well-known m4 series of SSDs, on its official website. The m4 series is the successor of the famous RealSSD C300, the first SSD to be fully SATA III capable. ... |
12 April 2012
04:49 GMT |
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Officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) say that the Herschel Space Observatory – the world's most advanced telescope – has recently observed the area around the star Fomalhaut. The team behind the study found that thousands of icy comets are destroyed there every single day.
Previous observ... |
12 April 2012
04:47 GMT |
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This week, security researchers have focused their attention on websites owned by Yahoo! and found that some of them contain serious vulnerabilities.
First, the security expert known as flexxpoint identified cross-site (XSS) scripting flaws on three different Yahoo subdomains.
“One of these subdomains have ... |
12 April 2012
04:42 GMT |
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The second beta release of the upcoming WordPress 3.4 has landed. As you'd expect at this stage, there are new features, but WordPress boasts that there are over 60 bug fixes and changes since the first beta last week.
"If you’ve been testing Beta 1, please update to Beta 2 to make sure things are still w... |
12 April 2012
04:33 GMT |
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One of the movies that's been keeping movie buffs talking excitedly for quite some time is a sci-fi action thriller called “Looper,” starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the same role. Above is a new promo clip for it, in which Joe and director Rian Johnson talk about how difficult it ... |
12 April 2012
04:26 GMT |
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Investigators at the Oregon State University (OSU) say that oyster seed production has collapsed in recent times, due to the encroaching influence of oceanic acidification. The phenomenon is very severe, since it can have global repercussions.
Ocean acidification is a process through which the pH levels of water aro... |
12 April 2012
04:23 GMT |
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BioWare has just unveiled the special Mass Effect 3 challenge that will be held this weekend, in the form of Operation Resurgence, which focuses on the newly released Resurgence DLC for the game’s multiplayer.
Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer has impressed many of the game’s owners with top notch action... |
12 April 2012
04:20 GMT |
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The cycling season is now well underway and the development team at French studio Cyanide, who have handled the cycling simulation series PCM for some time, have offered some details on their upcoming title for 2012. The official line from Cyanide is that, “PCM10 was clearly about graphics due to the new engin... |
12 April 2012
04:20 GMT |
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Yesterday, we learned that the members of TeaMp0isoN launched a phone-based denial-of-service (DOS) attack on UK’s anti-terrorism agency, MI6. Now, the hackers return with proof of the phone bombing and with a conversation that’s allegedly between MI6 representatives and the FBI, or other law enforcement ... |
12 April 2012
04:17 GMT |
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Tiny Core Linux, a small, minimal Linux distribution based on Linux kernel 3.0, Busybox, Tiny X, and Flt, has reached version 4.5 RC1. The developers have stated that Tiny Core Linux has become an example of what the Core project can produce.Highlights of Tiny Core Linux 4.5 RC1:• Apps GUI replaces AppBrowser & ... |
12 April 2012
04:16 GMT |
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Officials with the American space agency says that its approach to space exploration and navigation is about to change soon, if the Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC) demonstrator is tested successfully.
This is an extremely stable, highly accurate device used for time keeping. Similar atomic clocks, featuring high leve... |
12 April 2012
04:08 GMT |
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We dare say it was about time someone released a nice, small multimedia player that would give Apple's iPod touch a run for its money, or at least wise the masses up to the existence of alternatives. Samsung has formally introduced the Galaxy Player 3.6 and 4.2 small form factor, portable multimedia players. ... |
12 April 2012
04:05 GMT |
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LG Optimus 3D Max is one of the latest smartphones that the South Korean mobile phone maker unveiled to the world, capable of delivering a 3D experience to all users. The handset features a dual-core application processor, but it seems unable to deliver the same performance capabilities as other devices in its catego... |
12 April 2012
04:02 GMT |
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Marketplace.org's Rob Schmitz is the second reporter ever to be allowed inside a Foxconn production plant that handles the assembly of Apple’s tablet computers. The video embedded above offers highlights from his tour of the assembly line and the Foxconn facilities.Schmitz says the work done by the 250,000... |
12 April 2012
04:01 GMT |
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The latest issue of Seventeen magazine brings a special surprise for Beliebers from all over the world: a spread and interview with none other than Justin Bieber, their idol. He talks music, fans, love and Selena Gomez, and how he's being frugal as of late. Since he and Selena went public with their romance so... |
12 April 2012
03:53 GMT |
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Resident Evil 6 will be released much earlier than originally announced, with Capcom revealing recently that instead of November 20, fans will get their hands on the shooter on October 2.
This pretty major shift is due to the tough competition that will be present both in October and November, according to Wedbush S... |
12 April 2012
03:41 GMT |
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In a paper published in the April 12 issue of the top scientific journal Nature, experts propose a new explanation for how stars of moderate weight manage to shed more than half of their mass, as they reach the end of their burning cycle.
What researchers observed when surveying medium-weight stars was that the obje... |
12 April 2012
03:36 GMT |
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In an interesting turn of events, it was reported today by Anandtech that OCZ’s new SSDs, the ones using the so-called Indilinx chips are, in fact, using rebadged Marvell controllers. It was quite an achievement for OCZ to be able to launch a new SSD controller so fast after the acquisition of chip designer In... |
12 April 2012
03:15 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is reportedly gearing up for the launch of a new Android-based smartphone on its LTE network as soon as today, namely the HTC Incredible 4G. Nothing was officially confirmed on the matter for the time being, but images with the device have already made it online, offering us a ... |
12 April 2012
03:12 GMT |
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Western Digital is the greatest supplier of hard disk drives and, sure enough, it is doing all it takes to stay in that position, down to essentially shrinking HDDs like they have never been shrunk before. What WD came up with is an Ultrabook alternative to solid state drives (SSDs), not a perfect one but, then aga... |
12 April 2012
03:09 GMT |
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Chipworks’ Technology Blog is running a piece on the A5 applications processor found inside the third-generation Apple TV introduced last month. Not only has Apple switched off a core to keep production costs (and power usage) down, but also the chip is manufactured on Samsung’s new 32 nm process technolo... |
12 April 2012
03:05 GMT |
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Gearbox Software has unveiled a few more details about its next big game, Borderlands 2, and how it’s going to have plenty of new and improved features, as opposed to its predecessor.
Borderlands 1 delivered a surprisingly impressive experience, allowing players to go on all sorts of adventures while wielding ... |
12 April 2012
03:04 GMT |
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Video game developer CD Projekt RED has announced that it has launched a pre-download for the upcoming Enhanced Edition for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, which will allow those playing the game on the PC to get the 10 GB of data that will upgrade the game to version 2.0. The final game files will be automatical... |
12 April 2012
03:00 GMT |
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Google Currents, an Android application that allows users to read online magazines and other similar content, has received a major update.
As the name suggests, Currents has been developed by Google and launched in Google Play store, formerly known as Android Market, in December, 2011.
However, Google Currents was ... |
12 April 2012
02:55 GMT |
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Vulnerability Lab researcher Shadab Siddiqui found multiple Blind SQL Injection flaws in four websites owned by Oracle. Steve Meert, part of Oracle’s security team, worked closely with Benjamin Kunz Mejri to address the issues. The security holes were identified by Siddiqui at the end of March. One day after ... |
12 April 2012
02:46 GMT |
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Clement Lefebvre announced last evening, April 11th, the immediate availability for download of the Release Candidate version of Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 201204. Linux Mint Debian Edition 201204 RC comes packed in two editions, one with the MATE 1.2 and Cinnamon 1.4 desktop environments and the other one wi... |
12 April 2012
02:44 GMT |
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Yesterday, Nokia announced a sweet deal for all those who purchased the Nokia Lumia 900 this week, and for those who will get it by April 21st: $100 of credit to their AT&T bill. The reason is simple enough: the handset was found to be plagued with memory leaks that resulted in drop of data connectivity. The Finni... |
12 April 2012
02:31 GMT |
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Intel said quite a while ago that the graphics of its upcoming central processing units would be quite a bit better than the one in Sandy Bridge and, sure enough, here is the proof. In case people don't know yet, Intel is holding this year's edition of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF 2012) in Beijing as we... |
12 April 2012
02:30 GMT |
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Sony and Lightbox Interactive are handing out free downloadable content for their upcoming Starhawk game to fans who watch a special video on the title’s Facebook page.
Starhawk has certainly impressed PSN users lately as its ongoing multiplayer beta stage has showed off the game’s unique mechanics to an... |
12 April 2012
02:29 GMT |
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Video game publishers SEGA, Namco Bandai and Capcom have teamed up to create a new video game called Project X Zone, which is currently described as a mix between strategy and role playing and will use characters drawn from all their franchises.
The game is part of a crossover trend that seems to affect all major Ja... |
12 April 2012
02:28 GMT |
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A new flavor of Google Goggles for Android is now available for download, with various enhancements and fixes packed inside. The new flavor of the app was released as version 1.8 and was made available for download on Wednesday. For those out of the loop, we should note that the Google Goggles app was designed to ... |
12 April 2012
02:13 GMT |
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