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Apple is not done refreshing the Macintosh line, despite recently-arisen controversy regarding a minor speed bump on the Mac Pro, and no changes with the iMac and Mac mini lines. Apple took care of its most popular Macintosh lines this summer, including the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. WWDC 2012 also featured a Mou... |
12 June 2012
20:31 GMT |
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Thief 4 might be largely an enigma at the moment, but it seems that the Eidos team working on it has drawn quite a bit of inspiration from the success of last year’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Stephane D’Astous, the overall leader of the Eidos Monreal studio, has told the Official Xbox Magazine that, &ld... |
12 June 2012
20:01 GMT |
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Microsoft revealed a wide array of details about many games during its E3 2012 press conference. Fable: The Journey was among them, with the company presenting both a gameplay video and some new screenshots with the Kinect-exclusive experience.
Fable: The Journey acts as a spinoff for the RPG series, allowing player... |
12 June 2012
19:21 GMT |
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Apple’s new Maps application, which will provide turn-by-turn directions for GPS users, features technologies licensed from TomTom, the world’s leading supplier of in-car location and navigation products. A terse announcement from the Amsterdam company itself says “TomTom has signed a global agreem... |
12 June 2012
19:21 GMT |
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Thunderbolt really is a piece of work. It lets external solid state drives reach transfer speeds beyond those of even the most expensive SATA III drives. The company claiming to have made the fastest Thunderbolt device in the world is Promise. The name of the item is Pegasus J2 and the maximum achievable performa... |
12 June 2012
19:11 GMT |
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Dishonored was one of the stars of the recent E3 2012 for me, mainly because of the freedom it offers, and the team working on the game at Arkane Studios says that it is happy to see the players take charge of the game mechanics and then break the experience in interesting ways.
Ricardo Bare, who is the leading tech... |
12 June 2012
19:11 GMT |
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Nintendo is trying through a variety of ways to show off its upcoming Wii U and now, the company’s European branch has posted a special infographic, revealing the different features of the home console.
Nintendo showed off the Wii U last week at E3 2012 and, even if we heard a lot about its different specifica... |
12 June 2012
18:41 GMT |
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A new flavor of Songbird for Android is now available for download, with a nice range of enhancements packed inside. Starting with the new Songbird for Android 2.0, the songbird.me section came out of beta, and it is complemented by a “What’s New” feed to provide a deeper discovery experience. M... |
12 June 2012
18:21 GMT |
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OS X Mountain Lion is making its presence felt already, despite still being set apart from the App Store for at least a month. Apple seeded new betas to developers, and it now pulled the Messages application initially released as a beta for customers to test out. Without warning, Apple pulled the Messages beta app f... |
12 June 2012
18:11 GMT |
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It’s pretty hard to offer a decent demo within the time and space constraints of an event like E3 for a big, sprawling complex strategy game like XCOM: Enemy Unknown, but the development team at Firaxis has managed to be very effective with their late game-focused presentation.
Information about the XCOM re-im... |
12 June 2012
18:11 GMT |
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With Facebook wanting to be everything to everyone and, at the very least, wanting to be included into anything, sites, apps, games, it's easy to get the impression that Facebook simply wants to be the web.In a rare sign that it recognizes that there's anything else out there, Facebook has introduced the ne... |
12 June 2012
17:41 GMT |
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The popular Chrome web browser from Google has been updated specifically for the Mac, adding support for the as-of-yet unreleased Mac OS X 10.8, and an updated Flash component. A quick memo over at the Stable channel reveals that Chrome for Mac has been updated to version 19.0.1084.56 (never quite got the numbering ... |
12 June 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Blizzard has officially started taking action against Diablo 3 players who resort to using hacks, bots, and other such modifications, confirming that it will ban their Battle.net accounts, meaning they won’t be able to log into them or play any games associated with that account.
Diablo 3 has been around for a... |
12 June 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Wargaming.net has grown impressively in just one year, something that was plain in the size of their presence at E3 2012, where the company showed off the improvements that it was planning for the next version of World of Tanks while also demoing the way its follow-up World of Warplanes was set to work. World of Tan... |
12 June 2012
17:21 GMT |
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On Monday, mobile phone carrier Sprint has made available for purchase a new rugged handset for its users interested in its Direct Connect portfolio, namely Kyocera DuraXT. The new device is now available for purchase through all Sprint sales channels, including Telesales and Web sales, featuring a price tag of $69.... |
12 June 2012
17:11 GMT |
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There are some new external hard drive units up for sale from Seagate, all of them equipped with the company's Dashboard software that performs local backup with just one mouse click. There is a certain feature that Seagate sees as central to the marketing success of the Backup Plus series of hard drives: the ... |
12 June 2012
17:01 GMT |
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She's already admitted having tried Botox and hating it. Even though she's very much against plastic surgery, Jennifer Aniston only seems to be getting better with age – and it's all down to her secret beauty tip, vaseline. A source tells British glossy Now that Aniston has long found that Vase... |
12 June 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Nokia has been long rumored to plan on bringing the PureView imaging technology to its Windows Phone-based devices, but no official confirmation on the matter has emerged until now. However, it appears that the company is indeed working on this, and that it might not be too long before it will unite the two in a co... |
12 June 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Marcelo Marchi Negreira informed Softpedia about the release of Brasa OS 0.9, an open source operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution. Brasa OS comes with a huge software repository and a lightweight graphical interface, providing superior performance. "All additional packages are downloaded and com... |
12 June 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Lou Borella, the Italian graphic animator who started a Facebook petition to get Apple to spit out some details about the Mac Pro, is lost for words following Apple’s quiet speed bump on the professional workstations starting at $2,499 for the cheapest model. Speaking for the 18,000 petitioners who hit the &ld... |
12 June 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Apple has published the video used to kickstart the WWDC 2012 opening keynote entitled “Making a Difference. One app at a time.” Available on the iOS marketing pages of Apple.com, the emotional footage features people all around the world whose lives have been deeply changed by some key applications avai... |
12 June 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Twitter trends have long been a way of quickly getting the pulse of the world, at least the part of the world that's on Twitter. Huge topics in places you've never heard of can sweep over the site and dwarf any other conversation. In time, Twitter has started narrowing down the trending topics, showing... |
12 June 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting ready to bring to the market a new version of its mobile operating system, Windows Phone. Codenamed Apollo, the next flavor of the OS, Windows Phone 8, should deliver a deal of new features and capabilities, including support for higher-end hardware. This will enable software developers to co... |
12 June 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Bethesda has confirmed that it has begun sending out the invitations for the beta stage of Skyrim’s Dawnguard expansion on the Xbox 360, but only 0.5% of those who have signed up will actually be welcomed into the test stage.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a massive game and its upcoming Dawnguard expansion pr... |
12 June 2012
15:41 GMT |
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While performing in New Zealand the other day, Lady Gaga suffered a concussion when a backup dancer accidentally hit her in the head with a giant metal pole. She's now using her Twitter to keep fans in the loop on her condition. She hit her head pretty badly but she should be up and running in almost no time, ... |
12 June 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Dropping by the Apple website or its retail stores will show frequent visitors that there are four new headphones available there, all from Harman Kardon.
Two of them are in-ear models with passive noise cancellation and are bundled with three-button Apple-specified remotes (for receiving phone calls and playing mu... |
12 June 2012
15:31 GMT |
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The initial supremacy of the Nintendo-made Wii and the recent rise of the Xbox 360 from Microsoft has pushed some analysts to name the PlayStation 3, created and sold by Sony, as the loser of the current generation of consoles.John Koller, who is the leader of hardware marketing on the PlayStation brand, has told Kot... |
12 June 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Google has updated its Hot Searches feature, part of Google Trends, to make it more visual and more appealing to the casual user. Hot topics now have photos next to them and links to news stories about them, as more often than not, hot searches generate news, or the other way around."You can learn a lot about what&rs... |
12 June 2012
14:50 GMT |
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She's not exactly shy and she's definitely in great shape but, it would seem, even Rihanna has her off days. This seems to have been the case when she shot a racy ad for Armani Jeans, when her team requested a body double. Rihanna has long been the face (and body) of the brand, but this is the first time ... |
12 June 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Windows Phone 8, the next-generation mobile OS from Microsoft, is expected to bring along a wide range of enhancements over previous platform releases. Nothing has been officially announced on the matter, but various rumors on this already surfaced, and new ones caught our attention now. According to WPCentral, W... |
12 June 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Charlize Theron is no longer a blonde. In fact, she's now defying all such classifications because she's rocking a shaved head, having gotten the short cut the other day. Just days after a string of promotional appearances for “Prometheus,” the actress has been spotted out and about without he... |
12 June 2012
13:51 GMT |
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On Monday, Microsoft and Seton Hall University announced a new initiative as part of Seton Hall's Mobile Computing Initiative, aimed at delivering Nokia Lumia 900 devices to all incoming freshmen. The entire class of 2016 will be offered Nokia Lumia 900 smartphones running under the Windows Phone 7.5 operating... |
12 June 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Today, mobile phone carrier C Spire Wireless announced the upcoming availability of Samsung’s Galaxy S III smartphone on its airwaves. The handset will arrive with support for the company’s 4G LTE network, but specific info on its availability and pricing have yet to be provided. When launched at this... |
12 June 2012
13:11 GMT |
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We knew that Advanced Micro Devices had managed to impress the world with its A-Series and E-Series accelerated processing units, but we didn't see as many updates regarding the embedded line.
Our questions as to whether or not AMD is doing well on that front have finally been answered, and the response is qui... |
12 June 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Following our previous articles, DuckDuckGo Lens, News Lens, Pidgin Lens, Bliss Lens, Wikipedia Lens, Bookmarks Lens, ManPages Search Lens, Full Text Search Lens, GMusicBrowser Scope, Launchpad Lens, Dictionary Lens, Stock Quotes Lens, Cooking Lens, Music Search Scopes, Reddit Lens, Tomboy Lens, Ask Ubuntu Lens, Ubun... |
12 June 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Wireless services provider T-Mobile USA has just announced a special promotion for its users to celebrate Father’s Day. As part of this promotion, all of the carrier’s 4G smartphones and select mobile broadband devices will be available for free on Friday, June 15th and Saturday, June 16th. Users inte... |
12 June 2012
12:31 GMT |
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It seems that the exploit that affected Diablo 3’s Auction House yesterday has caused a lot of players to call for a rollback from developer Blizzard, which would return their characters and gold stashes to their previous states. Diablo 3 has been out for almost a month and quite a few problems have appeared c... |
12 June 2012
12:21 GMT |
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jQuery ProQuo allows webmasters to mark pieces of content as 'tweetable' and give users the tools to share those parts on Twitter with ease.
By default, Twitter sharing buttons allow users to tweet a link to the current page, with predefined text attached to the front or the end of the URL.
jQuery ProQue ... |
12 June 2012
12:01 GMT |
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The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity, currently scheduled to land on the surface of the Red Planet on August 5th, may contaminate samples collected from our neighboring world with Earth-based materials, officials at NASA fear. According to scientists at the American space agency, the rover's drill... |
12 June 2012
11:33 GMT |
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Garrett Hedlund is one foot through the door to play Finnick Odair in the sequel to “Hunger Games,” “Catching Fire.” He's already auditioned for the part and made quite an impression, says a new report. For weeks now, Hedlund's name and that of “Mirror Mirror” hunk Armie... |
12 June 2012
11:25 GMT |
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A new update is in the works for avast! line of products Free AV, Pro AV and Internet Security, as the development team released a public beta for build 7.0.1442. The list of changes shows only one new feature, SiteCorrect, which is designed to protect you from typosquatting. As such, if you misspell an URL address ... |
12 June 2012
11:23 GMT |
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Twitter is growing up, it's no Facebook, but it's certainly not the scrappy startup it was just a few years ago. It's been hiring like crazy for a few years now and its former headquarters got pretty crowded.
Twitter took the obvious route and moved nest to a brand new location, crucially, still in i... |
12 June 2012
11:21 GMT |
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For years, astronomers believed that the Jovian moon Io – the most volcanically-active body in the solar system – had a certain distribution of mass below its surface, to account for all the eruptions. A new map of the object's volcanoes shows that the model was wrong all along. According to scient... |
12 June 2012
11:19 GMT |
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Justin Bieber's brand new album, “Believe,” isn't even out in stores yet but fans have already been treated to several tracks included on it. Add one more to the list. Called “As Long as You Love Me,” it's a collaboration with Big Sean and, we'd dare say, perhaps the most... |
12 June 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Astronomers were recently able to discover the existence of a massive galactic bridge in our cosmic neighborhood. Thought to have formed when two galaxies flew close past each other, the structure now extends between Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and its companion, the Triangulum Galaxy (M33). The observations that led to ... |
12 June 2012
11:11 GMT |
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All members of the international astrophysical community are understandably very excited about the upcoming launch of the world's first X-ray telescope that is able to focus on a specific target. The mission is scheduled to takeoff tomorrow, June 13th. The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) spacecr... |
12 June 2012
11:04 GMT |
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As a rule – and an unbroken one, while at it – viral campaigns usually end once the movie is out in theaters but, clearly, Ridley Scott and 20th Century Fox have something else in mind for “Prometheus.” Besides the website WhatIs101112.com that is still online, still teasing about the possibl... |
12 June 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is getting ready to bring to the market its first Windows flavor to offer support for ARM processors, namely Windows 8. On devices powered by ARM chips, the platform will be called Windows RT, though it will offer roughly the same experience as the Windows 8 OS loaded on devic... |
12 June 2012
11:00 GMT |
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Much like the educational sector, the cultural department in most countries found itself seriously affected by the on-going economic crisis, which basically meant that fewer funds were made available for administrative purposes, not to mention additional investments.
Therefore, it should come as no surprise that, m... |
12 June 2012
10:56 GMT |
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The Linux Foundation has announced that its 2012 Linux Training Scholarship Program is now opening for applicants and that a new Enterprise Linux Training program has also been initiated.
The Linux Foundation wants to prepare people for the ever-increasing demand of Linux professionals. They are citing polls that ... |
12 June 2012
10:54 GMT |
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Microsoft has released an extended version of the Halo 4 live action commercial it showcased during E3 2012 last week, this time with more footage of the game’s protagonist, Master Chief.
Halo 4 is set to draw in lots of people this November, when it is launched onto the Xbox 360 platform.
As such, Microsoft ... |
12 June 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Not so long after a lawsuit started over a TV provider daring to allow customers to skip commercials, DirecTV is thinking of implementing something of the sort as well.
It isn't treading the same dangerous waters as the brave and steadfast Dish though. Probably because it doesn't want a lawsuit on its han... |
12 June 2012
10:51 GMT |
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According to officials at French aerospace company Arianespace, the launch of the Ariane V delivery system that will carry the European Space Agency's (ESA) third Meteosat Second Generation satellite (MSG-3) to orbit has been delayed.
Originally scheduled to take place on June 19, takeoff will not occur before... |
12 June 2012
10:45 GMT |
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The University of North Florida (UNF) has started sending out notification letters and emails to more than 23,000 individuals after they've learned that a computer database containing information on students who have submitted housing contracts has been compromised. According to the university’s represent... |
12 June 2012
10:43 GMT |
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Microsoft is still keeping mum on the next major release of its Office productivity suite, but it let slip today at the TechEd North America 2012 conference in Orlando that it would be called Office 2013. At the end of the keynote, the company briefly demoed Office 2013 for Windows RT devices, confirming previous r... |
12 June 2012
10:39 GMT |
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The folks at NetbookNews took the time to visit Pixel Qi's booth while they were in Taipei, Taiwan, during Computex 2013.
One of the things they have spotted is a new display that may or may not be used by Apple's iPad 3 tablet.
With a resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels, it has high color saturation, bett... |
12 June 2012
10:37 GMT |
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This impressive view of the Veil Nebula was pieced together from observations carried out with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in November 1994 and August 1997. For an image captured between 18 and 15 years ago, the quality is impressive.
The view was snapped using the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFC2), an ... |
12 June 2012
10:33 GMT |
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LibreOffice, a free power-packed open source personal productivity suite that provides users with six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs (Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base) is now at version 3.6.0 Beta 1. LibreOffice 3.6.0 Beta 1 comes with a lot of bugfixe... |
12 June 2012
10:22 GMT |
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Google Wallet was supposed to be revolutionary payments service that everyone was waiting for. All you needed was your phone and you could pay for stuff at stores, ride the subway, visit the library, get discounts at restaurants and so on.
Obviously, not much of that has happened and likely never will, for Wallet a... |
12 June 2012
10:21 GMT |
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An Anonymous-affiliated hacktivist collective called PrivateX has breached and defaced a number of seven (possibly eight) Filipino government websites as a form of protest against a new cyber bill. The attacks have taken place on the day on which the country celebrates its independence.
According to GMA News, ... |
12 June 2012
10:20 GMT |
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The God of War series has been criticized for how easy its mechanics are to pick up and master, but the developers working on the new Ascension say that they have no plans to make it more difficult to understand.
Jason McDonald, who is the lead combat designer working at Sony Santa Monica on the new game, told Gamas... |
12 June 2012
10:20 GMT |
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Now this is odd! Apparently, the age at which men procreate is tied to how long their offspring will live. A new study has demonstrated that the older the men are when they procreate, the longer their sons and daughters will live. This has to do with the way the body invests resources in repairing cells and tissue... |
12 June 2012
10:16 GMT |
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Canonical announced on June 11th, in a security notice, that a new MySQL update for its Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems is now available, fixing a vulnerability and bringing some new features.
According to Canonical, it was discovered that certain bu... |
12 June 2012
10:13 GMT |
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A team of researchers in the United States announces the development of a drug that has the potential to reduce fear in anxious mice by altering their brain chemistry. If a similar drug is developed for humans, it could be used to fight anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the group says.
The work was ... |
12 June 2012
10:07 GMT |
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It's really nice to see Asus carrying on the development of powerful notebooks intended for gaming purposes, and the G75VW is a really worthy competitor for pretty much any other laptop on the market, Alienware included.
The G75VW can be ordered in two CPU “flavors”: as expected, Intel 3rd generatio... |
12 June 2012
10:03 GMT |
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The other times we wrote about micron DRAM, we usually referred to the likelihood of new chips being employed in better notebook and desktop modules, but the company is aiming for something else this once.
Sure, its new DDR3 devices will be perfectly possible to use in normal DIMMs and SO-DIMMs, but as secondary pu... |
12 June 2012
10:02 GMT |
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Google updated Chrome dev channel to build 21.0.1171.0. One of the most important particularities for this release is that it also works on Windows 8 Metro UI. However, the new Chrome Dev works with the touch-intended Metro interface only if it is set as the default web browser on the system, otherwise the Metro lin... |
12 June 2012
09:57 GMT |
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KDE Telepathy, a suite of applications that form an instant-messaging client for Jabber, Gmail, Facebook, MSN, is now at version 0.4.
What makes KDE Telepathy different is that it completely integrates with Plasma Workspaces, but can also be used as a normal application.
· Work was started to have a Kopete ... |
12 June 2012
09:50 GMT |
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Yesterday, Microsoft kicked off the TechEd North America 2012 conference in Orlando, Florida, with a keynote focused on cloud computing and cloud OS. Today, the company is focused on offering details on what Windows 8 has to offer to all users, including enterprise customers. The day 2 keynote at TechEd is hosted... |
12 June 2012
09:49 GMT |
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Users from the Insidepro forum, the website on which the 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords have been published, reveal that the data breach may have occurred a long time ago.
According to SC Magazine, some LinkedIn members have noticed that the passwords from the leak are actually their old ones which they’ve cha... |
12 June 2012
09:47 GMT |
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Lindsay Lohan has already said she claims no responsibility for the terrible car crash she was involved in over the weekend, when she slammed her Porsche into an 18-wheeler. Even so, she's not out of the woods yet, especially since there's indication she might have lied to the cops. The actress totaled a ... |
12 June 2012
09:43 GMT |
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We've just finished talking about a fairly generic line of solid state drives, even if they do use SandForce chips with shortcomings, so now we get to cover a less ordinary series.
And by less ordinary, we mean that the solid state drives have a more uncommon form factor and connectivity interface.
Solid sta... |
12 June 2012
09:39 GMT |
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Black Ops II might be a direct sequel in one of the two sub-series that seems to define Call of Duty at the moment, but the developers working on the game know that they need to make serious improvements to the single-player component in order to satisfy players. Mark Lamia, who is now the boss of Treyarch, told Gam... |
12 June 2012
09:36 GMT |
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A new report published by experts at the Rice University Baker Institute for Public Policy suggests that one of the few paths the United States can take to reduce its dependency on foreign oil is to turn its eyes on North American, specifically Canada. New policies and legislation are therefore required.
According ... |
12 June 2012
09:36 GMT |
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Three months after Pwnium, Google is finally ready to reveal some of the details about Sergey Glazunov's exploit that broke the Chrome sandbox. Google organized the Pwnium event during the Pwn2Own competition and encouraged security researchers to come to up with ways of breaking out of the Chrome box, something... |
12 June 2012
09:33 GMT |
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Official information reveals that, for this year's Olympic Games, London's Stadium will find itself subjected to a “green” makeover. All that's needed to complete this transformation is about 10,000 volunteers and one very visionary artistic director. Thus, it seems that Danny Boyle, Eng... |
12 June 2012
09:25 GMT |
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The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has published a 6-page report entitled “The threat from Flame,” which represents a short analysis of the risks posed by the now-infamous malware. According to the security agency, Flame, or Flamer as it’s mentioned in the paper, is a &ldq... |
12 June 2012
09:24 GMT |
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Corsair releases new firmware for no less than four series of solid state drives; version 5.02 is intended for upgrading the system software of all the drives in these series, regardless of their capacity.
Owners of Force 3, Nova 2, Accelerator and Force GT solid state drives are advised to upgrade to the latest fir... |
12 June 2012
09:22 GMT |
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Fans might remember that, at one point, 50 Cent had nothing but vile things to say about Oprah Winfrey. He'd even bought a dog he named Oprah, just so he could call her all kinds of names. Their feud is now officially over. The Queen of Television was a guest in the home of Curtis Jackson's grandparents, ... |
12 June 2012
09:08 GMT |
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Hearts of Iron III is still one of the most interesting grand strategy games in the line-up of publisher Paradox Interactive and the company is ready to deliver even more content for it three years after launch via an all-new expansion called Their Finest Hour.
This is the third full expansion for the strategy title... |
12 June 2012
09:05 GMT |
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I am very pleased to announce that the NASA Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has just turned 4 years old in Earth's orbit yesterday, June 11. The spacecraft took off on June 11, 2008, and has operated flawlessly ever since.
The satellite was carried into space aboard a Delta II delivery system, which took off f... |
12 June 2012
09:05 GMT |
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Drowned in a sea of upgrades for the 13-inch and 15-inch configurations, the 17-inch MacBook Pro has been axed from the Apple Store, leaving only two display options for new buyers. Three, if you count the extra pixels on the Retina-enabled MacBook Pro. As Steve Jobs once said, “Death is life’s change ag... |
12 June 2012
09:04 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is gearing up for the release of a new flavor of its popular Microsoft Office productivity suite, one that has been officially presented so far as Office 15. The software company has already confirmed the work on this version of the suite, and it even released it in a Technica... |
12 June 2012
09:00 GMT |
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Yet another SandForce-enabled solid-state drive has appeared, or perhaps it would be more accurate to use the phrase “solid-state drive series.”
We aren't sure if this is one of the products subject to that unfortunate problem that SandForce chips were found to suffer from. It probably is.
For tho... |
12 June 2012
08:52 GMT |
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Since conducting direct studies of Earth's mantle is impossible with existing technological means, scientists need to think of other ways of confirming their computer models of what is going on under the crust. An experiment developed for this purpose is currently on the orbital lab.
André Kuipers, a fl... |
12 June 2012
08:52 GMT |
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One of the worst kept secrets about iOS 6 is the fact that it kicks out Google Maps. It was a long time coming and there are plenty of obvious reasons why Apple needed to do this. The one reason why it hasn't done it before is that it wasn't able to offer something on par with Google Maps.
Apple thinks it ... |
12 June 2012
08:52 GMT |
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According to the UK Metropolitan Police, a number of six men were sentenced to prison on June 8 after investigators demonstrated that they were in the business of selling fake identities. They were also accused of running online forums on which they taught others how to commit fraud.
The suspects, Jason Place, Mark ... |
12 June 2012
08:44 GMT |
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Critics can say whatever they like about Chris Brown and his career so far, but there's no denying he's really making an effort and pushing himself with every new release. Above is the new video for “Don't Wake Me Up.” The sci-fi inspired video plays out mostly in the desert and a very fut... |
12 June 2012
08:40 GMT |
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It's official, we live in a world that goes crazy over miniaturizations of the common machine. There aren't many other ways to explain how mini PCs seem to sell out within hours of being launched.
The trend started with the Raspberry Pi (though some would say it began quite a bit before that) and now cont... |
12 June 2012
08:33 GMT |
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Nokia has just announced the upcoming availability of the PureView 808 smartphone in Romania. The company confirmed the handset will go on sale sometime in July. Romanian customers will be able to purchase this camera-phone for a suggested retail price of 650 EUR (815 USD), which puts it on top of most smartphones n... |
12 June 2012
08:30 GMT |
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A group of scientists from Australia announce that they have recently been able to figure out why lunar topsoil – the uppermost layer of soil – exhibits such unusual properties. They say that nanoparticles embedded inside small glass bubbles are responsible for these peculiar traits.
The study was condu... |
12 June 2012
08:28 GMT |
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Windows 8 has been designed so as to enable developers to build their applications as part of pairs, enabling interaction with other applications running on the platform. These interactions are declared through contracts, which any Metro style application built for Windows 8 can support. Through these contracts, ... |
12 June 2012
08:23 GMT |
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There is a new release candidate for Opera 12 available for download, with more fixes, which brings the application closer to a stable build. Despite being in RC stage, the current build also deals with some serious issues, such as the browser crashing upon exit, shapes missing in SVG demo or reloading an SDE in dev... |
12 June 2012
08:22 GMT |
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Google Regularly provides updated imagery for Google Maps and Earth. There's a lot of ground to cover, so the job is never over. Google's got some tireless satellites working for it though so there's a chance that the imagery you're looking at is only a few weeks or a few months old. In the lates... |
12 June 2012
08:20 GMT |
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If there's anyone in this world who can do full justice to an Adele song, that person is Celine Dion. Check out Celine's take on Adele's famous “Rolling in the Deep” above. Over the weekend, Celine treated fans to a very special cover during one of her Las Vegas shows. Luckily for those of ... |
12 June 2012
08:18 GMT |
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During yesterday’s ceremonious unveiling of the polished OS X Mountain Lion, Apple revealed a few new features (as predicted by yours truly), including one that works even when the computer is sleeping. No joke. Power Nap, as Apple affectionally calls this function, gets things done when your Mac goes to sleep... |
12 June 2012
08:18 GMT |
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A little over an hour ago, Jacob Freeman, EVGA Product Manager, announced the latest beta BIOS for EVGA Z77 FTW motherboard series. Starting from $329.99 (263.76 EUR), Z77 FTW motherboards are based on Intel Z77 chipset, supporting up to 32GB of DDR3 2133MHz memory. Jacob Freeman posted on his Twitter feed (@EVGA_J... |
12 June 2012
08:18 GMT |
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After presenting the stunning Unreal Engine 4 technology last week, Epic Games has now revealed that the first game powered by the new system will be launched next year. Epic’s Unreal Engine has shaped the gaming industry this generation, as the third installment of the popular technology is used in many impre... |
12 June 2012
08:11 GMT |
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Another set of headphones has appeared, one that Arctic made and hopes will be appealing enough, design- and performance-wise, that it will prompt people to upgrade.
The product bears the name of P402 and, though it is every bit as large as a standard PC headset, it can hook up to smartphones too (thanks to a bundle... |
12 June 2012
08:08 GMT |
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At the TechEd North America 2012 conference in Orlando, Florida, Microsoft announced the availability of two new Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) certifications based on Windows Server 2012. Both of these, along with the training associated with them, offer IT professionals the possibility to grow and val... |
12 June 2012
07:56 GMT |
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We’ve recently reported that Amazon has started warning its customers after they’ve identified a large number of malicious emails that relied on the company’s name and reputation. Today, GFI experts provide a sample email that’s making the rounds, attempting to lure users onto compromised webs... |
12 June 2012
07:48 GMT |
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Samsung’s latest Android-based flagship phone, the Galaxy S III, is becoming increasingly popular each and every day. The handset went for sale in Europe and other regions not too long ago, and it is set to arrive in North America before the end of this month. In Canada, Galaxy S III will officially hit shel... |
12 June 2012
07:41 GMT |
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Local communities and non-profit environmental organizations in Ireland can now apply to receive both money and other types of support in order to implement projects meant to address climate change by better managing resources such as water, air and biodiversity.
According to Phil Hogan, Ireland's current envi... |
12 June 2012
07:37 GMT |
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Two weeks after its official launch on the market, Samsung Galaxy S III receives its first software update. In fact there are two minor updates that are currently being pushed OTA (over the air).
According to SlashGear, the first update has around 32MB and is now available for download in the UK. The second update i... |
12 June 2012
07:29 GMT |
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Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier has managed to spend yet another week at the top of the United Kingdom video game chart, its third, and might continue to perform well considering that there are no big launches to challenge it for some time to come.
The new Ghost Recon video game has disappointed some ... |
12 June 2012
07:24 GMT |
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Full video game industry revenue, linked to home consoles, the PC, mobile device and the web will grow from 2 billion dollars (1.60 billion Euro) during 2011 to more than 70 billion dollars (56.04 billion Euro) in 2017, with most of the increase linked to PC gaming and mobiles. David Cole, who is an analyst with DFC... |
12 June 2012
07:23 GMT |
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21-year-old David Benjamin Schrooten, a Dutch citizen accused of stealing 44,000 credit card numbers, was extradited from Romania and appeared in a US courtroom for the first time yesterday. The suspect, arrested in Romania in March, was indicted on 14 counts of conspiracy, bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, int... |
12 June 2012
07:14 GMT |
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The all-new MacBook Pro with a stunning retina display, all-SSD storage and a killer new design is out with a hefty price tag, and a need for native apps. This is why Apple issued a memo to all Mac devs interested in being the first to feature an app for the platform. The company says “It’s easy to make ... |
12 June 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Romanian crooks once again take center stage after a police operation coordinated by Europol and Eurojust has resulted in the apprehension of 10 individuals suspected of being involved in illegal online purchases and payment card fraud.
This recent raid, which took place on 6-7 July, was a result of a three-year inv... |
12 June 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Apple’s AirPort Express WiFi base station has been upgraded and redesigned to include features that had been previously available only in AirPort Extreme, the more expensive wireless router.The new Express sells for $99 (79 EUR) and features a sleek compact enclosure, as well as new wireless and connectivity ca... |
12 June 2012
06:40 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier AT&T is getting ready to make the Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone available for its users, sometime at the end of this month, yet it hasn’t provided an official release date for it until now. Initially believed to be set for a June 18th release, the flagship Android smartphone is now expe... |
12 June 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile started to deliver the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system upgrade to the owners of Galaxy S II devices on its network. The upgrade will arrive on devices as software update T989UVLE1 and will be delivered through the Samsung Kies desktop application. Following the update, Galaxy S II us... |
12 June 2012
06:21 GMT |
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One of the big features in iOS 5 was supposed to be the Facebook integration. It didn't happen though, instead Twitter got the job and was baked into the operating system at a rather deep level.
It was obvious that Apple and Facebook couldn't come to terms and it's also obvious why, the two companies... |
12 June 2012
05:58 GMT |
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The guys at LAHWF already have quite a reputation for pulling through the most original, funny and telling social experiments. Their latest is definitely no exception, check it out above. Ever wondered what would happen if you just strolled by some stranger and held his or her hand? If you're lucky, you get a s... |
12 June 2012
05:56 GMT |
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The Nintendo-made Wii U home console has shown that it has the hardware power to handle demanding current-generation experiences like Batman: Arkham City and Assassin’s Creed III. Now there are suggestions that the next Call of Duty might arrive on the new platform, even if the developers at Treyarch are ... |
12 June 2012
05:53 GMT |
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Another week, another report mentioning something to the effect of AMD and NVIDIA having trouble scrounging up enough graphics processing units.
We've lost count of how many times it was said that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company was having trouble making enough 28nm chips.
We've also lost cou... |
12 June 2012
05:51 GMT |
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On June 11 the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Council gave the go-ahead for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) project. The construction phase can now begin on the world's largest-ever infrared/optical telescope.
The Council meeting, which took place yesterday at ESO Headquarters in Garching,... |
12 June 2012
05:46 GMT |
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As soon as it has learned that around 6.5 million of their customers’ passwords have ended up online, LinkedIn has started resetting passwords and sending out notifications.
To make sure that cybercriminals couldn’t take this opportunity to launch phishing campaigns, the company told members that the em... |
12 June 2012
05:45 GMT |
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Diablo 3 has yet to receive its Real-Money Auction House but this doesn’t mean that players aren’t trying to exploit the current in-game gold Auction House, as a new exploit has apparently been found that allows players to dupe gold and easily reach billions of virtual currency.
Diablo 3 allows players t... |
12 June 2012
05:42 GMT |
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Apparently, Apple’s iPhone is not the only device that has connectivity issues when held in certain ways.
HTC’s One X smartphone is reportedly affected by similar problems, but only when it comes to its Wi-Fi antenna.
An XDA-Developers member has found that the device could suffer from severe Wi-Fi is... |
12 June 2012
05:41 GMT |
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After battling breast cancer some years back, Robin Roberts, the famous anchorwoman on ABC's Good Morning America, has yet another difficult struggle ahead: she's just revealed that she was diagnosed with MDS. Below is the touching interview in which she makes the shock announcement. Myelodysplastic syndr... |
12 June 2012
05:41 GMT |
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WordPress 3.4 RC3 has landed, the third and quite possibly the last release candidate. There are no more known issues and the team plans to release RC3 as the final build very soon, unless, of course, new bugs are found.
There's a small chance of that and an even smaller chance of it affecting you, so RC3 is p... |
12 June 2012
05:40 GMT |
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Hackers led by HcJ claim to have defaced the official website of OpenVPN (openvpn.net), a California-based company that developed the popular virtual private network (VPN) application.
While a Zone-H mirror shows that openvpn.net was defaced, OpenVPN representatives state that their website hasn't been bre... |
12 June 2012
05:34 GMT |
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Activision and Treyarch are preparing a special surprise for future Nintendo Wii U owners, as the latest issue of Nintendo Gamer magazine includes a preview of Call of Duty: Black Ops II on the new home console.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 was confirmed last month for platforms like the PC, PS3 or Xbox 360. Since then... |
12 June 2012
05:31 GMT |
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The fall semester of 2012 will allow the students of five district schools from Saint Louis, Missouri, to experience what it feels like to have their classrooms powered by means of green energy coming from the sun.
Due to the fact that all of these five schools are expected to receive financial aid from the governm... |
12 June 2012
05:26 GMT |
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Apple has confirmed availability of a fourth developer preview for Mountain Lion testers, ahead of the scheduled public debut in July. Developers are told to leverage the new features in their own applications. Over at the News and Announcements section on Apple’s Developer site, the Mac maker tells programmer... |
12 June 2012
05:25 GMT |
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While investigating inhospitable soils in the world's most brutal desert, scientists have discovered several new species of bacteria. The microorganisms are at least 5 percent different than anything currently stored in the global database of 2.5 million DNA sequences.
The study was conducted in the Atacama Des... |
12 June 2012
05:23 GMT |
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iOS Developer Program members can immediately download iOS 6 beta, the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system powering iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch players. Apple has issued a press release confirming that iOS 6 beta and its SDK are now available to iOS Developer Program members with more than 200... |
12 June 2012
05:15 GMT |
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America's Got Talent is the latest televised competition to make headlines for what voices call the most shameful fraud of recent times: a stuttering war vet (who might not be either), Timothy Poe. Nick Cannon says he smelled something fishy about the guy from the start. Timothy told the judges he'd disco... |
12 June 2012
05:12 GMT |
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Four aquanauts began the 16th excursion of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) project on Monday, June 11, at 11:04 am EDT (1504 GMT). The 12-day expedition will take place inside the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Aquarius Reef Base.
The facility is submerged off Key L... |
12 June 2012
05:04 GMT |
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Apple’s current generation 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros have been updated with the latest Intel Core processors and powerful discrete graphics from NVIDIA, the company announced yesterday. The announcement came right before Apple unveiled the all-new MacBook Pro with Retina display. The company apparently ... |
12 June 2012
05:04 GMT |
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Video game developer PopCap Games, now a division of publisher Electronic Arts, has announced that it is using its latest release, Solitaire Blitz, to launch a Guinness World Record attempt, linked to the Longest Videogames Marathon Playing a Card Game category. Moreover, it intends to start a donation drive that w... |
12 June 2012
04:50 GMT |
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An instrument designed to measure salinity on the Aquarius/Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas (SAC)-D satellite has just turned 1 on Earth's orbit. The Aquarius apparatus was developed by NASA.
Engineers at the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California and the ... |
12 June 2012
04:44 GMT |
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At the beginning of this year, India high officials implemented the country's 12th Five-Year Plan for economic development, according to which considerable efforts will go into more than doubling the amount of clean power the country presently generates.
Thus, for the time being, India produces a total of 23,1... |
12 June 2012
04:43 GMT |
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Normally, we wouldn't outright advise against buying a product, but in this case we feel that we must, and it has nothing to do with Strontium itself.
Verily, the company didn't really go wrong anywhere when it made the 450 GB Python SSD.
The drive is a nice and fast SATA III 2.5-inch, 7mm MLC NAND SSD,... |
12 June 2012
04:40 GMT |
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A number of Microsoft fans are seeing the new Unfied Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) as an efficient way to improve a system’s security. However, the main issue is that the Windows 8 licensed hardware that will incorporate the secure boot feature will only be compatible with this particular OS.
While most... |
12 June 2012
04:38 GMT |
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Apple has updated its MacBook Air line with the latest Ivy Bridge processors from Intel, faster graphics and flash storage, touting the product as “the ultimate everyday notebook.” Apple is still selling the Air in 11-inch and 13-inch configurations, as well as with the same price tag, starting at $999 (... |
12 June 2012
04:25 GMT |
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Nvidia announced yesterday, June 11th, the immediate availability for download of the 295.59 version of its graphics driver for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD operating systems.
Nvidia 295.59 brings support for the following graphics cards NVS 5400M, NVS 310, GeForce GT 620M, GeForce GT 640M, GeForce GT 640M LE, GeForc... |
12 June 2012
04:25 GMT |
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Pikmin 3 was one of the stars of the Wii U presentation at the E3 2012 trade show, but Shigeru Miyamoto, the leading developer on the Pikmin franchise, says that his team explored a number of other options before settling on the current incarnation.
The veteran developer has told IGN that, “We had a bit of a d... |
12 June 2012
04:20 GMT |
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Crystal Dynamics has some big plans for its upcoming Tomb Raider reboot, as they’re scrapping the previous version of protagonist Lara Croft with a younger and more vulnerable heroine that needs to overcome all sorts of challenges that will endear her to players. While original Tomb Raider games have impressed... |
12 June 2012
04:16 GMT |
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Well, here's something that will burst the bubble of a lot of people. It turns out that all those who bought SandForce SSDs never got everything they paid for. SandForce solid-state drives are the only SSDs with two encryption engines: a 128-bit engine at the back and a 256-bit engine at the front. Unfortuna... |
12 June 2012
04:11 GMT |
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Things have changed for Snooki since the day she burst on the scene as the most raucous, drunken and disorderly reality star. Now expecting her first child with fiancé Jionni LaValle, she's ditched most of her old habits but isn't keen on picking up new ones either. Snooki and Jionni just did a rev... |
12 June 2012
04:09 GMT |
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Recently, Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation unveiled a new budget-friendly device, the HTC Desire C, which has just made an appearance on shelves in India. The handset is available for purchase through Buy the Price, featuring a price tag of INR 14,299 ($255 / €205), all without fanfare, Androidos.i... |
12 June 2012
04:07 GMT |
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Previous studies proposed that supermassive black holes grow at the same rates as the galaxies that host them. Now, a study of two distant galaxies is suggesting that this may not be the case, and that the dark behemoths can grow in patterns not related to those displayed by the galactic bulges holding them.
The con... |
12 June 2012
03:57 GMT |
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By investing in the development of a waste-to-fuel center in Sacramento, California, the US hopes that, by 2013, when the facility should be fully functional, around 1 million gallons of diesel will be successfully replaced each year by renewable natural gases.
Thus, the national need for fossil fuels might find it... |
12 June 2012
03:52 GMT |
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Team GhostShell’s leader, the hacker known as Echelon, has revealed the launch of a new campaign called ProjectWestWind, an operation aimed at “extreme-right nationalism and racism” in politics.
“As some of you may know (although not nearly as many as it should be), Europe has these past few ... |
12 June 2012
03:51 GMT |
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Apple has announced that OS X Mountain Lion will be available in July from the Mac App Store as a $19.99 (€16) upgrade to customers running Snow Leopard or Lion. Don’t let the numbering fool you, because OS X 10.8 is actually the ninth major version of Apple’s desktop OS. It brings more than 200 ne... |
12 June 2012
03:50 GMT |
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The mod team behind the Black Mesa project – a reimagining of Half-Life 1 powered by the Source engine – is finally getting ready to pin a release date on the game and has just posted a fresh series of screenshots.
Half-Life 1 was a stunning game but, after the release of its sequel and its downloadable ... |
12 June 2012
03:48 GMT |
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With a little over a month to go until the final chapter in Chris Nolan's Batman trilogy, “The Dark Knight Rises,” drops in theaters, there's been a lot of speculation on whether a fourth film would also be made. Ask Chris Nolan about that and you get a resounding “no.” Right now, t... |
12 June 2012
03:39 GMT |
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According to officials at NASA, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has recently been able to observe the most energetic light ever produced by a solar flare. The event, which took place on March 7, demonstrates that the observatory can indeed be used to study the Sun, as some proposed.
This spring's blast was... |
12 June 2012
03:31 GMT |
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Mortal Kombat is a series reborn, but the development team at NetherRealm has chosen not to cash in on its success and is keen to show that traditional superheroes can power a true fighting game with their new Injustice – Gods Among Us.
The game might be in alpha state at the moment and there are just six char... |
12 June 2012
03:20 GMT |
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HTC One S, one of the latest Android-based devices to come out from the Taiwanese mobile phone maker, is available in some markets around the world with a Snapdragon S3 application processor inside. The handset was launched with a newer Snapdragon S4 CPU from Qualcomm in the first place, but HTC apparently decided to... |
12 June 2012
03:16 GMT |
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Rockstar promised Max Payne fans that it would launch a mobile game for both Android and iOS platforms. However, the company only released the iOS version, which is now available for download through the App Store.
Even though Max Payne Mobile for Android devices has been originally slated for an April 26 release, R... |
12 June 2012
03:15 GMT |
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After being offered only as a beta, update 1.6 for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is now available for download via Steam for all of the game’s owners.
Bethesda has confirmed patch 1.6 for Skyrim earlier this month and immediately made available a beta version of the update on the PC platform.
Last week, the pat... |
12 June 2012
03:14 GMT |
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The Sandy Bridge series of central processing units had a good run, but their time is drawing to a close, so there already are details on when the phase-out will begin.
On the IT market, when a product or product line phases out, it gradually disappears from official sales channels.
Chips may continue to be avail... |
12 June 2012
03:12 GMT |
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Apple’s newly-announced 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display is immediately available through the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers starting at $2,199 US (around €1,760). During a much-awaited keynote address yesterday, Apple executives unvei... |
12 June 2012
03:05 GMT |
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At the time word got out that Kris Humphries had moved on from his failed marriage to Kim Kardashian with a certain Fatmire Sinanaj, his attorneys were already trying to get her to sign an NDA. The two are no longer dating – and he's sicked the FBI on her, it has emerged. As we also informed you last wee... |
12 June 2012
03:05 GMT |
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The latest Android smartphones announced by Sony, the Xperia acro S and Xperia go, have yet to make their entrance, but the Japanese company plans to unveil new devices. There’s a new announcement on Sony Mobile’s Facebook page, which teases one or more Xperia smartphones. Although Sony mentions the of... |
12 June 2012
03:03 GMT |
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Samsung Galaxy Note, the largest Android-based smartphone available on shelves today, is expected to make an appearance on T-Mobile’s network in the not too distant future. The handset has been rumored before to be en-route to the wireless carrier’s offering, yet no confirmation on the matter has emerge... |
12 June 2012
02:56 GMT |
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This year, Softpedia had the privilege to pick the brains of many security experts at Hack in the Box 2012 Amsterdam. Among them is Adam Gowdiak, CEO and founder of Security Explorations, a company whose researchers are not afraid of taking a crack at unexplored areas. Their latest achievement is the discovery of ma... |
12 June 2012
02:54 GMT |
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Recent reports on the amount of money that went into developing renewable energy sources throughout the year 2011 show that a staggering $257 billion (€204 billion) made their way into this rapidly growing green industry. Ever more interesting is that this figure was recorded during a period of economic turmo... |
12 June 2012
02:51 GMT |
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Developer Silicon Knights has confirmed that it has laid off some staff but refused to state whether the company is dependent on Nintendo when it comes to its near future.
Dennis Dyack, who is the leader of Silicon Knights, told Games Industry, “Silicon Knights has unfortunately had to lay off a small number o... |
12 June 2012
02:42 GMT |
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Sony mentioned, among many other announcements at last week’s E3 2012, that the PlayStation Vita would receive support for PlayStation 1 classic titles this summer, thanks to a firmware update.
The PS Vita has been around for quite a few months and, while many big games have appeared for it, nostalgic owners c... |
12 June 2012
02:37 GMT |
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Apple has released iTunes 10.6.3, a new version of its media player and digital storefront for Macintosh computers and Windows PCs. The new version includes support for OS X Mountain Lion and addresses a number of important issues, Apple said. iTunes 10.6.3 addresses a problem where the software may become unrespons... |
12 June 2012
02:37 GMT |
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The new release of Lightspark, version 0.6.0.1, features lots of improvements, new features, and bug fixes, among which we can mention:
· Support for LLVM 3.1;
· Better support for fonts;
· Support for AIR desktop apps;
· Better matrix handling;
· Better serialization robustness;
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12 June 2012
02:35 GMT |
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The folks at 3Dcenter.org may have stumbled upon a vein of gold while snooping through the files that make up the latest beta drivers from Advanced Micro Devices.
AMD may have said that it would stop the monthly updates to its WHQL-certified Catalyst drivers for graphics cards, but that doesn't mean it will co... |
12 June 2012
02:25 GMT |
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