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Google Chrome extensions are now fully supported by the browser maker and with the Extensions Gallery opening its doors earlier this week, one of the most requested features finally becomes a reality. With over 600 extensions already available, some are starting to stand out as the most popular either because of thei... |
12 December 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Recently, Dragon Age: Origins shipped with downloadable content in the form of the Shale companion and quests, which are available to all those who get the game new, and in the form of the Warden's Keep area and storage facility that also adds some unique armor and fresh abilities for the main character.After th... |
12 December 2009
10:31 GMT |
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The company responsible for the Mac operating system has issued one of its rare press releases (a strategy which seems to generate copious amounts of respect from the Apple fan base), saying that it has responded to a lawsuit brought against it by Nokia a while ago by filing (what else?) a countersuit.It goes without... |
12 December 2009
08:04 GMT |
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Google Chrome has had a very busy week. The latest beta came out, the first to be released on all supported platforms, Windows, Mac and Linux, a major milestone for the project. Google also opened the doors to its Extensions Gallery, which is already proving rather popular. However, in order to make sure that the lat... |
12 December 2009
07:57 GMT |
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Google, from its founders right down to most of its software engineers, looks to be obsessed with speed. This has always been the case but recently, things are getting even worse, or better depending on how you look at it, and the company has gotten to the point where it's introducing a couple of new features at... |
12 December 2009
07:19 GMT |
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The interview scored by Endgadget with the Fusion Garage chief Chandrasekhar Rathakrishnan provided tablet fans with some more information on the highly disputed and fought over tablet, which started as a joint effort between the Singaporean company and the TechCrunch team. The interview presents some details on the ... |
12 December 2009
07:07 GMT |
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As you all know, 2009 was the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). The year is unfortunately coming to a close, but numerous discoveries were made during the past 12 months, and, more importantly, a lot of new cooperations started, or continued. Under the pretense of the IYA, many research groups joined efforts for... |
12 December 2009
07:04 GMT |
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The “lambs” finally have reason to rejoice: after a long time that she’s been absent from live singing (television appearances and minor performances not included), Mariah Carey is set to take to the road to support her latest album, “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel,” as rumors said she wo... |
12 December 2009
07:02 GMT |
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Windows 7, just as the vast majority of software products, and certainly Cloud-based applications and services, harvests information from each end user and shares it with the mother company. This is, of course, not new to the latest iteration of Windows, as previous releases of the OS, including Windows Vista and Win... |
12 December 2009
07:00 GMT |
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Following the February 8 incident that completely changed his life by chipping off his clean image, Chris Brown has had to take a lot of heat in the media for his personal life. What he can’t – and won’t – stand, though, is to have his music blacklisted, which is precisely what is happening ri... |
12 December 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Not too long ago, home computers were powered by single-core processors, which needed to be continuously improved so as to get more power out of them. In time, dual- and quad-core designs emerged, which meant that two or four cores were placed alongside each other, sharing the tasks they were assigned. Now, experts a... |
12 December 2009
06:40 GMT |
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Hollywood cutie Natalie Portman can now be seen in the drama “Brothers,” opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire, and is busy working on “Black Swan.” She still has time to look for other projects as well, and that involves producing and starring in “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,&r... |
12 December 2009
06:28 GMT |
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Even though it wasn't able to avoid the walkout of the Unite Union members, which happened on Monday, just as it had been planned at the beginning of the month, HP managed to convince another group of unsatisfied employees, this time belonging to the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) union, to postpone ... |
12 December 2009
06:27 GMT |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a scareware alert through the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). The advisory describes the aggressive tactics used in these scams and estimates that they caused losses of over $150 million to victims.Scareware, also known as rogueware, is a term used to refer to fak... |
12 December 2009
06:17 GMT |
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The NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft is currently getting ready to perform a new flyby of Saturn's moon Titan. This time, however, the venerable space probe, which has been orbiting the gas giant since 2004, will not primarily analyze the surface of the hydrocarbon lake-laden moon. Rather, it will focus on the magnet... |
12 December 2009
06:06 GMT |
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James Cameron has been working on “Avatar,” his latest film for about 12 years. It is not only a very ambitious and personal project, but also the most expensive movie to date, with a budget estimated at $300 million (production and marketing) – therefore pressure is huge, the kind cinema has never ... |
12 December 2009
05:57 GMT |
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Western Digital drives have begun incorporating a new type of formatting technology, which will allow them to run faster, support larger capacities and improve overall storage capabilities by using a larger sector size, namely 4k. Such larger physical sectors will increase format efficiency and even that of storage s... |
12 December 2009
05:41 GMT |
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Scientists at the Rice University were recently able to make impressive advancements in a field of research that is just beginning to take off, more than 40 years after its foundations were set. The team offers uncontroversial evidence to support the theory related to the existence of a universal quantum mechanism, w... |
12 December 2009
05:36 GMT |
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For two years, singer Dannii Minogue has been a fixture on the judge panel of X Factor, the popular British show that aims to discover the next singing sensation and thus offer a chance to many talented people who don’t have other means of being noticed by a record company. With next year’s season, that m... |
12 December 2009
05:35 GMT |
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Cupertino-based company Apple announced on Friday that it filed a law suit against worldwide mobile phone leader Nokia. According to the company, the countersuit comes in response to a lawsuit Nokia filed against Apple back in October. Apple claims that the leading handset vendor is infringing 13 of its patents. Bruc... |
12 December 2009
05:29 GMT |
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The Google Chrome Extensions Gallery was launched less than a week ago and it's starting to look like things are going smoothly. It had 300 extensions when it debuted and now has more than 600 extensions. What's more, the most popular extension, Google Mail Checker, is now closing in on 200,000 downloads an... |
12 December 2009
05:23 GMT |
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The year is drawing to an end and, as is customary, each December, charts of “best…” and “worst…” are being made and then released to the public. Coming to confirm that, musically, Kanye West remains one of the most prominent figures of the industry, Entertainment Weekly has name... |
12 December 2009
05:05 GMT |
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Even though the future Intel Atom chips have become the subject of much speculation and have stirred anticipations and high expectations in most end-users, it seems that the next Atom CPUs, which Intel is set to release, will not exactly be a cause for general awe, at least according to early benchmark tests made by ... |
12 December 2009
05:01 GMT |
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Acer's first mobile phone launched on the market with Google's Android operating system on board is the Acer Liquid A1, a device that has already reached the market in some Asian countries, including Taiwan and Hong Kong, as well as the UK. However, it seems that the phone is also expected to arrive statesi... |
12 December 2009
04:56 GMT |
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Scientists from the University of Alabama in Birmingham, led by associate professor Timothy Kraft, announce the development of a new sighting system for firearms, one that they say easily surpasses the one currently used in a variety of firearms around the world. They state that their system is a significant improvem... |
12 December 2009
04:55 GMT |
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It stands to reason that life on this planet would probably not have evolved without the atmosphere and the oceans, as evidenced through numerous researches over the years. But the process that allowed for the emergence of higher life – other than basic microorganisms – is largely overlooked, both in term... |
12 December 2009
04:39 GMT |
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Nicole Richie is making her comeback to television with a new comedy series for ABC, which she will produce and star in, as she happily announced herself a short while ago. Despite talk that Ashlee Simpson has been axed from the popular “Melrose Place” remake series due to her lack of talent, Richie is co... |
12 December 2009
04:37 GMT |
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Redmond-based Microsoft is hard at work on the next version of its mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 7, this is something that most of you should already know. However, while the platform is expected to come to the market with a great deal of novelties, being capable of putting the software giant back into the ... |
12 December 2009
04:25 GMT |
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Strangely enough, while Hollywood is usually dismissed by the scientific community for its total lack of connection with real knowledge, its technology could mean a boost for science, and especially for molecular biology. Experts believe that the technology used to animate movies such as the blockbuster Shrek could i... |
12 December 2009
04:23 GMT |
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As it always happens when science develops, older technologies become obsolete and are replaced by newer, more refined versions or completely different technologies altogether. Such seems to be the case with first-generation Solid State storage, specifically Intel's SSDs introduced back in August 2008. Intel wil... |
12 December 2009
04:15 GMT |
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It’s been two weeks that Tiger Woods was involved in a one-vehicle crash on his neighbor’s lawn, which opened the can of allegations and rumors. Since then, the golfer has kept out of sight, save for a single press statement speaking of unnamed “transgressions” as more and more women were step... |
12 December 2009
04:05 GMT |
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The number of mobile phones that reached the market during the ongoing year with Google's Android operating system was impressive enough for a platform that 12 months ago only had one device available on the market. Taiwan-based HTC was the first to launch such a device, but now users can enjoy Android phones fr... |
12 December 2009
03:45 GMT |
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In a bid to gain a deeper understanding in the formation and operation of turbulent flows, physicists at the University of Warwick have made clever use of the Ulysses spacecraft, as well as of the fact that the Sun is still at its solar minimum. The result was the equivalent of a lab workbench more than 200 million m... |
12 December 2009
03:38 GMT |
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NEC Electronics has introduced four new 8-bit All Flash microcontrollers that will help smart meter grid designs to use power more efficiently and emit less greenhouse gases. Smart electricity meters are a key component in smart grid systems and are superior to the regular electricity meters, which require manual rea... |
12 December 2009
03:37 GMT |
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One of the latest messaging handsets that reached the market in the UK is the INQ Chat 3G, which is now available for purchase from wireless carrier 3. The new mobile phone was announced quite a while ago, and users in the country can enjoy its capabilities on 3's network. The device is available for purchase bo... |
12 December 2009
03:21 GMT |
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Oracle recently announced the launch of a fresh platform aimed at offering new ways for carriers to deliver targeted mobile advertising and marketing campaigns, namely Oracle Communications Marketing and Advertising. According to the company, the most important feature of the application is the fact that targeted off... |
12 December 2009
02:49 GMT |
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