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The Golden Globes 2013 saw Jodie Foster honored with the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement. Her acceptance speech, which doubled as a touching coming out speech, is above. Speculation about Foster’s orientation has been around for years but, until last night, the star always insisted it was up t... |
13 January 2013
23:43 GMT |
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This year’s hosts of the Golden Globes, the awards gala believed to be the most accurate indicator of who stands better chances of winning an Academy Award, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, promised a night to remember. It was all that – and so much more.
The gala wrapped up shortly ago and, as they say, the p... |
13 January 2013
23:28 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard says that all those players who want to change their screen name in Starcraft 2 can now do so via the account management system of Battle.net, by choosing their game license and then clicking on the new Character Name Change button. Initially, the development team wanted to introduce a ... |
13 January 2013
17:05 GMT |
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David Tavares had the pleasure of announcing a few minutes ago, January 13, that the first maintenance release of the stable Pear Linux 6 operating system is now available for download.
Being based on the Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, Pear Linux 6.1 is the first point release from the sixt... |
13 January 2013
16:21 GMT |
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Today we’re happy to announce that the Freyja Development team released a new powerful application for Ubuntu power users, called Unity Tweak Tool. As the name suggests, Unity Tweak Tool is a powerful and handy utility for the famous and popular Ubuntu operating system, enabling power users to tweak various a... |
13 January 2013
14:11 GMT |
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Kryn.cms is a content management system (CMS) modeled to look like your grandpa's classic desktop environment.
Why? Because not all users are well versed with the weird dashboards CMSs have been promoting lately, and a throwback desktop-like admin panel will cater to non-technical, inexperienced users, which ma... |
13 January 2013
12:01 GMT |
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Microsoft and Nokia have yet to deploy the promised Windows Phone 8 Portico upgrade to all Lumia 920, and it looks like the smartphone is now receiving another update that improves the phone's features even further. The folks at WMPoweruser report that the update is only available in Canada for the moment and w... |
13 January 2013
10:31 GMT |
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Dimitris Tzemos proudly announced earlier today, January 13, the immediate availability for download of the stable release of the Slackel 1.0 Openbox Edition Linux operating system.
Being powered by Linux kernel 3.7.1 and built on top of the current tree of Slackware Linux, this first edition of Slackel Openbox fea... |
13 January 2013
08:50 GMT |
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4MLinux Core, a mini Linux distro focusing on Maintenance (system rescue Live CD), Multimedia (e.g., playing video DVDs), Miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and Mystery (Linux games), is now at version 5.1.
4MLinux Core 5.1 integrates all the new features introduced in the previous versions, with an additional pos... |
13 January 2013
08:38 GMT |
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Little is known about Aaron Swartz and this name seems to have made a bigger impact after his death, but the truth is that his contributions have had a huge role on how we view the Internet today. Aaron Swartz had all the hallmarks of a child prodigy and he made one of his first contributions at the age of 14 when h... |
13 January 2013
07:51 GMT |
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Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old tech prodigy and Internet activist who was also the co-founder of Reddit, has died. He was found unresponsive in his apartment and was pronounced dead, his family confirms in a statement. Police have ruled his death one by suicide, TIME magazine reports: Aaron had hanged himself. &l... |
13 January 2013
06:50 GMT |
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This adorable video is proof enough that dogs can sometimes be more patient and more willing to help those in distress than some people are.
The dogs' owners explain that, soon after going up the stairs, their 6-week-old foster pup realized that getting down was not going to be such an easy task.
Luckily for... |
13 January 2013
06:01 GMT |
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Razor-qt, an advanced, easy-to-use, and fast desktop environment based on Qt that was tailored for users who value simplicity, speed, and an intuitive interface, is now at version 0.5.2.
Razor-qt 0.5.2 contains all the key components of a full desktop environment, including a Panel, an Application launcher, a Settin... |
13 January 2013
05:53 GMT |
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After more than three years of development, the development team behind the Elive Linux operating system was proud to announce today, January 13, the immediate availability for download and testing of the Elive 2.1.23 development release.
While being powered by Linux kernel 3.2.0, Elive 2.1.23 is the first release ... |
13 January 2013
05:50 GMT |
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Nokia announced the upcoming availability of the Lumia 505 a few weeks ago. Sadly, the smartphone is only available in Mexico at Telcel, but we can expect the device to go on sale in other countries as well.The Lumia 505 is the first smartphone to come with Windows Phone 7.8 out of the box. Other handsets powered by ... |
13 January 2013
05:14 GMT |
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It might be the thirteenth of the month but there’s no bad luck when recapping yet another week of video game content so let’s kick-off this article by pointing out that our first review for the week was for Minion Master, a free-to-play video game that mixes card play with tactics.We also have the contin... |
13 January 2013
05:11 GMT |
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More and more users are jailbreaking their Windows RT tablets and the number of recompiled apps compatible with these devices is continuously increasing, so the developers behind the whole project are ready to proceed to the next step. An unofficial app store that will host recompiled apps for jailbroken Windows RT ... |
13 January 2013
04:35 GMT |
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Although Philips is less known for its smartphones, it appears that the company plans to launch a new Android phone, the W8355.The main selling points of the smartphone are dual-SIM capability and the large 5.3-inch qHD capacitive touchscreen that displays 960 x 540 pixels resolution.The bad news is Philips W8355 shi... |
13 January 2013
04:28 GMT |
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Nokia and Microsoft promised a few months ago that an update to Nokia Lumia 920 would improve some of the phone's features and would fix some of the bugs found in Windows Phone 8.
Dubbed Portico, the first Windows Phone 8 update was rolled out a few weeks ago to Nokia Lumia 920 units in the United States and Ca... |
13 January 2013
03:48 GMT |
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In its predictions for 2013, security firm McAfee has revealed that this year we’ll likely witness the decline of Anonymous. However, it appears that the hacktivists are determined to prove them wrong so they’ve launched several operations over this past week.
First, they released a video to troll the Je... |
13 January 2013
03:11 GMT |
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