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Well-known HDD enclosure brand Icy Dock has recently been enriched with a truly innovative product that allows the user to safely and professionally mount two 2.5” HDDs and a slim notebook-type optical disc drive (ODD) in a single 5.25” bay. It is very rare to see such innovative merging of ideas into a ... |
13 July 2012
22:31 GMT |
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AMD customers that are still enjoying the AM3+ platform are not forgotten by the company and the Texas based CPU and GPU designer is getting ready to launch some very powerful eight-core processors. The new models use the long-awaited Piledriver enhanced x86 core and the same 8 MB level 3 cache.The maximum supported ... |
13 July 2012
21:21 GMT |
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While getting ready for the release of the next major flavor of Office, Microsoft is also making sure that it keeps the hype around the product at a high level. Thus, the company has announced the launch of Office Next blog, through which info on the upcoming suite will be delivered to users. For the time being, ... |
13 July 2012
21:01 GMT |
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Last month, Google unveiled to the world the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system, which came to the market in conjunction with the first tablet PC included in the popular Nexus series, the Google Nexus 7. Before the end of the year, however, Google is expected to add more devices to the Nexus family, some sugge... |
13 July 2012
20:48 GMT |
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HTC Desire HD might never receive an update to the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, it seems. The handset, made official almost two years ago, was initially said to be en-route to provide its users with the benefits of ICS, but it appears that HTC might have cancelled such plans. The smartphone wa... |
13 July 2012
20:14 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available for download the entire set of updates pushed to Windows Embedded Compact 7 during June 2012 in the form of a single package, now available through its website. As usual, the package includes various fixes for the issues found to affect the performance of the platform, and which have be... |
13 July 2012
19:51 GMT |
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We all know that AMD’s “Tahiti” GPU is capable of reaching very high frequencies. The GPU designer itself decided to launch a new series of Radeon HD 7970 video cards that feature increased GPU and video memory frequencies without bothering to change anything in the hardware design. The new line of... |
13 July 2012
19:41 GMT |
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The development team at Arkane Studios has revealed that it has spent two years during the pre-production stage of Dishonored just looking for the stylized art that makes the world of the game distinct from that of other action role-playing experiences.
Sebastien Mitton, who is the art director working on the game, ... |
13 July 2012
19:41 GMT |
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Apple has managed to improve the shipping times for the 15-inch Retina display MacBook Pro starting with this week, and the change is already visible on its website. At the moment, the company is listing both the 2.3 gigahertz and 2.6 gigahertz models as expected to ship within two-to-three weeks, a recent report f... |
13 July 2012
19:37 GMT |
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The most popular collection of movies and TV titles, IMDb made its debut on the Android platform a while ago. Those who already downloaded and installed the application are probably aware that there’s a new update available for IMDb.
The latest update brings several new features and improvements, which are mea... |
13 July 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Valve has revealed that it’s close to releasing the Big Picture mode for its Steam digital distribution service, which should allow users to interact with the program not just from their computers but also from large HDTVs in the living room, for example. Steam is the most popular digital delivery platform in ... |
13 July 2012
19:31 GMT |
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The Gaikai digital streaming company that David Perry has been leading for the last few years has just been sold to Sony, but the executive says that he wants to push his new bosses to create a home console experience that is more focused on the needs of the core gamer. David Perry, who has created such video games ... |
13 July 2012
18:41 GMT |
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SkyDrive, Microsoft’s service that provides users with the possibility to save files into the cloud for fast access from virtually anywhere, is now easily accessible from Moodle. The new option is available courtesy of a plugin for Moodle 2.3 that came out from the Moodle community, and which links the two to... |
13 July 2012
18:40 GMT |
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Capcom has just posted a brand new video for Street Fighter X Tekken for the PS Vita, showing off the different features of the game, and has also confirmed that the fighting experience would be out for the portable console on October 23. Street Fighter X Tekken arrived on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles, as... |
13 July 2012
18:21 GMT |
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Google just introduced a very cool feature that's going to mean you'll spend a lot less time, or none at all, on unit conversion sites. The Google search page now comes with a built-in unit conversion, triggered by searches for many types of conversions. If you're trying to find out what the speed lim... |
13 July 2012
18:01 GMT |
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As expected, Bell added the LG Optimus L5 to its portfolio of Android phones. Customers can now grab the smartphone for free on a three-year term.
However, there’s also the possibility to purchase the Optimus L5 for $200 CAD without having to sign for a long-term contract.
Although this is an entry-level devi... |
13 July 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Infinity Blade was one of the most successful games launched on the iOS Apple devices, but it seems that initially the game was designed to work on the Kinect motion tracking for the Xbox 360 and only happenstance led to its move to smartphones.
Mark Rein, who is a vice president and one of the co-founders of Epic G... |
13 July 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Google Nexus 7, the first tablet PC to be included in the popular Nexus series of Google devices, has started shipping to those who pre-ordered it. The tablet, available for purchase for only $199 through Google’s own website, comes with a 7-inch 1280 x 800 HD display (216 ppi) and packs a Quad-core Tegra 3 p... |
13 July 2012
17:30 GMT |
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Major carrier Claro and Motorola Mobility have just announced the rugged DEFY MINI Android phone is now available for purchase in Peru.
Customers can buy the Motorola DEFY MINI on Claro’s Smart Total i 99 postpaid plan, starting from 393 PEN ($125 USD or 100 EUR) and with a new 18-month contract.
Obviously, ... |
13 July 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Panasonic Eluga Power was made official back in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. In the meantime, the phone landed in several smartphone markets, but has yet to make its debut in North America. Luckily, the folks over at Engadget have just learned that the Eluga Power recently received FCC’s... |
13 July 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: Summer is not the best time to be a gamer: the sun is shining and the heat means that actually being out, preferably somewhere near the sea, might be a very good idea; there are no major titles released and, in my case, there’s the superb madness of Le Tour de France to enjoy.
This means tha... |
13 July 2012
16:21 GMT |
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When announcing the availability of IE10 Platform Preview 1, Microsoft also unveiled new IE10 user-agent string for the browser. While the feature remained mostly unchanged, two new additions were announced for Internet Explorer 10 in the latest pre-release flavor of Windows 8, namely Release Preview. According t... |
13 July 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Following our previous articles, German Ubuntu Forum Lens, Web History Lens, Rotten Tomatoes Scope, Clear Dark Sky Lens, 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 ... |
13 July 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Rovio has confirmed that would release a special Angry Birds Trilogy collection later this year for platforms like the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and the Nintendo 3DS, which includes the original game, as well as Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio. Angry Birds started out as a small mobile game released onto the ... |
13 July 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Shortly after Rogers started to push the Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich update for Samsung Galaxy Note, Bell users reported that the upgrade is now available for their devices as well. Specifically designed for the Galaxy Note, the Premium Suite of S Pen apps included within this update brings lots of innovative f... |
13 July 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Google's Hangouts has been the standout feature in Google+, perhaps the only one. It's the one thing that Google+ can do better than anyone, in fact, it's the one thing that others can't do at all. One cool thing about Google+ Hangouts is the On Air feature which enables basically anyone to stream... |
13 July 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Cloud services involve information sharing, which requires more efficient security measures, especially when it comes to sensible data. There is also collaboration that often needs to be taken into consideration, as well as different types of data that both service providers and customers need to protect. In the ... |
13 July 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Video game hardware maker and publisher Nintendo is getting ready to launch the XL, a new version of its 3DS handheld, and the company admits that the rise of smartphones has affected its own market and forced it to innovate in order to remain attractive to gamers. Satoru Iwata, who is the leader of Nintendo, has to... |
13 July 2012
14:51 GMT |
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After a rumor appeared earlier this year, Ubisoft has now confirmed that the PC version of Assassin’s Creed 3 would be released after the launch of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 editions of the game. Ubisoft has always brought its big games onto the PC platform but, unfortunately, almost all of them arrived w... |
13 July 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Although Rogers and TELUS recently confirmed the Android 4.0 ICS upgrade for Samsung Galaxy Note would be delivered in late July, it appears that the rollout of the update started earlier than expected.
According to MobileSyrup, Rogers Galaxy Note users claim the Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich update is now availa... |
13 July 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Although most major Canadian carriers announced that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade for Galaxy Note would arrive in late July, Samsung Canada has just confirmed the Premium Suite will be available starting tomorrow, July 13.
However, the South Korean company mentions that the Premium Suite upgrade for Galaxy... |
13 July 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Kickstarter might have made it easier for video game developers to get money for their projects, but it’s still hard to manage a project even if it gets money from a crowd of fans rather than from a traditional publisher. Neil Barnden, who is one of the co-founders of Stainless Games, has told Gamasutra that, &... |
13 July 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Georgian security researcher Ucha Gobejishvili has identified a critical vulnerability that affects the latest variant of the popular Google Chrome web browser.
To demonstrate his findings, the expert published a proof-of-concept video. He claims that the security hole can be leveraged to silently download and insta... |
13 July 2012
13:41 GMT |
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RIM’s CEO, Thorsten Heins hopes the company’s next generation BlackBerry 10 operating system will win back the hearts of BlackBerry fans. Unfortunately, the first devices powered by OS 10 are set to arrive on the market in January 2013. Heins also confirmed a few days ago that the company would launch at... |
13 July 2012
13:31 GMT |
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The Document Foundation has announced a few minutes ago, July 13th, that the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming LibreOffice 3.6 office suite is available for download and testing. LibreOffice 3.6.0 RC1 is here to fix exactly 19 bugs found in the previous Beta release. A detailed changelog can be found he... |
13 July 2012
13:03 GMT |
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Samsung has just released the long-awaited Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for Sprint Epic 4G Touch smartphone.
The South Korean company has also announced there’s a new software update available for US Cellular’s version of Galaxy S II.
Unfortunately, it’s not the hotly anticipated Androi... |
13 July 2012
13:01 GMT |
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David Perry, the video game designer best known for working on Sacrifice, MDK and Earthworm Jim, has stated that he regrets selling his development studio Shiny Entertainment to Atari in 2002.
Speaking about Earthworm Jim 3D he said, “I never played it. I said to the CEO of Atari, ‘if I rebuild the Earth... |
13 July 2012
12:41 GMT |
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The entry-level HTC Desire C smartphone has just arrived in Canada and is now available for purchase at Virgin Mobile. In fact, customers can grab this one for free on SuperTab. However, those who do not wish to commit to a long-term contract can buy the HTC Desire C for only $150 CAD on prepaid. Surprisingly, the ... |
13 July 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Now that the transition to the Persona name and brand is complete, Mozilla is ramping up announcements about the product, it seems. Or it may just be a coincidence. Whatever the case, developers integrating the unified login/authentication system formerly known as BrowserID, can now have the name of their sites show ... |
13 July 2012
12:01 GMT |
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qooxdoo is a complete solution for creating any kind of JavaScript-powered application. For the web, the desktop, the mobile world or server environments, qooxdoo is the perfect tool for all facets.
When it was launched, a couple of years back, qooxdoo was just another simple JavaScript framework for easing the work... |
13 July 2012
12:01 GMT |
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The first Release Candidate of the the upcoming openSUSE 12.2 Linux operating system has been announced on July 12th by Will Stephenson from the openSUSE Project. openSUSE 12.2 RC1 comes packed with very nice features, among which we can mention the KDE Software Compilation 4.8.4, GNOME 3.4.2, the GRUB 2.0 bootload... |
13 July 2012
11:51 GMT |
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A lot of work has been poured in the new Firebug release, but after 12 alphas and 4 betas the developer settled for the stable build of version 1.10 of the Firefox extension catering for web development needs.The new build includes an impressive amount of fixes (200, with 79 of them being enhancements), as well as a ... |
13 July 2012
11:39 GMT |
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Keeping a music service opened at all times is never a fortunate choice if you also plan to use your browser for other activities. Musicality is a “mini-browser” that provides the same experience, while staying out of your way. Online music services are great because you can listen to your music or favor... |
13 July 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Popular video card manufacturer, Chinese company Galaxy has just launched the Galaxy OC Panel. This is an external peripheral that connects to certain Galaxy graphics adapter and allows overclocking fans to manually play with various settings. Galaxy’s OC panel is compatible with GeForce PGTX560TI-SPOC/1GD5 WH... |
13 July 2012
11:11 GMT |
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This week, Nokia made available for download a new flavor of the Store client for devices running under Series 40 software.
The new app release is meant only for touch-and-type handsets, and brings along a series of fixes and enhancements.
Available for download for said mobile phones as version 3.30.2.42, the ne... |
13 July 2012
11:09 GMT |
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Memristors are very versatile little things that store memory as resistance instead of electrical charges. In the past, we wrote of them when they were used for underwater memory, among other things.
Now, there is another item they allowed the creation of: a true random number generator small enough to be used in N... |
13 July 2012
11:05 GMT |
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A group of investigators based at the Lehigh University, in Pennsylvania, announces the development of a new mathematical model that explains an important aspect of cell motion. The dataset could also be used to learn more about how the human embryo develops, and how tissues heal.
The partial-differential equations ... |
13 July 2012
11:05 GMT |
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We were hoping for the stable release for Total Commander 8.01, but it seems that the developer is shooting for perfection and needs more time to refine this revision, and we wouldn’t want it any other way. Thus, this week we have the fourth release candidate for the file manager, which, odd as it may seem for... |
13 July 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has big features in store for Windows Phone 8, but it hasn’t yet shared with us all that the upcoming OS can deliver to its users. In fact, the company even said that it announced only a small part of the capabilities that Windows Phone 8 has to deliver to its users, but that more would be announced... |
13 July 2012
10:57 GMT |
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The spat between satellite providers like Dish Network or Direct TV, on the one hand, and media companies like Viacom or AMC, on the other, is a great example of how muchTV companies value online audiences and how soon you can expect shows like Game of Thrones, which is the popular example, to make their way onl... |
13 July 2012
10:54 GMT |
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Epic Games has finally started detailing Fortnite, its next big game, confirming that it would be powered by the all-new Unreal Engine 4 technology and that was going to be released only on the PC next year. Fortnite was presented late last year at the 2011 VGAs through a short trailer. Since then, Epic Games has be... |
13 July 2012
10:51 GMT |
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According to officials at the European Space Agency, ESA Member States unanimously agreed today, July 13, to accept the accession of Poland to the ESA Convention. This is wonderful news for all the countries involved in pushing the Old Continent's space program ever further.
The countries involved in ESA are F... |
13 July 2012
10:44 GMT |
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Security researcher Riyaz Ahemed Walikar has identified a persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on the popular microblogging platform Tumblr. XSS flaws are highly common on websites these days, but most of them are non-persistent and implicitly less dangerous. “XSS can cause a lot of serious pr... |
13 July 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Sharkoon has many peripherals and storage devices up for sale, and two products of the latter category have been added to the list. Sharkoon's formal press release is about the 5-Bay RAID Station and the 8-Bay RAID Station. Long story short, they are NAS devices (Network-Attached Storage) that take multiple 2.... |
13 July 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Unfortunately, there are still some who have no issues in locking their pets in cars which are left out in the sun, and going then about to mind their own business. However, Italian model Elisabetta Canalis – whom most people know as George Clooney's ex-girlfriend – now teamed up with PETA and made... |
13 July 2012
10:39 GMT |
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Verizon is among the last US-based carriers to add the Samsung Galaxy S III to its portfolio. Starting today, customers can purchase the smartphone through Verizon’s online and retail stores for $199.99 with a new two-year agreement.
The good news is that both 16GB and 32GB models are now available for purchas... |
13 July 2012
10:31 GMT |
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The fresh release for Ashampoo Photo Commander does not introduce any new features and is mostly a maintenance revision, which does nothing but further refine the suite.
However, it does integrate a few improvements and the 32bit to 24bit color conversion blends onto white background.
Apart from this, all the entri... |
13 July 2012
10:26 GMT |
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33-year-old Charles Tony Williamson, better known as the famous rap artist Guerilla Black, has been detained at his home in Los Angeles on suspicion of purchasing and using payment card details obtained by hackers from two restaurants from the Seattle area.
The hackers – David Benjamin Schrooten, aged 22, and Christ... |
13 July 2012
10:18 GMT |
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Audi's Mileage Tracker app supposedly allows businesspeople to calculate exactly how much fuel they burn during their working trips.
Apparently, the same app might soon inform drivers with respect to how much gas emissions they release into the atmosphere while traveling from here to there and taking care of t... |
13 July 2012
10:16 GMT |
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World’s second notebook manufacturer, well-known company Acer has apparently already started shipping a new 21.5” FullHD monitor with LED backlighting. This new model comes with a very slim body size and only measures 14 millimeters in thickness. That’s about 0.55 inches and it shows that Acer has ... |
13 July 2012
10:11 GMT |
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The 11th stage of Le Tour de France 2012 is the first one that will force a selection and everyone will have a clearer idea of how the favorites feel and who might and might not win the General Classification.The distance is short at 148 km, but that’s only because there are four major climbs on the route, incl... |
13 July 2012
10:11 GMT |
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This week, Microsoft made available for download a new series of security updates to fix various issues that were found to affect its products. Among them, there was one update specifically targeted at Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, aimed at resolving two vulnerabilities in the software. “The vulnerab... |
13 July 2012
10:09 GMT |
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Benchmarking tests during overclocking runs can take a long time to finish, and many of them need constant supervision. ASUS is the first company to make it possible to pause a benchmark, through the OCKey tool. Once installed (as described here), it permits a benchmark test to be paused by pressing CTRL+F1. Later,... |
13 July 2012
10:02 GMT |
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Exclusively introduced in Canada via Rogers, HTC One X has just made its debut at TELUS. The Canadian carrier now offers the black color version of the Android smartphone for as low as $130 CAD with a new three-year agreement.
However, customers who do not want to commit to a long-term contract can buy the HTC One X... |
13 July 2012
10:00 GMT |
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Iowa State University (ISU) experts say that media violence, such as seen on TV, the Internet, some video games, and so on, is not the main driver to aggression in children, teens and young adults. The team acknowledges that it plays a role, but not a determining one, as other studies suggested.
As most people alrea... |
13 July 2012
09:59 GMT |
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Made official last month, Nokia Transport has just gone gold. The Windows Phone application has just moved from beta to commercial release and will soon be available for download via Marketplace.
Aimed at Lumia users who travel a lot, but don’t own a car, Nokia Transport offers the faster way to reach a destin... |
13 July 2012
09:49 GMT |
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Windows Phone 8, the next flavor of Microsoft’s mobile operating system, might attract a lot of developers on its side, a recent survey shows. While interest in Windows Phone 7 was rather low, the upcoming platform release could spell great news for the application ecosystem that users benefit from. A survey... |
13 July 2012
09:46 GMT |
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A new research has demonstrated for the first time a clear connection between the anatomy and activity patterns of the brain and the presence or absence of altruistic behaviors. Scientists have established that more gray matter in a specific area of the brain equals more altruism in that individual. The region in qu... |
13 July 2012
09:44 GMT |
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Despite encouraging signs during the previous week the PlayStation Vita has once again failed to make solid progress on the Japanese hardware market, while the Nintendo 3DS continues to lead, and Pokemon Black & White 2 is still the best when it comes to video game sales.
The Nintendo 3DS has managed to sell 51,930 ... |
13 July 2012
09:42 GMT |
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E15, a fuel blend that contains 15% ethanol, is expected to go on sale just next week, at a Phillips 66 gas-station in Kansas.
Although the national standard for ethanol concentration in fuels in presently 10%, the US Environmental Protection Agency agreed to give the go-ahead for E15 to officially hit the market. ... |
13 July 2012
09:37 GMT |
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Earlier today (July 13, 2012), we reported on the hacking attack that led to the NVIDIA Forums being completely shut down until further notice. We suspect whoever did it probably chose Friday the 13th on purpose, to make a joke. Regardless of the reason for the timing, NVIDIA has to suspend the boards for as much... |
13 July 2012
09:37 GMT |
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The Wikipedia town project seems to be inspiring followers. Earlier this year, Monmouthpedia, the project which aimed to make the entire town of Monmouth Wikipedia-friendly, debuted. The idea is to scatter QR codes all over town, at the interesting locations and have those codes point to Wikipedia pages describing ... |
13 July 2012
09:23 GMT |
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The usual motive behind such a dramatic price drop is the company’s desire to clear inventory for a new generation of products. We don’t have any definitive information about Intel’s next-generation SSDs, but the prices for its current line have been dramatically cut down. The news refers to a plan... |
13 July 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Quite a few racing games have appeared in recent years but, unfortunately, there haven’t been a lot of combat racing experiences, besides the lackluster Flatout 3: Chaos & Destruction or the PS3-exclusive Twisted Metal. Now, Gamepires has released Gas Guzzlers: Combat Carnage, a brand new game that offers a ra... |
13 July 2012
09:21 GMT |
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It seems fitting that we would end up writing about the GT70 and GT60 gaming notebooks just half a day after we documented an unexpected move on MSI's part. And by “unexpected move” we meant, of course, the newly-discovered plans of Micro-Star International to enter the solid state drive segment. ... |
13 July 2012
09:21 GMT |
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We recently reported that researchers from F-Secure uncovered a piece of malware designed to impact Linux, Windows and Mac OS users. As it turns out, another version of the backdoor comes with an improvement when it comes to attacking systems running OS X.
The initial variant served Apple customers a malicious Powe... |
13 July 2012
09:19 GMT |
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Spoon-billed sandpipers are presently facing extinction, seeing how very few of them still remain in the wild. However, the flock that just recently hatched at WWT Slimbridge in the UK bring some hope for the survival of the species.
The birds are indigenous to the sub-Arctic tundra in the Russian Far East, so the ... |
13 July 2012
09:16 GMT |
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Yoshinori Ono has announced that it was working with Joey Ansah and his team in order to create a new live action series called Assassin’s Fist, which is set to be based on the Street Fighter fighting game franchise.
The live action product will be launched at some point during 2013 and it is not clear how gam... |
13 July 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Orange UK is about to introduce a new budget-friendly handset, the Hollywood. The feature-phone will be exclusively available for purchase via Orange UK on PAYG (pay as you go). Unfortunately, the carrier has yet to announce the price tag for the Orange Hollywood, but we expect this one to come around 50 GBP (75 USD... |
13 July 2012
09:05 GMT |
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Last month, UK authorities apprehended a number of 24 individuals suspected of being involved in payment card information trafficking. As a continuation of the operation, the FBI announced the arrests of three more suspects, bringing the number of defendants to 27.
Nikhil Kolbekar, aka HellsAngel, was arrested on Ju... |
13 July 2012
08:51 GMT |
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There has been much talk of drones lately, among the most recent being Samarai, but we can now check out something less unusual, albeit with a similar purpose. RED5 has revealed the Spy Hawk, a remote-controllable airplane for when you just have to know what's going on in your neighbor's loft. It can be... |
13 July 2012
08:45 GMT |
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After the recent update for Speccy, Piriform released a new build for Recuva, the file recovery tool. The current revision is 1.43 and adds no new features, except for the ability to recover Alternate Data Streams (ADS), but packs several improvements.
Recuva 1.43 brings to the table better support for files larger ... |
13 July 2012
08:44 GMT |
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Several weeks ago it was revealed that Google CEO Larry Page was having some health problems and that he wouldn't be attending any public events for the foreseeable future. Google's Eric Schmidt said Page "lost his voice." The timing was very poor, as Google was about to have one of its regular shareholders... |
13 July 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Details on unannounced products show up in the most unlikely of places sometimes, but this isn't quite such an occasion, although the sources of info on two future Intel CPUs aren't totally common either. Yesterday, data on AMD's A4-3450 APU surfaced on Biostar's CPU support information update. ... |
13 July 2012
08:14 GMT |
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Just recently, three coal trains derailed in the US, allowing rail cars to spill their contents in the areas close to where the accidents occurred.
Naturally, this lead to numerous environmentalists once again going against this industry on account of its directly and indirectly impacting on the environment.
Conc... |
13 July 2012
08:14 GMT |
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On Wednesday, law enforcement from the Mumbai Crime Branch in India have arrested 29-year-old Nikhil Pable, a hacker whose name appears on the FBI’s wanted list.
According to NDTV, the man – arrested in Andheri – is suspected of breaching the websites of renowned firms. He allegedly stole data from their... |
13 July 2012
08:12 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is reportedly gearing up for the unveiling of the next major flavor of its Office suite as soon as Monday, July 16th. On that day, the company should make official the beta version of the productivity suite, as the final product is expected to arrive only next year. Microsof... |
13 July 2012
08:04 GMT |
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Scientists with the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer’s Network (DIAN) international research partnership say that they were recently able to develop the first clear timeline detailing how the brain develops Alzheimer’s disease.
The new dataset will come in handy for researchers who are working hard toward... |
13 July 2012
08:04 GMT |
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In response to Steam’s traditional summer sale, Electronic Arts has just kicked off its own series of discounts on the Origin digital distribution service, slashing prices on big games like Mass Effect 3, Battlefield 3, and much more. Summer brings not just heat waves, in the Northern Hemisphere at least, but ... |
13 July 2012
08:00 GMT |
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On July 11, Cisco has published a number of four security advisories detailing multiple vulnerabilities that have been identified in TelePresence products, high-end devices and pieces of software designed for video conferences.
The TelePresence Recording Server, TelePresence Endpoint devices, TelePresence Manager an... |
13 July 2012
07:55 GMT |
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Despite the increased graphical capabilities of the upcoming Nintendo Wii U home console gamers should not expect the development teams of the company to create and launch experiences that are similar to that offered by Call of Duty or other first-person shooters.
Satoru Iwata, the president and the chief executive ... |
13 July 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Not many computer enthusiasts were expecting to see standard ARM mainboards entering the market so soon. German company Kontron has just launched a new mainboard based on just that, an ARM processor. The new addition comes in standard miniITX format and features a quad-core A9 processor. We were talking about a fut... |
13 July 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Ryan Finnie announced earlier today, July 13th, the immediate availability for download the Finnix 105 Linux operating system. Powered by Linux kernel 3.4, Finnix 105 is the first release to be build with the help of the Project NEALE (Normalized Extraction and Assembly of LiveCD Environments), which provides easy ... |
13 July 2012
07:43 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless has been long rumored to plan the release of a new device in the popular DROID series, one that would arrive as the successor of Motorola’s DROID RAZR, and some more info on the device is now available. Supposedly called DROID RAZR HD, the smartphone was seen in a recent listing on GLBenchmar... |
13 July 2012
07:41 GMT |
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We've been pretty excited about the prospects of AMD launching its next desktop accelerated processing units a month from now, but reports say this won't actually happen. Advanced Micro Devices was supposed to release a new batch of Trinity desktop accelerated processing units in August 2012. Unfortunat... |
13 July 2012
07:36 GMT |
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A team of researchers from Canada and the United States recently analyzed the interactions between Asian carps (i.e. species of fish that typically grow in Chinese ecosystems) and the US's Great Lakes ecosystems.
Focusing on the bighead and the silver carps, the scientists reached the conclusion that these fis... |
13 July 2012
07:27 GMT |
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The first few weeks after patients receive a heart transplant are essential to their survival. The risk of rejection is highest during this interval, especially for children, who are weaker overall. A newly-developed imaging technique can now search for signs of rejection without the need for surgery.
Finally having... |
13 July 2012
07:25 GMT |
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In between releasing new updates and patches for Diablo 3, Blizzard has confirmed that it was going to update the game’s website and allow players who are logged in to have much richer profiles with all sorts of information about their characters. Diablo 3 has been released for almost two months and Blizzard h... |
13 July 2012
07:21 GMT |
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The website of the sportswear and casual clothing manufacturer Billabong has been hacked by the WikiBoat collective as part of its WikiBoatWednesday operation. The hackers published the email addresses, users IDs and clear text passwords of over 20,000 users. According to the hackers, they obtained a total of 35,000... |
13 July 2012
07:20 GMT |
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Developer Ronimo Games and publisher dtp entertainment have announced that their MOBA title Awesomenauts is getting a range of female characters to join the six male ones that players can already choose to play with.
The upcoming patch for the game will introduce the first female hero of the game, called Coco Nebulo... |
13 July 2012
07:20 GMT |
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In the early days, though it's still true now, one of Firefox's biggest pluses was support for add-ons, modules that could be installed to expand the functionality of the browser way beyond what Mozilla envisioned. Add-ons/extensions are still a big part of the Firefox experience today, but they're a... |
13 July 2012
06:51 GMT |
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Members of the NullCrew collective claim to have hacked the website of the Public Broadcasting Service (pbs.org) and the one of the World Health Organization (who.int). “Today is a big day for you, me NullCrew, and the rest of humanity. We hacked into the World Health Organization, and we're dumping all t... |
13 July 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Motorola Mobility announced back in May that the MOTOGO! feature-phone will soon be available for purchase in Brazil. A few days after the company’s official statement, the handset hit shelves for R$ 329 (170 USD or 130 EUR).
Today, the US-based handset maker introduced another phone in Brazil, the Motorola MO... |
13 July 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Google's Street View has long grow past its name. There are now panoramic photos of museums, roller coaster parks, the Antarctic and so on and so forth. And Google is not stopping, it's now adding imagery from five national parks in California, including the famous Yosemite. Google took its cars and the St... |
13 July 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Well-known notebook and computer systems manufacturer, Chinese company Lenovo has just announced today the availability of its new ThinkPad Edge mobile systems powered by AMD’s Trinity APU. These come configurable with the top-performing mobile Trinity APU, the A10-4600M. The two new models in Lenovo’s T... |
13 July 2012
06:11 GMT |
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A lot of security researchers have turned their attention to the data breach that affected Yahoo!, especially after the company confirmed the incident. Janne Ahlberg is one of those experts and his findings are certainly noteworthy. One of the first things he noticed was the “timestamp” present in t... |
13 July 2012
06:01 GMT |
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This may not be real technopathy, but it is a sort of mind-controlled technology, albeit read-only, so to speak. Necomini has formally released the Brainwave Cat Ears in the United States, at a price of $99.95 / €81.91. It doesn't feel like it was so long ago that we first wrote about these things but, ... |
13 July 2012
05:58 GMT |
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Sony has been rumored lately to plan the release of a successor for its Xperia S smartphone, and the device allegedly made a photo appearance online. The new device, supposedly called Sony Xperia SL, features model number LT26ii and is expected to arrive on shelves with a 1.7GHz dual-core Snapdragon S3 chipset (MSM... |
13 July 2012
05:56 GMT |
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Unlike the previous release for Google Chrome Beta, which featured significant modifications, build 21.0.1180.41 of the browsers brings to the table only repairs. It is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and ChromeFrame).
The problems solved in this revision include several crashes, one of th... |
13 July 2012
05:55 GMT |
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Twitter is a great way for brands to connect with fans and for everyday folks to connect, or at least follow, celebrities and their ilk. But all this following has to have some limits, Twitter is now making it harder to follow alcohol brands, at least in the US, by asking users to verify their age. Just like every o... |
13 July 2012
05:51 GMT |
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University of California in Berkeley (UCB) scientists announce the development of a new imaging technique, which they say could be used to look at bacterial biofilms before doctors decided how to attack a large range of infection types.
Many species of bacteria protect their colonies with a lipid biofilm, which is ... |
13 July 2012
05:46 GMT |
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It seems like ages since we wrote about the last Tecra laptops from Toshiba, but the product line is by no means extinct. In fact, it received new members just a short time ago. Truth be told, saying that ages have passed since the last Tecra made the news might not be too far off the mark. The last one we covered ... |
13 July 2012
05:36 GMT |
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Many times before we reported on how several energy companies were planning to build the world's third largest dam on the Amazon river, and about how the people living in the nearby communities did everything in their power to keep this from happening.
We also explained that the latter's main objections t... |
13 July 2012
05:35 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has announced that it has introduced gold trading to the Auction Houses of its recently launched Diablo III, which means that gamers are able to now buy in-game currency by using real-world money.
The addition comes with a strict warning from Blizzard that getting in-game gold from any ... |
13 July 2012
05:29 GMT |
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Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) is definitely emerging as the leader of the pack, in a competition among private companies to provide NASA with the launch services it requires. Recently, SpaceX tool is yet another step forward.
Officials at the company announce that th... |
13 July 2012
05:29 GMT |
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Digg, or rather the remaining pieces, has been sold off for a rather measly sum, some half a million dollars, maybe a bit more. Betaworks bought what was left to be bought, the site, the brand, the data and the domain. Digg is being folded into Betaworks' News.me outfit.
That's the same Digg that was getti... |
13 July 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Large-capacity consumer solid state drives don't sell very well because of their prices, but the cost is a bit easier to swallow on the enterprise front, and that is what Apacer is betting on. The company has formally introduced the SAFD 25A, a unit with a capacity of 512 GB, not really close to the 4TB of HDD... |
13 July 2012
05:08 GMT |
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After launching the Battlefield 3: Close Quarters expansion last month, DICE has begun talking about the next add-on for the military first person shooter, in the form of Armored Kill, which is set to appear this September. Battlefield 3 is a pretty impressive game, offering a top-notch multiplayer experience that&r... |
13 July 2012
05:08 GMT |
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The old Amazon “shipping confirmation” scam is once again making the rounds, attempting to convince unsuspecting users to click on links that lead to compromised websites hosting all sorts of malicious scripts.
Entitled “Your Amazon.com order of ‘Casio Men's EEDN7D-1 G-Shock Solar Atomi... |
13 July 2012
05:07 GMT |
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When young girls are exposed to so-called adverse childhood experiences (ACE), their chances of becoming addicted to tobacco later on in life climb exponentially, the conclusions of a new scientific study recently revealed.
“Our results show that, among women, an underlying mechanism that links ACE to adult sm... |
13 July 2012
05:06 GMT |
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A short video recently made public sheds some light on the life of blind creatures living in some of Madagascar's underwater caves.
The video focuses on the blind shrimp, an eyeless creature that uses its antennas to locate food scattered around its natural habitat. Because no light ever reaches it, this parti... |
13 July 2012
05:05 GMT |
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Nokia has just announced the immediate availability of the official Twitter client for Series 40 mobile phones. Created by Nokia, the application can be downloaded via Nokia Store, free of charge.
With the new Twitter for Series 40 feature phones, users will be able to follow their interests, instant updates from fr... |
13 July 2012
05:05 GMT |
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A few hours ago, Microsoft made available for download a new flavor of its SkyDrive application for computers running under Windows, namely SkyDrive for Windows 16.4.6003.0710. According to Microsoft, most of the changes that have been included in the new version of the application are meant mainly to boost its perf... |
13 July 2012
04:56 GMT |
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The Nintendo 3DS handheld has managed to sell more than 5 million units on the United States market since it has been launched during March 2011.
The device has managed to outpace the initial sales of the normal DS, despite having a troubled launch period and only becoming an important presence in the NPD Group comp... |
13 July 2012
04:51 GMT |
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An avalanche of studies recently published in two of the world's foremost journals, Science and Nature, finally begin to shed some light on the nature of a medically-important class of molecules, called G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR). These proteins managed to keep their structure a secret for decades.
They ... |
13 July 2012
04:47 GMT |
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Just recently, the Journal of Mammology published a new study investigating the ways in which climate change and global warming impact the dietary habits of wolverines, a species of animals whose typical natural habitats are represented by snowy mountainous regions. Apparently, wolverines prosper in these harsh con... |
13 July 2012
04:44 GMT |
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We suppose it had to happen sometime, considering how hackers have been running around the Internet and breaking things: NVIDIA's forums have been hacked. The company did not use those exact words, but there aren't many other ways to interpret a sudden downtime for all the forums in response to “sus... |
13 July 2012
04:42 GMT |
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According to a new report published by the Commonwealth Fund, one in five women in the United States did not benefit from health insurance in 2010, a 15 percent increase in numbers from 2000.
This subgroup of the general population consists of women aged 19 to 64, and amounts to 18.7 million people. In 2000, some 1... |
13 July 2012
04:32 GMT |
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Like it or not, Facebook has become an invaluable resource when it comes to birthdays. After all, who has the time and the resources necessary to remember everyone's birthdays and keep track of all of them. It simply can't be done without Facebook. What's more, even if you remember the birthday, there... |
13 July 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Microsoft, Turn 10 Studios, and Playground Games have revealed that their upcoming Forza Horizon racing game is now available for pre-order, both as a standard game and as a special Limited Collector’s Edition. Forza Motorsport 4 delivered an intense experience last year and with the upcoming Horizon, the deve... |
13 July 2012
04:19 GMT |
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With all the financial updates and analyst forecasts running around the Internet, we don't find it strange that watchers have turned their attention towards ASUS. ASUS makes many sorts of PCs, PC hardware and consumer electronics devices, but what we are going to concern ourselves with here is the notebook bus... |
13 July 2012
04:18 GMT |
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All computer users have more than a year left to still enjoy the “wonderful” duopoly in the HDD industry. Toshiba was supposed to pose as the third HDD player in the market, but it doesn’t seem to be eager to. After Seagate acquired Samsung’s successful HDD business last year, Western Digital... |
13 July 2012
04:09 GMT |
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A group of experts in the United States recently conducted an association study on a large population of women, trying to determine the effects of using phthalates on these individuals' diabetes risk. The work discovered that this chemical, found in personal care products, increases the risk of developing this d... |
13 July 2012
04:02 GMT |
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Anu and Lasya, two female snow leopards, recently gave birth to several cubs, which now hide away in their dens in Mongolia's Tost Mountains.
Researchers from Panthera, an organization that focuses on studying big cats, and members of the Snow Leopard Trust, tracked both females down and succeeded in catching... |
13 July 2012
03:55 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released its figures for the United States market for the month of June, showing an overall decline over the same period of 2011 of no less than 30 percent, with the value of sales dropping to 699 million dollars (572.7 million Euro).
The biggest drop was linked to the hardware space, where the swi... |
13 July 2012
03:54 GMT |
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Calibre ebook library manager just received an update today, which improves the search function of the application. The progress consists in matching characters carrying accent marks with those that don’t, in all fields and all languages, thus making the results more accurate.
The action is carried out taking ... |
13 July 2012
03:52 GMT |
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A team of experts from the Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute announce the discovery of a new type of cells, which apparently burn calories, rather than store them. The finding could have significant applications in combating obesity and other eating disorders.
The new type of fat cell has ... |
13 July 2012
03:50 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is determined to bring the first BlackBerry 10 smartphones to the market only in the first quarter of the next year, yet it will launch two of those at once, not a single device. The company has already confirmed the push back to the first three months of the next year... |
13 July 2012
03:48 GMT |
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Hard Reset, the gritty cyberpunk shooter from Flying Wild Hog studio, has just received its long-awaited Exile story-based expansion, which adds quite a few things to the game, from five new levels to new enemies, achievements and maps for the survival mode. Hard Reset came out last year and impressed first-person s... |
13 July 2012
03:45 GMT |
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The owners of Phandroid.com are advising AndroidForum.com users to change their passwords after they learned that the website’s database has been breached.
According to Phandroid.com representatives, the security hole that allowed the hackers to gain access to the information has been patched up and, fortunate... |
13 July 2012
03:44 GMT |
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Google is keeping its promise of making all of its data, all of your data actually, open and available so you can simply take it and leave Google if you want. It's the direct opposite of what most (Facebook) other big companies do, but it's a great feature for users. Google users have had Google Takeout fo... |
13 July 2012
03:40 GMT |
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Most scientists agree that the following years will bring us an increase in global sea levels. However, some argue that, because of global warming, seas might rise sooner and higher than originally estimated.
Thus, while some speak in favor of a 13-to-20 feet (approximately 4-to-6 meters) rise, others argue that ou... |
13 July 2012
03:28 GMT |
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We reported yesterday that HTC is working on a Flyer follow up, which is supposed to be announced sometime this year.
In fact, sources close to the matter claim that HTC does not want to hurry with the release of the slate, instead it will come out with the new product when it has something “unique” to ... |
13 July 2012
03:18 GMT |
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After a lengthy wait, Valve has finally kicked off its traditional Steam Summer Sale on its extremely popular digital distribution platform, slashing prices on all sorts of great games for PC, as well as for Mac. Steam has gotten its users accustomed to many great discounts in recent years as part of its traditional... |
13 July 2012
03:12 GMT |
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Yet another company will soon add its name to the list of SSD manufacturers, one that is already world-famous for its motherboards, graphics cards and laptops. The IT player that will soon launch SSDs is none other than MSI (short for Micro-Star International), according to something that the folks at TechPowerUp f... |
13 July 2012
03:06 GMT |
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A new flavor of Facebook for Android mobile client is now available for download, version 1.9.7, with a twist for owners of older devices. The new app release comes only with support for Android 2.2 or newer OS releases, leaving a bunch of users out of the update process. For those with supported devices, things ... |
13 July 2012
03:00 GMT |
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Following a series of complex genetic analyses, investigators determined that the first people to settle the American Continent did not arrive there at once, but rather in stages, spread out over many years. Figuring this out was made possible by the advanced DNA analysis techniques scientists have access to today. ... |
13 July 2012
03:00 GMT |
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It is a well-known fact that urban areas are responsible for significantly boosting global levels of pollution, primarily because the people living in such spaces rely heavily on fossil fuels and the like to help them carry on with their daily activities.
This means that ever-increasing amounts of carbon emissions ... |
13 July 2012
02:55 GMT |
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Yahoo! has confirmed that the 450,000 email addresses and passwords leaked by hackers part of D33Ds Company are indeed taken from their servers.
“We confirm that an older file from Yahoo! Contributor Network (previously Associated Content) containing approximately 450,000 Yahoo! and other company users names a... |
13 July 2012
02:44 GMT |
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As NASA prepares to land astronauts on the surface of Mars by 2035, the agency still has a lot of objectives and studies to complete and perform. One challenge is feeding astronauts for prolonged periods of time, and a new, long-term simulation of how this can be done has just gotten underway. Hosted by experts at t... |
13 July 2012
02:44 GMT |
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Publisher Namco Bandai has revealed that it is careful to take into account the feedback coming from the fan base before deciding which titles it will localize for launch on Western markets, pushing Tales of Graces as an example of this approach.
Hideo Baba, who is the producer working on the Tales video game series... |
13 July 2012
02:44 GMT |
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After delaying it last week, Ubisoft has pinned a new release date on the Arctic Strike DLC for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, this time saying that it was going to launch it next week, on July 17, for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the shooter. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier came out back in May for the PS3 and Xbox 3... |
13 July 2012
02:39 GMT |
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According to a new research paper, published in the July 12 online issue of the top journal Science, it would appear that most of the water currently present on our planet was brought here by cosmic impacts, via asteroids and comets. This proposal has significant implications for understanding Earth.
Scientists who ... |
13 July 2012
02:26 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is reportedly gearing up for the release of a new quad-core smartphone in the One series, one that would land as the successor of HTC One X. The smartphone has emerged online in a series of benchmarks with model number PM63100 attached to it, while being called Evitareul... |
13 July 2012
02:20 GMT |
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Astronomers using the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) say that an impressive solar flare occurred earlier today, peaking at around 12:52 pm EDT (1652 GMT). Unlike the four recent solar flares that were produced last week, the new event did not originate from Active Region (AR) 1515.
According to scientists at ... |
13 July 2012
02:05 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is reportedly gearing up for the release of new high-end devices powered by Google’s Android operating system, and one of these should land on shelves at Verizon, it seems. The handset was spotted online with model number 6435LVW attached to it, Android 4.0.4 on bo... |
13 July 2012
01:51 GMT |
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Officials at Planetary Resources Inc., a billionaire-backed enterprise that seeks to develop methods of harvesting platinum-based minerals and other substances from near-Earth asteroids, announce that they have just signed a collaboration contract with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic.
The document stipul... |
13 July 2012
01:48 GMT |
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Using the Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on its Aqua satellite, the American space agency recently produced this amazing image of brush fires in eastern Oregon.
While some of these fires have been burning for a while, others were only discovered less than a week ago. NASA determine... |
13 July 2012
01:40 GMT |
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