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Following the success and huge popularity of the Motorola XOOM tablet, the US-based company announced the immediate availability of Motorola XOOM 2 and XOOM 2 Media Edition in Denmark.Both Wi-Fi only and 3G models of the tablet are now available for purchase through El-Giganten retail stores for the following prices:... |
14 May 2012
21:01 GMT |
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Despite the progress that publisher Electronic Arts has done with its digital strategy, one of the company’s leaders believes that it can do even more to link its big franchises, like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, with the social gaming and web browser space. Kristian Segerstrale, who is the vice president of di... |
14 May 2012
20:21 GMT |
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It appears that the Samsung Galaxy Proclaim that emerged a few days ago is not the only handset to be introduced by the South Korean handset maker in the following weeks.
Samsung Evan (GT-C3782) is another handset that will probably be quietly launched on some emerging markets. Even though this is a basic feature-ph... |
14 May 2012
20:01 GMT |
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Cliff Bleszinski, the creative director of Epic Games and the man behind franchises like Gears of War, has shared his thoughts on the current stage of Japanese games and revealed that many of them should feature some sort of multiplayer mode in order to attract Western players. While Japan dominated the gaming indus... |
14 May 2012
19:41 GMT |
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The Kickstarter funded Leisure Suit Larry reboot will aim to restore the reputation of the adventure games series after its image was heavily affected by the quality of the recent Box Office Bust and Magna Cum Laudae.
Al Lowe, who is the original creator of the Leisure Suit Larry concept, told Joystiq that, “T... |
14 May 2012
19:41 GMT |
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Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for T-Mobile USA's HTC Sensation 4G has finally received a release date. According to the carrier, beginning May 16 the optional update will be available for download free of charge.T-Mobile USA also notes that Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich will be pushed OTA (over the air), in ... |
14 May 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Spice Mobile is one of the most popular regional handset manufacturers in India. The company launched a slew of Android phones that continue to sell very well on the Indian market given their low price.
Although Spice smartphones do not stand out when it comes to hardware, they offer interesting features at an affor... |
14 May 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Capcom has just unveiled the launch trailer for Dragon’s Dogma, its upcoming role-playing game that will come out next week for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.Dragon’s Dogma is a pretty big gamble for Capcom, as the Japanese company wants to emulate the success of Western RPGs like Skyrim or Dragon Age with i... |
14 May 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Although Australian carrier Telstra announced it would offer the HTC One XL this month, the operator was forced to push back the release of the smartphone. So far, Telstra has not confirmed the exact availability of the One XL, but it did mention the handset would hit shelves sometime in June. However, Android fan... |
14 May 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix have confirmed that the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot has been delayed and will now arrive in the first quarter of 2013, not at the end of the current year.
The Tomb Raider series has been around for quite some time and its heroine, the lovely Lara Croft, went through several overhauls... |
14 May 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Although Nokia 808 PureView was officially launched in India two weeks ago, the Finnish company did not unveil the smartphone’s exact release date and price tag.
However, it appears that the folks over at NDTVGadgets heave learned that the Nokia India store website source code contains the PureView 808 price t... |
14 May 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Panasonic bet a lot on plasma TV sets, but the results of that go to show that you don't always win at gambling. The company now has to scramble to recover after a very hard 2011.
Like so many other companies, Panasonic has reported its financial results for the year 2011. Unlike most though, it didn't ha... |
14 May 2012
17:01 GMT |
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The NPD Group posted its results for April for the United States market late during last week, showing yet another decline of over 30 percent in sales when it comes to both hardware and software sales, and it seems that the drop is a symptom of a wider shift in the number of games that big publishers are ready to rel... |
14 May 2012
16:51 GMT |
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SketchBook Pro, a professional-grade paint and drawing application, has been promoted to version 2.5 to include the ability to randomize color for each stroke, quicker access to core functions, a palm rest, and more. Delivering a complete set of sketching and painting tools via an intuitive user interface tailored s... |
14 May 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Capcom has confirmed that it would finally release the previously announced patch for Street Fighter X Tekken this week, on May 16, in order to remove the array of infinite combos that can be pulled off by exploiting several glitches in the current game. Street Fighter X Tekken has sold quite a lot of units and Capc... |
14 May 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Although we already know Canadian carrier Koodo Mobile plans to offer the HTC One V sometime this month, there are no official details on the smartphone’s pricing and availability.
Well, it looks like a Koodo Mobile internal document confirms that One V will be available for only $225 CAD on no-term.
Unfortu... |
14 May 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Newsweek is out to shock and provoke debate again: its May 21 issue, out on newsstands today, has a “gay” President Obama on the cover, as you can very well see in the photo attached to this article. “The First Gay President” reads the caption, while a rainbow halo hovers above Obama's ... |
14 May 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Blizzard has begun rolling out Diablo III today, currently allowing European customers to install the game and soon giving them a chance to play it once the servers go live. As always, there are a few problems that have appeared, so read on to find out a few quick tips and tricks.First up, those that want to install ... |
14 May 2012
15:20 GMT |
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Lenovo's workstation line is always growing, even though it is already quite large, and now we get to lay our eyes on the ThinkStation E31 series. The ThinkStation E31 series has just two members, which are really the same hardware configuration with different clothing and luggage. The big one is a full tower... |
14 May 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Video game developer Overhaul Games has announced that Sam Hulick will be the composer tasked with adding new, original music tracks to the upcoming Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition.Sam Hulick is best known for the work he has done on the Mass Effect series from BioWare, where he has worked on all three core tit... |
14 May 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Blu-ray disks have been getting more and more popular lately, but 2012 might show a greater increase in global demand for them than ever.
As people may or may not know, about 210 million Blu-ray disks sold last year (2011).
One would think this demand was more than decent, but it's apparently small compared to... |
14 May 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Texas-based CPU designer Advanced Micro Devices, also known as AMD, is currently preparing and gathering stocks for the Q4 launch of the company’s first tablet targeted processor called Hondo. The chip is reportedly made at TSMC in the same 40 nm manufacturing process as Brazos 2.0.AMD’s long awaited Trin... |
14 May 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Russia-based security software vendor Kaspersky has been tapped by Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California to look into the major vulnerabilities in Mac OS X and help the company close them up [Update: see below].Speaking to Computing, CTO Nikolai Grebennikov said Kaspersky had already begun the process of analyzing the ... |
14 May 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Right on cue, Chromium 21 has landed the beginnings of the next major Chrome release. Chrome 20 still has some time to spend in the dev channel, but Chrome 21 is coming soon. Chrome developers are always adding new features, large and small.Recently, several patches have made their way into the open-source project th... |
14 May 2012
14:31 GMT |
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It appears that US-based carrier T-Mobile plans to kick off some BOGO (buy one get one for free) deals on several Android smartphones in its portfolio.
According to TmoNews, T-Mobile USA’s promotional offer will run from May 18 through May 26 and it includes BOGO deals on several devices, including myTouch, my... |
14 May 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Rockstar Games has just unveiled the two special Arcade Modes that are included in its upcoming Max Payne 3 third person shooter, in the form of the new Score Attack and the popular New York Minute, which returns from the last two games. Max Payne titles delivered gritty experiences with distinctly noire stories, bu... |
14 May 2012
14:21 GMT |
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“Pumping parties” are becoming more popular these days, despite the many warnings issued by professionals. If their words are not enough, Apryl Brown is willing to show the world what the effects of getting a back-alley procedure are. These parties are meetings in hotel room or apartments, where women de... |
14 May 2012
13:41 GMT |
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A new report has emerged stating that Apple developers have entered the final testing phase with near-complete builds of OS X Mountain Lion, as the Cupertino, California-based giant is gearing up to release the software. According to tapscape, “Developers have received near-final builds of Apple’s latest... |
14 May 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Google Street View is surprisingly controversial for such a seemingly mild product. After all, at its core, Street View is just an online photo gallery with a cool, though somewhat gimmicky, 360-degree view and phone-camera quality shots. Yet controversial it is, people are worried that their neighbors as well as an... |
14 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Samsung is updating its whole product line apparently, having revealed a new point-and-shoot camera around the same time that it started shipping the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 in the US.
The camera we are going to look at here is called WB850F and uses a 16.2 megapixel resolution CMOS sensor.
That is not it... |
14 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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As expected, Samsung introduced the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 in the United States. The slate is now available for purchase from major retailers across the country, such as Amazon, Best Buy, Tiger Direct, Walmart, Office Depot and others. According to Samsung, the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 can be purchased for a suggested retail pr... |
14 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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While everybody is waiting for Nvidia’s much anticipated LTE enabled Tegra chipsets, the company is strengthening its communications IP portfolio by jointly acquiring approximately 500 granted and pending patents in the wireless communications area, that were developed and owned by IPWireless. Nvidia’s p... |
14 May 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Small and medium businesses have a lot to gain through adopting cloud computing, a recent research from comScore - sponsored by Microsoft - shows. Not only would these companies benefit from important time and money savings when adopting the cloud, but they also see increased security levels, the aforementioned res... |
14 May 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Cloud computing opens a variety of new opportunities for a wide range of customers, and the latest research conducted by comScore on small and medium businesses shows that. Through adopting the cloud, SMBs register significant cost and time savings, so that they can better focus on other areas, the study shows. O... |
14 May 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Although HTC confirmed plans to release its One family globally, at least one US-based carrier won’t launch any HTC One devices.
HTC spokesman Jeff Gordon confirmed for Android Authority that Verizon won’t carry either of the HTC One devices in the near future.
Instead, the Big Red recently launched the... |
14 May 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Kartograph is a fresh new mapping toolkit for creating interactive maps using JavaScript, Python and SVG. It was especially designed to be used by designers, which want to spice up their maps with special effects, new coloring schemes and 3D perspectives. One of Kartograph's most important feature is its indep... |
14 May 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Affordable video card manufacturer Inno3D has been working lately on quite a few high-end video card designs. The company’s new GeForce GTX 670 iChill HerculeZ graphics card is reportedly based on a reference GTX 680 PCB with the GTX 670 GPU stuck on it. The cards working frequencies are closer to GTX 680 vi... |
14 May 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Sony is preparing the unveiling of new smartphones in the highly popular Xperia lineup, there’s no doubt about that. One of these could be the ST27i/ST27a smartphone, which was just spotted in UAProf listings, and which is said to feature the codename of Lotus. The ST27i version is supposedly set to hit she... |
14 May 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Kickstarter is threatening to become more famous than the projects it's supporting, never a good idea for something that's supposed to be a way for others to shine. The increased visibility of the last few months means that Kickstarter projects can now raise huge amounts of money and fast. But it also mean... |
14 May 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Fans waiting for Rihanna's video for “Where Have You Been” to drop must already be on the edge of their seat with anticipation, especially considering the massive teasers she's been dropping. Prepare for more. To get fans even more hyped about her upcoming video, which promises to boast both i... |
14 May 2012
11:30 GMT |
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Hitman: Sniper Challenge, the special game that’s going to be released tomorrow for those who pre-order Hitman: Absolution at GameStop, emphasizes replayability and will offer a great experience, according to IO Interactive, its developer. Fans of the Hitman series were treated with a very special announcement... |
14 May 2012
11:21 GMT |
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Next time we complain that, back in our day, music (and pretty much everything else) was better and awesomer, here's a kid who values the same kind of music that we grew up with. In fact, he seems to like it so much that he even plays drums to it in his sleep – and only afterwards does he wake up... to con... |
14 May 2012
11:15 GMT |
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Officials with the European Space Agency announced the successful recovery of a critically-important instrument on their Proba-1 (Project for On-Board Autonomy) satellite. The spacecraft's startracker was damaged by radiations over the course of science operations, but everything is back to normal now. Originall... |
14 May 2012
11:14 GMT |
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Here's a nice post for the mobile gaming enthusiasts: we've already listed the drivers for Gigabyte's latest gaming-dedicated notebook, dubbed P2542G.If you're looking for a nice laptop packing a sober and sleek look and massive processing power, the P2542G is definitely well worth taking a look ... |
14 May 2012
11:01 GMT |
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She might be this delicate creature in real life but, in the upcoming “Snow White and the Huntsman,” Kristen Stewart is not to be messed with. Just check out the latest video released to promote the film. Clocking in at just 42 seconds, the clip sees the “Twilight” beauty in full warrior Sno... |
14 May 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Pod2g seems keen to get 300K pulses rising today with a bunch of tweets regarding his progress on the iOS 5.1.1 front. His latest efforts have revealed that some iOS devices don’t yet support his vulnerability (despite earlier developments indicating that all of them were supported), but that the iPhone 4S is a... |
14 May 2012
11:00 GMT |
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You'd think that a lethal weapon that shoots bolts of electricity would be impossible to make without advanced facilities and the like, but we are now looking at the irrefutable proof that that's not the case. At all.
The Tesla gun is something whose purpose pretty much everyone can guess at. It's bee... |
14 May 2012
10:59 GMT |
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Modern lifestyle is causing the internal clocks governing our bodies to become out of sync with everyday realities. This condition, known as social jetlag, may be an important factor contributing to the spread of the obesity epidemic currently sweeping through the developed world.
Countries such as the United State... |
14 May 2012
10:56 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile is one of the US operators expected to bring to the market in the country the new Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone, and it appears that a UAProf for this device has just been spotted. Featuring model number Samsung SGH-T699, the handset packs a 720 x 1280-pixel touchscreen display and is po... |
14 May 2012
10:54 GMT |
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Georgian security researcher Ucha Gobejishvili has pointed out that AVG identifies many of the webpages of Panasonic Australia’s official blog as containing JavaScript Obfuscation, a method utilized by cybercriminals to mask their malicious elements. Curiously, when checked with Virus Total, the links appear t... |
14 May 2012
10:54 GMT |
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Michael Tremer, developer for ipfire.org team, has announced IPFire 2.11 Core 58, a new stable release of the popular a Linux-based firewall distribution. IPFire 2.11 Core 58 is only a minor release, covering a few security updates and various changes. The main change in the operating system is about cryptodev whic... |
14 May 2012
10:50 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, Petra Nemcova called off her engagement to Jamie Belman, whom she'd been dating for 8 months before he proposed. She is now back in the arms of her former flame, actor, director and activist Sean Penn. For about a month now, reports have been coming in about the two dating again, but it'... |
14 May 2012
10:49 GMT |
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Some experts proposed some time ago that the human brain might have a distinct area responsible for underlying spirituality and religious beliefs, called the God spot. A study conducted by experts at the University of Missouri says that no such area of the brain exists.
Rather, the team argues, the brain constructs... |
14 May 2012
10:42 GMT |
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People can be remarkably protective, or big worrywarts, or unbelievable control freaks so, naturally, companies want to cash in on those tendencies.
Fujitsu has introduced a special collar meant to be worn by dogs.
Light enough to be comfortably worn all the time, the collar counts how many steps the dog takes, the... |
14 May 2012
10:37 GMT |
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Jade Raymond, who is currently the leader of the new Toronto studio of Ubisoft, has said that the gaming industry needs to embrace innovation and the only way to do that is to get more publishers try and change the way the industry works. Raymond, one of the core developers behind the initial success of Assassin&rsq... |
14 May 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Netrunner, a GNU/Linux distribution based on Kubuntu, featuring KDE as the default desktop environment, and integrating many GNOME/GTK+ programs to make it Ubuntu compatible, is now at version 4.2 RC. Netrunner 4.2 RC, codenamed Dryland, was announced by the developers, but so far only the 32-bit version is availab... |
14 May 2012
10:32 GMT |
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While there are plenty of people out to stop them, pirates don't seem too bothered. For all its attempts, all of Hollywood's latest flicks end up on BitTorrent and are quickly snatched up by movie-loving pirates. 21 Jump Street was the most popular movie on BitTorrent last week, aka the most downloaded. Th... |
14 May 2012
10:30 GMT |
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Peugeot, the world renowned car manufacturer, has been targeted by a hacker known as UR0B0R0X. He defaced a number of Argentinian sites, including peugeotargentina.com.ar, one of the company's official domains.
Cyber War News informs that the list of victims is made up of:
- comunicacionpeugeot.com.ar
- grandp... |
14 May 2012
10:28 GMT |
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François Dupoux announced a couple of days ago, May 12th, a new release of his popular SystemRescueCd Linux-based operating system for rescue and recovery tasks. SystemRescueCd 2.7.0 comes with important changes and improvements, such as: · Updated the standard Linux kernel package to version 3.2.16 ... |
14 May 2012
10:26 GMT |
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For people seeking to set up a SMB server or a data center, QNAP has made a pair of Turbo NAS (network-attached storage) devices called TS-EC1679U-RP and TS-1679U-RP. The former is a 16-drive 3U rackmount unit run by a quad-core Intel Xeon E3-1225 processor (3.1 GHz clock speed). DDR3 ECC RAM backs up the chip and ... |
14 May 2012
10:22 GMT |
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Investigators with the Columbia University New York State Psychiatric Institute determined in a new study that suffering from anxiety makes bipolar disorder patients experience more severe symptoms.
In other words, anxiety tends to worsen aspects of BPD, such as the number and seriousness of suicidal thoughts, the ... |
14 May 2012
10:13 GMT |
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It seems that when veteran experts like the guys from amdmb.com (now pcperspective.com) talk, Nvidia listens, and when they ask questions the IC design company answers. Nvidia reportedly left out the driver support for Quad-SLI for its GeForce GTX 670 video cards.The cards do feature the obvious dual SLI connectors a... |
14 May 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Samsung’s Galaxy S III smartphone is nearing its official debut on shelves at the end of this month, and it is currently undergoing testing from various certified agencies around the world. The Global Certification Forum is the latest of these to approve the new mobile phone for use around the world. The sm... |
14 May 2012
10:11 GMT |
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UK-based carrier T-Mobile confirmed it would release the Samsung Galaxy S III on May 30. Customers will be able to purchase the smartphone for £49.99 ($80 or €60) on a new 24-month plan with £36 monthly charge.
The carrier’s Full Monty plan that can be paired with Samsung Galaxy S III will off... |
14 May 2012
10:00 GMT |
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A leaked component reportedly stemming from iPhone 5 prototype units has given birth to intense speculation regarding the phone’s design. Sold under the name “Earphone Jack/ Ear Speaker/ WIFI Cable For iPhone 5,” the component shows clear differences when compared to the same hardware inside the iP... |
14 May 2012
09:59 GMT |
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Michael Pachter, who is an analyst watching the video game industry for Wedbush Morgan, has stated that Jack Tretton, the leader of the United States division of Sony, is personally opposing to using technology to block players from running used games. The analyst says that the Chief Executive Officer has personally... |
14 May 2012
09:59 GMT |
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Scam operations launched by Nigerian crooks, also known as 419 scams, have been around ever since email was invented, but more recently, US residents are being bombarded with shady calls from Jamaica, informing them that they’ve won a lottery.
Users are warned that lottery plots don’t arrive only via ema... |
14 May 2012
09:55 GMT |
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Celebrities have made a “tradition” of selling the first photos of their offspring to the media. Jessica Simpson is said to have already struck a deal for an exclusive with People magazine, but a date for its publication has not been revealed yet. Celebuzz says that Jess was offered $800,000 (€621,... |
14 May 2012
09:47 GMT |
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Experts with the Scripps Research Institute, in Florida, say they have made significant progress in understanding how we forget things. The biology underlying this process has remained a mystery for years, despite scientists' best efforts to unravel it.
What made matters worse was the fact that forgetting has ... |
14 May 2012
09:42 GMT |
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Yahoo has had one tumultuous week culminating in the ouster of its latest CEO Scott Thompson. The Yahoo board went with him and what follows is yet another transition period for the company. However, there may be some unexpected consequences to the move concerning the patent lawsuit against Facebook.
A couple of mon... |
14 May 2012
09:40 GMT |
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Asus is still struggling to release the 3-in-one Padfone device and now we have new information that points to another Padfone model, which is expected to arrive on the market in the following months.
Although Asus confirmed it would launch a 4G version of Padfone late this year, we did not expect the company to kee... |
14 May 2012
09:37 GMT |
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Sources in the Far East handling prototype components and casings for the a new MacBook Pro have confirmed Apple’s rumored plans to take the notebook industry by storm with a 15-inch Retina display, support for USB 3.0, and a killer design made possible through the exclusion of the optical disc drive. Contrary... |
14 May 2012
09:33 GMT |
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Liberté Linux, a secure, lightweight and easy to use Gentoo-based LiveUSB/SD/CD Linux distribution with the primary purpose of enabling anyone to communicate safely and covertly in hostile environments, is now at version 2012.1. Liberté Linux 2012.1 brings a lot of changes, ranging from a brand new Li... |
14 May 2012
09:33 GMT |
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You'd think that a bankrupt maker of photo and video cameras and film wouldn't have too many secrets, and definitely nothing darker than cut financial corners and maybe a quiet deal or two, but you'd be wrong.
Kodak used to possess its very own nuclear reactor. That's right, that once great comp... |
14 May 2012
09:32 GMT |
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Even though some fans (they of team Charlie Sheen) hoped season 9 of “Two and a Half Men” would also be its last, and despite a dip in ratings in the second half of the same season, the sitcom has been renewed. All three members of the cast, Ashton Kutcher, Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones will return to rep... |
14 May 2012
09:29 GMT |
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Unveiled a few days ago, Samsung Omnia M smartphone is aimed at European consumers and is expected to arrive in the following weeks.
The handset has just popped up in Italy and seems to be available for pre-order for a suggested retail price of €300 (385 USD). However, the Italian retailer ePrice does not revea... |
14 May 2012
09:19 GMT |
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Asrock unveils a new board based on the Dual-Core Atom technology and running with the D2550 CPU. The new motherboard is codenamed AD2550B-ITX and we've already listed drivers, BIOS and utilities for it, for free download.
The AD2550B-ITX can be a very good choice for those looking to build a new system with a ... |
14 May 2012
09:12 GMT |
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Jada Pinkett Smith, her mother Adrienne Banfield-Jones, and her daughter Willow Smith, sat down for an interview for Mother's Day, the first in a series called Red Table Talks. You can see it below, embedded at the end of the article. The interview is like no other before, in that it puts the three women of th... |
14 May 2012
09:06 GMT |
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As long as there have been pirates, there have been people trying to stop them. Most of the time that's via lawsuits, draconian legislation, all sorts of blocks, limits and artificial hurdles for legitimate buyers, and generally spoiling everyone's fun, artist, pirate, or buyer alike.
But from time to time... |
14 May 2012
09:04 GMT |
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Motorola has gone on record again to announce that two of its tablets have reached Finnish stores, specifically the El-Gigantii chain, so prospective buyers can rush to shops and get them. The slates in question are called Motorola XOOM 2 and Motorola XOOM 2 Media Edition and have prices of 399 upwards. To be mor... |
14 May 2012
09:01 GMT |
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The RSC Energia Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft is ready for takeoff, experts at the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) announced earlier today. Launch is scheduled to occur at 0301 GMT on Tuesday, May 15, aboard a Soyuz FG delivery system.
NASA astronaut Joseph M. Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Ser... |
14 May 2012
09:00 GMT |
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Reddit features the interesting story of an individual who claims he is a botnet operator and a malware developer.
He starts his story by saying that he manages a customized ZeuS botnet made up of around 10,000 bots, which he uses for IRC, distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks and Bitcoin mining. As expected... |
14 May 2012
08:59 GMT |
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Apple is readying an ultra-thin version of its longstanding 15-inch MacBook Pro equipped with a “jaw dropping” Retina display and USB 3.0 ports, according to trusted sources speaking to 9to5mac. Citing their contacts, the Apple-centric site reports that a new 15-inch MacBook Pro is coming this summer, an... |
14 May 2012
08:59 GMT |
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A listing from ShopTo, one of the leading online retailers in the United Kingdom, has suggested that the newly revealed LEGO Lord of the Rings might be launched on October 26 of this year. The placeholder pre-order page has since been taken down and only talked about an Xbox 360 version of LEGO Lord of the Rings and... |
14 May 2012
08:44 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has just cut the price tag of its Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX smartphone by $100. The carrier has been rumored recently to plan reducing the cost for this device, and it appears that it has done so today. A banner on the main Verizon Wireless website shows the new offer, and cli... |
14 May 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Memory cards are common nowadays, but there are certain scenarios where they can't really serve, even though they would be perfect due to their size, capacity and performance.
Gadgets and phones don't really demand too high an endurance from SDHC cards, but industrial applications are different.
Most ofte... |
14 May 2012
08:33 GMT |
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Snooki and Kim Kardashian, together with millions others from around the world, have already criticized Patricia Krenticil, aka Tanning Mom, the New Jersey woman who looks as if she was just dipped in chocolate. Nadya Suleman, though, is more concerned about Patricia's kids. Tanning Mom was recently arrested a... |
14 May 2012
08:23 GMT |
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There was a time when people were preoccupied with DVD authoring, and I was one of them, trying to create more and more elaborated menus and covers. It became somehow a lot less important over the years, but after trying DVDStyler I feel the urge to start all over again. Before going into details about DVDStyler, w... |
14 May 2012
08:21 GMT |
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The large number of malicious websites designed to infect Android devices with the well-known Android:FakeInst SMS Trojan have made Avast security experts issue another warning to alert users of its presence. They also advise smartphone owners to beware of shady-looking alternative Android app markets.
Research... |
14 May 2012
08:15 GMT |
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Well-known motherboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company Gigabyte was reportedly scoured by nosy enthusiasts who managed to unveil the complete details about the company’s most powerful GTX 680 card. The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 WindForce 5X video card comes with a very special custom PCB (printed circuit board)... |
14 May 2012
08:15 GMT |
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Video game developer EA Sports and the official National Hockey League have announced that the NHL 13 cover vote has reached the quarter final sequence and that the brackets for the semifinals and the finals have been decided.Bracket A sees Claude Giroux vs. Anze Kopitar and the winner will face the athlete who emerg... |
14 May 2012
08:14 GMT |
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Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that its Dynamics CRM is coming to mobile devices as well, in an attempt to provide increased flexibility to its customers. In March, Microsoft announced that Dynamics CRM Mobile will be launched as part of an upgrade to the service planned for the second quarter of the year, ... |
14 May 2012
08:09 GMT |
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Sapphire decided this was a good time for one of Advanced Micro Devices' high-end graphics cards to get new cooling, so it put the Dual-X to work.
Dual-X is a video board cooler that, as its name implies, boasts a couple of fans.
It isn't the most advanced of coolers, but it works just fine as a means to ... |
14 May 2012
08:06 GMT |
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Another day, another analyst sharing his thoughts on the launch of Grand Theft Auto V. This time, Baird’s Colin Sebastian has revealed that GTA V won’t be released this year because Rockstar wants to deploy it right at the beginning of 2013.
Grand Theft Auto V is by far one of the biggest titles that are... |
14 May 2012
08:05 GMT |
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Scientists based at the Rockefeller University in New York say that mathematics and geometric patterns are present in the natural world in unexpected forms. They apparently connect structure to function in leaves, which may help explain why the latter are so beautiful.
It's important to note here that the human... |
14 May 2012
08:05 GMT |
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The highly-acclaimed PC title game Machinarium has just arrived in the Google Play Store and is now available for download. Although the game was specially designed to work on Android tablets with 1024 x 600 or 1280 x 800 pixels resolution, Machinarium works well on newer phones that boast large displays supporting ... |
14 May 2012
08:04 GMT |
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The 4G-capable iPads sold by Apple are no longer listed under the dubbing ‘iPad WiFi + 4G’ following international criticism regarding the tablet’s wireless capabilities.To make a really long story short, Apple’s 4G claims are being disputed in courts around the world because of customers clai... |
14 May 2012
08:00 GMT |
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Blender 2.63a has been released recently and it is a bugfix update, so its purpose is to eliminate a consistent set of problems that came with the stable version of the suite, which was delivered to the users about three weeks ago.
It is a pretty important maintenance build as it does away with more than 100 bugs. I... |
14 May 2012
07:41 GMT |
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Samsung Galaxy S III has been confirmed for May 30 with an Exynos chipset on board, though the North American variant is expected to be shipped with a different all-in-one chipset solution.
There are speculations that indicate the Galaxy S III will be released in the United States with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4... |
14 May 2012
07:39 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that Twitter is being flooded with shady looking posts that contain links to websites hosted on .tk domains. These websites hide malicious elements that target not only PC users, but also Android owners. GFI Labs experts report that while PC users are served broken .jar files, Android custo... |
14 May 2012
07:34 GMT |
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Hi-Rez Studios, the developer of the recently launched Tribes: Ascend, has announced that it is launching a series of tournaments under the Summer of Tribes name, which are set to take place between May and August, which will be streamed via the Internet with commentary via TwitchTV.
The series of Tribesc tournament... |
14 May 2012
07:33 GMT |
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Sony Xperia S was officially unveiled about five months ago at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, along with Xperia ion.
Although the smartphone was confirmed to be launched with Android 2.3 Gingerbread out of the box, Sony Mobile stated that the Xperia S would receive an Ice Cream Sandwich up... |
14 May 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Hacker extraordinaire Pod2g has confirmed plans to roll out his jailbreak for iOS 5.1.x iterations (and below) which reportedly works on “all” devices. That’s right, not only has Pod2g finally ceded to the community’s cries, but the hacker has managed to pull his jailbreak off on all iOS devi... |
14 May 2012
07:26 GMT |
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Iran has long been blocking plenty of foreign websites, the large US ones in particular. Google, Facebook, Twitter are all blocked either permanently or intermittently. Of course, as anyone with even the slightest tech-savviness will tell you, filters, even the most sophisticated ones, can be relatively easily bypass... |
14 May 2012
07:20 GMT |
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Samsung’s Galaxy S III smartphone, its latest Android-based flagship device, is expected to arrive on shelves in the United States sometime in summer, but those who can hardly wait for it can already reserve a unit for the launch day. When unveiling the new smartphone, Samsung announced that it would hit shel... |
14 May 2012
07:11 GMT |
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If we're to believe photographer Terry Richardson, Lady Gaga is engaged and probably thinking about the day she'll be walking down the aisle as we speak. He “broke” the happy news on his official page. Richardson is now accompanying Gaga on her tour and, as expected, he's posting the best... |
14 May 2012
07:10 GMT |
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During the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) that took place in Oakland, USA, Thomas Bushnell from Google talked about how Ubuntu is used by Google developers. It appears that Goobuntu is a Linux distribution, based on the LTS releases Ubuntu, used by tens of thousands of Google employees, in... |
14 May 2012
07:05 GMT |
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Uncharted 3 is going to receive a major update later this month, in the form of patch 1.11, which introduces the popular Lab mode that should spice things up in the multiplayer of the action adventure game. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was the first game in the series to get a multiplayer mode, and Naughty Dog soon in... |
14 May 2012
07:01 GMT |
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The Debian project proudly announced a couple of days ago, May 12th, the immediate availability for download of the fifth maintenance release of the Debian 6 Linux operating system. Debian 6.0.5 brings fixes to various security issues, as well as improvements to some serious problems. Some of the packages included in... |
14 May 2012
07:01 GMT |
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In case you were bored with the old FBI warning and anti-piracy notifications that you were presented with before the start of a movie, fear not. The US government issued a couple of brand-new copyright notices that are designed not only to inform users on the fact that piracy is illegal, but also to educate them.
U... |
14 May 2012
06:52 GMT |
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It’s been more than a year since Asus made the Padfone official, though the company is still struggling to introduce it on the market.
To sweeten the wait, Asus added various capabilities and new accessories to the package. So far, there are at least three additional accessories that can be attached to the Pad... |
14 May 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has confirmed that all the boxed copies of Diablo III, which is set to launch tomorrow, will include at least one Guest Pass that will allow the gamer to give friends a Starter Edition of the game for free.
The Starter Edition will enable gamers to explore the entire Act I of the game u... |
14 May 2012
06:10 GMT |
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Recent posts on GeekBench, a cross-platform processor benchmark, indicate there are at least two new Macintosh computers coming out of Cupertino this summer.Posts from May 10th and May 13th show entries for a new iMac13,2 and a “MacBookPro9,1’ respectively, running Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.On the deskt... |
14 May 2012
06:06 GMT |
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Experts from the University of Science and Technology of China in Shanghai, led by scientist Juan Yin, have recently been able to teleport photons through free space, over a distance of 97 kilometers (58 miles).
With this achievement, they demonstrated that it might soon become possible to establish quantum communic... |
14 May 2012
06:04 GMT |
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Tennis pro Serena Williams is switching it up. One year ago, rumor broke that she was recording music in a Florida studio and, now, samples of the first track have emerged online. You can listen to it below, embedded at the end of this post. TMZ says there is more where this one came from, which can only mean tha... |
14 May 2012
05:59 GMT |
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Hotmail customers are advised to be on the lookout for emails entitled “E-mail account alert!” which notify them that their accounts have been blocked. These messages hide a link which points to a malicious website that urges the potential victim to provide his login credentials. Here’s part of the... |
14 May 2012
05:53 GMT |
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The old adage knowledge is power is as true as ever especially as knowledge becomes more abundant online. While it may seem that more knowledge available to more people means a more equal distribution of "power," the key is understanding all that knowledge, or better said information, and knowing how to use it to you... |
14 May 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Stanford University investigators have created a new type of retinal implant, which can partially restore vision in people who suffer from the effects of accidents or medical conditions. The implants contain photovoltaic cells, which means that they can be powered by light.
The designers of the medical device say t... |
14 May 2012
05:47 GMT |
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Diablo III is finally here, ready to ruin the lives of millions of fans for the next few weeks and, if that wasn’t enough, gamers can also get their hands on Max Payne 3 from Rockstar.
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Diablo III - Blizzard - 15/5/2012
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City - Capcom - 18/5/2012
Agricultural Simulator - Hist... |
14 May 2012
05:47 GMT |
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After leaking an iPhone SIM card tray, an electronics parts supplier has put out on sale a headphone jack allegedly pertaining to the same next-generation iPhone. The same source leaking a SIM card tray supposedly coming from production-ready iPhone 5 units, sw-box.com now has an “Earphone Jack/ Ear Speaker/ W... |
14 May 2012
05:33 GMT |
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Max Payne 3 is close to its release, so developer Rockstar Games has now revealed the launch trailer for the new third-person shooter, focusing squarely on Max and his troubled life. Max Payne 3 is set to introduce a new chapter in the popular shooter series and we've already seen plenty of screenshots and vide... |
14 May 2012
05:31 GMT |
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A team of experts believes that thermal computers would be a lot more energy-efficient than current devices in this class. They say that the new electronics would run on heat, rather than the flow of electrons through a circuit.
In modern computers, heat is the main problems. As processors and other components are ... |
14 May 2012
05:31 GMT |
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Japanese Matsushita Corporation, owner of the famous Panasonic brand, has decided to participate at the Tokyo Hotaru Festival in a very special way. The company reportedly celebrated the old Tokyo Firefly Festival by using 100,000 special LED lights. Panasonic created a special kind of orb called an "Inoriboshi" t... |
14 May 2012
05:30 GMT |
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The recruitment site of the North Las Vegas Police Department (joinnlvpd.com) was once again breached by the Pakistani hackers from the ZCompany Hacking Crew. The reason behind this hack is the same as always. The ZComapny group is protesting against NATO and United States operations in Pakistan. “We can see... |
14 May 2012
05:22 GMT |
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Samsung’s Galaxy Note is now available for purchase in the UK for only £21 per month with contract agreements on T-Mobile’s network. The offer was launched over at The Carphone Warehouse, and will run only until May 17th, the retailer announced. In addition to Samsung’s larges smartphone to... |
14 May 2012
05:16 GMT |
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Lark Voorhies is known for playing teen princess Lisa Turtle on the hit syndicated show “Saved by the Bell” but, these days, she's mostly getting people talking for her altered looks. She's barely recognizable in her latest. Voorhies, who is now working on a new project and is overseeing her ow... |
14 May 2012
05:14 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has announced that it plans to add cross-realm zones to the beta stage of the Mists of Pandaria expansion for its World of Warcraft MMO in order to improve the game experience for both old and new players.
The new zones will allow all players to meet and then group with a bigger number ... |
14 May 2012
04:59 GMT |
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Being able to recharge your mobile devices as you do everyday tasks is something that was recently brought closer to reality by experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
Scientists here announce the creation of an electricity generator that uses harmles... |
14 May 2012
04:58 GMT |
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Sony has revealed the trophy list for Resistance: Burning Skies, ahead of its launch on the PlayStation Vita this month, showing off what players need to accomplish in order to boost their online reputation.
Resistance: Burning Skies is out this month on the PlayStation Vita handheld platform, promising to deliver a... |
14 May 2012
04:57 GMT |
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Lumia 900, the latest Windows Phone flagship device from the Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia, is getting ready to arrive on shelves at Tele2 in Sweden as soon as next week. The smartphone was already listed on Tele2’s website with said availability date next to it, for free on monthly plans that start at 289... |
14 May 2012
04:55 GMT |
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Union Savings Bank (USB) representatives noticed that some of the debit cards issued by the financial institution were used to commit fraud that leveraged prepaid cards. They determined that the account information utilized by the fraudsters was stolen as a result of the Global Payments incident.
According to securi... |
14 May 2012
04:51 GMT |
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They might have had an unconventional life but they always seemed very happy. Now, Nancy and Thomas Beatie, he who will for ever be known as the Pregnant Man after he gave birth to 3 children even though legally a man, are getting a divorce – and a new video shows why. As we also reported some time ago, Beatie... |
14 May 2012
04:45 GMT |
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Glasses with built-in displays and/or cameras already exist, which means that pairs with augmented reality functions are just one step away.
Sure, that one step might not be the smallest in history, but it's still just one step. Google has already introduced its idea for taking it.
Dubbed Project Glass, it h... |
14 May 2012
04:41 GMT |
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As we've established in our previous article, storage density is not going to increase any faster in the following years and as such, the performance bumps will be mediocre at best. When it comes to hybrid drives, WD openly exposes Seagate’s rip-off, as the company admits the fact that a 20 to 1 ratio bet... |
14 May 2012
04:40 GMT |
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Video game developer Valve has announced that The International Dota 2 Championships 2012 will take place during the PAX Prime event in Seattle, allowing the best players in the world to go up against each other and fans of the game to come watch some spectacular matches.
PAX Prime will take place between August 31 ... |
14 May 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Well, that was fun, while it lasted. Yahoo's latest CEO Scott Thompson, just two months on the job, is out the door. The non-existent computer science degree which he listed on his official bio and also the documents sent to the SEC were the reason for his dismissal. He's not the only one gone, the entire b... |
14 May 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Bethesda has confirmed that its upcoming Dishonored game on the PC will be made available via Valve’s Steam digital distribution platform and will make use of the Steamworks suite of services.
We’ve learned quite a few things about Dishonored in recent weeks, the newest project from Arkane Studios that w... |
14 May 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Finnish carrier DNA has just confirmed it will offer the Nokia 808 PureView within the next days. The smartphone is available for €552 ($710) on a 24-month contract, and €540 ($695) on a 12-month contract.
It appears that Finnish carriers do not subsidize their handsets, so customers who purchase new phone... |
14 May 2012
04:21 GMT |
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A team of investigators in the United States has recently managed to discover the origins of a critically important class of proteins in plants. Their discovery could result in improved crop yields, increased food security, and advancements in biomedicine, nutrition and renewable biofuels.
The origin of the chalcon... |
14 May 2012
04:20 GMT |
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Ashton Kutcher, the leading actor in an indie biopic based on the life of a young Steve Jobs, has been spotted dressed in the Apple co-founder’s flagship turtleneck-and-jeans outfit as he was on his way to the movie set. Photographed carrying a drink as he was heading towards the set, Kutcher seems to have tak... |
14 May 2012
04:19 GMT |
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One of the hottest topics of last week was the cover for the latest issue of TIME magazine, which featured mom Jamie Lynne Grumet and her son Aram (almost 4), whom she was breastfeeding. She says she plans to do it for another year. What she's doing is called attached parenting and is, according to some expert... |
14 May 2012
04:14 GMT |
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The 13 year-old hacker known as s3rver.exe wanted to demonstrate once again that government websites were highly insecure. To prove his point, he breached a couple of sites from completely different parts of the world: the Albanian Copyright Office (zshda.gov.al) and Australian Department of Education and Child Devel... |
14 May 2012
04:07 GMT |
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After the release of the first beta build for version 4.20, earlier this month, WinRAR development continues with the distribution of the second beta, which is very modest with the list of changes. This release focuses on further improving the compression speed in multi-core environment, compared to what the first b... |
14 May 2012
03:56 GMT |
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After her spectacular comeback into the spotlight at the Grammys this year, which put an end to months of bad health and severe vocal issues, Adele went under the radar again. She recently broke her silence by sitting down for a no-holds-barred interview with Matt Lauer. It will air in full next month but, until th... |
14 May 2012
03:45 GMT |
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University of Hertfordshire expert David Pinfield led an international team of astronomers that was recently able to discover an ultra-cool, brown dwarf-class star. The object, located relatively nearby, may help astronomers make better distinctions between brown dwarfs and gas giant-class planets.
Pinfield says tha... |
14 May 2012
03:44 GMT |
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Sony is gearing up for the release of three new smartphones on the market in Malaysia, namely the Xperia P, Xperia U and Xperia sola. All three devices run under Google’s Android 2.3 operating system (expected to taste Ice Cream Sandwich soon), and all three of them will land on shelves in the country in a we... |
14 May 2012
03:34 GMT |
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Hackers from Team Dig7tal gained unauthorized access to the systems of University of New Brunswick by leveraging an SQL Injection vulnerability. After they leaked some data, they’ve sent emails to the institution’s staff to notify them of the breach. “I did not take nor did I leak any of the studen... |
14 May 2012
03:33 GMT |
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There are a whole bunch of different display technologies powering today's displays, but the ones that haven't gone into use are often the most interesting.
Matt Bell's water-based display screen, if it can be called such, is probably one of the most unusual methods of creating pixels yet.
In his ow... |
14 May 2012
03:26 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of an investigation conducted by scientists at the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI), it would appear that Vesta, the largest asteroid ever discovered in the solar system, was impacted by space rocks as recent as 1 billion years ago.
Until now, it was believed that the surface of the ... |
14 May 2012
03:21 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is gearing up for the release of a new handset in its Desire lineup, namely the HTC Desire C, which made an appearance online only recently. Apparently, the smartphone is bound to arrive on shelves at Vodafone in the near future; at least this is what newly leaked documen... |
14 May 2012
03:08 GMT |
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Simon Cowell has found the fourth judge for his new US show, X Factor, which will kick off its second season later this year. Former Disney star Demi Lovato has just signed on the dotted line, it has emerged. An official confirmation is still pending, but TMZ claims to have it on very good authority that it's ... |
14 May 2012
02:55 GMT |
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Acer is apparently preparing the launch of a new handset on the US market, none other than the Liquid Glow, a new listing at the FCC shows. The US agency has approved the smartphone for use in the country with model number E330 attached to it, but let slip no other details on its specs. The Android 4.0 Ice Cream ... |
14 May 2012
02:44 GMT |
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UGNazi hackers, the ones who usually protest against the United States government by launching distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against major websites, changed their tactics. This time they breached the site of the Washington Military Department (mi.wa.gov). From the website’s databases, the hacker... |
14 May 2012
02:44 GMT |
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Netbooks fell almost as fast as they grew, in reputation, but that doesn't mean that there are no people buying them anymore, and Intel knows it.
Ever since tablets and, more recently, ultrabooks rose in profile, news about netbooks has been scarce, for several reasons.
PC makers have been launching fewer, fo... |
14 May 2012
02:37 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is preparing the launch of some new S40 handsets for the coming months, to complement the availability of high-end Windows Phone devices such as the Lumia 900. One of these is the Nokia 311, which was spotted in leaked images only several days ago, and which has made another appeara... |
14 May 2012
02:28 GMT |
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Galaxy S III, the latest flagship Android-based mobile phone from Samsung, is expected to make an appearance on shelves in the United States this summer, via various wireless carriers out there. One of these would be Verizon, and its own version of the device was just spotted on a Benchmarking website, sporting mod... |
14 May 2012
01:49 GMT |
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