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Download Nvidia GeForce 302.17 Driver for Linux

Nvidia has announced yesterday, June 15th, the immediate availability for download of the 302.17 version of its graphics driver for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD operating systems. Nvidia 302.17 video driver brings lots of changes, new features and many improvements over previous versions, which greatly improves the o...

16 June 2012
20:11 GMT

“Temple Run: Brave” for Android Now Available for Download

Imangi Studio and Disney/Pixar have teamed up to offer Android users a new and improved version of “Temple Run,” one of the most popular games available in the Google Play store.“Temple Run” for iOS and Android platforms has millions of downloads, so it won't come as a surprise of the new...

16 June 2012
19:31 GMT

HTC One S Arrives in India with 1.7 Ghz Dual-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 CPU

Although HTC One S was originally slated for a June 8 release in India, the smartphone made it on the market this weekend. Android fans living in India can purchase the HTC One S for as low as Rs 33,000 (595 USD or 470 EUR) outright. The smartphone is available via leading retailers across the country.Keep in mind th...

16 June 2012
19:01 GMT

Quick Look: Game of Thrones Mod for Crusader Kings II

Crusader Kings II is a Paradox Interactive made grand strategy title that deals with the power struggles of the early Middle Ages, with a focus on family dealings, betrayal, diplomacy and interactions between characters with their own agendas and personalities. The world of A Song of Ice and Fire tells a complex sto...

16 June 2012
18:11 GMT

Motorola MOTOSMART PLUS Lands in Chile

Made official back in January at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 trade fair, Motorola MOTOLUXE has been launched on the market two months later.The mid-budget Android phone is currently available in most markets across the globe, but under different names. Motorola Mobility recently announced the immediate availab...

16 June 2012
18:01 GMT

Dual-SIM ID-918 Android Phone Goes on Sale in India via Idea Cellular

Indian carrier Idea Cellular has just announced the immediate availability of the affordable ID-918 Android smartphone.Customers in India can now purchase the handset thorough Idea Cellular stores and leading retailers across the country for only Rs 5,994 (110 USD or 85 EUR).It is also worth mentioning that as a spec...

16 June 2012
17:11 GMT

Mobilicity and WIND Mobile Roll Out Android 4.0 ICS for HTC Amaze

Regional carriers WIND Mobile and Mobilicity have just announced the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update is now available for HTC Amaze.According to both carriers, the update is now being pushed OTA (over the air), so HTC Amaze owners should manually check for the Android 4.0 ICS upgrade by going to Settings / Abou...

16 June 2012
16:50 GMT

Facebook for Android Gets Minor Bug Fix Update

Facebook has just updated its Android client, but don't expect any new features or overall improvements that might enhance the application's performance.Instead developers simply confirmed the latest version of Facebook for Android has just received some bug fixes. Unfortunately, there are no details on the...

16 June 2012
16:06 GMT

TELUS Confirms Android 4.0 ICS for Samsung Galaxy Note Arrives on July 13

This is the third or the fourth time that Canadian carrier TELUS refreshes it device OS upgrade schedule. Obviously, this is a good thing as long as the estimated release dates for various mobile platform updates are correct.The newest information confirmed by TELUS concerns Samsung's Galaxy Note smartphone, whi...

16 June 2012
15:39 GMT

How to Upgrade to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

Apple says upgrading to the next Mac OS won’t require you to “visit a store, bring home a box, and install a bunch of discs.” The new way to upgrade your Mac OS is to click the Mac App Store icon on your Mac, buy Mountain Lion when it’s released, “and your Mac does the rest.” To b...

16 June 2012
15:21 GMT

Weekend Reading: Hate It or Love It, E3 Is the Most Important Gaming Expo

E3 2012 closed its doors last week and, while it “only” managed to draw in around 45,000 attendants, it has once again demonstrated that it’s the most important gaming convention out there, with all sorts of companies showing off their future plans and games, ranging from Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo...

16 June 2012
15:21 GMT

Weekend Reading: E3 2012 Was Not a Disappointment in Any Way

Even if E3 2012 takes place for just three days in June in Los Angeles, for hardcore gamers it represents the biggest event of the year, a magical period when the future is wide open and anyone can take a peek at the biggest announcements linked to hardware and software for the coming year and beyond. Many came away...

16 June 2012
15:01 GMT

Motorola QWERTY Slider for Sprint Spotted in the Wild

Motorola Mobility and Verizon Wireless have a long history of partnerships. The handset maker released most of its Android phones in United States through Verizon.However, the next new device expected to arrive in the States will be released at Sprint, not Verizon. Although we don't a name to attach to this leak...

16 June 2012
14:33 GMT

Find Out What Twitter Is Saying About England's EURO 2012 Team

With EURO 2012 in full swing, everyone's got an opinion about the teams, the players, the referees, the coaches, the stadiums, everything and everyone. If you're a football fan, you're probably keeping up with the official commentary, what the experts say and so on. But why trust the experts to tell y...

16 June 2012
13:11 GMT

Ice Cream Sandwich Arrives on Sony Tablet P

Sony has made available for download the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich platform for yet another device that landed on shelves last year, namely Sony Tablet P. The update was expected to arrive on devices roughly a month ago, but it seems that Sony had some issues with it, and had to push back the roll-out. This ...

16 June 2012
12:11 GMT

Script of the Day: dotCMS

dotCMS is a commercial grade open source Java content management system (CMS). Built on top of the old Liferay Java portal, dotCMS is a perfect tool for running hundreds of websites with thousands of users from one CMS installation. Recently reaching its 2.x series, the CMS is now mobile friendly, much faster and mu...

16 June 2012
12:01 GMT

Windows 8’s Calendar App Gets Detailed

Windows 8 has been long said to arrive on devices with a great deal of enhancements, which make it fit for the title of “mobile platform”, such as the People app that was detailed only a few days ago. Today, Microsoft offers an overview of another application that is meant to deliver a great experience ...

16 June 2012
12:01 GMT

Download Exchange Server 2010 Monitoring Management Pack 14.02.0247.005

On Friday, Microsoft made available for download a new flavor of its Exchange Server 2010 Monitoring Management Pack, namely version 14.02.0247.005. The pack was designed as a set of scripts and rules that enable a more effective monitoring of Exchange 2010, while also providing reports on performance, availability...

16 June 2012
11:41 GMT

Wine 1.4.1 Fixes Blizzard’s Launcher and Installer

Alexandre Julliard, the leader of the Wine project, announced yesterday, June 15th, that a new stable version of the famous framework used to run Windows applications on Linux, is available for download. Wine 1.4.1 is the first point release of the stable Wine 1.4 branch, bringing only bug fixes and translation upd...

16 June 2012
11:41 GMT

Apple I Bidder Closes Deal over the Phone, Wins Computer for $375,000 / 300,000 EUR

The Apple I computer announced by Sotheby’s to go on auction this week has finally been sold to a generous bidder who didn’t even bother to make an appearance at the showcase. He reportedly closed the deal over the phone. The NYDailyNews.com says that the Apple I computer, which Sotheby’s expected ...

16 June 2012
11:01 GMT

FLAC.js, a FLAC Decoder Written Entirely in JavaScript, Is Here

HTML5, CSS3, WebGL and a number of other loosely associated technologies promise to transform the web into an app platform as powerful as any operating system. We're not quite there yet, the apps that are available aren't that complex or are not on par with native alternatives, for the most part. What...

16 June 2012
10:51 GMT

Mandriva Linux 2012 Tech Preview Released

Per Øyvind Karlsen announced a few days ago the immediate availability for download and testing of the Tech Preview (TP) release of the upcoming Mandriva 2012 Linux operating system. Wasn’t Mandriva supposed to be dead?! I really don’t know anymore, but it looks like Mandriva team is still develo...

16 June 2012
10:41 GMT

Jennifer Lopez, Casper Smart Are Trying for a Baby

Shortly after she and Marc Anthony announced they'd separated, Jennifer Lopez started dating her backup dancer, the 24-year-old Casper Smart. Speculation about getting married and having babies instantly began and, it would seem, the latter is about to happen soon. Until now, word on the street had it that Jen...

16 June 2012
10:41 GMT

Trine 2 Review

Trine 2 is a unique side-scrolling puzzle game that tries to be different, and succeeds in such a manner that all the games in this particular tight niche cower in fear. There aren't many games like it, and the ones that could compete are not even close. Frozenbyte is a Finish developer with a long experience ...

16 June 2012
10:41 GMT

Sprint’s Galaxy S III Only $179.99 at Wirefly

Before the end of this month, mobile phone users in the United States will be able to purchase Samsung’s latest Android-based flagship handset, the Galaxy S III, via various wireless carriers in the country. Sprint is one of them, and it has already announced plans to add the smartphone to its offering on Jun...

16 June 2012
10:21 GMT

Justin Timberlake Buys Jessica Biel $250,000 (€197,831.7) Worth of Jewelry

If reports are accurate, Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake must be busily preparing for the wedding, which is believed to take place this summer. In the meantime, Justin is showering his future bride with presents – expensive jewelry no less. The two are yet to confirm their engagement but, for once, no conf...

16 June 2012
10:21 GMT

Skyrim's Dawnguard Expansion Takes Around 15 Hours to Beat, Dev Says

The upcoming Dawnguard expansion for Skyrim will have players spend around 10 to 20 hours on new adventures, at least according to developer Bethesda. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim delivered an epic experience which, if you wanted to complete, took way more than 100 hours. With the upcoming Dawnguard expansion, Bethe...

16 June 2012
09:41 GMT

FBI Ordered to Ready 150 Terabytes of Data to Hand Over to MegaUpload's Kim Dotcom

The MegaUpload drama continues to unfold. While the extradition hearing is not until August, there's still plenty of legal maneuvering to do. In a move that the US government is likely finding outrageous, as it's wont to do, a New Zealand judge had the audacity to ask the prosecutors to prepare a copy of th...

16 June 2012
09:21 GMT

Julianne Hough Was Scared to Date Ryan Seacrest Because He's So Powerful

Julianne Hough will soon grace the silver screen in “Rock of Ages,” which means she must do plenty of interviews to promote it. In one of her most recent ones, the dancer, singer and actress talks a bit about her beautiful romance with media personality Ryan Seacrest. Having already admitted that they f...

16 June 2012
09:21 GMT

EA Insists Battlefield 3 and Mass Effect 3 Are Doing Great on Origin

Electronic Arts has talked about digital distribution and highlighted that, despite the fact that games like Mass Effect 3 or Battlefield 3 aren't present on the biggest service of this kind - Steam - they're still selling great thanks to its own Origin platform.While Steam is host to a variety of games, ti...

16 June 2012
08:31 GMT

Hackers Around the World: King Neco of Moroccan Ghosts

Hackers around the world continues with a visit to a country from Africa, more precisely Morocco. Here, we’ve found a group of hacktivists that has been causing waves all over the continent and not only. One of the members of Moroccan Ghosts has agreed to have a chat with us to detail not only their objectives...

16 June 2012
08:21 GMT

New “Dark Knight Rises” Clip: Now You're Just Showing Off

A new TV clip for Chris Nolan's “The Dark Knight Rises” has been released and, this time, you can almost hear the clock ticking on its release, especially with that announcement at the end of it. “Advance tickets now on sale.” Indeed, pre-sale tickets for IMAX screenings of the third an...

16 June 2012
08:11 GMT

Verizon Informs DROID RAZR Users of the Near Arrival of Android 4.0

Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is gearing up for the release of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for its DROID RAZR users. Motorola has already confirmed that the update will arrive sometime in the second quarter of the year, which means that there are only two weeks left for that to happen. Apparently, the ...

16 June 2012
07:51 GMT

Facebook CTO Bret Taylor, of FriendFeed Fame, Calls It Quits

With the IPO under wraps, well in some sense as the company is still struggling with the problems it generated, it seems that the people at Facebook who have been waiting for things to calm down to be able to leave aren't waiting anymore.Facebook CTO Bret Taylor, of FriendFeed fame, is leaving to do his own thin...

16 June 2012
07:41 GMT

Rumor Mill: Paramount Is Creating Splinter Cell Movie

Reports in the movie-oriented media are suggesting that Paramount is working with video game publisher Ubisoft to create a movie based on the Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell intellectual property, with the French company apparently set to have an important degree of control over the final product. Both companies in...

16 June 2012
07:22 GMT

NASA Taken Aback by NRO Donation

Earlier this month, NASA was allowed to announce to the general public that it received a donation from the secretive US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) last year, consisting of two space telescopes that are about as good, if not better, than the Hubble Space Telescope. The instruments have a similar aperture t...

16 June 2012
07:04 GMT

Acer Rethinks How It Pays Its CEOs

The departure of Gianfranco Lanci, Acer's former chief executive officer, and the subsequent tensions (to say the least) between him and the company, led to the establishment of a remuneration committee and, now, a modification to the CEO payment policy. When Lanci left, last year, his severance pay was decide...

16 June 2012
06:56 GMT

Mars Is Scarred by Hundreds of Thousands of Craters

According to a new atlas of the Martian surface, it would appear that the neighboring world is scarred by more than 635,000 big impact craters, which are distributed across the planet. The new study classified as a large impact crater any crater that is over 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) in diameter. This is the largest ...

16 June 2012
06:54 GMT

BioShock Ultimate Rapture Edition Leaked via BBFC Rating

While BioShock fans may not be able to experience the long awaited BioShock Infinite until next February, it seems that 2K Games is preparing a special iteration in the franchise, in the form of a BioShock Ultimate Rapture Edition, which has just been rated by the BBFC.BioShock 1 impressed millions of gamers from all...

16 June 2012
06:51 GMT

US Naval Base Embraces Green Energy

US military men at a naval base on the Indian Ocean atoll of Diego Garcia now have their energy demands dealt with by Otec, a system which uses seawater and a refrigerant-like ammonia to power a turbine. Rumor has it that by 2020 the US army plans to use mostly clean energy sources during its drills and missions. ...

16 June 2012
06:46 GMT

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Lands Role in “Mad Max: Fury Road”

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley made her movie debut in “Transformers: The Dark of the Moon,” and she's now ready to move on to another project – the insanely anticipated “Mad Max: Fury Road” no less. The Victoria's Secret model has just been cast in the film that also stars Tom Ha...

16 June 2012
06:41 GMT

Intel Pentium B987 Will Arrive in Q3, 2012

Intel's Core series of central processing units is getting all of the attention, but there are other chips in the works, one of which will arrive in the third quarter of the year (2012). In other words, we may see a new CPU within a couple of weeks (July), unless the Santa Clara, California-based chip giant cho...

16 June 2012
06:41 GMT

Great Video Shows One Minute of Botnet Activity Around the World

Unveillance has published an interesting video that shows the global activity of computers that are unknowing participants in a botnet. The activity was recorded on Monday, June 11, 2012, between 9:00 and 9:01 EDT. It’s well known that botnets have become a serious issue and many experts and security companie...

16 June 2012
06:30 GMT

Facebook Pulls the Plug on Shady Account Termination App

Yesterday we reported that a malicious application was doing the rounds on Facebook, alerting users that unless they verified their accounts, they would be terminated. In the meantime, Facebook has disabled the app to make sure no other members fall for the trap, CNET reports. “This app has been disabled. We t...

16 June 2012
06:26 GMT

Samsung Series 5 Laptops Equipped with AMD Trinity

If you were to stop by Samsung's official website, you might discover that the Series 5 laptop line has been updated overnight. The ultrabooks, measuring 14 inches or 13.3 inches, are now equipped with AMD's Trinity accelerated processing unit. To be more specific, the 14-inch Series 5, priced at $850 (...

16 June 2012
06:23 GMT

Galaxy S III Pushed Back to June 27th in Canada

Galaxy S III, the latest flagship Android-based smartphone from Samsung, was expected to make an official appearance on shelves in Canada on June 20th, but that won’t happen. Due to the impressive demand Samsung has registered for this device all around the world, the Canadian launch date has been pushed back...

16 June 2012
06:21 GMT

Pollution Makes Carnivorous Plants Suffer from Eating Disorders

Researchers from the Loughborough University bring us troubling news: as a result of acid rains, carnivorous plants are so full of nitrogen that they no longer need to eat flies in order to counteract what should be their trademark chemical imbalance. Apparently, carnivorous plants need to include insects in their ...

16 June 2012
06:21 GMT

Chris Evans Is “Headed for Mental Breakdown,” Spies Say

In one of the interviews promoting “Captain America: The First Avenger,” Chris Evans admitted that he was very nervous about playing the part. As it turns out, things might have evolved for the worse in recent months, says a new report. The Enquirer claims in its latest print issue (story via CB) that t...

16 June 2012
06:11 GMT

iPhone 5 to Launch with All-New Podcasts App

Apple connects talking to the WSJ-owned All Things D are saying iOS 6 will include a new Podcasts application when it debuts this fall alongside the next-generation iPhone 5. According to the report, “people familiar with Apple’s plans [say] that when its new iOS 6 software becomes widely available this fall, ...

16 June 2012
06:09 GMT

Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm Is 99 Percent Complete

According to the team working on it at Blizzard, the Heart of the Swarm expansion for the real-time strategy title Starcraft II is 99 percent complete, but the developers still need to put in effort in order to make the rest of the experience work well. Dustin Browder, who is one of the leading designers working on ...

16 June 2012
06:04 GMT

RPG Mechanics Dominate Gaming, Need to Become More Meaningful

The world of role-playing games can only evolve as long as development teams are able to create situations and mechanics that allow characters in the game world to react in a meaningful way to the player and his choices, according to Todd Howard.The man in charge of the Elder Scrolls franchise at Bethesda, has told W...

16 June 2012
06:01 GMT

Download Microsoft .NET Framework Repair Tool

Microsoft has made available for download a new tool aimed at detecting and resolving issues that might appear during the installation of Microsoft .NET Framework. Made available for download on Friday as version 1.0, the new tool is available for download for free, and can be found on Softpedia as well, via the li...

16 June 2012
05:59 GMT

MicroSD Memory Card Prices Going Up

It looks like the solution Samsung chose for the problem it had at the beginning of the month is working so well that other suppliers have aped the maneuver. For those who don't know what we are talking about, demand for NAND Flash memory chip-based products has fallen significantly. Even with the, admittedl...

16 June 2012
05:59 GMT

How a Landslide Turned a River Into a Lake

Back in 2000, the world witnessed one of largest, most impressive landslides ever recorded. The event took place in eastern Tibet, and poured massive amounts of rocks, soils and other debris straight into the Yigong River, blocking it. The natural dam prevented the river from flowing as usual for more than two month...

16 June 2012
05:59 GMT

EPA Pushes New Air Quality Standards

Back in February, 11 US states filed a lawsuit against EPA in a District Court in New York. Their complaint: the said organization didn't do its job in revising the national standards for air quality. Thus, EPA was supposed to work on improving the existing legislation regarding soot (i.e. impure carbon particl...

16 June 2012
05:53 GMT

Bing Partners with Yelp for Local Search

Microsoft has just announced a new enhancement brought to its search engine Bing, through a partnership with Yelp. Following this move, users in the United States will be provided with Yelp info on search results pages, which should provide them with the possibility to find what interests them easier than before. ...

16 June 2012
05:50 GMT

iDocument - For the Mac User Who Takes Work Seriously

There are two types of people in this world. Actually there’s an endless variety, but for the sake of the argument, let's say you have organized people, and disorganized people. For the latter group, Icy Blaze Software has thought up a document management solution that aims to streamline their workflow and...

16 June 2012
05:50 GMT

Penn Station Incident Worse Than Initially Believed, 80 Locations Affected

At the beginning of June we reported that Penn Station was warning its customers about a data breach as a result of which credit and debit card details were stolen. As it turns out, not just 43 restaurants have been affected, but a number of 80. On the bright side, Penn Station’s notification reveals that PIN ...

16 June 2012
05:43 GMT

Workarounds and Fixes for Flash 11.3 Crashes and Problems in Firefox

It seems that the Flash 11.3 roll out has not gone smooth for Firefox users, quite the opposite. Flash 11.3 introduces the Flash sandbox, or protected mode, to Firefox but it seems that the security feature is causing problems in some cases. Add-ons and other plugins which enable users to record Flash videos are at l...

16 June 2012
05:32 GMT

Kim Kardashian Complains About Lack of Privacy

Kim Kardashian always says that she loves living her life in the spotlight because that's the only way she can think of to connect with her millions of fans all over the world. However, this type of exposure does come with an obvious disadvantage, she admits in her Vogue Italia interview. The interview comes a...

16 June 2012
05:31 GMT

Diabetes May Be Linked to Alzheimer's

A team of scientists believes it has found an explanation for why people who suffer from diabetes are more likely to develop a neurodegenerative form of dementia known as Alzheimer's disease. Apparently, a chemical pathway involved in insulin transport is to blame. The anomaly stems from a single malfunctioning...

16 June 2012
05:30 GMT

Diablo III Sells 1 Million, Future Soldier and Max Payne 3 400,000 Each

Doug Creutz, who is an analyst watching the video game industry for Cowen & Company, has officially confirmed that Diablo III, the action role-playing game from developer Blizzard, has managed to sell 1 million units at retail in May on the United States market. The analyst has also revealed that Max Payne 3, the th...

16 June 2012
05:29 GMT

Fireflies May Help Us Quit Using LED Lights

The Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer process allows scientists to make nanorods glow using the chemical reaction that turns fireflies into some of the world's brightest insects. Apparently, fireflies produce bioluminescence when luciferin (i.e. a light emitting compound) meets the enzyme luciferase (i...

16 June 2012
05:16 GMT

Man Withdraws and Gambles Away $1.5 Million (€1.1 Million), Bank Error

What would you do if you noticed that you could withdraw as much money as you desired from an ATM? A man from Detroit found himself exactly in that situation and he withdrew $1.5 Million (€1.1 Million) and gambled it all away at various casinos. According to Local10, Ronald Page wanted to gamble when he discove...

16 June 2012
05:07 GMT

Broadcom CEO Fed Up with Patent Litigants

The chief executive officer (CEO) of Broadcom, a company that makes networking and communications ICs for data, voice, and video applications, has quite bluntly said that it's shameful how things are going right now. We've covered so many patent litigation lawsuits, many of which are still going strong, t...

16 June 2012
05:01 GMT

BioWare Is Exploring Free-to-Play for Star Wars: The Old Republic

Developer BioWare has already announced plans to allow gamers to enjoy their MMO The Old Republic for free as long as characters stay under a level 15 cap, but it seems that the design teams have bigger plans linked to the business model. Emmanuel Lusinchi, who is the lead technical design director working on Star W...

16 June 2012
04:55 GMT

Sony Starts Deploying Ice Cream Sandwich for Xperia active

Owners of Xperia active devices from Sony can now download and install the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system flavor on their handsets. The OS upgrade, which started to roll out to other smartphones in last year’s Xperia lineup, is now being delivered to Xperia active as well, in stages. The st...

16 June 2012
04:52 GMT

Hubble Sees Compact Blue Dwarf Galaxy

Astronomers operating the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have recently released an impressive new view of UGC 5497, a so-called compact blue dwarf galaxy that contains a large number of newly formed star clusters. Snapped using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) instrument aboard the iconic observatory, the new...

16 June 2012
04:41 GMT

Chloe Moretz Promises a “Carrie” That Messes with Your Mind

We'll admit it: when Chloe Moretz was cast as Carrie in the “Carrie” remake, we were thrilled – and no, not just because Lindsay Lohan didn't get the part. Moretz is probably one of the most promising, talented young actresses of today. Proof of that is her recent interview, in which she...

16 June 2012
04:39 GMT

Toshiba Creates 64-Core Processor for Image Processing and Recognition

Toshiba's fastest multi-core system-on-chip device, originally launched in 2008, has been clearly bested by the new SoC, one with eight times the number of cores and 14 times the performance. The company has introduced a System-on-Chip device with no less than 64 cores, divided into two 32-core clusters. Meas...

16 June 2012
04:32 GMT

Square Enix Releases Combat Details for Dragon Quest X

Video game publisher Square Enix has announced a number of details linked to the combat mechanics of the upcoming Dragon Quest X MMO. The characters that the gamers will create will be able to move around the game world without having to pause between doing attacks and launching their powers. When gamers choose a s...

16 June 2012
04:32 GMT

Samsung Galaxy S II Down to $9.99 at AT&T This Weekend

AT&T users who would like to purchase a new smartphone without spending too much money on it, can now take advantage of a special offer that the wireless carrier has put in place for the Galaxy S II. Today and tomorrow, the Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone is available for only $9.99 from AT&T, with the signing of a ...

16 June 2012
04:30 GMT

New Report on Drilling Techniques and Earthquakes Is Made Public

US's National Research Council has just released a report on the links between the practice of hydraulic fracturing and earthquakes. Apparently, although fracking can indeed sometimes cause the ground to shake, there is little risk for anything truly dramatic to occur. For those unaware, hydraulic fracturing...

16 June 2012
04:22 GMT

Voyager 1 Reaches Edge of the Solar System

Voyager 1 mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, say that the spacecraft has reached the edge of the solar system. New data from the satellite indicate that the region of space it's currently traveling through is no longer dominated by the Sun. According to rea...

16 June 2012
04:18 GMT

Cheryl Cole Unveils New Song, “Ghetto Baby”

As her new album, “A Million Lights,” is nearing release date, Cheryl Cole has unleashed a brand new song from the cut. You can check it out in full above. “Ghetto Baby” was written by the famous Lana Del Rey and produced by Kid Gloves. It's a solid one even though it's less dance...

16 June 2012
03:59 GMT

Specs Discovered for Dell Latitude Windows 8 Tablet

A little over a week ago, we reported on how twenty of the unspecified number of upcoming Windows 8 tablets would use Intel's Clovertrail processor. As it turns out, Dell's latitude 10 is one of them. Windows 8 will be launched in the fourth quarter of this year (2012), probably in November, unless Micros...

16 June 2012
03:52 GMT

Sony’s Xperia ion Coming Soon to Canada

Before the end of the summer, Canadian mobile phone users should be able to purchase a new high-end smartphone from Sony, namely the Xperia ion. The handset, made official earlier this year for AT&T, will hit Canadian shelves with LTE connectivity inside, although no official word on its arrival has been provided y...

16 June 2012
03:51 GMT

Climatologists Warn About El Niño Making a Comeback

Recently, members of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology have come to the conclusion that by the end of 2012, La Niña is to make its way out of the weather scene, clearing the floor for El Niño. Whilst La Niña brings us lower sea temperatures across the equatorial Eastern Central Pacific Ocean...

16 June 2012
03:42 GMT

Paramedics Rush to Lindsay Lohan After She's Found Unresponsive in Hotel Room

These days, it feels like everything Lindsay Lohan does triggers drama. Hours ago, paramedics rushed to her hotel room after staff concluded she was unresponsive: she'd just taken a nap, her publicist says, hoping to clear up rumors of anything else. TMZ says that Lindsay was staying at the Ritz Carlton Hotel ...

16 June 2012
03:37 GMT

Minecraft for Xbox 360 Gets Big Update Today, June 16

Microsoft, 4J Studios and Mojang have confirmed that they’ll release a pretty massive update for the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft, aimed at adding all sorts of features and fixing a variety of bugs.Minecraft became a phenomenon on the PC platform and reached the Xbox 360, as a downloadable experience via Xbox ...

16 June 2012
03:31 GMT

Nokia Teases June 18th Event, Could Be 808 PureView-Related

Nokia is getting ready to announce something on Monday, June 18th, and the company is already teasing us with that. On its Facebook page, the company has uploaded two photos with reference to an event set to take place on that day, without offering specific details on what it will be all about. However, since one...

16 June 2012
02:51 GMT

Microsoft Won’t Be Present at Gamescom 2012 or TGS 2012

Microsoft has announced that it has decided to skip over the upcoming Gamescom 2012 and Tokyo Games Show 2012 expos, as the company wants to show off the Xbox 360 as well as its upcoming games and features during smaller, more localized experiences.E3 2012 closed its doors last week and already many gamers are lookin...

16 June 2012
01:51 GMT

Overstrike to Be Showcased by Insomniac and EA This Summer

Electronic Arts has explained why the upcoming Overstrike shooter from Insomniac Games has skipped this year’s E3 2012 expo, saying that it wants to present a better version of the game later in the summer.Insomniac Games became a multi-platform developer last year and the first game announced by the studio &nd...

16 June 2012
00:41 GMT


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