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ColorFire Eyefinity XStorm Radeon HD 7850 Pro X6 Video Card Unveiled

We met ColorFire’s first cards here and here and we were quite impressed with Colorful’s new brand. Today, the company has yet another high-quality product that features AMD’s Eyefinity technology in its most complete implementation. The new card is called Colorfire XStorm 7850 X6 Eyefinity Pro and...

17 July 2012
22:41 GMT

Meet AMD’s Piledriver FX Quad Core Processors

As we just reported here, AMD is rushing to clean up after the Bulldozer mess and most processors based on this architecture will EOL in December 2012. The Bulldozer-based FX models will be replaced with Vishera parts based on the enhanced Piledriver architecture. We’ve already reported here about the 8-core F...

17 July 2012
21:21 GMT

Galaxy Preparing Overclocked GeForce GTX 670 with 4GB Memory

In the fight to convince the user to pick a certain product from the store shelf instead of a competing brand, Chinese video card manufacturer Galaxy is preparing a factory overclocked version of Nvidia’s GTX 670 GPU. The new card is called Galaxy GeForce GTX 670 GC Edition 4GB and just like its name says, it ...

17 July 2012
20:21 GMT

Nvidia’s GeForce GTS 650 Is Only 3% Faster than GTS 550 Ti

Nvidia’s new Kepler architecture has proven to be quite a success among gamers and this is owed to the fact that the GPU is very efficient, relatively cool and overclockable, next to the impressive performance it brings. During the initial launch, many mid- and low-end cards based on the new architecture were ...

17 July 2012
19:51 GMT

ZombiU Gets Two New Gameplay Videos

Ubisoft’s upcoming ZombiU shooter for the Nintendo Wii U has just received two new gameplay videos, showing off the title’s special mechanics and its special use of the Wii U GamePad. Nintendo is going to release the Wii U later this year and it’s counting on a variety of games to promote the new h...

17 July 2012
19:31 GMT

Lenovo Outs IdeaPad A1 in India for $280 USD (225 EUR)

Chinese company Lenovo recently launched the IdeaPad A1 tablet in India. The affordable Gingerbread slate already has a strong competition coming from native tablet manufacturers. The main downside of the IdeaPad A1 is the fact that it comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread onboard and is priced at Rs 15,369 (280 USD or...

17 July 2012
19:31 GMT

Cheap G’Five Android Smartphones Get Launched in India

It looks like Chinese handset manufacturer are interested in Indian smartphone market as well. Aside Huawei and ZTE brands, a smaller company that goes by the name of G’Five plans to conquer the Indian low-end smartphone market. In this regard, G’Five recently launched five new Android phones, which will...

17 July 2012
19:01 GMT

Vodafone Australia Pushes Android 2.3.6 Update for Samsung GALAXY Mini 2

Made official back in February, Samsung Galaxy mini 2 hit shelves one month later in the UK. In the meantime, the Android smartphone was introduced in most regions. Vodafone Australia launched the Galaxy mini 2 a while ago with Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread onboard. Today, the carrier announced that a minor software upd...

17 July 2012
18:31 GMT

Nintendo Wii U Won’t Be Successful, Analyst Says

The Nintendo Wii U may attract people with its special GamePad and through first-party games but Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter believes that lightning won’t strike twice and the new console isn’t going to follow in the hugely successful footsteps of its predecessor. Nintendo presented the fi...

17 July 2012
18:21 GMT

China Mobile to Offer Two LTE Windows Phone 8 Devices in 2013 – Report

China Mobile, the largest carrier in the Mainland, plans to enter the Windows Phone market. The operator failed to pick some of the most popular smartphones available on the market, including the iPhone. The reason behind such a failure is the fact that China Mobile owns a TD-SCDMA network, which is a Chinese-specif...

17 July 2012
18:01 GMT

TweetDeck Updated with Better Column Navigation and Management

When Twitter acquired TweetDeck, there were plenty of fears among loyal fans that the company would do something to wreck the product. Thankfully, that hasn't happened yet, Twitter realizes that it needs a client aimed at the top 10 percent users that create most of the content, the one relevant to a lot of peop...

17 July 2012
17:40 GMT

Branching Act 2 for Witcher 2 Was Hell for Developers

The leader of the development process for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings has revealed that creating the complex branching story was difficult for the team but delivered impressive results and a replayable experience.Adam Badowski, who is leading the CD Projekt RED studio, has told Gamasutra that, “Really, it...

17 July 2012
17:31 GMT

New Injustice Trailer Shows Off Gameplay with Nightwing and Cyborg

Warner Bros. and NetherRealm have just posted a brand new trailer for their upcoming Injustice: Gods Among Us fighting game, showing off new bits of gameplay as well as two new characters, in the form of Nightwing and Cyborg. Injustice is looking set to deliver a pretty interesting fighting experience, showing off g...

17 July 2012
17:21 GMT

Motorola and Movistar Introduce the DEFY XT320 in Mexico

The rugged Motorola DEFY XT320 has just made its debut in Mexico via Movistar. Beginning today, customers can purchase the smartphone for only $2,999 pesos (225 USD or 185 EUR) on prepaid. Moreover, the DEFY XT320 is also available for free on Plan Select 400 on a 2-year contract, so customers won’t have to ro...

17 July 2012
17:11 GMT

Demi Lovato Talks Body Image, Self-Harming with Self

Demi Lovato has been through hell but she's now better and stronger than ever, ready to talk about her experience in the hope that it will help others in the same situation get over it in one piece. Her fans must already know that, at the height of her fame, Lovato was struggling with an eating disorder, low s...

17 July 2012
16:51 GMT

Rogers Launches “6GB Super Plan” in Canada

Canadian carrier Rogers has just released a new plan for its customers, which will be available starting today until August 8. The promotional plan requires customers to pay a $60 CAD monthly fee and offers the following advantages: 6 GB of mobile data, unlimited MY10 Canada-Wide, Unlimited Messaging, Unlimited 6PM...

17 July 2012
16:31 GMT

Electronic Sports World Cup Finals Take Place in Paris

The organizer of the Electronic Sports World Cup has revealed that it will be organizing the Internal Grand Final of this year’s competition in Paris, France between November 1 and 4, after a number of qualification contests that will happen starting with July. The video games that have been chosen to be a par...

17 July 2012
16:31 GMT

Vanity Wonder Opens Up on Addiction to Silicone Injections – Video

A short while ago, a former dancer and mother of 2 going by the name of Vanity Wonder, made headlines for the promise to lift the lid off the glamor of silicone injections for a more generous backside, the black market variety. Below is a video of her doing just that. 30-year-old Wonder sat down for an interview fo...

17 July 2012
15:51 GMT

Samsung GALAXY S III Now Available for WIND Mobile Existing Customers

WIND Mobile launched the Galaxy S III a while back, but the smartphone was only available for new customers, due to stock shortage. However, the carrier promised the Galaxy S III would be up for grabs for existing customers as well in about two weeks. True to its promise, starting today, WIND Mobile existing custome...

17 July 2012
15:31 GMT

Team Group Launches UHS-1 Xtreem Series Memory Cards

We don't know when, where and for how much money you'll be able to buy one of Team Group’s newest memory cards, but we do know everything else worth knowing. Called SDHC UHS-1/Micro SDXC UHS-1, they are made for tablets, phones and driving recorders. As suggested by the UHS-1 specification, the tr...

17 July 2012
15:31 GMT

Steam Mobile App Shows Genres of Non-Game Software

Users of Steam’s mobile application for either Android or iOS-powered smartphones uncovered yesterday some new categories in the program’s genres section, which mention non-game software, ranging from photo editing to education, design, or even accounting. The Steam mobile app, which was released earlier...

17 July 2012
15:31 GMT

Stone Cold Steve Austin Headlines WWE 13 Collector’s Edition

Developer Yuke’s and publisher THQ have announced that the Collector’s Edition for the upcoming WWE 13 will be built around Stone Cold Steve Austin, the Hall of Fame member and athlete that has impressed fans of wrestling during the Attitude Era. The Collector’s Edition will include: - exclusive f...

17 July 2012
15:11 GMT

Large-Size Author Pleads for Acceptance on The Today Show

When Rebecca Jane Weinstein was just 9 years old, her own grandmother told her to forget about love because she would never find a man to sweep her off her feet and love her. Today, she's setting out to challenge the notion that love is somehow exclusive to small and normal-sized men and women. Weinstein is th...

17 July 2012
14:51 GMT

Watch: George Michael “White Light” Video

George Michael is back (and slightly Autotuned). After some anticipation, the singer has just unveiled his brand new video for his latest single, “White Light.” Check it out in full above. As we also noted on a previous occasion, the video stars supermodel Kate Moss, who was reportedly approached by Mic...

17 July 2012
14:41 GMT

Beware of Poorly-Written HSBC Bank “Suspended Account” Emails

Financial institutions have implemented all sorts of mechanisms to prevent fraud. However, these systems can also represent a good topic for a scam. Millersmiles warns of phony emails entitled “New Messages from HSBC Bank,” which notify recipients that someone has attempted to fraudulently access their a...

17 July 2012
14:31 GMT

Quad-Core Samsung Galaxy S III Headed to US via Best Buy

Due the fact that Samsung’s Exynos 4212 chipset does not support LTE technology, the South Korean company decided to include Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 SoC in the North American variant of Galaxy S III. Well, it looks like the international version of the Galaxy S III will be made available in the United S...

17 July 2012
14:31 GMT

Adult Smoking May Be Triggered by Childhood Abuse

Scientists have established in a new study that being exposed to traumatic experiences during childhood can translate into poor health behaviors for adults. They term these events adverse childhood experiences (ACE), and say that they can lead to behaviors including smoking. Researchers admit that figuring out why ...

17 July 2012
14:01 GMT

Boost Mobile to Release Kyocera Hydro on August 3

Officially announced back in May, Kyocera Hydro is about to make its debut in August. US-based carrier Boost Mobile has just confirmed the smartphone will go on sale on August 3. Customers who wish to purchase the Kyocera Hydro will be able to do so for only $129.99 USD (excluding taxes). This is an IPX5, IPX7 and...

17 July 2012
14:01 GMT

Facebook Engineer Breaks Imgur Sharing, Becomes Reddit Hero

For a while earlier, Facebook blocked all links coming from Imgur, the popular photo sharing site. While Facebook at large would have hardly noticed, Reddit, which uses the service extensively, surely did. The block was by mistake and was soon fixed, but the Facebook engineer responsible for the problem did more tha...

17 July 2012
13:51 GMT

Fake Kate Middleton Makes Debut in Marie Claire Magazine

Kate Moss, Gisele Bundchen and the likes may be among the highest paid models in the world but there's only one woman all fashion magazines are dying to get on the cover: the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton. Attached to this article is the cover for the August issue of Marie Claire South Africa, which fir...

17 July 2012
13:41 GMT

ADATA Intros XPG Gaming v2.0 Series DDR3 2400G Memory

ADATA is probably in a good mood after its results of last month, and there aren't many better ways for such an IT corporation to celebrate a job well done than a new and mighty piece of hardware. We say ADATA is likely in good spirits due to recent findings that suggest it has good product shipments and high ...

17 July 2012
13:01 GMT

Demi Moore’s Daughters Want Restraining Order Against Her

Demi Moore is relatively fresh out of rehab but she's about to hit rock bottom again. Her relationship with her three daughters has also deteriorated completely, to the point where they're considering getting a restraining order against her, a new report claims. For some weeks now, reports making the roun...

17 July 2012
13:01 GMT

Sonic Adventures 2 Gets HD Remake

Video game publisher SEGA has announced during the San Diego Comic Con that it is working on a high-definition remake for the Dreamcast title Sonic Adventure 2, which was first launched during 2001. The remake will be launched on the PlayStation Network service from Sony and on the Xbox Live Arcade from Microsoft. ...

17 July 2012
13:01 GMT

LG Vu Caught on Camera En-Route to Verizon

LG is one of the few handset makers that reported positive numbers at the end of 2011, and the company continues to grab market share from other important brands, such as Nokia and HTC. The South Korean handset manufacturer had some success with its LTE-enabled smartphones, which were sold in 10 countries. However, ...

17 July 2012
13:01 GMT

Ubuntu 12.10 Allows Users to Sort Time Zones

With yesterday's updates, Canonical made some changes to the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system, regarding the Date and Time Indicator. After revamping the Session menu Indicator last week, the Ubuntu developers added sorting support to the multiple time zones function in the Date and Time...

17 July 2012
12:15 GMT

Firefox 14 with Encrypted Google and Click-to-Play Plugins Is Here

Firefox 14 , technically Firefox 14.0.1, has now been officially released. The build has been available for a while now, if you knew where to look, but the main Firefox site has now been updated to serve the latest version. At this point, there's not much new to talk about with Firefox 14; it's spent three ...

17 July 2012
12:11 GMT

Script of the Day: OrangeBox

OrangeBox is a jQuery plugin for showing content inside floating modal popup boxes. For people running a WordPress site, they'll be happy to know that OrangeBox is available as a WP plugin as well. All the modal windows nonsense started back in the middle of the 2000s when Lightbox, a Prototype plugin was open-...

17 July 2012
12:01 GMT

Battlefield 4 Beta Starts in Fall 2013, Comes with Warfighter Pre-Orders

The Medal of Honor: Warfighter Limited Edition, which is given to anyone who pre-orders the game before its launch in October, will include access to the beta stage of Battlefield 4, as Electronic Arts has confirmed what was already leaked over the weekend. Medal of Honor: Warfighter is coming out this October and, ...

17 July 2012
11:51 GMT

NASA, Microsoft Create Video Game About MSL

Gamers with accounts on Xbox Live Marketplace and Kinect Central can now download a free-to-play game called Mars Rover Landing, which was developed by the American space agency, in partnership with software giant Microsoft. The game can currently run on Xbox 360 systems exclusively, and requires a Kinect motion se...

17 July 2012
11:49 GMT

Advanced Technologies Could Keep Drones Airborne Indefinitely

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), such as the Stalker drones used by the US Special Forces, could remain airborne indefinitely, at least in theory. During a recent series of tests, scientists found that lasers could be used to refuel the aircraft mid-flight. Usually, Stalkers are powered by a battery that enables two...

17 July 2012
11:38 GMT

Panda Cloud Antivirus 2.0 Sports New Looks

More than 165.000 active beta testers provided the necessary feedback for the development team to come out with a refined Panda Cloud Antivirus 2.0 (reviewed here). The changed look does not cut down but offers a more organized perspective of the protection components. The new Cloud Antivirus from Panda features a b...

17 July 2012
11:34 GMT

Barnes&Noble Debuts Nook Web Reader to Battle Amazon, Google

Barnes & Noble has been remarkably fit at fighting Amazon, at least in the digital department. The Nook reader is the only viable competitor to the Kindle and is seen as a superior device by some. The new partnership with Microsoft may also mean more exposure and growth. But there's still plenty to do. The comp...

17 July 2012
11:31 GMT

Soyuz TMA-05M Docks to the ISS

Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos), NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Aki Hoshide arrived safely aboard the International Space Station (ISS) today. They spent the past two days aboard the Soyuz TMA-05 M spacecraft, which took off fr...

17 July 2012
11:30 GMT

Watch: No Doubt “Settle Down” Official Video

They may have been apart for 11 years but the members of No Doubt still have the same energy and attitude as before. Above is the official video for their brand new single “Settle Down.” We just have to say this: man, this Gwen Stefani doesn't age one bit, does she. Of course, her band mates are loo...

17 July 2012
11:13 GMT

SpectraLayers – Spectral Waveform Editing from Sony

Sony enriched its family of audio and video production with a new sound editing tool called SpectraLayers. The application works with frequencies, which can be explored on a multidimensional spectral display.Priced $374.95/€351,95, SpectraLayers Pro allows you to split the audio files into layers that can be pro...

17 July 2012
11:09 GMT

iPhone 5 with Thinner Display – Report

The next version of Apple’s iPhone is expected to arrive on shelves with a new type of display, thinner than the existing ones. The handset is also expected to pack a larger screen, and to change the aspect ratio of the device to 16:9. According to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, the Cupertino-ba...

17 July 2012
11:07 GMT

Crucial Launches m4 mSATA SSDs

Since there's a new batch of ultrabooks coming with Windows 8 and all, Crucial figured it would be a good idea to have some new SSDs at the ready. The new collection is called m4 and is made up of drives featuring the mSATA form factor. That makes them much smaller than conventional drives (2.5 inches) and, th...

17 July 2012
11:03 GMT

American Idol Can’t Afford Mariah Carey, Says Nick Cannon

Just the other day, word got out that Mariah Carey was “in serious talks” with American Idol producers to replace Jennifer Lopez on the 12th season of the show. As it turns out, AI can't afford a diva like Carey, says her own husband. TMZ paparazzi caught up with Nick Cannon the other day and, as e...

17 July 2012
11:00 GMT

Flaw in Kindle Touch Browser Allows Attacker to Steal Root Credentials

A security hole that affects the web browser in Amazon’s Kindle Touch allows an attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands with root privileges if he can convince a user to navigate to a specially crafted webpage. Furthermore, the vulnerability could be leveraged to gain access to the device’s operatin...

17 July 2012
10:52 GMT

My Xbox LIVE for iOS Updated to 1.6

A new flavor of My Xbox LIVE application is now available for download for iOS devices, with new features and bug fixes for iPad and iPhone users. According to app’s listing in Apple’s iTunes store, iPad owners can now use their devices to connect, control and discover content on their Xbox consoles. ...

17 July 2012
10:49 GMT

New Green Day Single “Oh Love” Is Out

Green Day is officially back on the scene. Ahead of the band's major comeback, which will comprise no less than 3 new albums, a new single has been released. Check it out above. Called “Oh Love,” the new track also gets a 3D lyric video, which you can enjoy with a pair of old-school red and blue gla...

17 July 2012
10:44 GMT

Two New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Canonical announced on July 16th, in a security notice, that a new kernel upgrade for its Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) operating system is available, fixing two vulnerabilities found by various developers in the kernel packages. These are the two vulnerabilities found in the Linux kernel packages by various develo...

17 July 2012
10:42 GMT

Amnesia: The Dark Descent Review

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is not your average game. It’s not made for children and it’s not made for elderly people. It’s a game made to do one thing: scare the players down to their core. You might think we are ready for it, after all these years of gaming, but nothing will prepare us for this expe...

17 July 2012
10:41 GMT

Keyboard Gauntlet for Phones and Wearable Displays Demonstrated

There is a certain design project going on, called G.A.U.N.T.L.E.T. (Generally Accessible Universal Nomadic Tactile Low-power Electronic Typist). Two people have given this name to a DIY (do-it-yourself) glove keyboard, based on the Arduino Lulypad. It is the best attempt (that we've seen) at placing the 26 ...

17 July 2012
10:40 GMT

CyanogenMod 10 Preview Builds Available for Galaxy S III

As soon as Google announced the availability of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the CyanogenMod team promised the availability of CM10 based on the new platform release. CM is one of the most popular custom software for Android devices out there, and many are already eagerly waiting to get it on their units. For some Gal...

17 July 2012
10:34 GMT

Baby Fur Seal Is Born at Boston Aquarium

Northern fur seals are presently an endangered species, primarily because, throughout the years, people have continuously killed them in order to get their meat and their fur. However, efforts are made to help restore their population out in the open waters, so numerous wildlife parks are pushing towards breeding t...

17 July 2012
10:33 GMT

Anonymous Hackers Publish Details of Yemen’s Internet Filtering Systems

Anonymous’ OpGodFather continues. This time, the hacktivists have published details from the Internet filtering systems instated by Yemen’s government. “Hello citizens of the world. Here comes another leak. Last time it was UAE. This time the traget was Yemen's government run netfilter,”...

17 July 2012
10:32 GMT

TV Schedules Influence Kids' Waist Sizes

A new research by experts at the University of Montreal, in Canada, indicates that each extra hour children between the ages of 2 and 4 spend watching TV contributes to an increase in their waist circumference by the time they reach fourth grade. The same study revealed that watching more TV also contributes to dec...

17 July 2012
10:32 GMT

Sprint Confirms Android 4.0 ICS for HTC EVO 3D and EVO Design Comes in Early August

Major carrier Sprint has just announced that the next major software upgrade for HTC EVO 3D and HTC EVO Design, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will arrive in early August. Previously slated for a June/July release, the Ice Cream Sandwich update for the EVO 3D has been pushed back a few weeks due to unknown reasons. ...

17 July 2012
10:31 GMT

Comic-Con 2012: Thomas Jane Unveils “Dirty Laundry” Short Film

Just recently, Marvel acquired the rights to “The Punisher,” which can only mean a reboot is on the way. If so, Thomas Jane might be just the guy to play the character once more – and we have proof. At Comic-Con 2012 in San Diego, the actor unveiled a short film based on the critically panned film...

17 July 2012
10:24 GMT

Google Wants to Fight Drugs, Human Trafficking and Other Illicit Networks

Google is doing a lot of things, among them being Google Ideas, a think tank designed to tackle the world's biggest problems by throwing technology at them. Its latest undertaking is stopping violent illicit networks, i.e. any type of illegal trafficking, drugs, organs, people and so on. At least, Google doesn&...

17 July 2012
10:20 GMT

MCI Patients Twice More Likely to Die Than Healthy Peers

Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECM) investigators determined in a new study that a form of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can be positively correlated to a significant increased death risk. MCI patients were found to be twice more likely to die than peers who exhibited no signs of mental decline. Cognitive i...

17 July 2012
10:19 GMT

FreeBSD 9.1 Beta 1 Is Available for Testing

The first Beta release of the upcoming FreeBSD operating system has been announced earlier today and it is now available for download and testing. The developers of FreeBSD stated in the release announcement that this should be the only Beta release before the Release Candidate version of FreeBSD 9.1 is available f...

17 July 2012
10:13 GMT

Skype 5.10.0.116 for Windows Rolling Out Soon

Today, Microsoft announced the near availability of a new version of Skype for Windows computers, namely 5.10.0.116, aimed at providing a series of fixes for known issues that affect the application. The most important of them results in messages sent for one contact to be mistakenly delivered to another person in ...

17 July 2012
10:08 GMT

Shark Caught on Tape While Eating Out of a Fishing Net [Video]

Whale sharks are some of the largest fish species on earth, as their name more than suggests. Apparently, the biggest one on record weighed nearly 22 tones, but it is believed that even more impressive specimens might be living in the depths of our oceans. These sharks are known to marine biologists as filter-fee...

17 July 2012
10:08 GMT

Pro Cycling Manager 2012 Diary: Stage 15 and The Wait

Stage 15 is another one for the sprinters, set before the second full rest day and before the third week of Le Tour de France, which usually marks the moment when the big tests come. It is rather short and with a lot of bumps, but this is the kind of stage where as long as the teams are willing to work a breakaway h...

17 July 2012
10:06 GMT

Fake Halifax “Account Error” and “Security Message” Emails Lead to Phishing Sites

In the past couple of days, experts have identified two malicious email variants that purport to come from Halifax. “Personal details of your Halifax account has engage an error which made your online banking in-active. For security, we strongly recommend you to make your online account active by followi...

17 July 2012
10:04 GMT

Original ASUS Transformer Gets Jelly Bean OS Too

Some time ago, ASUS Netherlands said the Transformer TF201, TF300, TF700 would be getting updated to Android 4.1, otherwise known as Jelly Bean. The lacks of SL101 or TF101 on that list made people think that said tablets would not be getting the same treatment. Fortunately, this is not the case. ASUS Germany, th...

17 July 2012
10:01 GMT

MIT Experts Create Mine-Detection Robot for US Navy Ships

Investigating the hull of military ships in search for mines that may be attached to it is a risky business, one that involves the use of either divers or trained dolphins and sea lions. Now, a team of experts announces that it managed to create an autonomous underwater system for this job. The US Navy has been wor...

17 July 2012
09:58 GMT

Panasonic Puts Android on Boeing’s Dreamliner 787

We just reported here about Panasonic’s diverse businesses, and one of the successful divisions of the famous Japanese giant is Panasonic Avionics that supplies various systems to Boeing in Airbus. Panasonic’s Avionics division is now responsible for Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s entertainment system. P...

17 July 2012
09:55 GMT

Sysinternals Suite Updates: Process Explorer, Process Monitor and More

A new version of Microsoft’s Systinternals Suite is now available for download, with updates to five of the tools included in the package. With the new release, users will get updated Handle utility, now available as version 3.5, and an update for Process Explorer, which was released as version 15.22. Moreo...

17 July 2012
09:48 GMT

China Has Access to 80% of Telecoms via Huawei and ZTE Devices, Experts Say

Once again China and its evil plans are in the spotlight. This time, telecommunications experts believe that the Chinese government has access to around 80% of the world’s communications networks. According to WND’s sources, this is possible because of the devices manufactured by Chinese companies Huawei...

17 July 2012
09:45 GMT

Studying Black Holes with Room-Temperature Superconductors

University of Houston (UH) Fulbright fellow in chemistry, professor Eric Bittner, plans to start studying black holes using room-temperature superconductors. The expert recently announced that he plans to build a two-dimensional optical analog of a black hole. The scientific instrument will fit on a tabletop, yet it...

17 July 2012
09:42 GMT

The UK Might Soon Get Energy from Irish Wind Power

It was just made public that Element Power, a global renewable energy company, and Great Britain's National Grid reached an agreement according to which up to 40 onshore wind farms in Ireland are to be connected to UK's electricity grid. This basically means that electricity coming all the way from mid-Ir...

17 July 2012
09:40 GMT

Konami Says Metal Gear Solid 5 Logo Is Fake

A Metal Gear Solid 5 logo, which was supposedly seen at the San Diego Comic Con, has been revealed as a fake by publisher Konami. The official Twitter account of the company first said, “Fake or real, we love a bit of speculation!” but then added that, “Seriously, just in case the ‪#pinch‬ ‪#salt‬ ...

17 July 2012
09:39 GMT

Samsung EX2F Camera Gets $50 Price Cut (€40.71)

We informed you all of the EX2F Wi-Fi-enabled camera back at the beginning of the month, and now we have some more good news. Even though Samsung hasn't started shipping the item yet, and, thus, doesn't have sales figures to base its decision on, the company has decided on a new price. Instead of $549 (...

17 July 2012
09:34 GMT

Anonymous: There Is No War Between WikiLeaks and Us

After a harsh exchange of tweets between Wikileaks and the AnonymousIRC account, some have reported that a “war” may have been sparked between the organizations. However, Anonymous representatives refute the claims and reassure everyone that there isn’t any conflict. It all started with this tweet ...

17 July 2012
09:16 GMT

New Strategy Developed in the War Against HIV

A collaboration of chemists at the Stanford University announces the development of a new class of compounds, which they say are extremely effective at activating the hidden reservoirs of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) the pathogen creates upon infecting the human body. The new compounds are called bryologs, an...

17 July 2012
09:16 GMT

Microsoft Misses “Browser Choice Screen” Delivery to 28M PCs

Windows PCs across Europe should display a “Browser Choice Screen” (BCS) to their users, at least at times when Internet Explorer is set as the default browser. This move follows a December 2009 decision of the European Commission, and has been a feature present on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows ...

17 July 2012
09:12 GMT

Mozilla Will Remotely Disable Firefox Add-Ons That Install Automatically

Almost a year ago Firefox introduced a very useful feature which screened for add-ons that had been installed by third-party software and disabled them unless the users wanted to keep them. This was done because a lot of companies started installing add-ons in Firefox, and other browsers, without the users knowing it...

17 July 2012
09:12 GMT

More Color Options Tipped for Samsung GALAXY S III

Samsung Galaxy S III is already available in three color options, Marble White, Pebble Blue and Red Garnet. However, the latter is exclusively available via AT&T, while the other two color variants can be purchased from anywhere in the world. That being said, it appears that Samsung might be tempted to launch additi...

17 July 2012
09:09 GMT

Equiso Smart TV Is an ARM USB Stick (Video)

HDTVs are quite widespread nowadays, and they aren't half bad either, which means that the extra web connectivity and the widgets of a Smart TV aren't enough of a reason to upgrade for many people. Equiso is the latest startup company to offer a means to give normal HDTVs the abilities of Smart TVs. The...

17 July 2012
09:08 GMT

Antonio Banderas Is Desperately Trying to Save Marriage to Melanie Griffith

Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith have been married for 16 years, but are now dealing with their most serious crisis yet. She found out he'd been cheating on her, but he's now working to win his way back into her good graces, says a new report. Rumors started making the rounds in June that the two were...

17 July 2012
09:03 GMT

Adobe InDesign Fix for Crash on 2012 MacBook Air and Pro with OS X 10.7.4

Adobe has come up with a workaround solution for InDesign and InCopy CS5 or higher crashing on Macbook Air and Pro (mid 2012) models when receiving a blank warning dialog box. The cause of the crash has been determined and the culprit is the latest update for said Mac system, which removed an API file required by In...

17 July 2012
09:01 GMT

Japanese Citizens Organize Large-Scale Protest Against Nuclear Power [Video]

Only yesterday, Tokyo's streets were taken over by Japanese citizens who rallied up to once again protest against the reopening of the Oi nuclear plant. What makes this particular protest stand out amongst the numerous others that preceded it is the fact that nearly 170,000 people decided to actively participa...

17 July 2012
09:01 GMT

Borderlands 2’s Ellie Bucks Video Game Female Character Trends

Developer Gearbox has revealed that they are interested in creating a female character that does not embrace any of the tropes of video game design with Ellie, the sister of Scooter and daughter of Moxxi, which is set to appear in the upcoming Borderlands 2. Speaking to Game Informer, the developers at Gearbox state...

17 July 2012
08:57 GMT

Dutch Authorities Take Down C&C Servers Used by Third Largest Spam Botnet

After calling out to the security community in an effort to stop the activities of Grum, the world’s third largest spam botnet, FireEye researchers have announced the first victory. Dutch authorities have taken down two of the command and control (C&C) servers used by Grum. “These two CnC servers were re...

17 July 2012
08:50 GMT

Team Group C125 Flash Drive Is Scratch-Proof, Among Other Things

Flash drive makers do their best to make their devices as fashionable as possible, so it is a bit redundant for them to be developed specifically for the “fashion-conscious”, but it happens more often than not. The latest “offender” is Team Group, although, true enough, it focused on a speci...

17 July 2012
08:48 GMT

Marilyn Manson Wants to Have a Baby to Pass On His “Demented Genius”

Marilyn Manson may have done and said a lot of things to shock the world, but chances are he's not done yet: he's feeling broody, he admits in a new interview with The Guardian. Even if you're not a fan and you simply chose to believe all that you read before about Manson, this piece is a must-read ...

17 July 2012
08:46 GMT

Diablo 3 Unidentified Item (UnID) Exploit Uncovered

Diablo 3 players have uncovered a new exploit in the popular role-playing dungeon crawler, this time relating to unidentified items (UnID), which, through a certain procedure, can practically let players see their stats without identifying them first. Diablo 3 has been around for over 2 months and developer Blizzard...

17 July 2012
08:44 GMT

Dual-SIM Nokia Asha 305 Goes on Sale in India for 85 USD (70 EUR)

Nokia unveiled its new Asha Touch series of features-phones earlier last month, but some of the handsets have yet to be released on the market. The affordable Asha 305, Asha 306 and Asha 311 are aimed at emerging markets, but the Finnish company will probably release these mobile phones worldwide. All in all, it ap...

17 July 2012
08:43 GMT

OneNote MX, the Metro App for Windows 8

When announcing the availability of a preview flavor of its Office 2013, Microsoft also unveiled the availability of a OneNote application specifically designed for the new Windows 8 operating system. Dubbed OneNote MX, the software already made an appearance in the Windows Store, and those who would like to take i...

17 July 2012
08:33 GMT

Origin’s Image Will Be Improved by Publishing Kickstarter Games

Electronic Arts has once again discussed about its Origin digital distribution service and revealed that hardcore gamers, which haven’t exactly welcomed the platform with open arms, will slowly realize the array of good things it’s doing, including things like free publishing for crowd-funded games from w...

17 July 2012
08:21 GMT

NAND Memory Prices Are Stable Now

There were hints that the NAND Flash chip market was finally settling down, but now we have something more or less concrete to go on, courtesy of a certain news and rumor site. As people may or may not have guessed, Digitimes is the one providing an update on the state of the NAND Flash chip segment. Considering ...

17 July 2012
08:20 GMT

Security App of the Week: Kaspersky Security Scan

There are certain situations in which users might need to perform a quick scan to check whether their systems are infected with malware or other cyber threats. A great tool for such tasks is Kaspersky’s recently released Security Scan. Kaspersky Security Scan doesn’t offer the protection of a complete se...

17 July 2012
08:18 GMT

Brad Pitt’s “World War Z” Is in a World of Trouble

For the better part of 2011, Brad Pitt worked on a movie called “World War Z,” which was initially scheduled to come out this December but was pushed back to June 2013. Now, Vulture has learned that the project is in serious danger of never seeing the light of day. The film not only stars Brad Pitt, but...

17 July 2012
08:12 GMT

Authorities Find Evidence of Intense Bird Trafficking in Solomon Islands

Trade Records Analysis of Flora and Fauna in Commerce (TRAFFIC) just released a new study arguing that, contrary to what the people of Singapore who enjoy keeping exotic birds as pets believe, most of these animals are not in fact captive-bred, but rather illegally exported from the Solomon Islands. More precisely,...

17 July 2012
08:05 GMT

AMD’s Bulldozer Dies in December This Year

It seems like the Texas-based fabless CPU and GPU designer AMD is moving towards a fast adoption of the Piledriver enhanced Vishera cores. The company sees no point in continuing to manufacture any Bulldozer-based processor and they are planning a quick phase-out for the ill-fated architecture. The Piledriver-based ...

17 July 2012
08:02 GMT

New Darksiders II Video Shows Scale of Game World

A new video linked to the upcoming Darksiders II includes information coming directly from Joe Madureira, the comic book creator behind the look of the series, and reveals the scope of the game world. The artist, who is now employed by developer Vigil Games, talks about his initial concept art influenced the creatio...

17 July 2012
08:01 GMT

Facebook Tests Games That Bypass Permission Dialogs

Facebook gets burned whatever it does, so it's probably thinking it's not worth trying to fight it anymore; if people are going to be angry, at least give them to be angry about. That’s what it seems to be thinking behind an experiment that enables apps to bypass permissions dialog and load instantly....

17 July 2012
07:51 GMT

Security Expert “Hacks” Handcuffs Using 3D Printer

As an expert demonstrated, modern-day 3D printers can be used by criminals not only to replicate the front end of an ATM machine. They can also be utilized to produce keys that unlock police handcuffs. At the recent Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) security conference, a German security researcher called Ray proved ho...

17 July 2012
07:43 GMT

HTC Era 42 and BlackBerry Armstrong for T-Mobile Emerge Online

Mobile phone carrier T-Mobile USA is reportedly getting ready to add a new set of appealing devices to its lineup before the end of the year. Among these handsets, we should see a new HTC smartphone that features the codename of Era 42, and which is expected to sport 4G capabilities inside. Rumor has it that this...

17 July 2012
07:41 GMT

Need for Speed: Most Wanted Gets Pre-Order Bonuses and Limited Edition

Electronic Arts and Criterion Games have just released the first details about the pre-order bonuses for Need for Speed: Most Wanted, while highlighting the game’s Limited Edition, which includes more special things. Need for Speed: Most Wanted is set to bring the racing game series back into the spotlight aft...

17 July 2012
07:31 GMT

WWF Urges China and Africa to Show More Concern About the Environment

This week, Beijing is expected to house a meeting between representatives of China and Africa, whose end goal is that of establishing commercial relations between these two countries. As far as the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is concerned, this Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) is also a good opportunity for ...

17 July 2012
07:28 GMT

A Closer Look at Office 2013 Customer Preview

Yesterday, Microsoft made available for download the Customer Preview flavor of its next-gen Office 2013 productivity suite. Just as expected, the new application release comes with a modified interface, designed specifically to fit the needs of Windows 8-based tablet users. The same as the next-generation platfo...

17 July 2012
07:26 GMT

Ellen DeGeneres Gives Jennifer Aniston a Makeover – Video

You can always count on Ellen DeGeneres for a good laugh. Double the amount of fun if Jennifer Aniston also comes in, as the videos here will surely confirm. Ellen turned to Jennifer for a little helping hand to promote season 10 of her popular talk show – the result is these hilarious videos. To promote the ...

17 July 2012
07:15 GMT

Dropbox Users Can Now Restrict Share Folders to the People They Choose

Dropbox rolled out a small but important update to the Share Folders feature. Now, users are able to control who gets invited by others to the folder, albeit rather crudely. The original creator can decide whether others will be allowed to invite more people to join or not. When creating new share folders, you'...

17 July 2012
07:11 GMT

Flaw in Artema Hybrid Terminals Allows Hackers to Collect Payment Card Details

VeriFone’s Artema Hybrid point of sale (POS) devices – which are highly popular in Germany – have been found to contain a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute malicious code and steal payment card details, including their PINs. Experts from Security Research Labs (SRLab...

17 July 2012
07:06 GMT

Contractor Selected for Three NASA Satellite Launches

Officials at NASA announced that they have selected the Delta II rockets build by Englewood, Colorado-based United Launch Services, LLC (ULS) to deliver three critically-important, upcoming missions to Earth's orbit. Scientists at the American space agency believe that these delivery systems provide the best p...

17 July 2012
07:04 GMT

Silicon Power Intros Velox V70 SSD

SSD manufacturer Silicon Power has accustomed us with affordable, yet modest-performing SSDs over the past years, and now the company is introducing a performance-optimized SSD based on LSI’s SandForce 2281 controller. The novelty is called Velox V70 and uses the SATA III interface. The performance improvement...

17 July 2012
06:31 GMT

Affordable Wammy Ethos Tablet with Android 4.0 ICS Coming Soon in India

The Indian market has been flooded with budget-friendly Android tablets in the past few weeks. Small and major companies alike launched affordable slates powered by Ice Cream Sandwich platform. Today, Indian bran WikedLeak announced the upcoming availability of the Wammy Ethos tablet, which offers both 3G and HSPA+ ...

17 July 2012
06:21 GMT

Here Are Some Intel Core and Pentium CPUs Set for September Release

If Intel isn't launching anything, the press and Internet will look into what products it will soon or eventually produce, such as Core and Pentium series CPUs. Last week, for example, we saw how Intel's Core i7-3630QM and i7-3632QM were set for Q4 launch. Now, we are going to detail seven more central ...

17 July 2012
06:03 GMT

Yoko Ono and Son Launch Protest Against Fracking [Video]

Just recently, Yoko Ono and her son, Sean, together with other celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Julianne Moore, Mark Ronson and even esteemed author Salman Rushdie, decided to join hands and launch a campaign against fracking operations throughout America. Apparently, Yoko and Sean decided that it was high ti...

17 July 2012
05:59 GMT

EA Wants Battlefield and Medal of Honor to Be Different

Publisher Electronic Arts is keen on making sure that there’s a clear separation between its two first-person shooter franchises, the DICE-made Battlefield and the Danger Close-created Medal of Honor. Frank Gibeau, the leader of the EA Games label at the company, has told Game Informer that, “We are very...

17 July 2012
05:55 GMT

See the South Pole in a 360 Degrees Panorama with Google Street View

A century ago, going to the South Pole was a heroic attempt and a historic success. Now though, anyone can go. Literally, you can go to the South Pole right now and see what it's like at the historic location and around the permanent base established there thanks to Google Street View. The "street" in Street Vi...

17 July 2012
05:51 GMT

NullCrew Hacks South African ISP Directory, 450 Account Details Leaked

The systems of ISP Directory – a South African online directory dedicated for Internet service providers (ISPs) – have been breached by members of the NullCrew collective. “Hello everyone. Today I have another special release for you. We have hacked an ISP Directory from Africa, and we have dumpe...

17 July 2012
05:37 GMT

Florida Decides to Take Better Care of Its Manatees [Video]

Because manatees respond better to high-pitched sounds, rather than low-pitched one, many of these animals are accidentally injured by boat propellers, simply because they don't get out of the way fast enough. However, one city in Florida, Crystal River, decided to take immediate action and help remedy this is...

17 July 2012
05:32 GMT

Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances Gives Starter Packs Away

Publisher Electronic Arts and developer EA Phenomic have announced that two months after the official launch date Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances has managed to attract more than one million registered players. To celebrate the occasion, the companies are giving away 1,000,000 Starter Packs to both GDI and Nod...

17 July 2012
05:26 GMT

New Borderlands 2 Screenshots Show Off Character Customization

Gearbox Software and 2K Games have just posted some new screenshots with the upcoming Borderlands 2 shooter, this time showing off the character customization mechanic and how it can allow players to give the game’s four main classes completely different looks. Borderlands 2 is set to improve upon its already ...

17 July 2012
05:14 GMT

Puppy Breeder Found Guilty of Animal Cruelty [Video]

Animal rights activists and even average folks are bound to be shocked by this video, as the Humane Society of the United States exposes the appalling conditions in which one dog breeder forces the animals to live. Said organization wishes to draw attention to the fact that, when buying a dog from the flea market, ...

17 July 2012
05:11 GMT

25,000 Pieces of Android Malware Found in Q2 2012 (Infographic)

Trend Micro researchers have issued an infographic to detail not only the present status of Android malware and malicious apps, but also some predictions for the upcoming quarters of 2012. So, at the end of 2011 there were 1,000 pieces of malware targeting Android devices. In the first quarter of 2012, the number gr...

17 July 2012
05:10 GMT

Raspberry Pi Restrictions Lifted, True Mass Availability Reached

The Raspberry Pi, that very small critter that somehow manages to browse the web and play 1080p video, finally has no supply problems. Raspberry Pi is an ARM-based system the size of a credit card. It was envisioned as a platform for Linux programming, but it caught on with the public in such a way that the press h...

17 July 2012
05:07 GMT

Next Landsat Spacecraft Is Now a Fully-Fledged Observatory

Working at a facility in Gilbert, Arizona, engineers at the Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) recently managed to finish installing the second main instrument on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite. The vehicle can now be classified as a complete observatory, experts at the American...

17 July 2012
04:54 GMT

Qualcomm’s Quad-Core APQ8064 “Krait” Has Console Grade Graphics

During Qualcomm’s recent Uplink 2012 conference that we reported on here, the company’s VP of product management, Raj Talluri, has presented real console-grade graphics on a power efficient SoC. The chip in question is the impressive APQ8064 processor that we presented here. The processor is set to work...

17 July 2012
04:51 GMT

Global Warming Leads to Fishermen Making Less Money

Just recently, fishermen who carry on with their business off the coast of Maine reached a rather alarming conclusion: as far as lobsters go, it is best to let go of the idea of setting sail and go in search for them, as this would get them virtually no profit. More precisely: because of increasing temperatures in ...

17 July 2012
04:48 GMT

Matt Damon Praises Jeremy Renner in “The Bourne Legacy”

Matt Damon made his Comic-Con debut at this year's edition in San Diego, where he came to promote his upcoming sci-fi film “Elysium.” While there, he also talked about the Bourne reboot coming out in August with Jeremy Renner, “The Bourne Legacy.” E! News has all the details – and ...

17 July 2012
04:48 GMT

Mozilla Skips Firefox 14, Launches 14.0.1 Instead

Mozilla skipped the launch of Firefox 14 and delivered instead version 14.0.1 of the browser, which is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. This move was not on the spur of the moment but planned ahead, and the reasoning behind it is to sync up with Firefox for Android 14.0.1 version, which is scheduled for release...

17 July 2012
04:44 GMT

Apple Takes Steps to Mitigate In-App Purchase Flaw

After learning that Russian researcher Alexey V. Borodin found a way to make free in-app purchases, Apple started taking steps to address the issue. However, the measures taken so far by the Cupertino company haven’t been successful since the service is still operational. “The security of the App Store i...

17 July 2012
04:44 GMT

iOS 6 Beta 3 Seeded to Developers

The third beta release of iOS 6 is now available for developers, three weeks after the previous beta flavor of the platform was put up for download. Developers can grab the new iOS 6 beta 3 through the Software Update feature on their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch devices. However, the necessary files are also avail...

17 July 2012
04:40 GMT

Apple MacBook Air Thunderbolt Display Makes Noise, Other Problems

Thunderbolt has been getting advertised quite extensively by Apple, but even the Cupertino-based company seems to be having trouble when implementing it. Some users of Apple's Thunderbolt display are experiencing static, distortion and crackling from the speakers of the 27-inch panel. According to Electronis...

17 July 2012
04:40 GMT

Instagram for Android Update Brings Nexus 7 Support and Share to Flickr

With Google recently announcing the next version of Android operating system, Jelly Bean, developers will have to update their apps and games in order to add support for the new platform. Even though some of the apps and games available in the Google Play store may support Android 4.1 Jelly Bean unofficially, there&...

17 July 2012
04:38 GMT

Mass Effect 3: Earth Multiplayer DLC Out Today

Mass Effect 3 will receive its new Earth downloadable content pack for the multiplayer mode later today, with new maps, character, weapons, and much more being set to arrive for the game completely free. Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer mode has been a huge success, with developer BioWare releasing constant updates...

17 July 2012
04:37 GMT

Historic Drought Hits the United States

Experts recently used the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the NASA Terra satellite to image the extent of the massive drought currently affecting the United States. Statistically speaking, the adverse weather currently amounts to a drought of historic proportions, affecting corn,...

17 July 2012
04:36 GMT

Dual-SIM Acer Liquid Gallant Duo with Android 4.0 ICS Now Up for Pre-Order in the UK

Acer is clearly one ambitious company that doesn’t want to let go, even though it’s not even close to being successful on the smartphone market. The handset maker launched several Windows Phone devices and a bunch of Android phones, but none has been hugely popular among end users. Nevertheless, Acer is...

17 July 2012
04:26 GMT

LEGO Batman 2 Makes It One Month at the Top in the UK

LEGO Batman 2: DC Superheroes has managed to make it one month at the top of the United Kingdom video game chart, showing that the re-imagining of the Gotham streets created from LEGO bricks has long-term appeal to both young players and their parents. The game, which was developed by TT Games and published by Warne...

17 July 2012
04:20 GMT

Generally Despised Rodents Now Found to Safeguard Tropical Forests

Just recently, biologists investigating the ecosystems of Panama's forest areas reached a rather amusing and interesting conclusion: although most human communities tend to exterminate them on account of their stealing food from wherever they can find it, rodents are in fact crucial for the survival of some tree...

17 July 2012
04:12 GMT

Mars Odyssey Entered Safe Mode Again

According to mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, the Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a state known as a safe mode on July 11. This usually happens when some sort of damage occurs. The purpose of the safe mode is to prevent any type of damage from spreading t...

17 July 2012
04:11 GMT

Sapphire’s Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Toxic 6GB

Advanced Micro Devices, by pushing the Radeon HD 7970 to 1 GHz, managed to oust the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 from its top spot, performance-wise, but Sapphire took things further. We'd say that the new board is one step ahead of the curve, if it weren't more accurate to replace step with mile-long leap. Th...

17 July 2012
04:10 GMT

BlackBerry 10 SDK Updated, Will Get Detailed Soon

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is gearing up for the release of an updated BlackBerry 10 SDK, which will be detailed in the near future. RIM is nearing the release of BlackBerry 10, and is currently applying the final touches to its developer tools, so that great apps would arrive on devices soon. ...

17 July 2012
04:02 GMT

MSL Will Land on Mars in 20 Days

When it comes to landing the heaviest, most complex piece of hardware ever sent to another planet, nothing can be left to chance. Experts managing the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) and its rover, Curiosity, are well aware of that, and they are currently making final preparations for landing. This is scheduled to oc...

17 July 2012
03:56 GMT

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 660 Coming Next Month

Nvidia’s Kepler architecture is a very efficient design that allows the flagship card to achieve results equal or even better than AMD’s Tahiti cards, despite the fact that AMD’s chip has half a billion transistors more and a 50% wider memory BUS. Usually, the chip designer wants to use all its chi...

17 July 2012
03:51 GMT

PlayStation All-Stars Features Infamous’ Cole MacGrath and Jak and Daxter

Sony showed off its upcoming PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale fighting game last week at the San Diego Comic-Con and took the chance to present two more characters that will appear in the new experience, in the form of Cole MacGrath from the Infamous series and Jak and Daxter from their own franchise. PlayStation...

17 July 2012
03:51 GMT

The Last of Us Reveals New Character Bill via Trailer

Developer Naughty Dog has revealed a new video taken from their upcoming The Last of Us, designed to once again show off the impressive graphics of the game and the unique gameplay. The video deals with a new character, called Bill, who is voiced by W. Earl Brown, and he is the man who owns a safe house that protag...

17 July 2012
03:50 GMT

Windows Phone 8 Comes with Screen Capture Capability – Report

One of the downsides of the Windows Phone platform, especially for a reviewer, is the fact that it doesn’t allow you to take screenshots. However, this might change once Microsoft launches Windows Phone 8. According to WPDang, the next version of Microsoft’s mobile platform, Windows Phone 8 will come wit...

17 July 2012
03:47 GMT

Katie Holmes Enrolls Suri Cruise in Catholic School

Apparently coming to confirm reports that Katie Holmes divorced Tom Cruise because he was adamant Suri was raised a Scientologist, the actress has enrolled her 6-year-old daughter to a prestigious Catholic school, it has emerged. As it must be common knowledge by now, Holmes filed for divorce in New York City, wher...

17 July 2012
03:45 GMT

“Security Update” Phishing Scam Targets O2 Customers

Customers of British telecoms company O2 are advised to be on the lookout for poorly written emails that urge them to perform a security update. “As part of ongoing upgrade, have introduced a new internet security into our online services to protect all our users information. We endeavour all our user's t...

17 July 2012
03:41 GMT

SpaceX Will Carry the NOAA Jason-3 Satellite to Space

Officials at the American space agency announced recently that they decided to go with the Falcon 9 v1.0 delivery system for the upcoming Jason-3 mission. The rocket is developed and built by Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX). The upcoming satellite, an operational ocean...

17 July 2012
03:40 GMT

June 2012 Was the Fourth Warmest on Record

According to the conclusions of a new report released by experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), it would appear that last month was the fourth-warmest June recorded since records began, in 1880. The report, entitled “State of the Climate Global Analysis, June 2012,” wa...

17 July 2012
03:32 GMT

Study Shows That Fungus Can Help Clean Up the Environment

Just recently, the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a new study that argues that an Ascomycete fungus can be used to clean up the environment and fight back the negative effects of industrial development. The way they explain it, the process seems fairly simple and easy to grasp: wh...

17 July 2012
03:26 GMT

The Game Signs to Reality Show Documenting His Wedding

Reality stars are often considered C-listers to “real” actors and artists, while reality shows have the least credibility of all the programs on TV. Even so, there's big money in them, so it's no wonder rapper The Game has also agreed to do one. Nothing is official for the time being but, acco...

17 July 2012
03:25 GMT

NVIDIA Apparently Lied About Its Passwords

Last week, we reported on the hacking attack that took down NVIDIA's Forums, and how the company assured everyone that the stolen passwords were encrypted with random salt value. Hacker group “Team Apollo” have now posted on Pastebin the results of their code break-in (they have claimed responsibil...

17 July 2012
03:23 GMT

Nokia Updates Destination Maps, Its Indoor Mapping Service

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has just announced the availability of an update to its Destination Maps, the service that provides users with indoor coverage. Destination Maps was made official at CTIA in spring, capable of offering orientation, routing and guidance indoors with the same accuracy as outdoors. T...

17 July 2012
03:21 GMT

Deadpool Game Coming from High Moon Studios and Activision

One of the most infamous comic book superheroes, Deadpool, is getting his own video game in 2013, as Activision and High Moon Studios confirmed that they’ve partnered up with Marvel to create an interactive experience based on the sarcastic hero. While comic books have featured all sorts of characters, Marvel&...

17 July 2012
03:10 GMT

New Platinum Mass Effect 3 Difficulty Too Hard for BioWare Developers

The new Platinum difficulty that developer BioWare is introducing to Mass Effect 3 in the upcoming Earth downloadable content is hard enough that only a limited number of the game designers have actually managed to beat it. Mike Gamble, who is one of the producers working on the series, talked about Platinum during ...

17 July 2012
03:06 GMT

Drivers and Applications for Lenovo ThinkCentre M72z

We encourage users to download and install drivers and apps for the Lenovo ThinkCentre M72z, a middle-class performance All-in-One multitouch desktop. Powered by Intel’s 3rd generation Core i7 processor, this machine sports a 20" WLED display with optional multitouch, and supports up to 8GB of memory. Specs-w...

17 July 2012
03:05 GMT

Privacy Bug: Skype Crash Causes Messages to Be Delivered to Wrong Recipient

Skype users are flooding forums with reports of what appears to be a major privacy bug. In some cases, instant messages aren’t delivered to their destination, but instead they land in a random customer’s chat window. “Messages sent by one contact (2 lines out of a hundred or so) were sent to a...

17 July 2012
03:04 GMT

Linux Kernel 3.4.5 Is Available for Download

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced yesterday, July 16th, the immediate availability for download of the fifth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.4 kernel series. Looking at the changelog, we can see that Linux kernel 3.4.5 brings fixes and updates for the ARM, PowerPC and x86 architectures, lots of driver updates...

17 July 2012
03:00 GMT

Download Firefox and Thunderbird 14 Final for Linux

Mozilla uploaded earlier today, July 17th, the final packages containing the Mozilla Firefox 14.0.1 web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird 14.0 email client for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows operating systems. There's no official announcement at the time of writing this, but the binary and source packages of the fi...

17 July 2012
02:44 GMT

Self-Fertilizing Cereals Soon to Come Our Way

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently agreed to provide the John Innes Centre with roughly $9.8 million (about €8 million) so that scientists can work on developing self-fertilizing crops. Professor Oldroyd, one of the leading researchers for this study, argues that it is possible for our present day cr...

17 July 2012
02:43 GMT

As Intel Cuts SSD Prices, the 330 Series Welcomes 240 GB Model

There does not seem to be as much of a concern for internal competition among Intel solid state drives, considering the new unit that the company's lineup has now welcomed. Intel's SSD 300 series (320 and 330 sub-lines) is the storage product set that the Santa Clara, California-based company sells to mai...

17 July 2012
02:40 GMT

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Has 150 Bikinis as Pre-Order Bonus

After Dead or Alive 5 announced that it was offering special swimsuits for its female fighters to those who pre-order the game, Tecmo Koei has countered and confirmed that those who pre-purchase its upcoming Tekken Tag Tournament 2 would get 150 bikinis for all the characters, including the lovely ladies as well as t...

17 July 2012
02:35 GMT

SimplyMEPIS 11.9.60 Has Linux Kernel 3.3-2

SimplyMEPIS, a desktop Linux system that is easy to configure as a dedicated server and includes features such as a live/installation/recovery CD, automatic hardware configuration, NTFS partition resizing, ACPI power management, Wi-Fi support, anti-aliased TrueType fonts, a personal firewall, KDE, is now at version ...

17 July 2012
02:34 GMT

Gears of War: Judgment Video Shows Overrun Mode

Developer Epic Games has released a video designed to show off Overrun, the new game mode that will be included in the upcoming Gears of War: Judgment. The new Overrun mode will be a combination of the Beast and the Horde modes that gamers have played in previous installments in the series. The new Gears of War is ...

17 July 2012
02:31 GMT

Valve Officially Confirms Steam for Ubuntu 12.04

The Valve Linux team announced last evening, July 16th, that they have selected the Ubuntu operating system to deploy their upcoming Steam client for Linux.   The Linux team at Valve just created a few hours ago an official blog where they will publish everything there is to know about the Steam client for Linu...

17 July 2012
02:15 GMT

T-Mobile Announces Galaxy Note with 4G and Ice Cream Sandwich

Wireless services provider T-Mobile USA has officially unveiled the upcoming availability of Samsung’s Galaxy Note smartphone on its network. The new mobile phone, the largest Android-based handset in the world, will arrive at the carrier in the next weeks, with a nice range of appealing features packed insid...

17 July 2012
02:14 GMT

Sophos UTM 9 Now Available for Download

Formerly known as Astaro Security Gateway, Sophos UTM, a unique network security solution in an integrated and easy-to-use and manage package, is now at version 9. According to the developers, this latest version spent quite a few months in development. Sophos UTM 9 is a major release that offers over 60 new featur...

17 July 2012
00:55 GMT

OCZ’s Next Gen Barefoot 3 Controller Will Likely Change the SSD World

OCZ is one of the leading players in the SSD market and the company is investing heavily in its R & D. In fact, OCZ has been investing all its profits into acquiring new technology, patents and even companies like Indilinx.In a surprising turn of events, we’ve revealed that OCZ’s Vertex 4 controller is ac...

17 July 2012
00:11 GMT


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