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Scientists at the University of Exeter have recently completed their latest scientific study, which hints at the fact that males may have more pronounced personality traits across a wide range of species, from humans to house sparrows. Traits such as aggression and daring, which are sought-for in a male, and preferre... |
18 November 2009
21:21 GMT |
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Within the next 90 to 100 years, carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels will have to be all phased out, scientists reveal. A temperature rise of only two degrees Celsius would reshape the international map, modifying the borders of all countries that are next to seas and oceans. In order to avoid catastrop... |
18 November 2009
18:51 GMT |
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There are four discreet areas the player needs to get through in Dragon Age: Origins in order to get the support of allies in their fight against the Darkspawn and their Archdemon. One of them is the aptly named Mage Circle, a structure filled to the rim with magic practitioners supervised by the Chantry sponsored Te... |
18 November 2009
17:51 GMT |
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Mobile phone operator AT&T announced recently the launch of a series of two new TV apps for the AT&T U-verse users. According to the company, the new software solutions, dubbed Offers On Demand and Caller ID on TV, rise the number of applications available for its users to 20, with 12 of them being launched during t... |
18 November 2009
17:21 GMT |
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Javier Atencia is an investigator that spent a lot of time toying with microfluidic devices, the small, scientific instruments made up of tiny channels that conduct fluids, which can be used for a very wide array of applications, including water diagnostics and decontamination. Like others before him, he came to the ... |
18 November 2009
16:41 GMT |
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With Project Natal confirmed as being real and coming in late 2010 and with Sony officially stating that it intends to release the motion tracking add on for the PlayStation 3 at some point during the spring of next year, the biggest hardware-related rumor in the videogames industry is that Nintendo is secretly worki... |
18 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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She may have something of an emo in her style of dress, a fact to which she admits herself, but there is nothing “emo” about Ashlee Simpson’s lifestyle. She has a figure to kill for and, as the pop star reveals in the latest issue of Women’s Health magazine, she works hard for it, but she woul... |
18 November 2009
16:21 GMT |
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We hear much talk of the obesity pandemics yet, for many of us, forming a picture of what lays ahead of us is difficult unless specific numbers are also computed. This is precisely the premise of a report drew up by Kenneth Thorpe, chairman of the department of health policy and management at Emory University in Atla... |
18 November 2009
16:11 GMT |
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The GSM Association announced recently at the Mobile Asia Congress the launch of Mobile's Green Manifesto, which has been developed in collaboration with The Climate Group. The Manifesto has been announced by Rob Conway, CEO and Member of the Board, GSMA, who was joined by China Mobile's Chairman Wang Jian... |
18 November 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Usually, when we set out to lose some weight, especially if it’s more than a couple of pounds, we think strict dieting and working out until we’re numb from exhaustion. It doesn’t necessarily have to be so, fitness experts point out for Shape magazine, offering the alternative of taking up dancing t... |
18 November 2009
15:31 GMT |
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AT&T's 3G network in the San Francisco Bay Area has been greatly improved during the past few quarters, the wireless carrier announced, through investments that totaled more than $65 million, from 2008 to Q3 2009. According to the operator, the new enhancements brought to its network in the area include the add... |
18 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Fans of the “Twilight” films and novels will know that Bella, the mortal girl who comes into very close contact with a covenant of “vegetarian” vampires, is utterly fascinated with the house they live in the moment she sets eyes on it. Now, anyone with $3.3 million to spare can experience that... |
18 November 2009
14:31 GMT |
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As soon as I started Modern Warfare 2, I couldn't shake this familiar feeling I was having, that I was there before, that I did that somewhere else, a Matrix-like deja-vu. The game starts with the same test run of your abilities to set your difficulty level that the original Modern Warfare did, with the small ad... |
18 November 2009
14:31 GMT |
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In a major move, Activision has announced that Glen Schofield and Michael Condry, best known for leading the development team that delivered last year's Dead Space, are now part of the newly formed Sledgehammer Games team, based in Foster, California. The two were previously part of the Visceral Games team, whic... |
18 November 2009
14:21 GMT |
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One of the main reasons for Twitter's success has been the openness towards third-party developers. While the core service has stayed mostly true to its minimalistic approach, users can get most of the features they need from all of the services and apps that cater to Twitter. In fact, these apps are so popular,... |
18 November 2009
14:11 GMT |
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It seems like all those people that Electronic Arts fired along with the newly shut-down game developer, Pandemic Studios, were sacrificed for a greater good. Or not necessary something good, but obviously for something that EA thinks will be more profitable. Apparently, in its opinion, a game store dedicated to a si... |
18 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Wireless carriers have been already reported to plan seeking new ways of boosting their revenues, and it seems that selling a wider range of devices beside mobile phones is one of the solutions they might have found. According to a recent report from In-Stat, carriers are expected to become one of the most significa... |
18 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian first made a name for themselves for being their father’s daughters – and from there moved to reality television. In the meantime, though, their careers have expanded beyond that, and they will soon be able to include jewelry designer on their resumes, as Kim herself ann... |
18 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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A survey conducted by the Entertainment Software Association is showing that 42% of American adults are interested in giving or in receiving a videogame or more as presents for Christmas, which is good news for an industry that has seen sales fall this year over the same period in 2008 and hope that the shopping spre... |
18 November 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Twitter owes much of its popularity to the ecosystem of third-party apps and services that has sprung up around it. In fact, a big chunk of Twitter's userbase doesn't visit the site itself, but connects to the service via third-party desktop or mobile clients. On the desktop front, two players are battling ... |
18 November 2009
12:51 GMT |
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Following years of intense speculation and entreaties from fans around the world, in September this year, the first seemingly more accurate report regarding a “Friends” feature film emerged. It seemed to come on good authority, as it was James Michael Tyler, Gunther on the television show, who backed it u... |
18 November 2009
11:36 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay may not be the world's largest BitTorrent site, but it's definitely the best known. So much so that even people who never visited the site itself are familiar with its logo. But, in keeping with their anti-IP stance, the logo wasn't copyrighted or trademark by the owners, something that ... |
18 November 2009
11:31 GMT |
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Nokia N900, the Maemo 5-based high-end device from the Finnish mobile phone maker, has finally been released on the US market. The company announced today that the gadget already started to ship to those who place orders for it in advance, and that the Linux-based Maemo platform present on it would offer users a wide... |
18 November 2009
11:21 GMT |
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A new development milestone of Firefox 3.6 is now available for download as the open source browser makes its way toward the Release Candidate Build, expected to drop later this month. Yesterday, you were able to read right here on Softpedia that the third revision to the Firefox 3.6 Beta was in the final stages of ... |
18 November 2009
11:19 GMT |
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Motorola announced recently that it managed to successfully complete and pass the time-division duplex long-term evolution (TD-LTE) key functionalities test that has been launched by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). The test was aimed at examining the high-bandwidth network capaci... |
18 November 2009
11:11 GMT |
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January may bring with it a Home Server running on Intel's Atom D510 central processing unit. The CPU is a dual-core 1.66GHz processor that runs at a voltage of just 13W and is believed to overcome the capabilities of the Atom 330, which eats up an additional 5W. Although no details have been given on this iss... |
18 November 2009
11:10 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available for download a new Cumulative Time Zone Update for all currently supported Windows platforms, designed to implement time-zone changes that reflect modifications introduced around the world. The software giant explained that the December 2009 cumulative time zone update was set up to repla... |
18 November 2009
10:56 GMT |
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As almost the entire world is swept away by the “Twilight” mania, with just days to go until the release of the second film in the franchise, the much-hyped “New Moon,” Miley Cyrus is one teenager who will not hear about vampires and werewolves. In fact, the Disney darling hates everything tha... |
18 November 2009
10:54 GMT |
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Scientists controlling space-based analysis instruments aimed at the Earth have known for a long time that the outlines of the Earth's continents can easily be distinguished from orbit from the outlines that they project onto clouds. This may be owed to the significant differences that appear between cloud cover... |
18 November 2009
10:52 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Cloud strategy spans well beyond Windows Azure, and the company made this abundantly clear during the opening keynote address at the Professional Developers Conference 2009 in Los Angeles. In addition to providing the Cloud platform, Microsoft is also offering developers the tools necessary to stre... |
18 November 2009
10:31 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is reportedly getting ready to make some major changes in its N-Series lineup for the future. One of these changes should include the adoption of the Maemo platform for the “top-end” handsets that will be released in the lineup by 2012, and the elimination of Symbian from... |
18 November 2009
10:31 GMT |
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The IBM-native Lotus Symphony line of office apps will be offered in its portable version on NSEC products, such as the successful Keepod, the slimmest USB device in the world. IBM, VMWare and NSEC made this announcement on Tuesday, November 19, 2009, through an official press release by IBM.This means that users wil... |
18 November 2009
10:27 GMT |
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With most chassis manufacturers focusing on state-of-the-art automatized cooling capable of handling any type of hardware configuration, such mechanisms offer little in the way of direct control over power allocation. This means that such complicated cooling modules, although truly effective and strong, are really mo... |
18 November 2009
10:18 GMT |
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The search landscape is still evolving even if at its usual slow pace. Not too much has changed in October, Google still clearly dominates and has actually picked up a little market share in the last month, but the other two players are bit more dynamic. Yahoo took quite a significant dive, dropping almost 1 percent... |
18 November 2009
10:03 GMT |
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Gorgeous actress Cameron Diaz has often rebelled against critics saying that she was typecast for comedy roles. It’s not known whether this had anything to do with her decision of doing the thriller “The Box” but what is certain is that, in a strange turn of events, her ambitious role, along with th... |
18 November 2009
09:56 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that people shopping in stores that have the floors covered with comfortable carpets feel better during their shopping experience, but also tend to view the products they are checking out as being “less comforting.” Test respondents did not arrive at th... |
18 November 2009
09:56 GMT |
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Becoming a Martian while never leaving this planet might not have the same appeal or deliver the adrenaline levels that setting an actual foot on the soil of Mars would, but then again, exploring is not what it used to be. And don’t think for a minute that the comfort of an Earth home and exploring the alien, d... |
18 November 2009
09:43 GMT |
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Following the official debut of AMD's fastest graphics card to date, the much-anticipated Radeon HD 5970, the company's AIB partners have been given the green light to announce their versions of the latest GPU. Such is the case with MSI, which was among the first graphics card makers to announce the new Ra... |
18 November 2009
09:37 GMT |
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Susan Boyle, undeniably the biggest and most loved underdog artists of this year – and, some say, of many years until now as well – is just days away from the release of her debut music album, the aptly titled “I Dreamed a Dream.” In a first interview of the kind, the singer has agreed to talk... |
18 November 2009
09:37 GMT |
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In tune with its plans to join NEC in the development of HPC-aimed Xeon processors, Intel means to make as strong an impact as it can in the supercomputing industry. Intel revealed its intention to launch the HPC-aimed Nehalem-EX central processing unit at Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, Oregon. The leading develop... |
18 November 2009
09:30 GMT |
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Ever since it first hit the screen in 1973, “The Exorcist” has constantly been described as officially the scariest movie of all times by movie critics. Even those who disagree that it’s the scariest agree that it ranks up there with the most terrifying instances of modern cinema. For all these crit... |
18 November 2009
09:13 GMT |
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Using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) instrument aboard the newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have recently snapped an amazing, highly detailed image of the galaxy NGC 4710. In its analysis of the images, the team discovered that the structure revealed an X-shaped bulge that was uncharacteri... |
18 November 2009
09:02 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Orange UK announced recently that it had been rated as the leading provider of quality mobile broadband services, in a recent survey made by independent research company YouGov. According to the carrier, this is the second time it receives the title and it managed to achieve this posit... |
18 November 2009
08:58 GMT |
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There is no longer any secrecy surrounding Adam Lambert’s orientation, since he publicly came out in Rolling Stone magazine, in what proved to be the most successful issue of the mag this entire year. Having recently done a cover for Out magazine, centered on people who made an impact in 2009 for the community,... |
18 November 2009
08:54 GMT |
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The wait for Google Chrome OS is almost over as the company is getting ready to reveal the upcoming operating system in an event tomorrow at Googleplex, the company's headquarters. It's unclear whether Google will release any actual code or a rough, working version, but there will definitely be plenty of d... |
18 November 2009
08:51 GMT |
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Search engine-based company Google has been rumored a few times before to plan launching on the market its own mobile phone, and now the same rumors have returned to the table. Although the company denied the existence of a self-branded device, claiming that it is only into the licensing software business when it co... |
18 November 2009
08:43 GMT |
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HPCs or supercomputers are used in science, medicine and by non-profit organizations and businesses such as oil and gas exploration to speed research and testing. Although four out of five among the top 500 supercomputers have Intel processors inside, the fact that it just barely got the fifth place in the TOP500 lis... |
18 November 2009
08:35 GMT |
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Victor Vasile Constantin, 23, of Romania, has pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and one of identity theft in Connecticut U.S. District Court. The fraudster installed special devices on automated teller machines (ATMs) in order to capture credit card data.Mr. Constantin was arrested by the Norwalk Police back ... |
18 November 2009
08:35 GMT |
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Norwegian software company Opera announced today the launch of Opera Mobile 10 beta for Windows Mobile phones. The new version of the Windows Mobile browser comes towards users with a desktop-like experience, and enables them to search, socialize and stay connected even when on the go. According to the company, the ... |
18 November 2009
08:21 GMT |
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With Borderlands, the so-called role playing shooter created by Gearbox, now out and performing well in the charts, the next big release for publisher Take Two is BioShock 2, the first person shooter that is being developed by 2K Marin and is a follow up to the award-winning adventure which surprised everyone when it... |
18 November 2009
07:49 GMT |
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According to NVIDIA, the antitrust settlement between Intel and AMD won't be nearly enough to safeguard the end-users from the Santa Clara giant's unsavory activities, which continue on other levels of the IT marketing segment. Although Intel keeps challenging NVIDIA's claims, the leading GPU manufactu... |
18 November 2009
07:43 GMT |
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Where does Windows Server 2008 stop and pure poetry begin? This is a question that only a poetic server administrator can answer. And, of course, what better form for the answer to take than that of a Haiku, Japanese poetry filtered down to just 17 moras/on (sounds). Microsoft has the best place for harnessing and ga... |
18 November 2009
07:42 GMT |
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One year after Microsoft first unveiled its Cloud operating system to the world, Windows Azure has been officially launched. The Professional Developers Conference 2009 in Los Angeles acted as the stage for the Redmond company to release, what it referred to as critical pieces of its Cloud services strategy, namely t... |
18 November 2009
07:09 GMT |
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The future is looking bright at Digg, or at least that's what cofounder and CEO Jay Adelson is claiming. The social news aggregator has been trying a lot of things lately to spur growth and, more importantly, revenue and it's clear that at least some of them are working; the CEO especially notes Digg Ads. ... |
18 November 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Kirby Super Star Ultra is a remake of the original Kirby Super Star, released on the SNES back in 1996, and it features seven different main games. In addition to the previous one, Ultra includes five new titles and three new sub-games. Some of these are detailed below.In The Arena, you'll be able to face all of... |
18 November 2009
06:59 GMT |
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Released just a short time ago, the ultimate graphics card, created by the world-renowned graphics card and motherboard manufacturer MSI, practically became the new representative of the concept of high-end graphics itself. The adapter combines two advanced 40nm GPUs with 3,200 stream processors (SPs), and a 2 GB 512... |
18 November 2009
06:58 GMT |
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Scientists at the Cornell University, in the United States, have recently announced the development of a new optical technology, which allows them to use a tiny beam of light in order to move nanostructures. The beam employs as little as one milliwatt of power in order to do this, but it can move structures that are ... |
18 November 2009
06:57 GMT |
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TOCA Race Driver 2 is a videogame developed and published by the Codemasters Software Company Limited. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the PlayStation Portable handheld and the PC platform on April 13, 2004. The title can be classed as a racing simulation fea... |
18 November 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Orange announced on Tuesday the launch of a new social media service, called People Projects. Users will benefit from a new Facebook application, aimed at offering them the possibility to access their social network, while also creating online groups that plan on supporting or participating at commu... |
18 November 2009
06:50 GMT |
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With America sticking its nose in pretty much every conflict that's present on the face of the Earth, you can bet the one thing it needs is soldiers. America has a vast experience with public relations and catchy phrases, but one of its best must be the "Uncle Sam wants you" recruitment slogan. So, America knows... |
18 November 2009
06:50 GMT |
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Experts at the Tel Aviv University (TAU) Department of Biomedical Engineering recently announced the development of a new type of wound dressing, designed primarily to benefit severe burn-trauma victims. In spite of the doctors' best efforts, a large number of people – nearly 70 percent of all patients &nd... |
18 November 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Portable computer systems continue to gain ground in front of the traditional desktop PCs, as new technologies enable better performance, portability, and new designs. This market spans across a range of segments, each one focused on delivering the features and performance required by different types of users. Rugge... |
18 November 2009
06:39 GMT |
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Motorola, Inc. announced recently the addition of a new solution to its LTE portfolio, namely the Wireless Broadband Radio (WBR) 500 series frame-based eNodeB. According to the company, the new solution is meant to complement the previously launched WBR 500 remote RF-based eNodeB series, being able to deliver great ... |
18 November 2009
06:34 GMT |
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It’s unlikely the Internet Explorer 9 will natively support mouse gestures, since Microsoft hasn’t really warmed up to such functionality with the existing iteration of its proprietary browser. However, while users could certainly put mouse gestures support for IE9 on their wish list, there is already an ... |
18 November 2009
06:16 GMT |
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The Incredible Hulk comes to the DS with a little bit less flavor than it does on the home consoles. The game still has plenty of puzzles and destruction, but it's far less complex and a lot uglier than its larger brothers. But it's also a lot more simplified, as the DS version will never give you an un-Hul... |
18 November 2009
06:11 GMT |
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This new addition to Plextor's long line of internal optical drive units not only boasts a write speed of 12X, but also uses a serial ATA interface that provides users with a more than convenient-enough solution for Blu-ray playback of HD media files. The PX-B940SA Blu-ray is a dual-layer DVD drive that provides... |
18 November 2009
06:10 GMT |
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Pharaohs and their priests were praised in Ancient Egypt as something close to gods. Their status was highly privileged, and they benefited from all spoils that their lands could produce, while others were starving and dying. But it would seem that, in spite of having the best possible conditions to live as long as p... |
18 November 2009
06:10 GMT |
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There are several big trends in the web space at the moment and one great emphasis has lately been on media content, be it video or music. Online video is hitting the mainstream in a big way and new music services are popping up faster than the unsuccessful ones are closing down. So, it's only natural to combin... |
18 November 2009
06:05 GMT |
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Just three weeks have passed since Forza 3 was released, but it already seems like that was years ago. The racing sim was completely outshone by recent releases such as Borderlands, Dragon Age: Origins, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed 2. But Microsoft hasn't forgotten about its game just ... |
18 November 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Evolutionary biologists looking into the evolutionary rates and patterns of Adelie penguins have recently determined that the animals appear to be evolving at a much faster pace than previously calculated. In the research, scientists looked at mitochondrial DNA samples collected from penguins currently living in rook... |
18 November 2009
05:52 GMT |
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In certain scenarios, Microsoft’s latest iteration of the Windows client will be a must-have holiday accessory along with mistletoe, Christmas trees, and the “trademark” cookies and milk for Santa. It is the case of Saks Fifth Avenue, Microsoft revealed, which will embrace not only the holiday spir... |
18 November 2009
05:52 GMT |
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Wireless carrier AT&T announced on Tuesday a series of improvements brought to its 3G network in Gainesville, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, and throughout Central Florida. According to the company, the new enhancements, which come right in time for the holiday season, consist of network capacity increases, which should... |
18 November 2009
05:46 GMT |
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Aaron Carter, the younger brother of Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys fame, is now a wanted man – and not in a good way, as the IRS has just filed papers against him for tax evasion. One week after being booted from Dancing With the Stars with much hubbub, Carter is now seeing himself in troubled waters with ... |
18 November 2009
05:44 GMT |
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“The original Tempest is one of our most successful designs due to its optimal airflow capabilities” Johnny Hou, chief designer at NZXT, said. “With the additional improvements the Tempest EVO brings to the equation, it’s destined to be a top performer in its class.” NZXT is mainly focu... |
18 November 2009
05:38 GMT |
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Duel Masters: Limited Edition is a videogame developed by High Voltage Software, Inc. and published by Atari Inc. The game was released exclusively on the PlayStation 2 console from Sony on November 5, 2004. It is classed as a strategy card title played from a third person perspective.Duel Masters is a trading card g... |
18 November 2009
05:36 GMT |
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A Microsoft program aimed at supplying startups with the necessary technology investments at no upfront costs, to help young businesses survive through the initial, critical phases after debut, has evolved to the next stage. At the Professional Developers Conference 2009 in Los Angeles, the Redmond company announced... |
18 November 2009
05:36 GMT |
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Gaming just isn't what it used to be, as new technologies that have recently been launched on the consumer market will provide users with a new gaming experience, directly from their personal computer system. Such is the case with NVIDIA's 3D Vision, a solution aimed at users looking to enhance their visua... |
18 November 2009
05:27 GMT |
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Often it’s not the scarcity of information but its abundance that is the problem. This is especially true online, the web holds huge amounts of information, yet finding it can be more hassle than it should in some cases. And it's even harder for very specialized information which, while publicly available... |
18 November 2009
05:27 GMT |
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It seems like the 1,500 employees that EA laid off last week aren't nearly enough to make the company feel secure about its financial future. Another cog in the EA machine has been discarded, as game studio Pandemic has been shut down by its owning company. Rumors that started creeping about yesterday regarding ... |
18 November 2009
05:26 GMT |
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For the past two decades, people using computers have been blessed and cursed to use mice and keyboards in order to input information into their machines. Over the years, these two components evolved to fulfill more and more complex tasks, but, for various types of applications, they simply no longer cut it. Drawing,... |
18 November 2009
05:24 GMT |
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The once-tranquil Sunny Island has been thrown in disarray, as crops seem to have gotten a life of their own and they're growing completely out of control. Players will have to unravel the mystery of the wild plants and save the island before it's suffocated in food. Set in the same world as Harvest Moon: I... |
18 November 2009
05:21 GMT |
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Malware distributors are hard at work again to infect computer users with the notorious Zeus banking trojan. Their newest spam campaign informs users that their email accounts have been deactivated and instructs them to run an infected file.The malicious emails come with a "your mailbox has been deactivated" subject ... |
18 November 2009
05:10 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has been rumored not too long ago to be working on the development of yet another nice looking device, which is supposedly heading to the market under the name of Sony Ericsson Kurara. While we've already had the chance to take a look at the device, now a series... |
18 November 2009
05:09 GMT |
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We've already written about how Microsoft has begun to ban modded Xbox 360 home gaming consoles from the Xbox Live service, which includes severing access to multiplayer gaming and friend communication.There are estimates saying that no less than 600,000 users have been banned for modifying their devices, most o... |
18 November 2009
05:04 GMT |
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Microsoft has worked to improve the experience of Japanese users running Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (including the SP2 releases) when it comes down to applications that leverage the Ribbon/Fluent graphical user interface. In this regard, the Redmond company has made available the Meiryo Font Collecti... |
18 November 2009
04:59 GMT |
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Maingear's SHIFT 'personal supercomputer,' as it called it, was introduced earlier this month and was built as a customizable configuration with one sole purpose: to combine the top performance offered by the latest technological releases at the moment. Naturally, the system wouldn't live up to it... |
18 November 2009
04:51 GMT |
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A robotics convention saw last week the introduction of a new vehicle able to perform on-the-go 3D measurements and maps of a certain area. The new machine, called ROAMS, was built from commercially available, off-the-shelf parts, with funds provided by the US Army. The Remotely Operated and Autonomous Mapping System... |
18 November 2009
04:51 GMT |
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Cupertino-based company Apple seems to have already started the work on the next version of its Mac OS X platform, which is expected to hit the market as Mac OS X 10.7. The latest flavor of the operating system, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, was launched only three months ago, yet there are already some pieces of evid... |
18 November 2009
04:46 GMT |
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The general layout of a search results page seems to have stayed pretty much the same since Google cracked it about a decade ago. At the time, everyone realized that Google had the right idea and most search engines today have a very similar way of showing the results. But, despite looking very similar, the design h... |
18 November 2009
04:46 GMT |
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Today is marked by the official debut of AMD's much-anticipated Radeon HD 5970, a dual-GPU graphics card that has been designed to become the world's fastest card on the market. Featuring impressive specifications, this card is likely to outperform NVIDIA's current offering, putting AMD in the first p... |
18 November 2009
04:38 GMT |
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Ever since the broadband Internet became a household appliance, games have begun to rely more and more on it. So much so that some have even lost the single-player element altogether and now rely on the online community the titles scored to keep themselves alive. Most online games encourage in one way or another a st... |
18 November 2009
04:36 GMT |
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EA Sports has announced that the newest in its line up of fitness videogames, called EA Sports Active More Workouts, is now out in stores in North America and is slated to also arrive in Europe on November 20.The new title, which has been created by the team at EA Canada, is set to enhance the exercise line up offere... |
18 November 2009
04:31 GMT |
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Speculation about how the entire Jackson family considered Michael’s personal doctor and the last person to see him alive, Dr. Murray, responsible for his death has been around since immediately after the singer passed on. Now, in a first interview of the kind, Janet Jackson opens up about what Michael meant to... |
18 November 2009
04:26 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile UK has recently admitted that some of its employees have sold customer data to one of the rival networks in the country. The operator announced the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), and the two entities have been investigating together the allegations. The data sold is... |
18 November 2009
04:16 GMT |
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NASA officials announce that the space agency's latest telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explore (WISE) instrument, has finished undergoing preparations, and is currently set for a Friday, November 20, roll-out date. The observatory has been chilled to its operating temperature, and has already been outf... |
18 November 2009
04:12 GMT |
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It appears that the recent reports on the Internet have been correct and that the Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has now detailed its latest Radeon graphics card, the much-anticipated HD 5970, a dual-GPU monster designed to be the fastest graphics card in the world. Featuring full support for Mic... |
18 November 2009
04:07 GMT |
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Yahoo is reportedly getting ready to close down its four-year-old Yahoo Go service. Starting the beginning of 2010, the service will be discontinued, though it seems that the company plans on maintaining a focus on the development of applications and services for high-end smartphones, including those based on the An... |
18 November 2009
04:02 GMT |
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It’s rather simple to see that Microsoft’s strong focus on application compatibly for Windows 7 has paid off. Off course, the company had Vista as a buffer to sweeten the transition from Windows XP, and as a result, Windows 7 is not plagued by the incompatibility problems that handicapped its predecessor.... |
18 November 2009
04:02 GMT |
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Nicolas Cage, arguably one of the most bankable actors in Hollywood at the present moment, is severely in debt, as we reported a while back. While the actor is saying that his finances are this bad because of his manager’s inattention to all the details, the manager himself has just filed a lawsuit against Cage... |
18 November 2009
04:00 GMT |
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With Kingston launching a password-protected flash drive, Active Media Products decided to make advances of its own, only in a different area, namely that of miniaturization. The company claims that its newly launched The Wink is currently the smallest 16GB USB flash drive in existence. Measuring a measly 1.2 x 0.5 x... |
18 November 2009
03:57 GMT |
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The Phoenix lander mission to the Red Planet arrived in the northern regions of Mars in 2008, and immediately started conducting its studies, which were aimed at discovering water-ice beneath the surface. It didn't take long for it to discover the stuff, as, during landing, its “feet” dug into ice on... |
18 November 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Blade Runner has three different versions, all thanks to Ridley Scott, but the games are just one short of a full set. The first Blade Runner title was made all the way back in 1985, while in 1997 an action adventure for the "future noir" was developed. There could have been a third game, and one done by a serious de... |
18 November 2009
03:54 GMT |
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The NPD Group data for the month of October, released last week, were anything but good. Overall, the videogaming industry has shrunk by about 19% over the same period during 2008, with price cuts failing to drive up sales volume for the PlayStation 3, the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360, and with customers buying less... |
18 November 2009
03:48 GMT |
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Fans have often speculated that both Robert Pattinson and “Twilight” co-star Kristen Stewart must have already grown tired of answering the same question over and over again, but it was never more obvious than during an interview with Ryan Seacrest. Taken before the Los Angeles limited premiere of “... |
18 November 2009
03:42 GMT |
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Google enjoys a very solid and comfortable lead in search right now and this is true for most types of searches, including image search. This doesn't mean that it can rest on its laurels, if anything Google is the company that showed others just that, so it's now launching a totally new way of discovering ... |
18 November 2009
03:32 GMT |
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Quickly on the footsteps of its fellow competitor, NVIDIA, Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has also announced the release of its updated Catalyst Software Suite 9.11, specifically designed to enable support for the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player, namely 10.1. The release should enable... |
18 November 2009
03:31 GMT |
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As the first Harvest Moon title to come to the DS, the game will have players manage the well-being of a farm. They'll have to tend to the livestock and grow all manners of crops. Their farm can be upgraded to handle new tasks, like holding additional livestock or a more elaborate kitchen to cook their food. The... |
18 November 2009
03:25 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 version of Bayonetta really got shafted, especially compared with the Xbox 360 one. On Sony's console, the game suffered from a lot of issues, including choppy framerates, lesser graphics and, not to be cast aside, the prolonged loading times. As it has been mentioned by a dedicated fan of the ... |
18 November 2009
03:19 GMT |
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There are those who handle their company's trade secrets but need them available at any time. There are those who are working on some personal research and want to protect their intellectual property. There are also people who work with information and must keep a lid on their secrets. Finally, there are also th... |
18 November 2009
03:15 GMT |
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Driver: Parallel Lines is a videogame developed by Reflections Interactive Limited and published by Atari. Inc. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 home console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the Nintendo Wii and the PC in March 2006. It is classed as a racing title played from a third person pe... |
18 November 2009
03:13 GMT |
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James Cameron reportedly pulled all on the stops in the making of “Avatar,” the movie that will drop this December and which is believed to mark a new stage in moviemaking. Not only has the famed director invested over $500 million in the film, but he also got one of the biggest artists of the moment, Leo... |
18 November 2009
03:01 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, announced on November 17th a new version of its versatile ATI Catalyst proprietary display driver for Linux users, for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. The ATI Catalyst 9.11 suite updates the software to version 8.671 and brings production support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and... |
18 November 2009
03:01 GMT |
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As most of you know, the rover Spirit has been stuck on the surface of Mars since May 6, when it drove straight into a patch of loose soil known as Troy. All efforts to free the robot resulted at the time in failure, so the scientists took to the lab, in an attempt to discover what the best course of action might be.... |
18 November 2009
02:58 GMT |
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Later today, November 18th, 2009, Microsoft will deliver the first taste of the next iteration of its proprietary browser. The Redmond company is looking to share plans about the successor of IE8, namely Internet Explorer 9 on the second day of the Professional Developers Conference 2009 in Los Angeles. It was Ray Oz... |
18 November 2009
02:56 GMT |
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Although technology is moving towards a more optimum power efficiency, focusing on becoming “greener,” that is, less power-draining, there is still a demand for powerful PSUs, with many desktop configurations using multiple storage units besides the usual PCIe cards (whether they are graphics adapters or ... |
18 November 2009
02:49 GMT |
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One of the latest software solutions set to come around for the users of a Mac OS X-based machine is Flash Media Live Encoder 3.1 from Adobe. On Tuesday, the company has announced that it plans on launching the new version of the software, and that it will also include support for Mac OS X in the new release.“... |
18 November 2009
02:37 GMT |
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OCZ Technology, one of the world's leading vendors of high-performance memory and Flash-based storage solutions, has just announced the debut of its new Colossus 3.5-Inch SSD line, featuring up to 1TB of storage capacity. Designed on the performance-driven Flash technology, the new Colossus offers an alternativ... |
18 November 2009
02:35 GMT |
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All NASA shuttles are protected upon atmospheric reentry by a ceramics-based heat shield, which is able to handle the thousands of degrees that heat up the spacecraft' underbellies. For all their resilience, these heat shields are extremely sensitive, and even minor impacts can cause very dangerous dents. After ... |
18 November 2009
02:35 GMT |
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DRIV3R, also known as Driver 3, is a videogame created by Reflections Interactive and published by Atari. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the Game Boy, the PC (a GameCube version was also in production but got canceled). The game was also later ported to mobi... |
18 November 2009
02:32 GMT |
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Disney has long confirmed the making of the fourth film in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, “On Stranger Tides,” despite not having a star attached to it yet. Contrary to earlier reports that said that Johnny Depp, as of now the only star of the successful franchise, was having second... |
18 November 2009
02:18 GMT |
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Personas developers stay true to their 'Your browser, your style!' motto and have updated the addon to provide even more ease-of-use and customization options to users worldwide. The already well-known Firefox and Thunderbird extension has recently reached version 1.4 and got various new features, including... |
18 November 2009
01:34 GMT |
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