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Scientists working with small particles at the nanoscale have recently revealed that they have developed a new type of synthetic blood platelets, which have twice the clotting capabilities of the standard variety. In the experiments they conducted on lab mice, the science group, which are based at the Case Western Un... |
18 December 2009
21:01 GMT |
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Consider the following situation in which an oil tanker capsizes and spills thousands of gallons of crude into the sea. This is the recipe for ecological disaster by any book, and scientists have been working on devising a way of mitigating the effects of such an accident ever since the Exxon Valdez incident. Now, wi... |
18 December 2009
20:01 GMT |
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In James Cameron's new movie, Avatar, we are presented with the outstandingly beautiful exomoon Pandora, which is not only able to support life, but it is also already inhabited. In the famous Star Wars series, we are introduced to the forest moon of Endor, a lush place that offers all conditions for life to evo... |
18 December 2009
19:01 GMT |
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It is commonly believed that the onset and development of agriculture took place around 10,000 years ago, as our forefathers learned how to harvest and domesticate plants, and put them at work to support growing communities. This ability allowed for the appearance of larger cities, which in turn made science evolve, ... |
18 December 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Paradox Interactive followed up on the August release of the new grand strategy World War II videogame Hearts of Iron III by putting out the Heir to the Throne expansion for Europa Universalis III, which covers the history of the Middle Ages, with a focus on Europe.Considering that the company is selling a package ca... |
18 December 2009
17:51 GMT |
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According to the November 2009 AdMob Mobile Metrics Report, throughout 2009, smartphones have become more commonly used for Internet traffic, and the same applies to the Wi-Fi connectivity. When it comes to mobile Web and application requests, the report shows that smartphones have seen a great growth, reaching 48 p... |
18 December 2009
17:41 GMT |
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Though the NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft did a number of flybys around Titan, its advanced instruments were not able to penetrate the cloud layers on the moon, so researchers only had to rely on incomplete data collected by non-visual instruments. Regardless, they were able to infer the existence of lakes of liquid hyd... |
18 December 2009
17:11 GMT |
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Smartphones and smartphone operating systems have started to gain more and more ground on the mobile phone market, also driving the usage of applications on mobile devices. According to a recent report from ABI Research, the number of mobile applications that will be downloaded by 2014 is expected to reach five bill... |
18 December 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Florian Totu: We're seven days away from Christmas and I couldn't care less. The Team Fortress 2 War update has gotten my blood boiling, and there's no quelling it. It has nothing to do with the outcome of War, or my favoring one class over the other and ending up disappointed. It's just that this... |
18 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Handset vendor Palm announced recently that it opened the Project Ares to the developer community. According to the company, the new project comes with a new approach towards the application development process, bringing it directly to the Internet browser. Ares surfaces now as a set of integrated mobile development... |
18 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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When a massive star reaches the end of its burning cycle, it becomes unable to sustain nuclear fusion all on its own, and also exhausts all of its hydrogen fuel. When this happens, the object sheds the outer layers of its atmosphere, all the way to the core, in a violent explosion called a supernova. Classifying the ... |
18 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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One of the stars from CW’s hottest series, “Vampire Diaries,” is now on the cover of the latest issue of Men’s Health magazine in all his sculpted glory. Sean Faris had to build 15 pounds of muscle for his role in “Never Back Down,” which he did: but it wasn’t without a lot o... |
18 December 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Research In Motion, the Canadian maker of BlackBerry, has just announced that the developers all around the world could benefit from its BlackBerry Plug-in for Eclipse. Up until now, the Eclipse update sites for BlackBerry plug-in for Eclipse-based tools were only available for the developers in North America, yet n... |
18 December 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII might have made news when Microsoft announced that the long running series would no longer be a PlayStation exclusive and would also appear on the Xbox 360 but there's a good chance that when Final Fantasy XV comes around, in five or six years, the game will be playable not just on home gaming... |
18 December 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Arcade racing may be what the market has been looking for, especially since Need for Speed: Underground came out and made racing a casual, popular genre, but rally games have their undeniable spot in the racing franchise, as small as it may be. So, while fans don't have a lot of games to ease their addictions, i... |
18 December 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm announced on December 17 its financial results for the second quarter of the financial year 2010, which ended on November 27, 2009. According to the company, its total revenues for the time frame were of $78.1 million, while gross profit was of $5.5 million. At the same time, ... |
18 December 2009
14:31 GMT |
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A true beauty is not the woman who stands out from the crowd, as we might have believed until now, researchers from UC San Diego and the University of Toronto have learned, as NBC San Diego informs. Attractiveness, and therefore what we perceive as “beautiful” about a woman, is to be found in a golden rat... |
18 December 2009
14:21 GMT |
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It will be Windows 7 to do the job Windows Vista failed at, namely to kill Windows XP. However, killing XP is a process rather than a single moment in time. Windows 7 will first erode XP’s market share and convert its audience. As XP’s usage rate will drop, less and less hardware manufacturers and softwar... |
18 December 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Recent archaeological discoveries hint at the fact that the early humans, even those living as far back as the Stone Age, used to separate their homes into various living quarters, much like we do today. Experts say that these people did not eat in the same place they slept, or hanged out during the day, which is a r... |
18 December 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier T-Mobile USA seems to have a rather rough year when it comes to its services. Not only did its Sidekick users suffered from a service interruption due to a server outage that nearly caused some of them the loss of all personal data, or did its network go down a few weeks ago, but now another net... |
18 December 2009
13:31 GMT |
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2009 might have been a bad year for the videogame industry, with the world wide economic slowdown affecting revenue and sales, but it seems that it might have been a good one for videogaming as a phenomenon.A new study commissioned by accounting firm Deloitte shows that close to 60% of the households in the United St... |
18 December 2009
13:31 GMT |
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22-year-old Chilean Olympic weightlifter Elizabeth Poblete had the surprise of her life earlier this week when, during training, she gave birth to a child she did not even know she was carrying, That’s Fit informs. The child was three months premature and did not survive, with reports saying it passed away in t... |
18 December 2009
13:31 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking finding that could explain another one of the Red Planet's atmospheric mysteries, experts have determined that the frequency of twisters and dust devils forming on the surface of Mars is about 300 percent higher than first predicted. This could account for the massive plumes of dust that rema... |
18 December 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Still unconvinced to make the jump to Windows 7? Well, Microsoft is, by all means, delivering consistent efforts to win customers over, including offering free downloads of the operating system. The latest iteration of the Windows client is available for download both as a standalone ISO image, but also as a virtuali... |
18 December 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Are you always thinking that people might get their hands on your data and you do everything you can to make sure it is always safe and you are the only one that has access to it? If that description applies to you, then you have to know that Apple has a really neat trick in store for you. If you want to preve... |
18 December 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion announced on Thursday its financial results for the third quarter of its fiscal year 2010, a three months period ended November 28, 2009. According to the company, it managed to register $3.92 billion in revenues for the time frame, marking an 11 percent increase from $... |
18 December 2009
12:51 GMT |
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With Bioshock 2 coming up in what seems like a plasmid's throw-away, there's still a lot about the game that remains a mystery. We know that we'll get back into Rapture and we know that there will be plenty of Big Daddy and Little Sister action, (OK, that phrasing sounds a bit weird), but pretty much e... |
18 December 2009
12:01 GMT |
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360 Cities, a network of photographers around the world creating immersive panoramas of various interesting locations, boasts to have put together the largest image of this kind in the world, a stunning 18-Gigapixel 360 image of the Czech capital Prague. The previous record was a 13-Gigapixel image of Harlem, New Yo... |
18 December 2009
11:42 GMT |
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After starting 2009 holding the second place in the market segment for mobile graphics, AMD now boasts of having overtaken NVIDIA as prime supplier of mobile graphics chips. Product manager of AMD's mobile graphics business claims that it now holds 57% of the market share after scoring the most design wins not o... |
18 December 2009
11:41 GMT |
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About a week ago, TechCrunch team leader Michael Arrington filed the lawsuit against Fusion garage over alleged Misappropriation of business Ideas, Fraud and Deceit, Breach of Fiduciary Duty and violation of the Lanham Act. Now, the official response on the part of the accused took the form of an official statement w... |
18 December 2009
11:12 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Verizon has been long rumored to plan the launch of a Palm mobile phone on its airwaves, and it seems that the wait might finally come to an end. According to the latest news around the Internet, the operator already has in its internal system a Palm Pre Plus device, although no details on the devic... |
18 December 2009
11:00 GMT |
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Scientists at the Stanford University announce the development of the first three-dimensional, carbon nanotube-based circuits in the world. This groundbreaking achievement marks a milestone in the industry, as it means that CNT-based computers, which will consume a lot less power, and also be far faster than the exis... |
18 December 2009
10:58 GMT |
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One of the songs included on the recently released “The Fame Monster,” Lady Gaga’s latest album that was initially meant to be a repackaged edition of “Fame” is “Dance in the Dark.” Very catchy and heavy in ‘80s disco accents, the track is not just for fun, Lady Gaga sa... |
18 December 2009
10:55 GMT |
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Whether you like it or not, installing and uninstalling programs under Windows will eventually cause system slowdowns and affect overall performance. The main culprit in this case is the uninstaller most applications come with, the basic problem being that it does not hunt down and delete all the information placed i... |
18 December 2009
10:51 GMT |
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Just as Google got fined for its Books project in France, the company is making concessions on its other controversial product Street View, this time in Switzerland. Authorities in the country claim that Google has agreed to stop publishing any new images taken in Switzerland for Street View until a court can decide... |
18 December 2009
10:44 GMT |
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Even though the economic regression has left its mark in every layer of society and on every segment of the worldwide market, it seems that humanity's need for quick and easy connectivity to worldwide networks has only grown stronger. WiMAX broadband deployments grew by 112 during 2009 and existing deployments h... |
18 December 2009
10:42 GMT |
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Robert Pattinson of the “Twilight” fame is no stranger to female admirers and their sometimes out of the ordinary way of showing their affection for him. However, a recent incident got the British actor very upset, as a fan kissed him on the lips and she was just recovering from the swine flu, OK! Magazin... |
18 December 2009
10:40 GMT |
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Over the past five years, groundbreaking strides in the field of quantum information have been made in the international scientific community. Experts from around the world have worked on deciphering the mysterious mechanisms that underlie the basic operating principles of entanglement and superposition, the most imp... |
18 December 2009
10:32 GMT |
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The first taste of the next iteration of the Opera browser is just around the corner. Opera Software is currently cooking a preview version of Opera 10.5 and is gearing up to make available for download a pre-alpha build of the browser next week, a few days ahead of Christmas. Details are scarce at this point in tim... |
18 December 2009
10:27 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless announced on Thursday that it made new network enhancements in the Rockland County area. According to the company, its 3G network has just got expanded, through the deployment of two new cell sites, which are expected to deliver improved coverage, as well as better voice calling... |
18 December 2009
10:19 GMT |
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With the latest iteration of the Google Books settlement, it looked like the company was finally in the clear and able to focus on the product instead of lawsuits but this, unfortunately, isn't the case. While it may have quieted critics in the US, elsewhere, especially in Europe, there are plenty of people mor... |
18 December 2009
10:13 GMT |
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Attackers identifying themselves as the "Iranian Cyber Army" succeeded in hijacking Twitter's DNS records late on Thursday. The twitter.com domain and several other subdomains were pointed to a Web page displaying a political message taunting the United States.The attack happened under the cover of night, at aro... |
18 December 2009
10:10 GMT |
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One of the most successful start-ups in recent years, Ontela, has agreed to join forces with the Internet's biggest photo storage service, PhotoBucket. The new company will be known as PhotoBucket Corporation and will be run by Ontela's chief financial officer, Tom Munro. He will be president of the new ent... |
18 December 2009
10:09 GMT |
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Recognizing the large potential of 3D entertainment and determined to cut a large slice of the 3D market for itself, Sony has set up a partnership with RealD through which it will license some of its equipment and technology. This will eventually enable the Japanese company to provide consumer-oriented 3D technology ... |
18 December 2009
10:03 GMT |
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Nokia N900 is the final product which opens up a new path for the Finnish smartphone producer. After Google, which launched its new open source operating system for mobile phones, Nokia raised the stakes a few months later with its own vision, which is called Maemo. Android OS, as well as Maemo are both based on the ... |
18 December 2009
10:02 GMT |
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The season 4 finale of Showtime’s “Dexter” saw, as fans must already know by now, Dexter Morgan’s wife dead in a bathtub at the hands of the Trinity killer. It was one of the most brutal and unexpected endings in television in recent times, as critics call it, but, for all is worth, Julie Benz... |
18 December 2009
10:01 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Sprint seems to aim at making its users a little happier than originally expected. The company has just announced that it plans on delivering the 2.1 update for the Google Android operating system that runs on the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment smarpthones it currently has on sale for its customers... |
18 December 2009
09:53 GMT |
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A galactic tide is defined in the international astronomical community as a tidal force that is generated by a galaxy on surrounding dwarf companions, or even its own solar systems and their asteroid belts. The Milky Way, being the massive galaxy that it is, produces large amounts of tidal forces of its own, which al... |
18 December 2009
09:50 GMT |
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Calling it “Systems and methods for adjusting a display based on the user’s position,” Apple has invented (on paper, for now), an electronic device – a display – that changes its state based on the user's perspective. According to the Mac maker, “The electronic device may incl... |
18 December 2009
09:43 GMT |
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December 18th marks the worldwide premier of James Cameron’s latest movie Avatar. And there are more ways than one to join in the experience of the science fiction story than attending the premiere, or even have a piece of Avatar all for yourselves. Users that are running the latest Windows client from Microsof... |
18 December 2009
09:39 GMT |
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Reports say Demi Moore paid an estimated $300,000 on plastic surgery, which allows her to be today, at 47, one of the best looking women in showbiz. Yet, this is a claim she’s denied repeatedly – and continues to do so now, on Twitter, after one of her followers told her that she looked “old” ... |
18 December 2009
09:33 GMT |
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Yet another liquid crystal display offer has emerged, although this time, it is only a preview of what will become available in early 2010. AOC has unveiled two almost finished TV monitors, which combine an elegant design with the option to quickly and easily switch between computer and video/TV entertainment. AOC se... |
18 December 2009
09:30 GMT |
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The guys over at Android Developers have just put up a chart that shows which version of Google's Android operating system is used the most for accessing the Android Market. As showed there, the owners of mobile phone that run under the Android 1.6 flavor of the OS (Donut) are those who use the Android Market t... |
18 December 2009
09:18 GMT |
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While Intel has just announced its plans for the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, other companies are still keeping their plans under a veil of mystery. However, the Internet has become a source for rumors and leaked details on unannounced products, which is also the case with an upcoming Tegra-based 'smartp... |
18 December 2009
09:13 GMT |
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Google is a great proponent of web apps as alternative to native ones, be it desktop applications or mobile ones. Its point of view may be skewed by the fact that it does most of its revenue online and most of its major products are very much anchored in the cloud, but the company does a great enough job with its ow... |
18 December 2009
09:10 GMT |
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The fifth Beta Build of Firefox 3.6, codename Namoroka, is now available for download. Mozilla is referring to the development milestone as revision 5 of the first, and only (at least in the company’s perspective) Beta release of Firefox 3.6. Earlier this month, Softpedia informed you that yet another Beta of ... |
18 December 2009
09:05 GMT |
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In an obvious move, following Apple’s prevail in the litigation concerning Florida-based knockoff vendor Psystar, the website that used to host PCs able to run Mac OS X, while offering the Rebel EFI utility as a free download, is now down. The Rebel EFI is a software hack that enabled users of any PC with an In... |
18 December 2009
09:04 GMT |
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Ever since modern astronomy began, those studying space have always been concerned about possible meteorites, meteors, asteroids or comets that could enter a collision course with our planet. With the example of what happened to the dinosaurs, and with five extinction events already in the bag, it stands to reason th... |
18 December 2009
09:04 GMT |
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Fujitsu employees belonging to the Unite union have been planning on participation in repeated walkouts since November. The workers were angry at how Fujitsu started to cut its workforce through 1,200 planned redundancies, out of which 90% have already taken place. The Unite members also protest at the pay freeze imp... |
18 December 2009
08:55 GMT |
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Microsoft is currently hammering away at the next iteration of its development platform and tools, but it looks like the company will miss the initially announced launch deadline due to performance issues it needs to fix. The Redmond company was set to launch Visual Studio 2010 RTM and .NET Framework 4 RTM on March 2... |
18 December 2009
08:55 GMT |
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Over 200 television and long feature films throughout time have had as only purpose that of bringing something new for the audiences with the story of world’s most famous and loved detective, Sherlock Holmes. Yet none of them has managed to do what British director Guy Ritchie has done with the fictitious chara... |
18 December 2009
08:47 GMT |
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The American space agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been recently pulled out of its safe mode state, and has returned to making highly detailed scientific observations. The announcements were made by experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, who manage the mission for NASA. All six sci... |
18 December 2009
08:38 GMT |
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Taiwan-based handset vendor HTC Corporation has just delivered a new software update for its HTC HD2 mobile phone, the 1GHz Snapdragon-powered Windows Mobile behemoth that became available for purchase on the market only recently. According to the mobile phone maker, the new firmware update for the high-end device i... |
18 December 2009
08:35 GMT |
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One of the biggest exclusives the PlayStation 3 is set to receive in 2010 is Heavy Rain, the game that Quantic Dream has been working on for quite some time and that aims to provide the most emotional gaming experience ever seen on a console.And one of the challenges the team working on the title has faced has been t... |
18 December 2009
08:29 GMT |
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Security vendor Prevx has signed an agreement with CPP, a large life assistance provider, to incorporate the Prevx 3.0.5 software, complete with the new SafeOnline technology, into its identity protection product. As a result, around one million UK residents who signed up for CPP's Identity Protection Alert... |
18 December 2009
08:24 GMT |
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James Cameron’s latest movie, the one he’s been working on for roughly the past 12 years, give or take, is about to premiere in theaters across the world and to say that high hopes are pinned on it is a clear understatement at this point. Sam Worthington also stars in “Avatar” and, while happy... |
18 December 2009
08:24 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia and telecommunications solutions provider ST-Ericsson have announced today that they signed a long-term partnership aimed at development of TD-SCDMA technology and solutions. According to the agreement, Nokia is set to use chipset platforms from ST-Ericsson for its Symbian based TD-S... |
18 December 2009
08:20 GMT |
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Not exactly a long time after LCD manufacturers and suppliers decided to reduce their LCD inventories because of weak demand, general prices dropped under the actual manufacturing cost of the products. Noticing this, monitor clients placed in an unexpectedly high amount of orders, effectively catching by surprise mos... |
18 December 2009
08:20 GMT |
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At approximately a month after Microsoft released the first testing preview of Silverlight 4, the second major release of Moonlight has been made available for download, by Novell. While trailing Silverlight, the open source implementation of Microsoft’s alternative to Adobe Flash designed for Unix systems, is ... |
18 December 2009
08:18 GMT |
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Bit.ly's biggest asset at the moment is the amount of data it's been collecting, especially for the past months since the service took off. It's been using it to provide publishers with analytics for a while now and has recently introduced a premium service with even more stats Bit.ly Pro. Now, it... |
18 December 2009
08:17 GMT |
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Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight is a fighting game based on the live-action TV show that will allow you to play as any of the 13 superheroes, the Kamen Riders. You will be able to enter Mirror World and take part in the fast-paced action in the same style as your favorite Kamen Rider.Each character has its own special Con... |
18 December 2009
08:07 GMT |
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Jump! Ultimate Stars is an uptake on the previous release, Jump Super Stars. It features a similar Super Smash Bros.-style fighting gameplay with a huge array of licensed manga characters. In total, 300 characters from 41 different mangas are available and will enable players to go wild and have some real fun. Player... |
18 December 2009
08:04 GMT |
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Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has just announced the release of its new set of graphics drivers, with the release of the Catalyst Software Suite 9.12. The new release is available for download and offers support for the company's latest graphics cards, including the Radeon HD 5900 series. A... |
18 December 2009
07:21 GMT |
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Until recently, few people would have thought of using “Madagascar” and “Firefox” in the same sentence, but since the latest code name for the latter was released, this no longer seems an unlikely phrase. For those of you who do not know, the 3.6 version of Firefox is called Namoroka, named af... |
18 December 2009
07:15 GMT |
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3D digital mapping company Intermap Technologies has issued a new version of its AccuTerra application for iPhone and iPod touch. Immediately available for download from the iTunes App Store, the updated app includes the first detailed map download from the AccuTerra map store, and is currently free. Providing quick... |
18 December 2009
07:10 GMT |
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Even though hardware manufacturers have been going out of their way launching Atom-based laptops one after another, it seems that the Atom-powered mobile PCs eligible as Christmas gifts might turn out to have a very short “lifetime” indeed. According to leaks and pictures, it appears that an upcoming, alb... |
18 December 2009
07:03 GMT |
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Nimbuzz, the popular mobile VoIP operator & social network aggregator, announced on Thursday that it included voice calls (VoIP) on the Android flavor of its application. According to the company, the addition of the new feature is meant to offer a complete solution to those who are already using the instant messagi... |
18 December 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Michigan have recently released a new report saying that more than 25 percent of Arabs living in the Greater Detroit area have been discriminated against, or otherwise abused, following the unfortunate incidents of September 11, 2001. The personal and familial abuse was based on either... |
18 December 2009
06:57 GMT |
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While conducting a scientific study South of the Azores Islands, scientists at the EMEPC (Task Group for the Extension of the Portuguese Continental Shelf) discovered an underwater structure at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean that looked very much like an impact crater. The Fried Egg, as the formation was called, mi... |
18 December 2009
06:51 GMT |
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This holiday season, Softpedia is looking to bring a little more Christmas spirit into your life, and we’re going to use software discounts and giveaways as a way to do just that. Today, December 14, is the first day of the Softpedia Discounts and Giveaways 2009 Campaign. Some of you have undoubtedly stumbled u... |
18 December 2009
06:50 GMT |
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It's not exactly a secret anymore that Google is pushing hard on translations, constantly updating the tools it built around its machine-translation technology, which is getting more accurate with every iteration. The reason is simple, to make more online content available to more people, which indirectly leads... |
18 December 2009
06:49 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Palm unveiled at the beginning of this year a new mobile operating system webOS, which arrived on the market loaded on the Palm Pre smartphone launched in June on Sprint's airwaves, and which is now also available on the company's Palm Pixi handset, available via Sprint in the US as well... |
18 December 2009
06:48 GMT |
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Agile Web Solutions has released what can be considered a major update for 1Password users, although the version number doesn’t indicate this is a big release. There are three new features to be had with 1Password 3.0.2, tons of other changes, and just enough bug fixes to keep customers going until next year. ... |
18 December 2009
06:48 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth, father of the Ubuntu operating system, announced Thursday evening on his blog that, starting with March 2010, he would step down as CEO of Canonical, being replaced by Jane Silber, the current COO (Chief Operating Officer) and Director of Online Services. In the shocking announcement, Shuttleworth ... |
18 December 2009
06:40 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 December 2009
06:38 GMT |
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Companies around the world can take advantage of technology and innovation developed by Microsoft for their own products. The Redmond company offers a comprehensive intellectual property licensing program, and is little shy of touting a plethora of IP agreements already inked with partners across the globe. The lates... |
18 December 2009
06:25 GMT |
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Two days after the last test drive of Spirit's wheels on Mars, on December 16, experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announce that they can now confirm the rover's thought-defunct right-front wheel moved on its own. Originally believed to have permanently malfunctioned, it has not been in use ... |
18 December 2009
06:23 GMT |
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Apple has announced via its iPhone Dev Center that users can now update their banking information on iTunes Connect. Those subscribed for using iTunes Connect with the Admin or Finance roles can now make changes to the banking information used to deposit App Store payments, according to the Mac maker. The service is ... |
18 December 2009
06:20 GMT |
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NVIDIA isn't the only one rejoicing over the Federal Trade Commission's legal actions taken against Intel a short while ago. The possibility of Intel's practices eventually being restricted seems to provide new expansion possibilities for other existing technologies, one of which is the ARM processor a... |
18 December 2009
06:17 GMT |
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Navigation tools these days can be pretty advanced and accurate and the amount of data available should be enough for anyone, even in the more remote locations. Yet good old fashioned 'asking for directions' is still usually the best way to find a place and navigate in an unknown area, the digital solution... |
18 December 2009
06:12 GMT |
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The response to the free Bing for Mobile application offered for users of iPhone and iPod Touch earlier this week has been nothing short of incredible, Microsoft reveals. According to Justin Jed, from the Bing for Mobile team, the search/decision engine application built for owners of Apple’s devices has receiv... |
18 December 2009
05:56 GMT |
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Orit Mazor of the Google Chrome development team has posted an update on the Chrome Dev Channel, revealing that Chrome for Mac, Windows and Linux has been updated to version 4.0.249.43. “The Beta channel has been updated to 4.0.249.43 for Linux, Windows and Mac. It was cut at r34532,” Mazor writes. The up... |
18 December 2009
05:55 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, announced on December 17th a new version of its versatile ATI Catalyst proprietary Display Driver for Linux users. The new ATI Catalyst 9.12 Display Driver is, as usual, available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures and it updates the software to version 8.681. ATI Catalyst 9.12 also... |
18 December 2009
05:45 GMT |
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Both through its ecommerce partners and via its very own retail outlet, Microsoft is making easier for customers to find and take advantage of holiday discounts. With Christmas approaching fast, the Redmond company is pointing users to Bing and to the Microsoft Store for a variety of special deals that can be leverag... |
18 December 2009
05:38 GMT |
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Unsurprisingly, seeing how it is one of the more prominent sponsors of the 2010 Winter Olympics, Acer has put the Olympics logo on the lid of its 11.6-inch Timeline ultraportable laptop. The gadget is already available through Amazon and packs in its compact frame (8.03 x 11.2 x 1.18 inches) a set of quite suitable p... |
18 December 2009
05:37 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation announced officially on Thursday the launch of its HTC HD2 in India. The handset, which has been officially unveiled to the world back in October, runs under Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, and is the first Windows phone from the company to also incl... |
18 December 2009
05:33 GMT |
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Wikipedia is in the midst of its sixth annual fund raiser to keep the site going. Run by the Wikimedia foundation, a non-profit organization, and with no revenue source of any kind, Wikipedia relies solely on donations to finance its operations and pay its 35 employees. The 2009 fund raiser has been running for more... |
18 December 2009
05:28 GMT |
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A large number of world leaders, from 194 United Nations countries, gathered today in the Danish capital Copenhagen for the last planned day of the 2009 Climate Summit. Though there was a lot of big talk before and during the meetings, and high representatives expressed their faith in the success of the negotiations,... |
18 December 2009
05:26 GMT |
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Apple is airing a new iPhone 3GS television commercial in the US. Entitled "12 Apps of Xmas," the ad features poetry and praises the newest iPhone available. Apple also suggests that owning an iPhone is great around the holidays, as the developers responsible for the apps you carry around with you are feeling generou... |
18 December 2009
05:20 GMT |
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Square Enix is in a giving mood with Final Fantasy in these last few weeks of this year, but the company has something a little bit more for its fans. In case RPG dungeon crawlers are your thing and you just never got into the Final Fantasy phenomenon, then Square has something special for PAL gamers. After its re-re... |
18 December 2009
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Nadya Suleman, also known as OctoMom in the media after giving birth to octuplets in January, is no stranger to staged photo ops, being a known fact that she makes a lot of money from media deals. The other day, Suleman gave paps a glimpse of what life at home is for her and just how much multi-tasking it implies, as... |
18 December 2009
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Dynasty Warriors 3 is a videogame developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and the Xbox from Microsoft in September 2001. It is classed as an action and strategy title played from a third person perspective and is largely based on a historic... |
18 December 2009
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research in Motion and Mobile TeleSystems OJSC announced recently the launch of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 in Russia, and the availability of the device through all MTS shops in the country. The new mobile phone has been released on the carrier's airwaves both for end users and for co... |
18 December 2009
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Hardware developers are still trying to top each other's products and now NVIDIA is giving hints that its ION 2 platform will actually surpass Intel's Pine Trail in both speed and features. The platform can reportedly live on battery power for up to five hours and outperform systems using an Intel Atom cent... |
18 December 2009
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Santa Clara, California-based Intel, the world's leading chip maker, has just announced the introduction of its new family of Core processors, which the company plans to launch at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 7, 2010. The new processors include the company's next... |
18 December 2009
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It looks like Google is trying to recoup on the past year going on an acquisition spree after staying quite on that front for a while. It has done some pretty big deals, AdMob, On2 and some smaller ones and is now said to be in talks with local business directory and review site Yelp and is apparently willing to she... |
18 December 2009
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The week-long Team Fortress 2 War update is finally over and, with an official death toll in, it looks like, in the end, nothing could make the Demoman burst into the lead. But there's no surprise there, since the master of war can be no one else than the Soldier and, while he had fierce competition, he proved t... |
18 December 2009
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has just awarded Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, an assistant professor of Physics and astronomy at the Vanderbilt University, an important grant for studying the evolution and development of black holes. The VU professor is the recipient of the largest Faculty Early Career Developme... |
18 December 2009
04:43 GMT |
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Hollywood star Melanie Griffith has often prompted speculation about undergoing major surgical procedures for cosmetic reasons because of her ever-changing looks. With this in mind, it’s no wonder the US media thought this was also the case when she was spotted with a black eye the other day. Unfortunately, thi... |
18 December 2009
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BioShock 2 is one of the most interesting releases of early 2010 and those players who are keen on keeping their Gamerscore up will probably want to see what Achievements the game will offer.The full list is available below and those who plan to play the game on the PS3 will probably be getting the same Trophies. The... |
18 December 2009
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For the last decade or so, astrophysicists have been trying to find signs of the elusive dark matter, the stuff believed to make up about 90 percent of the mass of the Universe. Its existence can only be inferred through the gravitational effects it has on galaxies and other celestial bodies around it, but physicists... |
18 December 2009
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Nokia N900 is the high-end Maemo 5-powered handset the Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia launched on the market during the ongoing year, and it is set to arrive on the UK market before the end of the ongoing year, some of the latest news around the web suggest. Not too long ago, Vodafone UK confirmed that it would be... |
18 December 2009
04:28 GMT |
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Rallen and Jeena's routine patrol mission is interrupted when they pick up a distress call. Upon arriving at the source of the message, they find an ancient escape pod and its passenger in cryogenic sleep. Waking him up, the two officers find out about a horrible threat to the universe – the Krawls are abo... |
18 December 2009
04:23 GMT |
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Just like LaCie and Symwave announced yesterday that they would be promoting the new SuperSpeend USB 3.0 standard by showcasing a USB 3.0 dual-disk RAID storage solution at CES 2010, Western Digital and NEC Electronics also revealed their collaboration plans for the development of high-speed USB 3.0 storage solutions... |
18 December 2009
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Square Enix has really gotten into this year's holiday spirit, and has decided that there will be no Scrooge, or Grinch from the company this Christmas. Final Fantasy is the treat it has installed for us, and it's in plentiful numbers. First, Final Fantasy XIII was just released in Japan and, while American... |
18 December 2009
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NFL star Chris Henry was admitted the other day to a hospital in North Carolina with “life threatening” injuries to the head that he had sustained during a domestic situation with his fiancée Loleini Tonga. He did not survive, TMZ says, passing away hours after being admitted. Henry was 26 and was ... |
18 December 2009
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has just delivered two new software updates for users of two of its most popular handsets on the market at the moment, namely the HTC Touch Pro2 and HTC Touch Diamond2. On Thursday, both devices received a firmware update from the company, aimed at improving the handwritin... |
18 December 2009
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Customers using Microsoft’s endpoint security solutions might already be aware that the company released the latest iterations of the Forefront enterprise products as a part of its Business Ready Security strategy. On December 3rd, 2009, both Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG) and Forefront Unified ... |
18 December 2009
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Over the past few years, the Moon has been scanned from all directions by a swathe of spacecraft and other scientific instruments, in a bid to create either high-detail maps, or to determine the most likely location in which water-ice exists. As NASA was investigating possible sites to crash its LCROSS mission into, ... |
18 December 2009
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In tandem with the Mail Services Update 1.0, Apple has posted a certain Xsan 2.2.1 FileSystem Update for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). The update is recommended for all systems running Xsan 2.2, according to the Mac maker, as it includes general file system fixes, as well as specific fixes for the file system reliabi... |
18 December 2009
03:57 GMT |
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Twitter doesn't have the best record when it comes to stability or security and it looks like all the recent hires haven't done much good. Twitter's famed Fail Whale doesn't show up as often as it once did, but the site still goes down more than other similar services its size. This time, things ... |
18 December 2009
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Google's Android operating system is gaining more and more fans all around the world, a recent report from digital measurement firm comScore shows. According to the firm, the main reason for the increased popularity of the platform is the availability of the Motorola DROID at Verizon, and due to the ad campaign... |
18 December 2009
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AMD doesn't currently have a mobile chip offer large and strong enough to really compete with Intel's processors aimed at mobile platforms. However, given the impressive popularity surge of mobile devices over the past year, most notably of netbooks, AMD now seems to be planning its own next-generation mobi... |
18 December 2009
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Hasbro, the big toymaker manufacturer and creator, and videogame publisher Atari are going to court over a disputed licensing agreement related to Dungeons & Dragons, one of the best known fantasy franchises and the setting for a variety of role playing computer games.Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast, the subsidiary i... |
18 December 2009
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The same as it happens with desktop operating systems, mobile platforms are also subject to malicious attacks from cybercriminals, this is a well-known fact. Since the year 2009 is almost gone, some of the most popular security companies have started to unveil their previsions for the next year, and we've got t... |
18 December 2009
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Another game that got banned Down Under was Rebellion's upcoming Aliens vs Predator, and, while other games that suffered the same fate decided that they should at least try to play nice, Rebellion made it very clear that it had no intention to alter the title's content. So, even if its publisher, Sega, did... |
18 December 2009
03:29 GMT |
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The company behind the Mac operating system has posted the first Mail Services Update for systems running Mac OS X 10.6.2 Server. Addressing issues affecting the overall mail service reliability and performance, the update is available for free download via Apple’s Downloads section, the Mac OS X built-in Softw... |
18 December 2009
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The American space agency has revealed the first time-lapse images ever showing a collision between two formations that are generally known as Aurorae Borealis. The light curtains, as they are so often called, collide at far too greater scales to be seen with the unaided human eye, but their interactions were reveale... |
18 December 2009
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While being escorted to the Iga village, the Kirihime princess is kidnapped by Yoshiro Yukikusa, the commander of a demon army. Loyal ninjas to the Iga hidden village, Kage and Chihiro will do whatever is in their power to rescue her. But to do this, they'll have to confront and defeat the endless demon horde of... |
18 December 2009
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The world knows Madonna as a very controversial artist and a woman who is not afraid to step on the toes of some to make a statement, no matter what it’s about. This is perhaps why the new shots for the Spring 2010 Dolce & Gabbana line, published in the Italian version of Vanity Fair magazine, come as such a sh... |
18 December 2009
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During the past months, most news articles that revolved around graphics products usually made at least a passing note that ATI (a business unit of AMD) was the only developer offering DirectX 11-capable graphics processing units. Still, even though it hasn't managed to introduce its own Fermi products, NVIDIA r... |
18 December 2009
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Australia has been making headlines in the recent few months because a host of high profile videogames have been refused classification in the country due to the way its ratings board uses its ability to push one game into a category or the other.The biggest example was that of Left 4 Dead 2, the zombie shooter from ... |
18 December 2009
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Rumors about a new Star Wars game have been flying around the Internet for about three weeks now, and the Video Game Awards came to confirm the gossip. While some of us hoped for a new installment in the Knight of the Old Republic series, or even better, a new Republic Commando that would reveal what happened to our ... |
18 December 2009
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Experts from a number of universities and research institutes recently revealed to the world the discovery of a submerged erupting volcano, located at a depth lower than that of any other active structure. The work, which was funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric... |
18 December 2009
02:52 GMT |
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Waze, the free navigation app based on crowdsourcing, has just got better, as the company announced a new special Holiday Version of the software solution. Along with it, waze also put in place a holiday treasure hunt, which started on Thursday and is set to end on January 1, and which requires for users to search f... |
18 December 2009
02:48 GMT |
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Dynasty Warriors 2 is a videogame developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was only released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony on October 25, 2000. It is classed as an action game played from a third person perspective and combines elements from real time strategy titles and draws most o... |
18 December 2009
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Scientists have recently revealed that being a mother, or exhibiting motherly behavior, boosts the number of neurons in the rat brain. The finding could also be applicable to humans, seeing how rats are considered to be a very close model to our own brains for this type of research. The investigators learned that eve... |
18 December 2009
02:38 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 December 2009
02:08 GMT |
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Officials at the Alliant Techsystems (ATK) have recently confirmed that the launch abort engine that will need to equip the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle – as part of Project Constellation – has been fully tested and reviewed. They say that the readiness trials showed that all eight thrusters that equipp... |
18 December 2009
01:53 GMT |
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