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The free-to-play nature of the upcoming Dust 514 first-person shooter from CCP is in part linked to the success of titles like League of Legends and World of Tanks, which have created huge communities after making a lot of content available without a monthly subscription.
David Reid, the chief marketing officer at C... |
19 April 2012
21:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has just unveiled three new images from its upcoming UEFA Euro 2012 DLC pack that will arrive next week for the FIFA 12 soccer simulator. FIFA 12 became a best-seller last year when it was released across a variety of platforms, and now EA is looking to capitalize on its popularity by releasing the U... |
19 April 2012
20:21 GMT |
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It looks like LG is not entirely focused on producing Android phones. The South Korean company plans to release a basic phone with dual-SIM capabilities, the LG Cookie Smart.
Although the phone comes with a touchscreen display, the Cookie Smart is not a smartphone, but an ordinary feature-phone.
Codenamed LG T375 S... |
19 April 2012
20:01 GMT |
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Without a doubt, the online mode in Mass Effect 3 has gotten a massive boost in terms of popularity last week, when developer BioWare released the Resurgence DLC Pack for free across the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 platforms.
We’ve already talked about the characters introduced by the add-on, namely the Krogan Battle... |
19 April 2012
19:51 GMT |
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Video game publisher THQ has announced that it expects to see better-than-expected financial results for the final quarter of the current fiscal year, mainly because it has managed to sell more copies of both Saints Row: The Third and UFC Undisputed 3 than projected. For the three-month period that ended on March 31... |
19 April 2012
19:31 GMT |
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The folks at Imangi Studios have just announced their “Temple Run” title for Android device has more than 10 million downloads, three weeks after it was released in Google Play store.
Aside from this impressive achievement, the developers announced the availability of a new update for “Temple Run.&... |
19 April 2012
19:01 GMT |
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John Beiswenger, an American novel writer, has filed a lawsuit against video game publisher Ubisoft and the video game website GameTrailers, saying that the Assassin’s Creed storyline has been stolen from Link, a book that he published in 2002. The first Assassin’s Creed video game was launched in 2007, ... |
19 April 2012
18:31 GMT |
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It’s amazing when you think about it, but WinRAR has been on the market for 17 years, and it is still among the top choices for professionals when it comes to data compression and decompression. It evolved from a simple file archiver into a professional instrument capable to manage, control and personalize com... |
19 April 2012
18:26 GMT |
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It looks like handset and tablet manufacturers are more concerned about their products’ prices than about their design quality and performance.
Even though there are some exceptions, the general trend in emerging markets is to launch extremely cheap devices.
In this regard, XTEX has recently announced the ava... |
19 April 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Whether or not Tim Cook calls it the iPhone 5 or “the new iPhone”, Apple’s upcoming smartphone is on track to mark the company’s biggest device launch in history, according to Goldman Sachs analyst Bill Shope.On Wednesday, Shope told investors that “The iPhone 5 launch is likely to be on... |
19 April 2012
17:41 GMT |
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ArenaNet has confirmed that the first beta stage for its upcoming Guild Wars 2 online game will be held between April 27 and April 29. Guild Wars 2 is set to introduce a multiplayer experience without forcing players to pay a monthly subscription or to group with more people unless they want to. Over the last few m... |
19 April 2012
17:21 GMT |
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It looks like Samsung is about to expand its Galaxy family portfolio even further with the addition of three new devices. According to Pocketnow, Samsung has just filed documentation for the following trademarks: Galaxy Metrix, Galaxy Velvet and Galaxy Legend. Other than that, we have no other details regarding thi... |
19 April 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Mariah Carey's first pregnancy, with twins, was no walk in the park, as she often says. Besides the health complications that arose, she also gained a lot of weight – most of which she's already lost, as her Shape cover and interview can confirm. Speaking with the fitness-oriented publication, the d... |
19 April 2012
16:51 GMT |
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While HTTP 2.0 is still far off, browser makers are continuing to improve support for SPDY which seems poised to serve as the basis for the next-generation protocol. Google Chrome and more recently Firefox support SPDY and so does the Android browser. But that doesn't mean much if there aren't that many we... |
19 April 2012
16:41 GMT |
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We've seen how Intel has started manufacturing processors for other companies besides itself, and now we get to see just what its leadership thinks of the practice. Apparently, Intel is accepting contracts from other companies because it has leftover foundry capacity to use for such things. That means that t... |
19 April 2012
16:41 GMT |
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A lot of video games manage to push up their sales numbers by posting big discounts, but the leader of one digital retailer believes that the long-term damage a low price can do to a brand is not worth the extra copies that are sold.
Guillaume Rambourg, the managing director working at GOG, has told RPG that “... |
19 April 2012
16:31 GMT |
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A report by Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) experts indicates that it may be possible to use nanoscale chains to deliver chemotherapy drugs within tumor cells, and then have the compounds explode. This approach would spread the drugs throughout the damaged cells, destroying them.
When compared to traditional ... |
19 April 2012
16:01 GMT |
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It’s been almost two months since LG Optimus Black was tipped for a Koodo Mobile release and the smartphone is still not available for purchase.
However, the folks over at MobileSyrup have just learned that the Koodo Mobile plans to launch the Optimus Black on April 20. The smartphone will be available in both... |
19 April 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Marvel fans might think they've seen more than enough footage from the upcoming “The Avengers” but, clearly, the movie studio doesn't feel the same way. Two new videos are now out. However, if you wish not to be spoiled, we recommend not watching them, because they reveal more of the film than p... |
19 April 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Firefox may finally be getting a revamped download dialog. Mozilla has been experimenting with a panel-based download manager for close to a year now, but it is now enabled by default in Firefox 14.
It's only available in the Nightly builds, Firefox 14, but it looks like the feature is here to stay, so it shoul... |
19 April 2012
15:41 GMT |
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In mid-March, HBO offered excited fans the first look at its upcoming drama “Hemingway & Gellhorn,” which will premiere on May 28. We now have the full trailer. You can see it in full above. Telling the passionate and oftentimes destructive relationship between Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, th... |
19 April 2012
15:41 GMT |
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The Intellectual Property Office in UK and its Business Outreach Team has created a shortlist of some of the most well-known and successful contemporary British ‘Visionary Innovators’, to celebrate World Intellectual Property Day 2012. Among them, Apple’s design genius Sir Jonathan Ive can be found.... |
19 April 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Diablo III, the upcoming dungeon crawler game from Blizzard, might go free-to-play soon enough through a special Starter Edition that will be made available to those interested in the experience at no actual cost.
Lots of people are eagerly awaiting Diablo III, Blizzard’s newest role-playing game, which should... |
19 April 2012
15:31 GMT |
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It’s been quite a while since Apple last filled the Special Deals area with this many options on refurbished computers. There’s a total of 10 Macs priced under $1,000 that may pique your interest if you’re looking for a deal. Head over below for the highlights.The cheapest system featured today is a... |
19 April 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Cheryl Cole fans, mark your calendars: this Friday, radio stations all across the UK will play the first single from the pop star, which will effectively mark her comeback in the industry. A post on the official website brings all the happy news. The singer will now be known solely as Cheryl (no more Cole), and her a... |
19 April 2012
15:21 GMT |
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One of the solutions that Microsoft announced this week at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas was Windows Embedded Device Manager 2012, set to become available in the first quarter of the next year. At the event, Microsoft Server and Tools Vice President Brad Anderson talked about the productivity benefits ... |
19 April 2012
15:01 GMT |
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At 46, most women are spending more time at home than at the gym, but Sharon Madderson is not your regular woman. Having started bodybuilding at 30, she's now vying for the Miss Olympia title – and says she regrets nothing about her life. Mrs. Madderson hails from Cramlington, Northumberland and is alrea... |
19 April 2012
15:01 GMT |
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We already reported yesterday that Bell Canada planned to release the Galaxy S II HD LTE, as the smartphone is listed on the carrier’s site with the “Coming Soon” tag attached. Today, Bell and Samsung have come forward with an official announcement confirming the upcoming availability of the Galaxy... |
19 April 2012
15:01 GMT |
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A new Star Trek video game is on the way, ready to accompany the launch of the movie that J. J. Abrams is preparing for next year, but the action nature of the big screen experience will not necesarily be at the core of the cooperative focused game from Namco Bandai.Sheldon Carter, who is the creative director workin... |
19 April 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Aspyr Media, the renowned publisher of video games for Mac OS X, has announced the digital download version of Quake 4 for customers who have Snow Leopard (or a newer Mac OS) installed. One of the most popular firs-person shooters ever developed, Quake 4 needs no introduction. Those who haven’t yet played the ... |
19 April 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Kodak may not be in the best of situations, but some of its collaborations still hold out, like the one with DM-Drogery Markt, which just yielded a new contract.
Working together, the two will deploy KODAK Photo Books and KODAK Personal Greeting cards all over Germany and, eventually, other countries too.
Kodak al... |
19 April 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Players must try to survive 9 new unique levels as they battle zombies hiding in vases, and they can change sides for a while and give the zombies a hand: “Help zombies get past the plants to their brainy rewards.”There are four new mini games in this update: Slot Machine, Zombiquarium, Portal Combat, and... |
19 April 2012
14:31 GMT |
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We heard earlier today that Darksiders II won't make its initial June release, as it's been delayed until August to ensure a quality experience. THQ and Vigil have now talked a bit more about the delay and how it will benefit the final product. The original Darksiders delivered a great hack and slash exper... |
19 April 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Still running Mac OS X Leopard and looking for a change of scenery? You can take Apple up on their offer to upgrade your Mac to Snow Leopard for free! Here’s how. Even though Apple’s offer is aimed at getting you hooked on the (allegedly) coal-powered iCloud, you can follow only the steps that get you a ... |
19 April 2012
14:21 GMT |
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With Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs on the way, people who have got their hands on engineering samples are busy testing their limits, and the limits of memory.
What we have here is a video where an anonymous overclocker pushed 16 GB of DDR3 memory (unknown brand) to DDR3-3256.
He started the PC with the DDR3 at 3152 MHz (... |
19 April 2012
14:11 GMT |
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It looks like Motorola has been very busy lately as the company plans to release software updates for several DROIDs within the next few days. First we learned that Verizon Wireless would soon start the rollout of a major update for the DROID RAZR and DROID RAZR MAXX (not Ice Cream Sandwich), and now we just got wor... |
19 April 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Samsung's Chairman has been sued over inheritance by several family members and, now, we finally know what his reaction is, not that it wasn't predictable.
Fighting over money has been going on ever since the mere concept of money came into being, so we were able to easily get over our surprise when Samsu... |
19 April 2012
14:01 GMT |
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There's a lot of talk about browser performance and a lot of boasting about which is the fastest and why. But synthetic benchmarks and the latest and greatest JavaScript engine means little when you've got other things slowing down your browser, things you're in control of.
The biggest cause for brows... |
19 April 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Samsung Galaxy Rugby was slated for an April 19 launch at Bell Canada, but the smartphone won’t be released anymore.
For unknown reasons the carrier decided to postpone the Galaxy Rugby’s launch. According to an internal document published by the guys over at MobileSyrup:
“The launch of the Samsu... |
19 April 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Louboutin shoes (the real thing, not cheap fakes) are considered a smart investment and, by every respectable fashionista, a closet staple. They're gorgeous, but also very expensive and hard to walk in, but don't expect any sympathy from the designer. Assuming you have the (financial) possibility to pur... |
19 April 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Video game developer Funcom has announced the launch of a new browser-based social game called The Secret War, which is designed to promote the upcoming The Secret World MMO by encouraging players to spread the influence of their chosen secret society.
The game is played via Facebook and will match each player with ... |
19 April 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Shortly after inadvertently revealing the full price of the HTC One S smartphone on its online store, T-Mobile USA has come forward with an official statement announcing the upcoming availability of the device.
T-Mobile USA has just confirmed that the HTC One S will be available at its retail stores beginning on Apr... |
19 April 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Clement Lefebvre, father of the Linux Mint project, announced a few minutes ago, April 19th, that the codename for the upcoming Linux Mint 13 operating system will be Maya. Linux Mint 13 (Maya) will be available for download at the end of May 2012, and it will be shipped with separate MATE and Cinnamon editions. Ho... |
19 April 2012
12:31 GMT |
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"How fast is the web?" is a question many try to answer, but few are in the position to do so. Google, via its Analytics service, has direct access to a huge number of websites in the world, that aggregated data would paint a very accurate picture of the speed of the web worldwide.Of course, Google doesn't reall... |
19 April 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Blizzard has confirmed that it will be bringing the beta stage for its Diablo III to an end on May 1, when the servers will be shut down, in preparation for the release of the full game on May 15. Diablo III is probably one of the biggest games of the year, as the role playing dungeon crawler is eagerly awaited by q... |
19 April 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Motorola promised several months ago that it would deploy an Ice Cream Sandwich update for its flagship Android smartphone, the DROID RAZR, in Q1 2012. Unfortunately, the company delayed the launch of the update for Q2. Several months have passed since Google released Android 4.0 mobile platform on the market and we... |
19 April 2012
12:01 GMT |
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A new class of electronic memory technologies was developed by experts at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB), and the National Nano Device Laboratories, in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The technology can store and erase data 10 to 100 times faster than existing charge-storage memories.This was made possible through t... |
19 April 2012
11:53 GMT |
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Nokia’s Lumia smartphones, those who run under Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, have some great features to deliver to their users, but not all of them are known to all people out there. Many of those who chose a Nokia Lumia device previously owned an Android or an iOS device, and they might ... |
19 April 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, in Germany, and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CRNS) say that graphene can potentially be used to create a tool capable of focusing electrons. The instrument would work just like an optical lens does for light.In a paper published in the Amer... |
19 April 2012
11:40 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) recently announced that they have selected the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) mission for further development. This spacecraft is the first to be selected under the new Cosmic Vision Program. Currently scheduled to launch in 2022, the spacecraft would spend about 7.6 y... |
19 April 2012
11:27 GMT |
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Dell's Alienware-branded gaming laptops are getting updated now that 2012, and the many new hardware components brought by it, are here or almost upon us.
We'll first get the absentees out of the way, or the one absentee anyway: Alienware M11x, the 11.6-inch gaming ultraportable.
While Dell updated the ... |
19 April 2012
11:21 GMT |
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A new build for HitmanPro 3.6.0 has been released. It comes with a brief, but quite important list of changes, as it strengthens the malware detection mechanism and corrects a time zone issue that occurred when validating the license. Build 153 for HitmaPro 3.6.0 improves its behavioral scan engine by adding the pos... |
19 April 2012
11:18 GMT |
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LG Optimus 4X HD was one of the first quad-core Android smartphones to become official at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. In addition to the 1.5GHz Tegra 3 processor inside, the smartphone arrives on shelves with a large 4.7-inch HD touchscreen display and runs under Google’s Android 4.0 I... |
19 April 2012
11:10 GMT |
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Aerohive Networks, a developer of cloud-enabled enterprise networking infrastructure technologies, has announced two new routers. Then again, it would be more accurate to say that one router has been made and then reshaped as a second option. The original is called BR200 and has LAN support, plus HiveOS routing (... |
19 April 2012
11:07 GMT |
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It's finally happening: Christina Aguilera is one step closer to bringing her loyal fans new music. In a new interview (below), the diva announces the name of the track and the surprise collaborator she chose for it. The record is called “Make the World Move” and is a duet with her fellow mentor on... |
19 April 2012
11:06 GMT |
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Mageia 2 Beta 3 operating system was made available for download on April 18th and it comes with many improvements, bugfixes, new features, and updated packages. Mageia 2 Beta 3 is the last development release from the Beta series of Mageia 2 and it is powered by Linux kernel 3.3.1.This release is now distributed as ... |
19 April 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Amazon is debuting an interesting new approach to cloud computing, the app store model. Specifically, it's started offering several software solutions, along with the cloud hardware to run them, on a pay-as-you-go basis available via the newly introduced Amazon Web Services Marketplace.
"Using the new AWS Marke... |
19 April 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Video game publisher Bethesda has officially announced that it has not canceled development of Prey 2, as rumors suggested over the last month, adding that the game is no longer slated for a 2012 launch.
The official statements says, “The delay is due to the fact that game development has not progressed satisf... |
19 April 2012
10:45 GMT |
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The third and last Beta release of the upcoming Mageia 2 operating system was announced on April 18th, bringing lots of improvements, updated packages, bugfixes and new features. Mageia 2 Beta 3 is powered by Linux kernel 3.3.1 and comes with the latest KDE Software Compilation 4.8.2 and GNOME 3.4 desktop environment... |
19 April 2012
10:41 GMT |
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WP Deals is a WordPress plugin for running a daily deals website, using the WordPress platform. Run a Groupon-like website in just a few minutes.It's not just a frontend for presenting great offers, it also comes with plenty of backend utilities like newsletter integration, payment gateway setup, activity report... |
19 April 2012
10:41 GMT |
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If anyone was wondering what in the world Barnes & Noble was doing lately, the answer is upon us.
Essentially, they made a new Nook product, but not an e-reader.
For the confused, we mean that the bookstore chain is now using the Nook brand for things besides e-readers and tablets.
Sure, the Nook Audio OE250 is me... |
19 April 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Over the weekend, Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre brought “back from the dead” their fallen mate Tupac Shakur, for a duet that proved a massive hit with fans. The “hologram” will probably also be going on tour. You read that right: the two rappers are thinking of using the “hologram” (whic... |
19 April 2012
10:32 GMT |
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Tunisia’s Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali learned firsthand what it was like to be targeted by the most feared hacktivist community in the world. Anonymous hackers managed to gain unauthorized access to his email account and published his emails, totaling 2,725. Magharebia reports that the attack took place on Ap... |
19 April 2012
10:26 GMT |
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In a study that could have significant implications for the future of nanotechnology, experts in the US determined that nanoparticles have the potential to accelerate DNA damage in plants. The research was carried out as part of a larger effort to analyze the overall safety of using nanoparticles.
The potential envi... |
19 April 2012
10:23 GMT |
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MIPS Technologies doesn't get much direct attention from the media, but they have been successful regardless, having managed to power almost two million of all tablets shipped until today. According to Amit Rohatagi, principal architect for MIPS Technologies, the number of MIPS-based slates sold in China by the... |
19 April 2012
10:22 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita handheld, which has been available in Japan since later during 2011, has hit a new low in terms of sales on its home market as the entire hardware sector has seen an overall slowdown, emphasized by the lack of any big new video game release.
For the week that ended on April 15, Media Create repo... |
19 April 2012
10:21 GMT |
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It's nice to see Gigabyte still making new revisions for older boards, especially with all the fuss and stir around the new generation of motherboards capable to run with IvyBridge CPUs.
The GA-H61MA-D3V (rev. 2.1) proudly displays the "Ultra Durable" tag: this means users get a whole lot of better protection a... |
19 April 2012
10:20 GMT |
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Canonical has announced that Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, their newest Linux distribution that will launch on April 26th, will be certified for HP ProLiant servers. This means that the drivers and management of Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) will be included as part of HP ProLiant hardware warranty support, even for HP Pro... |
19 April 2012
10:16 GMT |
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At the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas, Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of the Management and Security Division at Microsoft, took the stage to announce the availability of System Center 2012. The solution was released for both evaluation and purchase, and interested enterprise customers can find i... |
19 April 2012
10:10 GMT |
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Following the shock announcement of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's engagement, many media outlets rushed to speculate on how his ex, Jennifer Aniston, might feel about it. People magazine says she's happy for them. Ever since Brad and Jen ended their 5-year marriage in 2005, there has been a lot of specul... |
19 April 2012
10:10 GMT |
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Product change notifications have been coming in from Intel, which means that some CPUs are going to cease being manufactured soon.
As of April 16, 2013, the Santa Clara, California-based CPU maker will stop shipping the Celeron P4600 (2.0 GHz), the Core i3-370M (2.4 GHz), Core i3-390M (2.6 GHz), Pentium P6100 (2.0 ... |
19 April 2012
10:04 GMT |
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After leaving the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida, and flying over the US Capitol on April 17, the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) 905 landed at the Washington Dulles International Airport, carrying the orbiter Discovery.
Yesterday, April 18, it was turned over to the Smithsonian National Air and Space M... |
19 April 2012
10:04 GMT |
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Ever since Pastebin revealed its plans to rid the site of hackers and their data dumps, hacktivists have tried to find not only ways of protest, but also alternatives. Now, they’ve launched AnonPaste, a website that’s meant as a secure version of Pastebin.
The service’s availability was announced o... |
19 April 2012
09:55 GMT |
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The Linux Foundation has awarded the prestigious Millennium Technology Prize to Linux creator and Linux Foundation Fellow, Linus Torvalds. According to the Linux Foundation, this prize, determined by the Technology Academy of Finland, is one of the world's largest prizes with candidates sought from across the ... |
19 April 2012
09:55 GMT |
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Video game developer and publisher Paradox Interactive has launched the 1.05 patch for their grand strategy game Crusader Kings II, significantly updating some of the core mechanics of the game, while also delivering a number of extra paid content packs.
The changes include a revamped Crusading system that makes the... |
19 April 2012
09:50 GMT |
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Google has been building Google+ into everything it does, more obviously in some places than in others. The integration in Gmail has been subtle but what is there is rather useful, in the Contacts for example.
More recently though, Gmail has added Google+ posts to the people widget, also a recent addition. Thus, you... |
19 April 2012
09:50 GMT |
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Microsoft made available for testing the pre-release version of the next version of its cloud-based management solution Windows Intune. Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Management and Security Division, provided a glimpse at the next release of Windows Intune at the Microsoft Management ... |
19 April 2012
09:46 GMT |
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A landscape feature similar to the Etosha Pan in Namibia, Africa, was found on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and one of the most interesting celestial bodies in the solar system, experts say.
Both features are now cataloged as ephemeral lakes, meaning that they only fill with liquid once in a whi... |
19 April 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Codemasters has just announced a couple of big surprises for fans of its upcoming Dirt Showdown title, pinning a release date on the racing game, confirming that a demo will arrive soon and that a special online service will accompany Showdown and all future Dirt titles.
The Dirt series has delighted millions of rac... |
19 April 2012
09:30 GMT |
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The large number of cybercriminal operations that promote rogue pharmacy sites make us believe that these types of scams still record a great success. More recently, fraudsters have begun relying on Tagged to dupe users into visiting the shady sites.
Avira experts reveal that the spam emails are well designed, but t... |
19 April 2012
09:28 GMT |
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Exercising for a short while every day turns out to be a great way of keeping Alzheimer's Disease at bay, the results of a new study show. Interestingly, the effect was found to hold true even for people older than 80.
Rush University Medical Center investigators say that physical activity may refer to everyth... |
19 April 2012
09:25 GMT |
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Facebook plans to soon start experimenting with permanently offering IPv6 connectivity for most of its outside facing servers by default. In about a month's time, the beta version of the site will support full-time IPv6 connections, the plan being to roll out support for the new protocol globally by World IPv6 L... |
19 April 2012
09:20 GMT |
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In addition to three Windows 8 editions that Microsoft will offer to people all around the world, namely Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT, there will be a special flavor of the upcoming OS, aimed specifically at corporate users, namely Windows 8 Enterprise. Microsoft hasn’t provided specific details on... |
19 April 2012
09:16 GMT |
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Since the first quarter of 2012 is over and done with, IT companies, like all other corporations, are publishing their financial results for the January-March period.
For the past few quarters, Intel has somehow managed to score record revenues, or record profits, or record something.
Now, though, the company can&... |
19 April 2012
09:14 GMT |
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As far as we know (or the entire world, for that matter), Jessica Simpson hasn't yet given birth: she may not have been spotted in quite a while, but she's still on Twitter and her rep is silent. Even so, InTouch claims she's already welcomed her first child into the world. The cover for the latest i... |
19 April 2012
08:57 GMT |
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Spotify, the Android application with millions of downloads in Google Play store, is about to receive a major update.
It appears that the application has been completely redesigned and that it now comes with full support for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
The overall performance of Spotify has been improved as wel... |
19 April 2012
08:57 GMT |
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Tribes: Ascend is a free-to-play first-person shooter created by Hi-Rez Studio that delivers a team-based experience in which aiming is hard, movement can be the difference between life and death, and working with your fellow player the key to overall success.What makes the Tribes concept very appealing is that much ... |
19 April 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Using high-resolution imaging capabilities aboard satellites in Earth's orbit, researchers were able to determine in a new study that Antarctica holds twice as many emperor penguins as initially thought.
The investigation was the first to demonstrate that it may be possible for biologists to conduct a census of... |
19 April 2012
08:48 GMT |
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China National Electronics Import-Export Corporation (CEIEC) has denied that its systems were breached. But the hacker known as Hardcore Charlie, a supporter of the Anonymous ideal, insisted that the data he gained access to was legitimate, so he made available another set of documents, totaling 400 megabytes.
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19 April 2012
08:45 GMT |
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We've been talking about the impending arrival of Intel's Ivy Bridge central processing units and how there isn't, or wasn't, much of a way to find out when the laptops would start showing up. Sure, the first 22nm-based central processing units will be released on April 23, but it will take the ... |
19 April 2012
08:37 GMT |
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That actor and director Mel Gibson has rage issues must no longer be a secret, since many of the voice messages he left his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva leaked online. Now, screenwriter Joe Eszterhas is determined to prove the same. The conflict started in March this year, after Eszterhas and Gibson disagreed ove... |
19 April 2012
08:29 GMT |
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Nuno Silva, Microsoft evangelist, said a few days ago that all Windows Phone 7 devices were meant to be upgraded to the Windows Phone 8 platform. His statement, which emerged in a video on Portuguese forum Zwame, fueled controversy on Microsoft’s actual plans for the upcoming platform. Apparently, Nuno Silv... |
19 April 2012
08:21 GMT |
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When patients receive hip or knee prosthesis, they expect to be able to wear the medical devices for many years. However, failures occur relatively often, and this entails extra risks for elderly patients. Researchers in the US are currently working on a method of preventing that from happening. If chemical engineer... |
19 April 2012
08:18 GMT |
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Blender is heading towards a new stable build, as the developer released today the first release candidate for version 2.63. The current revision focuses on tying loose ends, so all efforts were poured into repairs and stabilization of the application.
However, you’ll notice a new Blender mesh system (BMesh), ... |
19 April 2012
08:16 GMT |
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Activision is set to finally reveal its upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 game on May 2, at least judging by a special poster that surfaced on the web.
A new Call of Duty game will be released at the end of the year and, while many rumors are already saying that it’s going to be a sequel to 2010’s Black... |
19 April 2012
08:12 GMT |
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Analysts from various financial consulting firms and market intelligence companies are beginning to offer their takes on the rumored Liquidmetal iPhone 5, after a Korean newspaper reported that two of the world’s biggest smartphone vendors were switching to new materials.One of the two was Apple, and the report... |
19 April 2012
08:03 GMT |
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Tumblr, like Twitter before it, is turning to advertising to generate revenue after saying it was out of the question, absolutely the last option, for years. And, just like Twitter, Tumblr plans to make the best of its assets and have the ads be actual content, i.e. "promoted" posts.
The plan is to have branded Tumb... |
19 April 2012
07:54 GMT |
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A remote access Trojan is being sold on underground forums to anyone willing to pay $280 (212 EUR) for it. For that price, the proud owner ends up with a malicious program that’s designed to steal credit card details from point of sale (POS) applications found in hotels.
Trusteer researchers found that the sel... |
19 April 2012
07:53 GMT |
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Today, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced that the Nokia Lumia 610, its most affordable Windows Phone device, has started rolling-out in Asia. Starting with the next week, the smartphone will be available for purchase in the Philippines, and should gradually arrive in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, ... |
19 April 2012
07:49 GMT |
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Micro-Star International is preparing a new video card bearing the HAWK brand, one that is based on an AMD product.
The full name of the device in question is MSI R7870 HAWK and the cooling module used by it is none other than the Twin Frozr 4.
A custom-designed PCB (printed circuit board) was employed in the inv... |
19 April 2012
07:39 GMT |
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fireCore, the company responsible for the Seas0nPass Apple TV jailbreak tool, has announced a new version of the aTV Flash (black) application which comes with a new player, iOS 5 optimizations, and a truckload of bug fixes. “Today we're happy to release a brand new version of aTV Flash (black) which incl... |
19 April 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Last week, the tabloids went crazy when photos of Lourdes Leon (Lola), Madonna's 15-year-old daughter, smoking a cigarette emerged online. Today, the singer addresses this so-called controversy, admitting she's none too happy about it. Madonna sat down for an interview with The Today Show and you can see ... |
19 April 2012
07:26 GMT |
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Scammers are not running out of ideas when it comes to promoting their malicious campaigns on Facebook. After they offered Timeline removal tools and pink profiles, now they promise users a feature that will make their Facebook account green.
According to Hoax Slayer, the shady “Switch to Green Facebook Profil... |
19 April 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Anne Nicolas announced yesterday, April 28th, the immediate availability for download of the third and last Beta release of the upcoming Mageia 2 operating system. Mageia 2 Beta 3 is powered by Linux kernel 3.3.1, improving support for Xen virtualization, addition of a new iSCSI stack or NFC, and the Tomoyo framewo... |
19 April 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Joe Dimiero, who is handling public relations for Microsoft, has confirmed that Conan O’Brien and his sidekick Andy Richter, now appearing on Conan on TBS, will actually lend their voices to the upcoming Halo 4.
The pair suggested that they would be featured in the game during their show, just as they showed s... |
19 April 2012
07:19 GMT |
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Since the release of its official application for Android, Instagram has been hard at work with adding new features to it.
A new version of the application is now available for download for Android users, with fixes for some of the bugs that have been discovered to affect Android 2.2 Froyo devices lately.
At the ... |
19 April 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Google has updated its Cloud Print service, which enables users to print documents from any location via the Chrome browser. It is now possible to print anything at one of the 1,800 FedEx Office locations in the US, enabling you to go directly to the store and pick up your documents without any hassle. "Simply choos... |
19 April 2012
06:50 GMT |
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Internet users who have visited the website of the French Budget Minister's Performance Forum (performance-publique.budget.gouv.fr) may have fallen victim to a clever cybercriminal plot. Experts found that the site was taken over and altered to host a malicious JavaScript.
Zscaler researchers state t... |
19 April 2012
06:47 GMT |
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After previously launching the DEFY MINI in Sweden and Norway, Motorola introduced the cheap Android phone in Denmark.
Although there’s no word on price tag, Motorola DEFY MINI should be available at Telia, Telmore, Elgiganten and other Motorola authorized resellers for around 200 USD (150 EUR) outright.
Buil... |
19 April 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Developers looking to leverage the latest web technologies in Safari are encouraged to download version 5.2 Update 3 from the Mac Dev Center, Apple has announced. Safari 5.2 Update 3 brings Web Audio API, a high-level JavaScript API for processing and synthesizing audio in web apps. Apple explains that “While... |
19 April 2012
06:31 GMT |
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An international collaboration featuring American and Israeli researchers announces the creation of a power source for electric motors that is a little bit unconventional. The group has recently developed a method of extracting energy from clams.
In a study that appears to be inspired by the blockbuster “The ... |
19 April 2012
06:05 GMT |
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For the first time in her career, Rihanna's name comes up in a cocaine scandal. It all started when she uploaded photos of herself handling suspiciously-looking white powder, which many believe was cocaine. The photos were posted to her Instagram account but they've been deleted since then. You can see two ... |
19 April 2012
06:03 GMT |
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Just like the previous revision, the recently released build for the stable version of uTorrent is extremely poor in changes, as it addresses only one issue with a crash bug. However, this release does not eliminate the problem altogether as it introduces a workaround for the glitch.
Build 27081 for uTorrent 3.1.3 s... |
19 April 2012
05:54 GMT |
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Apple Store Genius Bars in the United States have been instructed to replace broken White iPhone 4 (16GB) models with iPhone 4S counterparts, as the company deals with an atypical inventory shortage. US customers seeking a replacement iPhone 4 with 16GB of storage and a white paint job are in luck, as they’ll ... |
19 April 2012
05:52 GMT |
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Wikipedia Foundation has just released a new BlackBerry application aimed at PlayBook owners.
Even though there has been quite a few Wikipedia paid apps available for download in the App World, this time devs launched a completely free version.
The official Wikipedia App for BlackBerry PlayBook contains more than ... |
19 April 2012
05:52 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that it has commissioned developer Eurocom to work on a new James Bond-themed video game called 007 Legends, which is set to use the entire history of the movie series as inspiration.
The new game will “recreate a number of the character's most iconic... |
19 April 2012
05:50 GMT |
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The way in which the brain manages to focus our attention on a single voice in a room filled with people is something that scientists have been trying to understand for a long time. A new study may have just provided new insight into this mystery.
Chatter and background noises are all around us everywhere we go, yet... |
19 April 2012
05:42 GMT |
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Trend Micro released its quarterly report for the first part of 2012 and it turns out that this year cybercriminals have focused their efforts mostly on schemes that target mobile device owners, particularly Android users.
While 2011 was considered the year of the hacktivists, 2012 may be the year of mobile malware.... |
19 April 2012
05:41 GMT |
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One of the most popular social drawing applications for Android devices, Draw Something has just received a minor update that adds a few new features and capabilities.
Developed by OMGPOP, Draw Something is one of the most downloaded applications on both Google Play and iTunes App Store with almost 35 million people... |
19 April 2012
05:38 GMT |
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YouTube is all about the video so perhaps it's understandable that most people forget about something equally important, the audio. Most viewers will put up with choppy and poor quality video as long as the audio track is good or at least not horrible.
Awkward silence, pops, loud noise and so on will make peopl... |
19 April 2012
05:30 GMT |
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Channing Tatum has already proven he can dance, do comedy and drama, so now is the time the public learned even more about him, thanks to the Steven Soderbergh-directed “Magic Mike” film. The first official trailer for it is now out and, as always, you can see it in full above. Telling the story of t... |
19 April 2012
05:28 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer and publisher Microsoft has taken over another site that was used to scam players by offering to sell them Halo 4 beta keys.
The Halo4Beta.biz website has been acquired by Microsoft after it had lodged a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum, and the company has posted a message... |
19 April 2012
05:20 GMT |
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There is a new digital camera up for sale, or there will be as soon as Nikon and its sales partners finish whatever preparations, checkups and protocols are left.
The new camera that Nikon created for the consumer market is called D3200 and promises to be both quick and capable in terms of image quality.
Powered b... |
19 April 2012
05:10 GMT |
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Experts from Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center (MMPC) warn users to be on the lookout for schemes that rely on ransomware to steal login credentials for online payment services such as Ukash and Paysafecard.
Similar to previously seen ransomware schemes, the victims’ computers become locked, displayi... |
19 April 2012
05:07 GMT |
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The list of modifications in the latest revision for the stable version of Maxthon is pretty short, but this does not mean that there aren’t any notable entries. This build is a maintenance release as it delivers fixes and no new features.
Maxthon 3.3.7.2000 solves some problems in the main frame, as sometime... |
19 April 2012
05:04 GMT |
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In a finding that sheds doubt on the very existence of dark matter, researchers found no trace of the stuff in a radius of 17,000 light-years around the Sun. The solar neighborhood should have been filled with the elusive stuff, according to current theories.
The volume of space encompassed within the study “... |
19 April 2012
05:01 GMT |
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Nokia has made available for download a new flavor of its Nokia Suite desktop application, though it is still available only in a beta state, namely 3.4.27. The new app release is meant mainly for testing purposes, and those users who will download and install it will stumble upon a series of issues that will alter ... |
19 April 2012
04:56 GMT |
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Mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, have just received official confirmation that they can maintain the Dawn spacecraft in orbit around the protoplanet Vesta for 40 days beyond the initial scheduled departure time.
The orbiter arrived at the largest asteroid in o... |
19 April 2012
04:45 GMT |
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We’ve seen that cybercrooks rely on adult pictures featuring Justin Bieber on Pinterest to promote their Facebook scams. As it turns out, they are also advertising Pinterest-themed schemes via Facebook. Bitdefender’s MalwareCity reports that Facebook users may be presented with a post that promises a lim... |
19 April 2012
04:42 GMT |
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In the release notes for OS X 10.8 Build 12A178Q (Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3) Apple is listing a slew of Macintosh computers that are compatible with the new seed. All these systems are likely to be supported by the final version of the software when it ships this summer, but not necessarily. Listed under &ld... |
19 April 2012
04:38 GMT |
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It looks like it wasn't enough for Palit Microsystems and Gainward that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 graphics cards is the best single-GPU graphics card so far.
Sure, the Kepler-based video board did not win all possible tests, but it still showed an edge while being more affordable than the competition.
Even ... |
19 April 2012
04:35 GMT |
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The first smartphone in the world to pack an Intel Medfield application processor inside is now official and en-route to shelves. It is called XOLO X900 and was made by Lava, but runs under Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, which can be upgraded to the newer Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. ... |
19 April 2012
04:31 GMT |
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An in-depth survey of the sky, conducted using a massive, underground particle detector at the South Pole, has revealed that the production of cosmic rays is a more mysterious phenomenon than experts had first predicted. The theories currently trying to explain where these rays originate may all be wrong.
The new st... |
19 April 2012
04:30 GMT |
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After the pretty major leak earlier today, Sony has now come forward and officially revealed God of War: Ascension, the next title in the series developed by its Santa Monica studio. The God of War franchise impressed lots of people when its first two titles came out on the PS2, and later with its two installments o... |
19 April 2012
04:26 GMT |
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Millions of girls would kill to have the chance to shake hands and get a hug from Justin Bieber but, judging by how Christina Aguilera reacted on the latest show of The Voice, she's not among them and doesn't have the Bieber Fever. The Biebs was on the show the other night to drum up publicity on his upco... |
19 April 2012
04:18 GMT |
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Video game developer and publisher Sony Online Entertainment has released a number of details about the performance of its popular Everquest MMO, which has managed to perform better than expected after dropping subscriptions.
Since moving to the free-to-play business model, concurrent usage has gone up by 40 percent... |
19 April 2012
04:17 GMT |
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Hackers part of Lulz Security Peru (LulzSec Peru) managed to gain unauthorized access to the site of the security solutions firm Hacksoft (hacksoft.com.pe), the provider of The Hacker antivirus . As a result of the breach, the site was defaced and its database was published online. “People, Lulzssecperu anno... |
19 April 2012
04:09 GMT |
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Plop Linux, a small distribution built from scratch, able to boot from CD, DVD, USB flash drive (UFD), USB hard disk or from network with PXE, is now at version 4.2.2. The i486 version of Plop Linux 4.2.2 is now provided by default in order to avoid PAE issues, but the PAE variant is still available for download. ... |
19 April 2012
03:59 GMT |
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Recent years have marked one of the most spectacular comebacks in the movie industry: that of Robert Downey Jr., who won over audiences and critics again, after a terrible drug addiction ran his career into the ground. The latest Esquire issue has him talking precisely of that. After a series of roles that landed h... |
19 April 2012
03:54 GMT |
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Indie Royale has arrived with a brand-new deal, called the Spring Bundle, which includes six great independent games in the form of Unstoppable Gorg, Depths of Peril, Tobe’s Vertical Adventure, Inferno, Slydris, and Ballistic.
Indie Royale has gotten bargain hunters used to some great deals in the last few mon... |
19 April 2012
03:51 GMT |
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Electrons, for a long time thought to be elementary particles, can be split into two separate parts, an international team of experts demonstrated in a new study. Each of the two resulting particles carries one of the two most important properties of electrons.
When broken apart, an electron produces a spinon &ndas... |
19 April 2012
03:44 GMT |
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In two weeks’ time, the next flagship Android device from Samsung could make an official appearance under the name of Galaxy S III. The South Korean mobile phone maker has set up a press event on May 3rd, and with this occasion the successor of Galaxy S II is expected to make an official appearance. Unfort... |
19 April 2012
03:35 GMT |
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In order to get customers off MobileMe and on iCloud, Apple is giving away free copies of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, which they can use to download Lion from the Mac App Store, and ultimately move all their content to iCloud.Apple is notifying those stuck on the ancient MobileMe service that they can contact the company... |
19 April 2012
03:35 GMT |
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New reports have arisen in regard to the ultrabook market and what Intel, as well as its OEMs, expect from this market segment this year. What we are looking at is the newest shipment levels estimate for 2012, as well as the plans of Hewlett-Packard (HP). We'll talk about the latter first, and then expand on... |
19 April 2012
03:31 GMT |
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FreeBSD, an operating system for x86, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures, is now at version 8.3. FreeBSD 8.3 Final is the fourth release in this stable branch, improving functionality over the 8.2 version and bringing some new features as well. Highlights of FreeBSD 8.3: · usb(4) suppo... |
19 April 2012
03:25 GMT |
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Hackers part of the UGNazi collective, the ones who yesterday attacked the site of New York City, keeping it offline for close to an hour, return. Today, they target not only the site of New York City (nyc.gov), but also the one of the Government of the District of Columbia (dc.gov). Both sites, dc.gov and nyc.... |
19 April 2012
03:23 GMT |
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The other week, Kanye West came out with a track called “Theraflu,” in which he professed his love for Kim Kardashian and dissed her ex-husband Kris Humphries. The song is now known under a different name. Theraflu, for those who don't know, is a very popular cold medicine – and the name of t... |
19 April 2012
03:19 GMT |
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Two very big sequels, in the form of Need for Speed: Most Wanted 2 and Dead Space 3, have just been leaked by a South African games retailer, although no other details have accompanied their listings. Electronic Arts is definitely working on quite a few big games, but you can be sure that many are still closely guar... |
19 April 2012
03:15 GMT |
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Dresden, Germany-based startup Heliatek announces the development of an innovative solar panel design, which uses polyester films and small organic molecules for producing electricity from sunlight.
The devices are significantly more efficient at converting photons into electrons than existing technologies, but they... |
19 April 2012
03:15 GMT |
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Video game publisher THQ and developer Vigil Games have announced that their upcoming Darksiders II has been delayed to August from its previous June launch slot with the extra time used by the development team to make sure that the entire experience achieves the quality levels players expect.
Darksiders II was set ... |
19 April 2012
03:09 GMT |
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A new developer preview of Xcode 4.4 is now available to people enrolled with Apple’s annual $99 program, and includes an updated LLVM Compiler (version 4.0), as well as other enhancements. People familiar with the new Xcode are reporting that Developer Preview 3 brings a hefty list of Objective-C language fea... |
19 April 2012
03:07 GMT |
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Team Katana from the Land of the Rising Sun has reportedly achieved the highest 3D Mark 11 Extreme Preset result in the world, using their single-GPU card based on AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 architecture. The card’s GPU was clocked at an amazing 1747 MHz, while the video memory worked at a 1971 MHz actual freq... |
19 April 2012
03:04 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson was actively involved with the development community to ensure that new, highly appealing applications are designed for its Android devices, and Sony appears set to step on this road as well. The company has just announced that it is offering a helping hand to all Android app developers out there, by ... |
19 April 2012
03:00 GMT |
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A 31-year-old Russian has been charged by US authorities on suspicion of running a scheme that involved breaching retail brokerage accounts and sham trades. The illegal activities caused damages of around $1 million (700,000 EUR). Petr Murmylyuk, also known as Dmitry Tokar, from New York, demonstrated that hacking a... |
19 April 2012
02:52 GMT |
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Sony has presented three new applications for its recently launched PlayStation Vita console that will be released for free in the near future and provide some interesting activities for owners of the device.
The PlayStation Vita came out back in February and, since then, Sony’s been launching many new games f... |
19 April 2012
02:42 GMT |
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OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3 (Build 12A178Q) is now available for download, Apple has confirmed. Registered Apple Developers can get a redemption code at the Mac Dev Center, then use that code in the Mac App Store to download the software and test it out. According to people who are familiar with the softw... |
19 April 2012
02:38 GMT |
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There will soon be a new product from NVIDIA up for sale, one that the company has made a point of shrouding in mystery.
Basically, the company added an image to its Facebook page, one that says an NVIDIA product is coming soon.
And that's it. “It's Coming” is all we've got, besides the... |
19 April 2012
02:38 GMT |
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The 24 finalists of the FIFA Interactive World Cup will this year fly to the Jumeirah beach Hotel in Dubai in order to participate in the competition between May 21 and 23, after the same contest was staged in Los Angeles last year and in Barcelona in 2010.
The official ambassador for the FIFA Interactive World Cup ... |
19 April 2012
02:32 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has just started to deliver a new software update for some of the owners of Symbian-based devices, namely Nokia Belle Feature Pack 1. At the moment, the new OS flavor is being pushed only to the owners of Nokia 603, Nokia 700 and Nokia 701 devices. However, the company is set to m... |
19 April 2012
02:28 GMT |
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UPDATE: Sony has confirmed that God of War: Ascension is the next game in the series. Check out the first details at this link.It seems that Sony’s planned announcement for today has been leaked ahead of schedule, with retailer Amazon posting the cover and a video of God of War: Ascension, the oft-rumored ... |
19 April 2012
02:07 GMT |
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