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As Nvidia is readying the new GK110 Kepler-based monster GPU targeted for GPU computing, and later for top-gaming performance, AMD is preparing its new Radeon 8000 “Sea Islands” GPU family. The top-performing member of the “Sea Islands” family is codenamed “Venus,” but we already... |
2 July 2012
20:51 GMT |
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HTML5 is no longer just a buzzword, people actually get things done using modern web technologies that are colloquially and not entirely accurately called HTML5. Well, OK, HTML5 is still a buzzword, but the point is, it's not just buzz. One of the ways used by the big players interested in getting more and more... |
2 July 2012
20:41 GMT |
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Fabless GPU and CPU designer, American company AMD is getting ready to launch its newest and most powerful GPU architecture this winter. The new GPU series will bear the codename “Sea Islands,” while the products will be branded Radeon 8000 Series. Not much is known about the new architecture, but rumors... |
2 July 2012
19:41 GMT |
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Regional handset manufacturer Micromax has just announced the immediate availability of the A50 Superfone Ninja sequel in India.
Dubbed Micromax A56 Superfone Ninja 2, the smartphone is now available for purchase via leading retailers across the country for only Rs 5,999 (110 USD or 85 EUR) off-contract.
The device... |
2 July 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Samsung plans to release new affordable Android smartphones aimed at customers who don’t want to spend a fortune on an ICS-based device.
Such a device has been recently spotted in China at the TENAA, the country’s regulatory commission, and has been filed by Samsung as GT-B5330.
According to the folks o... |
2 July 2012
19:01 GMT |
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A different version of Huawei Ascend P1 is about to make its entrance in China. The Ascend P1 XL has been recently tipped for a July release in the Mainland, though there are no details on the exact launch date of the smartphone.
The main difference between the original model and the Huawei Ascend P1 XL is the fact ... |
2 July 2012
18:31 GMT |
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I can’t wait for the rebooted SimCity to launch in February 2013, although I am a bit scared by all the social features that Maxis and Electronic Arts plan to introduce.
Therefore, I decided to check out the beta stage of SimCity Social, which is available on Facebook, in order to alleviate my fears and see h... |
2 July 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Chinese handset maker Huawei plans to release a plethora of Android smartphones this year, but most of these products will reach customers this fall.
Made official back in January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Huawei Ascend P1 hit shelves in May after several delays.
Today, the folks over at Ausdro... |
2 July 2012
18:01 GMT |
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The newly launched Premium service for Battlefield 3 is just the beginning for publisher Electronic Arts and the company wants to now make top-level subscription elements a central part of a number of other franchises. Frank Gibeau, the leader of the EA Games label, has told Game Industry International that, “... |
2 July 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has talked about the success of its Battlefield Premium bundle for Battlefield 3, stating that it's much better than Activision's Call of Duty Elite service and confirming that the strategy might be applied for other games.
Activision revealed the Call of Duty Elite service for Modern Warfa... |
2 July 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Adobe has been doing a very surprising thing for the past year or so, though it should be the norm for every company that wants to thrive as the environment it operates in changes, as it always does.It's been actively ditching Flash faster even than its biggest detractors. And it's been going full steam try... |
2 July 2012
17:02 GMT |
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The Japanese video game market has managed to see an increase during the first six months of the year when compared to the same period in 2011, which is a surprise given the decline that has been seen on the North American market during the same period.
According to data coming from the magazine Famitsu and the trac... |
2 July 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Chris Brown has added another piece to his already impressive collection of tattoos – and it's quite a sight to behold. You can see it in the images attached to this article. Before he took to the stage at the BET Awards 2012 to pick up his award for Best Male R&B Artist and to perform for his fans, Chri... |
2 July 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Google's Search by Image, introduced last year, was revolutionary to many. There were already some websites that offered the same feature, but having it built in Google made a lot of people realize for the first time that they could search using an image not just for images. Google has been improving the fe... |
2 July 2012
16:26 GMT |
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On Monday, July 1, engineers at the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida, took possession of the first Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle that will actually fly to space. The vehicle will undergo final preparations here, ahead of a planned 2014 launch date.
According to officials from the American space agency... |
2 July 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Disney has upset fans and concerned parents once more, this time by taking some of the most popular villains and slimming them down for a new collection of dolls and merchandise. Ursula of “The Little Mermaid,” in particular, is looking mighty different. In the 1989 movie, Ursula wasn't exactly the... |
2 July 2012
16:01 GMT |
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The popular multimedia application VLC has just been released in the Google Store Play, formerly known as Android Market.
Although this is just a beta version, VLC allows Android users to play most local video and audio files, but also network streams, such as the desktop version of VLC.
The application also featur... |
2 July 2012
16:01 GMT |
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The Last of Us, the upcoming survival game from Naughty Dog, will focus on two characters, Joel and Ellie, the latter of which is controlled by the game throughout its story. According to the studio, Ellie will play a big role in the game and show players just how smart an artificial intelligence can be.
The Last of... |
2 July 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Last week's most popular movie on BitTorrent was the latest entry in the seemingly never-ending string of American Pie movies, titled American Reunion, which, you guessed it, is about the mischievous gang getting together for their high school reunion. Yes, it's been ten years since the first American Pie c... |
2 July 2012
15:30 GMT |
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One of the best known video game developers, famous for universes that he created, believes that developers need to stand by the game they create and explain their vision to their fans, rather than bow to pressure and change their own work.
Peter Molyneux, who is best known for his work on Fable, Black & White and P... |
2 July 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Verizon has recently announced the upcoming availability of the HTC DROID Incredible 4G LTE Android phone for as low as $150 USD with a new two-year agreement.
However, customers who rely on messaging when it comes to communication and who want to purchase a cheaper phone can grab the newly announced Samsung Intensi... |
2 July 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Some time ago, Chris Brown and Drake got into a very nasty altercation in a NYC club, with the former saying the latter acted like a coward by throwing bottles in his direction and then making for the door. For what it's worth, Chris is still not over it. He and The Game got together and collaborated on a tr... |
2 July 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Some people would do the sickest and most painful things in the name of beauty or, at the very least, the promise of a youthful appearance. Tom Cruise doesn't believe in Botox and plastic surgery but, according to a recent report, he'd gladly have a bird droppings facial. Only a blind person could deny tha... |
2 July 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Tecmo Koei has just revealed a brand new trailer for its upcoming Dead or Alive 5 fighting game, this time showing off the all-new character of Rig, as he fights against the sultry assassin Christie and the imposing Bass Armstrong.
Dead or Alive 5 is set to feature all sorts of classic characters from previous games... |
2 July 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Research In Motion has recently released its Q1 earnings report, which looks shockingly bad for the Canadian company. Aside from the 5,000 job cuts, RIM has a $518 million USD net loss. The company also claims it has shipped 7.8 million BlackBerry smartphones and only 260,000 PlayBook tablets, which is clearly disa... |
2 July 2012
14:01 GMT |
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The Ubuntu Manual team is proud to announce a new edition of the comprehensive Ubuntu manual, this time for the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system. Dubbed Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.04, the 143 pages long PDF document will definitely help new and existing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) us... |
2 July 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Mila Kunis notoriously lost a lot of weight for her role as a professional ballerina in the Oscar-wining “Black Swan,” but it's just now that she can proudly say she has her old body back – and she couldn't be happier about it. To promote her role in the R-rated comedy “Ted,”... |
2 July 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Nintendo has confirmed that the online service for the Wii U is going to be offered free of charge to console owners, much like Sony's PlayStation Network and unlike Microsoft's Xbox Live, which requires a Gold subscription to access features like multiplayer. Nintendo revealed the final version of the Wii... |
2 July 2012
13:21 GMT |
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After weeks of rumors more or less confirmed, the HTC DROID Incredible 4G LTE is about to make its debut at Verizon Wireless.
The carrier has just announced that the smartphone will be available starting July 5 for as low as $149.99 USD (120 EUR) after a $50 USD (40 EUR) mail-in rebate and with a new two-year agreem... |
2 July 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Developer Monolith Productions and publisher Warner Bros. have released the first gameplay video for their upcoming Guardians of Middle Earth, the MOBA title that is set to be launched on the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 later during the year.
The video shows how players will be able to use the various her... |
2 July 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Sony is going to kick off its own Summer Sale event tomorrow, July 3, on the North American PlayStation Store, slashing prices on a variety of downloadable games by 30% for regular PSN members and 50% for PS Plus members.
Summer is in full swing, so a variety of companies have begun running their own Summer Sale eve... |
2 July 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Sentry is a professional Python server for aggregating and logging various web events. It is one of the top tools in debugging and troubleshooting websites and web apps.
Sentry basically allows for logged data to be inspected, analyzed and interpreted in real-time or at a later date by webmasters and/or programmers.... |
2 July 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Scientists believe they have discovered an interesting phenomenon associated with sexual intercourse between teens. The work revealed that orgasms can sometimes be so intense that the teenagers are not left with a pleasurable feeling, but rather an extremely intense headache.There have been, to the researchers' ... |
2 July 2012
11:52 GMT |
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French director Pascal Laugier, who caused quite a frenzy with his “Martyrs,” is coming back to the big screen with a tamer, albeit just as promising thriller called “The Secret” or “The Tall Man.”
It stars Jessica Biel as the leading female star, a woman who is determined to get ... |
2 July 2012
11:30 GMT |
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This impressive image shows the antenna that will enable the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia spacecraft to survey more than a billion stars, after it launches to space in 2013. The vehicle will conduct its extremely sensitive measurements from the L2 Lagrangian point.
This is a location some 1.5 million kil... |
2 July 2012
11:26 GMT |
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Microsoft is reportedly making some more changes to its Windows 8 platform in preparation for the upcoming RTM and final flavors.
One of these will affect the name of one of the most popular tools the platform has at the moment, namely its Windows Explorer.
Since it is being used mostly for exploring the fil... |
2 July 2012
11:25 GMT |
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Mozilla's Boot2Gecko OS has now morphed into Firefox OS as the project continues to mature. Mozilla announced several new partners for the project, both prominent carriers and phone makers, the Chinese ZTE and the company behind Alcatel phones.
There aren't that many new details, Firefox OS is expected to ... |
2 July 2012
11:22 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new research sponsored by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), and conducted by experts at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), it would appear that multiple proxy datasets can be used to gain more data on ancient climates.
Researchers figured out that data collected... |
2 July 2012
11:16 GMT |
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A new, 60-second TV spot for Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film “Django Unchained” has just been released. You can check it out in full above.
The film stars Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz as a freed slave and a bounty hunter out to seek their own brand of justice.
Leonardo DiCaprio plays the vill... |
2 July 2012
11:13 GMT |
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For our readers who don’t really know who Colorfire is, we can say that it is a subsidiary brand belonging to the well-known Chinese video card manufacturer Colorful. Colorfire is preparing to launch a new custom design of AMD’s Radeon HD 7870 graphics adapter. The new card is called Colorfire Radeon HD ... |
2 July 2012
11:11 GMT |
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The Indie games are getting bundled all the time these days and the Linux platform is receiving more and more tiles. This time, The Summer Bundle from Indie Royale incorporates some Linux games. After an amazing Humble Bundle that managed to break all sales records, Indie Royale has come out with a few Linux compat... |
2 July 2012
11:09 GMT |
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Bad news for T-Mobile USA customers who are still waiting for the Samsung Galaxy Note as the carrier seems to have been delayed the smartphone until next month. Although the latest rumors pointed to a possible release of the Galaxy Note on July 11, the folks over at TmoNews have been tipped on the new release date o... |
2 July 2012
10:59 GMT |
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As if dealing with the unexpected news that his wife Katie Holmes filed for divorce while he was out of the country, Tom Cruise is also leaking – trailers, that is. Above is a first look at his “Jack Reacher.” The trailer is in Russian and in very poor quality, but it still tells us one thing: Crui... |
2 July 2012
10:57 GMT |
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Doctors have long since wondered why people with similar injuries can go on to either develop chronic pain or not. A new study by Northwestern University experts says that the pain is actually all in the patients' heads.
The researchers found that areas of the brain involved in controlling emotional and motiva... |
2 July 2012
10:56 GMT |
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On July 2nd, Canonical announced that a vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel packages, this time affecting the OMAP4 kernel of the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system.
The CVE-2012-2375 Linux kernel vulnerability affects Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) OMAP4. As usual, you can click on ... |
2 July 2012
10:55 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is betting even more money on the Metro interface that is dominating the Windows 8 and Windows Phone platform. Following a long range of rumors that it will bring Metro to its web services, Microsoft has officially confirmed that this would indeed happen. The company launched... |
2 July 2012
10:53 GMT |
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The computer systems housed in Visakhapatnam, the headquarters of India’s Eastern Naval Command, have been penetrated by hackers who have been traced back to China.
According to Indian Express, a piece of malware planted in devices from Visakhapatnam collected sensitive information and sent it to an IP ad... |
2 July 2012
10:51 GMT |
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While the industry expects tablets to outsell PCs in the following years, gaming outfit Alienware doesn’t see any direct competition from tablets for its own market. Alienware manager Eddy Goyanes said that tablets and PCs offer radically different gaming experiences, and tablets don’t have anything to of... |
2 July 2012
10:31 GMT |
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The script of the upcoming Gears of War: Judgment from Epic Games is being written by Tom Bissell and Rob Auten and not by series regular Karen Traviss.
Tom Bissell is a video game journalist who has become well known in the industry for his “Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter” book.
He has already worked on the G... |
2 July 2012
10:30 GMT |
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The Document Foundation has announced the LibreOffice 3.6 Bug Hunting Party, an event meant to improve the quality of the LibreOffice office suite.
The Document Foundation is organizing this “party” event in a virtual environment between July 6 and 7, 2012. Volunteers will try to find problems with the ... |
2 July 2012
10:27 GMT |
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The University of Southern California (USC) has warned staff members, faculty, students and visitors regarding a security breach as a result of which credit card numbers may have been exposed. The incident occurred after a third-party software system used to process credit card payments in USC dining halls was breac... |
2 July 2012
10:23 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has talked about the over-reliance on franchises in the gaming industry, insisting that it’s a big mistake for publishers to focus only on established brands and neglect the creation of all-new properties. Electronic Arts had quite a nasty reputation a few years ago as it mostly relied just on ... |
2 July 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Google is a sure-fire target for anyone wanting to make an inflammatory point. It's a large enough company that everyone has heard about and it's a large enough company that it is going to annoy someone, somewhere no matter what it does.
The latest outrage is about guns, specifically, Google's policy... |
2 July 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Up until recently, the people working at the Green School on the Indonesian island of Bali had to walk up to eight miles to get to the nearest ATM machine if they wanted to cash in on their wages. However, thanks to a revolutionary idea, they can now do just that with the help of an environmentally friendly ATM, lo... |
2 July 2012
10:16 GMT |
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Today, Mozilla officially announced the upcoming availability of its own mobile operating system for smartphones, the Firefox OS. Built on top of the Boot to Gecko initiative, Firefox OS is a Web standards-based platform which takes advantage of HTML5 for the building of applications. The first devices to run und... |
2 July 2012
10:06 GMT |
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Avant Browser has just been updated to build 175. The current revision features updates for Gecko and Webkit engines, to 13.0.1.4562 and 20.0.1132.47 respectively. However, the web browser also saw some repairs.
Most of the repairs are Gecko-related and include serious problems, such as crashing of the plugin contai... |
2 July 2012
10:06 GMT |
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A lot of ink has been spilled recently over a potential announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson. This is expected to be confirmed or infirmed at a conference to be held on July 4. Discovering the elusive subatomic particle could however spell the end of particle physics as we know it. Physicists have been d... |
2 July 2012
10:03 GMT |
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The GNU C Library, used as *the* C library in the GNU systems and most systems powered by Linux kernel, is now at version 2.16.
Highlights of GNU C Library 2.16:
· Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports;
· ISO C11 support has been improved;
· Support for anything but ELF binary format ... |
2 July 2012
10:02 GMT |
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Developer The Creative Assembly and publisher SEGA have announced that their next joint project is indeed the rumored Total War: Rome 2, which will be launched on the PC during the second half of 2013.
Rumors about the game began appearing in late June when an image from the first game with the “II” adde... |
2 July 2012
09:59 GMT |
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Most of the people living in Ohio were taken aback when certain companies made them the following offer: $140,000 (about €110,000) in exchange for allowing them to drill under local cemeteries for natural gas.
It is not difficult to imagine that quite a lot of Ohio's citizens were appalled by such a sugge... |
2 July 2012
09:58 GMT |
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Fraudsters don’t necessarily have to rely on malware to steal money from unsuspecting internauts. They can simply ask them to make a donation to the American Red Cross.
Researchers from Barracuda Labs have identified a fake email that’s purporting to originate from the American Red Cross. However, the em... |
2 July 2012
09:55 GMT |
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The downloadable content packs launched for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, titled Reverie and Resurrection, have disappointed gamers and one of the Konami executives who has worked on them admitted that they were both rushed and underdeveloped. Dave Cox, who is the head of product planning at Konami and the producer ... |
2 July 2012
09:51 GMT |
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AMD’s new Brazos 2.0 platform can be characterized as bringing higher working frequencies and Turbo Core technology to the same Zacate low-power CPU architecture. The new APUs fit in the same FT1 sockets, and they also bring USB 3.0 support by using the new A68M chipset codenamed Hudson-M3L. Another important ... |
2 July 2012
09:51 GMT |
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A second release candidate is currently available for Total Commander 8.0.1. The new build contains mostly repairs, but a new addition has also managed to make its way through: show inplace rename confirmation button also in current dir bar.
The set of fixes integrated in this revision address problems with synchron... |
2 July 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Building a detector to identify Weakly-Interacting Massive Particles (WIMP) is not an easy task. Physicists have been at it for decades, and yet no one has ever been able to discover these basic constituents of dark matter. Now, a team of scientists plans to create a detector out of DNA. They believe that the instru... |
2 July 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced last year a bold plan to adopt Microsoft’s Windows Phone as its primary mobile OS for smartphones. Many believed that it would fail, mostly due to the little relevance the platform has on the mobile phone market at the moment. Should Windows Phone fail, however, the... |
2 July 2012
09:44 GMT |
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Ubisoft has just posted a brand new trailer for its upcoming Assassin’s Creed III, emphasizing the role players will have during the American Revolution.
The 4th of July is right around the corner, so Ubisoft wants to make sure every North American knows what they’ll be able to do in Assassin’s Cre... |
2 July 2012
09:34 GMT |
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Have you received any emails from payroll processor ADP lately? If you have and you clicked on the links they contain, you might have infected your computer with a nasty piece of malware. Spam campaigns have represented a major issue for more than a decade now and it seems that the phenomenon is not going to disappe... |
2 July 2012
09:28 GMT |
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An Anonymous-affiliated hacker that goes by the name of Antidote (AnonAntidote) has taken credit for defacing the website of the Oak Creek Ranch School (ocrs.com), Arizona.
The breach is part of Operation Liberation, a campaign that aims to protest abuses that take place against teenagers in certain educational ins... |
2 July 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency have confirmed that former astronaut Alan Poindexter died on Sunday, July 1, after being involved in a serious jet skiing accident near Little Sabine Bay, off Pensacola Beach, Florida.
While details of what happened are scarce, investigators know that Poindexter was on site wit... |
2 July 2012
09:18 GMT |
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The first real stage of Le Tour de France is usually flat and the entire first week of most Grand Tours is designed to allow the fast men of the peloton to show their skills and rack up wins for those teams that might lack a solid rider for the Yellow Jersey battle. The ride is 198 km long and takes riders from Lieg... |
2 July 2012
09:10 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up for the release of its next-generation Windows 8 operating system, and the company is already sharing details on what those who want to upgrade to it could expect.
These details were not made available for the public, but rather only shared with some of the company’s partners, but they... |
2 July 2012
09:08 GMT |
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As Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise are gearing up for what promises to be a very nasty custody battle, buzz is building up as to the reason why she decided to file for divorce over the weekend, reportedly blindsiding him with it. The consensus seems to be that Katie decided she'd had enough of Tom and Scientology, ... |
2 July 2012
09:06 GMT |
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The first smartphone to come with Nokia Belle FP1, PureView 808 has been recently launched on the market.
However, the Finnish company plans to release a major software update this year, which will improve the overall user experience.
Dubbed Feature Pack 2, the new update is likely to become available for Nokia 80... |
2 July 2012
09:06 GMT |
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AMD already said that it was giving up the costly habit of releasing monthly new versions of its well-famed Catalyst driver suite, but it seems to have forgotten the users of the Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000 and HD 4000 series of cards. The new version only supports cards that are newer than the HD 5000 series, whic... |
2 July 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Despite their seeming inevitability, music streaming services are finding it hard to cope until the users, the web and the music industry catch up. In fact, even the best known Spotify isn't exactly killing it, it's getting by thanks to its investors’ deep pockets, not the profitability of the business.
W... |
2 July 2012
08:56 GMT |
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Shortly after HTC released the Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the international version of EVO 3D, the Taiwanese company kicked off the rollout of the upgrade for another Android smartphone, the old Incredible S.
However, this isn’t too much of a surprise as HTC already confirmed two months ago t... |
2 July 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Reports recently made public indicate that, as far as the leatherback turtles presently living in the eastern Pacific are concerned, this century might just be the very last one for the species.
Scientists from Drexel and Princeton University looked into how global warming is affecting both leatherback turtle eggs ... |
2 July 2012
08:50 GMT |
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BreakingPoint Systems, a company that specializes in security testing, will be acquired by Ixia, a provider of network visibility and converged IP network validation solutions, for around $160 million (126 million EUR) in cash. The acquisition, which will take place sometime in the third quarter of 2012, will enable... |
2 July 2012
08:38 GMT |
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A new report from the NPD Group shows that gamers are becoming more comfortable than ever with buying the digital versions of their favorite games rather than the physical ones.
The 2012 Online Gaming report from the firm which also offers monthly tracking data for the United States market shows that 30 percent of t... |
2 July 2012
08:34 GMT |
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Nicki Minaj showed audiences why she's the number 1 best-selling female rapper of the moment at last night's BET Awards 2012. Below is her performance. The eccentric star took to the stage in one of her trademark wacky outfits (which included a removable skirt, of course, for a plus of drama) and performe... |
2 July 2012
08:34 GMT |
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A group of scientists at the Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces the creation of a new technique for turning seawater into potable water. They use graphene as the primary filtration material in this approach.
Graphene is a single-atom-thick carbon compound, which features a hexagon... |
2 July 2012
08:32 GMT |
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Intel’s low-performance Atom D7500, D2550 and D2500 is all that the company is planning to offer for nettop and low-power desktop systems for the next year and a half. Many of our readers were hoping to see a more capable desktop version of Clover Trail, but Intel doesn’t have such plans. The world&rsquo... |
2 July 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Galaxy S III, the latest Android-based flagship handset from Samsung, is now available for purchase in the United States through wireless carrier Sprint. The smartphone, officially unveiled in early May, became available for pre-order at Sprint in the beginning of June, and was expected to hit shelves on the 21st o... |
2 July 2012
08:21 GMT |
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The VideoLAN development team managed to port their popular media player, VLC, to Android operating system. The freebie is in beta stage at the moment and can be downloaded from Google Play store. The mobile version of VLC is built for Android 2.1 and up, but for now it will work only on devices with NEON CPU (ARM);... |
2 July 2012
08:15 GMT |
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While Australia's new carbon tax scheme fosters intense debates throughout the country, Trade Minister Craig Emerson mocks the opposition's claims that said project will negatively impact on the country's economy by means of a song.
Performed in the Parliament House courtyard, the song argues against... |
2 July 2012
08:10 GMT |
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This year, Sony made official a great deal of handsets running under Google’s Android operating system, including a new flagship phone, the Xperia S. Apparently, the company is already working on the next-generation Android devices, and one of them should arrive on shelves as the successor this high-end smartp... |
2 July 2012
08:04 GMT |
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This year's BET Awards wasn't just about celebrating the best in music, but also about remembering one of the greatest voices ever. Below is the full Whitney Houston tribute included within the awards ceremony. As we also noted earlier today, the moment was introduced by Mariah Carey, who spoke about miss... |
2 July 2012
07:54 GMT |
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As of yesterday, the Australian PM Julia Gillard implemented a new carbon tax scheme, according to which $23 (about €18) need to be paid by companies for each tonne of greenhouse gas emissions they are responsible for producing.
By having around 300 companies pay the aforementioned tax, it is expected that Aus... |
2 July 2012
07:52 GMT |
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We were quite surprised to see HP launch Intel Atom-based high-density servers in their Gemini server line that was originally thought to be launching with Calxeda technology. Now, HP is again putting ARM in second place as it is launching x86 Atom-based tablets and postponing ARM Windows RT tablet products. HP alre... |
2 July 2012
07:41 GMT |
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In the past month, a vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services, has made a lot of headlines and a few days ago experts noticed that the zero-day that could be exploited via Internet Explorer was added to a variant of the Blackhole exploit kit.
Microsoft has made available a temporary fix for the issue, but for no... |
2 July 2012
07:36 GMT |
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One day after Google officially announced its next-generation Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system, the platform has been ported to HTC One X.
XDA Developers senior member tgascoigne managed to port the Jelly Bean ROM to the international version of HTC One X, though not everything works smoothly.
In fact, we do... |
2 July 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Chris Brown has a new album coming out, “Fortune,” in just a few days but, until they get to enjoy it, his fans (Team Breezy) got the treat of a lifetime with his live performance at last night's BET Awards 2012. Not only did Chris take home the award for Best Male R&B Artist, which he dedicated to... |
2 July 2012
07:30 GMT |
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Last week, Google made official the new member of the Nexus family, the first tablet PC of the series, the Nexus 7. The new device is expected to become available for purchase sometime this month, and Google is already ensuring that users won’t have a hard time fixing the device in case things go wrong. Thu... |
2 July 2012
07:17 GMT |
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At last night's BET Awards 2012, Mariah Carey led the heartfelt tribute for the late Whitney Houston. You can see her speech in the video above – in poor quality, for the time being. Mariah recalled her “good friend” Whitney and how much fun they used to have back in the day, when people stil... |
2 July 2012
07:10 GMT |
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U.S.-based high-quality audio-video cable company Monster Cable has just announced its Smart HDMI cables, on its official website. These new cables are certified by the Imaging Science Foundation to meet the requirements for high-speed smart HDMI cables, and come with an additional feature. The feature so much toute... |
2 July 2012
07:01 GMT |
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Pavel Cyganok from Lithuania and Ilja Zakrevski from Estonia have been sentenced to nine years in prison for possessing and using malicious software to steal banking details from unsuspecting internauts.
Another man, Aldis Krummins from Latvia, the one in charge of laundering the money, got two years for his part i... |
2 July 2012
07:01 GMT |
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Dan Horák proudly announced this past weekend, on June 29th, that the Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) operating system for IBM System z (s390x) 64-bit systems is now available for download.
Dubbed Beefy Miracle, Fedora 17 comes with a lot of new features, enhancements and updated packages, among which we can menti... |
2 July 2012
06:51 GMT |
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Windows Phone 8, the next-generation mobile operating system from Microsoft, is set to arrive on shelves in the fourth quarter of this year, with a nice range of new features and updates from the previous platform releases. One of the elements that might become available for Windows Phone 8 users at some point... |
2 July 2012
06:41 GMT |
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As we previously reported, Japanese high officials have recently decided to restart two of the nuclear reactors at the Ohi power plant, which was shut down in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. In spite of growing protests amongst Japanese citizens, it seems that the government went ahead with its plan and, a... |
2 July 2012
06:35 GMT |
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Although Sprint confirmed that Ice Cream Sandwich update would arrive for HTC EVO 3D in June/July, everyone was hoping to get the upgrade last month.
Unfortunately, June is over and Android 4.0 ICS has yet to be made available for the EVO 3D. However, according to Sprint’s previous statement, the update should... |
2 July 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Football fans can take a break now that the EURO 2012 is over. Spain's decisive victory over an apathetic Italy sealed the deal as far as football is concerned, but that just means it's a good time to look back at the entire competition.
That's exactly what Twitter is doing, showing off some impressi... |
2 July 2012
06:21 GMT |
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The Arab faction of Anonymous has published a list of around 1,300 account details they’ve allegedly stolen from Israeli users.
According to Haaretz, Avnet Security Systems has studied the data leak, made of email addresses and clear text passwords, and confirmed that many of the accounts are active. However, ... |
2 July 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Texas-based CPU and GPU designer, fabless company AMD has successfully launched its Trinity mobile processors based on the new Piledriver processing core architecture. The combination between the Piledriver architecture, the frequency increase and the VLIW4 iGPU made Trinity a tough competition for Intel’s Ivy... |
2 July 2012
06:01 GMT |
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A study published in the July 2 issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters shows the first-ever image of upward surges of solar gases that turn into quiescent coronal loops. The process was proposed a while back, but never photographed as it happened before.
By studying this phenomenon, it may become possible to g... |
2 July 2012
06:01 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Office 2013 productivity suite is expected to become available in a beta flavor later this summer, with a nice range of goodies packed inside, including a new, Metro-fied user interface. We already had the chance to have a look at some of the visual changes that Microsoft plans on packing inside t... |
2 July 2012
06:00 GMT |
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A new update from developer 343 Industries mentions that its upcoming shooter Halo 4 is close to being completed, with the team now focusing on eliminating all the bugs remaining in the game and on putting an extra layer of polish on the overall experience.
The testing and bug hunting stage is very important for a h... |
2 July 2012
05:55 GMT |
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Astrophysicists have a hard time understanding dark energy, the force driving the ever-accelerating expansion of the Cosmos. Countless theories have been proposed to explain its nature, and one is particularly groundbreaking – dark energy is caused by the interaction with another Universe.
In brane cosmology,... |
2 July 2012
05:53 GMT |
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AIMP player got rid of the “release candidate” over the weekend, as a new stable version of application has been launched. The major features include new abilities, touching on components such as audio library, the converter or playlist.
AIMP 3.10 brings to the table increased speed for adding files to t... |
2 July 2012
05:51 GMT |
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A few days ago, Nokia Philippines let it slip that MeeGo-based N9 smartphones would soon receive the rumored PR1.3 update.
Today, the folks over at Unleashthephones have been approached by a Nokia N9 owner living in Poland who claims that the PR1.3 update is now rolling out in the country.
If the information proves... |
2 July 2012
05:49 GMT |
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Engineers at the European Space Agency (ESA) are currently working around the clock on developing and testing the critical control systems that will be used to manage the Sentinel constellation of satellites. The first vehicle in the series is scheduled to launch into orbit next year.
Under the European Commission&... |
2 July 2012
05:46 GMT |
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One of the most shocking pieces of news of last week was that Katie Holmes had filed for divorce from Tom Cruise in New York and was seeking sole custody of their daughter Suri. A new report suggests Scientology might not let her go that easily. As we also reported over the weekend, there is a lot of speculation ab... |
2 July 2012
05:38 GMT |
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Seeing as how Valve opted to delay its Steam Summer Sale, Amazon kicked off its own series of discounts yesterday, slashing prices on a wide array of game downloads, from Max Payne 3 to Spec Ops: The Line and much more.
Amazon has slowly but surely carved its own niche in terms of digital distribution on the PC plat... |
2 July 2012
05:36 GMT |
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MarketResearch.com has released a new report which highlights the fact that many global organizations from the defense sector expect their budgets to increase over the next 12 months with an average of 6%.
The figures from the “Global Defense Survey 2012: Cyber Warfare in the Defense Industry, Threats, Opportu... |
2 July 2012
05:34 GMT |
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Microsoft has just announced there’s a new version of Facebook for Windows Phone devices available for download in the Marketplace.
About two months ago, the application got a major update that added lots of new features, such as the possibility to “like” comments, as well as threaded messaging.
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2 July 2012
05:34 GMT |
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Most people figure a day is a day, it's how long it takes for the Earth to spin around its axis. The same goes for the year. But things aren't so clear cut, not the least of which because the speed with which the Earth is hurtling around the Sun and around itself changes in time.
Everyone knows about leap... |
2 July 2012
05:34 GMT |
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One of the great new features that Google packed inside Android 4.1 Jelly Bean was Sound Search, designed to recognize songs and to work similarly with Shazam and Soundhound. However, the new application will not only provide users with info on the song that they are listening to, but it will also deliver a link to... |
2 July 2012
05:32 GMT |
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A team of scientists from China recently took it upon themselves to investigate an interesting idea related to the nature of schizophrenia. Some experts proposed a while back that the condition was the manifestation of a malfunctioning immune system, and the new research sought to prove that.
Most experts still agr... |
2 July 2012
05:32 GMT |
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Platinum Games, one of the best known Japanese game development teams, believes that the quality of a title is not in any way influenced by the territory where it is developed.
Jean Kellams, who is the writer and international coordinator at Platinum Games, has stated on Twitter that, “The problems with Japane... |
2 July 2012
05:27 GMT |
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This past Sunday, Lolong, a saltwater crocodile caught in the Philippines, went into the Guinness World Record book for being the largest representative of its species presently living in captivity.
Weighing more than a ton and measuring up to 20.24 feet (6.77 meters), the animal raises considerable fears that othe... |
2 July 2012
05:24 GMT |
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Korean handset maker Samsung has just launched a new application for its latest Galaxy S smartphone, S Health. Following the same name scheme as the S Voice, S Beam and other apps and services that come pre-loaded on the Galaxy S III, S Health offers a wide range of features.
First and foremost, S Health is a person... |
2 July 2012
05:21 GMT |
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uTorrent development got closer to a stable build, with the roll-out of new release candidate over the weekend, number 8, to be more specific. As expected, repairs are dominant in the list of changes, which is also very short, but some improvements are also available. An important fix refers to a crash that occurre... |
2 July 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Nvidia is getting ready to announce the GeForce GT 600 series for the high volume mid-range market, so AMD and its partners are getting ready to counteract the launch. ASUS is showing a great deal of care and work, especially for the China region. Therefore, ASUS is now preparing a special version of its DirectCU II... |
2 July 2012
05:11 GMT |
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WhiteHat Security has recently issued its Website Security Statistics Report for the year 2011 and the results are optimistic. Compared to 2010, when the average number of serious vulnerabilities per website per year was 230, in 2011 the number dropped to 79.
If we compare last year’s numbers to 2007 (1,111 se... |
2 July 2012
05:01 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Pantech has just made official a new high-end smartphone running under Google’s Android operating system, the Pantech Vega S5. The handset, launched in South Korea today, appears meant to take down the newly-released Galaxy S III from Samsung, courtesy of its large 5-inch touch... |
2 July 2012
04:58 GMT |
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After quite a lengthy period of waiting and testing, Valve has confirmed when it’s going to release the long-awaited Cold Stream DLC pack for Left 4 Dead 2 on the PC and Mac platforms, as well as on the Xbox 360 console: July 24.
Left 4 Dead 2 impressed millions of gamers back in 2009 and, since then, Valve ha... |
2 July 2012
04:56 GMT |
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Panama presently hosts the 64th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission, which is expected to come up with a strategy of safeguarding the whales, dolphins and porpoises living in international waters against new drilling operations commissioned by Royal Dutch Shell and other similar companies. Appare... |
2 July 2012
04:48 GMT |
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According to a new survey of 1,171 hospital-employed nurses working in North Carolina, it would appear that depression affects 18 percent of people in this group. This incidence rate is twice larger than that affecting the general population (9 percent).
One in five nurses will go on to develop symptoms associated w... |
2 July 2012
04:46 GMT |
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Only a short while ago, the tabloids were saying that Kelly Preston had more or less decided to file for divorce from John Travolta, following the intensely mediated scandal on his orientation and his alleged love of male masseurs. She's changed her mind. The National Enquirer writes in its latest print issue (... |
2 July 2012
04:38 GMT |
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h4x0r HuSsY, who is part of the Voice of Black Hat Hackers (VOBHH) group, has defaced around 450 Indian websites in response to the attacks launched by Pakistani hackers.
“This is a war against terror, [expletive] European Union, America, Israel & Indian Force. A special [expletive] to those who try to enter P... |
2 July 2012
04:32 GMT |
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Sleeping Dogs, the United Front action title that started life as True Crime: Hong Kong, will not offer a very big game world, but the team working on it plans to pack it tight with content, always offering players something to do and see.
Mike Scupa, the leading design director working on Sleeping Dogs, has told th... |
2 July 2012
04:31 GMT |
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In a paper published in the July 1 issue of the top scientific journal Nature Cell Biology, investigators at the University of Cambridge and the Instituto de Neurociencias, in Spain, detail a newly found mechanism for regulating cold sensation.
Scientists have known that the cold and menthol, for example, have stro... |
2 July 2012
04:28 GMT |
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Google made available for download yet another application destined to make developers’ lives easier than before, namely Google Analytics for Android. The new software provides access to the same accounts and profiles that are available through the Analytics website in any desktop browser. However, the repor... |
2 July 2012
04:14 GMT |
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Sony has confirmed that it has bought reputed cloud gaming company Gaikai for $380 million (€301 million) and that it’s going to use the latter’s expertise to create a brand new cloud service. Cloud gaming has become quite popular in recent years, thanks to the effort of companies like Gaikai or OnL... |
2 July 2012
04:13 GMT |
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You can now add another benefit to consuming a small amount of coffee daily. According to new research, it would appear that people who use caffeine are less likely to develop basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of cancer. Researchers found no correlation between coffee intake and people's risks of deve... |
2 July 2012
04:13 GMT |
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A new study shows that, as long as their parents lived in similar conditions, newborn reef fish remain virtually unaffected by having to live in waters whose temperature and chemistry have been altered by climate change. The study compared young anemonefish, whose parents had lived in normal water conditions, to of... |
2 July 2012
04:10 GMT |
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“Difficult times. Hackers have deleted all my websites,” read a tweet posted by Amit Agarwal on July 1. The Wall Street Journal India tech columnist and founder of the Digital Inspiration (Labnol.org) blog announced the fact that the site was hacked on June 27 and it took him a few days to get it back an... |
2 July 2012
04:07 GMT |
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Before Zack Snyder and Chris Nolan got started on the upcoming “Superman: Man of Steel,” there was a lot of talk online about who should play the superhero. Two names were most frequently brought up, that of Joe Manganiello and that of Henry Cavill, who eventually got the part. In a new interview with Ai... |
2 July 2012
04:04 GMT |
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It’s the first week of July and there are precious few new video games to enjoy, with the situation likely to get worse in the coming months before the big launches of August arrive.
The most interesting title of the week is The Secret World MMO from Funcom, which includes a classless concept and deals with wo... |
2 July 2012
03:57 GMT |
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The team behind on the most popular Android browsers, Dolphin Browser HD, has just announced there’s a new version available for download.
The latest update brings a few bug fixes, as well as support for 4 new add-ons and Wikipedia web app, which will allow users to open Wiki articles in 280 languages without ... |
2 July 2012
03:54 GMT |
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At this point, we know very little about the actual masses of the extrasolar planets we've identified so far. The techniques used to study these planets only give astronomers a general idea of the object's mass, and researchers at the Carnegie Institution for Science sought to remedy that in a new study.
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2 July 2012
03:44 GMT |
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Junaid Hussain of Birmingham, better known as TriCk, the leader of the TeaMp0isoN collective, has pleaded guilty to hacking into the Gmail account of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and to making more than 100 prank calls that targeted the UK's counter-terrorism hotline. Hussain, who has recently turned 18... |
2 July 2012
03:42 GMT |
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One of the best archiver and compressor applications, WinZip has just been launched in the Google Play Store, formerly known as Android Market.
Although developers introduced the iPhone and iPad version early this year, Android fans were left out until recently. However, starting today, WinZip can be installed on An... |
2 July 2012
03:42 GMT |
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Indie Royale has just revealed a brand new offer in the form of the Summer Bundle, which includes eight impressive games made by a series of independent developers from all over the world.
Indie Royale has gotten its fans used with some great deals, but the new Summer Bundle is by far one of the most impressive the ... |
2 July 2012
03:38 GMT |
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A five-year-old Indian Cobra was recently injured by a JCB machine and left with severe wounds to its abdomen.
Given the fact that this species holds a very important place in Indian culture and mythology, it is no wonder that considerable efforts were made to save the animal's life.
Thus, the people on the ... |
2 July 2012
03:38 GMT |
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Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp may have put an end to their 14-year romance, but she's determined to make him pay for the last several years of infidelities. More specifically, she plans to hit him where it hurts him the most: in his bank account, The National Enquirer has learned. The tabloid claims to have i... |
2 July 2012
03:36 GMT |
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Nokia’s Asha series of feature-phones is aimed at emerging markets, but word is that the quality of the phones is not as good as expected.
The Finnish company built its reputation of the quality of its feature-phones, but the latest products on the Asha family are not on par with old models.
Anyway, Nokia is ... |
2 July 2012
03:27 GMT |
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Seeing how, once it hits the water, oil can be quite tricky to clean up, Royal Dutch Shell is now trying to make sure that, should it begin drilling in the icy waters near Alaska, any accidents that might occur can be dealt with promptly and efficiently.
Apparently, said global oil and gas company has plans of dril... |
2 July 2012
03:20 GMT |
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The Luminous Engine, Square Enix's next-generation technology that was revealed at E3 2012, is extremely scalable, according to one of its developers, and will be able to run on all sorts of platforms, from the PC to next and current generation consoles, and even on mobile devices like the iPad.
Square Enix imp... |
2 July 2012
03:08 GMT |
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Half of the Expedition 31 crew that manned the International Space Station (ISS) returned to Earth on Sunday, July 1, after spending six and a half months aboard the orbital outpost. The spacecraft that carried them landed perfectly in the wide steppes of Kazakhstan.
The crew returned home aboard the Soyuz TMA-03M ... |
2 July 2012
03:07 GMT |
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Operation Japan is Anonymous’ recently launched campaign in response to the harsh measures introduced by the government to punish those caught downloading or copying copyrighted material. The hacktivists have released a new video statement to make the names of their targets known.
“The Japanese governmen... |
2 July 2012
03:06 GMT |
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Despite the fact that some fans question the reasoning behind the decision to use world of the Elder Scrolls for an MMO, the team at ZeniMax Online believes that the time is right to take the core mechanics of the world and its best-known spaces and make the experience open to more players.
Brian Wheeler, who is the... |
2 July 2012
02:59 GMT |
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With Android 4.1 Jelly Bean now official, smartphone manufacturers have one more software update to fit on their calendar.
Things are not looking so bright for Android fans, especially for those who do not own an ICS-based device. Unfortunately, less than 10% of today’s Android smartphones do not run Ice Crea... |
2 July 2012
02:50 GMT |
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Just this past Friday, 700 miles of the US were hit by a violent storm known as “Derecho.” Millions of households were left without access to electricity and 13 people lost their lives.
The governor of Virginia argued that this was the largest power-outage in the country's history which had nothing... |
2 July 2012
02:43 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is one of the handset vendors who is already considering upgrading its devices to the new Android flavor. As soon as Android 4.1 Jelly Bean was made official last week, owners of handsets running under Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich started to wonder whether their device... |
2 July 2012
02:41 GMT |
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Electronic Arts and LucasArts are preparing to release a special Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Collection later this month, at least according to a couple of listings from GameStop and Amazon.
LucasArts and BioWare released two great games many years ago in the form of the Knights of the Old Republic and it... |
2 July 2012
02:32 GMT |
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TheeMahn proudly announced this past weekend that the Ultimate Edition 3.4 LTS operating system is now available for download on mirrors worldwide.
Ultimate Edition 3.4 is now based on Canonical's Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, which makes it a Long Term Support release.
Packed with a n... |
2 July 2012
02:30 GMT |
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A number of financial analysts have been reporting that parent company Vivendi has plans to sell its majority stake in video game publisher Activision Blizzard, which is evaluated at around 8.1 billion dollars (6.39 billion Euro). A source from inside the company has said that Vivendi is trying to find a buyer who i... |
2 July 2012
02:29 GMT |
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Idaho-based memory manufacturer, American company Micron Technology is the final buyer for the memory production facilities and I.P. belonging to the bankrupt Elpida. Micron has reportedly finalized the deal and will pay a total of 2.5 billion dollars for the Japanese memory maker. There were many rumors regarding t... |
2 July 2012
02:21 GMT |
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