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It’s been two and a half years since I reviewed Apple’s Magic Mouse. I’m using the same unit today. That’s over 900 days of use with not a single issue. After popping open dozens of Mighty Mice to clean that wretched scroll-ball once every three months, on December 24th, 2009, I could finally... |
22 June 2012
20:41 GMT |
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Crytek, the studio behind the stunning Crysis series and the CryEngine 3 technology, has revealed that the Nintendo Wii U is quite good and its hardware is at least on par with the Xbox 360 in terms of power. Crytek is one of the most respected independent developers in the gaming industry and its Crysis titles have... |
22 June 2012
20:11 GMT |
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Digital Reality and Grasshopper Manufacture have confirmed that their recent Sine Mora side-scrolling shooter will be launched onto the PlayStation 3 in the near future, after already appearing on the Xbox 360 in March.
Sine Mora delivered a pretty intense experience earlier this year when it came out for the Xbox 3... |
22 June 2012
19:31 GMT |
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The newly announced Assassin’s Creed: Utopia mobile title coming from Ubisoft will not be linked in any way to the new PC and home console game in the series and those who play it will not get any sort of extra content for the AAA release.
Andreane Meunier, who is a producer working on the entire Assassin&rsqu... |
22 June 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Nike+ Running, the iOS-based progress-tracking solution for joggers, just got a summer update. “Map your runs, track your progress and get the motivation you need to reach your goals. No sensor or additional products needed, just grab your phone and go,” says Nike. Existing runners who update to version ... |
22 June 2012
18:51 GMT |
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Crytek, the developer in charge of the future Homefront 2 shooter, has confirmed that the ongoing financial problems of publisher THQ, who owns the Homefront franchise, haven’t affected the development of the new shooter. THQ hasn’t been going through the best of times as a series of bad investments and ... |
22 June 2012
18:21 GMT |
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Back when we first predicted that SSD prices would be falling below the 0.5 dollar per gigabyte mark we were concerned that there was a considerable amount of reading, industry experience and gut feeling involved into the conclusions drawn and less mathematical calculations. Later, we were confirmed by various SSD o... |
22 June 2012
17:51 GMT |
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The development team at CD Projekt believes that video games can benefit from including sex and violence as long as they are an integral part of their game world and not just something used to create hype among the possible customer base.
Marcin Iwinski, who is the chief executive officer at CD Projekt RED, has told... |
22 June 2012
17:41 GMT |
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We were all expecting AMD to show projects and designs combining SeaMicro’s high-density server technology with AMD’s Atom competitors like Brazos and Brazos 2.0. The Texas-based CPU designer seems to have much more in store for us. The first AMD SeaMicro Opteron board was pictured by hardware experts at... |
22 June 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Thatgamecompany, the developer behind the three of the most popular downloadable games on the PlayStation 3 – Flow, Flower, and Journey – has confirmed that a special retail trilogy is coming, in the form of the Journey Collector’s Edition.
Indie studio thatgamecompany has made a name for itself by... |
22 June 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Oprah Winfrey has been looking slimmer and healthier in recent weeks and that's all down to a new diet implemented by her new chef, says a new report.
The talk show personality has struggled with her weight and her health for most of her adult life and, not surprisingly, the stress of launching her own network... |
22 June 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: One of the games that took up most of my gaming time during 2008 was Sins of a Solar Empire, the real-time strategy game created by developer Ironclad Games and publisher Stardock Entertainment. Now the two companies have partnered up again to launch the standalone expansion called Rebellion and I... |
22 June 2012
16:41 GMT |
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The developers of Tumblr are telling fans to “get ready for a faster, completely-rebuilt app that’s better in every possible way.” And they’re not wrong. Users who update today will be greeted by a completely re-imagined dashboard view which makes it much easier to navigate the app, including... |
22 June 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Gears of War: Judgment, the next installment in the third-person shooter series, is going to challenge players and provide them with unique situations, according to Cliff Bleszinski, the creator of the series. Epic Games delivered an intense experience with its Gears of War franchise. Now, the studio is working alon... |
22 June 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Plenty of people are bullish about HTML5. And several companies are big fans of HTML5 gaming as well, Facebook and Google in particular. But it seems that the technology just isn't ready yet. Sure, HTML5 is great for a lot of things and in much better shape than it was a year ago, but it's not good enough f... |
22 June 2012
15:31 GMT |
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No one said curvy girls can't be beautiful, yet the general tendency in today's culture seems to be to hold that as truth. A beauty pageant that has just reached its 20th year is out to prove to the world that nothing could be farther from the truth.
Miss Large Israel functions under the motto “Fat a... |
22 June 2012
15:21 GMT |
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App Cubby released Launch Center Pro, an enhanced version of their previous launching utility which takes more thorough instruction, such as emailing a certain contact with a single tap, or searching Google without having to find Safari on your home screen. An action launcher, Launch Center Pro is much like a speed ... |
22 June 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Andy Samberg may have had a bad run at the box office with Adam Sandler's most recent movie “That's My Boy,” but he's bound to earn major points for himself once “Celeste and Jesse Forever” comes out.
A first trailer for the romantic comedy is out and, as usual, embedded above... |
22 June 2012
15:01 GMT |
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As long as fans are willing to pay to see someone playing DOTA 2, those who put together the event or the match can get access to a portion of the money spent on it to compensate them for their efforts.
The new Tournament panel included in the most recent version of the game client for DOTA 2 offers users new ways o... |
22 June 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Nokia’s Lumia series is a new beginning for the Finnish company. Rather than choosing Google’s Android platform or continuing developing its own MeeGo operating system, the handset maker decided to go for Microsoft’s Windows Phone. Unfortunately, Nokia’s decision led to a schism among the com... |
22 June 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Fans of Rovio’s avian puzzler enjoying the sound of popping green pigs on their sleek iPads have an update to install. It doesn’t bring any new levels or anything like that, but it should improve their experience a bit. After releasing the latest version of Angry Birds Seasons HD with water physics for i... |
22 June 2012
14:41 GMT |
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BioWare has confirmed that it's going to release the Extended Cut DLC for Mass Effect 3 next week, on June 26, for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, completely free.Mass Effect 3 came out back in March and, since then, there's been an ongoing debate among its fans about the ending, as many felt the decisions they w... |
22 June 2012
14:31 GMT |
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It seems that Ubisoft is getting ready to release a special collection of its most popular downloadable games for the Xbox 360, at least according to a listing from Amazon that confirms a “Ubisoft Xbox Live Hits Collection” for release this September.
Ubisoft has launched quite a few big games onto the X... |
22 June 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Facebook has made it possible to edit comments left anywhere on the social network. Until now, users were only able to delete embarrassing or spelling-challenged comments. Now, they can edit them and correct the mistake while leaving them and the original post time intact. Any comment you made on the site will get a ... |
22 June 2012
14:11 GMT |
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A study conducted by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) revealed that consumers who fully charge their iPad tablet every other day are paying only $1.36 / €1 per year for the electricity needed to keep the tablet computer alive. Over the course of one year, any iPad model consumes less than 12 k... |
22 June 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Google has been making an effort to conquer the enterprise market. It's making progress, but the going is slow. Part of the reason is that enterprises don't like change, moving from Microsoft Office to Google Docs is quite a change. Perhaps a better strategy for Google is to esque change and come up with so... |
22 June 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Each day, we process tremendous amounts of information and, thanks to our natural-born curiosity and desire to share, we want to move and/or distribute that information.
The most basic way to move information around is by using the clipboard functionality. It's no secret that copy-pasting is probably one of th... |
22 June 2012
13:11 GMT |
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It took a lawsuit to do it, but users will have the option of not being used in ads on Facebook. The core issue is Sponsored Stories, an ad option that implied an endorsement. Whenever people liked a page or even shared a link, Facebook could use that and show it to other users.Of course, Facebook does this all the t... |
22 June 2012
12:21 GMT |
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AMD and ATI’s graphics processing units were well known years ago for powering mobile workstations, using the FireGL moniker. It was quite strange that AMD never made professional certified drivers for Llano, but it seems that Trinity will fix that. When talking about mobile graphics workstations, most of... |
22 June 2012
12:21 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, Sony announced the upcoming availability of a new series of devices in its Xperia lineup, including the waterproof Xperia Go, which just made an appearance at the FCC. The smartphone is supposedly getting the necessary regulatory approvals for use in the United States, although the handset vendor di... |
22 June 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Video game publisher and developer Square Enix have announced that they have released the 1.22 patch for their MMO Final Fantasy XIV.
The update for the game delivers: a number of new items to equip and use, more options when it comes to inventory management, better design for the Recruit panel, more in-game content... |
22 June 2012
12:01 GMT |
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simpleCart(js) is a JavaScript tool for powering shopping cart widgets. It uses PayPal, Amazon or Google Checkout to handle user payments.
It is not a shopping cart per se, because it still needs to be integrated with a CMS, e-commerce platform or product inventory system to work properly, but it takes care of all t... |
22 June 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Google Chrome may have started out small and lean, but it's been putting on some weight lately. Granted, most of that came with the addition of new useful features, but it's becoming a bit unwieldy.
In fact, Chrome can't really claim the crown as the lightest browser, in terms of memory usage, around... |
22 June 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Whenever we hear about a celebrity complaining about lack of privacy, we tend to think “Yeah, but they asked for this. They knew what to expect when they got into this.” A new documentary aims to show us we're wrong. It's called “$ellebrity” and it aims to show in how many ways a p... |
22 June 2012
11:29 GMT |
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“The Amazing Spider-Man” is a reboot of Sam Raimi's franchise and, hopefully, the first installment from many of the new franchise. The first reviews are already in – and they say this is one superhero movie fans will most definitely love.
We don't plan on spoiling the movie for you (sin... |
22 June 2012
11:18 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has reportedly started to phase out the Starter edition of its Office 2010 suite, and already notified partners on the matter.
Apparently, the company did not succeed in its attempt to determine users to grab a more complete flavor of Office 2010 once they gave the Starter edi... |
22 June 2012
11:07 GMT |
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In between touring, promoting her music, overseeing other business projects and being a mom, Jennifer Lopez also managed to squeeze in a performance on Soñando Por Cantar in Argentina.
You can see video of her live performance above.
The diva did a medley of two of her most popular tracks, “Dance Again... |
22 June 2012
11:06 GMT |
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Finally, iPhone and iPad users can enjoy the automatic photo uploads feature in Dropbox that desktop and Android users have had for a few months now. The feature is simple enough in essence, though things aren't as trivial underneath the surface.
Enabling the feature will allow the Dropbox iOS app to automatica... |
22 June 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Nintendo has confirmed that a brand new version of its 3DS handheld console is coming this summer, in the form of the 3DS XL (or 3DS LL, as it’s known in Japan), which sports much bigger screens as well as an improved battery.
Nintendo introduced the 3DS last year and, unfortunately for the company, it wasn&rs... |
22 June 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Latest news inform us that Citroen Berlingo EV passed the driving test Xavier Chevrin had in store for it with flying colors. Thus, the car made it across six African countries in a period of 38 days, leaving behind it 3,600 miles (5,800 kilometers) of both proper highways and rough terrain. For the record, by ro... |
22 June 2012
10:38 GMT |
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Today, Verizon Wireless and Motorola Started the delivery of a new software update for the DROID RAZR and DROID RAZR MAXX by Motorola smartphones, bringing them up to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The new update starts rolling out on both handsets today, June 22nd, and will be available for all users in the comin... |
22 June 2012
10:37 GMT |
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It turns out that a judge believed Comcast representatives when they said that a rights holder was trying to obtain their customers’ identities just to convince them to accept settlements. As a result, he quashed the subpoenas and closed the case, FightCopyrightTrolls reports.
Initially, Prenda Law filed a law... |
22 June 2012
10:27 GMT |
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The Pinguy development team has just announced that Pinguy OS 12.04 is now available for download.
Pinguy OS 12.04 is finally here and it comes with a lot of updates and new features.
Highlights of Pinguy OS 12.04:
· Linux kernel was updated to version 3.2.0-25;
· Gnome was updated to version 3.4.1;... |
22 June 2012
10:24 GMT |
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There are over 125 million people enjoying iCloud and, so, Apple decided that it would introduce something specifically for them in iOS 6 – a new way to share photos with friends and family using Shared Photo Streams. When iOS 6 ships this fall, iDevice owners will be able to simply select the photos they want... |
22 June 2012
10:22 GMT |
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The development team at Arkane Studios says that they have designed their upcoming Dishonored in such a way that whatever platform they choose they will get a satisfying stealth and combat experience. The game is set to arrive on the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PC powered by Windows.... |
22 June 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Symantec researchers have noticed that a Trojan dubbed Milicenso is causing havoc worldwide by commanding printers to print “garbage characters” until they run out of paper. The curious thing is that this may not be its actual purpose, but a side effect.
The countries most affected by the malware are US,... |
22 June 2012
10:03 GMT |
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Although first and foremost used for military purposes, it seems that drones (i.e. small aircrafts without a human pilot on board) are now being used to safeguard the endangered species living within the boundaries of Nepal's national parks.
Outraged by the fact that poaching activities in Nepal more often tha... |
22 June 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Mozilla is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Add-on SDK. Few people know what it is, some developers still shy away from it unfortunately, but the collection of tools has been a great boon for Firefox going forward. Firefox was the first to introduce the concept of add-ons, pieces of code that extended th... |
22 June 2012
10:01 GMT |
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A new, updated flavor of Microsoft’s Microsoft adCenter Desktop application is now available for download, namely version 8.7. The application was designed to provide the possibility to easily manage adCenter online advertising campaigns straight from a Windows-based desktop computer. “With adCenter De... |
22 June 2012
09:48 GMT |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a scalable data center platform accommodating enterprise workloads in physical, virtual, and cloud IT environments, is now at version 6.3.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 is considered by the company to be just a minor release. Nonetheless, it has some important features, such as the new OpenJ... |
22 June 2012
09:42 GMT |
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A new name has been thrown in the mix of potential actors to play the handsome and brave Finnick Odair in the “Hunger Games” sequel “Catching Fire”: Hunter Parrish, best known to fans as Silas on “Weeds.”
Being a longtime fan of “Weeds” (and of irresistible masculine c... |
22 June 2012
09:32 GMT |
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I only have normal, early game frigates and one capital ship, the Kol Battleship that has long served as the art that promotes Sins of a Solar Empire. But I know that the pirates I am facing are no match for me, especially if I am able to draw their fire with my big vessel and screen the others in the process. This ... |
22 June 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Cloud services need some fundamental features to be successful, including enhanced reliability and security, but that does not fully eliminate the possibility for unfortunate events to occur. Cloud services providers need to take all the necessary measures to ensure that incidents and events that would affect relia... |
22 June 2012
09:29 GMT |
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Google Chrome is a great browser. Like all browsers, great or otherwise, it's got a place where you can add more functionality, i.e. extensions, but that's also a place where you can discover interesting new web apps, something that no other browser offers.
But users still aren't used to regarding th... |
22 June 2012
09:20 GMT |
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For the time being, invisible sunlight eludes solar panels worldwide, as the latter only react to wavelengths of light one typically sees in a rainbow.
However, it seems that 40% of the light beams we get from the sun are made up of invisible light, which is basically – as its name thoroughly suggests –... |
22 June 2012
09:04 GMT |
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Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis may no longer be together but the speculation on what transpired between them before they publicly announced they'd separated is just beginning. The actor is now linked to a bevy of women he reportedly dated even before the split.
Reports yesterday claimed that Depp had grown &l... |
22 June 2012
09:04 GMT |
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FastMail.fm, the popular email hosting service, has addressed a number of vulnerabilities found by Mike Cardwell, a security researcher (amongst other things) from England.
He noticed that while FastMail prevented remote content from loading, if a user clicked the “View” button next to an email attachmen... |
22 June 2012
09:03 GMT |
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Ink maker HP seems to be really focused on monitors this week and today the company is announcing four new monitors. All four devices are LED backlit, but only two of them use decent quality IPS panels. The more interesting products are obviously the IPS models, and these are called HP 2011xi and HP 2311xi. The fir... |
22 June 2012
09:01 GMT |
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One of the great new features that Microsoft packed inside Windows Phone 8 involves better speech recognition capabilities, which will enable users to make actual conversations with their devices. One of the applications that will fully take advantage of this feature was already demoed at the Windows Phone 8 launch... |
22 June 2012
09:00 GMT |
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With a new stable major version for Google Chrome due next week, the work on the web browser has intensified lately. The latest updates are for the Dev and Beta channels and are available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame). The beta version (20.0.1132.41) has not gone... |
22 June 2012
08:43 GMT |
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We live under the threat of UEFI and Microsoft for some time, even if we understand the necessity of a secure boot, but things are starting to be put in motion.
Canonical is a Contributor Member of the UEFI Forum and is trying to be actively participating into the UEFI specification process, aiming to preserve users... |
22 June 2012
08:42 GMT |
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Wikipedia contributions are dwindling. Or at least that's the picture painted by some for the past few years. What is clear is that it's hard for new contributors to add anything to the venerable website.
The established editors don't take mistakes too lightly and new editors don't feel very wel... |
22 June 2012
08:42 GMT |
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Earlier this week, one particular report started to make the rounds and get lots of people talking: that Casper Smart, Jennifer Lopez's young dancer boyfriend, was gay and using her and her connections to provide for himself and his secret male lover.
More on that has emerged.
Apparently, there is a man who&... |
22 June 2012
08:32 GMT |
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After raising retail staffers’ wages by as much as 25 percent for some (based on performance), Apple announced this year’s discount for employees (all, not just in retail), which shaves off as much as $500 / €400 off select Macintosh and iPad configurations. Beginning this week, Apple staffers ... |
22 June 2012
08:24 GMT |
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Fresh out of the box HD audio drivers from Realtek are available on our servers for users to download and install. It's been exactly two weeks since Realtek launched 2.69 High Definition Audio Codecs and now, strangely enough, the Taiwan-based company is pushing out 2.70 drivers for motherboards with Realtek au... |
22 June 2012
08:19 GMT |
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Whilst a life-size polar bear dummy is made to walk the streets of London, a slightly bigger one is sent up in the skies above Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
It is not hard to guess why Greenpeace members chose this particular location as the proper place to launch their environmentally friendly balloon: the Rio+20 Earth ... |
22 June 2012
08:15 GMT |
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FedEx scams are probably as old as the Internet, but every once in a while we come across an upgraded variant of the classic scheme that’s so well designed that it may trick a few users into handing over their credentials.
Mxlab experts have discovered such a campaign. It starts with a classic email that warns... |
22 June 2012
08:15 GMT |
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Facebook has been known for its social games and the tie-ins that big publishers tend to link to their core home console and PC franchises, but the leaders of the company are ready to see core titles launched on the social platform in the coming year.
Matt Wyndowe, who is the games product manager working at Faceboo... |
22 June 2012
08:07 GMT |
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Following the announcement regarding the availability of new, updated applications for its Windows Phone users, Nokia also unveiled plans to deliver a new set of updates to its Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 devices. The new OS upgrade is expected to become available for all owners of these smartphones starting with June ... |
22 June 2012
07:41 GMT |
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One of the most popular Twitter clients for iPhone and, most recently, the iPad, Tweetbot is making its way onto the Mac later this year. The confirmation comes from Mark Jardine, Tapbots designer, who teased his followers with the following tweet yesterday: “The screen on the retina MBP is just gorgeous,&rdqu... |
22 June 2012
07:41 GMT |
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According to reports recently made public, the US industry alone is responsible for injecting roughly 30 trillion gallons of toxic waste into the ground.
Thus, throughout the past decades, countless dangerous chemicals were laid to rest in our planet's deep layers of rock, in the vain hope that these will con... |
22 June 2012
07:39 GMT |
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Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), the organization that has recently assisted Fujitsu in cracking 278-digit pairing-based cryptography, has developed Daedalus, a system that displays in 3D and real time when and where cyberattacks occur.
The name most likely comes ... |
22 June 2012
07:36 GMT |
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According to the developer of Brutal Legend, Monkey Island and Psychonauts video games can be considered art, but that should not continue to be a point of contention between fans of the medium and those of other forms of artistic expression.
Tim Schafer, who is the leader of Double Fine, has told GameFront that, &l... |
22 June 2012
07:33 GMT |
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Activision has confirmed that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 owners on the PS3 can now purchase the Content Collection #2 DLC pack, which brings quite a lot of new maps to the shooter.
Activision’s DLC delivery strategy for Modern Warfare 3 has been quite confusing, with new content arriving first for Xbox 360... |
22 June 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting ready to announce the winner of its inaugural BlueHat Prize competition, which will be selected from the three finalists it has already chosen. The grand prize of this contest amounts to $200,000, the company announced. For those out of the loop, we should note that the BlueHat Prize competitio... |
22 June 2012
07:12 GMT |
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Revenge is a dish best served cold but, that definitely doesn't apply where Liam Neeson is concerned. The first trailer for “Taken 2” has been released and, as you can see for yourself above, he's just as dangerous if you mess with him or his family. “Taken” (2008) was a surprise hi... |
22 June 2012
07:10 GMT |
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BancorpSouth customers are advised to be on the lookout for suspicious emails that purport to originate from the financial institution.
AppRiver provides an example of such an email:
Dear Account Holder,
This message is mailed to you regarding your online baking user passwords has been expired.
Set up a new user ... |
22 June 2012
07:06 GMT |
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We just talked about the Metgasco gas company a few days ago, when we reported on its being accused of improperly disposing of the waste water resulting from its drilling activities.
The company now crosses our on-line paths once again, as earlier this week – on Wednesday, to be more precise – a man tie... |
22 June 2012
06:58 GMT |
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An Anonymous-affiliated hacktivist collective called TheWikiBoat has launched distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks on the websites of the American Nazi Party, the controversial Ku Klux Klan (KKK) organization, and Glencore International, an integrated commodities marketer and producer.
“Today we wanted... |
22 June 2012
06:55 GMT |
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HP just announced the company’s first Internet monitor, on its official website. The device is practically a desktop monitor with a power-efficient computer system inside. HP’s new baby is called HP Passport 1912nm Internet Monitor and uses Texas Instruments’ OMAP4430 processor to run the embedded ... |
22 June 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Along with a nice range of new applications that Nokia has in store for its Lumia users, some other appealing software will also make its way to the company’s Windows Phones. The Finnish handset vendor announced that its users will soon enjoy a set of new games coming from Zynga, in an attempt to provide them... |
22 June 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Twitter was unavailable or available intermittently for several hours yesterday. Heavy Twitter users, understandably, were in shock. People complained and they didn't know what to do. Twitter acknowledged the problem as it happened and provided some updates, but was mostly quiet until after the issue was fixed. ... |
22 June 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Here is a movie that has been so long in production chances are even some of the fans forgot it was in the works. “Dredd” arrives in theaters in September and it just got a first, brand new trailer.
Check it out above.
Because the film, which is based on the popular comics “Judge Dredd,” d... |
22 June 2012
06:33 GMT |
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is urging Apple to tweak its policy regarding sales to foreigners, following an incident at one of the company’s Georgia stores where a staffer refused to sell an iPad to an Iranian woman on grounds of speaking Farsi / Persian. America's largest Muslim civi... |
22 June 2012
06:21 GMT |
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The man who is supposed to be leading the development process on the much-awaited The Last Guaridan has confirmed that development on the game is still ongoing, but refused to offer any more details on when fans might receive more information about it or when it might finally be launched.
Fumito Ueda is the main dev... |
22 June 2012
05:56 GMT |
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Blizzard has confirmed plans to release a software update that optimizes its popular hack-and-slash RPG Diablo III for the all-new MacBook Pro with Retina display. In an official statement provided to AppleInsider, the American developer of some of the world’s most popular multiplayer video games said it was "... |
22 June 2012
05:55 GMT |
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As her 72-day marriage to Kris Humphries came to an end, Kim Kardashian told the press she would never again parade her love life for the cameras, but play it safer next time. Below is a video of her gushing about her boyfriend Kanye West on Oprah.
The entire Kardashian clan sat down with Oprah for a tell-all inter... |
22 June 2012
05:45 GMT |
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In line with the new look and enhancements delivered to Bing’s search results page, Microsoft started the deployment of a new set of improvements for its service, this time aiming at Bing Image Search. Bing Image search is currently accounting for around 7 percent of all Bing searches, Jon Noronha, program man... |
22 June 2012
05:41 GMT |
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Publisher Electronic Arts and the National Hockey League have announced that Claude Giroux, who is the forward of the Philadelphia Flyers, is the player who has been selected by fans of the sport to grace the cover of the NHL 13 from EA Sports.
The Philadelphia star has managed to win the popular vote by a margin of... |
22 June 2012
05:27 GMT |
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Katy Perry is about to make her big screen debut, though no, unlike Rihanna, she's not branching out into acting as well. To promote her concert 3D movie “Part of Me,” Katy sat down for an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, in which she also reveals she's getting ready to start her own recor... |
22 June 2012
05:22 GMT |
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A massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack that targeted the Central Bank of Iran took down the organization’s website and disrupted its internal network’s activity on Tuesday.
According to The Algemeiner , which cites the Iranian Labour News Agency, the bank was attacked immediately after the... |
22 June 2012
05:19 GMT |
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Latest news from eBay representatives inform us that the company just closed a deal with fuel cell specialist Bloom Energy. The terms of the agreement: the latter is to help EBay in having its Utah facility powered by 30 fuel cell units.
For those unaware, fuel cell units are devices that generate electricity by me... |
22 June 2012
05:14 GMT |
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Capcom has just posted two new gameplay videos of its upcoming Resident Evil 6 action horror game, this time focusing on one of the missions starring Leon S. Kennedy.
Resident Evil 6 was demoed by Capcom at E3 2012 during Microsoft’s press conference and the footage was filled with all sorts of bombastic scene... |
22 June 2012
05:12 GMT |
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It's been quite a long time since AMD managed to beat Nvidia twice using the same GPU generation. Usually, the former Canadian GPU designer used to beat its main competitor by releasing a new architecture faster than Nvidia was able to finish theirs. Today, the Texas-based GPU and CPU designer AMD officially la... |
22 June 2012
05:01 GMT |
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Both Motorola and Verizon are pushing hard for the release of Android 4.0.4 for DROID RAZR and DROID RAZR MAXX before the end of this quarter, and it seems that they might finally be ready to deliver. No official announcement on the matter emerged as of yet, but the OS upgrade for the two handsets is currently ment... |
22 June 2012
05:01 GMT |
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PayPal joins the ranks of companies such as Mozilla and Google by launching a bug bounty program that compensates security researchers who report vulnerabilities which might affect the online payment service and its customers.
“Today I’m pleased to announce that we have updated our original bug reporting... |
22 June 2012
04:50 GMT |
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Michael Bay will do one more “Transformers” film before parting ways with the franchise for good – for real, this time. In a new interview, the director talks about the fourth upcoming installment and how people should not call it a “reboot.”
The word “reboot” was first thro... |
22 June 2012
04:49 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware developer Nintendo has unveiled a new Super Mario Bros. video game that, to the surprise of many of the fans of the series, is being developed in conjunction with a team from Namco Bandai. Presumably, the Japanese company has been chosen because of its long-term experience with the ... |
22 June 2012
04:45 GMT |
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Japanese storage expert company I-O Data just announced the launch of a new high-capacity 2 TB portable HDD model, on its official website. The new device most likely houses two 2.5” mobile hard disk drives, as it is only fueled by a single USB 2.0 cable. A simple USB 2.0 port cannot provide enough energy to p... |
22 June 2012
04:30 GMT |
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Blizzard imposed a set of nasty restrictions yesterday, after it launched patch 1.0.3 for Diablo 3. Those who get a digital edition of the game will now have to endure up to three days in which they’re stuck with the title’s Starter Edition, meaning a lower level cap and no access to many features.
Diabl... |
22 June 2012
04:28 GMT |
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Greenpeace's “Save the Arctic” campaign, which we reported on only yesterday, takes an interesting turn as members of the said organization make British citizens come face to face with a polar bear roaming the streets of the country's capital city. Granted, the polar bear wasn't a real, f... |
22 June 2012
04:18 GMT |
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Today we’ve received a message, written in Russian, on ICQ. After analyzing it a bit, we’ve discovered that the “picture” it tries to push is actually a malicious screensaver that hides an old Trojan. “Hi, I cannot remember where I got your ICQ. Maybe you remember me? or photos you reco... |
22 June 2012
04:16 GMT |
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Kickstarter is the crowdfunding platform that many aspiring video game developers have recently used to try and get the resources for their projects.
But according to statistics released recently by the company, the Games category, which also includes board and card-based initiatives, just 33 percent of the projects... |
22 June 2012
04:14 GMT |
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This week, Apple developers received the second developer preview of Safari 6, the latest version of the company’s standard web browser on Macintosh computers. The update is officially identified as "Developer Preview 2," according to people who are familiar with the software, cited by AppleInsider. The S... |
22 June 2012
04:14 GMT |
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Over the weekend, word got out in the press that paramedics had rushed to Lindsay Lohan's hotel room when staff determined she was unresponsive. On Twitter later, she said she'd been working 85 hours straight, which has prompted two inquiries by major Hollywood unions.
The Hollywood Reporter notes that pro... |
22 June 2012
04:14 GMT |
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Version 0.8.57 of the e-book reader and management software Calibre was announced on June 22nd, with some important new features and fixes.
Calibre 0.8.57 comes with improvements for PDF files and new drivers for a couple of new devices.
Highlights of Calibre 0.8.57:
• Full pagination support for PDF Output. ... |
22 June 2012
04:06 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia made available for download a new series of mobile applications for its devices running under Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. The new apps are currently up for grabs in the Windows Phone Marketplace for the company’s Lumia 900 and Lumia 610 devices, and they ... |
22 June 2012
04:01 GMT |
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One of the most popular games of all time, Final Fantasy VII, is getting ready to make a comeback on the PC via Steam, at least according to a leaked listing from Square Enix’s website.
Ever since it originally came out on the PlayStation 1, Final Fantasy VII has become a benchmark in terms of role-playing exp... |
22 June 2012
03:52 GMT |
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Only recently, UK's Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, announced that, starting with the next financial year, businesses listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange would be compelled to publicly disclose exactly how much greenhouse gases their daily activities release into the atmosphere. Apparentl... |
22 June 2012
03:36 GMT |
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Apple sent an e-mail to Apple Store Genius Bar members and Creatives asking them to download the latest Mountain Lion beta and test it out. The initiative is part of the AppleSeed testing program.Scheduled to make its big debut next month, OS X version 10.8 dubbed Mountain Lion represents Apple’s next step... |
22 June 2012
03:25 GMT |
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CyberZeist, the former UGNazi hacker, has joined the Anonymous movement and his first target has been the G4S, one of UK’s largest security companies, and the one WikiLeaks appoints as being responsible for “tagging” Julian Assange. “Responsible for security services, managing detention cente... |
22 June 2012
03:22 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has shared its thoughts on the future of the gaming industry and revealed, through the voice of its Chief Operating Officer, Peter Moore, that titles in the future will be free-to-play and will rely on microtransactions to make money. EA has been trying out all sorts of strategies with its variety of... |
22 June 2012
03:10 GMT |
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The Wii U might not be the most powerful device of the next generation of home consoles, but Nintendo will make sure that the price of the new device reflects its abilities and is lower than that of the coming hardware from Microsoft and Sony.
Speaking to IGN Shigeru Miyamoto, who is best known for creating such imp... |
22 June 2012
03:04 GMT |
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While automotive companies are doing their best in making ground transportation as environmentally friendly as possible, by constantly improving on the performance levels of electric cars, it seems that air travel is also likely to soon go green.
Recently, the Solar Impulse plane managed to get from Madrid to Moroc... |
22 June 2012
03:00 GMT |
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At the WWDC 2012 keynote address on June 11th, Apple CEO Tim Cook promised to launch the App Store in 32 new territories this year. That moment is already here. Apple expanded its digital distribution venue to a flurry of new regions within Africa, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. The Cupertino computer giant now has i... |
22 June 2012
02:47 GMT |
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Airtight Games and Square Enix have confirmed that their Quantum Conundrum first-person puzzler will be launched onto the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in early July, after already appearing on the PC this week.
Quantum Conundrum is one of the most interesting games set to appear this summer, with Airtight Games, led b... |
22 June 2012
02:34 GMT |
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Yesterday, on June 21, at 9:00AM PDT, Twitter started experiencing some performance issues and became intermitently inaccessible for around three hours. The UGNazi collective has taken credit for the downtime, but the company denies that the outage had anything to do with hackers. “We just #TangoDown'd ... |
22 June 2012
02:33 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Sprint is apparently nearing the release of a white flavor of its HTC EVO 4G LTE smartphone. The company has been rumored before to plan making the move, but no confirmation on the matter has emerged so far. Today, however, users can see a white version of the smartphone being teased on the c... |
22 June 2012
02:32 GMT |
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Just two days ago, during the Rio+20 Earth Summit, Africa, Brazil and France made public their plans to fight back desertification in the Sahel region and save the fertile lands in the area.
Apparently, they decided that this course of action is necessary back in October 2011, but it is only now that concrete ideas... |
22 June 2012
02:32 GMT |
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Retailer GameStop has posted a set of minimum system requirements for the upcoming Prepare to Die Edition of Dark Souls, which lists a microphone as being required for the multiplayer part of the game.
The same set of system requirements are also posted on the Steam page for the video game.
The developer of the gam... |
22 June 2012
02:30 GMT |
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Google is indeed gearing up for the release of a new version of its Android platform, and a leak coming from the company itself confirms it. The Galaxy Nexus HSPA+, which is being sold through Google Play Store, has been listed on the website as “the first phone with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean,” screenshots ... |
22 June 2012
02:16 GMT |
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