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After Saturday's glorious extra-vehicular activity (EVA), which saw a large number of tasks, and then some, being fulfilled in a very short time frame, Atlantis astronauts took to space again today. Robert Satcher, Jr and Randy Bresnik, the NASA astronaut who just got a new baby girl on Sunday, are currently out... |
23 November 2009
20:01 GMT |
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A British researcher was just minding his own businesses in the jungle, surveying monkeys, when he accidentally disturbed a snake that was eating its meal. Upon inspecting the catch, the expert discovered a chameleon unlike any other species he knew. He therefore went ahead and compared the specimen to two others his... |
23 November 2009
18:01 GMT |
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One big problem with most role playing videogames has been the sense of scale. Think of Dragon Age: Origins where you are supposed to be a Grey Warden, which is fighting to stop a Blight that could actually engulf the entire world. You need to recruit allies and assault an Archdemon. Yet, as you walk the halls o... |
23 November 2009
17:41 GMT |
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Experts from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) announce the development of a device that is able to convert carbon dioxide and water into the building blocks of fuel, through nothing more than the action of sunlight. With this achievement, it may be possible in the near future to tu... |
23 November 2009
17:11 GMT |
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After being delayed for 21 days, King's Bounty: Armored Princess finally received its English release. Developed by Katauri Interactive and published by the 1C Company, the game is very much in line with King's Bounty: The Legend in terms of graphics of general gameplay. As weird as it sounds, they are very... |
23 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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One of the weirdest moments of 2009 was the reveal of the Nintendo Vitality Sensor by the Japanese company, at this summer's E3 trade show. The company said that the new device would be able to read the pulse of a player and could translate that into some interesting gameplay mechanics, some of them based around... |
23 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Countless women have made a habit out of going on a quick diet if they want to lose a couple of pounds in time for one event or another. These diets are usually based on limiting food intake to the point of having the slimmer subsist on one meal a day or, even worse, a handful of seeds or a few fruit. The problem wit... |
23 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Mobile multimedia services are expected to account for around 11 percent of the total mobile services revenue in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ), by end of 2009, which will enable them to outpace the revenue from SMS services for the first time, according to a recently published report from IDC. During last year... |
23 November 2009
16:11 GMT |
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Saturn's moon Titan has captured for a long time the imagination of scientists, who currently even envision a nuclear-powered mission for the satellite, including several components. All the interest stems from the fact that observations of the celestial body, performed by the Cassini spacecraft, have revealed p... |
23 November 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Seeing a woman as the main breadwinner in the household is no longer a strange occurrence. However, as we all know, this also entails that, in order to become it, she has to give up other responsibilities around the house, which usually translate in a reversal of roles in the relationship. On this note, researchers h... |
23 November 2009
15:41 GMT |
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In spite of the massive amount of work that has been placed into making carbon nanotubes a standard material for our civilization, creating flexible arrays using the nanostructures has proven to be extremely difficult until now. The structures have the ability to innovate, among other things, the display control circ... |
23 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Wireless carrier US Cellular was reported quite a while ago to plan launching on the market the high-end HTC Touch Pro2 mobile phone, powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, and now the operator already has the device available for purchase. The company made users wait a little for this hand... |
23 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Most people would agree that change is good. At the same time, most people are afraid of change. At this point, it isn't surprising to anyone that the old media is terrified of change, meaning the web, and it's hard to pick the one that's most afraid, the movie industry, music labels, or newspapers. It... |
23 November 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Square Enix, as the publisher, and IO Interactive, as the developer, have announced that they are planning to release Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days on the PC, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, and the PlayStation 3 from Sony at some point in 2010. The game will be a sequel to Dead Men, a game which was not too warmly received ... |
23 November 2009
14:41 GMT |
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This year’s edition of the American Music Awards, celebrating the best of the best in music at this moment, took place last night in Los Angeles at the Nokia Center and, as we already mentioned on a previous occasion, it was truly the grand event organizers promised it would be. Even before the ceremony, fans w... |
23 November 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Activision tried to wash some of the egg off Infinity Ward's face when it announced that, in spite of all the protests and boycotts, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 outsold the original MW. But, all you PC gamers out there that feel frustrated that you can't sting your new “public enemy no.1” off ... |
23 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Just recently, the city of Istanbul saw the opening and commissioning of the world's largest and safest earthquake-proof building in the world. The structure covers an impressive area, but it's completely isolated from the ground below. It does not rest on the soil, but rather on a few hundred bearings, whi... |
23 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics has unveiled the specifications list of its GW525 handset. The entire list is now available on the LG Mobile Developer Network and shows some rather appealing features for this device, which is reportedly aimed at the markets in South America and North America.“Th... |
23 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Sony has announced that it has plans to expand the PlayStation Network service, which is at the moment free to all those who own a PlayStation 3 video game console and have an Internet connection, by creating something provisionally called the Sony Online Service. It will require a paid subscription and will offer co... |
23 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Dieting has seemingly never been that easy as it is with the Jesus diet – whichever that might be, but still part of a soaring nutritional trend. However, unlike fad diets, which can never guarantee good results in the long run, dieting with the help of religion is certain to work, supporters of the trend promi... |
23 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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There's a lot of hype over music services lately, especially music streaming services. The interesting thing is that the hype isn't necessarily over the services themselves, but over the fact that this time some may actually succeed. Spotify is the prime example and the European free music streaming servic... |
23 November 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Kyocera Communications Inc., the company that delivers the Kyocera- and SANYO-branded wireless devices to the market, announced recently the launch of two new mobile phones, the Torino S2300 and Domino S1310. The new handsets come with some of the most popular features available in today's cellphones, while als... |
23 November 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed an issue with customers running the latest iteration of the Windows client associated with video content becoming corrupted in Windows Media Center. All the flavors of Windows 7 that come with the Windows Media Center component are affected, the Redmond company underlined. In this context, use... |
23 November 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson announced not too long ago its first handset powered by Google's Android operating system, the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10, and while no specific availability was disclosed, some new specs for the device seem to unveil what hasn't been said before. To be more ... |
23 November 2009
12:01 GMT |
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News about Wikipedia's impending demise have come and gone, but the world's largest encyclopedia seems to be enduring. This won't last for long, according to a researcher from Spain who points at the dwindling number of volunteer editors as a clear sign that the site is headed to the dust bin. The stud... |
23 November 2009
11:58 GMT |
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Robbie Williams, although not as popular in all territories as he once wanted to be (for some reason, he never quite managed to break on the US market with his recent releases), continues to be one of the most bankable singers of our times. Although he still has some way to go with EMI, his current record label, Will... |
23 November 2009
11:17 GMT |
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Scientists at the Northern Illinois University (NIU) have recently announced that they managed to develop a new computer-generated map of the Red Planet, which adds more proof to the theory that claims a liquid ocean of water once existed on Mars. The team collaborated with colleagues from the Lunar and Planetary Ins... |
23 November 2009
11:11 GMT |
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Although not especially powerful, the two systems offered by Synology are capable of mostly every task that home or small office networks need to perform. The two systems are dubbed the Synology DS210j and Synology DS410j, and both of them have mostly similar resources, with differences concerning storage capacity an... |
23 November 2009
11:03 GMT |
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The 2009 American Music Awards kicked off on very high notes, with Janet Jackson delivering an extremely superbly choreographed medley of her greatest hits, and continued with one fiery performance after another. Adam Lambert, the American Idol runner-up and currently the talk of the town, was the one to close the aw... |
23 November 2009
11:02 GMT |
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According to a recently published report from ABI Research, mobile-phone carriers around the world are looking into 3G network enhancements ahead of LTE's arrival. Since Long Term Evolution deployments aren't yet something to expect in the near future, carriers are improving existing infrastructure to the H... |
23 November 2009
11:02 GMT |
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In mid-October 2009, Microsoft announced that family Guy would be upgrading to Windows 7. Essentially, the Redmond company announced a collaboration with FOX One, for the creation of a Windows 7 brand sponsorship special titled “Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show,” which was ... |
23 November 2009
10:58 GMT |
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A new scientific study has recently revealed that the real reason children ask 'why' all the time is because they want to get to the truth, and not to step on their parents' nerves. The research has also demonstrated that the small ones appear to react better to some answers than to others, which is re... |
23 November 2009
10:55 GMT |
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A mother trying to have her son's iMac repaired at a local authorized repair center was shocked to find that AppleCare warranties were voided due to secondhand smoke, the Consumerist reveals in a report. Teader Ruth wrote a letter to the website after trying to have her son's computer repaired. The letter c... |
23 November 2009
10:48 GMT |
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Touch and multi-touch technologies are becoming an increasingly present feature of today's personal computer systems, providing end-users with a choice for a convenient way to interact with the latest features available on PCs. N-Trig announced today that its DuoSense technology, combining both pen and capacitiv... |
23 November 2009
10:45 GMT |
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NASA has always been, to some extent, one of the US agencies that has shared the fruits of its labor. The complex technologies its engineers have developed over the years, to tackle various aspects related to space exploration, have, in many cases, made their way into the general market. Taking into account the diffi... |
23 November 2009
10:36 GMT |
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The latest mobile phone from Sony Ericsson that made it into the wild is the Sony Ericsson Kurara, a device still unannounced, but which surfaced in a series of leaked photos and which has been also reviewed. The device is expected to arrive on the market sometime in the first quarter of the next year, while running... |
23 November 2009
10:32 GMT |
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Answers to questions related to what exactly is going on inside Microsoft’s Redmond campus are not easy to come by. Fact is that the software giant is doing its best to keep all internal affairs under a tight lid. Of course, every once in a while details do manage to sneak through the company’s fingers an... |
23 November 2009
10:29 GMT |
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The Top500 list classifies supercomputers according to their maximum computing power (how many flops they are capable of). In parallel, the Green500 list is its complement, measuring the power efficiency of those conglomerates. After this year's second Green500 report, IBM was shown to have preeminence in the ar... |
23 November 2009
10:23 GMT |
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CodeWeavers has released a new version of its emulation program for Mac OS X, CrossOver Games. The new release is available for free for existing CrossOver Games users. A single user license costs $39.95 to buy. "Now gamers can play the games they want, on whatever platform they want!" CodeWeavers says. "With CrossOv... |
23 November 2009
10:19 GMT |
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The latest issue of Billboard magazine has on its cover two of the hottest male artists of the moment, both up and coming singers and showbiz men, both enjoying the support of a very large fanbase and, most important, both out with albums this November. They are Kris Allen, the winner of the last edition of American ... |
23 November 2009
10:10 GMT |
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According to the Shanzai website, Pegatron’s General Manager, Chou Biao Sheng, described the machine by means of a pretty unusual epithet, “AQUIC.” The smartboook supposedly uses an ARM processor, will be running the Ubuntu OS, and is expected to hit the stores early next year. Pegatron has already... |
23 November 2009
10:04 GMT |
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Berbie has released a new update for users of its route-planning software solution, announcing that it has fixed a problem with the nikeplus pace import, while adding Dropbox support to sync TrailRunner data between different Macs. TrailRunner can display maps and elevation data from web-based mapping services like ... |
23 November 2009
10:02 GMT |
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Wireless carrier OS announced today that the high-end HTC HD2 mobile phone from the Taiwan-based maker HTC Corporation is set to make it on shelves starting today. The new device, one of the highly expected phones launched by O2 during the ongoing year, brings forth a wide range of features to users, including a lar... |
23 November 2009
09:59 GMT |
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Dmitriy Guzner, 19, of Verona, New Jersey was sentenced to one year in prison for launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against websites belonging to the Church of Scientology in January 2008. Following his release, the young DDoSer will also spend two years on probation.According to the prosecutors ... |
23 November 2009
09:59 GMT |
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In just 10 years since inauguration, Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus has grown to become the company’s second largest in the Unites States. Opened in October 1999, the campus in Silicon Valley was not only supposed to give Microsoft a foothold in the country’s high tech heart, but also establish i... |
23 November 2009
09:56 GMT |
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A recently published report from AdMob reveals that the mobile advertising network has continued to examine the major mobile operating systems and the distribution of requests across top devices that run on them, pointing out that, in October 2009, 70 percent of iPhone OS requests came from the iPhone, while the rema... |
23 November 2009
09:50 GMT |
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As it has been written on several occasions, the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker, Intel is expected to debut a new line of mainstream processors, based on the company's next-generation 32nm manufacturing process. Codenamed 'Clarkdale', the new CPUs will be aimed at the desktop PC segment and ... |
23 November 2009
09:48 GMT |
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Earlier last month, a song called “Fresh Out the Oven” surfaced on the Internet, promoting a so-called Lola person and featuring Pitbull. Minutes later, it emerged that Lola was actually Jennifer Lopez trying on a different persona for a change. Fans will be glad to hear that the singer also released a vi... |
23 November 2009
09:42 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless and handset vendor Samsung Mobile announced today the upcoming availability of Samsung Omnia II on the operator's airwaves. Starting with December 2, 2009 (in line with previous rumors), Verizon Wireless customers will have the chance to enjoy the new Windows Mobile 6.5-pow... |
23 November 2009
09:29 GMT |
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On November 20, representatives from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) finally signed the Transfer of Ownership document, which solidifies the delivery to the American space agency of Node 3, the next European module to fly to the International Space Station (ISS). The ceremony, which was held at the Space Sta... |
23 November 2009
09:25 GMT |
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Nero DriveSpeed 4.4.12.0Sometimes, the noise produced by the optical drive when reading a disc can reach pretty disturbing levels. What very few users don't know is that all those decibels spawning from disc reading process can be toned down with the use of DriveSpeed application in Nero's toolkit. Nero Dri... |
23 November 2009
09:21 GMT |
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Movie studios may have it harder in recession, but at least Summit Entertainment has not a single thing to worry about as far as movie grossing is concerned. “New Moon,” the second installment in “The Twilight Saga” opened to impressive numbers over the weekend at the North American box office... |
23 November 2009
09:19 GMT |
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The world's more proficient DRAM makers seem to be giving Taiwanese companies a hard time staying in the race for DRAM advancements. According to David Sun, co-founder of the world's top DRAM module maker Kingston Technology, these developers need to perform mergers and long-term collaborations in order to ... |
23 November 2009
09:13 GMT |
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ASUS, one of the world's leading vendors of high-performance hardware components, has announced the debut of a new line of EAH5000 series of graphics cards, designed to take advantage of the features and specifications of AMD's new Radeon GPUs. The new lineup includes three cards, based on the Radeon HD 59... |
23 November 2009
09:06 GMT |
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The Dukes of Hazard: Return of the General Lee is a videogame developed by Ratbag Pty. Ltd. and published by Ubisoft. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and the original Xbox from Microsoft in September 2004. It is classed as an action adventure title featuring driving elements and is based... |
23 November 2009
09:05 GMT |
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Studying precisely how much time children spend in front of the TV set is very difficult, especially in societies where parents don't get to spend as much time with their juniors as both of the parties would want to. This type of settings offers the perfect conditions for excesses to occur, and watching TV is on... |
23 November 2009
09:02 GMT |
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On Sunday, Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm announced that the 1.3.1 version of webOS, the mobile platform present on its Pre and Pixi devices, has been just released for users in Europe. It comes shortly after the 1.3.1 flavor was released for users in the US, something that happens just before the Palm Pixi ... |
23 November 2009
08:50 GMT |
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Scientists at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have determined in a new investigation that children who are prenatally exposed to high levels of lead or tobacco smoke run a much higher risk than others of developing ADHD. The attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a condition that many chil... |
23 November 2009
08:42 GMT |
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One of the major concerns customers have when it comes down to transitioning from on-premise solution to hosted services is availability. Let’s be clear on this, not even on-premise solutions have 100% uptime. But running all solutions on local servers or in their own database gives customers a stronger feeling... |
23 November 2009
08:35 GMT |
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Aware of the fact that the number of gamers worldwide is enormous and rising, currently generating over $35 billion every year, Golden Emperor International Ltd. has been participating, for the past several years, in gaming events and communities, and has even supported professional gaming teams, gathering knowledge ... |
23 November 2009
08:29 GMT |
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Mobile phone users that own a Symbian-based device can now enjoy a new feature on their handsets, namely Spotify Mobile. The mobile version of the popular app is now available on a wide range of phones from Nokia, Samsung, or Sony Ericsson, offering users the possibility to access a large library of music directly f... |
23 November 2009
08:27 GMT |
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The once-tranquil Sunny Island has been thrown in disarray, as crops seem to have gotten a life of their own and they're growing completely out of control. Players will have to unravel the mystery of the wild plants and save the island before it's suffocated in food. Set in the same world as Harvest Moon: I... |
23 November 2009
08:15 GMT |
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Details on a zero-day vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer are currently available in the wild, having been published to the BugTraq mailing list last week. So far, Microsoft has not commented on the exploit code made available in the wild, but security company Symantec has confirmed that it is fully functional... |
23 November 2009
07:56 GMT |
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Following the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft made available the first solution accelerators, designed to streamline deployment of the new operating system. The Redmond company focus grew in time and diversified to included additional technologies along with the new Windows releases. In this regard, version 4.0 o... |
23 November 2009
07:42 GMT |
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While Gartner thinks that 2010 will see a dramatic surge of the e-reader market, certain market analysts believe that the market won't see any type of quick growth unless the actual product prices drop to around $100 (£61/€67). However, those same analysts believe that such a price cut is unlikely bec... |
23 November 2009
07:33 GMT |
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The Incredible Hulk comes to the DS with a little bit less flavor than it does on the home consoles. The game still has plenty of puzzles and destruction, but it's far less complex and a lot uglier than its larger brothers. But it's also a lot more simplified, as the DS version will never give you an un-Hul... |
23 November 2009
07:24 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead 2 was launched just a week ago and the game already has two new additions, one fan-made and the other official. The fans put their heads together and managed to get the single-player campaign for the original one unlocked in the sequel. It wasn't actually included by the developers in the game, so, i... |
23 November 2009
07:07 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering an update version of the Cloud-based flavor of its security solution for Exchange Server. At the end of the past week, the refreshed variant of Forefront Online Protection for Exchange became available to customers currently leveraging the company Cloud services. Forefront Online Protection for ... |
23 November 2009
07:07 GMT |
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The new Acrobat.com is now live. Having been revealed last week, Adobe's office and online collaboration suite gets a major refresh with a couple of products leaving the beta tag behind and also a significantly improved file management system, courtesy of a completely new back-end. For the users it means that t... |
23 November 2009
06:57 GMT |
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A self-proclaimed grey-hat hacker has located a critical SQL injection vulnerability in a website belonging to security giant Symantec. The flaw can be leveraged to extract a wealth of information from the database including customer and admin login credentials, product serial numbers, and possibly credit card inform... |
23 November 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Scientists were recently puzzled to find out that monkeys too had the ability to care for their grandchildren. The investigation, which was conducted on a group of Japanese macaques, proved that, when needed, grandmothers took their nephews in, and cared for them as their mothers would have. This is the first instanc... |
23 November 2009
06:47 GMT |
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IBM has recently confirmed that it will be pulling out of the development of the Cell processor, as the company plans to make the PowerXCell 8i model the last of its entrance in the technology. The said processor is part of a joint venture between the chip maker, Sony and Toshiba, the result of which has been enable... |
23 November 2009
06:41 GMT |
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In early October, Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC officially announced the launch of HTC HD2, a high-end device that comes to the market with Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. The handset sports a powerful Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon processor, as well as a large touchscreen display, poised to make... |
23 November 2009
06:37 GMT |
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Just after finally releasing its own Radeon HD 5970 ultra-high-end graphics card, Axle came out with its release of the NVIDIA-powered GT 240. Although not as powerful as the HD 5970 and with no overclocking possibilities to speak of, the card is a cheaper alternative to the heavy-weight ATI-powered beast while still... |
23 November 2009
06:35 GMT |
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Just in time to catch the Modern Warfare 2 launch, Microsoft decided to initialize its own war, that against pirated Xbox 360 consoles. The company issued a huge ban across Xbox Live on all modded rigs and an overwhelming amount of players were outraged by this decision. Discussions of a lawsuit even began to emerge,... |
23 November 2009
06:31 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that parents should allow for their children to play in the sand, and get dirty. Apparently, this is of tremendous use to the skin's development, as the organ basically learns to take care of itself, something that will come in handy later on in life. While some may... |
23 November 2009
06:31 GMT |
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In an exclusive interview, Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior VP for worldwide product marketing, outlined the numerous factors that took their toll on the application-approval process. Schiller went as far as claiming developers were happy with its way of doing things, although many would say that was not entirely ... |
23 November 2009
06:20 GMT |
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Welcome to the 72nd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems were announced last week: Parted Magic 4.6, Fedora 12 and KNOPPIX 6.2. This week's YouTube-powered video clip showcases the magical powers of the upcoming Chrome operating system from Google. At the end of the wee... |
23 November 2009
06:16 GMT |
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Microsoft responded to allegations that its search/decision engine was delivering sanitized result to sensitive queries related to China in order to keep in line with the country’s communist dictatorship. Adam Sohn, Bing senior director, disputed accusations that the Bing search engine had been turned into a p... |
23 November 2009
06:06 GMT |
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Recent astronomical observations seem to point at the fact that the Milky Way, our own galaxy, is currently colliding with a dark, high-velocity cloud of hydrogen gas, known as Smith's Cloud. The formation may be a galaxy in itself, according to the most recent hypothesis, and not a common one. In fact, astronom... |
23 November 2009
06:03 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 is the first Android-based mobile phone the Japanese-Swedish joint-venture is set to deliver to the market. The handset has been already announced officially, yet not details on when it will land on the market were unveiled, nor on the price tag it might come around with. However, some detai... |
23 November 2009
06:03 GMT |
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TOCA Race Driver 2 is a videogame developed and published by the Codemasters Software Company Limited. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the PlayStation Portable handheld and the PC platform on April 13, 2004. The title can be classed as a racing simulation fea... |
23 November 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Although it came somewhat later than the official release of AMD's Radeon HD 5970 graphics card, Axle's version seems to have made up for the wait with the high-end performance offered by the very powerful Axle HD 5970. Capable of reaching virtually unparalleled computing speeds, even the most heavy computi... |
23 November 2009
05:57 GMT |
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The American Music Awards for 2009, held last night at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, was a very sparkly, A-list affair, with huge surprises and plenty to get excited about. However, perhaps no one was excited as Taylor Swift, the young country singer who got to take home no less than five awards and who thus... |
23 November 2009
05:47 GMT |
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As the first Harvest Moon title to come to the DS, the game will have players manage the well-being of a farm. They'll have to tend to the livestock and grow all manners of crops. Their farm can be upgraded to handle new tasks, like holding additional livestock or a more elaborate kitchen to cook their food. The... |
23 November 2009
05:46 GMT |
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Google is getting ready for a big push with a full voice communications service in the works, but in the mean time it has to do a little housekeeping. Google Voice, one of Google's hottest products on the mobile front at the moment, came to be after the company acquired GrandCentral, a startup offering pretty m... |
23 November 2009
05:36 GMT |
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A lot of people out there have stated that they simply love video games, and considering some of the quality products out there no one can blame them. But few individuals would feel comfortable enough to take their love to the next step and actually marry their beloved game. It may not be considered “kosher&rdq... |
23 November 2009
05:35 GMT |
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Leading South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics has officially announced just recently that it will come to the market with a mobile phone powered by Google's Android operating system, namely the LG GW620. The handset was reported to come to the market in Europe and North America, and now its entire list... |
23 November 2009
05:34 GMT |
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3D seems to be the next huge thing in videogaming, with more and more developers thinking about offering game experiences which rely on special television sets and on special glasses to add a lot more depth. And Sony, which is manufacturing the television sets with 3D technology, is saying that adding it to the PlayS... |
23 November 2009
05:28 GMT |
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They’ve only been dating since July this year, but both are convinced that their romance is the epitome of true love and that the only logical step in their relationship is to get married. Because of this, cage fighter Alex Reid has already boarded a plane to Australia, where he’s to propose to Katie Pric... |
23 November 2009
05:25 GMT |
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The Google Chrome Dev channel has been updated to version 4.0.249.4 for all platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux), Anthony Laforge, Google Chrome program manager, has announced. On the Mac side, Chrome adds Silverlight plugin support, as well as bookmark bar improvements. Read on for the full scoop. Mentioning th... |
23 November 2009
05:24 GMT |
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Based on Imation's Apollo external hard drive platform, the newest release by Imation in the line of 3.5 inch external hard drives not only offers the huge data-storage capacity of 1.5TB but is built with a USB interface that allows it to function properly via a one-to-one wireless connection with a desktop PC, ... |
23 November 2009
05:15 GMT |
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Dynasty Tactics is a video game which was created and published by KOEI Ltd. Inc. The game was released exclusively on the PlayStation 2 home gaming console from Sony. It arrived on September 11, 2002. The game is classed as being a hybrid between a role playing experience and a strategy game with elements taken from... |
23 November 2009
05:12 GMT |
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Developed by Patrick Chamelo of NS Coding, Dock Spaces is a unique piece of Mac software that allows users to have up to ten different docks and swap among them from the menu-bar. NS Coding is a small software development group headquartered in both England and (occasionally) in Greece. The company creates what it ca... |
23 November 2009
05:12 GMT |
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Social media has gotten people in trouble more than once, sometimes even in serious trouble with the law. Every time it had something to do with the way they used social media, like revealing incriminatory information. Now a new barrier has been broken, someone got arrested for not using social media. James Roppo, a... |
23 November 2009
05:08 GMT |
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Last night at the Los Angeles Nokia Theater, the 2009 American Music Awards ceremony took place, one of the most anticipated and hyped events of the kind this year. That much expectation did not fail to take a toll on the performers themselves, as Adam Lambert and, earlier in the evening, Jennifer Lopez both took tum... |
23 November 2009
04:52 GMT |
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Yazsoft’s ShareTool, the useful application that assists Mac users in accessing all their Bonjour services on their home network, has been updated to version 1.3.3. The new release further optimizes use under Snow Leopard, improves compatibility with certain UPnP routers, and more. Targeting Bonjour users look... |
23 November 2009
04:52 GMT |
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Cryptic's last massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Champions Online, has had people grinding for just over two months, but that won't stop the developer from working overdrive on its next MMORPG. Star Trek Online is announced for release on February 2, 2010, and its developers have now announced... |
23 November 2009
04:47 GMT |
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Today, November 23rd, Opera Software is making a decisive first step toward delivering on a promise from earlier this year which involved reinventing the web. Users are now able to download the latest iteration of the Opera browser, and take advantage of the evolution from version 10.0. The start of this week is syno... |
23 November 2009
04:45 GMT |
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Kirby Super Star Ultra is a remake of the original Kirby Super Star, released on the SNES back in 1996, and it features seven different main games. In addition to the previous one, Ultra includes five new titles and three new sub-games. Some of these are detailed below.In The Arena, you'll be able to face all of... |
23 November 2009
04:44 GMT |
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Sony is having a very good week on the home Japanese market with the PlayStation family taking the two top spots in the hardware charts, for the first time in quite some time, and soundly beating the Nintendo duo of handheld and home console. In the software charts, J-League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! 6 from SEGA is... |
23 November 2009
04:39 GMT |
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A report posted at UneasySilence claims that a hack is now available to enable full Magic Mouse (Multi-Touch) support on Windows. Evidently, a Mac is still required, while the Windows guest must be running in Boot Camp, Apple’s OS X utility that allows Mac owners to selectively boot in different operating syste... |
23 November 2009
04:32 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is hard at work with the development of Windows Mobile and it seems that the company is focused on several versions of the operating system. We've already seen a wide range of builds for the Windows Mobile 6.5.1 version leaked into the wild, but now we learn that yet anoth... |
23 November 2009
04:31 GMT |
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The Cassini spacecraft has just sent back the latest pictures that it made of Saturn's moon Enceladus, during the last planned flyby it made of the celestial body as part of its mission. For the next eight years, the moon will enter the “shadows” of winter, as the planet begins its long, cold season.... |
23 November 2009
04:31 GMT |
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Although the HDAiR was introduced by Atlona earlier this year, the device featured a critical downside through the fact that it did not support audio. This made the USB wireless adapter rather useless for everything besides non-audio presentations. Now, however, the new version of this device has audio capabilities, ... |
23 November 2009
04:22 GMT |
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AOL is going through some rather painful changes, but changes that it has to make if it wants to survive. The biggest change, of course, will be spinning off from Time Warner to become a separate, publicly traded company, something that will happen in a couple of weeks or so. At the same time, it’s trying to r... |
23 November 2009
04:20 GMT |
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On the heels of the latest development milestone of SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft also made available for download a new testing build of the project formerly codenamed Gemini. Just a week after SQL Server 2008 R2 November Community Technology Preview went live on the Microsoft Download Center, the latest CTP of Micr... |
23 November 2009
04:14 GMT |
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With Dragon Age: Origins now released and set to receive another piece of DLC, called Return to Ostagar, in time for Christmas and with The Old Republic probably only coming at some point in 2011, the big marketing effort for BioWare and their publisher, Electronic Arts, is Mass Effect 2, the space based action role ... |
23 November 2009
04:02 GMT |
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13 days have passed since Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 was launched, and the game keeps making the headlines. Prior to its official launch, the title faced some serious controversy regarding its PC version. Infinity Ward, the game's developer, announced that it planned to remove the dedicated servers from it, a... |
23 November 2009
03:56 GMT |
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At the American Music Awards 2009, held last night at Los Angeles’ Nokia Theater, Adam Lambert made his live debut outside the American Idol circuit. Performing the title song and first single off his album “For Your Entertainment,” Adam danced, tripped and fell, sang his heart out and danced some m... |
23 November 2009
03:51 GMT |
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Thinking ahead seems to be what Intel has been doing lately, with no less than three new central processing units being developed simultaneously by the Santa Clara-based enterprise. These three projects are the Pine trail platform and Pineview CPU (due in 2010), the Cedarview chip (due in 2011) and even a 22nm proces... |
23 November 2009
03:47 GMT |
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Building a quantum computer is one of the main efforts currently being made in the fields of information technology, nanotechnology and quantum physics. The reason why so many people want to see the device built is its amazing potential computational power, which could see seemingly unbreakable problems being figured... |
23 November 2009
03:44 GMT |
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As any US resident will tell you, Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States, which is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season. This Friday, Apple is likely to offer discounts on some of its products. The Mac maker has started sending out emails to those subscribed for recei... |
23 November 2009
03:39 GMT |
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Up until now, scientists have always considered that the only possible way of producing plastic, one of the main materials in our civilization, is through modifying and altering fossil fuels, primarily oil. But now, a team of South Korean scientists has managed to produce the compound for the first time without using... |
23 November 2009
03:27 GMT |
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Google has spread its interests so wide that it’s hard to keep track of all of them. It's also looks like the company may be jumping from one big project to the other while lacking a very focused goal. At the same time though, several services have always been central to the company. Gmail gets most of th... |
23 November 2009
03:26 GMT |
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For a long time the Valve powered Steam service has been thought to dominate the digital distribution market on the PC, but there was little data related on how much of the market share it had. Now the customer report which Stardock, creators of the rival Impulse service, released shines light on the issue.Brad ... |
23 November 2009
03:23 GMT |
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Motorola DROID is considered to be the nicest Android-based handset that came to the market this year, not only because it comes with the 2.0 flavor of the Google operating system, but also because of its looks. Most of you might be already familiar with the gold buttons present on the handsets side sliding QWERTY k... |
23 November 2009
03:21 GMT |
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"Previously, when a large texture needed to be read, one instruction would be issued, and one shader circuit would need to make several passes while other circuits sat idle," NVIDIA spokesman Hector Marinez said. "But [NVIDIA] patent authors Emmett Kilgariff and Rui Bastos figured out a way to allow for a partial tex... |
23 November 2009
03:11 GMT |
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About two weeks ago, Microsoft decided to deal another blow to the underworld of piracy, as a considerable number of modified Xbox 360 consoles had been banned from the Xbox Live. A lot of people, mostly those that ended up getting banned, were seriously frustrated by this decision, as one can only imagine, and it di... |
23 November 2009
03:09 GMT |
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After many months of bitter exchanges of words in the media, Kate and Jon Gosselin, once the couple that took out a page of television history in terms of popularity and appeal with the audiences, have reached an agreement in the ongoing divorce proceedings. Moreover, as TMZ has learned, both have acted in such a man... |
23 November 2009
03:03 GMT |
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According to a new idea, it may be that the effects of global warming are currently simply too great to be mitigated completely or partially. University of Utah Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Tim Garrett reveals that rising carbon dioxide concentrations, of the kind that is currently held responsible as ... |
23 November 2009
02:58 GMT |
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Microsoft was supposed to make available for download an open source tool designed to streamline the creation of Windows 7 RTM bootable media and subsequently, the installation of the operating system this week; however, this will not be the case. In a genuine case of a “take 2,” the Redmond company prom... |
23 November 2009
02:57 GMT |
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Driver: Parallel Lines is a videogame developed by Reflections Interactive Limited and published by Atari, Inc. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 home console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the Nintendo Wii and the PC in March 2006. It is classed as a racing title played from a third person pe... |
23 November 2009
02:54 GMT |
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Robotic or manned submersibles, regardless of their sizes, could use anchors that are able to embed themselves into the loose soil at the bottom of the oceans. This type of anchors could easily keep the water craft in their desired position, but the effort has always been to find the most advanced and efficient desig... |
23 November 2009
02:46 GMT |
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Not long after Sony stated that it wouldn't be able to keep up with the demand for its Daily Edition e-readers, Barnes and Noble, the world's largest seller of books, made a similar announcement concerning its Nook e-book readers. According to the book distributor, even though the official release date hasn... |
23 November 2009
02:36 GMT |
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Today Wireless carrier China Mobile officially announced the launch of Dell Mini 3i, a new touchscreen mobile phone that comes to the market with the operator's OPhone and Mobile Market platforms. According to the company, the new handset is set to become available for purchase in the country in Red Passio... |
23 November 2009
02:26 GMT |
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On Saturday, astronauts aboard the NASA space shuttle Atlantis, and the International Space Station (ISS) raced through the second spacewalk planned for the STS-129 assembly flight. In fact, they went about their businesses so well, that they managed to even squeeze in a few jobs that were originally scheduled to be ... |
23 November 2009
02:24 GMT |
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DRIV3R, which is also known as Driver 3, is a videogame created by Reflections Interactive and published by Atari. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the Game Boy, the PC (a Game Cube version was also in production but got canceled). The game was also later port... |
23 November 2009
02:05 GMT |
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Scientists have known for a very long time that there are literally thousands of species of unknown creatures living in the ocean, at impressive depths, without having ever seen the light of day. In a new set of investigations, carried out for the Census of Marine Life initiative, scientists have found no less than 1... |
23 November 2009
01:55 GMT |
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Piezoelectric materials are special classes of ceramics and crystals, which have the ability to generate electrical potential when mechanical pressure is applied on them. They currently provide the basis for a large number of applications, including powering up guitar pickups, making for fuses in rocket-propelled gre... |
23 November 2009
01:41 GMT |
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