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The development team behind the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset announces that Laird M. Malamed has joined the company and is currently occupying the position of Chief Operating Officer.Previously the executive has worked for Activision Blizzard as head of development and senior vice president, overseeing the cre... |
24 January 2013
22:31 GMT |
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Google’s application store for Android contains lots of mobile browsers that promise a smooth navigation experience. Some are more popular among Android users, some still need certain improvements. Sleipnir Mobile has more than 100k downloads on Google Play Store and is mildly-popular among Android users. Dev... |
24 January 2013
22:01 GMT |
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We might hear a lot about the impressive sales performance of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 but in the United Kingdom the best sold game of last year on the PlayStation 3 home consoles is the FIFA 13 football simulation from EA Sports.According to data from GfK Chart-Track compiled by MCV the rest of the top ten includes... |
24 January 2013
21:31 GMT |
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PayPal has had an Android client available for download on Google Play Store for quite some time now.
The application has received several major updates that have improved the overall users’ experience and will probably continue to get more in the following months.
The latest version of PayPal for Android br... |
24 January 2013
21:31 GMT |
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GroupMe, the popular chat application for Android devices has just received a major update that brings lots a new features and visual improvements.
First of all, the application has been completely overhauled and features a new design. Check out below some of the changes included in this update:
- Chats are front, ... |
24 January 2013
21:01 GMT |
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What we know: Europa Universalis IV is the next iteration of the core grand strategy game from developer and publisher Paradox Interactive, a game that promises to change the main mechanics of the genre and significantly improve the historical simulation aspect of the series.
The new game will explore a number of ne... |
24 January 2013
20:41 GMT |
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Sony Mobile confirmed a few weeks ago that the Xperia Z would arrive in Japan in February via NTT Docomo, but the handset maker did not offer any details regarding the phone’s pricing options.
Well, it appears that the guys over at XperiaBlog have just spotted what appears to be the Xperia Z (SO-02E) suggested... |
24 January 2013
20:31 GMT |
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Google’s Nexus 4 smartphone appears closer to making an official appearance on shelves in South Korea, after receiving the necessary approvals from the Radio Research Laboratory (RRA), which is affiliated to the Korea Communications Commission (KCC). The handset was spotted at RRA as LG-E960, featuring suppor... |
24 January 2013
20:11 GMT |
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It’s been less than two weeks since Consumer Electronics Show 2013 closed its gates and Acer continues to announce new Android devices.
After introducing the Acer Iconia B1 tablet at CES 2013, the company has just revealed a new mid-range Android smartphone, the Liquid E1.
Eurodroid reports that the smartphon... |
24 January 2013
20:01 GMT |
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American McGee retracts and apologizes for the statements in which he suggested that publisher Electronic Arts had tricked gamers into believing that Alice: Madness Returns was actually a horror game.
On the official blog, McGee states, “To my surprise this ignited a firestorm of press coverage from the game m... |
24 January 2013
19:41 GMT |
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A new Android smartphone powered by an Intel processor is set to land on shelves in India in the next few days, namely the Lava XOLO X500, which is now said to feature a price tag of INR 8,999 ($167 / €126) attached to it. The handset will sport an Atom Lexington Z2420 chip inside, clocked in at 1.2GHz, while ... |
24 January 2013
19:31 GMT |
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Ubuntu Privacy Remix, a distribution which aims to provide an isolated working environment where sensitive data can be dealt safely, is now at version 10.04r3.According to the developers, the system installed on the computer running Ubuntu Privacy Remix remains untouched, as UPR is not intended for permanent installa... |
24 January 2013
19:01 GMT |
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Opera Mini is one of the most popular mobile browsers out there, with over 208 million users as of December 2012, but it seems that it will soon reach more people around the world.
Today, Opera Software announced a partnership with Gionee, one of the top 3 mobile phone brands in China, for the loading of its mobile... |
24 January 2013
18:51 GMT |
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The US sure loves to impose its laws, or what passes for laws, onto other countries especially when those countries are like the small Caribbean island of Antigua. And the US doesn't expect those countries to fight back. A few years back, the US decided it didn't like Antigua enabling US citizens to gamble ... |
24 January 2013
18:31 GMT |
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We reported yesterday on Nexus 4’s upcoming availability at Australian retailer Harvey Norman and it looks like LG has just made it official.
It appears that due to high demand LG has decided to bring the Nexus 4 in Australia via major retailers across the country.
Even though Kogan is already selling the sm... |
24 January 2013
18:31 GMT |
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A brand new Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel video has just been released by EA and Visceral Games, showing off a brief bit of gameplay footage in which one of the two heroes, Bravo, jumps into cover and lobs a grenade against an unlucky enemy.
Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel is set to deliver a brand new e... |
24 January 2013
18:21 GMT |
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Web security analyst David Sopas from Portugal has identified DOM-based cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities on the websites of three world-renowned security solutions providers: Kaspersky Lab, Panda Security and AVG Technologies. Security firms often warn about the importance of properly secured websites. How... |
24 January 2013
18:11 GMT |
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After a successful Kickstarter campaign and after the developers managed to get through the Steam Greenlight program, Leisure Suit Larry lives again.Leisure Suit Larry is one of the most recognized franchise in the history of gaming, so it’s no surprise that the developers have managed to gather the necessary f... |
24 January 2013
18:01 GMT |
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The popular role-playing game Might & Magic Clash of Heroes is now available to play on iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, Ubisoft has announced. The game sells for $4.99 / €4.59 and displays natively on any screen size.
Ubisoft promises a 20-hour campaign with impressive Retina graphics where players get to master ... |
24 January 2013
18:01 GMT |
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Satoru Iwata, the Chief Executive Officer and president of Nintendo, says that the team working on the Miiverse social space for the Wii U has big plans for a spring update, designed to make it easier to use the service.Players will get the ability to create their own custom communities, tackling any interesting subj... |
24 January 2013
17:57 GMT |
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If you’re trying to make the Start Screen a bit more familiar, here’s one application that allows you to create live tiles using the photos stored on the local drives.
Picture Tiles is an easy to use piece of software that allows you to set any image file stored on the local computer as a live tile and p... |
24 January 2013
17:51 GMT |
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At CES 2013 in Las Vegas, Chinese mobile phone maker Huawei has made official the Ascend D2, its latest flagship Android-based handset, which has already landed on shelves in China, while set to hit the market in other countries soon.
The device packs a wide range of high-end features, starting with its large 5-inc... |
24 January 2013
17:51 GMT |
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With physicists pretty much done in their search for the elusive Higgs boson and now getting ready to discover even more exotic particles, if they exist to be found, you'd think that they'd have something as banal as the proton all wrapped up by now.But you'd be wrong, one of the most interesting devel... |
24 January 2013
17:42 GMT |
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Hotline Miami, the fast action title created by Dennaton Games, is now available with a 50 percent price cut on the Steam digital distribution service from Valve, with the offer set to end at 10 AM Pacific Time on Monday.
The game costs just 4.24 Euro or dollars
The official game description reads: “Set in a... |
24 January 2013
17:18 GMT |
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The development team at AGEOD announces that its next video game is called Alea Jacta Est – Birth of Rome, designed to take history lovers and strategy players back to the first few years of the Republic and give them a chance to re-create the events that led it to greatness.The core engine and mechanics are th... |
24 January 2013
17:08 GMT |
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The development team at Torn Banner Studios and Valve announced that Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is now available for free on the Steam digital distribution service until Sunday at 1 PM Pacific Time, allowing all gamers to check out the experience the game offers.Chivalry can be described as a first person combat titl... |
24 January 2013
17:05 GMT |
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BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien is the sequel to the famous BIT.TRIP RUNNER and it will be launched on Steam for Linux.BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien or simply Runner 2 is a rhythm-music platforming game in which the players will have to go through amazing envi... |
24 January 2013
17:01 GMT |
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Security solutions provider McAfee has been using its cloud-based Global Threat Intelligence service and its binary and proactive research to monitor botnet threats from all around the world. On Wednesday, they’ve released a list of top 10 countries hosting command and control (C&C) servers.
As it turns o... |
24 January 2013
17:01 GMT |
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As you probably know by now if you’re one of the users who installed Microsoft Office 2013 Preview, the new productivity suite comes with SkyDrive integration, allowing you to save your documents in the cloud. But beside this pretty helpful feature, Office 2013 also offers some very neat sharing options that e... |
24 January 2013
17:01 GMT |
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Dung beetles aren't the most respected of creatures, for obvious reasons, yet they are quite resourceful critters and, it turns out, quite the able navigators. Scientists have been wondering how the small insects were able to keep going in a straight line while rolling their, umm, prize even at night.Some scient... |
24 January 2013
16:52 GMT |
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The development team at BioWare announces that gamers interested in the multiplayer mode of Mass Effect 3 will be able to take part in Operation: BALLISTIC from January 25 to January 27.The individual goal for each player is to get a gold weapon medal for any gun in their arsenal.The official description from BioWare... |
24 January 2013
16:45 GMT |
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Pebble, the first watch built for the 21st century, has just received its companion app which enables users to customize the appearance of the gadget with cool watch-faces and useful Internet-connected services. The Pebble connects to your iDevice via Bluetooth to alert you with a silent vibration when you’ve ... |
24 January 2013
16:41 GMT |
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Although concept devices do not always reflect the actual state of the mobile industry at a certain point in time, they can, however, stir people’s imagination regarding things that are to come in the future. The Nokia Lumia 955 concept phone is one such device, providing us with a glimpse at what a smartphon... |
24 January 2013
16:31 GMT |
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Cybercriminals often rely on compromised Twitter accounts to send out malicious links via direct messages. According to experts from GFI Labs, the same method is now being utilized on Facebook.
Phishers are sending out private messages in which they inform recipients that, “Your account is reported to have vio... |
24 January 2013
16:21 GMT |
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No Gravity has just landed in the Windows Store, allowing users to play the popular game on any Windows 8 device, be it a desktop computer or a Windows RT tablet.
The game can be played either in first or third-person view, with up to 5 characters and 5 space ships to choose from. It includes a maximum of 6 differen... |
24 January 2013
16:11 GMT |
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Facebook is the most popular app in the mobile space, at least in terms of monthly users, but what's even more surprising is how much time people spend on it. The same is true for the Facebook site, it has the biggest engagement of all the big sites, but the difference between Facebook and everything else is dau... |
24 January 2013
15:51 GMT |
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About 53 years ago, David Latimer from Cranleigh in Surrey grabbed hold of a bottle and planted a miniature garden inside it. Roughly 13 years later, he decided to seal the bottle and sit around waiting to see what might happen.
Apparently, despite the fact that the plants living inside this bottle have gone decade... |
24 January 2013
15:51 GMT |
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Paula Deen learned she had Type 2 Diabetes in early 2012 and, in the summer of that same year, had already begun her impressive transformation. Now 40 pounds (18.1 kg) lighter, Mrs. Deen is proud to say her entire family is healthier and slimmer as well.
The February issue of People magazine brings an interview and... |
24 January 2013
15:51 GMT |
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Celebrity Kristen Bell has recently sent a letter to Neil Dierks, the CEO of the National Pork Producers Council.
Her goal was that of convincing him to take active measures towards making the meat industry behave more friendly and with more consideration towards pigs, especially pregnant ones.
For those unaware,... |
24 January 2013
15:51 GMT |
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Only yesterday, the scientific journal PLOS ONE witnessed the publication of a new study stating that the Ampelosaurus, a species of herbivore dinosaurs currently labeled as one of the biggest animals ever to walk the face of the earth, could not have been very witty.
This is because, at least when compared to the ... |
24 January 2013
15:41 GMT |
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While some of its relatives keep themselves entertained by slaying Frosty and one of its friends, a Sumatran tigress living at the Dudley Zoological Gardens, England very much enjoys fighting off some vicious snowballs.
The zoo's employees explain that, despite its being 2-years-old, Daseep never got to experi... |
24 January 2013
15:41 GMT |
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The Document Foundation has announced that the second Release Candidate version for LibreOffice 4.0.0 is now available for the Linux platform, bringing a lot of bugfixes and improvements.Highlights of LibreOffice 4.0.0 RC2:• The application now automatically rotates chart labels;• Cell border line propertie... |
24 January 2013
15:41 GMT |
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After carrying out two large surveys, a team of scientists wishing to investigate the effects of smoking on public health in the United States has reached the conclusion that, as least as far as lung cancer risks are concerned, overzealous feminists can now rest assured.
To cut a long story short, they found that t... |
24 January 2013
15:31 GMT |
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Nokia is not the only mobile phone maker to have launched lenses applications in the Windows phone Store for its Windows Phone 8 users to enjoy, as Samsung too has come up with such a software. Called Beauty, the app is meant to enable users to easily manipulate photos to remove unwanted imperfections from faces. ... |
24 January 2013
15:31 GMT |
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Calibre is one of the best ebook management software available right now, but its strength lies in the abundance of plugins available for it.This week, we’ll take a look at an interesting plugin called “Similar Stories.” According to the developer, this plug-in helps you to find other books within y... |
24 January 2013
15:25 GMT |
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New Zealand's White Island is located in the Bay of Plenty, and for the time being at least, it is uninhabited.
This is because this region is characterized by significant and ongoing hydrothermal activity, and probably also because the island measures just 2 km (1.25 miles) in diameter.
Apparently, the peop... |
24 January 2013
15:11 GMT |
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Security firm Akamai has released its State of the Internet report for the third quarter of 2012. Besides global statistics on attack traffic, connection speeds and mobile connectivity, the paper also details Operation Ababil, the campaign initiated by Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters against US banks.
According ... |
24 January 2013
15:11 GMT |
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Calligra 2.5.5, an integrated suite of applications for office, creative and management needs, has been released on January 23.Highlights of Calligra 2.5.5:• A very nasty bug, which made recalculations of spreadsheet contents go wrong under some circumstances, has been repaired;• Description was ignored in ... |
24 January 2013
14:59 GMT |
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After posting record quarterly earnings at a scheduled conference call, Apple CEO Tim Cook addressed employees with a heartwarming message thanking everyone for their efforts to get Apple where it is today.
Despite disappointing Wall Street with its disclosures, Tim Cook is not short for words when it comes to patti... |
24 January 2013
14:51 GMT |
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Samsung and T-Mobile have started to send out a new software update to the owners of a Galaxy S II smartphone on Magenta’s network.
The new release is based on Android 4.0.4 and arrives with baseband version T989UVLI4 attached to it, while being available both OTA and via Samsung Kies.
“This update in... |
24 January 2013
14:41 GMT |
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DmC Devil May Cry, the recently released hack and slash game from Capcom, will receive its first bit of DLC next week, in the form of three new costumes for protagonist Dante, on the PS3 and Xbox 360.
The Devil May Cry franchise has been rebooted by developer Ninja Theory with its new DmC title, which reimagines the... |
24 January 2013
14:31 GMT |
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Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion creator Ron Gilbert, and Double Fine Productions have announced The Cave for Mac OS X. The adventure game is immediately available for download via Steam.
The Cave is a new adventure game where you assemble a team of three (from seven) “unlikely adventurers [to] descend into th... |
24 January 2013
14:31 GMT |
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It wasn’t just Harrison Ford and Shia LaBeouf who felt disappointed in the 2008 “Indiana Jones” film “The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” As the video above will confirm, fans too were really offended by it. This is the latest Honest Trailer from Screen Junkies, here by popular demand. ... |
24 January 2013
14:21 GMT |
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Since more and more malware is spreading via social networks, running a full-featured anti-virus tool is absolutely mandatory if you wish to stay on the safe side all the time.
Norton Satellite adds one more security layer to your computer by scanning your Facebook and Twitter feeds for malicious links straight from... |
24 January 2013
14:21 GMT |
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A Google carrier may be a long way off, even with the company testing a short-range wireless network at its headquarters, but a Google ISP already exists. While Google has said for years that it had no plans to become an ISP and that Google Fiber was just an experiment to test new fiber technologies, new apps that ... |
24 January 2013
14:11 GMT |
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Tellico, a collection manager for keeping track of your books, bibliographies, videos, music, comic books, video games, coins, stamps, trading cards, wines, board games, or any custom items, is now at version 2.3.7.
Tellico 2.3.7 can also import data from Amazon.com and IMDb.com, along with z39.50 servers, CDDB data... |
24 January 2013
14:11 GMT |
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In November 2012, we learned that cybercriminals were trying to spread the Wauchos (Gamarue) malware by hiding it in bogus Vodafone MMS emails. At the time, the campaign was mainly targeting users from Germany and the UK, but now it appears that the focus has shifted towards the Netherlands as well.
Experts from Bit... |
24 January 2013
14:01 GMT |
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Today, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of the last year, and posted Lumia sales of 4.4 million units for the time frame, which helped it regain profitability.
Given that the Windows Phone OS and devices running under it are just starting to pick up pace on the... |
24 January 2013
13:51 GMT |
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Astronomers may be looking at stars in distant galaxies, but they're looking at the star nearest to us as well, the sun. There are plenty of instruments constantly scanning the sun, but there's also a lot to learn.A few months ago, NASA launched a short-lived space telescope, the High Resolution Coronal Ima... |
24 January 2013
13:21 GMT |
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Yesterday we learned that Microsoft planned to shut down its South Korean R&D division and focus solely on the Beijing unit, with most employees to be moved to other locations. While some of the workers have received calls to move to Redmond, others have been asked to work in other departments, the sources suggested... |
24 January 2013
13:01 GMT |
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Mobile phone users in the United States interested in the purchase of a new Windows Phone handset on the network of wireless carrier Verizon can now opt in for the long expected Samsung ATIV Odyssey. Initially announced in October and made official at CES2013 earlier this month, the mobile phone is finally availabl... |
24 January 2013
12:51 GMT |
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Faster than expected perhaps, Twitter has made Vine, its six-second video sharing service available to iPhone and iPod touch users. Twitter promises other platforms will follow soon enough.
It's the first Twitter app that's separate from the core service and one of Twitter's biggest departures to date... |
24 January 2013
12:24 GMT |
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The development team at Paradox Interactive working on Crusader Kings II might have launched The Republic, but they are already teasing more content for the grand strategy title using parts of a mysterious new image.
The first teaser can be seen on the official forums in this extensive thread that also houses much o... |
24 January 2013
12:11 GMT |
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There is a plethora of WordPress plugins dealing with creating and embedding image or content sliders on WP-powered sites. Each one of them is unique in their own way, with various levels of customization available.
Sliderly was created by Dallas Read and focuses on a simple slideshow display, with a minimal adminis... |
24 January 2013
12:01 GMT |
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One of the reasons why Curiosity can be so large and operate so many instruments is that it doesn't rely on solar power like the rovers that came before it. Because it has a nuclear power source built in, it can operate when it's all dusty, when the sun isn't that high up or even at night. Still, so ... |
24 January 2013
11:53 GMT |
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Today, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced its official financial results for the fourth quarter of the last year, along with the full-year results, encouraging operating profitability. Just as announced a few weeks back, the company managed to sell 4.4 million Lumia devices in the three months ended Decembe... |
24 January 2013
11:31 GMT |
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A few months ago, Canadian carrier Bell informed its employees that Samsung Galaxy Nexus would soon reach end of life (EOL) status and once its stock inventory was depleted, it would not receive new units. It looks like that wasn’t enough, as the carrier has just slashed the Galaxy Nexus’ price tag to a... |
24 January 2013
11:31 GMT |
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A bomb attack at a funeral in Tuz Khormato, Iraq, killed at least 18 people and injured other 75 to 90 attendants. The number of fatalities was originally counted as 18, but has been increased to 25 and even 42 as the search progressed. M Starz reports that the incident at the Sayyid al-Shuhada mosque was caused b... |
24 January 2013
11:18 GMT |
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While still in Afghanistan, Prince Harry sat down for an exclusive interview about life as a soldier, his mates and how the experience had changed him. The video above shows him also chasing after an ice cream van.
The moment the clip was posted online, it went viral, with many actually falling for it.
What reall... |
24 January 2013
11:13 GMT |
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The Android malware identified as Android.Exprespam has only been around for a few weeks. However, experts say that it might have already infected thousands of devices. According to calculations made by Symantec researchers, the fake market which serves Exprespam, Android Express’ Play, has been visited 3000 t... |
24 January 2013
11:04 GMT |
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For years, Jimmy Kimmel and Matt Damon have been at each other’s throats on his show. Kimmel’s “we ran out of time” bit never ceases to get laughs, but Matt has finally had it: the man has taken matters into his own hands, so to speak.
If you don’t know the whole “we ran out of t... |
24 January 2013
10:59 GMT |
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Miniature computers can be used in many scenarios, and this is the main thing that VIA is banking on in its quest to promote the ARMTiGO small form factor ARM computer.
For consumers, things as large as HTPCs (home-theater personal computers) and even small desktops qualify as SFF systems (small form factor).
The ... |
24 January 2013
10:59 GMT |
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Earlier this month, we learned that a piece of malware called Android.Troj.mdk (MDK) was responsible for the largest mobile botnet China had ever seen, with over 1 million devices being infected. Experts from Symantec say that MDK is actually a new version of an older threat, Android.Backscript.
Researchers have fou... |
24 January 2013
10:55 GMT |
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Nokia Lumia 920 is now available for purchase in the UK via online retailer Clove once again, after running out of stock a few times since its official launch late last year.
The retailer lists the Black, Red and White flavors of the device as currently available for acquisition, with a price tag of £520 ($82... |
24 January 2013
10:54 GMT |
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Tumblr doesn't have any problem driving up traffic, but it's operating in a very crowded space and, much like everyone else, navigating a migration to mobile, so any little bit helps.
The latest addition is a brand new compose window, or pop-up rather, that makes it even easier to post to Tumblr.
Not tha... |
24 January 2013
10:54 GMT |
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OpenNMS, a network management application platform with a long track record of providing solutions for enterprises and carriers, is now at version 1.10.8.
OpenNMS 1.10.8 provides automated and directed discovery, event and notification management, service assurance, and performance measurement.
Highlights of OpenNM... |
24 January 2013
10:42 GMT |
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In November last year, word got out that a planned sequel of “Top Gun” had been put on hold after Tony Scott’s death and would probably never see the light of day. That means that the 3D re-release is the only option available to revisit that movie.
“Top Gun” arrives in IMAX 3D theater... |
24 January 2013
10:41 GMT |
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Some precise information has finally appeared regarding the manufacturing facility that Intel will build for 14nm processor.
Currently, the company has 22nm as the most advanced CPU technology node.
Chipzilla intends to jump to 14nm by 2015 though, which is why it has initiated construction plans for a fab in Irela... |
24 January 2013
10:35 GMT |
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Charlie Morgan is the ball boy that was injured in last night's Chelsea – Swansea game in which Chelsea lost and Eden Hazard got the first red card in his career.
17-year-old Morgan is also the heir to millions, Daily Mail relays. His father is Martin Morgan, a director at the Swansea club and owner of th... |
24 January 2013
10:33 GMT |
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Developer The Creative Assembly and publisher SEGA are announcing that they have plans to launch a Gold Edition of Total War: Shogun 2 for the PC on March 15 of this year.
The new package will include the core game, which takes players back to Japan for a mix of turn-based strategy and real-time tactics, the Rise of... |
24 January 2013
10:32 GMT |
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Bad news for Samsung Galaxy Note II owners in Canada as the hotly-anticipated Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update has been delayed for next month.
Although the handset maker announced a few weeks ago that Galaxy Note II owners would be able to upgrade their smartphones at some point this month, Samsung recently backtrac... |
24 January 2013
10:29 GMT |
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Before she met, fell in love and married Bruce Jenner, Kris Jenner was married to attorney Robert Kardashian, with whom she had 3 daughters, Kim, Kourtney and Khloe, and one son, Rob. Robert’s handwritten diaries have surfaced – and they paint Kris as an abusive, terribly negligent and horrible mother. ... |
24 January 2013
10:26 GMT |
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For those of you waiting on the edge of your seats for the first footage of jOBS to come out, we have some great news! Five Star Institute has just rolled out a one-minute clip showing a scene from the movie. The footage (embedded below) shows Ashton Kutcher and Josh Gad in their roles as Steve Jobs and Steve Woznia... |
24 January 2013
10:25 GMT |
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It’s no secret that Microsoft’s new Windows 8 fails to excite right now, but here’s a new report that does nothing more than to confirm this.
Chitika Insights revealed some brand new statistics concerning the computers running Microsoft’s Windows platform, with Windows 7 remaining the clear l... |
24 January 2013
10:22 GMT |
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Anonymous Canada have launched a news program in which they cover everything that might present an interest to their supporters and to the Canadian public in general.
In the first episode, the hacktivists detail an action initiated by a Montreal company against file-sharing sites and their customers. Anonymous warns... |
24 January 2013
10:22 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is set to make its new BlackBerry 10 platform official on January 30, and is now said to plan the launch of devices running under it in Canada only one week after.
According to a recent article on CrackBerry, the long rumored BlackBerry Z10 smartphone should make an ap... |
24 January 2013
10:20 GMT |
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Nintendo has just posted a brand new video with the upcoming Bayonetta 2 hack and slash title from Platinum Games, this time showing off how the studio is working on it and what the team has in plan for the upcoming game.
Bayonetta 2 is one of the big hardcore games set to appear for the Wii U in the following years... |
24 January 2013
10:13 GMT |
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Sofia Vergara and her fiancé Nick Loeb are already having such serious issues that they will be heading right into couples therapy before walking down the aisle, a new report claims.
The two have been plagued by various nasty rumors since they first started dating and, chances are, they aren’t going to... |
24 January 2013
10:02 GMT |
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Rumors on the upcoming release of LG Nexus 4 at Videotron surfaced more than a week ago and we now have more details on this one.
MobileSyrup reports that Videotron has just announced on its official Twitter account that Nexus 4 will arrive on its shelves on January 30. Unfortunately, there are no details on the pho... |
24 January 2013
10:01 GMT |
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Handheld Group has been selling the Algiz XRW laptop for a while, but the company decided it was time for a new one to debut.
The newcomer keeps the name and measures 10.1 inches in screen diagonal.
It uses a dual-core Intel Atom N2600 processor as the heart (1.6 GHz) and backs it up with 4 GB RAM.
It also boasts ... |
24 January 2013
09:59 GMT |
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The development team at Ubisoft Montpellier that created ZombiU says that it explored the possibility of adding a cooperative game mode to the undead-powered title, but did not do so because of time-related constraints.
Guillaume Brunier, a producer working on ZombiU, tells the Nintendo World Report that, “We ... |
24 January 2013
09:59 GMT |
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League of Legends is finally rolling out for the Mac, initially as a Public Beta Environment (PBE) release for game testers, then (soon) as an open beta for everyone interested.
League of Legends is a multiplayer online battle arena game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by the popular Defense of the A... |
24 January 2013
09:56 GMT |
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Following its wreaking havoc on crops in South and Central America, and in Africa, a coffee fungus know to science as Hemileia vastatrix has now made its way into Costa Rica, leaving the country's high officials with no choice except declare a state of emergency. Nature reports that, according to Vice Presiden... |
24 January 2013
09:53 GMT |
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A group of privacy advocates, Internet activists and journalists have published an open letter to Skype, asking Microsoft to provide transparency reports, as more users had complained that their calls were being intercepted. Basically, it all comes down to TOM-Skype, the Chinese version of the Microsoft VoIP platfor... |
24 January 2013
09:52 GMT |
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Another day, another report about a next-generation console, this time with a brand new leak targeting the PlayStation 4 (codenamed Orbis) by confirming its rumored specifications, its features, and different other details about Sony's next home console.
We were treated with a pretty big leak earlier this week ... |
24 January 2013
09:52 GMT |
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High school senior Jacob Rudolph is filmed accepting an award from his class, and it is a moment that he will remember, as it is also the time he came out as LGBT.
Advocate mentions that Rudolph was getting the Best Actor award. He starts off his speech by poking fun of the fact that his love for acting might be a b... |
24 January 2013
09:51 GMT |
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Alan Cox, one of the former developers and Linux kernel maintainers that used to be second in command to Linus Torvalds up until a few years ago, has announced that he's retiring from the Linux world and from his Intel position. Just a couple of days later after he criticized Fedora 18, considering it as useful... |
24 January 2013
09:49 GMT |
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The Secretariat of the Security and Defence Committee of Finland’s Ministry of Defence has finally published the long-awaited Cyber Security Strategy.
According to the government’s vision for cyber security, by 2016, the country will become a “global forerunner in cyber threat preparedness and in m... |
24 January 2013
09:46 GMT |
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The fast switch towards mobile devices has left most of the big web players struggling to react. While Google, Facebook and everyone else made the switch as well and their apps are some of the most popular around, there still seems to be perceived problem and these companies aren't seen as "mobile" yet.
That�... |
24 January 2013
09:42 GMT |
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What with all this Beyonce backlash going on right now, it’s a must that we also remember to smile: for instance, countless media outlets are saying they have discovered the secret to Kelly Clarkson’s ability to sing live when Beyonce only mimed.
Stuffed mushrooms.
TMZ writes that, before the big day, ... |
24 January 2013
09:40 GMT |
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As many people have, no doubt, been able to guess by now, 2013 will bring a further rise in the level of tablet shipments. ABI Research even has a figure: 145 million. The research firm thinks that new market entrants and more affordable designs will lead to it. Businesses will become more welcoming towards the d... |
24 January 2013
09:38 GMT |
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IKEA is being criticized by the GLBT community for embodying a transgender stereotype in its latest commercial, in Thailand. As we reported earlier, The Thai Transgender Alliance have expressed that they believe the ad, featured again above, mocks the female character. I have uncovered another ad that raised eyeb... |
24 January 2013
09:33 GMT |
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Sega and Gearbox Software have just posted a brand new and quite awesome trailer for their upcoming Aliens: Colonial Marines shooter, this time showing off some of the most intense sequences from the game as well as plenty of encounters between the marines and the deadly xenomorphs.
Aliens: Colonial Marines continue... |
24 January 2013
09:24 GMT |
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BioWare is giving players the first chance to take a look at the content that will be introduced in the Rise of the Hutt Cartel expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic via a new impressive video.
Those who pre-order the expansion will get access to extra content including:
– The Dr. Oggurobb Hutt Holostatue &ndas... |
24 January 2013
09:23 GMT |
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HBO’s “Girls” won big at the Golden Globes 2013, with Lena Dunham finally getting to reap the benefits after all those years of hard work. A reality show based on the series is now in the works, ABC News reports.
It all started with a Craigslist ad scouting for girls for a new project of unscripte... |
24 January 2013
09:17 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced a couple of days ago that it would launch the Surface Windows 8 Pro on February 9, but the United States and Canada are the only two countries that will get the device.
Even though Microsoft is very likely to change its plans in a couple of months and bring the tablet in some other markets to... |
24 January 2013
09:16 GMT |
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Twitter is starting to act more like a big tech company, Facebook, Google and so on, that it is and isn't in equal measure. The biggest example is the slow expansion beyond the core product, like the up and coming video-sharing addition based on Vine, the company Twitter bought last year.
The first video tweet,... |
24 January 2013
09:13 GMT |
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Members of the Turkish Ajan hacker collective have breached and defaced the Argentinian website of car manufacturer Renault (Renault.com.ar).
The hackers have altered one section of the website, configuring it to redirect visitors to a defacement page.
In addition, they’ve published a file which contain... |
24 January 2013
09:10 GMT |
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Coolers keyed to specific CPU sockets don't seem to be very popular anymore, as even Cooler Master chose to make its latest closed-loop liquid coolers compatible with both Intel and AM processors.
Indeed, the Seidon 120XL and 240M are compatible with every CPU from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, even socket... |
24 January 2013
09:07 GMT |
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HitmanPro has been updated today to version 3.7.1 build 186. The list of changes is not rich in entries, but it announces a fresh option and a couple of repairs.
New in this release is the possibility to erase USB flash drives straight from the context menu in Kickstart dialog. This removes the Kickstart boot loader... |
24 January 2013
08:53 GMT |
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Considering the kind of media attention Lance Armstrong has been commanding for years, it’s not really that much of a surprise to hear that a biopic is being made after he admitted to using performance enhancing drugs for his Tour de France wins. If he’s asked, Bradley Cooper would gladly play him.
The ... |
24 January 2013
08:50 GMT |
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We’ve already got it confirmed that Samsung will launch the Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet next month at Mobile World Congress 2013.There are some rumors pointing to a possible March release on the market, though we’re still waiting for Samsung to confirm these speculations as well.Until then, the folks at SamMob... |
24 January 2013
08:50 GMT |
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Dell is currently negotiating a buyout with Silver Lake Management and, according to various reports, Microsoft is one of the companies that could provide funding.
Even though such a deal would really come in handy for Microsoft’s development in the hardware business, it may also affect its current collaborati... |
24 January 2013
08:48 GMT |
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BioShock Infinite has just received a brand new video that promotes the special Industrial Revolution pre-order bonus, which includes special in-game items, 500 bonus currency, and the actual Industrial Revolution mini-game.
Irrational Games is getting ready to debut their upcoming BioShock Infinite game and we alre... |
24 January 2013
08:47 GMT |
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Belgian Player Eden Hazard got a red card yesterday night for kicking a ball boy in the Chelsea match against Swansea. Teams were playing in the League Cup semifinal.
There have been many debates on the 17-year-old boy not only not passing the ball fast enough, but also hogging it by literally laying on top of it.
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24 January 2013
08:42 GMT |
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Robert Shingledecker announced the immediate availability for download of the Tiny Core 4.7.4 Linux operating system.
Tiny Core is a distribution that is highly modular and made use of with community-built extensions. Its ultimate goal is to create an operating system that is both easy to use and very small.
Highli... |
24 January 2013
08:34 GMT |
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One of IKEA’s most recent ads for Thailand shows a man and a woman walking into an IKEA store, when she’s so shocked by what she sees that she forgets to hide the fact that she’s transgender. Activists are not amused.
The Thai Transgender Alliance has written an open letter to IKEA demanding furth... |
24 January 2013
08:33 GMT |
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Pranksters are once again using the Global Associated News website to trick users into believing that an actor has died. This time, the victim is Mickey Rourke and the story says he has died in a snowboarding accident.
“Witnesses indicate that Mickey Rourke lost control of his snowboard and struck a tree at a ... |
24 January 2013
08:33 GMT |
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Intel may have a precise set of guidelines for what is an ultrabook and what isn't, but LG doesn't mind bending them a bit if it means it can provide a higher functionality to its customers.
The results of its latest experiments is the laptop mentioned in the title, the U560, which is, true enough, a bit ... |
24 January 2013
08:26 GMT |
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The big announcement teased by Crytek earlier this week has just been unveiled, in the form of an open multiplayer beta for Crysis 3, which will start on January 29 on the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.
Crysis 3 is out next month and will feature, just like its predecessor, both a single-player mode and a multiplayer one.
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24 January 2013
08:23 GMT |
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Jennifer Lopez is still busily promoting her brand new movie, so she stopped by Good Morning America the other day to talk about it. Check out the video below to hear her describe “Parker.”
If “Out of Sight” and “Transporter” had a baby, “Parker” would be it, Jennifer ... |
24 January 2013
08:16 GMT |
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Finish handset manufacturer Nokia has just published its quarterly earnings for the last three months of 2012 and things seem to be looking good for the first time.
It appears that the company successfully completed the transition to Windows Phone platform and that is shown in the figures as well.
However, there is... |
24 January 2013
08:15 GMT |
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Work on Maxthon 4.0.3 has progressed and today the developer released today a fresh release candidate build. The current revision number is 4.0.3.2000 and the focus fell on bug fixing, stability improvements and user interaction with the interface.
New things have also been included in this version. Among them is th... |
24 January 2013
08:12 GMT |
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A helicopter crash killed 2 and left 9 injured in London last week. As reported, bad weather caused the pilot to fly lower and lower, eventually hitting a crane on top of a building.
The chopper crashed in Vauxhall, in a busy area of the capital city of England, at a time when commuter traffic was high. He collided ... |
24 January 2013
08:07 GMT |
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The infamous Apple Maps application has done it again! As Apple continues to work on the service, a bar in Portland, Oregon is losing thousands of dollars in business. What’s the connection, you ask?
It’s Apple Maps. Customers are using it on their iPhones to get directions to the bar, but the ill-fated ... |
24 January 2013
08:06 GMT |
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According to Cancer Research UK, a cancer research and awareness charity in the United Kingdom, it is only a matter of years before the number of reported prostate cancer cases trebles.
More precisely, the specialists working with this organization believe that, courtesy of several scientific breakthroughs and of m... |
24 January 2013
08:06 GMT |
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VIA has released a brand new firmware for the VL811 hub controller, which brings a handful of fixes, as well as a consolidated firmware code. For starters, USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 issues have been resolved. The firmware code has been optimized and consolidated, so it can offer stability for the USB hub controller as well... |
24 January 2013
08:04 GMT |
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According to Andrew Dodd's recent Twitter activity, AMD will most likely release the Catalyst 13.2 beta driver at some point during next week. Notes on the issues solved by the update are not yet available to the public.If you want to try an unofficial version, Benchmark3D offers a modded driver of the 13.2 beta... |
24 January 2013
08:04 GMT |
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CodeWeavers has released a new version of CrossOver for Mac dealing a blow to all the nasty bugs reported by users since the debut of version 12 a while back.
“I am delighted to announce that CodeWeavers has just released CrossOver 12.1 for both Mac OS X and Linux,” says CodeWeavers’ Josh Dubois. &... |
24 January 2013
08:01 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has yet to confirm plans on bringing a new Android-based flagship smartphone to the market in the first half of the year, yet more rumors on the matter are now available.
According to a recent post on mt.co.kr, the company is expecting the new device to be highly popular amon... |
24 January 2013
07:58 GMT |
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It took a while, but Amazon finally got around to launching its two popular e-book readers to the north of the United States. Canadians don't have to wait any longer for them.
Both the Kindle and the Kindle Paperwhite are now shipping in the country, for $89 and $199 Canadian dollars, respectively.
The price i... |
24 January 2013
07:49 GMT |
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Brian Manderville has announced that the “Legacy” branch of Descent|OS has been updated to version 3.0.2.
Descent|OS 3.0.2 may come as a surprise because the developer has already announced that he started the production for version 4.0 and that it will be based on Debian, rather than Ubuntu.
"Hello ev... |
24 January 2013
07:47 GMT |
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President Obama's inaugural speech, which mentioned gay rights for the first time in history, has touched the hearts of members of the LGBT community. An 11-year-old girl by the name of Sadie thought of writing a speech of her own, because she feels she has been forgotten by politicians in their target groups. ... |
24 January 2013
07:45 GMT |
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After confirming yesterday that it was going to re-release The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker on the Wii U platform, Nintendo has unveiled a batch of screenshots that compare the original version of Wind Waker on the GameCube with the HD one that’s going to appear on the Wii U.
Nintendo's Legend of Zelda... |
24 January 2013
07:42 GMT |
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The Cave is a mix between platforming and adventure that’s created by the Double Fine team, with Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer serving as directors, designed to show off the best elements of both genres. I chuckled for the first time less than one minute after starting the game, as the main storyteller revealed ... |
24 January 2013
07:39 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless customers interested in the purchase of a new Galaxy Note II smartphone on the network of their carrier can now have it for only $199.99 (€150) if making the purchase through Amazon Wireless. The handset is available at this price tag with the signing of a two-year contract agreement with the ... |
24 January 2013
07:31 GMT |
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If we are to trust all unofficial reports, Windows 8 isn’t selling too well, with the UI changes and the lack of a Start Menu cited as two of the main reasons for its rather poor sales performance. Deviantart user RVanhauwere has created a Windows 8 concept that mixes the traditional Start Menu with the newly ... |
24 January 2013
07:25 GMT |
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Developers Infinite Game Publishing and Piranha Games are giving fans of MechWarrior Online access to a new mech to use in the game, Death’s Knell, one of the machines that have been the most requested by the player community.
The new mech has 176 points of armor to protect itself from enemy attack and is arme... |
24 January 2013
07:18 GMT |
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After confirming yesterday that it's going to release Resident Evil: Revelations on the PC, PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii U, Capcom has now posted a big batch of screenshots from the high-definition version of the upcoming survival game that originally appeared on the 3DS.
Resident Evil: Revelations impressed quite a ... |
24 January 2013
07:15 GMT |
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Open Road Films and Mark Hulme's Five Star Feature Films have scheduled the jOBS biopic starring Ashton Kutcher to debut in theaters on April 19, the Hollywood Reporter confirms.
Starring Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs and Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak, jOBS will be featured as the Sundance Festival’s closing f... |
24 January 2013
07:14 GMT |
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Back in October 2012, a Southern District of California judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed against Sony as a result of the PlayStation Network hack. However, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a considerable fine, accusing the company of failing to keep customer informat... |
24 January 2013
07:13 GMT |
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Google is building an experimental wireless network at its headquarters in Mountain View. The network would operate at frequencies not used by current carriers or WiFi networks, but are used by Clearwire in the US for its WiMAX service.
Google has made no comments about the network, but filings to the FCC asking fo... |
24 January 2013
07:11 GMT |
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Opera Software’s mobile browsers are increasingly popular among end users, and the latest data coming from the company is meant to prove that once again.
In December 2012, the company’s Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers have seen the greatest growth in usage on a monthly basis since their launch in 2... |
24 January 2013
07:11 GMT |
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One week after it kicked off testing to UC Browser 8.9 for Java phones, the guys over at UCWeb announce the final version is now available for download. The new browser brings several new features, such as Incognito Browser and Select & Copy. Obviously, a bunch of bug fixes have been added as well. It is also worth ... |
24 January 2013
07:05 GMT |
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Logitech didn't have a good year in 2012, not at all, as we have written here. The video conferencing business burned it badly, and now we've found out about another division that cost Logitech more than it earned it. As the title says, the side of the business responsible for the harmony remote control p... |
24 January 2013
06:59 GMT |
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Designer Alexander Kormishin has hit nowhereelse.fr with a bunch of conceptual images of the iPhone 6 envisioning a multi-color lineup for Apple’s next generation of smartphones. Kormishin says his design depicts the iPhone 5S, but if history bears any indication, Apple will only redesign the iPhone’s ch... |
24 January 2013
06:41 GMT |
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Nokia has confirmed that the Lumia 920 will soon make its debut in Jordan. This will be the first country in the region to get Nokia’s Windows Phone flagship handset, but others may follow soon.
According to MyNokiaBlog, customers that pre-order the Lumia 920 will also receive a Wireless Charging Pillow for fr... |
24 January 2013
06:31 GMT |
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Nokia 206 was officially announced back in late November and the Finnish company promised that the feature phones would be available for purchase beginning Q4 2012 for around $65/€45.
According to Nokia, this budget-friendly handset is aimed at the emerging market, hence the cheap price and low features.
Alth... |
24 January 2013
06:21 GMT |
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Google’s Nexus 7 Android tablet has seen great demand on the market, mainly due to its high-end specifications and low price tag, and it seems that Samsung might follow suit as well this year. According to the latest reports on the matter, the South Korean mobile phone maker is gearing up for the launch of a ... |
24 January 2013
06:21 GMT |
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Microsoft has released an update for its Modern Sports app a couple of days ago, but the available release notes only pointed to a small number of changes. The company, however, decided to detail all these improvements in a post on its official Bing blog, revealing that the app now comes with no more, no less than 1... |
24 January 2013
06:11 GMT |
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President Obama's Inauguration this year has brought on beautiful moments and a bit of controversy, but perhaps nobody noticed what was flying over the Washington monument. Fortunately, YouTube user MIB Alien did, and he rushed to upload this interesting clip on the video sharing site. The footage is part of... |
24 January 2013
05:57 GMT |
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Beyonce used a pre-recorded track while she appeared to be singing live the National Anthem at the 2013 Presidential Inauguration, but she didn’t think she was doing something wrong, says a new report.
Though the star is yet to comment on the hubbub in the aftermath of her performance, sources close to her ar... |
24 January 2013
05:56 GMT |
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Google updated the beta channel for Chrome browser. The fresh revision is 25.0.1364.45 and it is currently available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame).
The developer worked to fix a slew of issues as well as improve the overall stability of the browser. However, t... |
24 January 2013
05:54 GMT |
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The development team at Telltale Games is launching a new video for The Walking Dead, designed to show players the community stats linked to the fifth episode of the first season, No Time Left.
If you have not yet played No Time Left, the video includes significant spoilers that will lessen your enjoyment of the gam... |
24 January 2013
05:54 GMT |
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Firefox is getting a major redesign, codenamed Australis. Of course, Firefox has been "getting" this redesign since 2011 and Mozilla doesn't seem that much closer to bringing it to fruition. In fact, the only visible change that is the result, an indirect result at that, of the Australis project is the download... |
24 January 2013
05:54 GMT |
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Blackmailing hackers from the Rex Mundi collective are back. After unsuccessfully trying to extort money from Drake International, now they’ve set sights on Belgian financial institution Buy Way. The hackers claim to have breached the company’s website, buyway.be. “We copied a table from the serve... |
24 January 2013
05:49 GMT |
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Even though Microsoft has revealed that it had managed to sell a total of 60 million Windows 8 copies in just two months after launch, it appears that company executives are actually very disappointed with the overall sales performance of its new operating system. Citing insiders, The Register reports that Microsoft... |
24 January 2013
05:46 GMT |
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After years of toil, Kodak can finally see a clear light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, and it isn't because of the successful sale of that patent portfolio that Apple tried to contest for a while.
The reason Kodak believes it might succeed in recovering from its bankruptcy is the $844 million financing ... |
24 January 2013
05:46 GMT |
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Sony has just been fined a whopping £250,000 ($395,775/€297,132) by UK authority The Information Commissioner's Office over the now-infamous PSN hacking scandal from 2011, as the ICO believes the Japanese company breached the special Data Protection Act by not securing its online systems.
Sony was in... |
24 January 2013
05:45 GMT |
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Most people think about their New Year's resolutions long before a brand new (and more or less sunshiny) month of January makes its debut.
Still, when one happens to be the President of the United States, one should expect to receive “need-to-do” lists from other people, such as the environmentalis... |
24 January 2013
05:40 GMT |
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After years of controversy, Lance Armstrong admitted to Oprah that he’d been doping since the mid-‘90s, stressing that he would not have won his 7 Tour de France titles without the performance enhancing drugs. That was the easiest part, it turns out.
A class-action lawsuit against the disgraced cyclist a... |
24 January 2013
05:36 GMT |
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The development team at Fatshark and publisher Paradox Interactive are giving players who are engaged with War of the Roses a chance to fight as a new type of soldier via the new Gallowglass Mercenary Pack, which can be downloaded for free.
The Gallowglass were mercenary bands from Ireland that flocked to England du... |
24 January 2013
05:34 GMT |
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Netrunner 12.12.1, a GNU/Linux distribution based on Kubuntu, featuring KDE as the default desktop environment, and integrating many GNOME/GTK+ programs to make it Ubuntu compatible, has been released on January 23.
Netrunner 12.12.1 comes with mostly updates, but some of them are quite important, as we can see belo... |
24 January 2013
05:30 GMT |
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Police have encountered new evidence in the case of toddler Rehma Sabir, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who died in the hospital on January 16.
Two days earlier, she had been admitted with serious head injuries, which officials believe were provoked by her nanny, Aisling McCarthy Brady.
A pillow, a blanket and some b... |
24 January 2013
05:26 GMT |
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The first quarter of each year is generally a slow purchasing period for electronics, but that’s only part of the story when it comes to why Sharp has almost stopped producing 9.7-inch panels for the Apple iPad. Industry sources cited by the hit-and-miss trade publication DigiTimes say production of the larger... |
24 January 2013
05:24 GMT |
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What we know:
Watch Dogs is an upcoming open-world game, made by Ubisoft's Montreal studio and set to be published by the French company.
The game was one of the biggest surprises of E3 2012, as Ubisoft managed to keep a tight lid on the impressive game.
Watch Dogs is an open-world experience, as players need... |
24 January 2013
05:18 GMT |
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Both PETA and several other animal rights activists – celebrities Brigitte Bardot and Steven Patrick Morrissey included – are now asking that 38-year-old Mali, the world's loneliest elephant, move to Thailand as soon as possible.
As these greenheads explain, Mali has been living alone at a zoo in the Philippin... |
24 January 2013
05:17 GMT |
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In case you forgot, in October last year, while the American Idol auditions for the new season were still underway, Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey got into an extremely nasty spat and, yes, video of it leaked online. The audition that caused it all is above.
Below, embedded at the end of this blog post, is the leak v... |
24 January 2013
05:15 GMT |
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You'd think that, by now, the entertainment industry would have learned not to poke a hornet's nest or, in this case, Kim Dotcom. Their great plan to strike fear into the hearts of pirates everywhere by taking down MegaUpload and Dotcom in a spectacular fashion backfired in a big way. They got MegaUpload k... |
24 January 2013
05:14 GMT |
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Since there already are a bunch of Windows 8 tablets based on x86 CPUs, Motorola figured it was time for a slate that didn't target the same consumer segment as the rest. In fact, Motorola Solutions, a sister company to Motorola Mobility, has decided not to target the consumer segment at all. Instead, it has c... |
24 January 2013
05:12 GMT |
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Apple this week disclosed its initial quarterly earnings for 2013 posting record revenue and net profit, as well as tens of millions of gadgets from iPhones and iPads, to Macs and iPods. In the computer department (everything else Apple sells is a computer, after all), the company posted sales of 4.1 million Macs. T... |
24 January 2013
05:09 GMT |
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Video game publisher Atlus is officially confirming that it is working on Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem, a game that was first revealed yesterday during an announcement from Nintendo.
The official announcement is pretty sparse when it comes to details, but it seems that development work on the new game will be ha... |
24 January 2013
05:06 GMT |
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Rumored for years to introduce a full-fledged television solution, Apple continues to experiment with its Apple TV set-top box which the company labels as a hobby.
However, with 2 million units sold just this past quarter, the puck-sized black box is anything but a toy.
During yesterday’s conference call, App... |
24 January 2013
04:58 GMT |
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Organic Light Emitting Diodes are the youngest consumer display technology, more or less, which is why Samsung is making such a fuss over surpassing the 300 million panel production mark.
Samsung Display Co., LTD. began mass production of OLED panels back in January 2007, and while OLED didn't catch on very qu... |
24 January 2013
04:57 GMT |
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Kelly Osbourne must be busy getting ready for her big wedding day as we speak: Us Weekly reports that the television star got engaged to boyfriend Matthew Mosshart a few weeks before Christmas.
If she did, Kelly is not saying anything about it, but perhaps she’s learned from her previous romance to keep more ... |
24 January 2013
04:54 GMT |
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During this year's annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, a team of researchers have made it public news that, as surprising as this may sound, aggression is actually a normal reaction to cuteness. More precisely, those who find themselves saying things such as “I could eat ... |
24 January 2013
04:53 GMT |
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4MLinux Allinone Edition, a Linux distro focusing on the following 4M editions: Maintenance (system rescue Live CD), Multimedia (e.g., playing video DVDs), Miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and Mystery (Linux games), is now at version 5.1 Beta.
Highlights of 4MLinux Allinone Edition 5.1 Beta:
• Wine has bee... |
24 January 2013
04:51 GMT |
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During Apple’s conference call disclosing the numbers for Q1 2013, CEO Tim Cook advised analysts to turn a blind eye to rumors coming from the supply chain for sales projections.
After the Wall Street Journal published its infamous report saying Apple had cut its iPhone 5 part orders on low demand, the company... |
24 January 2013
04:44 GMT |
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United States officials have insisted on numerous occasions that the Shamoon malware, the one used in the cyberattacks against Saudi Aramco, is the work of Iran. However, new evidence suggests that it could be the work of an extremist Islamist group based in Saudi Arabia.
US authorities have said that a malware deve... |
24 January 2013
04:43 GMT |
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After a long, long wait, Google Docs/Drive added offline support only a few months ago. But it only worked for documents. Now, Google is adding support for presentations as well. Slides now works in offline mode, meaning you can create, edit and present without an internet connection.
You do need to enable the featu... |
24 January 2013
04:41 GMT |
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Sony has just revealed the last part of its January Sale on the PlayStation Store in the PAL region, slashing the prices of great games like Max Payne 3, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition, or Red Dead Redemption.
Plenty of impressive deals have been run by Sony across its... |
24 January 2013
04:38 GMT |
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Nokia Asha 306 hit shelves back in July and is now one of the most popular Asha series handsets available in emerging markets.
The budget-friendly handset runs the Finnish company’s latest S40 UI and offers basic phone features, along with some exclusive Nokia apps and services.
Today, Nokia announced the Ash... |
24 January 2013
04:37 GMT |
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Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso has created controversy with statements he made on the issue of state support for the elderly, during a meeting on social security. Aso speaks about how the financial responsibility for caring for senior citizens lies on those in Japan's work force. The country is facing an agin... |
24 January 2013
04:34 GMT |
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Lindsay Lohan’s acting career isn’t going anywhere, by the looks of things. After the Lifetime biopic “Liz and Dick” fell flat with audiences and even flatter with critics, her brand new film, “The Canyons,” is being rejected by some of the biggest film festivals in the US.
After... |
24 January 2013
04:31 GMT |
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Apple is planning to beef up the next major version of its mobile operating system with a bunch of new APIs (application programming interface) and frameworks that will pave the way for the best mobile apps.
Apple has posted an advertisement on its Jobs site announcing that the Cupertino giant is seeking a software ... |
24 January 2013
04:25 GMT |
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A new version of 3DMark specifically aimed at Windows 8 computers was expected this month, but Futuremark says that a delay is very likely due to a number of problems.
One of the reasons is the fact that working with several partners and collecting their data takes longer than expected, Futuremark said in a new pres... |
24 January 2013
04:22 GMT |
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Adobe released a new update for Flash Player 11.6. The new build is 11.6.602.155 and it is available for both Windows and Mac either through direct download or through the automatic background update mechanism.
The current revision adds improvements touching on graphics data query and full screen permission dialog U... |
24 January 2013
04:21 GMT |
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Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters have managed to disrupt the operations of 10 US financial institutions as part of the 7th week of Operation Ababil 2. Their latest targets, according to the Hilf-ol-Fozoul blog, are the websites of Zions Bank, Capital One and, for the first time since the campaign has started, Hunt... |
24 January 2013
04:18 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has announced the upcoming availability of its Galaxy Grand smartphone on its homeland market via three major carriers there.
Officially unveiled back in December 2012, the smartphone will arrive on shelves in South Korea with a series of hardware modifications, meant to make... |
24 January 2013
04:17 GMT |
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Many people can be around or near the scene of a crime by the time the police gets there, and since it is sometimes impossible, not to mention impractical, to arrest everyone or take them all to the station for questioning, an alternative is needed.
Usually, police officers take the names and contact information of ... |
24 January 2013
04:13 GMT |
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The first milestone release of the Phoronix Test Suite 4.4 (Forsand) was announced on January 23, by Michael Larabel.
Phoronix Test Suite 4.4 Milestone 1 brings the following changes:
• 'common-dependencies' concept to PTS External Dependencies has been introduced;
• The reporting of some alread... |
24 January 2013
04:12 GMT |
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Openly gay country singer Chely Wright has an extraordinary piece of news to share with her fans and the world: she and her wife Lauren Blitzer, a Sony Music executive, are pregnant.
Check out the video below to hear them make the announcement on Howard Bragman’s “Gwissues” YouTube show.
Chely i... |
24 January 2013
04:12 GMT |
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Google is changing the way image search works, taking a cue from its own tablet image search which in turn is very similar to how Yahoo Image Search works, among others. In short, clicking on image results will bring up a larger preview of the image along with a slideshow of the rest of the results.
This way, users ... |
24 January 2013
04:11 GMT |
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Not long after a dolphin needed help from a group of divers in order to free itself from a fishing line that kept it from moving swiftly through the water, a Bald Eagle from Naples, Florida found itself in a rather similar situation. Thus, the bird was spotted hanging upside down from a tree, courtesy of a fishing ... |
24 January 2013
04:07 GMT |
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A 1-year-old girl is flung from a car in this frightening clip of a car accident, posted on YouTube. This amazing video comes from Russia, and it was originally uploaded a few days ago.
You can see an SUV skidding on what is probably black ice. The car crashes into an incoming tractor trailer, and suffers visible da... |
24 January 2013
03:59 GMT |
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Hiroyuki Maruyama, the leader of developer G. Rev, says that the current Microsoft policy for Points currency exchanges is unfair to Japanese developers who are being punished for the relative strength of their own Yen against the dollars.
Speaking via Twitter and translated by Eurogamer, the developer says, “... |
24 January 2013
03:59 GMT |
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has just received a brand new update on the PC platform, via Steam, which adds a new game mode in the form of Deathmatch, while making other balancing changes and different smaller improvements. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive came out in August of last year and has since impressed ... |
24 January 2013
03:58 GMT |
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While Advanced Micro Devices reached a revenue of $5.42 billion / 4.08 billion, it actually incurred a large monetary loss in the fourth quarter of 2012, and 2012 as a whole. What we see now is a company that actually accumulated a profit during the December quarter.
The sum of $3.8 billion is definitely large (2.8... |
24 January 2013
03:58 GMT |
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Video game publisher Ubisoft announces that its free-to-play PC-based shooter Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Online is now updated to version 0.10.0 and that gamers also have access to the Triton pack, which includes a number of avatars, armor and weapons with a naval theme. The biggest addition for 0.10.0 is the ne... |
24 January 2013
03:54 GMT |
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Adobe has released new versions of Flash Player and AIR so that developers can target their AIR application to use in Retina (hiDPI) display on supported Macs. Flash Player 11.6.602.155 Beta supports Mac Retina (hiDPI) displays for Adobe AIR applications, according to the latest release notes. Applications will ren... |
24 January 2013
03:53 GMT |
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Hacktivists of the Mauritania Hacker Team have breached and defaced a number of 10 websites belonging to various Bangladeshi government organizations and ministries.
According to HackRead, the list of targets includes the Ministry of Social Welfare, the Ministry of Labour and Employment, the Ministry of Disaster Man... |
24 January 2013
03:49 GMT |
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Microsoft has just unveiled a new version of its popular Skype VoIP application, but the company hasn’t provided any release notes for this build.
Skype 6.1.32.129 still works on all Windows versions, including Windows 8 in the desktop mode, and since no changelog is available, this new build is very likely to... |
24 January 2013
03:48 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is expected to unveil to the world a new high-end Android-based smartphone next month, one that will supposedly sport the name of HTC M7 when put on shelves.
The handset hasn’t been officially confirmed for the time being, but rumor has it that it will be announced... |
24 January 2013
03:45 GMT |
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Last week, I reported about Subway customers' concerns with the size of their Footlong sandwich, that appears to be missing either half an inch or a full inch (1.27 - 2.54 cm). Just a few days after news broke out, with a publication of a post regarding the size of the product on Facebook, two men are suin... |
24 January 2013
03:42 GMT |
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This past Wednesday, the scientific journal Nature witnessed the publication of a report stating that a team of scientists had succeeded in taking all of William Shakespeare's sonnets and encoding them in DNA. For those unaware, DNA (i.e. deoxyribonucleic acid, if one prefers) is basically a molecule whose sol... |
24 January 2013
03:37 GMT |
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Activision has confirmed that it's going to run a special Double XP weekend for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 between January 25 and January 28, in order to hype up the release of the upcoming Revolution map pack DLC.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 came out in November and has impressed millions of shooters fans with it... |
24 January 2013
03:33 GMT |
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Microsoft has recently confirmed that an official fix for the Windows RT update bug would be released in early February, but a Surface support team member found a workaround that seems to fix the issue in some cases. Basically, it all comes down to this app troubleshooter that needs to be downloaded on an affected W... |
24 January 2013
03:27 GMT |
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Google Chrome, a browser built on the WebKit layout engine that aims to be minimalistic and versatile at the same time, is now at version 25.0.1364.45.
A new Beta version of Google Chrome is now out for Linux users and it marks yet another milestone in development, as the browser now moves into the 25.x branch.
Hig... |
24 January 2013
03:24 GMT |
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The development team at 343 Industries says that it plans to introduce the best maps created by the player community to the multiplayer side of Halo 4 in about two weeks, although a clear date will be announced later.
Jessica Shea, the leader of Halo Waypoint, has stated via her official Twitter that, “We'... |
24 January 2013
03:22 GMT |
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Three individuals, suspected of developing and distributing the notorious Gozi malware, have been charged in a Manhattan federal court.
According to the US Department of Justice, the Gozi malware has infected more than one million computers, causing losses totaling tens of millions of dollars.
The suspects are Niki... |
24 January 2013
03:20 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices has proudly announced that it was awarded two prizes on January 10, at CES 2013, for "outstanding individual contribution to the business" and a certain marketing campaign. AMD was awarded two Eggie awards at the second annual Newegg Eggie Awards on January 10, 2013, at the Consumer Electroni... |
24 January 2013
03:16 GMT |
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Fox and ABC have announced that two of their new shows won’t be returning to the small screen. “Ben and Kate” and “Don’t Trust the B—in Apartment 23” have been axed, with the latter not even getting to air the remaining episodes of the season.
As it happens, Fox has said th... |
24 January 2013
03:10 GMT |
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After a leak earlier this week, Sony has revealed not one but four different special editions of the upcoming The Last of Us that will go on sale on May 7 alongside the actual game, each with different bonuses and pre-order incentives.
The Last of Us is the next big project from Uncharted developer Naughty Dog for t... |
24 January 2013
03:03 GMT |
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Even though Internet Explorer has been improved quite a lot in the last few years, Microsoft no longer gets angry when someone pokes fun at its in-house browser. Instead, the Redmond-based technology company agrees that Internet Explorer wasn’t the top choice a long time ago, but it tries to show everyone that... |
24 January 2013
03:02 GMT |
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Japanese mobile phone maker Sony is expected to bring to the market in the not too distant future an Android-based device that would fall in the phablet category, and which might sport a 6.44-inch screen.
Said display was spotted online recently, suggested to be indeed planned for inclusion on one of the company&rs... |
24 January 2013
02:55 GMT |
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Following protests, Morocco's Justice Minister Mustapha Ramid has announced that the country will change its law on allowing rapists to go free if they marry their victims.
Al Jazeera writes that demonstrations were triggered by the suicide of a 16-year-old rape victim in March 2012. She had been forced, by the... |
24 January 2013
02:46 GMT |
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Owners of a Nokia Lumia 900 smartphone on the airwaves of AT&T in the United States should soon receive an update to the newer Windows Phone 7.8 operating system, after various carriers worldwide have confirmed its near release.
Yesterday, the update was spotted on Nokia’s servers for AT&T’s Lumia 900 h... |
24 January 2013
02:43 GMT |
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The development team in charge of the Skylanders franchise at publisher Activision announces that two new Giant characters are now added to the franchise, giving players even more toys to collect and new ways to approach their video game adventures.
Thumpback is a water-based Giant who once was a member of the pirat... |
24 January 2013
02:43 GMT |
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CrossOver Linux, an application based on Wine which allows users to install popular Windows applications and PC games on a Linux computer, is now at version 12.1.0 CrossOver Linux is making great strides for Linux and the new version fixes quite a few problems, not to mentions a nasty bug on Unity. “On Linux,... |
24 January 2013
02:38 GMT |
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Just last week, Jenelle Evans, the troubled star of MTV’s reality show “Teen Mom,” announced that she and husband of 2 months Courtland Rogers were expecting their first child together. She’s now saying on Twitter that she wants a divorce “ASAP.”
Those who watch “Teen Mom&rd... |
24 January 2013
02:36 GMT |
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Apple has announced the financial results for the first fiscal quarter of 2013. The company posted record quarterly revenue of $54.5 billion / €40.9 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.1 billion / €9.8 billion (or $13.81 per diluted share). Even though the figures were confirmed as the best quar... |
24 January 2013
02:35 GMT |
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Microsoft and Nokia have just announced Drive+ turn-by-turn application for Lumia smartphones is now available for all Windows Phone 8 devices.
This means Windows Phone fans who own the HTC 8X, Samsung ATIV S or any WP8 handset, other than Nokia, will be able to take advantage of what Drive+ has to offer.
However, ... |
24 January 2013
02:35 GMT |
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Platinum Games, the studio behind games like Bayonetta, Vanquish, or the upcoming Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, is interested in THQ's Darksiders franchise, especially since no other company decided to place a bid for it at the recent bankruptcy auction.
Many THQ studios and franchises were auctioned off yest... |
24 January 2013
02:34 GMT |
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Arctic has either been playing with the various HD 8000 cards available in OEM desktop PCs, or believes the next generation of AMD boards will use the same mounting hole locations as HD 7000.
Whichever the case may be, the company reportedly believes it has completed the HD 8000-compatible versions of two Accelero ... |
24 January 2013
02:22 GMT |
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A group of marine researchers in charge of keeping a close eye on the aquatic wildlife found near the Azores Islands somehow came across a pod of whales that were swimming around in the company of a deformed dolphin.
Later on, the researchers came to understand that the whales saw this deformed dolphin as more than... |
24 January 2013
02:18 GMT |
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The highly-acclaimed Temple Run for Android has just its deserved sequel. Keith Sheperd, co-founder of Imangi Studios, creators of the game, has just announced Temple Run 2 has been published on Google Play Store. Initially launched on iOS, the game secured top spot of the App Store charts in just four days, having ... |
24 January 2013
01:52 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to release updates for the built-in Windows 8 apps with a new improvement for the SkyDrive program integrated into its new operating system. SkyDrive for Windows 8 now features live tile support to keep you up to date with what’s happening in your SkyDrive account. The live tile is now show... |
24 January 2013
01:41 GMT |
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Even though Microsoft initially announced the Windows Phone 7.8 upgrade will be available to all smartphones, we’ve received several reports that the company is in fact letting manufacturers decide if they want to update their old Windows Phone handsets or not.
Except Nokia, which is likely to offer the Window... |
24 January 2013
01:33 GMT |
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Microsoft’s in-house browser Internet Explorer has been improved quite a lot lately, so version 10, the one bundled into Windows 8, is said to be the fastest and the most reliable of them all.
But the company continues to roll out advertisements in order to show everyone that Internet Explorer is no longer a s... |
24 January 2013
01:28 GMT |
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