133 articles found
Empathy 3.5.3 instant messaging client for the GNOME desktop environment has been announced earlier today, June 26th, bringing a completely redesigned contact list. Among lots of changes to the new roster, the development team focused their efforts on making a clean interface, with groups disabled by default, and a... |
26 June 2012
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Texas-based fabless processor and GPU design company AMD has just announced, on its official website, that it was chosen by San Francisco Giants as the team’s main multi-year technology partner. The Major League Baseball’s Giants team based in San Francisco has just installed 66 new AMD computer sys... |
26 June 2012
21:21 GMT |
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Accessibility isn’t one of those features people regard as “cool” in iOS, but that’s about to change. Come iOS 6 this fall, Accessibility will include new VoiceOver capabilities (integration with apps and services), and the awesome Guided Access, which lets you restrict certain functions of yo... |
26 June 2012
21:11 GMT |
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Fighting game fans can be some of the most vocal and passionate in the world of video games, but it seems that their demands have become too much for at least one veteran developer who is working for Namco Bandai.
Katsuhiro Harada, who has long been the producer in charge of the Tekken series, has posted on Twitter ... |
26 June 2012
20:11 GMT |
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Austria-based HFX home entertainment and technology company has just launched the micro-tower V2 fanless computer case on its official website. The new device apparently needs an additional cooling kit that will provide the user with the necessary cooling heatpipes and heat transfer metal pads if the user wants to u... |
26 June 2012
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Featuring three of the most popular Roulette games – European, French and American Roulette – 888Roulette HD is now immediately available as a free download in the UK Apple Store, 888.com has announced. Developed by Cassava Enterprises (Gibraltar) Ltd., 888Roulette HD is an iPad app that lets you play fo... |
26 June 2012
19:51 GMT |
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Capcom has confirmed that it has shipped over 1 million units of its latest Dragon’s Dogma title, announcing that both DLC for the current game and a sequel are in development. Medieval RPGs have witnessed a resurrection in popularity in recent years, with the chief example being The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim fr... |
26 June 2012
19:21 GMT |
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Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has once again discussed the price of his company’s upcoming Wii U home console, saying only that it will be “reasonable” in order to attract lots of customers. Nintendo presented the final version of the Wii U earlier this month at E3 2012 but, unfortunately for fan... |
26 June 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Minnesota Life Insurance Company has come up with this cool application that does computations based on your own input to determine the monetary value of your life. Sure, it may sound a bit cold-hearted at first, but it’s all about determining the financial loss caused by a premature death. A Securian Financi... |
26 June 2012
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Sins of a Solar Empire is a real-time strategy game, which means that the player needs to use his attention resources and his ability to click to deal with multiple situations at the same time. In order to allow players to sustain simultaneous offensives at a number of points, the developers at Ironclad Games have i... |
26 June 2012
18:31 GMT |
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While stressing on the importance of strong application development for Windows and Windows Server environments, Microsoft also emphasized the importance of app building and deployment for enterprises. When it comes to enterprise environments, it is very important who controls the device, as well as the software loa... |
26 June 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Free-to-play titles are a big hit on the PC, but they never made the transition to consoles because Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft are unwilling to take a chance on a new business model, according to the leader of the developer behind the Crysis franchise.
Cevat Yerli, who is the chief executive officer at Crytek, has... |
26 June 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Adobe is very keen on HTML5 and the open web in general. This isn't just PR talk, it realized that Flash won't cut it for a lot longer and started supporting HTML5 in a big way. One example is the Brackets code editor which is available under an MIT license on Git Hub.The editor is intended for HTML, CSS an... |
26 June 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Activision and Disney have confirmed that they’ll release a special Wreck-It Ralph video game this fall, as a tie-in for the movie that’s going to be released on November 2. Wreck-It Ralph is one of the most interesting animated movies set to appear this fall, telling the story of a villain from a classi... |
26 June 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Ultra Ram Disk does exactly what its name implies - create RAM disks. It can also be employed to perform a quick memory cleanup, which makes it a double-purpose utility. It isn’t for everyone, but it’s certainly a good addition to any Mac, as long as the user knows what it’s good for. The looks Y... |
26 June 2012
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Though experts say it takes about a year to bounce back into shape after pregnancy, celebrities are famous for doing it in as little as a few weeks, or months at most. One group of mommy bloggers is taking action against this worrying trend by showing women how post-pregnancy bodies actually look like. They're... |
26 June 2012
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Crystal Dynamics might be getting a lot of attention lately for the rebooted Tomb Raider and the controversies surrounding Lara Croft and her violent evolution, but soon the company will unveil a new game project that could impress even more.
Scot Amos, who is the executive producer working on the new intellectual p... |
26 June 2012
16:41 GMT |
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One of the strong points in Microsoft's server strategy moving forth includes the availability of new, modern applications for its customers and for their users. Thus, the company is bringing together Visual Studio and System Center, to help developers come up with new, better apps. Moreover, the company notes... |
26 June 2012
16:25 GMT |
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Sony has confirmed that a brand new PlayStation 3 firmware update will be available later today, taking the system’s software up to version 4.20 and adding a few minor updates to its feature list. The PlayStation 3 has been around for quite some time and Sony has always tried to increase its array of features ... |
26 June 2012
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Just yesterday we were reporting on ASUS’ dual-GPU ARES video card based on AMD’s Radeon HD 7870 “Pitcairn” chips. It seems now that the company has axed the project and that they are concentrating on the Radeon HD 7970 X2 instead. Taiwanese company ASUS gave up on the ARES project using the ... |
26 June 2012
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In preparation for the Olympic Games, which will be held in London this year, one of the main sponsors of the event, McDonald's, has just opened a new branch minutes from the arena: it's the world's biggest, and it will hold on to this record until later this summer. Located in the center of the Olym... |
26 June 2012
15:11 GMT |
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In addition to presenting some of the latest features added to the Windows Azure and Windows Server 2012 platforms, Microsoft also provided some info on its private cloud offering during the keynote at its TechEd EMEA 2012 conference in Amsterdam.The same as with the desktop and phone platforms, the cloud is moving t... |
26 June 2012
15:03 GMT |
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When Microsoft gets an idea stuck in its head, it doesn't let go until it succeeds. Or, rather, it simply doesn't let go.
It's true for most of its online services that play second fiddle at best, search and maps being the premier examples. That's not to say they're worse than Google's... |
26 June 2012
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Despite the variety of titles that it is working on and launching publisher Electronic Arts always aims high, trying to get an average Metacritic score of more than 90 for all its titles. David DeMartini, who is the senior vice president in charge of developing the Origin digital distribution service, has told MCV t... |
26 June 2012
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Earlier this month, a video of Barack Obama singing “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen started making the rounds. This, more recent one is even better. Check it out above. Edited by BaracksDubs, this video has the President singing to Justin Bieber's “Boyfriend,” his first single off the... |
26 June 2012
14:41 GMT |
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You can now watch your breaking CNN stories in even higher detail with the newly-enhanced CNN App 1.6 for iPad. The new release adds support for the two million pixels residing on the new iPad’s screen. According to the release notes for the CNN App for iPad 1.6, the network (as well as whoever they contracted... |
26 June 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Valve has finally kicked off the next update for its Team Fortress 2 online shooter – in the form of the Pyromania one – which will culminate with the release of the last “Meet the” short film, focusing on The Pyro character. Team Fortress 2 delivers an intense online shooter experience in wh... |
26 June 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Now that we've seen the first trailer for “Taken 2,” the aptly titled sequel to “Taken,” it's poster time. It comes via IMPAwards and you can see it in full by clicking on the image above. “Taken” was a surprise hit (for a B action movie especially), so chances are the ... |
26 June 2012
14:21 GMT |
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A star grouping first discovered more than 180 years ago, but never really investigated in detail by astronomers, may hold the key towards making it easier for us to detect extrasolar planets. The cosmic formation is called NGC 6774, or Ruprecht 147.
What is interesting about this particular structure is that the s... |
26 June 2012
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The popular Words With Friends HD has been optimized for the new iPad’s Retina display and, thanks to a recent update, players can now enjoy the game in landscape mode, by rotating their Apple tablet. Developer Zynga has announced a bunch of interface enhancements for its popular Words With Friends HD that wil... |
26 June 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Manufacturer of storage solutions, Akitio has just announced the launch of the Neutrino U3+ laptop hard drive enclosure, on its official website. The new device features triple-interface connectivity and is built of aluminum. The Neutrino U3+ laptop hard drive enclosure has four different connectors on its back side... |
26 June 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Traditional AMD video card and mainboard manufacturing partner Sapphire has just announced the new Sapphire HD 7870 Flex Edition video card, on its official website. The new addition to Sapphire’s AMD Radeon product lineup comes with dual BIOS and the efficient Dual-X cooling system.
The new card features the ... |
26 June 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Rhythm Thief and the Emperor’s Treasure will be one of the rare modern releases that will not get any downloadable content after launch and the team that worked on it at SEGA says that the lack of information on the abilities of the Nintendo 3DS handheld was the main culprit.
Shun Nakamura, who is the producer... |
26 June 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Spectrum is a jQuery plugin for creating nice looking color pickers. An essential component of the modern UIs, color pickers allow users to input a color code by selecting it with their mouse from a palette or from a color spectrum. Made famous by photo editing software like Adobe Photoshop, color pickers are curren... |
26 June 2012
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He's one of the most critically acclaimed screenwriters (producer, actor and playwright) in Hollywood but that doesn't mean that every single word that comes out of his mouth or pen is original. Quite the contrary.
If you ever had a bad case of deja vu when watching one of Sorkin's many movies or TV ... |
26 June 2012
11:52 GMT |
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Firefox has finally landed on Android. Yes, there has been an Android version of Firefox for more than a year now. But the new Firefox 14 is not just a new version, it's a complete rewrite, which probably justifies it using the 14 version number when the latest desktop version is Firefox 13. Mozilla knew that i... |
26 June 2012
11:47 GMT |
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The popular photography app Instagram has been promoted to version 2.5.0 on the iPhone and iPad, bringing a fresh profile tab, improvements to commenting, and the ability to search for users across the app’s main segments, to name a few additions. According to the release notes for Instagram version 2.5.0, use... |
26 June 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Virgin Galactic, the company that is already developing the WhiteKnightTwo/SpaceShipTwo combination for $200,000 suborbital joyrides, could soon announce a new spacecraft, analysts believe. The vehicle could be used to deliver small satellites and other payloads to low-Earth orbit.
The announcement is expected to co... |
26 June 2012
11:40 GMT |
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China recently manifested its suspicions on the American X-37B space plane, again. The country is viewing the US Air Force's (USAF) space platform as a potential threat to its security, arguing that it could very well be used for military purposes.
The project was initially developed by NASA, handed over to the... |
26 June 2012
11:29 GMT |
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When Coldplay decided to bring Rihanna on for a duet on “Princess of China,” they most certainly had not imagined severe criticism would be coming their way. Even so, they stick by their idea.
Proof of that is the fact that they just released an acoustic version of the track. Check it out above.
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26 June 2012
11:27 GMT |
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Microsoft kicked off the 2012 edition of its TechEd EMEA conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where Brad Anderson, corporate vice president, management and security division, presented some of the latest advancements the company has made in the server platform area. Today's environment requires for new, con... |
26 June 2012
11:22 GMT |
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A paper just published online in the top journal Nature Neuroscience shows that the brains of mice cannot support the activation of neural pathways coding for hunger and drug addiction at the same time. Basically, the rodents prefer either getting fat, or getting high.
Moving past the fact that you need an … ... |
26 June 2012
11:19 GMT |
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There's no denying now that Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green are expecting their first child together. People magazine has the first photo of Megan showing off her baby bump while on vacation in Hawaii.
True to the saying “a picture is worth a thousand words,” Megan and Brian chose to pose for papar... |
26 June 2012
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Japanese memory, SSD and computer accessories company Buffalo has just announced the new MiniStation external HDD with USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt connectivity, on its official website. This is a 2.5” HDD inside a plastic housing that features dual-interface connectivity. We have been wondering for a while now why ... |
26 June 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Children suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are often prescribed drugs such as Ritalin or Adderal. A new study suggests that the age at which patients begin taking these medications is essential towards determining how well they will perform on tests later on in life.
Working together wi... |
26 June 2012
11:00 GMT |
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Opera 12 is fresh out of the oven, but the Opera team is not taking a nap, already they're working on the first update to the major release. Aptly named Opera 12.01, it's now available for adventurous users that like to live on the bleeding edge, at least when it comes to browsers.
The first Opera 12.01 sn... |
26 June 2012
11:00 GMT |
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Though currently regarded as a quirky behavior, the idea of assisted suicide is bound to make its way into public debate sooner or later. There are, as always, two main camps – one arguing that the right to die with dignity pertains to each patient, and another arguing that this is a criminal act. Basically, ... |
26 June 2012
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Whenever a new online service is launched, especially if it’s a social media website, its founders try to promote it as well as they can, but it may not be the best idea to start telling people that it’s 100% “safe and secure.”
Luke Bozier, the one who founded Menshn along with British MP Lo... |
26 June 2012
10:46 GMT |
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University of Southern California investigators have determined in a new research that simply viewing pictures of people eating high-fat foods and drinking sweetened beverages determines a significant reaction in the brains of test subjects.
Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), the group determined th... |
26 June 2012
10:38 GMT |
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If you thought that the copyright-dependent industries are giving up just because a lot of people spoke up against SOPA/PIPA/ACTA, think again. Massive public outcry is a minor inconvenience, a setback, but nothing that can't be overcome. These corporations are, if anything, patient.
In the UK, they've be... |
26 June 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Google’s official Gmail app for iPhone and iPad has received an important update that allows the application to integrate with iOS’s Notification Center, the system-wide alert mechanism for anything from missed calls to emails. The Gmail iOS app lets you read your mail with threaded conversations and org... |
26 June 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Over the weekend, Beyonce became Jay-Z's number one fan during his gig at BBC Radio 1's Hackney Weekend, joining her sister and other fans in the mosh pit for some clean old fun. She almost got more than she'd bargained for – had it not been for Jay's bodyguards to protect her. A report in... |
26 June 2012
10:28 GMT |
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Electronic Arts’ Sports division has just revealed that it’s going to release a very special FIFA 13 Ultimate Edition and that quite a few pre-order bonuses are now available at retailers in Europe.
FIFA 13 is one of the most anticipated games of the year by many sports fans, so EA wants to make sure it ... |
26 June 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Investigators from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) Center for Music Technology have recently introduced Shimi to the world. Billed as a musical companion, the robot only functions with Android-enabled smartphones at this point.
In addition to looking adorable, the machine is also capable of provi... |
26 June 2012
10:15 GMT |
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Since these days a large part of the world is searching every corner of the Internet for all sorts of UEFA Euro 2012 content, cybercriminals have used the situation to their advantage and started launching malicious operations.
Trend Micro experts have come across fake antiviruses advertised on websites that almost ... |
26 June 2012
10:13 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3 has just seen the release of its Extended Cut downloadable add-on earlier today and already quite a few users have begun to experience the conclusion of the game with this extra content. By far the biggest surprise, however, is that a fourth choice has been added to the game.In case you’ve yet to ... |
26 June 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Josh DuBois, CrossOver product manager, is happy to announce that his company released CrossOver 11.2.0 Mac OS X with support for the upcoming OS X Mountain Lion, and other added benefits. “The main benefit of CrossOver 11.2.0 on the Mac is that it should run on Apple's upcoming release of OS X 10.8, &lsq... |
26 June 2012
10:10 GMT |
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AMD’s Piledriver architecture is bringing a whole lot of improvements to the original Bulldozer core. In fact, Piledriver is exactly what Bulldozer was supposed to be when it was first launched a year ago. AMD is reportedly planning a Q3 launch for its Piledriver-based FX 8350 processor. We believe that if Pi... |
26 June 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Developer Digital Extremes has revealed a new title called Warframe that should be launched during the winter of 2012 and will use the free-to-play and microtransaction business model.The game is described as a shooter that focuses on cooperative experiences and that allows the player to move around fast, in and out ... |
26 June 2012
09:59 GMT |
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While most people only think about melting ice caps when they hear about global warming, it seems that the water's continuous thermal expansion need also be listed as a cause for rising sea levels.
New studies show that the US Atlantic coast is more likely to be affected by this phenomenon in the not-too-dista... |
26 June 2012
09:51 GMT |
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LEGOs are fun, that's a fact. But you can't always have them with you. Thanks to Google though, you can take some LEGOs with you anywhere you go, as long as you're near a computer.
Thanks to the magic of the web and WebGL in particular, you can now play with LEGOs on your computer any time you want. ... |
26 June 2012
09:44 GMT |
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We've reported numerous times that ransomware scams, the ones in which a cybercriminal locks a victim’s computer and then demands the payment of a fine, use law enforcement symbols to appear more legitimate. McAfee learned that certain schemes even rely on forged versions of their McAfee SECURE logo.
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26 June 2012
09:42 GMT |
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Named after the stone that allowed experts to crack the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Rosetta spacecraft was launched on March 2, 2004, on a rendezvous course with comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. En route, it carried out a flyby of asteroid 21 Lutetia, producing a remarkable video.
The short clip is m... |
26 June 2012
09:38 GMT |
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Video game hardware maker and publisher Sony has announced that gamers who own a PlayStation Vita handheld in Japan will be able to soon get a number of titles linked to a new AR Play initiative, which is designed to show off the possibilities of the Augmented Reality features of the hardware. Starting with June 28,... |
26 June 2012
09:33 GMT |
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Trustwave researchers have analyzed the 1.5 million passwords leaked by hackers after compromising eHarmony’s database. The results are in and they’re certainly interesting. The first observation made by the experts is that eHarmony has made a lot of mistakes regarding the encryption of passwords. The c... |
26 June 2012
09:16 GMT |
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With less than three weeks to go until its 1-year anniversary around the giant asteroid Vesta, the NASA Dawn spacecraft is continuing to contribute extensively to furthering our understanding of the space rock. Recently, it has produced a series of temperature readings covering a crater on Vesta.
The landscape feat... |
26 June 2012
09:15 GMT |
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People love to freak out over Facebook and Facebook loves to give people reasons to do so. Every Facebook change leads to a whole bunch of people screaming their lungs out over privacy, in one form or another.
They're not exactly sure what's going on, but they know they don't like it. This time thoug... |
26 June 2012
09:10 GMT |
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For the past few months, John Travolta and Kelly Preston have been at the center of a media storm, with allegations about his orientation coming in from all sides. The duo put all rumors to rest on the red carpet the other night. After several male masseurs stepped forward and sued the Hollywood actor for allegedly... |
26 June 2012
09:09 GMT |
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Social networking giant Facebook has released new versions of its iOS applications that allow iPhone and iPad owners to manage their digital lives on the go. New features include friends of friends in conversations, and the ability to see answers to questions and guest lists for events created on your Pages, just to ... |
26 June 2012
09:02 GMT |
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A team of investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, announces the development of a new method that enables them to create surfaces which are extremely efficient at dissipating heat. This is of extreme importance for solving overheating issues in modern electronics. Currently, ma... |
26 June 2012
08:52 GMT |
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As promised, former glamor girl turned television personality Jenny McCarthy mustered all her courage, got into the gym and agreed to bare it all for Playboy once more, before she turned 40. Her cover is now out. Obviously, we can't include photos from the spread here but a simple search online should return t... |
26 June 2012
08:52 GMT |
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Recently published reports indicate that by coming up with ways to control the breathing and photosynthesizing processes in living organisms, scientists could eventually aid the biofuel industry in being much more efficient than it presently is.
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal just publi... |
26 June 2012
08:42 GMT |
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Director Robert Muller, agents and officials that work for the FBI will never send you emails. They will not threaten you, they will not try to blackmail you, they will not inform you that you’ve won a lottery, and they will certainly never notify you that you’ve inherited a fortune.
The law enforcement ... |
26 June 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth confirmed their engagement at the beginning of this month, but it certainly looks like they have no plans of making this a long engagement: they might be married by this time next week. According to various reports online, Miley and Liam are not preparing for a late summer / fall wedd... |
26 June 2012
08:37 GMT |
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We are currently rolling out firmware and apps for WL-330N3G Wireless-N150 mobile router, “the world’s smallest wireless router,” as Asus touts it on its official website. WL-330N3G is a credit card-sized mobile router which delivers six separate connection modes, router, Access Point, repeat... |
26 June 2012
08:18 GMT |
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There is a great deal of expectation when we talk about the new wireless devices belonging to the novel 802.11ac standard. It was said that WirelessAC is the first “Gigabit Wireless” standard, but it seems that scientists are not satisfied with the results and are working hard at the “Terabit Wirele... |
26 June 2012
08:11 GMT |
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Developer David Elgena may be new to the App Store, but he sure knows how to make an entrance, 650,000 apps later. His innovative iPhone app WTHR seems to put all weather apps to shame, including Apple’s. Staying in line with Dieter Rams’ 10 principles of design, WTHR shows you your current local weather... |
26 June 2012
08:07 GMT |
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The hacker known as C0mrade has published the login credentials, comprising email addresses and passwords, of over 84,000 users. He claims that the data was obtained by launching a man-in-the-middle attack against vulnerable software utilized by telecommunications networks from Mexico and Spain. “America&rsquo... |
26 June 2012
08:07 GMT |
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A new photo of Leonardo DiCaprio in character in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming “Django Unchained” has emerged online. Click on the image above to see it in full. Leonardo DiCaprio joins Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz in the film that tells the story of a freed slave out to get back his wife and get b... |
26 June 2012
08:06 GMT |
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Some time ago, there was a lot of talk online about the physical transformation actor Matthew Fox underwent in order to play the villain in “Alex Cross.” We can now see him in motion, thanks to the first trailer. Check it out above. Based on the novel “I, Alex Cross” by James Patterson, th... |
26 June 2012
07:52 GMT |
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Blizzard has confirmed that it’s going to take down the array of servers operating Diablo 3 in order to implement the necessary changes included in patch 1.0.3a for the role-playing dungeon crawler.
Diablo 3 was launched over a month ago and developer Blizzard has kept on updating the game with all sorts of pa... |
26 June 2012
07:51 GMT |
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For the first time in more than a year, the Japanese fishing industry is once again ready to provide local markets with seafood coming from the waters nearby the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. Their choice of species is octopus and marine snails, due to the fact that recent tests indicated that these animals no ... |
26 June 2012
07:40 GMT |
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A report recently posted online by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) indicates that groundwater in the state of New England contains potentially hazardous levels of naturally occurring arsenic, uranium, radium, radon and manganese.
All of these chemicals are very harmful to humans. They occur naturally at s... |
26 June 2012
07:37 GMT |
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Despite the launch of the Extended Cut downloadable content that will expand the ending of Mass Effect 3, the development team at BioWare knows that it will not be able to satisfy the tastes and the needs of its entire fan base.
Casey Hudson, the executive producer working on Mass Effect 3, has stated, “There ... |
26 June 2012
07:29 GMT |
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The first reviews for “The Amazing Spider-Man” may be glowing but fans can't help but feel a tinge of desperation in the way Sony marketed it. Below is a 25-minute video of footage from the film – as released by Sony itself. In other words, the movie studio gave away almost half an hour of it... |
26 June 2012
07:29 GMT |
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Video game publisher Capcom has announced that it will be opening up a restaurant that uses a Resident Evil theme in the Shibuya district of Tokyo at some point on July 13. The new social spot will be called the Biohazard Cafe & Grill S.T.A.R.S. and it will stay open for up to one full year after that date. Capcom ... |
26 June 2012
07:29 GMT |
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The PS3 Media Server development team announced a few hours ago, June 26th, the immediate availability for download of the PS3 Media Server 1.54.0 application, bringing assorted bug fixes and general improvements.
PS3 Media Server 1.54.0 brings the LPCM transcoding option for all audio channels, support for DTS HD-... |
26 June 2012
07:25 GMT |
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Chrome development is firing on all cylinders as always. The beta channel has just been updated so it's now time for the dev channel to get a new version of the popular browser.
Google Chrome 21.0.1180.11 dev is available now for the more adventurous users that don't mind the occasional bug if it means th... |
26 June 2012
07:21 GMT |
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The members of the Team Digi7al have been very busy in the past few days and much of their attention seems to be focused on the websites of major universities and government organizations from the United States. One of the victims is the Associated Students website of San Jose State University. To prove that the do... |
26 June 2012
07:12 GMT |
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The Google I/O developer conference, Google's biggest yearly event, is just a couple of days away. The conference, as the name suggests, targets developers, but is the place where Google introduces its biggest products and updates. For the first time ever, the conference will stretch out over three days.
There ... |
26 June 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Sony has confirmed that Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Game of the Year Edition will be launched today for the PlayStation 3 as digital downloads via the North American PlayStation Store.
The Uncharted series made by Naughty Dog has become one of Sony’s blockbuster franchises, ... |
26 June 2012
07:11 GMT |
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While the details are still blurry on this one and the rumors are far too numerous to allow us to clearly discern between them and what will really happen, it seems that Amazon is not waiting anymore and will launch the Kindle Fire 2 in the following month. The devices will reportedly have a 1280 by 800 pixel resolu... |
26 June 2012
06:41 GMT |
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CodeWeavers, through Josh Dubois, CrossOver product manager at CodeWeavers, proudly announced this morning in a press release that the CrossOver 11.2.0 software has been officially released for both Linux and Mac OS X platforms, bringing support for Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010.
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26 June 2012
06:41 GMT |
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It's been a year since Charlie Sheen unleashed the Warlock with tiger blood and Adonis DNA onto the world and, looking back, he almost feels like that was an entirely different person. One thing that hasn't changed in the meantime is his belief that rehab doesn't work for all, he says. After his scan... |
26 June 2012
06:29 GMT |
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Regardless of rumors that Beyonce had banned Kim Kardashian from her circle of friends, the two were photographed together at a Jay-Z, Kanye West show over the weekend. Beyonce's fans are anything but thrilled by that. As we also noted at the time, initial reports said that, the moment word got out that Kanye ... |
26 June 2012
06:04 GMT |
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Gunnar, a gray seal that used to be part and parcel of the US Navy, just recently passed away at the Smithsonian National Zoo, at the age of 38.
In its early years, Gunnar was taught by military officers to retrieve items from underwater, deal with army equipment, use screwdrivers and turn wheel valves.
This trai... |
26 June 2012
05:58 GMT |
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Video game publisher Ubisoft has announced that it was delaying the launch date of the upcoming first-person shooter Far Cry 3, which is now set to be launched on November 29 in Europe and December 4 of the year on the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.The initial launch date of the game was on September 3.Dan H... |
26 June 2012
05:55 GMT |
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Acer has decided to build a decent netbook, and that’s probably detrimental to the usual battery life expected from netbooks in general. The new device is powered by a modest-performing Celeron B877 processor and features a 11.6” screen. The new netbook from Acer is reportedly quite a bit heavier than th... |
26 June 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Experts from France, Italy, the UK, and Norway have released the results of a study which demonstrates that the flaws present in many of the popular security devices, such as the RSA’s SecureID 800, can be leveraged to obtain the precious cryptographic keys.
In a paper called “Efficient padding oracle at... |
26 June 2012
05:49 GMT |
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The next game from The Creative Assembly might be a Rome 2: Total War, a re-interpretation of the third game in the long-running series using a new engine and a set of new mechanics.
A teaser image showing the original game and a prominent “II” was spotted in the PC PowerPlay magazine Australia for July... |
26 June 2012
05:34 GMT |
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Analyses conducted on some of Earth's most resilient organisms suggest that a theory called panspermia – which holds that life can spread between planets, star systems and galaxies by hitching rides aboard asteroids and other space rocks – may be true after all. When it was first proposed, most of t... |
26 June 2012
05:33 GMT |
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Soon after local communities did their best in going against the Belo Monte project, as we already reported, it is now time for specialists to step in and also make mincemeat of the plan to build about 30 dams in the Amazon basin.
Whereas indigenous people were worried about their villages being flooded and about t... |
26 June 2012
05:26 GMT |
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Footage taken with a thermal camera corroborates Apple’s claims that the new MacBook Pro with Retina display runs cool, as well as quietly, thanks to advancements in the technologies used to dissipate heat coming from the CPU and GPU. Sure, the new MacBook Pro may have some display issues that Apple "forgot" t... |
26 June 2012
05:05 GMT |
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Korean memory company Hynix is one of the few flash manufacturers that were not into SSD manufacturing. Samsung, Intel and Micron all have their own line of SSD products. Hynix decided to join the ranks of SSD manufacturers and has just announced a new client-side SSD, on its official website. We don’t know ye... |
26 June 2012
05:01 GMT |
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As Katy Perry is getting ready for the release of her 3D concert movie, “Part of Me,” she is opening up more about issues she wouldn't normally talk about, such as her divorce from Russell Brand and how a failed marriage has changed her perspective on showbiz. In a new interview cited by AceShowbiz... |
26 June 2012
04:59 GMT |
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We continue our Security app of the week series with the Firefox extension known as NoScript, another piece of software that should be utilized not only by professionals, but also by regular users who want to make sure they’re protected against online threats while surfing the web.
NoScript can block Jav... |
26 June 2012
04:58 GMT |
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LEGO Batman 2: DC Superheroes, the adventure game from TT Games and Warner Bros. Interactive, has managed to take the number one position in the United Kingdom video game chart during its debut week.
Meanwhile gamers flock to get their superhero fix ahead of the launch of the most recent movie in the saga that Chri... |
26 June 2012
04:54 GMT |
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NASA announces the official opening of a new website, which enables users to design and build their own satellites, using predefined components provided by the game. Meant for both students and adults, the game can be found at this link.
One of the first options you are presented with is select the topic you are mos... |
26 June 2012
04:53 GMT |
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In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, researchers have been constantly working towards coming up with ways to treat health issues that result from radiation exposure.
Apparently, two drugs already being used in human medicine as anti-clotting agents can also help in counteracting radiation sickness.
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26 June 2012
04:49 GMT |
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After displaying high-contrast images, the retina display on some new MacBook Pro units retains a ghost image for a few minutes, which Apple forum users describe as a “temporary burn-in.” The flaw seems to stem from a batch of faulty IPS panels used in the Retina display MacBook Pro. A lengthy thread ove... |
26 June 2012
04:23 GMT |
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Last week, Telstra representatives stated that the suspicious activity reported by numerous customers of the Whirlpool forum was nothing more than normal network operation. However, now they have come forward to admit that the firm does record web addresses as part of a new web filtering service. SC Magazine reports... |
26 June 2012
04:22 GMT |
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The developers at Mojang have announced that their upcoming Scrolls title is getting close to an alpha stage, which will use a limited number of players to test the core game concepts.
They have also unveiled that the company then plans to launch an open beta, allowing those interested to buy the game for a reduced... |
26 June 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3 is going to receive its long-awaited Extended Cut downloadable add-on today on the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms for free, which should deliver a much more expanded conclusion to the game’s ending.
Mass Effect 3 came out in March and, while it went on to sell millions of copies and imp... |
26 June 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Being the Queen of Pop comes with its advantages but, at the same time, it could also bring the worst in people, who might be tempted to do the craziest things for a chance to own something of hers. Because of this, Madonna employs the services of a DNA sterilization team. The report comes in the British tabloid th... |
26 June 2012
04:07 GMT |
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New study indicates that some of New England's bedrock groundwater contains traces of arsenic, uranium, radium, radon and manganese.
Regardless of the fact that all of these are naturally occurring chemical compounds, what worries specialists is the fact that said bedrock groundwater eventually makes it all th... |
26 June 2012
03:58 GMT |
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The asteroid 2012 LZ1, which gave Earth a close shave on June 14, is apparently much larger than astronomers calculated. Predictions for the flyby held that, were the object to hit, it would have caused only local damage. Now, experts say that the effects may have been significantly worse.
Since the object was disc... |
26 June 2012
03:56 GMT |
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Seagate was not capable of developing either a decent SSD or an impressive hybrid drive in the past years. The company did everything to play down the role SSDs have on the computer storage market. Now, Seagate is using some of the money they“extorted” from the HDD buyers to invest in SSD technology.... |
26 June 2012
03:51 GMT |
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There were many rumors pointing towards an alliance between SONY and Panasonic, and these days they seem to become a reality. The companies have just reportedly announced a partnership on developing and mass-producing OLED panels. We already reported about Panasonic’s efforts in this field here, and there&rsqu... |
26 June 2012
03:45 GMT |
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Apple has released a software update that includes general updates and improvements to the fourth preview of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, currently in beta testing by registered Apple developers. Available for download through the Mac App Store’s Software Update mechanism, OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 Developer Preview... |
26 June 2012
03:35 GMT |
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Sony’s LittleBigPlanet franchise is getting ready to debut on the PlayStation Vita. Thus, the company has now unveiled a set of two pre-order bonuses, which net customers costumes inspired from either the BioShock series or from the Knights of Old fairy tale theme.
The LittleBigPlanet series has delivered some... |
26 June 2012
03:33 GMT |
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25-year-old David Noel Cecil, known on the hacking scene as “Evil,” has been sentenced by an Orange District Court to 2.5 years in prison for breaching the systems of Platform Networks.
He has been ordered to serve two years for 18 charges and another six months for a couple of different charges. Given ... |
26 June 2012
03:30 GMT |
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Experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, announce the discovery of a massive jet stream in the thin atmosphere surrounding the icy Saturnine moon Enceladus. The jet was produced by the highly active geysers located at the celestial body's south pole.
These geysers are locate... |
26 June 2012
03:25 GMT |
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Paris Hilton describes herself as a businesswoman mostly because, in the years she's been in the spotlight, she's done everything from launching perfumes and fashion lines, to starring in movies and reality shows and, of course, recording music. She's now gunning for a DJ career. Fans must know that ... |
26 June 2012
03:24 GMT |
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New studies show that, because of their habit of feasting on carcasses left behind by locals who decided to go hunting, most of California's condors are currently suffering from lead poisoning.
Given the fact that hunters in California used lead ammunition in order to chase down and kill various mammals, it se... |
26 June 2012
03:21 GMT |
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According to Sean Michael Kerner from InternetNews.com, the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 operating system will have support for the Btrfs filesystem.
The Vice-President of Linux Engineering at Red Hat, Tim Burke, talked with Sean Michael Kerner, explaining him that Btrfs has been implemented and marked as ex... |
26 June 2012
03:18 GMT |
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Despite the name, the new Infinity Blade: Dungeons from developer Epic Games was not conceived as a spin-off but simply as a new take on a classic genre that needed a link to the franchise to attract gamers.
Rod Fergusson, who is the production director at Epic Games, has told Game Informer that, “It’s n... |
26 June 2012
03:06 GMT |
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On Monday, Ryan Cleary and Jake Davis, both members of the infamous LulzSec collective, pleaded guilty to cybercriminal offences.
According to The Telegraph, they admitted that they had an involvement in the attacks launched against organizations such as the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the Central Intelli... |
26 June 2012
03:06 GMT |
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The upcoming Doom 3: BFG Edition, a remastered version of the original shooter from id Software, will have two gameplay modes – an Original one, which brings back the classic experience, and an Updated one, where players are treated with different improvements, like an integrated flashlight. Doom 3 became a cu... |
26 June 2012
03:05 GMT |
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The second iOS 6 beta is out for registered Apple developers with tons of tweaks and enhancements, including one visually-pleasant change – moving gears in the Settings icon as the OTA update is performed. Discovered yesterday evening as Apple pushed out the bits over the air (OTA), the cogwheels / gears insid... |
26 June 2012
03:01 GMT |
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Professor John Anetor from the University of Ibadan recently recommended that health organizations worldwide start looking into the effects of climate change as soon as possible.
He claims that global warming has every chance of bringing us both new diseases and a food and water crisis, thus impacting on global hea... |
26 June 2012
02:49 GMT |
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After LinkedIn, Last.Fm and eHarmony, now it’s TechRadar’s turn to admit that cybercriminals have gained access to its user database. As a result of the attack, usernames, encrypted passwords, email addresses and birth dates have been stolen.
“Our IT team has identified the cause of the problem and... |
26 June 2012
02:37 GMT |
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Bethesda is going to release the long-awaited Dawnguard expansion for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim later today on the Xbox 360.
Skyrim has delivered a complex RPG experience since its release last year and the team at Bethesda will further enhance it by launching the Dawnguard expansion.
We have already heard quite ... |
26 June 2012
02:32 GMT |
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Yoichi Wada, who is the chief executive officer at publisher Square Enix, has revealed that the MMO Final Fantasy XI is the most profitable of the titles bearing that name, which is the reason why his company keeps delivering content for it.
Final Fantasy XI is set to get a new expansion, called Seekers of Adoulin, ... |
26 June 2012
02:30 GMT |
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