171 articles found
We talked about ASUS’ intention of making a new dual-GPU video card some time ago, but the company has bluntly denied any such plans, so we gave up on the idea also.
Now there is some new info available that suggests the Taiwanese giant is actually working on an Ares successor, but that’s not going to b... |
27 August 2012
20:21 GMT |
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The Kepler architecture was initially targeted for a late 2011 launch, but instead it has only made it into the retail early this summer. That’s a serious half year delay and it seems that the company’s choice to increase the complexity of its architectures will only make matters worse. As many were talk... |
27 August 2012
19:41 GMT |
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Grasshopper Manufacture and Kadokawa Games have confirmed that their recent Lollipop Chainsaw hack and slash game has shipped over 700,000 units around the world.
Lollipop Chainsaw delivered a truly intense experience last June, when it was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles, putting players in the... |
27 August 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Announced about ten days ago, Lenovo K860 Android smartphone is about to make its debut in China. The device is powered by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich platform out of the box and packs a Samsung Exynos 4412 quad-core processor and a Mali-400 MP GPU.
We already reported on the upcoming availability of the smartpho... |
27 August 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware maker Sony is ready to move the PlayStation brand to as many devices as possible, and it’s looking to make sure that the same level of game quality is available on everything from the PlayStation 3 to Android-powered hardware. Jim Ryan, the leader of the European division of P... |
27 August 2012
19:11 GMT |
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Although Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform is already present in Japan, Nokia has yet to launch its Lumia series in the country.
According to MyNokiaBlog, the Finnish company plans to launch at least one Lumia smartphone in Japan, in the following weeks.
The information is confirmed in an NTT Docomo intern... |
27 August 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Blizzard is getting ready to debut patch 5.0.4 for its massively successful World of Warcraft online title and has now revealed more details about the overhauled Talent Tree system and how a lot of the abilities have been tweaked or replaced with new ones.
World of Warcraft is getting ready to receive its next big e... |
27 August 2012
18:21 GMT |
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Die-hard Apple fans who were lucky enough to enjoy Cupertino’s first-ever Macintosh computer have the chance to bring back some of the swag with the Padintosh Case for iPad, a protective enclosure for iPad 2 and the third-generation iPad.Targeting Apple fanatics who understand the legacy of Apple’s origin... |
27 August 2012
18:11 GMT |
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While it is possible to adjust cursor movement via the tracking speed in the mouse and trackpad pref-panes in the OS X System Preferences, many users have difficulties finding an ideal setting. CursorSense aims to fill this void by adjusting cursor acceleration and speed, allowing users to move the cursor just like t... |
27 August 2012
17:51 GMT |
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Players who are part of the head start period for the upcoming Guild Wars 2 have reported a number of problems with the game, including an inability to sign into the servers and various error messages. However, the development team at ArenaNet has announced that it was investigating all reports ahead of the full laun... |
27 August 2012
17:41 GMT |
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LG already confirmed plans to launch an Android superphone powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor, the Optimus G. The smartphone will be launched in South Korea in October, followed by a global rollout a few weeks later. Today, the handset maker announced the upcoming availability of... |
27 August 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Activision has seemingly followed the “better late than never” saying with the single-player demo for last year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, as the company has finally posted a trial version of the first-person shooter on the Xbox 360’s Xbox Live Marketplace.
Modern Warfare 3 came out la... |
27 August 2012
17:21 GMT |
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IDT is quite a big company. Relatively less known to the usual PC user, we would like to remind our readers that IDT once competed with AMD, Cyrix, Nat Semi and Intel for the desktop computer market and now they’ve just bought PLX, the maker of the famous PCIe bridge chips on AMD’s dual GPU cards.
An Ame... |
27 August 2012
17:01 GMT |
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The Clan Wars mode that developer Wargaming has integrated into its MMO World of Tanks will also be added to the upcoming World of Warplanes, starting the process of integrating the gameplay of the two titles.
Sergey Ilyshyn, a game producer working on World of Warplanes, has stated during a Question & Answer sessio... |
27 August 2012
16:41 GMT |
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This image purporting to be the retail box of Apple’s next iPhone is such an embarrassing attempt at creating a stir that we can’t help sharing.
Italian blog Apple.HDblog is highlighting an image discovered on Chinese social network Weibo purporting to show the box in which Apple will ship the iPhone 5. ... |
27 August 2012
16:31 GMT |
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The click-to-play feature, included in Firefox 14, now in the stable channel, is probably one of the best "hidden" features in Firefox at the moment. Chrome has had something similar for a year now, but Firefox users had to rely on add-ons. Now though, they've got the functionality built-in.Granted, Mozilla does... |
27 August 2012
16:11 GMT |
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If you're feeling a tad nostalgic today, we have just the thing for you: a compilation of awesome scenes from the big movie hits of the '90s, from the “I see dead people” chilling moment in “The Sixth Sense” to “Men in Black.”
We'll embed only a few of these iconic ... |
27 August 2012
16:11 GMT |
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She's known for helping Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow get in the best shape of their life but, at the same time, Tracy Anderson has a reputation for practicing what she preaches. The celebrity trainer gave birth in May this year but she's already gotten her figure back.
Tracy added another little member to h... |
27 August 2012
16:01 GMT |
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The Uncharted movie project has once again hit a major snag, as a new report says that its director, Neil Burger, has exited the title, while two new writers have been brought it, in the form of Marianne and Cormac Wibberley, the duo behind the National Treasure series. Sony has been supporting the development of a ... |
27 August 2012
15:41 GMT |
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You might not know the name of Jim Pavloff but, we promise you, you will remember it after you're done reading this. You must also check out the two videos embedded with this post.
Pavloff is a DJ who hails all the way from Ukraine and who can boast of the singular feat of recreating two of the biggest hits fr... |
27 August 2012
15:31 GMT |
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AOL is not exactly what you'd call a booming business. Still, the fact that it's in business at all is commendable along with the fact that it's been profitable for the past few years. So the higher ups at the company decided it was time to spread some of the wealth and buy back some shares, to the tun... |
27 August 2012
15:21 GMT |
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A Portuguese company called Eco Beneficios has come up with an ingenious solution that enables you to save power when you’re away from your Mac. All you need to do is… well, nothing. Just install it and GreenCam will take care of the rest. GreenCam is an Adobe AIR application that allows you to reduce y... |
27 August 2012
15:21 GMT |
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The upcoming Dance Central 3 from Harmonix is a Kinect-powered game that will deliver the exact experience the team has advertised and that’s mostly because of the rigorous testing the team has done and the feedback received from players.
Matt Boch, the project director working on Dance Central 3 at Harmonix, ... |
27 August 2012
15:11 GMT |
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One of the first Windows Phone devices launched on the market, the LG Optimus 7 has been discontinued by most carriers. However, customers who still own the device and do not plan to upgrade to a superior device in the next few months may be unpleasantly surprised by a fault in the Optimus 7 motherboard, which rende... |
27 August 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Windows 8 is coming and, whether you like it or not, it's going to be big. Even if sales are dismal, there are still going to be millions of people using it. Understandably, browser makers want to be prepared. Google has a Metro version of Chrome essentially ready to go.
Mozilla is not far behind either. While ... |
27 August 2012
14:41 GMT |
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The MacBook Pro with Retina Display has been hard to secure for the past two months, with some customers having to wait as much as five weeks to see the elusive notebook arrive at their door.
That’s no longer the case, according to a new listing at store.apple.com which states “2 - 4 business days”... |
27 August 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Sony is expected to announce a handful of Android smartphones at this year’s IFA trade fair, including the Xperia T.
According to the latest hearsay, Sony will launch the Xperia T in Europe, while other regions might get it a few weeks later.
It’s also likely that the Japanese company will launch a dif... |
27 August 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Blizzard has no plans to let its free users advance above level 20 in World of Warcraft, at least according to the one of its representatives, as the studio wants to keep its paying subscribers happy.
World of Warcraft became free-to-play last year, when Blizzard revealed a special version of the game that lets anyo... |
27 August 2012
14:21 GMT |
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HTC Proto leaked several weeks ago and everything points to an official announcement later this week. However, it appears that the Taiwanese handset maker will launch the device under a different name, which makes sense given the fact that HTC Proto was the phone’s codename.
Several European retailers already ... |
27 August 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Nicolas Cage got ripped apart by critics for doing the first “Ghost Rider” movie, but that didn't stop him from doing a sequel as well, which came out earlier this year. Above is a video with the scenes that didn't make it into the final film.
Granted, these should be fun if you enjoyed the fil... |
27 August 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Developer 24/7 apps has announced a promotion for their cool WiFi Streamer app which enables any iOS 5 customer to transfer content from their portable device over to their computer.Free for a period of 48 hours, WiFi Streamer lets you playback or download songs from device on any computer, using a local WiFi connect... |
27 August 2012
13:51 GMT |
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The Avengers continues to lead in the top 10 most downloaded movies of the week on BitTorrent, as compiled by TorrentFreak.
It exploded onto the top 10 last week, straight at number one, as a DVDRip version and a bit later a BDRip version of the popular summer blockbuster showed up online.
The movie had only been ... |
27 August 2012
13:41 GMT |
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We already know just about everything on the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Stellar. However, there are a few things that need to be straightened out by the South Korean company, including availability and pricing options.
The folks over AndroidGuys have learned that the Galaxy Stellar has just been listed by major retaile... |
27 August 2012
13:31 GMT |
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At this point, there's no doubt as to how profitable “The Expendables” is, even though many movie buffs continue to ridicule the idea whenever they get a chance. Be that as it may, Chuck Norris isn't interested in doing another one. With “The Expendables 2” now ruling the box offic... |
27 August 2012
13:01 GMT |
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The Nvidia-powered, popular 7” tablet manufactured by ASUS is now apparently available in more countries on the Old Continent and that’s the good news. The bad news is that the Old Continent seems to be the "wrong" continent for a Nexus 7 buyer to live on. The popular new tablet from Google is reportedly... |
27 August 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Although Microsoft has yet to officially release Windows Phone 8 operating system on the market, several handset makers and carriers already confirmed their plans to offer handsets powered by the upcoming platform. According to the latest hearsay, Microsoft and Nokia plan to announce the first Windows Phone 8 device... |
27 August 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Video game publisher Microsoft has announced that it will launch the first free-to-play title for the Xbox 360 home console during the fall, opening the door for other games that use the same business model.
Happy Wars is developed by Toylogic, a development studio from Japan, and will be offered to all those who ha... |
27 August 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Harvey Dent / Two-Face has found his match in a cat. Obviously, Venus the chimera, two-faced cat isn't evil and isn't out to kill The Bat but, give her time, and she'll become as famous as the Batman villain. Or so we hope.
Venus is the latest Internet star, and she has YouTube and an excessively lov... |
27 August 2012
12:51 GMT |
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DICE, the developer of the long running Battlefield series, has confirmed that it's quadrupled the number of multiplayer servers for its Battlefield 3 shooter on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles, thereby satisfying many of its console-owning fans.
Battlefield 3 came out last year and, thanks to DICE'... |
27 August 2012
12:41 GMT |
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The Apple vs. Samsung patent lawsuit has been getting all the attention these days, but the Oracle vs. Google trial is not quite over yet. While Google was declared not guilty of any of the charges and doesn't have to pay anything, in wrapping up the case, the judge asked both parties to reveal whether anyone th... |
27 August 2012
12:21 GMT |
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CeraBox is a modal windowing system, also known as lightbox script for the MooTools JavaScript framework. It is heavily inspired by Janis Skarnelis' FancyBox modal system for jQuery.
Targeting all MooTool versions above version 1.4, CeraBox is a developer's dream, coming with all the support a lightbox scr... |
27 August 2012
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A type of polymer called polyethyleneimine (PEI) can apparently act as an adjuvant to antiviral vaccines, eliciting a more intense response from the immune system, and providing more protection against future infections. The finding was made by researchers at the Oxford University, in the UK.The chemical was thus far... |
27 August 2012
11:47 GMT |
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Following our previous articles, Radio Lens, RuneScape Wikia Lens, German Ubuntu Forum Lens, Web History Lens, Rotten Tomatoes Scope, Clear Dark Sky Lens, DuckDuckGo Lens, News Lens, Pidgin Lens, Bliss Lens, Wikipedia Lens, Bookmarks Lens, ManPages Search Lens, Full Text Search Lens, GMusicBrowser Scope, Launchpad Le... |
27 August 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s Montefiore Medical Center, in Bronx, New York, say that every extra pound makes it easier for the most common type of breast cancer to reoccur in women, despite the patients being treated with the best available medication and therapies. Interestingly, the... |
27 August 2012
11:40 GMT |
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An advanced material developed by an international team of researchers holds great promise for use in future generations of Random Access Memory (RAM), as it may lead to the creation of computer memories that consume only a small fraction of the electricity being used by existing devices.
Each year, in the US alone... |
27 August 2012
11:33 GMT |
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AT&T has denied rumors that it is forcing staffers to put in hours between September 21 and September 30 in anticipation of the iPhone 5 launch. According to an AT&T spokesperson, the rumor is simply “not true.”
TechCrunh ran a short story over the weekend about AT&T staff being given a vacation blackout... |
27 August 2012
11:32 GMT |
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Powered by Nvidia’s popular Tegra 3 SoC, Lenovo’s new IdeaTab A2109 tablet features an interesting 9” screen with multitouch support and the latest and greatest Android 4.0 operating system. For buyers that are in for a powerful yet affordable and well-built quality tablet, Lenovo’s A2109 seem... |
27 August 2012
11:21 GMT |
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Not very long ago, Dr. Arthur Anker decided to take some time and explore the wildlife presently found in various Venezuelan regions. It so happens that he stumbled upon a very weird-looking moth, whose pictures are now taking over the Internet as people are trying to determine whether the insect resembles a bird, a ... |
27 August 2012
11:21 GMT |
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Amazon is making a pretty penny from its huge online store. But Amazon has always been looking at the future and it bet big on digital content, first in the form of ebooks and music, later with video too. The company's approach to delivering that content is interesting to say the least. Users don't pay a ... |
27 August 2012
11:14 GMT |
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According to a study financed by the NOAA Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research, it would appear that the dead zone which usually develops in the Gulf of Mexico in the summer is smaller now than it's been over the past few years.
Dead zones are also called hypoxic, and occur when the amount of oxygen ava... |
27 August 2012
11:07 GMT |
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Lots of rumors surrounding the upcoming sequel to Samsung Galaxy Note have been making headlines in the past few weeks.
Only two days remain until Samsung is expected to unveil the Galaxy Note 2 “phablet,” but rumors continue to surface online.
The latest details on the Galaxy Note 2 come from Korean pu... |
27 August 2012
11:04 GMT |
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GlobalCerts (GlobalCerts.net), a firm that offers secure messaging and other similar solutions, is apparently the victim of a hack.
A hacker called Stun (57UN), working under the Anonymous and AntiSec banners, claims to have breached the company’s systems.
The file he published online contains around 1,600 na... |
27 August 2012
10:58 GMT |
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It is probably just wishful thinking on our part, but maybe the patent war between Samsung and Apple really has become tiresome enough that others are thinking twice about starting new ones.
We say this because, even though Fujitsu and Acacia were setting up lawsuits at district courts in Texas and California, they... |
27 August 2012
10:53 GMT |
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The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has recently decided to look into how plans to dam the Mekong River will impact on the biodiversity of the aquatic ecosystems this water source houses. The conclusions reached by this organization are quite troubling.
Thus, should the dams projects held in store for the Mekong River be... |
27 August 2012
10:52 GMT |
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Katie Holmes is now officially a free woman, her divorce from Tom Cruise becoming finalized last week. Though she gets no alimony and “only” $33,000 (€26,338.8) a month for daughter Suri, Katie walks away from the marriage a rich woman.
The latest report in Radar Online claims that, because of an &l... |
27 August 2012
10:49 GMT |
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AVX Corporation is a company that produces a wide variety of electrical components. So why would Anonymous hack their website and leak their database containing thousands of usernames, passwords, email addresses and other details?
Apparently, because the company was “directly involved” in the 1998 war in... |
27 August 2012
10:39 GMT |
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South Korean company LG is readying its next major smartphone for this year’s IFA trade fair, which is set to start on August 31.
The LG Optimus G will be the first to be equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 processor and the Adreno 320 graphics processing unit.
In addition, the smartphon... |
27 August 2012
10:31 GMT |
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When talking of thumb drives, people immediately think of very small USB flash drives, but Green House is not most people.
Once you buy one of the Thumb Drives, you might stop being one of those people too.
You may also become someone very adept at pretending you cut your thumb while chopping vegetables.
Long stor... |
27 August 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Samsung recently announced the upcoming availability of the black version of Galaxy S III, several weeks after it launched the Garnet Red model exclusively via AT&T.
Today, the folks over at SamMobile have been tipped on a new color-scheme for Samsung Galaxy S III, Titan Grey.
According to them, the new color opti... |
27 August 2012
10:29 GMT |
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The biggest Capcom reveal for Gamescom 2012 was the new action title Remember Me, an action adventure that’s set in the near future, and it seems that the company has long-term plans for the new intellectual property.
Michael Pattison, who is the leader of marketing for Capcom in both Europe and the United Sta... |
27 August 2012
10:22 GMT |
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It’s been a while since Sandboxie received an update, but this weekend the developer released a new revision.
Sandboxie 3.74 brings to the table a hefty set of improvements and fixes. Starting with this build, the application displays a short tutorial at first launch, which can also be called manually from the... |
27 August 2012
10:21 GMT |
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In a study that covered the conclusions of 19 clinical trials, investigators were able to determine that smokers who are trying to quit the habit can experience some relief in the intensity of their cravings if they go out and jog for a bit, or perform some other type of physical exercises.
The team behind the stud... |
27 August 2012
10:19 GMT |
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We expect Samsung to go official with the Galaxy Note II in the next few days, and rumors on the upcoming “phablet” continue to pour.
The latest rumor leaked via SamMobile claims Samsung Galaxy Note will be released on the market in week 40 of the year, which means the smartphone will hit shelves in earl... |
27 August 2012
10:18 GMT |
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Samsung's defeat in San Jose, California, was as embarrassing as it was massive, but there is one very thin silver lining: the Galaxy Tab 10.1 was found to not overstep the legal bounds that got it tossed out of the country.
That's as bizarre as it gets, considering that the product is what started this p... |
27 August 2012
10:15 GMT |
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I live in a democracy which, even if it’s not built on the same core concepts, shares much when it comes to procedures, concepts and ideas with the United States of America and that makes The Political Machine 2012, the political strategy game from Stardock, both fascinating and, at times, frustrating. This is... |
27 August 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Our friends from Vulnerability Lab participated at this year’s Campus Party in Berlin and they were kind enough to tell us a few things about the security section of the event. Campus Party is an annual event where thousands of hackers, gamers and developers gather for non-stop partying, geek-style that is. T... |
27 August 2012
10:02 GMT |
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Recent news from Spain informs us that, after a six-year period in which matadors taking down bulls were nowhere to be seen on national television, bullfighting is to once again be made available for the general public to watch and enjoy. It comes as no surprise that animal rights activists did not take lightly to ... |
27 August 2012
10:00 GMT |
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There is a new man working for Globalfoundries and reporting to Mike Noonen, the semiconductor manufacturing company's executive vice president of worldwide marketing and sales.
Bruce Kleinman will be tasked with leading the product marketing division, which implies working with global customers and helping to... |
27 August 2012
09:53 GMT |
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WikiLeak's Julian Assange continues to be holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. He's been given asylum in Ecuador, but can't leave the embassy without getting arrested for breaching his bail conditions, by fleeing to the embassy in the first place.
Tensions were high as Ecuador announced that ... |
27 August 2012
09:53 GMT |
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Investigators at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Lighting Research Center (LRC) discovered in a new study that teens who use electronic devices with backlit (self-luminous) displays at night experience delayed bedtimes.
According to the team, even a 2-hour exposure to these devices – which include ... |
27 August 2012
09:46 GMT |
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Robot Entertainment has confirmed that it’s going to release the first DLC pack for its Orcs Must Die 2 action strategy game later this week, in the form of the Fire & Water add-on, which brings new levels, as well as new enemies and traps. Orcs Must Die 2 came out at the end of July and delivered an impressiv... |
27 August 2012
09:40 GMT |
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As Christina Aguilera is working on her comeback, her fans must be literally on the edge of their seat to hear her first single off the upcoming album. Hype around it is even higher because Christina is also shooting a video.
The other week, the diva teased fans by posting a photo on Twitter. It didn't show m... |
27 August 2012
09:39 GMT |
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One interesting move by Intel will be the introduction of the new, Haswell-based Xeon processors early next year. The company took its time releasing Ivy Bridge based Xeons, but Haswell Xeons will hit the market in a short time after the launch of the desktop version.
Seeing it doesn’t have a particularly stro... |
27 August 2012
09:21 GMT |
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You have to admire and respect Leonardo DiCaprio's loyalty to director Martin Scorsese. Much like other talented (and very professional) actors, Leo is bound to come back to Scorsese whenever he wants him for a new project.
This time, it's a film called “The Wolf of Wall Street,” as we also re... |
27 August 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Unknown to many, today marks two very important celebrations: the Banana Lovers Day and the US National Petroleum Day (or the National Oil & Gas Appreciation Day, if you prefer).
Truth be told, people who hold banana splits very close at heart may in fact spend some time trying to wrap their heads around how this f... |
27 August 2012
09:20 GMT |
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VirusBuster antivirus customers should know that their current products will no longer be developed or supported starting with October 1. That’s because Agnitum has acquired exclusive rights for VirusBuster’s technology. Agnitum has been relying on VirusBuster technology since 2006, integrating the solut... |
27 August 2012
09:20 GMT |
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Moving forward with the Samsung product releases, the company has revealed a 5.8-inch media player, called rather unimaginatively Galaxy Player 5.8. We won't really fault the company for the name though. Galaxy is a long-standing brand and including the screen size in the name is basically tradition now. That ... |
27 August 2012
09:15 GMT |
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The internet is a good thing. On that much, most people would agree. Some countries have gone as far as to declare internet access a basic human right. Most are not quite there yet, but access is important in most places.
The problem is, infrastructure is expensive, especially when dealing with broadband and especi... |
27 August 2012
09:05 GMT |
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This March, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the SOLITAIRE Flow Restoration Device for use on humans. The instrument, which may soon enter mainstream use, is capable of eliminating the blood clots that form in the brain, and help trigger strokes.
Blocked arteries are the primary reason why strokes... |
27 August 2012
09:03 GMT |
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We know that Windows 8 is approaching, but it won't be launched at IFA 2012. That doesn't mean items running it won't be revealed though.
Samsung is one of the IT players that will have Windows 8 tablets, ultrabooks and “converged” devices on display.
In fact, the company has teased a c... |
27 August 2012
09:01 GMT |
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The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has issued a report called “Cyber Incident Reporting in the EU.” The study analyzes the effects of security breaches and the problems that currently exist in the implementation of efficient reporting mechanisms.
In the past couple of years, a l... |
27 August 2012
08:56 GMT |
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As expected, Nokia has just announced the immediate availability of a new major software update for some of its Symbian smartphones.
Dubbed “Nokia Belle Refresh,” the update is currently available for Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia C7, Nokia C6-01, Nokia X7 and Nokia Oro with version number 111.040.1511.
Acc... |
27 August 2012
08:54 GMT |
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Zhen Ding Technology Holding (ZDT), an affiliate of Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), is expected to see increased profits thanks to new orders from Apple, which is poised to refresh its entire iDevice lineup this fall.
Sales of flexible PCBs (printed circuit boards) are expected to account for 50% o... |
27 August 2012
08:51 GMT |
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It appears Apple has decided to place its rumored NFC chip on the actual display assembly of the next-generation iPhone.
The next-generation iPhone is said to boast a number of relocated components, including the front-facing camera and proximity sensor, as well as the headphone jack.
In doing these alterations, th... |
27 August 2012
08:46 GMT |
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Sherlock Holmes / Benedict Cumberbatch fans, get ready: we still have another year to go until the first episode from season 3 of the BBC One series airs, but at least its creators have revealed the first hints about it.
Showrunner Steven Moffat and co-creator Mark Gatiss have just unveiled the 3 key words for all... |
27 August 2012
08:41 GMT |
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A collaboration of American researchers announces that it was recently able to introduce a new function into the scaffolds used to create the 3D shape of engineered tissues. The addition could enable scientists to get feedback on how the cells are developing, and guide their development accordingly. The aforemention... |
27 August 2012
08:38 GMT |
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A few days back, we shared information with respect to how US Republican Mitt Romney decided to accuse President Barack Obama of having made some very poor decisions concerning the future of the country's energy industry.
Thus, the American businessman and politician makes a case of how the green-oriented ener... |
27 August 2012
08:34 GMT |
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We've really been writing a lot about Samsung today, and the reason is that the company has decided to reveal its IFA “surprises” even sooner than most every other participant. So far, we know of a Series 5 Hybrid tablet and the Galaxy S III smartphone-based camera, none of which is likely to be ov... |
27 August 2012
08:31 GMT |
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The Apple vs. Samsung battle has been in the spotlight for the past few days after Apple won a decisive victory on its home court. There are going to be appeals and the issues are far from clarified or over. Still, people are wondering, what's next? Are other manufacturers in danger, are Google & co. going to ... |
27 August 2012
08:31 GMT |
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The first device to be launched with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean out of the box, Nexus 7 has been available for purchase in North America for a few weeks now.
Today, we’ve received reports that Android enthusiasts living in France, Germany and Spain can buy the Google Nexus 7 as well for a suggested retail price of... |
27 August 2012
08:30 GMT |
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Scientists have been trying to develop machines capable of weighing the mass of individual molecules for quite some time, but thus far their efforts have been fruitless. Finally, experts at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena announce they were able to construct such an instrument.
Theirs is the firs... |
27 August 2012
08:24 GMT |
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Video games linked to the PlayStation Vita have not contained too much emotion so far, but one Japanese developer plans to change this situation with the upcoming Soul Sacrifice, by using feelings to allow players to choose between saving and killing enemies.
In an interview with the official PlayStation blog, Keiji... |
27 August 2012
08:12 GMT |
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Santander customers may be presented these days with a simple, yet effective, scam that’s circulating via email, apparently being sent from service@santander.co.uk.
“Your online account statement could not be reviewed due to incorrect banking details. To have your online account reinstated, you need to r... |
27 August 2012
07:59 GMT |
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Matthew Vander Heiden, a researcher at the Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), announces the discovery of a new potential target for anti-cancer drugs. He says that attacking a certain metabolic pathway could reduce tumor growth patterns.
Vander Heiden, the senior author of the research pap... |
27 August 2012
07:57 GMT |
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Sony may not directly make and market optical disk drive units, but it does have a subsidiary that handles this small facet of its industry: Optiarc Incorporated.
Alas, for reasons described only as “fierce competition,” the division is going to shut down by March 2013.
Some of the 400 employees will ... |
27 August 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Only recently, US President Barack Obama agreed to offer his full support to a project aimed at building charging stations for electric vehicles driven by American politicians.
Thus, several such facilities are soon to be erected in and around the US Congress, hopefully encouraging more state officials to opt for e... |
27 August 2012
07:51 GMT |
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The development team at Firaxis and publisher 2K Games have released yet another trailer for their upcoming strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown that’s designed to show players the sacrifices they will have to make as they try to stop the alien menace from claiming ownership of Earth. The original title in the se... |
27 August 2012
07:47 GMT |
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Replacing the previously-removed iOS App Store version, Bitdefender’s Clueful app today returns as a free web-app for all devices that use a web browser. Clueful lets you know which apps are “careless“ with your private information, drain your battery, etc. Romania-based Bitdefender, the renowned a... |
27 August 2012
07:46 GMT |
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Copyright extremists would have you believe that any unauthorized copying is illegal or at least immoral. But can there be such a thing as "ethical" file sharing? Ethical here doesn't mean that sharing a file will save children, it means that sharing that file, a song, a TV episode, etc., would not harm its crea... |
27 August 2012
07:41 GMT |
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Remember the malicious StalkTrak app that was making the rounds back in January? It seems that it’s back and a number of Twitter customers have reported unwittingly giving it permission to post on their behalf.
When we first reported about StalkTrak, its developers were using the “tvvitter.com” dom... |
27 August 2012
07:39 GMT |
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Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are no longer an item but, judging by the first post-scandal photos of her, she's yet to lose all hope: she's still wearing some clothes and items that once belonged or were gifted to her by Robert.
As we also noted last week, Kristen has come out from hiding. Paparazz... |
27 August 2012
07:29 GMT |
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Blizzard continues offering more details about its upcoming patch 5.0.4 for World of Warcraft, this time sharing with the game's millions of players some of the gameplay changes that are included in the new update.
World of Warcraft patch 5.0.4 gets the game ready for the upcoming Mists of Pandaria expansion by... |
27 August 2012
07:22 GMT |
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A Foxconn production base in Zhengzhou, China which reportedly employs a whopping 150,000 workers has been on Terry Gou’s radar lately. The Chinese magnate has ordered a spike in pay for the workforce assembling Apple’s precious iPhones and iPads.
Foxconn Electronics reportedly announced a raise for empl... |
27 August 2012
07:21 GMT |
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As a result of a collaboration between the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and the National Marine Fisheries Service, Chinook salmon living in Alaskan waters are to benefit from increased protection, as a new rule demands that fishermen better monitor and control how many of these fish end up in their nets a... |
27 August 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Qualcomm has been flashing its APQ8064 development tablet ever since the UpLink conference that took place in June this year, as we reported here, but only during the past few days did professionals manage to properly benchmark and compare the new platform with what’s currently on the market. Hardware experts ... |
27 August 2012
07:19 GMT |
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IAC, the company behind some big though not especially glamorous websites, has acquired About.com from The New York Times. Because, yes, About.com was owned by The New York Times.
The price is rumored to be at around $300 million, €240 million, lower than the $410 million, €328 million the company paid fo... |
27 August 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Several scammy online betting sites – some of them active for as many as 4 years – have been reported to defraud Australians of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Although they received numerous reports, authorities haven’t managed to apprehend the perpetrator.
SC Magazine thoroughly analyzed this inciden... |
27 August 2012
07:04 GMT |
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Urs Beyerle announced last evening, August 26th, that the final version of the Scientific Linux 6.3 Live CD/DVD operating system is now available for download on mirrors worldwide. Scientific Linux 6.3 is now based on Red Had Enterprise Linux 6.3, powered by Linux kernel 2.6.32, and features XOrg Server 1.7.7, IceW... |
27 August 2012
06:42 GMT |
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A key software engineer from Mozilla has confirmed that Firefox 16 would be the last version of the world’s most popular web browser to support Apple’s aging OS X Leopard. Firefox 17 will be the first to leave Leopard behind, said Josh Aas, who works on the Firefox platform group.
In a message on Bugzill... |
27 August 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Semplice Linux, a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian's Sid unstable branch with the goal to provide a simple, lightweight, fast and cool environment, has made it to version 3.0 Beta 1. Semplice Linux 3.0 Beta 1 has a lot of changes in comparison with the previous version and most of them are quite important.... |
27 August 2012
06:40 GMT |
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Facebook is having trouble ramping up revenue as fast as it would like and as fast as its newest investors would like. That's because its ads are very cheap and it's got way too much page views to know what to do with them (how to monetize them). The problem is even worse as people move to the mobile apps... |
27 August 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Japanese giant Toshiba has been used by Western Digital, Seagate and the authorities as the puppet to play the role of the third “competitor” in the global HDD market. After acquiring virtually all the competition, Seagate and WD now rule over 90% of the global HDD market and exactly 100% of the 3.5&rdquo... |
27 August 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Back in the '90s, when Jennifer Aniston's star was just beginning to rise on “Friends,” she and her mother Nancy had a fallout that would last over a decade, because Nancy had breached her confidence by talking about her personal life to the press. She still has that habit, it would seem. The t... |
27 August 2012
06:04 GMT |
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A video recently made available for fans of biodiversity and Internet explorers shows how, with just one punch, mantis shrimps can cause significant damages to the things or animals it targets.
Because they spend most of their lives hiding away in burrows or holes, mantis shrimps more often than not fail to receive... |
27 August 2012
06:01 GMT |
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A new statistic shows that just 2 percent of Canadians still believe that global warming is a fabrication, and not currently happening. IPAC-CO2 Research Inc. has just released the results of its latest analysis on climate change, and the results are very important for authorities.
Canadians – except for this... |
27 August 2012
06:01 GMT |
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wattOS, a lightweight, energy saving Linux distribution designed to not only bring your old computer back to life, but also to eat up as little power as possible, is now at version R6. The most important change in wattOS R6 is the fact that now the distribution is based on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (Precise Pangolin).Highli... |
27 August 2012
05:57 GMT |
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Frank O’Connor, one of the leading developers working on the upcoming Halo 4 at 343 Industries, has revealed that the Spartan Ops downloadable content for his game will offer more content than the previous title in the series Halo 3: ODST.The information was delivered in a thread on a fan site where the develop... |
27 August 2012
05:55 GMT |
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India has been having the same "problems" with the internet as the rest of the world. And, as in the rest of the world, the solution to those problems is simply to block parts of the internet in the hope that the "bad stuff" simply goes away, collateral damage be damned.
Unlike in some parts of the world, the govern... |
27 August 2012
05:51 GMT |
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The website of the Interpol – the largest international police organization in the world – has been the target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack launched by Anonymous hackers as part of Operation Free Assange.
The website has been disrupted for a short amount of time some 12 hours ago, but... |
27 August 2012
05:49 GMT |
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Battlefield 3: Armored Kill is going to appear this September and, while developer DICE has declined to mention a concrete release date, a bunch of possible launch days have briefly appeared on its official website.
Battlefield 3 came out last year and is still quite popular, largely thanks to the dedicated team at ... |
27 August 2012
05:48 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom, women who suffer from Alzheimer's disease experience neural degeneration faster than men suffering from the same form of dementia. The accelerated, more pronounced mental degeneration... |
27 August 2012
05:48 GMT |
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This past Saturday, a female giant panda living in a Chinese breeding center successfully delivered its fourth cub so far. Immediately after birth, the animal is seen picking up its offspring in its mouth and carefully placing in on its belly, where it can keep it safe and lick it clean. Although the mother panda d... |
27 August 2012
05:40 GMT |
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Cameraphones aren't a new idea, and smartphones always qualify as such things, to a certain extent. Samsung wants to take the concept to its logical extreme though, or close enough that no one will know the difference. Someone sent a tip over to GSMArena. That tip contained all the information currently availa... |
27 August 2012
05:34 GMT |
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Google officially announced Android 4.1 Jelly Bean platform two months ago and already launched the first device powered by the new operating system, Nexus 7.
The search giant promised that a few smartphones would receive Jelly Bean in the form of upgrades, including Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus and Motorola XOOM.
However... |
27 August 2012
05:33 GMT |
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Summer is almost over and this means that video game publishers are finally getting ready to launch the most important titles of the year.
This week console-based gamers will be able to pick up Madden NFL 13 while PC-based players can get Guild Wars 2, the new MMO from ArenaNet.
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Damage Inc. Pacific Squadron WW ... |
27 August 2012
05:30 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the United States says that ants which forage for food tend to display a behavior that mirrors the protocols used for Internet data traffic control. The amazing finding was made possible through the efforts of researchers at the Stanford University.
The work is the result of a collabor... |
27 August 2012
05:22 GMT |
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People in Essex have only recently found themselves unable to get out of their homes and carry on with their usual business after authorities informed them that, according to several eye-witnesses, a lion was roaming free in the region. It may very well be because of the general chaos, but some say that, while stay... |
27 August 2012
05:20 GMT |
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The 13-inch MacBook Pro is getting the Retina treatment, according to NPD DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim. Production is already underway, he said, which means we can expect the computer to launch before this year’s holiday season.
Shim tells CNET that “production has begun of a 2,560-by-1,600 pixel d... |
27 August 2012
05:19 GMT |
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It’s becoming clear that no country (at least not from Europe) is safe from the claws of ransomware, malicious elements that lock computers and keep them that way until the victims agree to pay a certain fine.
As in other countries, the cybercriminals demand around €100 ($125) in order to unblock the infected ... |
27 August 2012
05:17 GMT |
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Last time we heard anything about Jennifer Lopez and her backup dancer beau Casper Smart, she was seriously considering dumping him. The latest says that she's still trying to make the relationship work, even though she doesn't trust him at all.
The latest print issue of InTouch Weekly (story via CB) claim... |
27 August 2012
05:12 GMT |
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Vigil Games has kept its DLC plans for Darksiders 2 a closely guarded secret but the description of the game’s Season Pass on Steam has revealed two new quest lines that would be released for the game in the near future, called the Abyssal Forge Pack and the Lord Demon Belial.
Darksiders II was released earlie... |
27 August 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Samsung really suffered a heavy blow a few days ago, when the jury overseeing the case between it and Apple in San Jose, California, ruled almost totally in Apple's favor. Samsung is, naturally, going to appeal the decision of the US court, but it won't stay silent during the time it takes to formulate th... |
27 August 2012
05:08 GMT |
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Taiwanese company Synology has just launched a new NAS unit that brings the user very useful and interesting features and capabilities. The new product has a quiet and efficient cooling system and a hardware encryption chipset.
The processor powering the new DS213+ NAS server from Synology runs at a high 1067 MHz an... |
27 August 2012
05:08 GMT |
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Since it's the biggest story of the last few days, Apple's win against Samsung in the patent lawsuit in the US shouldn't be much of a surprise to anyone. And since it's such a big win and, more importantly, a symbolic one, even Google had to say something about. Google has notably stayed out of p... |
27 August 2012
05:01 GMT |
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Hackers from the 3xp1r3 Cyber Army are once again threatening Indian hackers, urging them to stop attacking websites from Bangladesh.
“Dear, Indian Hackers We are like storm which is brewing & our shadow like thunder in the distance. No one knows that how capable we are. So, don't do anything more than yo... |
27 August 2012
04:55 GMT |
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Certain chocolate commercials might have brought marmots under the spotlight, turning them into some of the most adored creatures living in Alpine regions, but few have succeeded in becoming friends with these shy animals, no matter how hard they wanted to. Truth be told, as far as we know there is only one person ... |
27 August 2012
04:55 GMT |
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One of the leaders of video game publisher Activision believes that the next generation of home consoles will have to compete directly with the next generation of mobiles when it comes to mainstream titles. Greg Canessa, vice president of mobile development at Activision, says, “The CPU and GPU capabilities of... |
27 August 2012
04:46 GMT |
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It is not that easy to browse the web in a secure manner regardless of the network you connect to, especially for beginner users. Hotspot Shield Elite (reviewed here) has been designed specifically for this purpose as well as to keep your privacy online. We have 50 licenses to give away for this product, each valid ... |
27 August 2012
04:42 GMT |
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After Verizon set in place an all-hands-on-deck policy for September 21-30, AT&T has now instated the same blackout, corroborating claims that Apple’s iPhone 5 will become available at major carriers during that timeframe. An AT&T sales representative has confirmed to TechCrunch that “AT&T staff has been... |
27 August 2012
04:41 GMT |
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Zorin OS Lite, an Ubuntu-based operating system aimed at Windows users that are switching over to Linux, has now reached version 6.1.
Zorin OS Lite 6.1 is built on the Linux architecture so it is completely open source and it's based on Ubuntu, one of the most used Linux operating system in the world.
This la... |
27 August 2012
04:38 GMT |
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Security researchers from FireEye have identified a new Java zero-day vulnerability that’s currently being exploited in a limited number of targeted attacks.
According to experts, most of the recent Java run-time environments (JRE) are affected and, for the time being, there are no known mitigations.
Th... |
27 August 2012
04:28 GMT |
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Alaska's Denali National Park recently witnessed the killing of a hiker by a grizzly bear. Apparently, this incident is the first of its kind in the park's history, meaning that although accidents involving bears have occurred in the past, this is the first time when a man ends up losing his life. Sources... |
27 August 2012
04:28 GMT |
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Google’s Nexus 7 and Apple’s iPad seem to have made the computing and multimedia tablets so popular, that these are already well on their way to reach the 100 million units shipped milestone. Microsoft’s Surface will only increase the sales numbers, but we should wait and see how Samsung’s ba... |
27 August 2012
04:24 GMT |
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Microsoft and 343 Industries have released a brand new trailer, called Enlist, for their upcoming Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn web series, showing off the premiere training facility of the UNSC: the Corbulo Academy of Military Science.
Halo 4 is one of the biggest games that will appear this year, so you can bet that M... |
27 August 2012
04:23 GMT |
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A host of atmospheric violations prevented the launch of the twin NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) spacecraft on Sunday, August 26. Mission managers were forced to reschedule takeoff for this Thursday, August 30.
Destined to study the two Van Allen radiation belts surrounding Earth, the RBSP spacecraft were ... |
27 August 2012
04:22 GMT |
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Some beautiful women are so accustomed to getting what they want that they have nearly forgotten the meaning of “no.” Just ask Nicolae Stan, a 34-year-old cab driver from Tulcea, Romania: he knows all about that. When he's not driving people around, Stan also uses his cab to run errands for people... |
27 August 2012
04:22 GMT |
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Video game publisher Konami has announced that it has entered into an agreement that will bring 20 new teams from Brazil to the upcoming Pro Evolution Soccer 2013, allowing fans to take part in the action of one of the most spectacular leagues in the world.
The list of teams includes:
Flamengo
Corinthians
Sã... |
27 August 2012
04:15 GMT |
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If you've ever wondered why we don't travel through the core of the planet in order to get to the other side, the video above will provide you with an accurate answer. The clip described how gravitational forces would act on a body falling through the planet, and how that body would behave as a result.
Th... |
27 August 2012
04:05 GMT |
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This past Saturday, a male tiger living in captivity at the Cologne zoo in Germany tried to escape and ended up killing a 43-year-old woman in its quest for freedom. Official sources explain that the big cat, named Altai, somehow succeeded in getting out of a security tunnel and made its way into one of the zoo... |
27 August 2012
04:01 GMT |
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Even though NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 690 graphics card is already a mighty beast, ASUS has been determined to overshadow it for weeks. The Mars III board, revealed at Computex 2012, is a GTX 690 with better power supply circuits, but this only came to light recently, when someone on the Expreview forums provided s... |
27 August 2012
03:57 GMT |
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Google regularly uses doodles to mark special occasions and people. It had one every day during the Olympics and has decided to give people a breather since. But it's been running a few local doodles though, the latest being dedicated to noted physicist, chemist and scholar Muhammad ibn Zakariyā Rāzī, or Razes... |
27 August 2012
03:51 GMT |
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The official website of Peter Gerald Hain – member of the United Kingdom Parliament and British Labour Party politician – has been hacked by Anonymous as part of the campaign meant to convince the United Kingdom government to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. “Mr Hain doesn’t like it when... |
27 August 2012
03:49 GMT |
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It seems that acclaimed musician Jesper Kyd has a fondness for video games, as after working with Vigil on the soundtrack for the recently released Darksiders II title, the composer has been confirmed by Gearbox Software as the mastermind behind the soundtrack of its upcoming Borderlands 2 shooter.
Borderlands 2 aim... |
27 August 2012
03:40 GMT |
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Two weeks ago, Samsung rolled out the over-the-air (OTA) update for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, but that was only in South Korea (and happened shortly before the item was banned from the region). Now we get to reveal what other country the software upgrade has arrived in. As reported by NDTV Gadgets, the Tab 10.1, ... |
27 August 2012
03:37 GMT |
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Klaus Knopper announced a few days ago, on August 26th, the immediate availability for download of the KNOPPIX 7.0.4 operating system.
KNOPPIX 7.0.4 brings lots of new features and updated packages, such as LibreOffice 3.5.4, Chromium 21.0.1180.75, KDE Software Compilation 4.7.4, GNOME 3.4, Wine 1.5.10, VirtualBox ... |
27 August 2012
03:35 GMT |
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Many of you might have enjoyed a banana for breakfast – or are probably thinking of doing so for lunch or dinner –, yet odds are few are aware of the fact that the 27th of August marks the celebration of the official Banana Lovers Day.
Seeing how green-oriented behaviors are more often than not linked t... |
27 August 2012
03:33 GMT |
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The next high-end smartphone coming for LG, the Optimus G has just been confirmed by the South Korean mobile phone manufacturer.
Details on the upcoming device leaked earlier last week, but LG was mum on alleged Optimus G until recently.
Rumored to come packed with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 Pro all-in-one chip... |
27 August 2012
03:32 GMT |
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Though they both denied it vehemently at first, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are no longer trying to keep their romance a secret. After going public with it at a Dodgers game, the actor is now “begging” his estranged wife Demi Moore for a divorce, just so Mila is more at ease about the whole thing.
Ash... |
27 August 2012
03:31 GMT |
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Former NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong, famous for being the first human to set foot on the Moon, died on Saturday, August 25, at the age of 82. According to reports, complications that arose following a coronary bypass surgery, which he undertook earlier this month, were the most likely cause.
He underwent the proce... |
27 August 2012
03:21 GMT |
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Chrome 22 finally made it to the beta channel for desktop users, but Chromebooks have a bit longer to wait. For now, Chrome 22 is still in the dev channel.
The latest update Chrome 22.0.1229.21 is actually the release of Chrome 22.0.1229.12, which came out last week but was then pulled due to a serious issue that w... |
27 August 2012
03:20 GMT |
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Stellarium 0.11.4, a free open-source planetarium app that shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what can be seen with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope, has been officially released.
Highlights of Stellarium 0.11.4:
• Exoplanets plugin was added;
• Observability analysis plugin has been added;
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27 August 2012
03:10 GMT |
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Images posted to a Photobucket account that has previously yielded accurate leaks show a fully-loaded iPhone 5 touch assembly, complete with Retina display, metal shielding, flex cables, Home button, front camera, and earpiece.
With only two weeks to go before Apple’s ceremonious unveiling of the next-generati... |
27 August 2012
03:08 GMT |
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Mitch Lasky, a venture capitalist who has backed such video game projects as League of Legends and Journey, believes that the social platform Facebook is no longer seen as a way to make money by developer and publishers.
The venture capitalist has stated, “Facebook is still a viable platform for independent de... |
27 August 2012
03:08 GMT |
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LucasArts has revealed a brand new video with its upcoming Star Wars 1313 shooter, this time showing off a glimpse at the game's development, complete with plenty of feedback from its team.
Star Wars 1313 isn't a regular Star Wars game, as it doesn't throw players into the shoes of a Jedi knight or a ... |
27 August 2012
03:02 GMT |
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Unlike other hacker collectives which breach websites and immediately tell the world about their accomplishment, Team GhostShell prefers to target multiple websites before unveiling their work. They claim to have breached over 100 sites worldwide, leaking a total of around 1 million record sets.
The hacks are part o... |
27 August 2012
02:57 GMT |
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Pint-sized reality star Snooki (real name Nicole Polizzi) is a mommy: she and fiancé Jionni LaValle welcomed their first child, a baby boy named Lorenzo Dominic, into the world just a few hours ago.
MTV News was the first to break the happy news, confirming that both mother and child were healthy and doing fi... |
27 August 2012
02:56 GMT |
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Many were surprised when AMD launched the W series here and never mentioned anything new about the FireStream line. Most professional graphics and computing enthusiasts were disappointed that the company gave up on the specific GPU compute line of products and apparently yielded to Nvidia’s Tesla. The reality ... |
27 August 2012
02:55 GMT |
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A few days ago, we spoke about how Greenpeace dispatched seven of its activists in the Pechora Sea, with one goal in mind: that of keeping Russian oil company Gazprom from drilling in this part of the world.
Recent news with respect to how things are unfolding informs us that seven new Greenpeace members have made ... |
27 August 2012
02:44 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices will launch the Piledriver Bulldozer architecture in the fourth quarter of the year (Q4 2012), so, naturally, the information on it is already surfacing. Today we have an update on the Vishera FX desktop processors, the so-called “flagship” CPUs of the second-generation Bulldozer.... |
27 August 2012
02:39 GMT |
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Dishonored, from Arkane Studios and Bethesda, and Rayman Legends, from Ubisoft, have picked up multiple Gamescom 2012 Awards, which were awarded by a team of 20 experts from the video game industry. The winners in full are as follows: Best PS3 Game - Dishonored from Bethesda Best Wii Game - Rayman Legends by Ubisof... |
27 August 2012
02:32 GMT |
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Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a couple of days ago, August 25th, the immediate availability for download of the third maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.5 kernel series. Linux kernel 3.5.3 includes mostly updated drivers, especially for ATI Radeon and Intel i915 graphics cards, as well as some EXT4 filesyste... |
27 August 2012
01:53 GMT |
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