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The new Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition includes three new characters which gamers can recruit into their parties as they explore the Sword Coast once again.
Rasaad yn Bashir is the first party character which adopts the monk class as his own, which means he is able to deliver a lot of damage as long as he is u... |
27 November 2012
21:31 GMT |
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PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, the new fighting game from Sony, is not exactly a hardcore title, but one of the main developers working on it believes that the experience will drive some players to try other titles like Street Fighter or Marvel vs. Capcom. Seth Killian says that it is unlikely that PlayStation... |
27 November 2012
20:51 GMT |
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UC Web has just updated its UC Browser application for Android tablets with a few new features and improvements.
The same browser for Android smartphones has been updated as well with even more changes. Check it out here.
The latest version of UC Browser HD for Android offers multi-touch feature, which allows user... |
27 November 2012
20:31 GMT |
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Australian mobile phone carrier Vodafone has finally made official specific details regarding the upcoming availability of Samsung’s Galaxy Note II smartphone on its network.
The new device will become officially available for purchase at Vodafone Australia on December 5, and will be put up for sale both thro... |
27 November 2012
19:51 GMT |
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Trent Oster, the leader of the Overhaul Games team working on the revival of Baldur’s Gate, says that much of the success of the original party-based role-playing experience was linked to the pen-and-paper origins of the universe.
Speaking to PCGamesN, the developer states, “The key feature of the game&#... |
27 November 2012
19:31 GMT |
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One recent Chrome experiment is impressive for two reasons. One, it's yet another testament of what a modern browser and modern web technologies can do.
Second, it's an accurate 3D representation of the 100,000 stars nearest to us in our galaxy, any amateur astronomer's dream.
Put together by the Go... |
27 November 2012
19:31 GMT |
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The lead designer of Battlefield 3 Armored Kill expansion, Gustav Halling, has also criticized the Nintendo Wii U's hardware performances, claiming that a lot of his fellow game developers have emphasized that its CPU is underpowered.
Nintendo has just released the Wii U last week and is currently getting ready... |
27 November 2012
19:11 GMT |
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HTC and PCCW mobile have just announced the immediate availability of the HTC Windows Phone 8X smartphone in Hong Kong.
According to Winp.cn, the phone is exclusive to PCCW carrier and can be purchased for HKD $5,000 outright, which is about $645/€500.
Customers that do not mind committing to a long-term contr... |
27 November 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Japanese mobile phone carrier NTT DOCOMO has announced plans to start shipping the Aquos Phone Zeta SH-02E device to its users come November 29.
When available in users’ hands, the new SH-02E smartphone will be the very first of its kind to sport an IGZO-based display.
It was also the first such device to b... |
27 November 2012
18:51 GMT |
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Mozilla is working on a way of killing unresponsive plugins rather than having to wait until the browser kills them automatically. Chrome already has a similar feature and it would be a welcomed addition to Firefox.
If a plugin, such as the Flash Player, hangs or becomes unresponsive for whatever reason, Firefox wi... |
27 November 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Windows 8 is apparently missing internal sales projections, with the lack of devices running the new Microsoft software considered one of the main reasons for this slow debut.
And although Black Friday wasn’t so impressive for Microsoft in terms of sales, GeekWire has found out that all budget PCs and laptops ... |
27 November 2012
18:41 GMT |
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With more than 300 million users worldwide, UC Browser is one of the most popular browsers for mobile devices.
The Android version is close to reaching 5 million downloads on Google Play store, but the application is relatively new.
Nevertheless, UC Web, creator of UC Browser, is trying to offer the best experienc... |
27 November 2012
18:31 GMT |
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After quite a few delays and plenty of teases, City Interactive has now released the first full-gameplay video with Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2, the next installment in its sniper-focused shooter series.
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 1 didn’t really impress that many fans with its first-person shooter gameplay that relied... |
27 November 2012
18:11 GMT |
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Today, Meizu Mobile has made its new Meizu MX2 smartphone official in Beijing, after having announced last month that the phone would be launched today. The new device was announced as the successor of the handset vendor’s Meizu MX, with a nice range of enhancements packed inside, as well as with better hardw... |
27 November 2012
18:01 GMT |
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With the advent of web fonts, there's no excuse for not finding an interesting font for your site, document, or whatever it is you want to put together.
But if you're looking for something more unique than embeddable web fonts, or have a longing for Geocities, you can try out Google Type.
Despite the nam... |
27 November 2012
17:51 GMT |
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Noaki Yoshida, the game director working on Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, admits that the original version of the Square Enix MMO lacked quality and that a repeat of the buggy launch would affect the quality in the long term.The developer tells Kotaku that, “We won’t make a mistake like FF14 again &n... |
27 November 2012
17:50 GMT |
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The consensus in the gaming world is that the Japan-based developers and publishers are in decline and that Western teams are now the main source of innovation, but one developer working for Square Enix believes that this is not the case.Yoshihisa Hashimoto, who is part of the team that created the new Luminous engin... |
27 November 2012
17:41 GMT |
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The development team in charge of Xbox Live says that gamers can now earn new Ambassador levels on the service, which include rewards like free Microsoft Points and extra content for player avatars.
The Ambassador rank is available to those users who are willing to assist other members via the chat functions or via ... |
27 November 2012
17:02 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has yet to confirm any plans on bringing to the market a successor to the Galaxy S III next year, something that enthusiasts are already eagerly waiting for.
Following various rumors that the smartphone might indeed be unveiled in February next year, recent reports suggest th... |
27 November 2012
17:01 GMT |
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We’ve already informed you that Kim Kardashian was the Most Searched Celebrity and Most Searched Reality Star in 2012, as per Bing. According to the same stats, her family’s reality show did not make it in the top 10, being replaced by newcomer Honey Boo Boo.
Bing has released the official lists for Mos... |
27 November 2012
17:01 GMT |
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A new BlackBerry smartphone has made an appearance online today, namely the BlackBerry 9620, which can now be seen on Nextel’s website.
Featuring a 1.2GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 processor and 768MB of RAM, the new device also sports a 2.44-inch display that can deliver a 480 x 360 pixel resolution.
Moreover, the ... |
27 November 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Since consumer monitors are already plentiful, it falls to companies like Iiyama to think about the needs of businesses, industrial applications and commercial venues.
The company has officially introduced the 23.6-inch ProLite T2452MTS liquid crystal display monitor, complete with touch support (capacitive technol... |
27 November 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Rockstar Games has just revealed a brand new downloadable map pack for Max Payne 3 called Painful Memories, which revisits some of the most iconic places in the franchise, like the subway scene from the original game.
Max Payne 3 came out back in May and, since then, Rockstar has made sure to keep the multiplayer mo... |
27 November 2012
16:11 GMT |
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The development team at Ubisoft has delivered three new songs for the Rocksmith music simulation title via Steam, allowing gamers on the PC to get access to the same musical experience that is also offered on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.The new songs are:Parliament - Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Suc... |
27 November 2012
16:08 GMT |
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Besides the controller processor, what determines the performance of a solid-state storage device are the semiconductors used in its making, and there will be a general improvement in quality in 2013.
Just like on the CPU industry, the NAND Flash storage segment advances at a sustained rate, as all manufacturers of... |
27 November 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Apple today confirmed that it is launching the latest iMacs this month, in accordance with the company’s initial forecast. Customers looking to secure their own unit can read on below for details on availability by model, technicalities, and International prices.
The iMac, Apple’s all-in-one desktop gem,... |
27 November 2012
15:51 GMT |
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While sales of the Surface RT have been really impressive, at least in the first days of availability, analysts believe that companies and hardware manufacturers aren’t so attracted by Microsoft’s Windows RT. Erwin Visser, senior director at the Redmond-based technology company, previously said that Micr... |
27 November 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Just in case you were wondering which was the most searched movie online this year, wonder no more: Bing has just released its yearly list of Most Searched, and “The Avengers” is sitting pretty at number 1.
Directed by Joss Whedon and received relatively warmly by the critics community (for a superhero ... |
27 November 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Security solutions provider Trend Micro has released new free online tools that allow organizations to assess their current posture and determine how well prepared they are to handle consumerization, cloud adoption and targeted attacks.
All that you need to do is answer a number of 25 questions and you will be provi... |
27 November 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Following the story of an elephant that derailed a train in order to protect its herd comes the news that a mother rhino from South Africa managed to get its calf to safety and keep poachers away from it despite the fact that it was mortally wounded itself.
The incident occurred at the Finfoot Game Reserve and game... |
27 November 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has partnered with a wide range of celebrities for the marketing of its new Windows Phone 8 platform, as we’ve already seen in previously published video ads for the OS, but it seems that there’s actually more to it.
In the latest commercial for the platform, Microsoft brings forth The Abomina... |
27 November 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Chrome is sporting yet another experimental new tab page redesign, though it's not enabled by default and it's only built into the most recent Chromium releases. The new tab page switches things around a little, but is essentially the same as all that came before it.
The bookmark bar has been moved to the ... |
27 November 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Ubuntu Software Center is one of the most disputed applications in the Ubuntu operating system, but the developers have stuck with it and it has proved to be a very good decision. Canonical doesn’t have the best track record when introducing new applications, especially when they are the developers of it. Us... |
27 November 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Two new Grand Theft Auto V screenshots have surfaced on the web, this time showing off how helicopters can be used in the upcoming open world game. GTA V has dominated the media spotlight this month, as Rockstar Games confirmed not just an actual release period for its upcoming title, but it also released a wide var... |
27 November 2012
15:21 GMT |
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uTorrent is undoubtedly the most popular BitTorrent client right now, as it provides the best mix of performance and resource usage, regardless of the Windows version you’re currently running.
While the standard settings should be enough for the average Joe who wants nothing more than to download files through... |
27 November 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has recently presented a brand new project called “Rounds,” which is actually a Windows 8 application supposed to improve the health system with the help of several innovative features.
Still in development stage, “Rounds” is an app that integrates features of other Microsoft soluti... |
27 November 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Reactions to Justin Bieber’s music range from pure worship to hatred, depending on who’s listening. Whether you hate or love him, The Biebs is definitely here to stay, as Bing searches proves.
He’s just topped the Bing chart for Most Searched Musicians of 2012, closely moving past Whitney Houston,... |
27 November 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Researchers from GFI Labs have noticed that when searching for adult pictures of famous singer Beyoncé, users are pointed to a Flickr account that’s cleverly set up to trick them into installing a malicious media player. The Flickr page displays a picture that mimics a video window. When the play button... |
27 November 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Even though Chris Nolan is done for good with the Batman franchise, never before seen tidbits from “The Dark Knight Rises,” the final installment, continue to emerge online.
All will be included on the Blu-Ray release but, just in case you’re too eager to wait until then, they’re available be... |
27 November 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Companies on the scale of Google or even Facebook are venturing into uncharted territory due to their scale. No one has faced the issues a large site like Google faces, so it has to solve all of its problems by itself.
This means creating its own hardware, even its own networking equipment, not to mention innovativ... |
27 November 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Giada, a free, minimal, hardcore audio tool for DJs and live performers that can load or record up to 32 samples, is now at version 0.5.4. Giada 0.5.4 features a live sampler from external sources, a live quantizer, a built-in wave editor, an action recorder, and a lot more tools. Highlights of Giada 0.5.4: •... |
27 November 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Chevrolet has announced that the Spark (1LT, 2LT) and the Sonic LTZ and RS would be the first cars to integrate Siri through the standard Chevrolet MyLink infotainment system.
Customers with a “compatible” iPhone (meaning iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S) running iOS 6, will be able to “direct” Siri to ... |
27 November 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Video game developer Mind Over Matter Studios and Valve are offering SpellForce 2: Faith in Destiny as the Steam daily deal, which means that gamers can get it with a 75 percent cut over the usual price, which comes down to 5 dollars or Euro.The offer is available for a little more than 23 hours and players can also ... |
27 November 2012
13:51 GMT |
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It’s nearly that time of the year: with only days to go until the final month of 2012, it’s time to draw the line and take a look back. Bing has just released its annual charts of Most Searched… and, to the amazement of absolutely no one, Kim Kardashian tops several categories. First things first... |
27 November 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Talented or not, people like to draw. Tens of thousands of years ago we used to do it on cave walls. Now we have iPhones, and there’s a new app now called Drwer, which makes sketching on your iDevice super easy and fun. Drawing apps are usually simple, but few are simpler than Tanner Christensen’s new Dr... |
27 November 2012
13:41 GMT |
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A kitten plays ping-pong pretty well in this new YouTube video. The clips was uploaded by user Kéké Duranne on Sunday, November 25, and it deserves a lot more than the 6,500 views it has received so far.
A little boy plays table tennis with his cat, making for an endearing sight. It looks like kitty is... |
27 November 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Rather than launch another regular network-attached storage device, Synology went ahead and has created a few that are more suited to virtual servers than home and small office networks.
Part of the existing Plus Series, they support vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) primitives, like Hardware Assisted Locki... |
27 November 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Brazilian Candid Camera show Programa Silvio Santos put on this prank that they titled Ghost in the Elevator. It's exactly that – as unsuspecting riders get on the lift, a “ghost” appears. In fact, a girl with messy hair, holding a doll, jumps out of a box and creates the illusion of a ghost. ... |
27 November 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Motorola DROID RAZR M is one of the most interesting LTE-enabled smartphones available at Verizon Wireless.
The handset was available for purchase for $100/€80 with new two-year agreements until recently, but the carrier decided to offer a big discount on DROID RAZR M.
Those who are still having second though... |
27 November 2012
13:01 GMT |
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The Radio.com app from CBS Interactive Music Group has been updated to add an alarm clock feature that lets you wake up to your favorite station.
A new homescreen can also be found in version 2.2 allowing users to choose a location or their favorite genre and see what songs are playing across all live music stations... |
27 November 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Children use this suspended bridge to get to school, between two villages in Java, Indonesia, every day. Pictured above is a narrow aqueduct, previously used to carry water.
Residents travel every day on the suspended bridge, between Suro Village and Plempungan Village, Sun writes.
You can see as even a young boy ... |
27 November 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Bing map solution has been updated with a new Hurricane Sandy app supposed to provide users with a detailed view of the damages caused by the floods.
The high-resolution imagery is available for all users of the Bing Maps service and can be easily loaded in any browser installed on your machine.
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27 November 2012
12:51 GMT |
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The integration between Gmail and Google Drive is getting deeper as it is now possible to attach Drive files to messages without leaving the email app. Along with the regular attachment, photo or link, there's now a Google Drive icon in the Gmail compose window that, you guessed it, enables you to add a file fro... |
27 November 2012
12:50 GMT |
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Owners of Android-based mobile phones interested in taking advantage of their devices without ads can now install a new application that blocks them all, namely Adblock Plus.
Released in the Google Play Store today, the application was designed to block all online advertising on Android handsets and tablet PCs that ... |
27 November 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Sapphire has reportedly completed development of a video adapter powered by the new graphics processing unit from Advanced Micro Devices: Tahiti LE, where LE stands for Limited Edition. The amount of information available on the newcomer is small. Which is to say, we only know what the name of the board and the pho... |
27 November 2012
12:31 GMT |
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RapidShare's transformation from a traditional cyberlocker, or a hotbed for piracy, as old media companies would have you believe, into a cloud storage company is almost complete with the release of RapidDrive 1.0.
The app is designed to act like the Dropbox desktop client and keep a folder on your computer, a... |
27 November 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Battlefield 3 will get a massive patch today, November 27, on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms, in the form of update #5, which remedies all sorts of important issues, like lag on the PS3, and which fixes glitches on the Xbox 360. Battlefield 3 recently received the Armored Kill expansion back in September ... |
27 November 2012
12:11 GMT |
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On November 26, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the immediate availability for download of yet another maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.0 kernel series.
Linux kernel 3.0.53 has just a handful of changes and most of them involve driver updates, script improvements, sound tweaks, and one kernel bug fix.
"I... |
27 November 2012
12:08 GMT |
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jq-tiles is yet another jQuery and CSS3 system for creating powerful, customizable image slideshows for embedding in Web pages.
We previously featured many similar plugins on our Script of the Day series, but jq-tiles is by no means inferior to any of them. It's just an alternative solution to the same old prob... |
27 November 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Google is facing the prospect of having to remove all links to news sites from its search results or Google News, which doesn't sound like fun for anyone involved. The company may be forced to do it if a proposed law comes into effect. The law would have Google, and any other search engine for that matter, pay ... |
27 November 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Opera, an Internet browser developed by Opera Software that provides support for RSS feeds, BitTorrent, IRC chatting, contact management, and many other features, is now at version 12.12.1662. Opera Software has released the first snapshot version from the upcoming 12.12 branch of Opera. Highlights of Opera 12.12.... |
27 November 2012
11:56 GMT |
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Kshutdown, a graphical shutdown utility for Linux that allows users to turn off or suspend the computer at the specified time, is now at version 3.0 Beta 5.
Highlights of Kshutdown 3.0 Beta 5:
• Auto update location/width when the screen size changes;
• The confirmation message box has been improved;
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27 November 2012
11:47 GMT |
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Today, Fujitsu and NTT DOCOMO officially announced the upcoming availability of ARROWS V F-04E on the wireless carrier’s network starting with November 28, 2012.
The new mobile phone will arrive on shelves with a 1.5GHz quad-core processor packed inside, as well as with support for the operator’s LTE ne... |
27 November 2012
11:36 GMT |
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Ekiga, an open source SoftPhone, Video Conferencing and Instant Messenger application over the Internet, is now at version 4.0. Some of the users may know Ekiga by its previous name, GnomeMeeting. Nonetheless, it took the developers three years to release a new version after 3.2. Ekiga 4.0 supports HD sound qualit... |
27 November 2012
11:33 GMT |
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Three States have legalized gay marriage in the US, the makers of this clip say, and the remaining should definitely consider it, as gay women are now threatening to marry men. The girls at Unsolicited Project bring it to straight women's attention that they would make ideal candidates for their sweethearts, be... |
27 November 2012
11:28 GMT |
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It's been quite a while since I last posted a video showing wild animals doing what they do best: shocking us with their uncanny behaviors.
Still, I suppose that this video showing an anaconda snake living in the Brazilian jungle regurgitate an entire cow is worth sharing, to say the least.
As one can see fr... |
27 November 2012
11:19 GMT |
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Whether it is realizing it or not, Kanex is using a pretty old marketing trick: launching a fairly common device alongside an unusual one, thus earning it attention by association.
Had the company launched the 4-Port USB 3 Hub as a standalone product, it might have even been overlooked.
The USB 3.0 Gigabit Adapter ... |
27 November 2012
11:14 GMT |
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Reality television star Kim Kardashian is the only thing (err, person) keeping Apple’s iPhone 5 from winning over Microsoft’s Bing. The Apple handset is only the second most searched-for term, behind Kim, on the Windows maker’s search platform.
Search engines offer one major advantage – aside from ... |
27 November 2012
11:10 GMT |
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The easiest way to compromise a large number of websites without putting too much effort into it is by gaining unauthorized access to a hosting server and injecting malicious iframes into the targeted sites’ webpages.
A perfect tool for the job is an Apache 2.x-based module that’s specially designed for ... |
27 November 2012
11:10 GMT |
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With the Doha Summit having just begun, several researchers working with the UN agreed that the time had come for once again stating that all talks concerning climate change and global warming must give due consideration to frozen soils worldwide and their beginning to melt as average temperatures continued to increa... |
27 November 2012
11:00 GMT |
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A study led by scientists from the French National Center for Scientific research in Grenoble and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on November 26 discloses the mysteries of the brain activity during coma.
The study shows that coma patients experience a considerable reorganization of t... |
27 November 2012
10:55 GMT |
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Pallets of beer are sorted on a factory floor in Romania, amazingly fast, and using an unusual technique.
Employees are shown “Sorting Cases of Beer Like a Boss,” sliding them on the floor instead of just carrying them, which is overrated anyway.
“Work like a conveyor belt,” the foreman keep... |
27 November 2012
10:44 GMT |
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Video game developer Sony says that it has set March 5, 2013 as the launch date for the new MLB The Show 2013 baseball simulation, for both the PlayStation 3 home console and for the PlayStation Vita handheld.
The official description from the PlayStation Blog reads: “Other new features include a completely ne... |
27 November 2012
10:42 GMT |
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Battlefield 3 on the PlayStation 3 will get the long-awaited Aftermath DLC today, November 27, and in order to celebrate the release of the expansion, DICE has just posted the launch trailer that shows off the different things included in the add-on.
Battlefield 3 came out more than a year ago and has been supported... |
27 November 2012
10:41 GMT |
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The Translator application for Windows Phone platform was launched back in April, but it was only supported by first- and second-generation WP-based smartphones. Developed by Bing, the application is supposed to translate street signs, posters, transit schedules, restaurant menus while on the go. Bing Translator &l... |
27 November 2012
10:40 GMT |
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With just a couple of weeks before the first official trailer for J.J. Abrams’ highly anticipated “Star Trek” sequel “Star Trek Into Darkness” premieres in IMAX, 3D theaters, an official synopsis has emerged online, Slash Film reports.
Though extremely brief (and vague), the descriptio... |
27 November 2012
10:39 GMT |
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Ever since technology became a thing, it has been a bright spot for many but a sore spot for others. Fortunately, there is an organization that tracks the perception of people in regard to this.
Of course, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) does more than that, but this aspect of its activity is what is of i... |
27 November 2012
10:39 GMT |
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Anonymous hackers have leaked one gigabyte of documents that allegedly represent the contents of internal government emails from the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The information has been published as part of the campaign that’s known as Operation Syria (OpSyria).
The documents contain all sorts of info... |
27 November 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Black Friday has come and gone but some retailers are still offering hot deals on various products. Walmart is one of those retailers who are still running promotional deals on smartphones available in the US via multiple carriers.
During the Black Friday campaign, Lumia 920 was one of the best-selling devices at Wa... |
27 November 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Since it could not just let much of the winter holiday shopping season pass without some sort of new product launch, Silicon Power has introduced the Armor A15 portable hard disk drive.
The name and appearance easily drive home the point that this is no normal storage device.
The capacity of 500/750/1,000 GB, the t... |
27 November 2012
10:31 GMT |
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An aspiring writer named Drew Wagar is using Kickstarter to get access to the money he needs in order to pay for a reward tier linked to the crowd funding service project for Elite: Dangerous.
He aims to get 4,500 dollars (3,750 Euro) in order to write a novel called Elite: Reclamation and he is more than halfway to... |
27 November 2012
10:30 GMT |
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Assassin's Creed 3 is finally out across all of its platforms and many owners, from the PC, PS3, or Xbox 360 to the Nintendo Wii U, are now arguing about which delivers the best performance. As such, we decided to try and compare two of the versions we already own, one on the PlayStation 3 and one on the PC, wh... |
27 November 2012
10:29 GMT |
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Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing, an HP-developed solution for printing, scanning, and faxing with HP inkjet and laser-based printers in Linux, is now at version 3.12.11. Highlights of HP Linux Imaging and Printing 3.12.11: • RHEL5 is now supported with hpcups; • Support for multiple HP LaserJet... |
27 November 2012
10:28 GMT |
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Last week we learned of the trial against four individuals suspected of participating in the cyberattacks launched by Anonymous hacktivists against PayPal back in 2010, when the company decided to stop providing service to WikiLeaks. While three of the defendants pleaded guilty to the charges brought against th... |
27 November 2012
10:25 GMT |
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OpenXava, an AJAX Java Framework for rapid development of enterprise applications in which you only have to write the domain classes in plain Java to get an AJAX application ready for production, is now at version 4.6. Highlights of OpenXava 4.6: • A new action called Custom report has been added in the list m... |
27 November 2012
10:16 GMT |
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If Apple does live up to its promise and proceeds to launch a new Pro-level Mac for power users next year, it should boast the AMD Radeon HD 7XXX series of graphics cards, as discovered by Netkas.org in OS X 10.8.3.
Rummaging through the video card drivers listed in the first OS X 10.8.3 beta released by A... |
27 November 2012
10:14 GMT |
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As they say, sometimes the most unexpected collaboration is also the best. Adam Levine and 50 Cent joined forces to perform their brand new single “My Life” on The Voice the other night.
Video of the performance is above.
Below is the official version of the track, which also includes rapper Emin... |
27 November 2012
10:14 GMT |
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Jonatan Soderstrom, aka Cactus, says that he is already working on a full-blown sequel to his surprise hit Hotline Miami.
On his official Twitter account, the developer stated, “Working while listening to the sweet tunes of a preliminary Hotline Miami 2 soundtrack that we’ve put together during the weeke... |
27 November 2012
10:13 GMT |
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The Redmond-based technology company has just kicked off a new contest aimed at teachers and educators from all over the world who use Skype on a regular basis.
Microsoft is offering $10,000 (€7,700) in Microsoft products and a Skype call with Santa Claus to one of the teachers who enter the contest on Twitter.... |
27 November 2012
10:11 GMT |
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At the beginning of October, it was made public news that, after several dozen people in the US (a total of 41 adults and children spread across 20 states, to be more precise) became sick with salmonella, the country's Food and Drug Administration saw fit to issue a peanut butter recall.
Recent news on this to... |
27 November 2012
10:09 GMT |
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The latest Firefox 18 beta comes with an interesting security option, even though the feature is disabled by default. Firefox can block insecure content from loading over HTTPS connections. It's rather common, unfortunately, for HTTPS pages to have resources that load via an unsecured HTTP connection.
What this... |
27 November 2012
10:01 GMT |
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From December 20 onwards, there will be six new headsets up for sale, courtesy of Ozone Gaming, although it is more accurate to say there will be only two. The reason for the dual number is simple. While one headset sells in its original form, the other (Rage ST) is available, or will be, in five colors, as seen in... |
27 November 2012
09:56 GMT |
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Javier Jardón has announced today, November 27, the second development release of the GNOME 3.8 desktop environment. The development of the GNOME 3.8 is well under way and the developers have announced a few major changes already. First of all, GNOME 3.7.2 (the name of the development version of the 3.8 bra... |
27 November 2012
09:55 GMT |
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Military animal experts say that over half of the military dogs serving on battlefields return home with post-traumatic-stress-disorders.
Dogs acting in the army alongside soldiers are a practice with an already solid tradition. The military services include over 2,500 dogs, among which Labradors, Belgian Malinois, ... |
27 November 2012
09:55 GMT |
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While Microsoft expects Windows 8 adopters to get used to the Start Screen, many actually download and install third-party solutions that bring back the utterly popular Start Menu.
Such an application is also the so-called StartW8, a very simple app that does the same thing as Start8, but for free.
The program brin... |
27 November 2012
09:53 GMT |
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Coincidence or not, the news of this year's UN climate change summit in Doha, Qatar is joined by Saudi Arabia's announcement that it plans to invest as much as $109 billion (roughly €85 billion) on a solar energy plan that will up its dependence on this renewable source.
Some speculate that the count... |
27 November 2012
09:47 GMT |
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Google’s latest handset included in the Nexus lineup, none other than the quad-core Nexus 4 smartphone built by LG, will become available for purchase once again through the Google Play Store today at noon PST.
The smartphone was put up for sale on November 13, when the entire initial stock was sold out in a ... |
27 November 2012
09:44 GMT |
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It seems that Valve will ask all players who are interested in using the Steam Trading system to enable the Steam Guard starting with December 12, in order to make sure that no unauthorized gamers use the service.
Users on Reddit have exposed Steam’s plans and it seems that all those who want to trade will hav... |
27 November 2012
09:42 GMT |
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Hours after the Wii Mini was leaked by a retailer, Nintendo has released an official statement saying that the Wii Mini will be released only in Canada on December 7 and that it's priced at just $99.99 (around €77.2). Nintendo is quite busy releasing the Wii U all over the world, launching the new home con... |
27 November 2012
09:34 GMT |
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Deborah Raffin, whom fans might remember from “7th Heaven” or “Haywire” before it, has died. She was 59 years old and, according to reports, had been battling leukemia for over a year.
People magazine reports that confirmation of the actress’ death comes from a publicist. It also offer... |
27 November 2012
09:32 GMT |
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Online reviews are a great way of judging whether something is worth buying or investing time in. But like everything else online, they can be gamed.
Positive reviews can make the difference between obscurity and huge piles of money, whether you're self-publishing books on Amazon or creating games for Android.... |
27 November 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Over the past weekend, a number of four news website owned by Greenspun Media Group – vegasinc.com vegasdeluxe.com, lasvegassun.com and lasvegasweekly.com – were disrupted after being hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack.
The servers that hosted the websites were overwhelmed by the large ... |
27 November 2012
09:29 GMT |
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Even despite the challenge posed by lower demand and high prices, OCZ continues to diligently make and sell new solid-state drives.
What we are looking at here is a departure from the SandForce trend.
OCZ has chosen to use the Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller, which somehow manages a performance easily as good as tha... |
27 November 2012
09:28 GMT |
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Apple is finally letting word out that its new iMacs are indeed shipping this month. The 21-inch model will be available on Friday, November 30, while the 27-inch version will start shipping next month, according to the announcement.
Barely respecting its self-imposed timeframe, Apple today confirmed that its sleek ... |
27 November 2012
09:25 GMT |
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Supposing one greenhead wakes up one day and decides that he/she wants to travel the world, and that buying or renting a car in order to do so is simply out of the question because this means polluting the environment.
In that case, the Bao House might just do the trick. This innovative mobile home is basically a c... |
27 November 2012
09:19 GMT |
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Autopsy results are out on the man who allegedly died after ingesting live insects in a cockroach eating contest in October.
Tests show Edward Archbold didn't suffer from a pre-existing condition, nor was he intoxicated at the time. The 32-year-old man from West Palm Beach died as a result of “asphyxia du... |
27 November 2012
09:18 GMT |
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Recent research on the Lake Vida, plunged for 2800 years under a 20-meter thick ice layer in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of East Antarctica, unveils difficult-to-explain bacterial life. The community of bacteria lives in a completely sealed medium, with no oxygen, with salty water, negative temperatures that go down to ... |
27 November 2012
09:16 GMT |
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A total of 132 domain names have been seized by the US Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), several law enforcement agencies from Europe through the European Police Office (Europol). The domains have been utilized to sell counterfeit merchandise.
The websites in questio... |
27 November 2012
09:07 GMT |
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WhatsApp has just announced the availability of a new flavor of their WhatsApp Messenger application for devices running under the Symbian operating system, namely version 2.8.22.
The app is available for download for Symbian S60 3rd/5th Edition, Symbian^3, Symbian Anna and Symbian Belle handsets, yet no specific i... |
27 November 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Clonezilla Live, a Linux distribution based on DRBL, Partclone and udpcast, that allows users to do bare metal backup and recovery, is now at version 2.0.1-5.
Clonezilla Live 2.0.1-5 is a major step forward for this distribution as it replaces the 1.2 branch that has been developed until now.
The developer conside... |
27 November 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Humans and cars have a weird relationship in the video game world; one cannot exist without the other, yet a limited number of virtual experiences have managed to convey the way they relate to one another well.
The Need for Speed series solved the problem at first by eliminating humans altogether, mostly because of ... |
27 November 2012
08:49 GMT |
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Tumblr getting bigger and bigger is as surprising as Twitter getting larger or Facebook amassing even more of your photos. Which is to say, it's not.
To give you an idea of just how big Tumblr has become, in just a few years, the company brags that it's now part of the top 10 US sites, as measured by Quan... |
27 November 2012
08:45 GMT |
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Following the discovery of a series of bugs that affected the user experience in Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, Google has started to push out a software update for devices running under the platform. The software has started to arrive on devices as Android 4.2.1 and is now available for download for Nexus 4 too, the late... |
27 November 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Windows 8’s sales have failed to meet internal projections and one possible reason is apparently the lack of devices running Microsoft’s latest operating system.
That’s going to change very soon, as Samsung is planning to ship 19 million Windows 8 computers this year, according to International Bus... |
27 November 2012
08:40 GMT |
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Global notebook shipments will barely grow in 2013, and they haven't exactly been great this year either (2012), which doesn't mean anything good for the likes of Compal, Quanta and all other companies that manufacture the systems invented by HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc.
Until a couple of years back, there wasn... |
27 November 2012
08:35 GMT |
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GNU Ddrescue, a data recovery tool, which can be used to copy data from one file or block device (hard disk, CD-Rom, etc.) to another, in an effort to rescue information in case of read errors, is now at version 1.7 Pre1. Ddrescuelog 1.7 Pre1 is able to manipulate ddrescue logfiles, show logfile contents, convert l... |
27 November 2012
08:33 GMT |
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Dunkin’ Donuts aims to be the only company to be allowed to use the slogan “best coffee in America.” However, the US Patent and Trademark Office disagree with their request. The institution rejected the claim, on account of the fact that it is unfounded. The actual statement from the Trademark offi... |
27 November 2012
08:30 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is gearing up for the official release of its BlackBerry 10 operating system, which has already been set for January 30, 2013.
Before that date, however, the company has decided to show to the world what the new platform release has to offer, and has just posted a vide... |
27 November 2012
08:28 GMT |
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The giant oil tanker Ob River might become the first ship to ever cross the Arctic Ocean. The tank is transporting liquefied natural gas and after leaving Hammerfest, Norway on November 7, has passed Northern Russian coast, now heading to Japan. The ship is escorted along its way by Russian nuclear-propelled icebr... |
27 November 2012
08:15 GMT |
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Bicycle enthusiasts are most likely ready and willing to spend significant amounts of money on upgrading their two-wheelers and making them more user friendly. Still, just for giggles, some might agree to invest in Trotify, a state-of-the-art technology that uses coconuts to make bikes sound like horses whenever th... |
27 November 2012
08:12 GMT |
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CroTeam has just posted a fresh update for Serious Sam 3: BFE on the Steam service for the PC platform, fixing a variety of issues relating to the recently added Steam Workshop support, as well as quite a few other technical glitches and some tied to the game's Linux version.
Serious Sam 3: BFE came out a year ... |
27 November 2012
08:11 GMT |
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According to a new listing by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Apple has just secured exclusive rights to the microphone drawing that represents Siri.
Hey, if Apple can claim rights to digital page turning and squares with rounded corners, you can bet your hamster they’ll patent the Siri icon too... |
27 November 2012
08:08 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, the first-person shooter from developer Treyarch and publisher Activision Blizzard, has managed to keep hold of its number one position in the United Kingdom video game chart, despite a determined challenge coming from Hitman: Absolution, the stealth-based game from Square Enix.
The popula... |
27 November 2012
08:02 GMT |
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Android enthusiasts interested in the purchase of a Nexus 4 smartphone should know that they are allowed to acquire only two units on the same account. Apparently, any user who has already purchased two Nexus 4 devices has been cut off from making another similar acquisition through the Google Play Store, phandroid... |
27 November 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Anna Nicole Smith’s 6-year-old daughter with Larry Birkhead, Dannielynn Birkhead, has just made her big fashion debut. She will be featured in a new Guess campaign that kicks off early next year, the New York Daily News reports.
Confirmation comes straight from Guess, which also featured the late glamor model... |
27 November 2012
08:00 GMT |
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Piwik.org, the official website of the free software web analytics system for PHP/MySQL webservers, has been hacked. The attacker planted a piece of malicious code inside the .zip file containing Piwik 1.9.2.
According to Piwik representatives, the incident affects only users who updated or installed Piwik 1.9.2 on ... |
27 November 2012
07:54 GMT |
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In the aftermath of 1.7 million people getting online to submit their votes, it has been agreed upon that the new mascot for the FIFA 2014 World Cup in Brazil is to be named “Fuleco.” Apparently, the name chosen for this rare armadillo is made up of two Portuguese words: “futebol” (i.e. foot... |
27 November 2012
07:52 GMT |
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The stable branch of Google Chrome, a browser built on the WebKit layout engine that aims to be minimalistic and versatile at the same time, is now at version 23.0.1271.91.
Google Chrome 23.0.1271.91 has introduced a large number of changes and fixes into the stable branch, improving the security and functionality o... |
27 November 2012
07:51 GMT |
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425-pound (192 kg) New York woman Vilma Soltesz loses her life in Hungary, after being refused a seat on a plane by three different airlines. Every year, she and her husband Janos flew with the Delta and KLM airlines to Hungary, where they spent a month. Vilma was clinically obese, suffering from diabetes and a cond... |
27 November 2012
07:49 GMT |
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A Wi-Fi issue is apparently affecting hundreds of Surface owners, as their devices sometimes get a “limited” connection error or even fail to connect to a Wi-Fi network completely.
While Microsoft is currently investigating the issue and promises to release a fix soon, users on Microsoft’s support ... |
27 November 2012
07:47 GMT |
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The Raspberry Pi has become so popular that nearly every new model or project involving it cannot help but score a place among the headlines. The MAME cabinet is one example of this.
Raspberry Pi started off as a Linux-loaded micro PC intended to help students learn programming. Needless to say, it has evolved way ... |
27 November 2012
07:45 GMT |
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A customer of British telecoms company BT has identified a couple of bugs on bt.com. While the firm rushed to address one of them, the second one – which allows anyone to add extra paid-for services to accounts – remains unfixed.
A BT customer who wished to remain anonymous has informed The Register that... |
27 November 2012
07:45 GMT |
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NVIDIA recently released the open-source driver code for the Tegra 2 and Tegra 3. Given that Android is a Linux-based operating system and Linux developers are already working on optimizing performance with what display drivers they have, the new open-source driver seems like a very promising improvement for Android-... |
27 November 2012
07:44 GMT |
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Trent Oster, the leader of the Overhaul Games team working on Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, says the new content that has been added to the classic role-playing game is on par from a quality view point with the classic experience.
The developer tells PCGamesN that, “We've added three new quests t... |
27 November 2012
07:38 GMT |
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This pie chart was made available to the general public only a few days ago, and it is already causing quite a media stir.
James Lawrence Powell, the man who came up with it, simply wished to prove that, despite what several publications keep stating, the scientific community very much agrees that climate change an... |
27 November 2012
07:35 GMT |
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Two figures shaped like the iconic video game hero Pac-Man have been spotted by researchers at NASA's Cassini mission on the moons of Saturn.
The images are visible through an infrared spectrometer whose thermal information presents the warmer areas in a Pac-Man shape, NASA reports.
One of the figures was spot... |
27 November 2012
07:33 GMT |
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Although the Xperia T has been available on the market for a few months now, Android enthusiasts can only purchase the black version of the smartphone.
Even though Sony announced the Xperia T would be available in both black and white, it appears that the white-themed version has yet to arrive on the market.
There ... |
27 November 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Kelly Monaco and Val Chmerkovskiy made magic happen against last night, on the finale of the All-Star edition of Dancing With the Stars. Videos of their impressive supersize freestyle is above in full. For this round, Kelly and Val chose “Time of Your Life,” made famous in the classic film “Dirty ... |
27 November 2012
07:31 GMT |
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The development team at Relic and publisher THQ are offering fans of the strategy franchise a chance to take a look at a teaser trailer for Company of Heroes 2 just as the company is getting ready to launch more in-depth gameplay footage.
The full video, which brings gamers actual in-game footage from the strategy g... |
27 November 2012
07:22 GMT |
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Australian wireless carrier Telstra has added the white flavor of Motorola’s RAZR M smartphone to its offering, and is selling it exclusively on its network.
The handset was made available at $0 upfront on the $60 Telstra Every Day Connect Plan on a 24-month contract with support for 4G LTE connectivity.
Th... |
27 November 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Justin Bieber is no stranger to violence on TV (remember his gruesome death on “CSI”?) but he’s never had his pretty face ruined like in the most recent episode of “Family Guy.” Above is the video, watch it play out, if you have the stomach for it. Justin, in his signature purple, and... |
27 November 2012
07:15 GMT |
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Quest Software, a company that’s now part of Dell, has commissioned a report to help C-level executives (CXOs) address some of the risks posed by the improper use and management of privileged accounts.
The report – “Why You Need to Consider Privileged Access Management (And What You May Not Know Ab... |
27 November 2012
07:15 GMT |
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Sources in touch with Apple’s retail distribution channels are saying to expect the latest iMac models to arrive in Belgium Wednesday, November 28. A separate source says the 21-inch models should arrive in the United States today, November 27.
A couple of conflicting reports picked up by MacRumors indicate th... |
27 November 2012
07:15 GMT |
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It might still be a bit early to talk about it, since we haven't even reached December yet, but the Consumer Electronics Show of 2013, scheduled for early January, already has companies preparing.
Kingston will reportedly show off a wide variety of devices, wider than the usual selection of storage and random a... |
27 November 2012
07:10 GMT |
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The first image with the Nintendo Wii Mini has just been leaked by a retailer, effectively confirming the rumor we heard yesterday about a redesigned version of the original Wii console.
Nintendo released the Wii U last week in North America and is getting ready to debut it in Europe and the rest of the world in the... |
27 November 2012
07:05 GMT |
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Video game developer Playground Games says that the upcoming rally-focused downloadable content pack for Forza Horizon will drop the open-world concepts and will not share any other content with the core game.
Ralph Fulton, the design director working on the racing game, tells IGN that, “Everybody here now is ... |
27 November 2012
07:05 GMT |
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The World Wildlife Fund is now asking that greenheads worldwide agree to adopt representative of various endangered species, and thus help promote conservation.
Their website explains that all one has to do is donate some money (each species comes with its own price tag), and this will pretty much seal the deal on ... |
27 November 2012
07:00 GMT |
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Microsoft has just published the Bing Top Search of 2012 report, confirming that “iPhone 5” was the most popular keyword on its very own Bing search engine.
While iPhone topped the “Consumer Electronics” category, Facebook snatched the leading place for “Social Media” searches, fo... |
27 November 2012
06:55 GMT |
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The amazingly popular “Words With Friends” is close to achieving the 50 million downloads milestone on Google Play store.
The game is even more popular on iOS platform, especially due to the fact it was initially launched on Apple’s mobile platform.
Zynga, creators of the game, have just released ... |
27 November 2012
06:46 GMT |
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To many, Barack Obama is “just” the President of the United States but, where Jamie Foxx is concerned, Obama is more than that – way more than that, as the video above will confirm. Taking to the stage at the pre-recorded Soul Train Awards 2012, Foxx allowed himself one moment of uncensored glee, pr... |
27 November 2012
06:42 GMT |
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Today, the team of developers over at UCWeb announced the availability of UC Browser Mini 8.1 for Android, currently up for download for testing purposes. The new version of the browser comes with faster browsing capabilities while offering decreased data usage and the option to easily switch between lite and full ... |
27 November 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Surprising no one but the experts, Facebook stock is on the rise again, in another big surge having jumped 8 percent in just one day.
Eight percent is a huge increase for a company worth tens of billions of dollars, but Facebook's share price has been governed by anything but facts so far, it's still got s... |
27 November 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Back in September, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer managed to bring a smile on everyone’s faces as he announced that each of the company’s 94,000 employees would get a free Surface tablet, a Windows 8 laptop and a Windows Phone 8.
That was indeed good news for everyone working for Microsoft, but it a... |
27 November 2012
06:11 GMT |
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There’s no doubt about it, Nokia Lumia 920 is one of the best-selling Windows Phone devices. The Finnish company has recently admitted it has been overwhelmed by the high demand.
Unexpected or not, Nokia did not want to risk everything on Windows Phone 8, which is why many reports claim the Lumia 920 was in sh... |
27 November 2012
06:05 GMT |
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The touch-based Chromebook is looking more real, it seems that the Chrome OS build for the upcoming device is already in the works, which would hardly be surprising if the device were real. There's now a screenshot of said Chrome OS build, the telltale sign is the platform name displayed in the chrome://versio... |
27 November 2012
06:01 GMT |
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The stable channel of Chrome has been updated to 23.0.1271.91. Besides fixing flash audio problems and Windows Server 2003 issues, Google also addressed a total of 7 security holes, some of which could have been exploited by cybercriminals to execute arbitrary code.
Justin Drake has identified a high-impact issue ca... |
27 November 2012
05:57 GMT |
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Halle Berry’s ex-boyfriend and father of her daughter Nahla, Gabriel Aubry, and her fiancé Olivier Martinez got into a very violent brawl outside her home on Thanksgiving. Photos of Aubry’s injuries and more details on the altercation have emerged.
The model has already been granted a restraining... |
27 November 2012
05:55 GMT |
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This week appears to be a lucky one for those who have already ordered the Nexus 4 smartphone from Google but did not receive their units as of now.
The Internet giant has already started to send out messages to users, informing them on the arrival of their orders as soon as this week, MobileSyrup reports.
After ... |
27 November 2012
05:54 GMT |
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Information on three hidden weapons found on an alleged assassin in Seoul present similarities to gadgets a secret agent in the movie would own. According to the Telegraph, the hitman was arrested on a subway platform in September 2011, and was carrying the deadly weapons with him at the time. The hitman has only ... |
27 November 2012
05:54 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3 owners can now download the Omega expansion for the game's single-player mode on the Xbox 360 and will soon be able to get it on the PC and PlayStation 3 later today, November 27.
Mass Effect 3 delivered a sprawling single-player campaign, not to mention a really addictive multiplayer, which has r... |
27 November 2012
05:53 GMT |
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ASUS may have released the ATIV Smart PCs last month, but the products are not available worldwide yet. Fortunately, the company is doing what it can to remedy that.
Long story short, the ATIV Smart PC and Smart PC Pro are now up for order in India, for Rs. 53,990 and Rs. 75,490.
According to exchange rates, that... |
27 November 2012
05:48 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has been long rumored to be en-route to bring to the market its own smartphone running under the Windows Phone platform, yet no official confirmation on the matter has emerged so far.
However, following rumors last week that the company has partnered with Foxconn for the manuf... |
27 November 2012
05:43 GMT |
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On November 26, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the immediate availability for download of the twentieth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.4 kernel series.
Linux kernel 3.4.20 LTS (long-term support) comes with some updated drivers, file system fixes and changes, and Arch improvements.
"I'm announcing th... |
27 November 2012
05:40 GMT |
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Despite Microsoft’s efforts to teach its customers how to avoid phone scams, Windows users continue to fall victims of malicious attempts all over the world.
A Greenville, N.C. Windows user got a phone call on Saturday from someone who claimed to be working for Microsoft. The scammer asked the woman whether sh... |
27 November 2012
05:38 GMT |
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A dreamy photo exhibition presented at the Fluid Dynamics annual meeting which took place during Nov. 18-20 at San Diego, reveals the beauty of physics in a series of astonishing dynamic images. The exhibited photos are part of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics Gallery of Fluid Motion ... |
27 November 2012
05:34 GMT |
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RR auction house is putting up for sale a photo of the iceberg that supposedly sank the Titanic. The picture was taken on April 12, 1912, two days before the “unsinkable” ship hit the iceberg, according to the note on the actual photograph. The Titanic was traveling from Southampton, England to New Yor... |
27 November 2012
05:32 GMT |
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The Archives of General Psychiatry has recently witnessed the publication of a new study stating that poor air quality ups the risks of children developing autism.
More precisely, should a child be exposed to increased levels of air pollution while still in its mother's womb and during its first year of life, ... |
27 November 2012
05:31 GMT |
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Google's a cloud company at heart, but only recently launched a pure cloud service, similar to Amazon's Web Services. The Google Compute Engine, a competitor to AWS' EC2, was introduced in a preview phase last summer, but it is now ready for a wider roll-out.
Google's other cloud services are get... |
27 November 2012
05:31 GMT |
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The PlugX Remote Administration Tool (RAT) has been around for quite some time and, according to researchers, its developers continue to improve it. The latest version comes with some interesting changes in terms of logging activity. Kaspersky Lab Experts reveal that a new version, which has been landing in the inbo... |
27 November 2012
05:27 GMT |
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Firefox is not the only one getting an update, there's a new Chrome in the stable channel as well. The latest Chrome 23.0.1271.91 is a stability and security update, Chrome 23 has been in the stable channel for about three weeks, meaning it's halfway through its cycle. The big updates are the security fixe... |
27 November 2012
05:26 GMT |
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Original series creator Benoit Sokal and video game publisher Anuman Interactive have announced that they are working on Syberia III, an official follow-up to the classic adventure game series.
Benoit Sokal, who has written the first two games in the series, will be creating the narrative for the new installment, wh... |
27 November 2012
05:24 GMT |
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One of Tim Allen’s favorite cars, his 1996 Chevy Impala, went missing over Thanksgiving, only to be found many miles away, in Denver. A man claiming to be the actor’s son stole it and drove it there.
KDVR spoke to the thief, Faustino Ibarra by his real name, in Denver prison and he maintains that he did... |
27 November 2012
05:23 GMT |
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A brand new dashboard update for the Xbox 360 is currently being rolled out to users via Xbox Live and it should fix some issues when using Xbox SmartGlass, Xbox Music or Xbox Video.
The Xbox 360 received lots of great features thanks to a recent system software update, including support for all sorts of new technol... |
27 November 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Contrary to what some may have expected, ASUS did not use the best hardware when it made its newest 3D monitor, despite it being a gaming-oriented display and, thus, expensive by default.
We aren't saying that ASUS used substandard hardware here, but it is a bit strange that the company selected a TN-film pane... |
27 November 2012
05:00 GMT |
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One of the most popular benchmark applications for Android devices, AnTuTu has just been updated with lots of new features and improvements. The source of most leaks on the Internet, along with GLBenchmark, the latest version of AnTuTu brings even more graphics tests, along with a refreshed UI. The application can ... |
27 November 2012
04:59 GMT |
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Chris Brown’s Twitter page is still offline after the incredibly nasty verbal spat he got into with journalist and comedian Jenny Johnson, but his fans are making sure she gets a piece of their mind about the whole thing, it has emerged.
It all started over the weekend, when Johnson replied to one of Chris&rs... |
27 November 2012
04:56 GMT |
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Mac owners waiting anxiously for Mozilla to beef up Firefox with Retina compatibility can breathe a sigh of relief because the latest beta adds just that – Retina display support.
Firefox 18, currently in beta, includes JavaScript improvements that make Web apps and games perform better. The browser further includes... |
27 November 2012
04:56 GMT |
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Gearbox Software, the developer behind the recent Borderlands 2, has explained why the game isn’t coming to the Wii U platform, despite the fact that it is currently working on a title for the new Nintendo console, in the form of Aliens: Colonial Marines.
Borderlands 2 came out back in September and delivered ... |
27 November 2012
04:55 GMT |
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Developer Treyarch is getting ready to release a leaderboard fix for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, after a number of reports of lost progress for the multiplayer modes of the game.
The official Twitter account for the developer says, “Since this morning’s backend update, we’ve been made aware of leade... |
27 November 2012
04:55 GMT |
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Austrian photographer Christoph Malin's work “Island in the sky” is an astonishing time-lapse video made out of images taken off the telescopes at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory.
It took Malin over one year to complete his project, meanwhile his lifestyle was turning into a camping-observatory o... |
27 November 2012
04:53 GMT |
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Michael and Matthew Clark are often compared to characters in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" flick, due to a regenerative condition that is bringing them back to an infant's mental state. Michael is 49 years old, and used to serve in Britain’s Royal Air Force, while 39-year-old Matthew worked at Wa... |
27 November 2012
04:51 GMT |
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Most websites fight to get as much data on you as possible, more data means better advertising. What's more, the more data you can keep from your competitors the better.
On top of that, keeping users from moving their data to another service ensures they'll be forced to stick around even if they didn'... |
27 November 2012
04:50 GMT |
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Glib, the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME and that provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces, is now at version 2.34.3.
Highlights of Glib 2.34.3:
• Two bugs in the example code have been fixed;
• The documentation of the G... |
27 November 2012
04:48 GMT |
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A team of specialists working with the Rice University has recently made it public news that, when it comes to producing steam from water, boiling is soon to no longer be a must. This is because a technology they developed and tested supposedly is fully capable of using nanoparticles in order to make steam, without... |
27 November 2012
04:47 GMT |
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Customers of Germany’s Deutsche Bank are advised to be on the lookout for fake notifications in which they’re asked to hand over pictures of their TAN (Transaction Authentication Number) list. The information is allegedly needed because the bank is switching to mobile TAN (mTAN) system.
Victims are prese... |
27 November 2012
04:45 GMT |
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Starting today, the new Facebook Gifts service supports iTunes gifting, meaning you can surprise someone with a cool album, or a useful app (or game) from the iTunes Store.
Facebook announced this week that “you can instantly gift your friends iTunes digital gifts and recommend albums, movies, games, apps, and... |
27 November 2012
04:43 GMT |
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This year, Warner Bros. parted ways with one of its biggest superhero franchises, when Chris Nolan’s Batman trilogy came to an end with “The Dark Knight Rises.” With Nolan completely against returning for “Justice League,” it seems Superman will be filling in for Batman. Zack Snyder ha... |
27 November 2012
04:39 GMT |
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A couple of weeks ago, it has emerged that CEO Steve Ballmer and the other Microsoft executives are disappointed with Windows 8’s slow start, citing the lack of devices running the latest Windows operating system as one of the reasons.
Paul Thurrott of Winsupersite.com, the one who rolled out the report claimi... |
27 November 2012
04:35 GMT |
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Mountain View-based Internet giant Google has already started to provide users with a fix for the December bug that was recently found to affect the new Android 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system.
The company is delivering it in the form of the Android 4.2.1 update, and owners of a Nexus 10 tablet PC are said to be th... |
27 November 2012
04:31 GMT |
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The development team at Capcom reminds all players who are currently engaged with Resident Evil 6 that they can link their profile from the official website to their specific console identity in order to get access to special events.
Until November 29 gamers can engage in the A 50 Million Dollar Foothold, which asks... |
27 November 2012
04:31 GMT |
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iDevice owners enjoying an elegant reading experience with the NOOK application from Barnes & Noble have a new update to install. British English speakers finally have it their way, as do those who speak French, Italian, German and Spanish.
Update 3.3.0 adds new language support for British English, French, Italian,... |
27 November 2012
04:28 GMT |
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“Liz & Dick,” Lindsay Lohan’s big acting “comeback,” aired over the weekend on Lifetime. The made for TV biopic of Elizabeth Taylor continued to get extremely negative reviews even after it premiered, just like it did before the air date. Just in case you were not one of those 3.5 mill... |
27 November 2012
04:25 GMT |
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This video, captured during halftime at a University of Texas at El Paso game against Rice shows a soldier breaking the world record for most backflips.
Jalyessa Walker performs 49 consecutive flips across the football field. She does so in front of the 20,400 fans at the game, according to Daily Mail.
23-year-old ... |
27 November 2012
04:23 GMT |
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Legend of Dungeon is a 4 Player Co-Op Roguelike-like Beat'em'up, developed by RobotLovesKitty and set for release on multiple platforms, including Linux. The developers from the RobotLovesKitty studio have reached out to the community for support, with the help of Kickstarter, and raised the money they nee... |
27 November 2012
04:20 GMT |
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NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos selected two veterans – Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko – for a one-year mission on the International Space Station.
The mission will be launched in spring 2015 with the astronauts' return to Earth planned for spring 2016, Space reports.
The expedition is ... |
27 November 2012
04:18 GMT |
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Research In Motion has just released a new version of BlackBerry App World. Unfortunately, the Canadian company does not offer any additional details on changes. According to CrackBerry, BlackBerry App World has been recently updated to version 4.0.0.65. The update is only 2.9MB in size and is pushed OTA (over the a... |
27 November 2012
04:18 GMT |
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Chinese mobile phone maker Lenovo has made official a new Android-based smartphone capable of competing against some of the most popular devices already available on shelves, namely the Lenovo P770.
The handset was made official with a 4.5-inch IPS display capable of delivering a 960 x 540 pixels resolution and pac... |
27 November 2012
04:17 GMT |
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Bethesda and id Software have deployed a fresh patch for Doom 3: BFG Edition on the PC platform via Steam, adding a variety of new options to the game and squashing quite a few different bugs and glitches that were reported by players.
Doom 3: BFG Edition came out last month and delivered a remastered Doom 3 experie... |
27 November 2012
04:15 GMT |
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Over the past months, a hoax has been making the rounds on Facebook, urging users to post a copyright notice on their timelines in order to protect the content they publish.
The pranksters claim that the new Facebook guidelines allow anyone to use the content they post without their authorization, unless they publis... |
27 November 2012
04:10 GMT |
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Is it just us or is Microsoft getting smarter when it comes to its advertising efforts? The Redmond-based technology company has just released a pretty catchy TV ad for the Surface RT, the first tablet device in its history, that’s apparently bringing record sales.
This time however, the TV spot is focused on ... |
27 November 2012
04:07 GMT |
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Jackie Chan has recently announced that he’d no longer be making any action films but, even so, Chris Tucker is still holding on to the hope that a fourth “Rush Hour” will be made.
In other words, Tucker wants another installment in the popular franchise with or without Jackie, one of its two leading st... |
27 November 2012
04:02 GMT |
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The list of brands offering Tahiti LE-powered graphics cards is not and will not be high, but it won't be too short either. VTX3D has just added its name to it, by launching the HD7870 Black Edition video adapter.
Essentially, it is the same thing as the PowerColor PCS+ HD7870 Myst and Club3D's Radeon HD ... |
27 November 2012
03:59 GMT |
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There have been many rumors claiming Microsoft has run out of time while working on Windows Phone 8 and many features have been left out, including a Notification Center.
Moreover, the Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC 8X have been hit by strange software-related issues like random reboots and freezes.
Although both Nokia a... |
27 November 2012
03:58 GMT |
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Only recently, 11 skinned animals were found near the Lower Macungie Township Park in Pennsylvania.
Soon enough, the local authorities launched an investigation, their goal being to catch whoever was responsible for killing these animals, skinning them to the bone and dumping them in said location.
At first, it w... |
27 November 2012
03:57 GMT |
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Facebook Inc. today released a new update for users of its iOS application on iPhones and iPads delivering an unknown set of changes. The update is likely aimed at fixing bugs and beefing up security.
Facebook iOS 5.2.2 arrives with the same release notes as Facebook 5.2.1 which enabled link sharing to re-post stori... |
27 November 2012
03:57 GMT |
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A teenager is interviewed following an incident in which a police officer subdued his friend, 17-year-old Andrew Rodriguez.
The clip of Officer Disraeli Arnold' outburst has gone viral, and you can watch the original recording here, but be advised as it contains violence and offensive language.
Another officer... |
27 November 2012
03:52 GMT |
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Back in July, software developer Cody Brocious demonstrated that he could open hotel room doors by utilizing a cleverly designed electronic device. His attack method leveraged a flaw found in Onity locks utilized by hotels worldwide.
After Brocious’ presentation at the Black Hat conference, a number of researc... |
27 November 2012
03:49 GMT |
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While waiting for Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion to make its BlackBerry 10 operating system official, enthusiasts can have a look at a new series of photos that leaked with supposedly the first BB10 devices from the company.
Apparently, these photos were taken in Nigeria, where RIM and its partner w... |
27 November 2012
03:46 GMT |
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Firefox 18 beta has landed. Compared to Firefox 17, there's actually stuff to be excited about. The biggest addition is the IonMonkey JavaScript engine, technically a JavaScript JIT (just in time) compiler. It replaces JagerMonkey and is the most complex technology of its kind Mozilla ever created.
The big impr... |
27 November 2012
03:46 GMT |
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The fact that developer Blizzard is working on a Player versus Player update for Diablo 3 does not mean that the action role-playing game will ever get all the elements required to make it a staple of eSports tournaments.
During the Battle.net World Championship, which took place in Shanghai, Mike Morhaime, the lead... |
27 November 2012
03:45 GMT |
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Greg Kroah-Hartman announced yesterday, November 26, the immediate availability for download of the eighth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.6 kernel series.
Linux kernel 3.6.8 introduces a lot of various fixes, as well as driver improvements, file system fixes, and improved Arch support.
Highlights of Li... |
27 November 2012
03:44 GMT |
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Ubisoft has posted yet another video with its upcoming Far Cry 3 game, this time showing off the special map editor that’s included in the new shooter.
Far Cry 3 is set to include a huge amount of content, ranging from the single-player campaign, to the cooperative one, to the different competitive multiplayer... |
27 November 2012
03:38 GMT |
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After patenting the page-turning animation in iBooks, Apple might as well patent the letters of the alphabet, according to Washington Post book critic Ron Charles.
Charles made this cool video where he pretends to be one of Apple’s executives speaking in a dramatic tone about the company’s breakthroughs ... |
27 November 2012
03:35 GMT |
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While Levi's is busy recycling bottle caps and old food trays to give its new denim collection a green-oriented and funky twist, winter sport outwear manufacturer Burton Snowboards has made it public news that its 2013 jackets and pants now available on the market are made from recycled plastic bottles.
More p... |
27 November 2012
03:34 GMT |
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A study led by scientists at West Virginia University School of Medicine and exposed today at the congress of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), shows that chemotherapy affects the brain causing concentration and memory disorders most of all.
Researchers have used positron emission tomography (PET) al... |
27 November 2012
03:28 GMT |
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Minesweeper was clearly one of the two exciting ways to waste time at work (after the classic Solitaire game, of course), but the Windows 8 operating system doesn’t include this popular game.
A freeware Minesweeper game, however, had been available in the Store, but this particular version wasn’t compati... |
27 November 2012
03:27 GMT |
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Salix, a GNU/Linux distribution based on Slackware that is simple, fast, easy to use, and based on XFCE desktop environment, is now at version 14.0.
The developer of Salix OS 14.0, The Salix OS Team, has explained that there are significant changes compared to the previous 13.37 Xfce-based release.
The most import... |
27 November 2012
03:18 GMT |
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It’s been less than a week since HTC started the rollout of the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for One X in India, and now the company is deploying the upgrade worldwide.
According to HTCSource, there have been many reports from HTC One X owners across the globe claiming the Jelly Bean update is now live and av... |
27 November 2012
03:14 GMT |
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Google has updated its Voice client for iPhones and iPads adding support for the latest device models, some bug fixes, and iOS 6 compatibility. The app now requires iOS 4.3.
Google Voice lets you send free text messages to US phones and make international calls at low rates. The app also allows you to access your vo... |
27 November 2012
03:09 GMT |
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Students participating at this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade were shocked to see that the confetti contained sensitive details of police officers of the Nassau County Police Department.
We often hear about cases in which important documents are found in back alleys, or left behind in the building... |
27 November 2012
03:08 GMT |
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Seth Killian, one of the main developers in charge of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, says that the first post-launch characters linked to the game are in the early stages of development and will add an interesting new dimension to the game.
Gamers will be able to gain access to Emmett Graves, from Starhawk, an... |
27 November 2012
03:08 GMT |
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Just a few hours ago, word got out online that, in a very recent interview, Angus T. Jones, star of “Two and a Half Men,” went off on a rant against the sitcom saying it was “filth” and should not be watched. The full video of the interview has emerged online.
Check it out in full below, emb... |
27 November 2012
03:06 GMT |
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Overhaul Games is getting ready to release Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition tomorrow, November 28, and one of its main designers, Trent Oster, has revealed just how the team managed to combine the best elements of Baldur’s Gate 1 with the distinct story focus of Baldur’s Gate 2. BioWare’s clas... |
27 November 2012
03:04 GMT |
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Chinese mobile phone maker ZTE is gearing up for the release of new, high-end smartphones in the not too distant future, and at least one of them might sport a full HD screen, it seems.
The device has just emerged in a leaked photo next to the Apple iPhone 4S, with the aforementioned 1080p screen that can deliver a... |
27 November 2012
03:03 GMT |
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Firefox 18 has been pushed to the beta channel, a week after Firefox 17 became a stable release. Aurora users have been enjoying all the new features for almost two months, but Firefox 18 is now bug-free enough to be ready for a beta. The headliner is IonMonkey, the next generation JavaScript JIT compiler, which sho... |
27 November 2012
03:01 GMT |
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The all-time record for most parking tickets in the city of Chicago goes to one Jennifer Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald claims she had no knowledge of owning the car that caused her problems, and racked up more than $100,000 (€77,000) in unpaid fines. The 1999 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, which is probably worth about $600 (... |
27 November 2012
03:00 GMT |
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The news just broke that, at one point last week, a group of people from the Shopian district of Kashmir saw fit to set a bear on fire while the animal was still very much alive.
Needless to say, animal rights activists were simply appalled when hearing the news, and it seems that the Indian government is not going... |
27 November 2012
02:52 GMT |
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Now that Microsoft is retiring Windows Live Messenger and is moving all users to its Skype platform, the company does its best to convince everyone that Skype’s Messenger is at least worth a shot.
The Skype team has revealed via its official Twitter account a total of eight different hidden emoticons, all of t... |
27 November 2012
02:44 GMT |
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A study led by scientists of King's College in London shows that smoking degenerates the brain through its influence on the memory and the rationing abilities. The study, published in the Age and Ageing journal, consisted of the observation of 8,800 people aged over 50 in order to determine whether the possibi... |
27 November 2012
02:39 GMT |
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Last week, researchers found that cybercriminals were altering the DNS records of Go Daddy websites in an effort to redirect their visitors to their own malware-spreading domains. Go Daddy reveals that the attackers compromised the accounts by phishing out the affected customers’ credentials.
Go Daddy represen... |
27 November 2012
02:38 GMT |
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The first pre-release build of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 is now available for download through Apple’s developer channels. The Cupertino company is asking programmers to hone their testing skills with Game Center, AirPort, AirPlay, and other areas.
According to a notice on Apple’s Mac Dev Center, “... |
27 November 2012
02:36 GMT |
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With all the new CPUs with integrated graphics from Intel, and AMD's accelerated processing units (APUs), one would think the third quarter would be a contest between them in regard to how many graphics solutions sold. This is not so. NVIDIA is the one with a reason to be smug, even though the entry-lev... |
27 November 2012
02:35 GMT |
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As the year ends, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is gearing up for the release of new handsets to its users, most probably set to make them official in early 2013. One of these might be the Samsung GT-I9525 device that was just spotted in NenaMark, only days after another handset from the company emerged o... |
27 November 2012
02:32 GMT |
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Crystal Dynamics, the developer behind the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot, has confirmed that the game’s single-player campaign will last around 12 to 15 hours to complete, depending on the play style of the actual player.
The long-running Tomb Raider franchise will receive a big reboot next year, in the form of ... |
27 November 2012
02:32 GMT |
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Video game developer Sony Online Entertainment says that it has resolved all the problems that were affecting the Briggs server of the recently launched Planetside 2, which is the home for all Australian players engaged with the MMO. Veratu, a developer working on Planetside 2, offers a long explanation for the prob... |
27 November 2012
02:29 GMT |
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It was only a matter of time, but the inevitable has finally happened: software pirates have just released a downloadable application that allows users to download and run full Windows Store apps. For free, that is. The cracking tool basically enables Windows 8 users to install and run unsigned apps, thus bypassing ... |
27 November 2012
02:22 GMT |
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Most people agree that a dog is a man's best friend, and this hilarious video stands as proof that, when it comes to pleasing their owners, dogs are ready and willing to do just about anything. Apparently, the cat in this video does not really want to go inside the house, simply because the great outdoor is way ... |
27 November 2012
01:33 GMT |
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There's a new version of Netflix for Android available for download on Google Play store. The application that allows users to watch TV episodes and movies on their phone has been updated with new features and bug fixes.
The most important seems to be the addition of a new player with lots of new features, whic... |
27 November 2012
01:03 GMT |
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Add another name to the list of people who won’t be invited on Fox News ever again. Author Thomas Ricks dared criticize the network for being a “wing of the Republican Party” and was immediately cut off on air.
Watch the video below to see how that went down.
The author was on Fox News to talk a... |
27 November 2012
00:52 GMT |
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Shortly after releasing a new stable version of Firefox for Android devices, Mozilla launched a new beta iteration of its mobile browser on Google Play store.
Firefox Beta 1 for Android 18.0 is the first browser with Safe Browsing, Mozilla claims. It features integration with Google Now search widget and improvement... |
27 November 2012
00:47 GMT |
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A young Mexican beauty queen, Maria Susana Flores Gamez, aged just 20, was shot and killed over the weekend, police authorities have confirmed for CNN.
A shootout between military troops and supposed drug traffickers took place in Sinaloa, a province known for the acts of violence perpetrated there, with the beauty... |
27 November 2012
00:37 GMT |
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One of the reasons Dolly Parton is so loved by pretty much everyone on the planet, besides her amazing music, is her honesty on topics other celebrities would usually keep mum about. In a new interview, Dolly opens up about gay rumors, Whitney Houston, her career and her new book. Dolly, the richest and most popular... |
27 November 2012
00:20 GMT |
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