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World’s best known mainboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company ASUS has just launched a new gaming IPS monitor that comes with interesting features and rich connectivity options. The official denomination of the new monitor is ASUS VG27AH and the 16 by 9 display sports the popular 1920 by 1080 FullHD resolution... |
28 September 2012
22:01 GMT |
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ASUS is getting ready to launch its own original version of Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti video card that will come with an improve cooling system and the new GK106 GPU that also can be found inside all GTX 660 graphics adapters.The new card will apparently be called simply ASUS GeForce GTX 650 Ti and the cooling system ... |
28 September 2012
20:31 GMT |
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Apple has released some figures via an open letter from CEO Tim Cook regarding the iOS Maps fiasco. Among those numbers, Apple confirmed the count for search results offered by its Maps application – 500 million. For a service that doesn’t work, as the media would have you believe, Apple’s Maps is ... |
28 September 2012
20:21 GMT |
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Ubisoft is getting ready to debut Assassin’s Creed 3 this October and now, in order to give PlayStation 3 owners a chance to catch up with the previous titles, the French publisher has confirmed that in November, a special Assassin’s Creed Ezio Trilogy will be released for the Sony home console. The Assa... |
28 September 2012
19:41 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has revealed that day one sales of its football simulation FIFA 13 have increased by 42 percent when compared to 2012, with the game moving 353,000 units to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 players in the United States.
The game is only today launched in Europe and will probably break ... |
28 September 2012
19:41 GMT |
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Even without taking into account the release of Intel's Clover Trail CPU and the Acer, ASUS, Samsung, Dell and Fujitsu tablets running Windows 8, it is clear that IT players fully expect, or at least hope, for Windows 8 to shake things up, in a good way.
Even Advanced Micro Devices believes that Windows 8 will... |
28 September 2012
19:11 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has unveiled a new Android-based smartphone specifically designed for the Chinese market, namely the HTC One XC.
The new handset features a quad-core Qualcomm S4 processor and 1GB of RAM (though HTC China lists it with a dual-core CPU), along with a large 4.7-inch 1280 &t... |
28 September 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Opera software has released a refreshed Opera Mini browser with support for the latest Apple gear. The updated application also includes the usual bag of fixes, which should make it more reliable.
Arguably the most popular third-party web browser for mobiles, Opera Mini 7 has been updated to take advantage of the en... |
28 September 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Live Street View, the application that allows you to tap into the power of Maps and Street View, has been blessed with a full-screen view on the iPad and support for the 4-inch display of the iPhone 5.
Arriving with a refreshed user interface, Live Street View from developer Tim Broddin is now ready for the iPhone 5... |
28 September 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Killzone 1 is finally going to be remastered in high definition and it will appear next month on the PlayStation Network for the PS3. Thus, developer Guerrilla Games has talked about the project and has revealed that this is the definitive version of the classic first-person shooter. Killzone 1 impressed lots of Pla... |
28 September 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Hideo Kojima is currently working on a new Metal Gear Solid video game, but he still found time to take part in a Questions & Answers session at the Eurogamer Expo 2012, during which he offered some information on the franchise as a whole. Speaking to the audience, he revealed that his favorite moment from the serie... |
28 September 2012
17:31 GMT |
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An iOS application called Texas Poker (Texas Hold’em) has been found to broadcast players’ usernames and passwords in plain text or by using the weak MD5 encryption algorithm.
iOS is said to be the most secure mobile operating system around. However, this only applies for the operating system itself and... |
28 September 2012
17:11 GMT |
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A phishing email that’s designed to trick Yahoo! users into handing over their usernames and passwords is making the rounds these days.
According to reports from millersmiles.co.uk, the email reads something like this:
Service Update
Our security system has noticed an intrusion into your account, which show... |
28 September 2012
17:01 GMT |
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A new version of Mozilla’s Firefox for Android 16 Beta application is now available for download, offering support for all devices that pack at least an 800MHz application processor and a minimum of 512MB of RAM. The beta flavor of the browser comes with a new Reader Mode, while also offering users the possib... |
28 September 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Powered by Intel’s freshly announced Clover Trail SoC, Lenovo’s new ThinkPad 2 tablet features an interesting 10.1” screen with multitouch support and the latest and greatest Windows 8 operating system.
For buyers that are in for a x86 compatible and well-built quality Windows 8 tablets, Lenovo&rs... |
28 September 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: FIFA 13 was finally launched this week (I first got to play the game during E3 2012, back in June) and that means that I plan to spend most of my weekend playing the new football simulation from EA Sports, probing its nooks and crannies to see exactly how different it is from its predecessor.
I&rs... |
28 September 2012
16:21 GMT |
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A shady YouTube video advertising the Reloaded version of the popular Max Payne video game, was found to be the starting point of an intricate scheme that’s designed to trick users into taking part in all sorts of shady surveys.
The video – titled “Max Payne Reloaded + Crack” – urges us... |
28 September 2012
16:01 GMT |
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There’s a new iPhone model available on shelves, complemented by a new iOS release, and a wide range of applications to choose from, that’s for sure.
Of them all, Microsoft is recommending the use of its Bing App for iPhone when it comes to performing searches or finding directions on a mobile device.
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28 September 2012
15:51 GMT |
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The third and final chapter in the “Tales from Dunwall” animated webseries produced by Bethesda and Arkane Studios for their upcoming Dishonored game has just appeared, showing off a key figure of the city – Piero.
Dishonored is out this October and in order to give those who eagerly await the stea... |
28 September 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Today, Apple’s new iPhone model becomes available for purchase in the United States on the networks of more wireless carriers, including C Spire.
The company confirmed plans to make the iPhone 5 available for its users starting with September 28th, and the launch date has finally arrived.
The smartphone can... |
28 September 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Like Fujitsu, Dell, ASUS and Acer, Samsung joined Intel in releasing the Atom Z2760 central processor, unveiling the ATIV Smart PC.
The other name of the device is Series 5 Slate. Running Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, it is an 11.6-inch slate for both businessmen and regular consumers.
The resoluti... |
28 September 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Tokyo Jungle is a survival role-playing game that invites gamers to inhabit the body of animals who survive in an urban environment after an apocalypse wipes out all the humans and it seems that publisher Sony initially reacted badly to the concept.
Yohei Kataoka, the game director working on Tokyo Jungle, argues, &... |
28 September 2012
15:01 GMT |
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HP is apparently getting back into tablets as this market segment is projected to reach over 25% of the PC market in 2012 alone. The company has officially launched the HP ENVY x2 hybrid mobile system, which is practically a tablet with a keyboard/battery dock.
Just to make things clear, the new HP ENVY x2 system is... |
28 September 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Windows 8 is a brand new platform from Microsoft, with a modified user interface and with a vast array of new features and functionalities that existing Windows users are not accustomed to.
For those who would like to learn more on the OS, a book is now available for purchase, namely “Windows 8 Step by Step,&... |
28 September 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Halo 4 will appeal both to old fans and to new gamers, according to Halo franchise developer director Frank O’Connor, who believes that the new trilogy, currently being developed by 343 Industries, captures the magic of the original one, made by Bungie.
Microsoft’s Halo series is definitely one of its co... |
28 September 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Publisher 2K Games and online operator Tencent Games have announced that NBA 2K Online will be launched on the Chinese market on October 24, allowing players from the country to play a complex NBA simulation that offers four game modes.
NBA Mode will allow gamers to create an avatar and join a team, Free and Street ... |
28 September 2012
14:21 GMT |
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The development team at Spark Unlimited that’s working on the upcoming Lost Planet 3 believes that the game needs a bigger emphasis on the shooter mechanics in order to succeed on the Western market.
Andrew Szymanski, the leading developer on the game, told Gamasutra that, “We wanted to push the boundari... |
28 September 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Galaxy Note II, the largest Android-based smartphone to date, is expected to arrive on shelves in the United States as soon as October 24th, recent reports on the matter suggest.
Samsung has started to send out invites to a press event in New York City on that day, called “The Next Big Thing Is Here,” w... |
28 September 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Data and server centers are what keep businesses running and, most importantly, give us the Internet, but there is a big problem with them: the stunning failure of using energy properly. Computer scientists at Cornell University have proposed an unexpected solution to the problem.
Cornell University is an American ... |
28 September 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Markus “Notch” Persson, the creator of indie hit Minecraft and the boss of developer Mojang has once again expressed his anger at Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 operating system, going so far as to say that he’s boycotting the OS by not porting Minecraft onto it.
Windows 8 is getting ready to... |
28 September 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. has some good news for internauts from California. Their employers or universities are no longer allowed to ask for their email or social media login credentials.
By signing the Assembly Bill 1844 by Nora Campos and the Senate Bill 1349 by Leland Yee, Brown hopes to protect Califor... |
28 September 2012
13:01 GMT |
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The development team at Monolith has released a new video for its upcoming Guardians of Middle-Earth multiplayer online battle arena title, showing how a number of pro gamers linked to the genre have reacted once they have seen their suggestions implemented into the game.
Monolith has sought feedback from the MOBA p... |
28 September 2012
13:01 GMT |
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This video is just 1 day old, and already has over 1.3 million hits on YouTube. The clip is shot with a soldier's helmet camera, in the Kunar Province, in Afghanistan.
The footage will be included in a documentary about the terrors of the war in Afghanistan, along with an interview of the soldier. The images we... |
28 September 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Owners of devices running under Google’s Android operating system can now download and install a new flavor of the Dolphin Browser Beta application, namely version 1.0.9.
The browser was released in the Google Play Store with improved support for HTML5, as well as with increased JavaScript performance.
Moreo... |
28 September 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Acronis True Image is a veteran in the market of data backup and restore software. It imposed a new standard that is still far to reach by much of the competition. The latest version was released at the end of last month. Acronis True Image 2013 is available for $59.49 / €49.73, a bit more than what the 2012 ed... |
28 September 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Icy Dock is launching yet another impressive and useful storage bay that allows the user to mount no less than six 2.5” laptop HDDs inside it. The interesting part is that the whole thing then fits perfectly into any 5.25” standard PC and server bay. Therefore, the new rack from Icy Dock is perfect for c... |
28 September 2012
12:21 GMT |
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FerroSlider is a jQuery plugin for creating custom arranged, viewport responsive image slideshows. Slides can be navigated using side-slide effects, similar to the ones used by Linux or Mac OS to switch their desktop’s views.Created by Italian developer Alessandro Ferrini, FerroSlider is very different from you... |
28 September 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Kodak's fall was one of the fastest in recent history, but it isn't actually over yet. The company is in the middle of a restructuring process, which really means that shareholders, and everyone else that hasn't jumped off boat yet, are doing all they can to keep the brand alive and emerge from the ash... |
28 September 2012
11:56 GMT |
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Intel's Material Declaration Data Sheets (MDDS) database often gets updated with information that has yet to be broadcasted by the company by word of mouth. This is one of those times.
A new Core i3 central processing unit has made its appearance, bearing the BX80637I33210 box part number and the IVY BRIDGE-M-2... |
28 September 2012
11:44 GMT |
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Tard – the Grumpy Cat made a splash on YouTube after proving a hit on Reddit. This video registered more than 250,000 views in 5 days, and it's only 11 seconds long.
This cat always has a frown on its face, perhaps because Tard is short for Tardar Sauce. Owners describe Tard as a loving and sociable cat, despit... |
28 September 2012
11:41 GMT |
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On Thursday, wireless carrier Cricket went official with its second Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-powered smartphone, the ZTE Engage.
Set to become available for purchase exclusively at this wireless carrier, the smartphone packs a 4-inch touchscreen display, along with a 1.4GHz processor inside.
Moreover, it wil... |
28 September 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Officials from the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that four of the instruments aboard their newly-launched MetOp-B satellite have been turned on this week, and that the first science data are already pouring in.
The spacecraft was launched aboard a Russian-built Soyuz ST Fregat medium rocket from the Baikonur... |
28 September 2012
11:37 GMT |
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IT companies have begun straight-up choosing rivals, with TP-Link being locked in a contest with Netgear for who makes the best and most affordable routers.
TP-Link is the one releasing a product this time around, called N600 Wireless Dual Band Router, and the core of its marketing strategy is “Netgear's... |
28 September 2012
11:33 GMT |
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Japanese semiconductor company Fujitsu, one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world, has signed a patent license agreement with American company Rambus. It seems that Rambus’ technology that we reported here has made a serious impression on Fujitsu.
Rambus is currently the company with one of the b... |
28 September 2012
11:21 GMT |
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A recent report looking into how poaching is affecting India's leopard population states that as many as four such big cats are killed by poachers in this part of the world on a weekly basis.
Once one starts adding up, the figures become ever more mind-boggling: if estimates are correct, roughly 3,000 leopards... |
28 September 2012
11:07 GMT |
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The learning mechanisms children are born with are very much similar to the scientific method of investigation, a new study has shown. Infants prefer to learn by proposing and testing hypotheses, learning from statistics, setting up and carrying out experiments, and through observing others' actions.
This is pr... |
28 September 2012
11:05 GMT |
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On September 27th, in a security notice Canonical published details about a libxml2 vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, applications using libxml2 could have been made to crash or run programs if users op... |
28 September 2012
10:56 GMT |
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The 13-minute “Innocence of Muslims” movie has sparked a lot of controversy all over the world. Physical protests have taken place and hacktivists have attacked numerous websites – including the ones of US banks -, but nothing could get YouTube to remove the clip.
Cindy Lee Garcia, an actress who a... |
28 September 2012
10:52 GMT |
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A green lifestyle also means that one needs to exercise, at least every once in a while. Thanks to Lil Wayne, the people in the US who happen to like skating and who are also preoccupied with environmental protection can now practice their skills in an eco-skate park which has only recently opened in New Orleans. ... |
28 September 2012
10:51 GMT |
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An innovative combination of nanotechnology and an imaging technique called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) will soon allow doctors to establish the locations of cancer tumors with great precision.
This will in turn enable surgeons to take out the diseased tissues earlier on, before cells can flake off it, and spre... |
28 September 2012
10:45 GMT |
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Adapteva, a company that designs and sells low-power multicore microprocessor, wants to sell a supercomputer running an Ubuntu operating system.
The Parallella project will try to build an affordable supercomputer aimed at regular consumers. It will make use of Epiphany multicore chips, built by Adapteva.
The supe... |
28 September 2012
10:42 GMT |
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In the aftermath of several reports stating that Haiti needs to deal with its mind-boggling amounts of trash as soon as possible, the country's high officials agreed that the best thing to do was to ban plastic bags and foam containers altogether. Thus, starting this year's October 1st, this country is to... |
28 September 2012
10:36 GMT |
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After learning of Micron's unfortunate showing during its most recent quarter, it is encouraging to learn that a different chip maker did well during the third quarter of 2012, even if the type of chips isn't the same.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC for short, is the world's larg... |
28 September 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Vigil Games has just unveiled quite a few new details about its upcoming adaptation of Darksiders II for the Nintendo Wii U, confirming that exclusive new content has been added to the game’s disc and that plenty of new features are incorporated in the game.
Darksiders 2 came out back in August for the PC, PS3... |
28 September 2012
10:21 GMT |
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GNOME Games, a collection of fifteen small "five-minute" games in a variety of styles and genres for the GNOME desktop, is now at version 3.6.0.2.
GNOME Games 3.6.0.2 has been updated along with all the other applications in the new Gnome 3.6 package.
Highlights of Gnome Games 3.6.0.2:
• Mahjongg was renamed ... |
28 September 2012
10:19 GMT |
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This video of an unknown creature resembling a goat went viral on YouTube, after it was posted by LiveLeaksRussia just 2 days ago.
There is very few information about the animal, except for the fact the footage was taken in Palestine, somewhere on the Gaza Strip. The animal appears to be a goat that suffers from a g... |
28 September 2012
10:19 GMT |
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Recent news from Cambodia informs us that, after writing about the illegal logging activities taking place in this part of the world, one journalist was brutally beaten up by three assailants who didn't mind that they had to break into his home in order to attack him.
Apparently, the people behind this attack... |
28 September 2012
10:14 GMT |
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Apple fans in Alaska will be glad to learn that General Communication, Inc. (GCI), the state’s iPhone carrier, has kicked off sales of the iPhone 5 today with an attractive set of prices for all versions of the handset.
GCI is selling the iPhone 5 at $149 for the 16GB model, $249 for the 32GB model and $349 fo... |
28 September 2012
10:11 GMT |
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The company’s new A10 “Trinity” APUs will come with a new and interesting RAM drive technology. This is the first time a processor manufacturer has officially supported such an implementation.
Fabless CPU and GPU designer, Texas-based AMD has partnered with Patriot Memory to start making and sellin... |
28 September 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Facebook scams that advertise the secret intimate tapes of various celebrities are not new, but because they’re fairly successful, cybercriminals continue to rely on them to achieve their malicious goals.
According to Bitdefender's HotForSecurity blog, the latest scheme starts with a post that allegedly ... |
28 September 2012
10:07 GMT |
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Codemasters has posted two videos with its upcoming Grid 2 racing games, showing off actual gameplay from the new title.
Grid 2 was revealed to the world last month and promises to improve upon its already impressive predecessor by once again combining racing simulator gameplay with top notch damage mechanics and of... |
28 September 2012
10:07 GMT |
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Researchers at the Brown University and the Texas A&M University were recently able to use an innovative method to recreate the long-term history of the American Southwest, an area now renowned for its aridness, but which did not always look like this.
Since gathering data on ancient climate patterns from the under... |
28 September 2012
10:07 GMT |
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Windows 8 will hit the market with only a limited number of applications specifically designed for it, something that might prove a real issue for those who are interested in purchasing ARM-powered devices running under the platform.
While Windows 8-based x86 computers will have access to legacy applications, which... |
28 September 2012
10:06 GMT |
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One of the handsets that HTC has been long rumored to plan on bringing to the market before the end of this year was the HTC One X+, and its existence might have just been confirmed. The handset has been spotted in leaked promotional materials over at UK wireless carrier O2, with some of the previously rumored hardw... |
28 September 2012
10:01 GMT |
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I’ve noticed a clear dominance of the shooters, RPGs, simulation and strategy genres in the gaming industry, so cute little indie puzzlers started to be pushed to a niche that's fading with time. Luckily for us, for the past few years, more and more developers have been trying to keep this dying “b... |
28 September 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Today’s open letter from Tim Cook is a treasure trove of information regarding Apple’s view of the iOS Maps fiasco, as well as the company’s actual reasons for pulling away from Google. Initially reported by the WSJ-owned All Things D, Apple’s real reasons for renouncing Google Maps in favor ... |
28 September 2012
09:59 GMT |
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You'd expect that a company willing and capable of buying a rival with a greater market share than its own would have more promising news to give, but this does not seem to be the case.
Micron bought Rexchip and ELPIDA back in early July 2012, after Elpida ended up in a situation where it had to choose between... |
28 September 2012
09:58 GMT |
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German police officers couldn't believe it when Vitalio K., the victim of a robbery turned up at the station with a picture of the man that stole his iPhone. The thief, who didn't exactly display a great amount of skill in handling the phone, took pictures of himself and emailed the photo stream to the for... |
28 September 2012
09:58 GMT |
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Researchers at the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSL) say that data collected during a new study conducted on unsuspecting lab mice may soon help doctors perform stem cells transplants that have fewer deadly complications and negative side-effects than they do now.
The investigation was conducted using mouse... |
28 September 2012
09:49 GMT |
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This may not come easy to the Apple fanatic entrusting Tim Cook with his favorite gadget vending corporation, but the CEO just issued an open letter to the public recommending Bing maps as the primary alternative to iOS Maps, until Apple engineers iron out all the bugs in the company’s own solution.
An open le... |
28 September 2012
09:43 GMT |
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Video game developer Sports Interactive and publisher SEGA have announced that Football Manager 2013 will be officially launched worldwide on Friday, November 2.
The development team has also revealed that all those who pre-order the game will get access to a Beta version of Football Manager 2013 that will be availa... |
28 September 2012
09:42 GMT |
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The United Nations Environment Programme has recently announced that, in the aftermath of several concerns raised by conservationists, as many as 50 countries worldwide have agreed to join hands and push for the implementation of green-oriented campaigns intended to protect migratory shark species.
More precisely, ... |
28 September 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Pinta, a drawing/editing software modeled after Paint.NET, including common tools like Paintbrush, Pencil, Shapes, Eraser, and Selections, is now at version 1.4. Highlights of Pinta 1.4; · Magic Wand tool selection modes have been added ; · Layer blend modes have been added; · Memory usage in t... |
28 September 2012
09:39 GMT |
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Microsoft has added a lot of enhancements and new features to its Bing service, and some more of them are on their way to users.
On September 27th, the company announced a partnership with Klout aimed at expanding the social networking functionality of the search engine.
Bing has already got a nice set of social ... |
28 September 2012
09:29 GMT |
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In a rare move, Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has released a statement regarding iOS Maps in the form of an open letter. The apologetic message is reminiscent of those sent out by the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, whenever he felt the public needed a wakeup call. Addressed simply “To our customers... |
28 September 2012
09:27 GMT |
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The FFmpeg package, a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video, is now at version 1.0.
FFmpeg 1.0, codenamed Angel, features a lot of fixes, updates and a large number of new features.
Highlights of FFmpeg 1.0:
• The ffprobe test dependency has been fixed;
• A few common dispositio... |
28 September 2012
09:26 GMT |
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Regardless of how much fervor people put in debunking the rumors of the post-PC era, PC sales have been dropping, enough to account for less than half of RAM memory sales for the first time in history. When asked whether or not Acer would try to compensate for poor PC sales by making smartphones, Acer founder Stan ... |
28 September 2012
09:24 GMT |
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Balpreet Kaur is a college sophomore at Ohio State University, whose photo was plastered on Reddit and Cracked.com this last week, by those who were trying to guess her gender. The confusion happened because the young woman was sporting facial hair. Kaur is studying Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of... |
28 September 2012
09:19 GMT |
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The Blender Institute has released a short movie demonstrating the awesome powers for Blender, an open source 3D creation tool. “Tears of Steel” is a short film shot in Amsterdam by the Blender Institute. All the funding obtained for this project was poured in the exploration of a complete open source pi... |
28 September 2012
09:00 GMT |
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McAfee Labs experts have come across a nasty fake antivirus called System Progressive Protection that’s currently being distributed via drive-by downloads and via other pieces of malware.
System Progressive Protection is part of the Winwebsec family and its main goal is to block victims from accessing other ap... |
28 September 2012
08:59 GMT |
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Recent news from the US Environmental Protection Agency informs us that a total of $25 million (€19.4 million) are to soon be spent on cleaning up the site of a former copper mine in Elko County, Nevada.
Apparently, cleaning up the site in the Rio Tinto Mine and its surroundings is intended to help up wat... |
28 September 2012
08:58 GMT |
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Experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) announce the development of a new method for detecting the sources of fresh food contamination. The technique could allow for this process to be carried out much faster than currently possible.
What the method does is analyze pote... |
28 September 2012
08:58 GMT |
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FIFA 13 is a huge game that offers a wealth of content for any football lover who can hold a controller (or get by with a keyboard and mouse setup), but for this Quick Look at the most recent installment I plan to focus on the Career Mode of the game.As always, it offers a choice between Management or just being a pl... |
28 September 2012
08:47 GMT |
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In a security notice, Canonical published details about a FreeRADIUS vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 11.04 operating systems. According to Canonical, FreeRADIUS could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic. According to Timo Warns, FreeRAD... |
28 September 2012
08:45 GMT |
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Investigators from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Stanford University say that climate change will force the vast majority of critical marine ecosystems in the Pacific Ocean to migrate by several hundred miles, by 2100.
Marine habitat shift is a phenomenon that occurs naturally as... |
28 September 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Over 35 Israeli commercial sites have been defaced by members of the Bangladesh Grey Hat Hacker (BGHH) collective.
The hacktivists are calling Israel a “cancerous tumor” that must be “wiped from cyberspace.”
The affected websites’ main pages have been altered to display a protest messa... |
28 September 2012
08:39 GMT |
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Now that DDR4 has been officially announced and the standard has been finalized and it is published as we reported here, we can move on to a unique technology that has not been mass-produced before, but will revolutionize the performance of our computers, tablets, smartphones and servers. HP Labs, the research divis... |
28 September 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Assets that belonged to the now dead 38 Studios development team will be soon auctioned off, and among the items that are looking for new homes potential buyers can find a number of Xbox 360 development kits.
They might be ready for auction, but Microsoft says that the devices are actually company property and canno... |
28 September 2012
08:30 GMT |
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Skyfire, leading provider of cloud solutions for the mobile industry, has announced the release of Skyfire Horizon, a new platform for the mobile browser.
Embedded in mobile device browsers at partner carriers, the company’s toolbar and extension platform can deliver a level of intelligence to the browsing exp... |
28 September 2012
08:28 GMT |
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Good news for the victims of the Sure Touch telemarketing scheme. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has started sending out refund checks to 138,737 individuals who fell for the shady company’s “free” goods and services pitch.
Most of us were called up at some point by a telemarketing company a... |
28 September 2012
08:22 GMT |
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Presently, about 400 people are carrying on with their lives in one isolated village in rural Alaska known as Tuntutuliak (Tunt, for short). Like all of the other 55 such small villages found in this region, Tunt has a long history of using diesel-burning generators in order to have its electricity demands met. H... |
28 September 2012
08:19 GMT |
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We did say that Acer and ASUS were part of Intel's Clover Trail CPU and Windows 8 tablet launch, so here are the two tablets that will start shipping next month (October 2012).
The products are in no way novelties. Both of them were revealed at the IFA 2012 convention in Berlin, Germany.
The ASUS Vivo Tab has ... |
28 September 2012
08:15 GMT |
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The Gouriki 4 series of power supplies from Japanese company Scythe is one that tries its best to cover the whole market for desktops.
There are 500W, 600W and 700W versions, for single-GPU, mid-range dual-GPU and high-end multi-GPU configurations.
These PSUs also come in modular and non-modular designs, but they a... |
28 September 2012
08:11 GMT |
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Cellcom is yet another wireless carrier in the United States which has made the new Apple iPhone 5 handset available for purchase on its network, with support for fast 3G connectivity. Plans for the handset were officially unveiled on Thursday, when the wireless carrier announced a $149 price tag for the 16GB model... |
28 September 2012
08:01 GMT |
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People who have been diagnosed with clinical depression are a lot less capable of distinguishing between negative emotions they are experiencing. The finding is very important because it could help explain why depressed patients cannot address the problem that led to their depression to being with.
In healthy people... |
28 September 2012
08:01 GMT |
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This compilation of offences presents some of the silliest ways to commit a crime, or get caught after you've committed a crime, all facilitated by the popular social networking site Facebook. In June, the Telegraph reported that police officers in England and Wales receive Facebook-related crime reports every ... |
28 September 2012
07:56 GMT |
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Have you ever bought a game only to learn later on that it's not compatible with your Mac? We all have. But there’s a neat tool in the newly launched Mac Game Store, called a Compatibility Checker that has the potential to save you some serious cash.
The Mac Game Store, a new offering from the company wit... |
28 September 2012
07:55 GMT |
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Research firm IHS: iSuppli recently performed a teardown of the iPhone 5 to determine the total cost of the parts making up the elusive new-generation smartphone.
The bill of materials (BOM) in the 32GB version is $209.00, said IHS, which spells a total manufacturing cost of $230. The 16-gigabyte iPhone 5 costs $207... |
28 September 2012
07:51 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, the emergence of a series of specific withdrawal symptoms can be associated with a higher risk of former marijuana users relapsing into their old ways.
The research was conducted by Australian experts at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), led by... |
28 September 2012
07:51 GMT |
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According to a new report made public by the United Nations Environment Programme, as much of 50-90% of the deforestations taking place in countries belonging to the Amazon basin must be linked to illegal activities.
This organization states that the illegal logging industry is worth roughly $30 billion (€23.2... |
28 September 2012
07:49 GMT |
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Ubuntu Studio, a free operating system based on free and open source software (FLOSS) shipping with the latest and most up to date multimedia software, has reached version 12.10 Beta 2, along with all the other flavors recognized by Canonical.
Unlike its Canonical compatriots, the developers of Ubuntu Studio 12.10 B... |
28 September 2012
07:42 GMT |
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AMD’s Trinity APUs have apparently brought extreme overclockability to the sub-$150 market as the company itself is bragging about the frequency capabilities of the new processors. Comparable Intel CPUs are priced almost twice as high and, while offering better performance, those come with nearly double the c... |
28 September 2012
07:41 GMT |
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Netflix on iPhone and iPad recently got varied improvements on playback, AV sync, subtitle handling, as well as an updated UI. That was in version 2.3, released last week. This week, a new update is available.
Version 2.4 is now out with iPhone 5 optimizations. This basically means that all your favorite Netflix sho... |
28 September 2012
07:31 GMT |
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High-end video cards like the Radeon HD 7970 or NVIDIA's own GeForce GTX 680 boards are all well and good, but they don't sell as much as the adapters populating the lower echelons of the video board industry. Zotac seeks to bank on this by releasing a new GTX 660 Ti.
True, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti is still... |
28 September 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Since September 14, Apple fans in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the UK have been able to pre-order, or buy an iPhone 5 outright. Today, Apple is expanding this opportunity to several new territories.
In accordance with Apple’s press release touting sales of five mi... |
28 September 2012
07:23 GMT |
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Tim Storms has the deepest voice ever recorded, being awarded a Guinness World Record title because of his unusual gift.
Storms was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has been singing bass since the 8th grade, the artist's bio on timstorms.net reads.
He was singing with a Christian a capella group, a few years ago,... |
28 September 2012
07:15 GMT |
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The development team at Paragon Studios has released a list of the events that will mark the final days of the MMO City of Heroes / City of Villains.The game will turn off its servers forever on November 30 but before that date players who are interested will be able to take part in events like:Summer Blockbuster &nd... |
28 September 2012
07:13 GMT |
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Five individuals suspected of leaking pre-release copies of movies made by Disney, Warner Bros. and Universal have been sentenced to jail and ordered to pay damages totaling over $1.4 million (€1.1 million) by a court in Paris.
The pirates – some of them working under the CiNEFOX name since 2005 – ... |
28 September 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Edubuntu, the customized version of Ubuntu for educational use that can be used in the classroom, is now at version 12.10 Beta 2, along with its bigger brothers, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu. Edubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 may have been launched with every other distribution in Canonical's portfolio, but it has no new f... |
28 September 2012
07:00 GMT |
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eBay listed security researcher Rafay Baloch in its hall of fame after the expert managed to identify a “very unusual” non-persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.
“There was a WAF/IPS in place which was filtering out the html and JavaScript being embedded into the page. I managed to b... |
28 September 2012
06:53 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops II is out in November and Activision has now overhauled the Call of Duty Elite website in order to streamline the experience of the service’s users and to get certain content to them faster.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s multiplayer experience was greatly enhanced by the releas... |
28 September 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Nokia’s Windows phone 8-based Lumia 920 is set to arrive on shelves sometime in November in a variety of color flavors, including Black, Red, and glossy White and Yellow, as well as Grey. Nokia hasn’t fully shown all these color flavors until now, although it did announce them, yet Engadget had the chanc... |
28 September 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Recent news from Britain informs us that this country can now take pride in having its very first carbon negative street.
More precisely, several British citizens who are highly committed to environmental protection will soon be living in 21 timber houses, which taken together form the Sinclair Meadows in South Shi... |
28 September 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Lubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 has also been announced by Canonical, on September 27th, after the release of Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 (Quantal Quetzal).
There are almost no details on the new Lubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 (Quantal Quetzal), with the exemption of a major bug that got fixed at the last moment.
The installation was complete... |
28 September 2012
06:38 GMT |
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World’s best known mainboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company ASUS has just launched a new professional IPS monitor that comes with impressive features and connectivity options. The new display features a nice and rare 16 by 10 aspect ratio and a superior high-definition resolution. The official denomination ... |
28 September 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Ever since the year 1991, when it was first spotted, an adult albino whale has kept showing up in the waters near the Australian coast.
Because this is the only all-white humpback adult documented so far, the people here have really taken a liking to it, and named it Migaloo.
Sources explain that humpback whales ... |
28 September 2012
06:25 GMT |
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Intelligent, highly-artistic beings may have inhabited the Moon around 200,000 years ago, says geologist Dr. Morris Charles, who worked at NASA for 23 years, until 1987. He says that the Apollo 11 crew returned home a 10-inch (25.4-centimeter) statue of what could best be described as an angel.
The artifact was remo... |
28 September 2012
06:03 GMT |
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NeoSmart Technologies has released a new build for EasyBCD, which includes support for Windows 8. Apart from this, the fresh build brings to the table new features, improvements and repairs.
EasyBCD 2.2 can automatically create a backup of BCD store the first time you run the program and now it supports the new Hype... |
28 September 2012
06:01 GMT |
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This year's Paris Motor Show witnessed the unveiling of a new Porsche plug-in hybrid concept, known as the Panamera Sport Turismo.
Apparently, this vehicle can reach the speed of 130 km/h (81 mph) while just in electric mode, and it can keep going for more than 30 kilometers (19 miles).
Car-capabilities-and-... |
28 September 2012
05:52 GMT |
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The highly regarded Camera+ application for iOS has received its biggest update yet, adding support for the new iPhone 5’s elongated display, iCloud sync, and Facebook integration. A separate version for the iPad has also been released with tons of new features.
Camera+ 3.5 not only takes advantage of the tall... |
28 September 2012
05:52 GMT |
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We reported here that ASUS has just launched two new Matrix video cards that are now based on AMD’s Tahiti GPUs instead of Nvidia’s chips. Now we got word that the performance is something to dream at. The new cards are not really the most affordable Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition implementations, but they a... |
28 September 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Two sources that are close to the development team already working on Madden NFL 14 have revealed that the new game in the series will include official likenesses for the game referees.
One of the sources says that EA Sports has already scanned the faces of the officials and that their faces will be important as the... |
28 September 2012
05:49 GMT |
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While scientists believe that gravitational waves will be detected within a few years, no one is claiming that this will be easy. In order to make the goal more accessible, a team of investigators recently produce a computer simulation meant to predict what telescopes will see when they detect these waves.
According... |
28 September 2012
05:48 GMT |
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40-year-old Lori E. Stilley was charged by Burlington county, New Jersey prosecutors after taking $15,000 in donations in a cancer scam.
Stilley claimed she was suffering from bladder cancer, and set up a fund that she named “Team Lori.” Her charity organized t-shirt sales, fundraisers and raffles in her... |
28 September 2012
05:44 GMT |
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Canonical has announced that Xubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 (Quantal Quetzal) is available for download and it includes a few important changes. The Xubuntu developers have decided to skip the previous beta, but this time they've managed to provide a version for testing, albeit they had to drop the alternate images. Hig... |
28 September 2012
05:37 GMT |
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Amidst losses of hundreds of millions and a fraud scandal to which its former employees have pleaded guilty, Olympus isn't doing so hot. In fact, it is doing so badly that it has had no choice but to accept selling a majority stake in one of its most important businesses. This would not have been so ironic if i... |
28 September 2012
05:30 GMT |
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A few days back, green-oriented organization Sea Shepherd took a stand against plans to engage in seismic testing off the Californian Coast.
These environmentalists now warn that it is quite likely that similar activities carried out in the waters near Uruguay are responsible for the fact that a dead orca washed as... |
28 September 2012
05:27 GMT |
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Google is now supporting the CardDAV protocol used by Apple in OS X and iOS for contact syncing, which means that your Google Contacts will now sync directly. Jeff Ellingson, product manager blogs for Google, “For many years, we've supported two open protocols for accessing Gmail and Calendar from mobile ... |
28 September 2012
05:25 GMT |
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Today, on September 28, 2012, cloud security and compliance solutions provider Qualys starts offering shares of its common stock, traded on NASDAQ under the QLYS symbol.
The company is offering 6,700,000 shares of common stock and additional 875,000 shares are offered by selling stakeholders. The 7,575,000 shares co... |
28 September 2012
05:14 GMT |
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Ubisoft has released yet another video for its upcoming Assassin’s Creed 3 game, this time focusing on the historical Boston Tea Party and showing off the actual events that happened back in 1773, while hinting at a much bigger revolution that was going on behind closed doors.
Assassin’s Creed 3 introduc... |
28 September 2012
05:13 GMT |
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Sharp's status as a world-class technology player has been slipping for months, with the number of projected job cuts growing almost by the week.
The last time we heard something about the matter, 11,000 jobs were going to be sacrificed, on top of the previous ones.
Those who have been keeping up to date on ... |
28 September 2012
05:08 GMT |
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Calibre just switched to a new version, which sports not only repairs but also new features, such as a redesigned interface, better ebook viewer or full support for connecting to Android phones and tablets.
Calibre 0.9 brings to the table the ability to split text into pages (“page” mode). This allows th... |
28 September 2012
04:55 GMT |
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Using a new observations technique, a team of astronomers was recently able to image the event horizon of a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. This is the first time such data are collected of a boundary that does not even exist in reality.
In theory, the event horizon is an area surrounding a black hole ... |
28 September 2012
04:55 GMT |
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Using a Watts Up Pro Electricity Consumption Meter, Opower measured how much electricity it takes to charge popular smartphones from 0% to 100% full, estimating a meager $0.41/€0.3 in annual costs for the Apple iPhone 5.
Opower took its results for single-charge costs and modeled them across a year to find that... |
28 September 2012
04:55 GMT |
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A few days ago, security researcher Ravi Borgaonkar demonstrated how USSD codes could be leveraged by cybercriminals to wipe the phones of Android users via malicious WAP Push SMSs, QR codes, near-field communications (NFC) and websites.
Samsung – whose Android devices were said to be the most affected by the ... |
28 September 2012
04:52 GMT |
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World’s largest computer motherboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company ASUS has just announced the new Matrix Radeon HD 7970 video cards. Yes, you got that right, there are not one, but two of them waiting for you on shelves. The ASUS Matrix AMD Radeon HD 7970 video cards are GHz Edition models and come with AMD... |
28 September 2012
04:51 GMT |
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Version 0.9.0 of the e-book reader and management software Calibre was announced on September 28th, marking an important milestone for this amazing software. If you have an ebook reader, the Calibre software is a must. It does so many things for the avid reader, that it would take a lot of time to just enumerate al... |
28 September 2012
04:50 GMT |
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This past Wednesday, Dunkin' Donuts (i.e. the international donut and coffee retailer), together with ConAgra, (i.e. an American packaged foods company) made it public news that they are to push towards ridding their supply chains of pork coming from so-called “gestation crates.”
As well as this, Du... |
28 September 2012
04:48 GMT |
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Andrew Wilson, who is an executive vice president at EA Sports, has announced that the company no longer plans to launch NBA Live 13, citing once again concerns about the quality of the experience.
A statement from the executive says, “When we started the process of bringing back NBA LIVE, we knew it was going... |
28 September 2012
04:44 GMT |
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Before we start, we should put up a disclaimer saying that no pricing has been announced yet. The $500 / 500 Euro figure is our best guess based on the rumors on the net and previous device generations.
That said, the Dell Latitude 10 is a business-centric device that, unlike Fujitsu's Stylistic Q702, does, in... |
28 September 2012
04:43 GMT |
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Australian mobile phone users can now head over to Telstra’s website to place orders on the carrier’s new Galaxy S III 4G smartphone.
Running under Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the device was unveiled with a quad-core processor inside, and is expected to hit shelves only on October 9.
It will provide users... |
28 September 2012
04:40 GMT |
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Mysteriously blurred-out images on Google Maps spark conspiracy theories, in this compilation, put together by trutv.com. The Volkel Airbase is a military airbase used by the Royal Netherlands Air Force. Volkel is believed to be a storage facility for nuclear weapons since the '60s. The Dutch Ministry of Defenc... |
28 September 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Fujitsu's Stylistic Q702 is one of the Windows 8 tablets included in the product brief released alongside the Atom Z2760 CPU, but it does not, in fact, use that Clover Trail unit.
Instead, the tablet is based on an Intel Core i5 vPro chip and, to make sure it can't easily be mistaken for a normal tablet, ... |
28 September 2012
04:24 GMT |
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In a meeting they had on Thursday, Ecuador’s foreign minister Ricardo Patino Aroca asked UK Foreign Secretary William Hague if authorities would allow Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange to leave the embassy to receive medical treatment. According to boston.com, this is only a hypothetical case, generated... |
28 September 2012
04:24 GMT |
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Blizzard has confirmed that, because of the high strain on certain servers due to the recent release of World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, it’s offering free transfers for players on crowded realms. World of Warcraft fans have eagerly awaited the release of the Mists of Pandaria expansion for quite some tim... |
28 September 2012
04:24 GMT |
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Engineers at the NASA Langley Research Center, in Hampton, Virginia, announce that a test article simulating the size and weight of the agency's new spacecraft, the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, was recently able to complete a final round of water impact assessments.
The tests took place as the 8.1-ton (18... |
28 September 2012
04:23 GMT |
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The development team at Wargaming has announced that it has launched the 8.0 update for their online game World of Tanks, which introduces a whole new physics system to the game and makes tank behavior more realistic. This is the most important update that the game has received since it was launched in April of last... |
28 September 2012
04:15 GMT |
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Aspyr Media is delivering on its promise by offering Call of Duty: Black Ops through the Mac App Store, complete with the First Strike downloadable pack, which includes additional maps and a new “zombie experience,” according to the publishers.
Released only a few hours ago in the Mac App Store, Call of ... |
28 September 2012
04:13 GMT |
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A new website launched by Amazon is intended to help greenheads worldwide get their hands on environmentally friendly products such as organic food, natural cosmetics, eco cleaning supplies and many other such green-oriented items.
It has not been long since we reported on the launching of a website meant to promot... |
28 September 2012
04:12 GMT |
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A multitude of high-resolution images collected by the NASA Dawn spacecraft have recently been pieced together, to form this amazing full-view of the asteroid Vesta, the largest in our solar system.
Dawn launched in September 2007, as the first mission destined to enter orbit around two different celestial bodies i... |
28 September 2012
04:12 GMT |
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Kubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 has been announced on September 27th, along with the other distributions from Canonical. Probably the biggest change to Kubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 is the addition of encrypted and LVM partitioning options. Kubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 (Quantal Quetzal) benefits from KDE Software Compilation 4.9 which adds m... |
28 September 2012
04:04 GMT |
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Persona (formerly known as BrowserID) is Mozilla’s project to create a system with a single password to rule all your web sign-ins, and it has just kicked off as a public beta.
In the current development it can be used for authentication in all major browsers for mobile devices and desktop computers.
The tea... |
28 September 2012
04:04 GMT |
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A few days ago, hackers of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters group have revealed their intentions of going after the websites of three other financial institutions: Wells Fargo, US Bank and PNC.
Even though they knew their websites would be attacked by the hacktivists (called terrorists by some), the banks wer... |
28 September 2012
04:01 GMT |
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A group of high-school students in Asakuchi, Japan, designed the world's smallest working car, that fits requirements to be allowed on the road. The students were helped with their project by teachers at the Automobile Engineering Course of Okayama Sanyo High School. The car was completed on November 15, 2010, ... |
28 September 2012
03:54 GMT |
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Samsung is reportedly getting ready for the launch of new Android handsets in its Galaxy lineup, with a great focus on music capabilities this time. Two such devices have leaked online in the past few days, namely the Galaxy Music and the Galaxy Music Duos, the latter said to be a dual-SIM phone. Featuring model n... |
28 September 2012
03:54 GMT |
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A new series of screenshots from the upcoming Hitman: Absolution game have surfaced, showing off some of the different environments that the protagonist, Agent 47, will explore on his new adventures.
Hitman: Absolution once again puts players in the sharp shoes and suit of Agent 47 as he now tries to escape his form... |
28 September 2012
03:44 GMT |
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Adobe engineers have recently identified a couple of malicious utilities that appeared to be digitally signed with the use of a valid code signing certificate. As a result, the company plans to revoke the code signing certificate for Windows on October 4, 2012. According to Brad Arkin, Adobe’s senior director... |
28 September 2012
03:34 GMT |
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Mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity has discovered an ancient riverbed inside Gale Crater, through which it currently roams on the Red Planet, heading for Mount Sharp.
The purpose of the MSL mission... |
28 September 2012
03:34 GMT |
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A flock of sheep stormed an Intersport sports shop in the Tyrolean ski resort of St. Anton am Arlberg's. The resort is located in the Austrian district of Landeck, a popular route for sheep herders in the area. 80 sheep stormed their way in the shop, and there was no stopping them from bringing chaos, the Austr... |
28 September 2012
03:25 GMT |
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Canonical has launched on September 27th the second and final beta for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system. Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 (Quantal Quetzal) integrates a number of bold updates done by Canonical. We're gotten used to receive stable versions and older kernels, but this time there a... |
28 September 2012
03:17 GMT |
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The long running Halo series needs to innovate in order to continue delighting its fans, at least according to the developer of the upcoming Halo 4, 343 Industries, but it doesn’t need to start copying other successful first-person shooters, like Call of Duty.
Halo 4 is out on November 6 and already it’s... |
28 September 2012
03:12 GMT |
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The announcement of the new Mass Effect Trilogy release has caused disappointment among those players who prefer the female Shepard model to the male one after publisher Electronic Arts has confirmed that it will not offer an alternate version of the cover.
Fans previously successfully launched a campaign to get the... |
28 September 2012
03:05 GMT |
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Due to the fact that shark attacks more often than not happen at incredible speeds, it is quite difficult to grasp their mastery of hunting techniques. However, thanks to this video showing shark attacks in slow motion, one can begin to understand how gifted these predators are, and why it is almost impossible for... |
28 September 2012
02:59 GMT |
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As promised, the hacktivist collective called Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters turned its attention to the website of US Bank (usbank.com) and the one of PNC Financial Services Group (pnc.com). Both sites have experienced temporary disruptions as a result of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks.
According... |
28 September 2012
02:56 GMT |
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Research In Motion’s first BlackBerry 10 smartphones are expected to become official in the first quarter of the next year both in full-touch and QWERTY-enabled flavors. We’ve already had the chance to have a look at the touch handset, supposedly part of RIM’s L-Series, and now we can see a bit mo... |
28 September 2012
02:52 GMT |
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Only recently, Anchorage, US was declared to be the country's dirties urban area.
Wishing to lend a helping hand in cleaning up this municipality, PETA has plans to post an ad featuring one of its 'Lettuce Ladies' on each of the town's garbage trucks. Their goal, as usual, is to convince people ... |
28 September 2012
02:42 GMT |
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Shipments may not be expected to begin until later next month (October 2012), but that doesn't mean that Intel and its partners can't formally reveal their tablets before that time. Intel's Clover Trail central processing unit, the newest addition to the Atom Z series (Z2760), is a dual-core CPU with... |
28 September 2012
02:41 GMT |
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Available as a standalone program on the Mac App Store, OS X Server has been promoted to version 2.1.1 in order to add options for managing DHCP service from within the app, iOS 6 support, and more.
Server is now a single application that customers can simply download onto Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store and tu... |
28 September 2012
02:39 GMT |
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This weekend on Steam is dedicated to war, at least judging by the array of deals the popular digital distribution service is offering to its users, as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s multiplayer is now completely free-to-play until Monday, while the Total War series has seen some serious discounts.
Steam is ... |
28 September 2012
02:36 GMT |
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The development team at Funcom has launched the third big content update for their MMO The Secret World, called Issue #3:The Cat God. The main event of the new batch of content, which involves the appearance of the Cat God itself, will take place around Halloween in October and will see the player engage in a whole ... |
28 September 2012
02:31 GMT |
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This movie scene from Turkish movie “Kareteci Kız,” or Karate Girl, shows a man getting kicked in the head and shot twice before he actually dies, a minute later.
The movie was released in 1973, which explains the hair and the clothes, but not the extreme overacting. You can actually see the man in the s... |
28 September 2012
02:20 GMT |
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In the aftermath of several shark attacks that took place off the Australian coast throughout this year, the state's high officials decided that the best thing to do in order to protect beachgoers was to kill any such animal that happened to swim a tad too close to the shoreline. Thus, Colin Barnett, the Weste... |
28 September 2012
02:19 GMT |
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Ever since making the Lumia 920 official a few weeks ago, Nokia has been touting its great photo and video shooting capabilities, even if it all started on the wrong foot.
The device was already proven capable of delivering great imaging, and now we can have a look at the manner in which it can shoot videos.
The ... |
28 September 2012
02:13 GMT |
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This past Wednesday, a woman in Florida had her arm bit off by an alligator, and presently finds herself in a critical condition. Staff at the hospital are looking after her.
Authorities took care of the problem by hunting down and killing the animal. However, they can only assume that they correctly identified the... |
28 September 2012
01:49 GMT |
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