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Sharkoon has just launched a new version of its well-known QuickPort HDD external docking station and this one comes with FireWire also. The new 3-in-1 HDD dock from Sharkoon has no less than three FireWire connectors for most Apple users out there. One of the FireWire ports is a 1394a connection compatible with Fir... |
29 August 2012
19:51 GMT |
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Apple has officially added the latest iPhone model to its Reuse and Recycling program which awards customers an Apple Gift Card worth as much as their old handset.
If your iPhone 4S works properly, presents only moderate scratches or scuffs, and doesn’t exhibit any cracks or water damage, you can fetch as much... |
29 August 2012
19:41 GMT |
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David Cage, who is the leader of Quantic Dream, believes that developers have plenty of interesting game ideas but they don’t have the opportunity to bring them to gamers because they face resistance from publishers.
The developer has told Gamasutra that, “If you asked developers, they all have incredibl... |
29 August 2012
19:21 GMT |
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There were many rumors regarding HTC’s highly anticipated tablet device and today, the first ever pictures of the new design have surfaced on the internet. The new tablet is likely to be powered by Qualcomm’s AP8064 quad core mobile processor that we’ve presented here.
The new processor uses four c... |
29 August 2012
19:11 GMT |
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American networking company Netgear has just officially launched the new N750 Dual Band Gigabit Wi-Fi Router – Premium Edition. This one comes with an impressive features set and a maximum cumulated bandwidth of 750 Mb/s. The new device is designated as model WNDR4300 and can provide dual-band wireless network... |
29 August 2012
19:11 GMT |
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The upcoming Dishonored action and stealth game from Arkane Studio gives players so many options that even the development team was at times unable to determine whether bug reports were linked to genuine issues with the game or were simply novel ways of approaching a certain situation.
Pete Hines, the vice president... |
29 August 2012
18:51 GMT |
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Capcom is continuing to release lots of trailers with its upcoming titles and has now showed off Lost Planet 3, its new shooter, through a special 16-minute long gameplay video.
The first two Lost Planet games impressed through their settings but, at least in terms of gameplay, there weren’t a lot of standout ... |
29 August 2012
18:31 GMT |
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After further analyzing the traces of the mysterious Wiper malware, researchers are still unable to precisely determine how it works. They also haven’t been able to find a clear link between it and Duqu, Stuxnet or Flame. Back in April, the Iranian Oil Ministry reported sightings of a destructive piece of malw... |
29 August 2012
18:21 GMT |
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Developer Funcom has revealed that its recently launched MMO The Secret World has managed to sell only 200,000 units since it was launched in the early days of July. The company says that sales were lower than expected and believes that The Secret World was affected by the mixed reviews that the game received from va... |
29 August 2012
17:41 GMT |
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In traditional manner, AMD is likely to show us sneak previews of its up and coming Vishera and Hondo processors that are going to be launched this autumn. The move will apparently try and divert some attention away from Intel’s Developer Forum event.We reported on AMD’s Vishera desktop processor here and... |
29 August 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Crucial to AdSense and AdWords, or any online ad platform, is the ability to target ads at just the right audience. For the US and a few European markets, the most profitable ones, advertisers can narrow down their targets quite a lot. In other places, bigger regions are used.
But Google is expanding and localizing ... |
29 August 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Sony has confirmed a brand new character for its upcoming PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale fighting game, revealing an Evil version of Cole MacGrath, the protagonist of the Infamous series.
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale was presented to the world earlier this year and, since then, developer SuperBot Enterta... |
29 August 2012
17:21 GMT |
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A new study conducted by the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has revealed that using your iPad or iPhone prior to going to sleep might do you harm. Researchers at LRC have found that two-hour exposure to your iPhone and / or iPad, which have self-luminous “backlit” disp... |
29 August 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Last week we reported about the existence of a Facebook scam that was trying to trick users into visiting various websites by promising them $500 gift vouchers from Woolworths. Now, the Australian supermarket chain’s reputation is once again used in a malicious campaign.
It all starts with an email entitled &... |
29 August 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Developer Blizzard sees the pet battle system for World of Warcraft as one of the core elements of the game and will work to develop it after the launch of the new Mists of Pandaria expansion for the MMO, making them a staple of all the game areas.
Ion Hazzikostas, who is a lead designer working on encounters, has t... |
29 August 2012
16:31 GMT |
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The eighth edition of the now venerable Google Summer of Code program has come to an end. For another summer, students got to hone their skills, work on a "real world" project and contribute to some of the most popular open source projects out there while Google footed the bill. "In late May, 1,212 university studen... |
29 August 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Remember this: should you ever happen to stumble upon Tom Hanks when you’re out to paint the town red, dare to be bold and ask him to take a picture with you. You will be thrilled to see how he responds to that.
Proving that he is, indeed, one of the awesomest celebrities of the day, Tom recently complied wit... |
29 August 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Not very long ago, Tamira Thayne decided to take the headquarters of a major dogfighting operation and turn it into a safe haven for these animals. At that time, people actually believed that, as the name of her foundation suggested, Tamira Thayne lived guided by the principle that “Dogs Deserve Better.” ... |
29 August 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Sony released yesterday three major game collections in North America, in the form of the God of War, Infamous, and Ratchet& Clank HD, and it has now posted a special video that shows them off.
Quite a lot of games have appeared for the PlayStation 3 during its lifecycle and Sony is now taking advantage of this huge... |
29 August 2012
15:41 GMT |
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For Chris Nolan fans, it might be a bit too early to talk about a Batman reboot when “The Dark Knight Rises” isn’t even out of theaters yet, but the reality of it all is that it will happen – and soon, according to a new report.
Batman on Film reports that Warner Bros. isn’t planning o... |
29 August 2012
15:41 GMT |
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The search market is dominated by Google, there's no debate about that. But actually measuring that dominance is harder than it may seem. Chitika opted for an interesting method, afforded by the fact that it serves hundreds of millions of ads across search engines.
In a recent report, it pitted search engines a... |
29 August 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Video game developer Peter Molyneux has revealed that he is working on a new project called Cooperation, a follow-up to the soon-to-be-released Curiosity: What’s in the Cube, and has offered some detail on the game experience that he plans to offer. Speaking to Polygon, Molyneux has explained that he wants to ... |
29 August 2012
15:21 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that women who work full-time may involuntarily favor their children's weight gain. Researchers say that this is due to the shorter amount of time they spend teaching the young ones about health, diets and exercises.
Cornell University rese... |
29 August 2012
14:31 GMT |
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GameStop has revealed yet another pre-order bonus for the upcoming Borderlands 2 shooter, offering customers access into the Creature Slaughter Dome, a special arena where players can fight against waves of monsters in order to unlock different rewards.
Gearbox Software has already revealed a variety of pre-order bo... |
29 August 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Mozilla lost the video codec war. It lost it in the worst possible way, as the last backer of only open-source and free licensable codecs, this despite Google's vow to do the same. But it learned its lessons, the biggest being that if you want to do something, you have to do it yourself. Equally important is t... |
29 August 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Say what you will about Disney’s “TRON: Legacy” and how it was disappointing on so many levels, but there’s no denying it was a stunningly beautiful film. Not only did it manage to bring to light a world like no other, but it also did so in the most convincing manner possible. Bradley Munkow... |
29 August 2012
14:11 GMT |
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With today's updates, Canonical upgraded the default web browser to Mozilla Firefox 15.0, in all its supported Ubuntu operating systems. The Firefox 15 web browser was officially released yesterday, August 28th, bringing initial native support for PDF files, support for version 3 of the SPDY networking protocol,... |
29 August 2012
13:51 GMT |
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The development team at Firaxis and publisher 2K Games has released a long video which shows the upcoming XCOM: Enemy Unknown in action, with a lot of skirmishes that demonstrate how the strategy game works.
Jake Solomon, one of the leading developers working on XCOM: Enemy Unknown, offers commentary while the game ... |
29 August 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Google Wallet's big promise, as of yet unfulfilled, wasn't necessarily to make payments easier, though that's a big part of it, it was to actually replace your wallet.
Wallet was always intended to hold more than money, it would hold offers, bus passes, IDs of all sorts, concert tickets, even digital... |
29 August 2012
13:21 GMT |
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The Document Foundation proudly announced a few minutes ago, August 29th, the first maintenance release of the LibreOffice 3.6 open source office suite, for Linux, Mac and Windows platforms. LibreOffice 3.6.1 is here to solve various issues and regressions, improving the stability of the app even further."LibreOffice... |
29 August 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Vito Technology has updated Star Walk, its augmented reality app that identifies no less than 200,000 stars, planets, constellations, satellites and galaxies.
Released just in time for the school season, Star Walk 6.0 includes a bunch of new visual effects of sunset and sunrise, new Info for objects, galleries of as... |
29 August 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Epic Games and Microsoft have confirmed that their upcoming Gears of War: Judgment title would feature a free-for-all multiplayer mode – a first for the long running shooter franchise.
Gears of War: Judgment was revealed to the world at the beginning of this summer and is looking set to deliver a more hardcore... |
29 August 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Project Whitecard Studios Inc. has announced that its NASA-themed online game Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond has changed its name to Starlite in order to better convey the nature of the game.
The core of Starlite is built around a Space Act Agreement with the NASA Learning Technologies division and is designed to ... |
29 August 2012
12:21 GMT |
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MegaUpload's Kim Dotcom spent yesterday boasting about an upcoming Mega 2.0 relaunch/revamp. There aren't that many details, but Dotcom is asking developers to get involved. Of course, starting a new business, or remaking an old one, requires money, quite a lot of it, and money is the one thing that Dotco... |
29 August 2012
12:11 GMT |
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TerrificJS is a JavaScript library for loading jQuery modules based on CSS naming conventions.
This is one of those little, shady projects that will totally blow your mind and change the way you look at code structures and organization.
TerrificJS is based on a simple concept. When a Web page's DOM is loaded, ... |
29 August 2012
12:01 GMT |
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The company headquartered at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California run by Tim Cook has reportedly failed to secure exclusive access to chip supplies by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), who was once said to be considering creating the A6 SoC (system on a chip) for Apple.
A Bloomberg Businessweek pi... |
29 August 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Mozilla officially released the Mozilla Thunderbird 15.0 email and RSS client to the world on August 28th, 2012, bringing a few interesting new features. The Ubuntu community should know that Ubuntu One is now one of the online storage providers for Mozilla Thunderbird 15.0's Filelink feature previously added in... |
29 August 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency say that the weather forecast for tomorrow shows 70 percent chance of clear skies. If the prediction holds, then the twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) could finally launch on August 30. The identical spacecraft were originally supposed to take off from the Cape Canaveral A... |
29 August 2012
11:21 GMT |
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A video which recently hit the online community shows how a Jack Russell which goes by the name of Frankie succeeded in traveling from Kent to London by train, precisely during rush hour. As its owners explain, the dog somehow managed to sneak out of its home without anyone noticing it, and blended in quite nicely wi... |
29 August 2012
11:19 GMT |
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Today, August 29, 2012, Michael Jackson would have turned 54. The King of Pop, the best selling and perhaps most controversial artist of all times, died in June 2009, leaving a world in mourning. As his death continues to stir debates and even cause family rifts, we’re choosing to mark what would have been his ... |
29 August 2012
11:17 GMT |
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Google+ has been around for a year and a bit and since then it's grown quite a lot. Of course, the growth isn't that impressive given that this is Google we're talking about. Still, there are plenty of things left to do and one area that Google has lately been focusing on is the enterprise sector. Goo... |
29 August 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Although more than three years old, and not much larger than a coffee cup, the microimager aboard the European Space Agency's (ESA) Proba-2 microsatellite is still capable of collecting wonderful images. This was made clear two days ago, when it captured a photo of Hurricane Isaac.The Exploration Camera (X-Cam) ... |
29 August 2012
11:10 GMT |
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The stable version for LibreOffice 3.6.1 has rolled out today, and it is bit-for-bit identical to the last release candidate.As such, users with RC 2 installed need not reinstall since they already have the latest build.However, there are some changes as far as the Windows distribution is concerned. First on the list... |
29 August 2012
11:09 GMT |
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Selena Gomez is determined to break away from her clean Disney image and, by the looks of it, “Spring Breakers” is just the project to help her do that. A first video for it has just been released.
An official trailer is still pending and, truth be told now, the video doesn’t really reveal too much... |
29 August 2012
11:07 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that the first model of the Small GEO communications satellite platform has finally been received in the Netherlands yesterday, August 28.
The spacecraft was delivered from manufacturer RUAG, in Switzerland. Many of its components were delivered from OHB System, ... |
29 August 2012
11:03 GMT |
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This is definitely not your run-of-the-mill green-oriented blog, dealing with animal protection, environmental issues and similar topics. Quite the contrary: this blog is all about taking a step back and enjoying the view.
Truth be told, it is quite a view. Or at least that's what it seems to us.
In case you... |
29 August 2012
10:57 GMT |
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Electronic Arts and Criterion Games have revealed a brand new video from their upcoming Need for Speed: Most Wanted title, this time showing off 5 minutes of pure gameplay footage from the racing game. Need for Speed: Most Wanted reimagines the original title from 2005 with new graphics, improved gameplay and, as al... |
29 August 2012
10:51 GMT |
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FireEye has released its Advanced Threat Report for the first half of 2012 and, as expected, the numbers are not encouraging at all.
As it turns out, compared to the first half of 2011, advanced malware has grown by 400%, 643 infections with such malicious elements being reported each week.
Experts say that these ... |
29 August 2012
10:50 GMT |
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The other day, we saw the first photos of Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of Martin Scorsese’s upcoming film “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Matthew McConaughey has also joined him, as the photo above will confirm.
It’s no secret that Matthew has been on a very drastic diet to lose weight for the ro... |
29 August 2012
10:50 GMT |
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Red Hat is pushing on with open source virtualization and has just made available the first Beta of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1. According to Red Hat, this first Beta version will allow Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization customers to get a closer look to the upcoming platform.Red Hat Enterprise Virtualizat... |
29 August 2012
10:47 GMT |
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Gone are the decades-old Microsoft logo and the Windows Start Menu in the upcoming version 8 of the OS, but, in the case of the latter, we may witness a revival.
According to online sources, Samsung won’t let it die just yet, and is bundling a launcher with its future line of Windows 8 machines called “S... |
29 August 2012
10:44 GMT |
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Indie developer Sunside has confirmed that its beautiful action-adventure title Crow would be released in the Mac App Store and MacGameStore.com this Thursday, August 30. Sunside has been burning the midnight oil to code Crow for the Mac so that it would support the latest features in OS X Mountain Lion, including t... |
29 August 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Acclaimed actor (and one of the best-looking celebrities presently entertaining us) Bradley Cooper recently showed off his dog, Charlotte, during a live television broadcast.
During his appearance on “Live! With Kelly” Bradley explained how he first got to meet Charlotte, and told the story of how the c... |
29 August 2012
10:39 GMT |
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Shylock, the Shakespearian malware, is making the rounds once again and, according to researchers from Symantec, it relies on some clever functions in order to avoid being detected by antivirus solutions.
The latest variants of the Trojan rely on social engineering tricks in order to spread, but they also come with ... |
29 August 2012
10:36 GMT |
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Yesterday, August 28, the American space agency's latest robotic lander prototype successfully completed another untethered test flight, this time soaring into the sky to a maximum altitude of 30 meters (100 feet).
Dubbed the Mighty Eagle, the new lander technology could be used in upcoming lunar or Martian mis... |
29 August 2012
10:34 GMT |
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Simon Cowell is really set on making the second season of X Factor USA the biggest thing in unscripted programming, which will blow all competition out of the water: he’s just tapped Justin Bieber for a mentoring position.
With Britney Spears and Demi Lovato acting as new judges on the panel, next to L.A. Rei... |
29 August 2012
10:32 GMT |
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Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, were amazed to see what happens when a simple gadget like an MP3 player is worn by a Longfin Inshore Squid (loligo pealei). The skin of the fascinating sea creature basically went “disco” as the chromatophore cells starting changing color... |
29 August 2012
10:24 GMT |
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A few days back, we reported on how the beluga whale which inspired Rafi's “Baby Beluga” song passed away at its aquarium, most likely because of cancer-related health conditions.
However, we now bring you some good news with respect to the future of this species, as the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago r... |
29 August 2012
10:22 GMT |
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The leader of video game developer Crytek continues his crusade to persuade both Sony and Microsoft that home consoles need to become focused on the free-to-play model in order to survive past the coming generation. Cevat Yerli, the founder of Crytek, tells Eurogamer that, “I hope for them that they do. If th... |
29 August 2012
10:19 GMT |
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A number of 50 individuals have been arrested by authorities in Shanghai. The police believe that the suspects are responsible for selling large quantities of sensitive information.
The raids performed as part of the investigation unearthed close to 200 million pieces of information being stored on the suspects&rsqu... |
29 August 2012
10:18 GMT |
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Emsisoft announced today the availability of the public beta for version 7.0 of Anti-Malware, the company’s dual-engine security product. The big news about it is that Ikarus scan engine has been dropped because of generating false alerts, in favor of Bitdefender’s scanning solution, which is touted to r... |
29 August 2012
10:13 GMT |
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Maureen Jett, a product director from VanDyke Software, has announced that SecureCRT 7.0.1 is now available for Linux, for both Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OSes. SecureCRT 7.0.1 provides terminal emulation for computing professionals, raising productivity with advanced session management and a host of ways to... |
29 August 2012
10:13 GMT |
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Demon’s Souls revived the notion of challenging games that don’t hold the player’s hand and, last year, Japanese developer From Software released Dark Souls onto the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, delivering an equally tough experience that takes lots of practice and plenty of deaths to master.
As you... |
29 August 2012
10:11 GMT |
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We just stumbled upon these pictures, showing that space is of little importance when building the home of your dreams, as kitchens, living rooms and bedrooms can all be made to find their place in relatively small areas.
This particular house is presently the residence of two families in Tokyo, both of whose membe... |
29 August 2012
10:07 GMT |
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TLC knew that it had gotten its hands on the goose with the golden eggs the moment people reacted so violently when shown footage of Honey Boo Boo Child drinking a caffeine-laden concoction called “Go Go Juice.” So, they gave her and her family their own reality show.
Aptly called Here Comes Honey Boo B... |
29 August 2012
09:56 GMT |
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Slowly but surely, Dropbox is branching out beyond the cloud sync/cloud storage market and is morphing into a pure cloud product. It's got a long way to go and it may never become a 100 percent pure web platform, but that's the direction.
For example, Vimeo has just announced that it has added support for... |
29 August 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Duke University researchers determined in a new study on the effects of marijuana that teens who consume a lot of the herb before they turn 18 can suffer from impaired attention, memory and intelligence in the long run.
The Duke team led an international collaboration of scientists who investigated the issue. The g... |
29 August 2012
09:48 GMT |
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Microsoft has long-term plans to free-to-play content on the Xbox 360 and the launch of Happy Wars is just the first step in a program that will allow gamers to get access to many experiences without paying a dime outside of the subscription required for the Xbox Live Gold service.A representative told the Official X... |
29 August 2012
09:40 GMT |
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Piracy is a popular and common topic. There are extremists on either side of the debate, but most people are somewhere in the middle, i.e. they know pirating something is "wrong" but they do it anyway for various reasons, being a lousy cheapskate not even being in the top three.
The biggest cause, no matter what som... |
29 August 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Around one and a half years ago, malicious emails claiming to originate from Intuit attempted to convince recipients that they need to install a piece of software in order to access their QuickBooks accounts, giving them a three-day deadline to comply.
It seems that this spam campaign has been reinitialized in an a... |
29 August 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Apple is now making it possible for iPhone and iPad buyers to chat with a specialist before buying the product, without leaving the comfort of their home.
After taking down its online store for maintenance today, the Mac maker contacted Macworld to report that, "In addition to customers already being able to chat, r... |
29 August 2012
09:20 GMT |
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Recent news from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) informs us that, as a result of having failed to notify citizens with respect to lead hazards on as many as 41 occasions, a painting company is now to pay a $7,200 (€5,748) penalty and financially support an environmental project for a school in Cambr... |
29 August 2012
09:17 GMT |
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ARCHOS has some experience on the Android market, which is why the company decided to take on a greater challenge and released a new type of tablet that combines heavy gaming and tablet features.
Dubbed GamePad, the newly announced tablet will be available for purchase beginning late October for only 150 EUR (190 US... |
29 August 2012
09:17 GMT |
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Unity Technologies are getting ready to release Unity 4.0, and it seems that Canonical is getting the jump of things and are providing full support for publishing directly into Ubuntu. The developers behind Unity 4.0 had a conference in Amsterdam, called Unity’s Unite, in which they've highlighted all th... |
29 August 2012
09:16 GMT |
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Officials at Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) are pleased to announce that the American space agency has formally given its seal of approval for the launch of 12 robotic resupply missions to the International Space Station (ISS).
Until now, the company worked under a Co... |
29 August 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Mahdi – the piece of malware that relies on social engineering to spread throughout the networks of organizations from the Middle East, but also from the United States and Germany – has been improved numerous times in the past few months by its developers.
According to researchers from Seculert, some of ... |
29 August 2012
08:59 GMT |
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A simple form of sugar called glycolaldehyde was recently identified in massive gas clouds surrounding a newly-born star. The Sun-like object is called IRAS 16293-2422, and it’s the first star known to harbor sugar molecules so close to its surface.
Finding chemicals such as glycolaldehyde in space is nothing new. ... |
29 August 2012
08:55 GMT |
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Icy Dock has just announced a new external HDD dock that features connectors for 3.5” hard drives and 2.5” HDDs. The new device can provide enough power to use any 2.5” HDD with only the USB cable connected to it, but it also comes with a small external power adapter.
The power adapter is certainly... |
29 August 2012
08:54 GMT |
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The latest version for NoScript, the Firefox extension for script blocking, is 2.5.3. It brings to the table a set of four bug fixes and one new feature.
The current revision repairs two issues related to XSS (cross-site scripting), one of which generated false positives on URLs that contained an ASP.NET cookieless ... |
29 August 2012
08:49 GMT |
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GhostBSD, a FreeBSD-based operating system based on GNOME desktop environments, is now at version 3.0 RC1. GhostBSD 3.0 RC1 is based on GNOME 2, but the developers have promised that a GNOME 3 version will be available later.Highlights of GhostBSD 3.0 RC1:• FreeBSD 9.1 Beta 1 has been updated to FreeBSD 9.1 RC1;... |
29 August 2012
08:46 GMT |
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The world is becoming more and more hectic so it's understandable, though not necessarily excusable, that you sometime don't have time for your friends. But technology is making it easy to at least make it look like you care.
It's becoming increasingly harder to miss someone's birthday since "ev... |
29 August 2012
08:43 GMT |
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US-based carrier Cricket Wireless has just announced lots of changes to its plans, which will offer customers more choices and greater flexibility.
For example, all Android smartphone plans now include Cricket’s Muve Music service. In addition, the new plans offer more full-speed data options.
Last but not le... |
29 August 2012
08:40 GMT |
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Some cleverly designed emails, purporting to originate from Symantec, have been seen doing the rounds in the past few days. They attempt to trick recipients into downloading a malicious removal tool.
Experts from Websense have analyzed these emails and determined that they seem to come from various spoofed email add... |
29 August 2012
08:38 GMT |
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The upcoming Hitman: Absolution is designed to reveal more of the sarcastic nature of lead character Agent 47 as the developers use the protagonist to comment on the nature of the game world and its other inhabitants.
Torben Ellert, the lead designer working at IO Interactive, has told VG247 that, “I think it&... |
29 August 2012
08:34 GMT |
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When “The Avengers” arrived in theaters this May, it impressed fans and critics alike for its ability to maintain an optimistic outlook even though it dealt with serious, very violent conflicts. It was never so, a deleted, alternate opening scene reveals. Check it out below. The scene opens with a sce... |
29 August 2012
08:34 GMT |
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From China with love comes the very first iPhone 5 knock-off which not only runs Android, but actually has the Android buzz-bug stamped on its back, where the Apple logo should be. China, the land of some of the most gruesome knock-offs, has done it again. Building on the hype surrounding Apple’s next iPhone r... |
29 August 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Although most people tend to regard raccoons as rather cute fury animals, which can only be blamed for coming into our backyards late at night and going through our trash, it seems that this species is in fact one that poses significant threats both for public health and for other animals who share their natural habi... |
29 August 2012
08:25 GMT |
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The GIMP team has finally released an official DMG installer and GIMP.app that you can just drag into your Applications folder and start editing. X11 is finally no longer required! As if it didn’t even matter that millions of users around the globe had been waiting for years to see the X11 dependency gone, the... |
29 August 2012
08:22 GMT |
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24-year-old Alexander Waterland of Loveland, Ohio, has pleaded not guilty before a US Magistrate Judge. Authorities believe that he is one of the Anonymous hackers who back in May threatened to publish confidential information stolen from the systems of the University of Pittsburg.
Although the educational instituti... |
29 August 2012
08:16 GMT |
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Christina Aguilera has been working hard to get back into the game, with all her efforts concentrated in her upcoming studio album, which has “Your Body” as leading single. Asked to describe it in just one word, the star says “rebirth” is perhaps the most suitable. After the underwhelming &l... |
29 August 2012
08:15 GMT |
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Blogger, mostly neglected for a decade despite being Google's first ever acquisition, finally got some love and some changes last year. One of the big new features was the Dynamic Views, blog themes for the 21st century.
Dynamic Views are built on HTML5 and, as the name implies, they're dynamic, i.e. they... |
29 August 2012
08:11 GMT |
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It’s been several months since Canadian carrier SaskTel launched the Samsung Galaxy S II HD LTE smartphone on its airwaves.
Although the device was shipped with Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system out of the box, Samsung and SaskTel promised an Ice Cream Sandwich update would be available later on.
Well,... |
29 August 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Case Western Reserve University experts, led by physician and research scientist Cheryl Thompson, PhD, say they've recently discovered an interesting link between insufficient rest and women's chances of being affected by highly aggressive breast cancer.
The research suggests that not getting enough sleep... |
29 August 2012
07:56 GMT |
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A few days ago, the members of the NullCrew collective published a document containing information allegedly stolen from the systems of Cambridge University. The educational institution’s representatives are currently investigating their claims. “There is much more where this came from, and don't th... |
29 August 2012
07:45 GMT |
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The reaction that the player base has to the last two pieces of downloadable content, Aftermatch and Endgame, will determine how developer DICE will handle the future of Battlefield 3, according to one of the main developers working on it.
Niklas Fegraeus, who is the lead designer working on DICE, has told AusGamers... |
29 August 2012
07:45 GMT |
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TUI Travel, whom most people admit to be Europe's leading travel group, recently made it public news that it has plans to green up the holiday experiences of its customers, thanks to new sustainability targets that aim to push for environmentally friendly hotels and fuel-efficient planes.
Just for the record, ... |
29 August 2012
07:42 GMT |
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Chrome 22 has landed in the Chrome OS beta channel. The Chrome 22 beta was made available to desktop users last week, somewhat later than expected. Now, Chromebook and Chromebox users can take it for a spin as well. If you're running the beta channel, you should be getting an update over the next few days.
Ther... |
29 August 2012
07:41 GMT |
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There have been lots of issues with some of HTC smartphones available in Canada. First HTC Desire HD was included on the list of eligible devices for an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade. Then the Taiwanese company removed the Desire HD and said the smartphone would not receive an official ICS update after all. ... |
29 August 2012
07:40 GMT |
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It’s very rare that all four judges on X Factor UK are in total agreement and it’s even rarer to have them and the audience in complete accord as to one aspiring singer’s worth. The other night was one of those rare occasions. Lucy Spraggan is young and, though she has allowed herself to dream of ... |
29 August 2012
07:34 GMT |
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Built in the company’s 22nm manufacturing technology, the novel Many Intel Cores (MIC) architecture is apparently radically different from anything attempted before by the semiconductor giant. The current version of the architecture is called Knights Corner and the industry awaits the famous Xeon Phi cards base... |
29 August 2012
07:28 GMT |
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Trillian, the cross-platform instant messaging app that keeps your chats synchronized between all your devices, has been promoted to version 2.0 which brings more enhancements than you have fingers to count.
Avid users of Trillian will notice a neat launchpad that shows you the people who are most important to you. ... |
29 August 2012
07:21 GMT |
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With Space being a popular subject, for great reasons – Curiosity, and sadder ones, the death of Neil Armstrong – the first man to set foot on the Moon, Google is contributing with an interesting piece of trivia. It says that a single Google search, like the ones we do every day, several times a day, an... |
29 August 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Anonymous hackers have defaced a number of Israeli websites as a form of protest against the actions of the country’s government. One of the targets of Operation Israel was ziner.co.il, a website breached by LulzPirate protest against Israel’s involvement in Palestine. Besides this website, Anonymous a... |
29 August 2012
07:02 GMT |
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Shortly after LG unveiled the Optimus G superphone, the South Korean handset maker came forward with another Android smartphone, the Optimus L9. Following the same design-line of the L-Style series, Optimus L9 comes with innovative UX, new software and some powerful hardware. First of all, the smartphone runs Andro... |
29 August 2012
07:01 GMT |
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A few hours ago, on August 28th, The Linux Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, proudly announced that Inktank, Servergy and Twitter joined the organization. Putting Inktank and Servergy aside, some of you already knew that Twitter was about to join The Linux Foundati... |
29 August 2012
06:51 GMT |
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EverCool has just launched a new product, which turns out to be exactly what we needed, since we have been looking for a classic case cooling fan with an integrated speed controller. The new case fans from EverCool have the classic 120-millimeter diameter but come with some nice extra features at an affordable price.... |
29 August 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Opera 12.02 is almost out the door, but Opera 12.50 is where the action is. The team is working on the next major release and the latest snapshot build, made available for testing, actually comes with a big list of new features, like support for the SPDY protocol. Other new things are support for the FullScreen API ... |
29 August 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Activision has officially revealed the various special editions of its upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 shooter, in the form of the Hardened Edition, the Care Package, and the Digital Deluxe one, all with exclusive content and features.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II is going to be released this November and Activisio... |
29 August 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Maybe a bit later than it should have been, but WordPress has finally unveiled the official default theme for 2012. It's called, what else, Twenty Twelve, and it will be the default theme for anyone that installs the upcoming WordPress 3.5 on their own or starts a new WordPress.com blog.
The new theme is probab... |
29 August 2012
06:11 GMT |
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A special class of neutron stars called pulsars could feature radiation belts around them, the results of a new study published in the August 24 issue of the top journal Science indicate. From this perspective, the objects would be similar to Earth, which is surrounded by the two Van Allen radiation belts.
Neutron ... |
29 August 2012
05:55 GMT |
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We just stumbled upon this fan-made video, which pretty much tries to show how the much-acclaimed 90's cartoon show “Captain Planet and the Planeteers” could be turned into a Hollywood blockbuster, provided that the right people get to work on this project.
Truth be told, recent developments in env... |
29 August 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Blizzard has launched the 5.0.4 patch for its MMO World of Warcraft, the last major update for the game before the introduction of the new Mists of Pandaria expansion, which is set to be delivered on September 25. The core elements introduced in the 5.0.4 patch include Achievements that are enabled across all accoun... |
29 August 2012
05:50 GMT |
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Robert Duvall has apparently died while filming a movie in New Zealand, according to posts circulating on social media websites. In reality, the actor is alive and well, but he did join the ranks of celebrities who have been recently declared dead. A couple of days ago, Twitter started buzzing with news that the act... |
29 August 2012
05:49 GMT |
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Grooveshark hasn't had it easy for the past year or so. With several lawsuits against it, nobody wants to have anything to do with it, so its apps got pulled from the App Store and the Google Play Store. But now, more than a year later, the Grooveshark Android app is back in the Play Store, with not a word fro... |
29 August 2012
05:41 GMT |
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A team of experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, has just finished an analysis of Hurricane Isaac, currently a Category I Hurricane making landfall in Louisiana. The study shows why Isaac is not as strong as Category 3 Hurricane Katrina was in 2005.
The latter was a Category 1 ... |
29 August 2012
05:38 GMT |
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We might try and beat about the bush, but let's face it: this Japanese vehicle is best described as a poo-powered motorcycle.
Apparently, specialists have been working on designing and manufacturing it for quite some time now (since 2009), and their work finally paid off.
Toto Ltd., the toilet company respo... |
29 August 2012
05:35 GMT |
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For the past few weeks, Taylor Swift and Conor Kennedy have been getting a lot of media attention for their summer romance, but a new report indicates this is more than just a fling. Apparently, Taylor is so smitten she can hardly stand being parted from her new beau for longer stretches.
PageSix has it on good aut... |
29 August 2012
05:22 GMT |
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Thanks to a quick update released this week, the official Facebook Camera app now pushes out notifications for tags, likes, and comments, and allows users to add photos to an album of their choice, or to create a new one altogether.
Facebook Camera, the official app that lets you rapidly share photos on Facebook, n... |
29 August 2012
05:20 GMT |
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Facebook’s Help Center is once again flooded with all sorts of shady messages which advertise live online streaming services.
Posts such as “Barcelona vs Real Madrid Live Stream Online EL Classico 2012 On HDTV” are all over the help center, but the Search section of the Community Forum appears to b... |
29 August 2012
05:18 GMT |
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The makers of Avant have recently updated their web browser. Out of the four changes listed in the release notes, two of them refer to browser engine updates. Avant Browser 2012 build 181 now includes a fresh Webkit version (21.0.1180.83) and the latest Firefox engine (15.0.0.4622), as expected after Mozilla’s... |
29 August 2012
05:16 GMT |
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Blizzard has confirmed that it would no longer allow people in Iran to access the Battle.net online service, due to the U.S. trade restrictions and its economic sanction laws. Iran’s current political situation isn’t the best and it seems that this is now impacting the gamers currently residing in the Ar... |
29 August 2012
05:14 GMT |
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When it comes to wildlife conservation, most people who are truly committed to such causes opt for getting actively involved in on-going projects and campaigns aimed at safeguarding various plant and animal species living in areas which high officials declared as being natural sanctuaries, and which therefore benefit... |
29 August 2012
05:12 GMT |
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Google's homepage is sacred. Despite being an ad company, Google has never run an ad on its homepage and likely never will. Ads for third-parties that is, it's more than happy to run ads for its own products and services there. It doesn't abuse this, which is why, when it does run an ad, people notice.... |
29 August 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Not often do we get the chance to see a very simple innovation that brings significant advantages for the end-user. Kingmax’s new PI-01 compact flash drive is just 7 millimeters long and, despite the small size, it can handle up to 32 GB of data. Being just 0.27 inches long, the Kingmax PI-01 compact flash dri... |
29 August 2012
05:06 GMT |
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Apple plans to debut a new version of its AirPlay wireless streaming feature alongside the next-generation iPhone and iOS 6, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans.
Speaking to The Telegraph, the sources said Apple’s AirPlay wireless music streaming technology is getting a leg up this yea... |
29 August 2012
05:01 GMT |
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During a new investigation, an international team of researchers provide the first evidences of detecting the effects of gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. The discovery was made by studying a white dwarf binary system.
Even though theoretical... |
29 August 2012
04:54 GMT |
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The US Military has been successfully using cyber weapons for quite some time now, a speech held by Marine Lieutenant General Richard P. Mills at the AFCEA TechNet Land Forces conference revealed the other day. As it turns out, the US Air Force is also looking to enhance its cyber capabilities.
On August 22, 2012, t... |
29 August 2012
04:53 GMT |
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Pete Hines, leader of marketing at publisher Bethesda, has clarified the situation of Prey 2, the open-world action adventure game that Human Head Studios was developing, saying that the company is still working on it and has clear plans for its future.
The executive stated via Twitter that, “To clarify, I did... |
29 August 2012
04:53 GMT |
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Opera released a new snapshot for version 12.50 of the browser, codenamed Marlin. Apart from the new Core upgrade, it also integrates a bunch of fresh features and repairs.
The new revision supports text selection via keyboard (toggle on/off using F7 and combine with Shift to select). On Mac, keyboard event handling... |
29 August 2012
04:46 GMT |
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Microsoft is taking several big risks with the upcoming Windows 8 and to a degree with Windows Phone 8. It's also making several bets, one of them being on apps and an app store.
Granted, Microsoft is late to the party so maybe it's not exactly a bet as it is catching up. Whatever the case, apps are a big... |
29 August 2012
04:45 GMT |
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Clearly, Shia LaBeouf is putting in a lot of extra hours to prove to the world that he’s more than the handsome, slightly goofy guy from mindless action movies like “Transformers” and “Indiana Jones.”
Soon back on the big screen in a Depression-era drama / Western opposite the hottest a... |
29 August 2012
04:44 GMT |
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The online media community might have kept fairly silent on this topic so far, but now that the news finally broke, it seems to be spreading like harmful fumes emitting wildfire.
To cut a long story short: rumor has it that Germany's high official decided that 23 new coal-fired plants are to be built in this ... |
29 August 2012
04:36 GMT |
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Massive wildfires are currently burning in the Russian tundra, astronomers at NASA say. Using the American space agency's Aqua satellite, they were able to capture an orbital image of the Khabarovsk region of eastern Russia yesterday, August 28.
The view, snapped by Aqua's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spec... |
29 August 2012
04:29 GMT |
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Apple’s secret Genius Training Manual has leaked out, showing how the Cupertino giant instructs its retail staffers to think and act when confronted with problems, as well as how to speak in order to sell. Obtained by Gizmodo, the tech site that got on Apple’s bad side by exposing the unreleased iPhone 4... |
29 August 2012
04:27 GMT |
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Video game developer Telltale Games has revealed that it will launch the third episode of its The Walking Dead episodic series today and has also delivered a launch trailer to show players what they can expect from the new installment.
The third episode is called Long Road Ahead and can be played on the PC, where it... |
29 August 2012
04:24 GMT |
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Indie Royale has revealed a brand new deal, in the form of the Getaway Bundle, which delivers six impressive games – Shattered Horizon, Analogue: A Hate Story, Da New Guys, Super Amazing Wagon Adventure, Waves, and MiniFlake. Plenty of bundles have appeared in recent months, especially on websites focused on i... |
29 August 2012
04:23 GMT |
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FireEye experts, the ones who first reported the existence of a limited number of attacks that leveraged the new Java zero-day, returned with more information. Apparently, there are a number of exploit servers worldwide, fact which indicates the start of a mass-scale attack.
The researchers identified nine such mach... |
29 August 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Microsoft finally committed to building a proper SkyDrive service. Despite having it linger for several years while Dropbox added tens of millions of users, it's not too late for Microsoft to prop up SkyDrive. In fact, Microsoft would have to try really hard to derail SkyDrive since it's bundling it with Wi... |
29 August 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Even though Ann Curry was gracious about her exit from The Today Show, there’s still a lot of talk about how it was Matt Lauer who got her fired before her contract expired, blaming her for the ratings dip. Staffers are now holding him responsible for that.
Radar Online has spoken to various inside sources wh... |
29 August 2012
04:20 GMT |
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Using the NASA/NOAA GOES-13 satellites, which are part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite constellation, experts in the United States snapped a new image of Hurricane Isaac from Earth's orbit, showing the full extent of the massive storm. This view was collected yesterday, August 28, at ar... |
29 August 2012
04:18 GMT |
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Fabless CPU and GPU designer, Texas-based American company Advanced Micro Devices is working very hard to deliver a new low-power successor to the famous Bobcat computing architecture. The new microprocessor design is called Jaguar and, during this year’s Hot Chips conference, interesting architectural developm... |
29 August 2012
04:11 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the NASA Kepler Telescope announce the discovery of two extrasolar planets in a binary star system Kepler-47. The space observatory identified more than 2,300 exoplanetary candidates to date, and it is designed specifically to search for new worlds via the transiting method. Located in the con... |
29 August 2012
04:08 GMT |
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Along with Firefox 15, Mozilla put out the brand new Thunderbird 15 as well. While the future of Thunderbird is still somewhat murky, its present is looking good. The latest update to the venerable email client comes with one big feature, integrated chat, but also plenty of other changes.
The most noticeable of them... |
29 August 2012
04:03 GMT |
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20-year-old Raynaldo Rivera of Tempe, Arizona, was charged by US authorities on suspicion of participating in the attacks coordinated by the LulzSec collective against Sony Pictures between May and June 2011. After the indictment was unsealed, the suspect turned himself in. Known on the hacking scene as “neur... |
29 August 2012
03:59 GMT |
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Yesterday, August 28, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity became the first spacecraft to transmit a song from the surface of another planet. The tune was heard during an event held at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, which manages the mission.
Musician will.i.am compos... |
29 August 2012
03:52 GMT |
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According to recent news, the General Motors Company is to begin paying about $800,000 (roughly €640,000) less on its electricity bills for the Spring Hill manufacturing complex in Tennessee, as recent investments turned this facility into a highly energy efficient one.
However, what interests us first and for... |
29 August 2012
03:41 GMT |
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Ubisoft has released a new version of the Naval Warfare trailer for its upcoming Assassin’s Creed 3 game, this time with commentary from the game’s Creative Director, Alex Hutchinson.
Assassin’s Creed III is set to deliver a completely overhauled experience, with a new protagonist, a fresh historic... |
29 August 2012
03:41 GMT |
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Apple staffers are getting a new perk in light of some controversial changes occurring in the company’s retail organization. Staffers are being offered 50GB of free iCloud storage, which amounts to a $100 (80 EUR)/year value.
With the standard iCloud account offering only 5GB of storage, employees are now gett... |
29 August 2012
03:30 GMT |
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In a whitepaper called Trustworthy Computing Next, Scott Charney, the corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing, highlights three interesting trends: the evolution of the threat landscape, the role of governments in securing the Internet, and cloud computing and the concept of big data.
As ... |
29 August 2012
03:29 GMT |
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Though she broke her boyfriend’s heart by cheating on him with a married man and then being shamed publicly in leaked paparazzi shots, Kristen Stewart has managed to convince Robert Pattinson to get together to see whether there was still hope for them as a couple.
Reports in the British press cited by the Da... |
29 August 2012
03:25 GMT |
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During its first week on sale Darksiders II, the action and role-playing mix from developer Vigil Games and publisher THQ, has failed to take over the number one position in the United Kingdom video game chart. For the seven-day period that ended on August 25, the big winner in the United Kingdom was Sleeping Dogs, ... |
29 August 2012
03:11 GMT |
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DmC Devil May Cry, the upcoming reboot of the classic franchise made by Capcom, generated a fierce backlash among the gaming community when it was first unveiled, but the Japanese publisher has revealed that it understands the initial reaction to the game, given how much it changes the mythos of the series.
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29 August 2012
03:08 GMT |
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Only yesterday, East Texas witnessed a protest staged by several ordinary folks who fear that the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline will ultimately damage their homes and communities. It is either because work on this pipeline will require that other structures be brought down in order to accommodate for... |
29 August 2012
02:56 GMT |
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Researchers from Security Explorations – the ones who reported the security holes leveraged by the new Java zero-day exploit to Oracle – say that the vulnerabilities will surely be addressed in the upcoming CPU.
The monthly status report they received from Oracle on August 23 confirmed that the issues u... |
29 August 2012
02:50 GMT |
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It seems that the long awaited firmware update 1.80 for the PlayStation Vita, which includes a variety of great features, also has an unfortunate drawback, as it apparently locks a memory card to a single PSN account.
PlayStation Vita owners eagerly awaited the release of software update 1.80 for their handheld cons... |
29 August 2012
02:37 GMT |
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The online Apple store is experiencing one of its usual outages in anticipation of an update from Cupertino that’s more or less important. The Mac maker is now using an animated GIF banner to communicate the outage in several languages. Apple has taken its online store down for maintenance, and while we’... |
29 August 2012
02:37 GMT |
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A player named Surfeuz has managed the pretty incredible feat of reaching level 80, the cap, in Guild Wars 2 even before the game was officially launched on August 28.
The player has taken advantage of the three-day early access period that was offered to those who pre-ordered and has created a crafting-oriented cha... |
29 August 2012
02:30 GMT |
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