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Like all other NVIDIA OEMs, Inno3D will have several GeForce GTX 680 graphics cards by the time it is done fiddling with the product.
One of them got pictured just a short time ago and may be quite convenient for people who prize silence above all else.
The item has copper heatpipes to lead the heat away from the G... |
3 April 2012
21:11 GMT |
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Cory Davis, who is the lead designer working on Spec Ops: The Line at Yager Developments, has told Gamasutra that he sees the squad mechanics included in the shooter as a core way of pushing the narrative of the title forward.
Speaking to Gamasutra, the developer worked to make sure that the inter-personal interacti... |
3 April 2012
21:01 GMT |
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Sprint has just announced that LG Viper 4G LTE will be available for pre-order starting April 12 for only $99.99 with a new two-year agreement. The smartphone will start shipping later this month.
LG Viper is Sprint's first 4G LTE device with eco-friendly features and comes with Google's Android 2.3 Ginge... |
3 April 2012
21:01 GMT |
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Motorola has yet to deploy the long awaited Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for the RAZR, but several official ROMs have already leaked on the Internet. Although none of them indicates that it could be the final build, there are lots of new features and improvements that Motorola RAZR owners might take advantage of, ... |
3 April 2012
20:31 GMT |
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Canadian carrier Rogers kicked off pre-orders for Nokia Lumia 900 last week and promised customers who take advantage of the offer additional features for free.
Today, the carrier announced the upcoming availability of the HTC One X in Canada. In fact, the smartphone is now up for pre-order for only $169.99 CAD with... |
3 April 2012
20:01 GMT |
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Shortly after LG Miracle made headlines earlier today, another Windows Phone device has been spotted in the wild.
Codenamed LG LS831, the smartphone has just been approved by FCC (Federal Communications Commission) with CDMA band 800 MHz support, which indicates that the smartphone will be launched by Sprint.
Altho... |
3 April 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Ediciones Larousse Mexico has released Visual Dictionary for iPhone and iPod touch, a unique app that connects images with their correct terminology.
Offering over 6,000 full-color images with over 20,000 terms and topics in both Spanish and English, Visual Dictionary covers astronomy and Earth, the animal & vegetab... |
3 April 2012
19:11 GMT |
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The ATRIX 2 was launched on the market back in October and is now available for purchase in North America and Asia. Unfortunately, for unknown reasons, Motorola decided to skip Europe.
Last month, the smartphone was released in Thailand, bundled with 10 free EA games. Today, Motorola has just announced the immediate... |
3 April 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Another day, another report about the upcoming PlayStation 4 (aka Orbis) next generation home console from Sony. A new rumor says that the device will be released at the end of 2013, ahead of Microsoft’s new Xbox. The next generation of consoles is coming sooner or later, no matter how much both Sony and Micro... |
3 April 2012
18:51 GMT |
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In the midst of speculations about THQ’s financial future, the publisher has once again confirmed, in order to clear things up, that it’s working together with Turtle Rock Studios on a new first person shooter project. THQ hasn’t been going through the best of times recently, since the company was ... |
3 April 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Looks like the AMD-Based adapters from MEN Micro aren't the only video wall controllers that enterprises can take a look at today, as Matrox also has something to offer.
Once, Matrox graphics cards were highly regarded, but we can only wonder what could have been if Matrox managed to excel in consumer and prof... |
3 April 2012
18:11 GMT |
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Shazam Entertainment Ltd. has announced a major new update to its popular media discovery application for iPhone and iPod touch, adding fast tagging and recognition, easy identification of Shazam-enabled television shows and advertising, and more. With this new version, content such as music and Shazam-enabled stuff... |
3 April 2012
18:01 GMT |
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It appears that the long-rumored Android 4.0.4 update for the Galaxy Nexus has finally reached Canadian shores. As Google confirmed, this is only available for certain Galaxy Nexus models.
Unfortunately, the search giant has yet to issue any specific info regarding the devices eligible for this update.
The folks at... |
3 April 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Samsung promised a few months ago it will try and bring some of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich new features and improvements to those Galaxy family devices that do not meet the technical requirements to run the full version.Among these devices, Samsung Galaxy S is the most popular and already received the promise... |
3 April 2012
18:01 GMT |
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The Wii U from Nintendo is the first next generation to launch, expected to be available all over the world before the end of this year, but it seems that developers are already criticizing the hardware of the new platform and its capabilities.One developer who was contacted by GamesIndustry has stated, “It&rsq... |
3 April 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Google's Model Your Town 2012 competition is almost at an end, all that's left to do is pick the winner, the most important and interesting part. 212 teams entered the competition this year, each trying to showcase the beautiful structures in their towns.
But that had to be narrowed down, so Google has sel... |
3 April 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Western Digital has announced a high-storage capacity drive specifically crafted for Mac users, that simply looks awesome!
Along with Time Machine compatibility for automatic backup of Mac hard drives, the new My Passport Studio portable drive features an “elegant and protective all-metal casing to complement ... |
3 April 2012
17:11 GMT |
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It appears that HTC still has high expectations from its old EVO 3D smartphone, which is arguably among the most popular devices launched by the Taiwanese company in the United States.Word is that HTC plans to offer Virgin Mobile the courtesy to sell the smartphone as HTC EVO V 4G later this year. According to the gu... |
3 April 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) investigators announce the creation of an 8-question test that can reveal negative thinking in people, one of the main indicators of a depressive episode.
Using the new approach, doctors could keep an eye on their patients at all time. If they suspect that someone might be head... |
3 April 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Video game developer Replay Games, in collaboration with veteran designer Al Lowe, has announced the release of a Kickstarter crowd funding project which aims to relaunch the classic Leisure Suit Larry game, using money drawn from the fan community.
The game will be a full remake of the original title in the series ... |
3 April 2012
16:51 GMT |
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I love the multiplayer mode in Mass Effect 3, largely because I have quite a few friends I like to play with and because most of the times I end up working with strangers, they know what to do and how to play as a team.Sadly, even with balance changes and updates, the online mode still features quite a few bugs, espe... |
3 April 2012
16:41 GMT |
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After the release of the newest iPad from Apple, some may have expected laptop sales to drop again, but this does not appear to have happened at all.
We aren't really surprised to see that this is the case, but we suppose there might be enough reason for some bemusement, looking back.
After all, tablets reall... |
3 April 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Pretty much every technology analyst is waiting on the edge of his seat for Apple’s unveiling of a revolutionary full-fledged television set. Not Barclays analyst Anthony DiClemente.
The media analyst is not convinced Tim Cook can persuade content providers to switch from the current deals and invest in the Ap... |
3 April 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Mozilla is showing off the progress on WebRTC support in Firefox. In a demo presented at the IEFT 83 in Paris, Mozilla showed Firefox running a video chat app built entirely with standard web technologies, HTML and JavaScript.
WebRTC, which stands for real-time communications, is an API in the process of being stand... |
3 April 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Here's something to put even “Hoarders” to shame: a 69-year-old man has been detained by police after it was discovered he had stolen no less than 25 tons of goods while working as caretaker for the Stuttgart administration.
Police officers are still busy trying to catalog the goods the unnamed man... |
3 April 2012
16:11 GMT |
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The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident was one of the worst in history. Radioactive particles escaped from reactors at the power plant, and contaminated both portions of Japan and the Pacific Ocean. A new study now shows the extent of the devastation inflicted on the ocean.
Led by experts at the Woods Hole Oceanogra... |
3 April 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Last time HTC Rezound was the subject of a promo offer, Verizon Wireless customers could purchase it for only $99.99 (€75), with a new two-year agreement. However, the carrier has just kicked off a new promotional deal for HTC Rezound, as the smartphone is now available for just $49.99 (€35). Obviously, ... |
3 April 2012
16:01 GMT |
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A little over a week ago, word got out online that 23-year-old Jenna Talackova had been booted from the Miss Universe Canada competition after it was discovered she was born a man. Organizers have had a change of heart. Faced with criticism from all sides for discriminatory practices, the Miss Universe organization ... |
3 April 2012
15:41 GMT |
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The IT industry is a place where many companies call each other to court, but at least two such names are putting some effort into avoiding the possibility entirely. To get right to the point, Spansion and SK Hynix have entered a cross-license agreement that covers all their single-level cell (SLC) NAND Flash techn... |
3 April 2012
15:31 GMT |
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A set of new images depicting pre-order bonuses for the upcoming Assassin’s Creed III title have appeared on the web, showing off extra content for both the single-player campaign and the multiplayer one. Assassin’s Creed III is definitely one of the biggest titles that will appear later this year so Ubi... |
3 April 2012
15:31 GMT |
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A new survey carried out by ChangeWave, a service of 451 Research, suggests that Apple has hit another home run with the new iPad. Customer satisfaction is off the charts!
ChangeWave interviewed early adopters of the third-generation iPad to find that satisfaction was even higher than previous ratings from a Februar... |
3 April 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Some months ago, when the new Google Analytics was still fresh, Google revealed that two features that a lot of people were asking for were coming back, scheduled emails and PDF exports. That was back in November, but Google is only now ready to unveil the new features and only in beta form. "We are excited to annou... |
3 April 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Teased by Research In Motion (RIM) several weeks ago, the BlackBerry Mobile Fusion MDM (mobile device management) solution for enterprise customers has just been launched on the market. The new service is based on RIM’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server and aims to deliver a “cost-efficient, secure, reliable ... |
3 April 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices is gaining a new staff member, one that will assume a place among the high-ranking executives and carry out a very important role.
Darrell Ford, age 47, has become the senior vice president and chief human resources officer of the Sunnyvale, California-based CPU, GPU and APU maker.
That mean... |
3 April 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Two new monitoring packs are now available for System Center 2012 - Configuration Manager and Orchestrator. The new Monitoring Pack for System Center 2012 - Configuration Manager was made available for download as version 5.0.7705.0, with improved monitoring capabilities. The management pack was meant to provide ... |
3 April 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Heads are starting to roll in the recent pink slime controversy. After several campaigns brought to parents' attention the fact that it was used in meat served to kids in schools, meat factories are seeing a downturn in revenue.
AFA Foods Inc. is just one of the many affected and it too blames the fake &ldq... |
3 April 2012
14:31 GMT |
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BioWare has confirmed that last weekend’s special Operation Raptor multiplayer event in Mass Effect 3 was a huge success, as players managed to go above and beyond the goal set by the studio and promote over 350,000 characters.Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer mode didn’t impress that many people when it ... |
3 April 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Mozilla has been working on a Windows 8 Metro UI native browser to ship by the time Microsoft's next operating system lands. Firefox for Metro UI is at the very early stages, but Mozilla is providing some progress.The Metro UI Firefox is based on the Android version of the browser, Fennec, and currently uses the... |
3 April 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Using brand logos and names of stores, restaurants, bars and more, the new NYC Map app makes it easy to figure out exactly where you are, where you want to go and what you want to do and / or see. Designed by CityMaps and released in cooperation with NYC & Company, NYC Map aims to “help tourists and locals nav... |
3 April 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Over the past few years, the debate between those who believe that violent video games are boosting aggressiveness in young people and those opposing this belief has taken on new dimensions. Now, a new study calls into question the very foundation on which the entire argument is built. Scientists from the University... |
3 April 2012
14:01 GMT |
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AT&T launched the LG Thrill 4G back in August and the smartphone is still part of the carrier’s portfolio. However, the device might soon get replaced by a newer device, the Optimus 3D Max.Unveiled back in February, only a few days ahead of Mobile World Congress 2012 opening, LG Optimus 3D Max has just been spo... |
3 April 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Kim Kardashian has long been a PETA “enemy” for wearing fur in public and, thus, indirectly supporting the fur trade. Now, she's targeted for selling fur as well, in a campaign that will undoubtedly get a lot of people talking. Models Joanna Krupa and Katie Cleary have joined forces with Care2 with t... |
3 April 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Chrome is either just about to overtake IE to become the most popular browser in the world or has been losing users every month for the past three months. Both points of view are backed up by numbers, but they can't both be true. The optimistic view comes from StatCounter, the dire one from Net Applications. Th... |
3 April 2012
13:21 GMT |
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The popular e-learning platform Edmodo (edmodo.com), used by 6.6 million teachers and students worldwide, contains a number of vulnerabilities that could be leveraged by hackers to cause some serious damage to unsuspecting internauts.
The hacker known as Gambit provided us with information that demonstrates the exis... |
3 April 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Reddy Ice is one of the companies that chose to migrate to a Microsoft Hyper-V Server environment to boost productivity, and it did so successfully. The company manufactures and distributes 1.8 million tons of ice per year, and managed to increase productivity and network security while reducing IT infrastructure t... |
3 April 2012
13:01 GMT |
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The highly-acclaimed LG Optimus One is currently the most popular budget-friendly Android smartphone launched by the South Korean handset maker.
Most operators across the globe offered the Optimus One or carrier-bound variants of it. Sprint is among the carriers that offered the smartphone as LG Optimus S.
The phon... |
3 April 2012
13:01 GMT |
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It has come to our attention that some protective cases for Apple’s iPhone and other devices can cause severe rashes, as this 30-year-old marketing manager form Liverpool learned the hard way. Jenny Taylor had purchased a soft silicone Griffin FlexGrip Punch to cover to her iPhone 4. She noticed her face swell... |
3 April 2012
13:01 GMT |
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EVGA captured enough attention with all its new graphics cards and, now, it is doing it again by modifying the terms of its warranties.
Some would expect this all to be some way for the company to reduce its responsibilities in the wake of troublesome economics.
This doesn't appear to be the case though. In fa... |
3 April 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Video game publisher Sony has confirmed on its official forum that the company is still planning to publish the PlayStation exclusive Warrior’s Lair, despite a number of reports that were suggesting that it had been canceled after the developer failed to deliver a working prototype.A representative from Sony ha... |
3 April 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Opera has just announced plans to improve its mobile browsers with extensions. The same add-ons that have been available for the desktop version might soon go live on the mobile iteration as well.
It appears that some devs have been quietly working on adding extensions to Opera Mobile, but there’s no guarantee... |
3 April 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Valid8 is a jQuery plugin that processes data entered in form fields, providing instant feedback to the form's user. Because it works on the client's side and in real time, Valid8 always ensures any data that makes it to the server via form submission is always correct and properly introduced. Valid8 can ... |
3 April 2012
12:01 GMT |
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After the successful release of the GNOME 3.4 desktop environment on March 28th, the GNOME Project are once again proud to announce that a Live CD Linux distribution with GNOME 3.4, based on Fedora, is now available for download. The Live CD offers an easy way to interact with the GNOME 3.4 desktop environment and ... |
3 April 2012
11:41 GMT |
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For those not yet ready to trade the functionality of the classic Start Menu for the launchpad in Windows 8, there is a compromise solution that can bring back the orb. Classic Shell is designed to add a customizable start button and the recently released version 3.5.0 also works with Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Cla... |
3 April 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Mach Xtreme has introduced some solid state drives for people who want reasonably fast storage but don't have a fortune to spend on it.
The MX-JET ULTRA Series, as they are called, have 64 GB, 128 GB and 256 GB capacities and speeds of up to 270 MB/s read and 170 MB/s write.
Meanwhile, the max I/O per second p... |
3 April 2012
11:22 GMT |
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If we were to give a name to this day, the "Z77 Day" would simply be great, as we're delivering you an assortment of BIOS destined mostly for Z77-based boards.
As you probably already know, Intel's Z77 is one of the new-generation of chipsets announced in late 2011 and present in some of the boards proudly... |
3 April 2012
11:16 GMT |
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If you're planning to visit London this year, you're not alone. With the Summer Olympics just months away, London will be an even busier place than ever. The influx of tourists is also going to put a strain on public transport, which is why Google Maps is now introducing real-time service alerts for the Lon... |
3 April 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Nokia Lumia 900 is expected to be a great device when launched at the end of this week. However, it appears that it might still let some people down in various areas, including camera performance, as the first review for it shows. The review, coming from chipchick.com, leaked ahead of schedule, and claims that Lu... |
3 April 2012
11:11 GMT |
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You probably wouldn't expect to see a BBC reporter kick off her or his shoes and break into dancing while live on air, but that doesn't mean it can't happen. In fact, it just did. Steph McGovern, a BBC business reporter, aimed to pay homage to “Titanic” and Kate Winslet during a live broadc... |
3 April 2012
11:04 GMT |
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Unveiled back in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) and (10.1) have just been postponed for the end of the month. Initially slated for a March release in the UK, the devices have been delayed for late April.
The reasons behind the handset maker’s decision are unclea... |
3 April 2012
11:01 GMT |
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One of the possible explanations for why the incidence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has spiked over the past couple of decades is that the condition is in fact a group of disorders.
The idea belongs to experts at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). They say that ADHD may in fact cont... |
3 April 2012
10:54 GMT |
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As always, Intel has a complete array of chipsets ready to welcome its next-generation CPUs, and now we have some actual, detailed images of the H77-based models. Intel seems to like to make it hard for people to find large photos of its motherboards, especially when online vendors have yet to list them, or perhaps... |
3 April 2012
10:52 GMT |
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World-renowned security firm Sophos revealed that it is about to acquire DIALOGS, a German company that specializes in providing mobile management solutions.
DIALOGS has been doing business with companies such as BMW, Daimler and Siemens, the company’s purchase being a great way for Sophos to reinforce its pos... |
3 April 2012
10:50 GMT |
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Officials at the Northrop Grumman Corporation announce that they have just received the first flight recorder that will go on the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The instrument was built by Centennial, Colorado-based SEAKR Engineering, Inc.
The flight recorder is a solid-state electronics unit that will capt... |
3 April 2012
10:47 GMT |
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Those of you who've seen “Mirror Mirror” must already know that the closing credits are something that only director Tarsem Singh could have come up with: a Bollywood-inspired scene with Lily Collins singing and dancing. As unbelievable as it may sound, that's really Collins' voice. We didn... |
3 April 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Just like its name suggests, ProxySwap is a comfortable way to change between various proxies when working online. It does not bring to the table proxy addresses, but it allows you to store various entries, pick one and apply the changes.The benefit consists in the fact that you no longer have to manually input the p... |
3 April 2012
10:35 GMT |
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ownCloud Inc, the popular open source enterprise file sync and share project, has just launched commercial offerings based on Version 3 of the community edition of ownCloud. ownCloud 2012 Business and Enterprise editions have quite a few interesting features such as sync clients for Linux and Windows, as well as ... |
3 April 2012
10:34 GMT |
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An Australian court has found Google guilty of misleading advertising for publishing ads that appeared to be for other companies than they really were. These ads were displayed via Google's AdWords program on its search engine, but were created by third-parties.Nevertheless, the court believed Google to be respo... |
3 April 2012
10:33 GMT |
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After I first played through it, I didn’t much care about the suicide mission that ended Mass Effect 2, mainly because it felt manufactured to allow for too much player freedom and it made some of its inner working too obscure.After I first played the ending of Mass Effect 3 (small spoilers might follow), I lov... |
3 April 2012
10:32 GMT |
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Sony officially announced its new Xperia NXT series of smartphones back in February, at the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona. Although the Japanese company said it will bring its new Xperia handsets in North America in Q2, no details on availability and pricing options have been given at that time.Today, world... |
3 April 2012
10:31 GMT |
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“The Amazing Spider-Man” won't be out in theaters until July 3, but Andrew Garfield, who takes on the iconic superhero, is already promoting it. Above is a video of his latest interview with Ellen DeGeneres. The clip is of particular interest because Andrew, who takes over from Tobey Maguire, talks a... |
3 April 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Photo of what appears to be the long rumored Nexus tablet PC from Google has just made an appearance online; hopefully it's more than just a concept image. Available courtesy of Pocketnow, the rendering supposedly offers us a glimpse at what Google might have in store for users with the upcoming slate, though ... |
3 April 2012
10:30 GMT |
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The second annual Indiana LinuxFest is about to start at the middle of April, and will bring, as the organizers like to say it, the "reign of freedom." Indiana LinuxFest will be held this year in the The Wyndham Indianapolis West Hotel, in the weekend of April 13-15, 2012. There will be a number of important spe... |
3 April 2012
10:26 GMT |
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We're quite excited to announce the release of Windows 8-compatible Nvidia Quadro drivers, in the shape of the 296.17 revision.The new set of drivers comes with support for the existing operating systems nonetheless, and bears the 296.35 tag. The main characteristic of the R295 drivers is the "Optimal for Enterp... |
3 April 2012
10:19 GMT |
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6 GB of GDDR5 VRAM would be enough to turn any graphics card into a monster of a video board, but Sapphire gave the Radeon HD 7970 Toxic more than that.
Not only does the controller have a custom PCB, but the company also tossed in a special cooler, with an aluminum heatsink, some extra heatsinks for the side FETs, ... |
3 April 2012
10:16 GMT |
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A brand new report has appeared about the upcoming DLC for Mass Effect 3, this time with a Mexican newspaper quoting an Electronic Arts representative who says that any future expansions will only explain details about the ending, instead of changing it completely. Mass Effect 3’s conclusion generated a heated... |
3 April 2012
10:13 GMT |
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“List of 283 defaced websites courtesy of Anonymous,” read a tweet posted not long ago on the Anonymous Operations Twitter page. We checked out the list of 283 websites and concluded that they mainly belong to businesses from Sweden. There were a few .nu, .com and .eu domains, but most of them were host... |
3 April 2012
10:05 GMT |
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Members of the Expedition 30 crew, currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS), took this breathtaking image of Ireland and England, backdropped by the sunrise, and featuring beautiful auroras to the west.
The image shows portions of the two islands during the night, as city lights stretch wide across th... |
3 April 2012
09:59 GMT |
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Banished from the iLife suite starting with the 2011 revision, iWeb is fully compatible with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, an up and coming version of Apple’s desktop operating system currently in beta testing. Template expert iPresentee reports on its web site that the company has tested iWeb 3 on OS X Mountain Li... |
3 April 2012
09:51 GMT |
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The Internet Explorer team is determined to show you how Microsoft’s browser can change the manner in which we experience the web. The Redmond-based company has been long touting a “more beautiful web” available through IE9, but it appears that things can easily go beyond that. The latest projec... |
3 April 2012
09:47 GMT |
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We reported on Dell buying Wyse and, now, we can say that the company doesn't mind making one acquisition after another, having also announced the buyout of Clerity.
Clerity makes services and means for modernizing applications, which is to say that it helps companies move from old hardware to new one and advi... |
3 April 2012
09:46 GMT |
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The Game Industry Salary Survey for 2011, performed by Game Developer, has shown that while the salaries for the United States video game industry have largely remained the same during last year, the earnings of those developers who designed themselves as indie have increased from around 11,000 dollars (8,250 Euro) t... |
3 April 2012
09:46 GMT |
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Shortly after Vodafone UK officially announced it would release the HTC One X and One S on April 5, Orange and T-Mobile also confirmed they would carry the handsets beginning Thursday.
Customers will be able to grab any of the two HTC One series handsets for free on select plans. It appears that Vodafone also mentio... |
3 April 2012
09:39 GMT |
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Astronomers in Australia and South Korea recently managed to link five individual radio telescopes, producing a single, massive observatory, some 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) across.
The tool works through interferometry, a process that enables multiple telescopes to be networked together. When properly adjusted, ... |
3 April 2012
09:28 GMT |
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Edward Pearson, the 23-year-old hacker that stole the personal details of around 8 million individuals by using the infamous Zeus, SpyEye and a program he made himself, was sentenced to two and a half years in jail.
The Daily Mail reports that Pearson’s lawyer said his client wasn’t hacking for the finan... |
3 April 2012
09:19 GMT |
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There's a rather heated competition between desktop browsers, even if the pace of change is rather slow. Since launch, Google Chrome has been growing, Firefox has been staying put for a couple of years now and Internet Explorer is losing market share. That's the general trend, but things changed in the pas... |
3 April 2012
09:11 GMT |
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While she's focusing on getting her acting career off the ground, Rihanna is also making music plans. She's just confirmed a world tour for next year so, fans, get ready for it. Speaking with Capital FM about her acting debut, in “Battleship” where she plays a Marine out to save the world fro... |
3 April 2012
08:59 GMT |
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Apple is reportedly planning to prolong work hours for retail staffers as of April 15th, in a move that should help capitalize on the increased store traffic on Fridays. ifoAppleStore, a source dealing exclusively with news and information about Apple’s retail stores, claims to have learned that the Cupertino,... |
3 April 2012
08:54 GMT |
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The bank account of the city of Arlington, Texas, was targeted at the end of February by a hacker who attempted to steal $1.8 million (1.35 million EUR).
According to Star Telegram, the money was recovered because the internal audit controls used by the financial institution flagged the transfers as being fraudulent... |
3 April 2012
08:48 GMT |
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University of Warwick investigators recently conducted an important investigation into the history of domesticated plants, when they analyzed 1,600-year-old Egyptian cotton samples, harvested from the very banks of the Nile River.
Plant domestication has a relatively brief history on our planet, since our ancestors... |
3 April 2012
08:46 GMT |
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Owners of a Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone from Australian wireless carrier Optus can now download and install Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich on their devices. The update is available for them through Samsung’s desktop application Kies, though rumor has it that it might be pushed over the air as well. Opt... |
3 April 2012
08:45 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics has been long rumored to be about to bring on the market a new Windows Phone device. More info is now available.The handset, supposedly set to hit shelves as the Miracle, was spotted on its way to Canada’s TELUS as model number E740H (the phone will be available ar... |
3 April 2012
08:41 GMT |
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As we also informed you over the weekend, Cissy Houston, the mother of the late Whitney Houston, is finally speaking out on the February tragedy that turned her life upside down: her daughter's death. Video of a segment of the interview is now out and, as usual, you can see it below, embedded at the end of the... |
3 April 2012
08:31 GMT |
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FIFA Street, the EA Sports made football simulation that focuses on tricks and close quarters action rather than full stadium matches, has managed to spend yet another week at the top of the United Kingdom video game chart.
The football game has a good chance of keeping the number one position until the launch of th... |
3 April 2012
08:30 GMT |
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With spring well upon us and April Fools' Day behind, it’s time to look elsewhere for something to make us smile and brighten our day. Fortunately, we won’t have to look too far, since the newly released theme for Windows 7 will actually suffice. We’re referring here to the Ducklings theme that... |
3 April 2012
08:28 GMT |
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It looks like companies really like the idea of 3D BIOS setup programs with isometric views of the motherboard, and Gigabyte is no exception.
In fact, the company is shipping all LGA2011 motherboard with 3D BIOS, a BIOS that has now been updated to a newer version.
The user interface still has those GUI elements, b... |
3 April 2012
08:25 GMT |
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Google, as always, had an onslaught of pranks for April Fools. One of the funniest, or at least the most elaborate was the Gmail Tap feature, which added a two-key Morse code keyboard to the Gmail mobile apps. The original video is funny enough, but the "product lead" seemed a bit familiar.
Now, there's some "b... |
3 April 2012
08:23 GMT |
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Piriform has officially announced the Final release of CCleaner version 1.02.115 for Mac OS X. CCleaner is a highly-regarded optimization and cleaning tool that has been in beta phase on the Mac for almost a full year. “CCleaner, the world's most popular optimization and cleaning tool with millions of use... |
3 April 2012
08:22 GMT |
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Yesterday, Check Point customers who wanted to visit the site, or those who wanted to send emails to the company, found that the world renowned security firm’s website wasn’t working anymore because its representatives forgot to renew the domain name.
According to The Register, Check Point representative... |
3 April 2012
08:19 GMT |
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It looks like there is a new maker of USB 3.0 chips in the house, one that even has great ambitions as far as its particular segment of the IT market goes.
Etron wants to become one of the top two suppliers of USB 3.0 flash drive controllers before the year is over (2012).
The first time it promised such chips was ... |
3 April 2012
08:12 GMT |
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Kyle Dyer, the Denver anchorwoman who was bit in the face by a Dogo Argentino (Argentine Mastiff) during a live broadcast back in February, has just made her return to television. Video of it is below, embedded at the end of the article. Dyer, as we also reported at the time, was bit in the face by Max, a dog who h... |
3 April 2012
08:06 GMT |
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A Java vulnerability that remained unpatched in OS X operating systems attracted the attention of cybercrooks who started focusing their efforts on exploiting it.
F-Secure experts say that this isn’t much of a surprise, mainly because the security hole in question was addressed by Oracle back in February, but ... |
3 April 2012
07:59 GMT |
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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 hasn't been out for long, but there are already special coolers selling for it, like the Koolance VID-NX680 water block. The product isn't cheap by any measure, requiring $119.99, or 90 Euro, give or take. It covers the GPU, the memory chips and the VRM, which means that the ... |
3 April 2012
07:58 GMT |
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Video game developer Turbo Tape Games and publisher Paradox Interactive have announced that their nautically focused wargame Naval War: Arctic Circle will be launched exclusively on the PC on April 10, offered on the GamersGate digital distribution service and via retail stores.
Naval War: Arctic Circle imagines a w... |
3 April 2012
07:48 GMT |
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After quite a few rumors about the new PlayStation 4 (aka Orbis), the other next generation console, Microsoft’s Xbox 720, has also been the subject of a new batch of reports. They claim that it will be released towards the end of 2013, has a built-in Blu-ray drive and requires an always-on internet connection.... |
3 April 2012
07:41 GMT |
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It’s clear that the piece of malware known as Ice IX is very effective when it comes to aiding cyber fraudsters collect banking details. The latest configuration uses web injection to make it appear as the information is handed over to Facebook and not some cybercrook.
Experts from Trusteer identified the new ... |
3 April 2012
07:37 GMT |
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Italian video game developer Milestone and publisher Black Bean have announced that WRC 3, the racing simulation that has been sanctioned by the FIA, will be launched during October 2012 on the PlayStation 3, from Sony, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PC.
A version of the simulation title will also be offered on... |
3 April 2012
07:31 GMT |
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A little over a year ago, Google debuted the Art Project, a website dedicated to housing and making available some of the greatest works of art in history in the greatest detail available online.
At the time, it had works provided by 17 museums and focused mostly on paintings by well-known historical figures.
Now, ... |
3 April 2012
07:27 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has just revealed the first trailer for its upcoming UEFA Euro 2012 DLC for FIFA 12, showing off the national teams and the stadiums that will be included in the new add-on.Football (soccer) simulator fans were surprised to hear that EA will release the UEFA Euro 2012 experience as a downloadable expa... |
3 April 2012
07:23 GMT |
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Apple has ordered shipments of ultra-thin next-generation MacBook Pros in the hundreds of thousands for the coming months, according to Joanne Chien, senior analyst at Digitimes Research.
Rumored to have redesigned, next-generation notebooks on the launchpad, “Apple, which entered into the market of ultra-thin... |
3 April 2012
07:14 GMT |
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Apple is reportedly working on a physical controller for its iOS devices targeting the video games industry. The device would connect to an iPad or even an Apple TV to leverage iOS apps and games that can offer much more value via traditional button presses, rather than touch.
In reviewing the third-generation iPad,... |
3 April 2012
06:51 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Sprint is gearing up for the release of Samsung Galaxy Nexus, although the company did not unveil an official release date for it as of now.
However, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest that the wireless carrier might add the new Android smartphone to its offering as soon as April 22nd... |
3 April 2012
06:51 GMT |
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The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu users how to "unofficially" update their systems to the Mozilla Firefox 12.0 web browser. Mozilla Firefox 12 has not yet been released, it is in Beta state at the moment, but it will bring features such as the ability to paste URLs in the download manager window, line number... |
3 April 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Aiming to prove to the world that only she calls the shots on her personal life and career, Jennifer Lopez is gearing for the release of a new music video, starring none other than her real-life beau, dancer Casper Smart. Click on the image above to see it in full: it's the first promo picture for the “D... |
3 April 2012
06:37 GMT |
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After analyzing a nationally-representative sample of 8,950 children of preschool age, a team of investigators from the Seattle Children's Research Institute and the University of Washington in Seattle (UWS) determined that nearly half of these kids are not taken out to play by their parents daily.
Experts reco... |
3 April 2012
06:03 GMT |
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Mozilla has announced that it's blocklisting older versions of the Java runtime environment in Firefox. These older versions of the Java plugin contain a vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild. As such, Mozilla deemed it a high enough risk to block all but the most recent versions of Java, wh... |
3 April 2012
06:01 GMT |
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The AnonOpsUK Twitter account revealed the start of a new op called Operation Trial At Home, which is meant as a protest against the extradition of United Kingdom citizens to the United States.
Other Anonymous hackers threaten the UK government for the new law that may pose a great threat to the privacy of Internet... |
3 April 2012
05:56 GMT |
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Kim Kardashian is slowly finding out that getting out of her second marriage is harder than it was getting into it and staying married. Kris Humphries has turned down the financial agreement she proposed to him, and is now asking for a “public apology.” As we also informed you a while back, Kris' le... |
3 April 2012
05:55 GMT |
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It appears that things are going bad for the Symbian platform and, indirectly, for its users. Although Nokia outsourced some of its employees that were directly involved in Symbian development and support to a third party company, it looks like support for the platform is close to being shut.
Those who are not famil... |
3 April 2012
05:53 GMT |
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Cancer researchers at the University of Minnesota, led by expert Silvia Balbo, say that they have discovered the presence of a cancer-inducing (carcinogen) chemical in smokeless tobacco products.
The substance significantly increases users' risk of developing several forms of oral cancer in time. The risk is au... |
3 April 2012
05:49 GMT |
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On Monday, Microsoft has made available for download a new version of its System Center Monitoring Pack for SQL Server. Available for download for free, the new Monitoring pack for SQL Server is meant to provide the features for Operations Manager 2007 R2 and Operations Manager 2012 to discover SQL Server 2005, 2008,... |
3 April 2012
05:46 GMT |
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Diablo III will have a re-designed Inferno mode, which will challenge even those fans who have no trouble using the same difficulty to complete the older Diablo II. Bashiok, who is one of the community managers at Blizzard, stated that, “Inferno monster levels aren’t linear any longer. They get progressi... |
3 April 2012
05:46 GMT |
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When we first found out about "Windows drivers for the Commodore 64," we thought it was just a joke. After checking things out, though, we've learned that things were for real. Meet Commodore 64x, a modern computer in a classic and even vintage skin! If you thought the good old days of the C64 were gone for goo... |
3 April 2012
05:42 GMT |
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The American space agency is moving forward with plans to construct its next-generation rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). In a series of new tests, engineers were able to validate the avionics systems that will control the delivery system's solid rocket boosters.
This heavy-lift rocket will be the largest ... |
3 April 2012
05:34 GMT |
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Blogger is getting ready to make the revamped dashboard the default. The blog-hosting site introduced a brand-new dashboard a few months ago and has been working on it ever since.
It's been an optional feature so far and will continue to be for a while, but Blogger has announced that it will switch on the new i... |
3 April 2012
05:31 GMT |
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Cyber fraudsters have started relying on paid Facebook advertisements to promote their Pinterest-themed scams.
Experts from Bitdefender noticed an ad, created by a site that promotes Pinterest bots, that promises to reveal ways of making money.
“Imagine you knew about Facebook advertising in 2006 when it was ... |
3 April 2012
05:22 GMT |
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India is the land of cheap Android smartphones and tablets. Opposite to what one may think, it’s not the big brands that are brings the prices low, but the regional manufacturers who are trying to compete with them.Since Google announced its latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich platform, many Indian companies ... |
3 April 2012
05:21 GMT |
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April 3 is the day when fans of Battlefield 3 who are playing the first-person shooter on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft finally get access to the latest massive patch for the game from the developers at DICE. The roll-out is expected to take place between 9 AM and 1 PM Greenwich Mean Time, and those who are playing on... |
3 April 2012
05:19 GMT |
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Observations of 10 dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, conducted using the NASA Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, recently placed heavy limitations on the nature and energy range of theoretical particles thought to make up dark matter.
The stuff is believed to account for about 80 percent of the mass in the Unive... |
3 April 2012
05:00 GMT |
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Nintendo might finally release its Wii U home console on November 19 in North America, at least according to a new report that surfaced yesterday on the web.Quite a few people eagerly await the Nintendo Wii U, especially since it promises big things thanks to its unique controller and hardware capabilities.As of yet,... |
3 April 2012
04:59 GMT |
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A woman from Hamilton, UK, received an email, allegedly from Butterfield Bank, asking her to update her online banking information. After she completed the process, she found that $4,000 (€3,000) were transferred from her account to one from a bank in South Africa.
Oddly, the wire transfer report revealed that ... |
3 April 2012
04:57 GMT |
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Last week, Google brought back traveling time estimates based on live traffic. Now it's adding more traffic-related features with typical traffic data for smaller roads, such as arterial roads, and not just for highways as before.
What this means is that you'll be able to get an estimate of what the typica... |
3 April 2012
04:55 GMT |
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The RAZR MAXX is currently exclusively available in the United States through Verizon Wireless. In an unexpected move, Motorola decided to bring the smartphone to other regions as well.The company has just announced the upcoming availability of Motorola RAZR MAXX in Europe and the Middle East from May 2012.The smartp... |
3 April 2012
04:50 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that powerful DNA sequencing tools can be used to find the genetic mutations that lead to cancer in individual patients, to map the evolution of their conditions over time, and to determine whether therapies are effective or not.
The dis... |
3 April 2012
04:41 GMT |
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Alec Baldwin is about to tie the knot for the second time even though he once said, after his very nasty divorce from Kim Basinger, that he had learned his lesson. He proposed to his girlfriend Hilaria Thomas. And she said yes, a rep for the happy couple confirms for People magazine. “Yes, it’s true! ... |
3 April 2012
04:40 GMT |
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A group of biologists in the United States announces the discovery of a new protein in fruit flies. The molecule plays an important role in allowing the diminutive insect's wings to develop properly. An analog may exist in humans as well, and identifying it could lead to developing treatments for a host of medic... |
3 April 2012
04:29 GMT |
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Video game publisher THQ has announced that it is working on an all-new WrestleMania Edition for WWE 12, the wrestling game that it launched during November 2011, adding a number of new fighters in order to deliver a more complete take on wrestling for fans of the experience.
The new WrestleMania Edition for WWE 12 ... |
3 April 2012
04:28 GMT |
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Sony will release later today a brand new firmware update for its recently launched PlayStation Vita handheld console, taking its software up to version 1.65. The PlayStation Vita appeared at the end of February and we’ve already shared our impressions of its hardware and software, while posting a few reviews ... |
3 April 2012
04:26 GMT |
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HGST, Western Digital's latest acquisition (and previously named Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) has launched an enterprise hard disk drive that claims to be the first to reach a total capacity of 4 TB.
The new drive is called Ultrastar 7K4000 and, as the name implies, boasts a platter speed of 7,200 RPM ... |
3 April 2012
04:19 GMT |
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According to a memo on Apple’s Investor Relations website, the Cupertino, California-based computer giant is preparing to conduct a conference call to discuss its financial results for the second fiscal quarter of 2012.
The company’s notice reads: “Apple plans to conduct a conference call to discus... |
3 April 2012
04:13 GMT |
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For months now, there's been a lot of talk about how OWN, or the Oprah Winfrey Network, turned out to be one of the most resounding failures in television. Oprah herself is the first to admit to that: she was wrong to have launched it when she did. As must be common knowledge, Oprah put an end to her longtime,... |
3 April 2012
04:12 GMT |
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Rift, one of the MMOs that was widely tipped as a challenger for World of Warcraft, has increased its success by transitioning from a time to a level-limited trial period.
Jim Butler, who is the core marketing executive at Trion Worlds, has stated, “The numbers clearly show that it’s working.”
He ... |
3 April 2012
04:11 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is gearing up for the launch of its most advanced Windows Phone smartphone on the market in the United States, none other than the Lumia 900. The handset arrives in the country through carrier AT&T and offers support for the company’s LTE network. This is the first LTE-capabl... |
3 April 2012
03:59 GMT |
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Officials at the Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies Inc. (SpaceX) announced that an independent panel would soon start to review the manned version of their Dragon spacecraft, in a bid to determine whether or not it complies with NASA regulations for human spaceflight.
At this point, Dragon i... |
3 April 2012
03:58 GMT |
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The latest reported decision on Intel's part may or may not be a response to NVIDIA's promise that Tegra-based tablets would become truly cheap by the time summer comes around. For those who haven't learned yet, NVIDIA said that slates based on the Tegra 3 platform would reach an average price of $19... |
3 April 2012
03:50 GMT |
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Indie Royale is getting ready to release a new bundle, in the form of the April Fools one, and customers can pre-order it without actually knowing what games will be a part of the package. Just like with previous bundles, this April Fools one from Indie Royale contains all sorts of titles made by independent develop... |
3 April 2012
03:46 GMT |
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Using unsuspecting lab mice as models for the human body, investigators in the United States were recently able to demonstrate that blocking a molecule called the PRC2 protein inhibits the uncontrolled proliferation of white blood cell cancer within the bone marrow.
The condition, called acute myeloid leukemia (AML... |
3 April 2012
03:43 GMT |
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Canaccord Genuity analyst Mike Walkley is telling clients that the iPhone is currently outselling “all other smartphones” at AT&T and Sprint, adding that Verizon is selling about as many iPhones as all Android phones combined.
AllThingsD publishes an excerpt from Walkley’s note to investors this we... |
3 April 2012
03:35 GMT |
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Oracle announced yesterday, April 2nd, the immediate availability for download of the popular VirtualBox 4.1.12 virtualization software. Even if it is not mentioned in the official changelog, VirtualBox 4.1.12 is now distributed as 32-bit and 64-bit .deb packages for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)... |
3 April 2012
03:32 GMT |
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Tomorrow, Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC and wireless carrier Sprint are expected to announce a new Android-based smartphone for the US market, one that would pack LTE connectivity and that is rumored to sport the name of HTC EVO ONE. Codenamed Jewel, the smartphone has just made an appearance online in the leake... |
3 April 2012
03:29 GMT |
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Physicists at the University of British Columbia (UBC) were part of an international collaboration that was recently able to observe the microscopic interactions which enable a fundamental physical phenomenon, known as high-temperature superconductivity.
This is the first time such a complex endeavor is completed su... |
3 April 2012
03:28 GMT |
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DEFT, a Linux distribution based on Linux kernel 3 and the DART (Digital Advanced Response Toolkit) with the best freeware Windows Computer Forensic tools, is now at version 7.1. There are a lot of improvements in DEFT 7.1, including tons of updates. A complete list of changes is available in the official announcem... |
3 April 2012
03:26 GMT |
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Facebook fans accessing their profiles on a new-generation iPad can now see everything crystal clear thanks to a recent update to the iOS client.
Facebook has released version 4.1.1 of its dedicated iPad and iPhone application, which includes a ton of new features and enhancements, such as the ability to go offline ... |
3 April 2012
03:22 GMT |
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The official NATO Croatia site (nato.mvp.hr), hosted on the main website of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, was hacked and defaced by two of the members of TeaMp0isoN, TriCk and Phantom. Here’s what the hackers wrote on the defaced site: Dividing up a country when a genuine uprising is taking p... |
3 April 2012
03:21 GMT |
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Video game developer Bungie has announced that it has now transferred all the Halo-related data and multiplayer services and is now saying goodbye to all the fans who have stood by the company while it was working on the shooter series.
The post on Bungie.net that says farewell to the fan community reads: “We ... |
3 April 2012
03:17 GMT |
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Even though one would expect the HDD market to have more problems this year, what with the higher prices and all, IDC believes that the opposite will occur. Not that makers of such storage devices haven't had to go through trying times of course, but the analyst firm still thinks the overall shipment levels fo... |
3 April 2012
03:15 GMT |
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When various organisms and plants first began conducting photosynthesis, the process did not result in the production of oxygen (anoxygenic photosynthesis). However, in time, a switch occurred, which enabled the emergence of an oxygenic (oxygen-production) version of the process. A team of experts now analyzes how th... |
3 April 2012
03:13 GMT |
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Runic Games has just revealed the array of pets that will help out the player during his or her dungeon crawling adventures in Torchlight II. Torchlight impressed lots of gamers from all over the world across platforms like the PC, Mac or PlayStation 3, thanks to its great role-playing mechanics and the dungeon craw... |
3 April 2012
03:09 GMT |
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This month, Sony Mobile will start to deliver the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system to all owners of Xperia arc S, Xperia neo V and Xperia ray devices. The company officially confirmed plans on the matter, as well as on its intent to release the same update to Xperia arc, Xperia PLAY, Xperia neo, Xperi... |
3 April 2012
03:00 GMT |
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A collaboration of astronomers from the University of Utah and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) found in a new study that supermassive black holes can grow by disrupting the gravitational interactions between two stars in a binary system, and then consuming one of them.
Over the years, experts h... |
3 April 2012
02:56 GMT |
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When the first trailer for “Rock of Ages” dropped, there was much talk about how it revealed that Hollywood had attempted to Disneyfy the '80s. That impression stays with you throughout the second trailer as well. You can see it in full above. Directed by Adam Shankman, the film boasts a stellar cast... |
3 April 2012
02:50 GMT |
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A recruiter for Foxconn Technology Group has spilled the beans on the potential release date of the iPhone 5, telling TV Tokyo reporters that the company’s recent hiring spree is directly tied to the fifth-generation Apple smartphone.
Earlier this month, reports from The China Morning News and M.I.C. Gadget re... |
3 April 2012
02:44 GMT |
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People may pay the most attention to AMD's ventures on the consumer graphics market, but the company is active in other fields as well, such as embedded computing. Speaking of embedded computing, the Sunnyvale, California-based company now powers a fairly mighty embedded video card. This isn't primarily ... |
3 April 2012
02:43 GMT |
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Skullgirls, the sprite-based 2D fighting game from indie developer Reverge Labs, has finally gotten a release date and will appear on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles next week. We’ve seen quite a few fighting games appear recently, with most of the big franchises offering current generation installment... |
3 April 2012
02:43 GMT |
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According to the results of a new analysis, it would appear that the tectonic plate supporting the Mississippi Delta is sinking into our planet's mantle at a much slower rate than originally calculated.
Geoscientists say that the rate of subsidence for this section of Earth's crust has been significantly ... |
3 April 2012
02:40 GMT |
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Whitney Houston's last film, the one she'd been working on before starting to plan her music comeback prior to her sudden death in February this year, will open on August 10. Above is the first official trailer for it. Footage from the film had made it out online before the trailer did, but failed to paint ... |
3 April 2012
02:34 GMT |
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Heroes of Ruin is one of the first big third-party projects to arrive on the Nintendo 3DS and working on the game has been a solid learning experience for the development team, mainly because it allowed them to interact with big JRPG publisher Square Enix. Tim Schwalk, who is the game director at n-Space, has told C... |
3 April 2012
02:31 GMT |
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Greg Kroah-Hartman announced on April 2nd the immediate available for download of the first maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.3 kernel series. Linux kernel 3.3.1 incorporates ARM fixes, updated drivers (wireless, Radeon), USB updates, as well as some improvements to various filesystem, such as CIFS, EXT4, ... |
3 April 2012
02:26 GMT |
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In an attempt to help developers better target their applications at the various flavors of Android out there, Google has released a new distribution chart for its mobile operating system. Google’s new charts are based on data collected during the past two weeks on devices that have accessed the Google Play Sto... |
3 April 2012
02:15 GMT |
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One of the favorite pastime of the Linux user is to build their own distributions, but sometimes it takes a long time and it's really time consuming, not to mention frustrating. If this is the case then have no fear, Linux Tycoon is here. According to the developer, Bryan Lunduke, Linux Tycoon is the first Lin... |
3 April 2012
02:07 GMT |
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After setting a new record in the history of the Raspberry Awards, the Oscars-spoof ceremony that “celebrates” the worst the movie industry has to offer in a single year, Adam Sandler has just ripped a new page in history books for the kind of achievement no one wants to brag about. He is now officially t... |
3 April 2012
02:06 GMT |
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Twitter has just received an official update and is now available for download in BlackBerry App World. In fact the application can be found in both App World and on Research In Motion’s site.
The latest update brings a new tweet layout and support for Twitter photo service. The application has also been integrated ... |
3 April 2012
01:00 GMT |
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