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Infinity Blade II is now $2.99 / €2.69 for a limited time and includes some bonus content thanks to a new update pushed out this week by the fine gents at Chair Entertainment. The game also comes with support for the iPhone 5’s display.Infinity Blade II 1.3.2 includes the ClashMob, Vault of Tears, and Sky ... |
3 November 2012
23:31 GMT |
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In a move that will undoubtedly upset some developers (and their respective fan bases), Apple is now removing applications that advertise emoji character support. The reason? iOS now has default support for emoji emoticons.iOS 6 is the first version of Apple’s mobile operating system to bring full emoji support... |
3 November 2012
19:21 GMT |
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One of the new elements that FIFA 13 brings to the long-running franchise is the new Skills Games, which pop up as matches are being loaded or can be accessed on their own from the main menu of the game.
I initially had no real interest in playing them and I came into FIFA 13 looking to quickly get to grips with the... |
3 November 2012
19:11 GMT |
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After releasing Evernote 5 Beta for Mac, the developers of the popular note-taking application are now advertising Evernote 5 for iOS. iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users are getting a speedier client, the company says.The update seems to be focused on making your favorite commands more accessible.“Whether you&r... |
3 November 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Only yesterday, we reported on how a storage tank hit by hurricane Sandy ended up leaking about 349,000 gallons of fuel into the Arthur Kill waterway, between New Jersey and New York's Staten Island.
This video shows that the leaked fuel managed to spread over a considerable portion of the waterway, in spite o... |
3 November 2012
17:31 GMT |
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As previously reported, hurricane Sandy caused the New York aquarium to flood, and the Wildlife Conservation Society admitted to thinking about sending some of the animals to other wildlife parks. Only yesterday, pictures taken inside the aquarium's flooded facilities hit the online community, and it is quite ... |
3 November 2012
17:20 GMT |
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DragonFly, a distribution that belongs to the same class of operating systems as other BSD-derived systems and UNIX, is now at version 3.2. The most important change in this latest version is about the scheduler, which received a major performance improvement, using postgres benchmarking as a measure.Also, SB4BSD has... |
3 November 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Presently, the Popcorn Park Zoo in New Jersey is home to more than 200 animals (some wild and some domestic) which have been rescued from being abused and exploited by their former owners. Interestingly enough, the people now managing the Popcorn Park Zoo never intended to build such a large animal sanctuary. How... |
3 November 2012
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Apple has released Xcode 4.6 Developer Preview 1 this week, adding support for iPad mini and iPad 4, SDKs for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and iOS 6, and more. The Mac maker also confirms that the ATS.framework is being deprecated.In addition to the aforementioned inclusions, Xcode 4.6 DP 1 brings Auto Layout support on b... |
3 November 2012
16:51 GMT |
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As expected, Sony Xperia VL has just been released in Japan at KDDI carrier. Xperia VL one of the many Japanese variants of the Sony Xperia V, which has yet to make its entrance on the market.Moreover, the Xperia VL is the CDMA variant of the Xperia V, but NTT Docomo will also launch another variant of the smartphone... |
3 November 2012
16:44 GMT |
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Canadian carrier Koodo Mobile has just confirmed plans to release the Samsung Galaxy S III Android phone by the end of the year.It appears that the operator's decision is based on customer overwhelming feedback. According to Koodo Mobile, lots of Android enthusiasts were asking the carrier to make everything in ... |
3 November 2012
16:29 GMT |
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Without a doubt one of the biggest stories we ran this week here at Softpedia was the official release period given to Grand Theft Auto V by its developer, Rockstar Games.In trademark Rockstar fashion, however, the studio offered only a loose spring of 2013 time slot, so it’s still unclear just when the long aw... |
3 November 2012
16:11 GMT |
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We reported more than a month ago Canadian carrier Virgin Mobile plans to launch the Samsung Galaxy Ace II.Today, the folks over at MobileSyrup have just been tipped on the upcoming release of the Galaxy Ace II at Bell Canada and Koodo Mobile.According to the latest hearsay, Samsung Galaxy Ace II will be released at ... |
3 November 2012
15:50 GMT |
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Apple’s Podcasts application has been promoted to version 1.1.2 in the iTunes App Store. The Cupertino, California-based computer company says Podcasts 1.1.2 includes “a number of improvements.”Users of the application will notice that version 1.1.2 lets them tap a podcast in Top Stations to reveal ... |
3 November 2012
15:31 GMT |
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One of the most popular Android smartphones available on the market, Samsung Galaxy S III reached an impressive sales milestone.GSMArena reports Samsung annonced that no less than 30 million Galaxy S III unit were sold until early November, though the smartphone was launched only five months ago.The impressive number... |
3 November 2012
14:46 GMT |
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Halloween has just passed us by, which meant that I had to deal with friends who seemed entranced about buying costumes just because of the date in the calendar and with a number of video games that tried to sell themselves by pitching themselves as scary in various ways. I am not a horror aficionado, but I sometime... |
3 November 2012
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Strike Suit Zero, a game developed by Born Ready Games, in which the player controls a combat suite, in space, will be arriving on Linux.The developers went to Kickstarter to fund their game and one of the goals they’ve set out was Linux support. The project was a success and the money they needed for the game... |
3 November 2012
13:59 GMT |
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Servergy has announced its newest product in the Servergy Power Linux Series line, a Linux-on-Power development platform called "P-Cubed". According to its developers, the computer is an all-in development board catering primarily to enterprise Linux programmers, but is can also be used by educators and serious hobby... |
3 November 2012
13:32 GMT |
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The A6X SoC (system-on-a-chip) used in the iPad 4 has been dissected by Chipworks. The silicon experts used electron microscopes to determine how the A6X was manufactured, calling it "a very new beast."In their teardown of the new Apple chip, the company found that “this is not just an A6 with a couple minor tw... |
3 November 2012
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Mozilla is always experimenting with ways to improve Firefox. Granted, few of these experiments actually make it into Firefox it seems, but that's not stopping anyone from Mozilla from piling them on. Mozilla's Prospector series of experiments is perhaps the best example of this.There have been several inte... |
3 November 2012
13:11 GMT |
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A few days back, the giant panda cub at the San Diego Zoo was busy trying to figure out a way to coordinate its tiny feet, yet only succeeded in crawling along the floor.
Apparently, the baby panda eventually sorted things out and can now show off its new strut.
The staff at the San Diego Zoo are extremely please... |
3 November 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Previously listed with a one-week delivery status on Apple’s U.S. online store, the fourth-generation iPad now ships in 3-5 business days if you place an order today.As the screenshot shows, a quick visit to the Apple online store in the United States reveals that Tim Cook & Co. have gotten a hold of their iPad... |
3 November 2012
12:44 GMT |
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Fotoxx, a free open source Linux program for photo editing and collection management that’s easy to use and install, has just reached version 12.11.
Fotoxx provides a hassle free solution to simple photo edition and library management. The latest version, 12.11, has quite a few changes, as it can be seen from... |
3 November 2012
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Calibre is one of the best eBook management software available right now, but its strength lies in the abundance of plugins available for it.This week we’ll take a look at an interesting plugin called “Favourites Menu.” According to the developer, this plugin allows users to build their own menus in... |
3 November 2012
12:23 GMT |
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Globular clusters, big lumps of old stars packed tightly together by gravity, are fairly common, but that doesn't mean we know a lot about them. There are over 150 known ones in the Milky Way alone and more are yet to be discovered.
In many cases, all the stars in the cluster have formed at around the same tim... |
3 November 2012
12:21 GMT |
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LiveStreet is a social blogging engine that allows authors to write posts, share them with their friends and read other people's updates. Specifically created for community sites and multi-editor publishing environments, LiveStreet might be a little bit harder to understand at first, being entirely different fr... |
3 November 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Rebecca Van Hooser, of Arlington, in Tarrant County, Texas, is suing the Pantego, Texas P.D. for displaying brutality during an arrest that lead to her breast implant popping.
Van Hooser was stopped by traffic police for a broken headlight, the Australian reports. Officer Eric Alvarez asked her to step out of the ca... |
3 November 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Christina Aguilera is a brilliant vocalist – or else her fans wouldn’t refer to her as The Voice. The video above is the best example of just how brilliant she is.
Stopping by Jimmy Fallon to promote her brand new album, “Lotus,” Christina performed her leading single off it, “Your Bod... |
3 November 2012
11:51 GMT |
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After confirming accurate release dates for the Mass Effect Trilogy yesterday, BioWare has now revealed a trailer for the upcoming collection, showing off lots of footage from its classic role-playing shooters.Mass Effect 3 came out at the beginning of the year and completed the trilogy of games made by BioWare that ... |
3 November 2012
11:31 GMT |
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HSTS, or HTTP Strict Transport Security, as the name suggests is a protocol which indicates that a browser must only use a secured HTTPS connection to a website.
The idea is to make it harder for attackers to hijack the connection and trick the browser into using an unencrypted connection.
This is a common trick f... |
3 November 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Back in January, a cruise ship named Costa Concordia capsized off the coast of Italy, and workers are still trying to extract it from the sand.
Only recently, as many as 200 giant mussels were found to be hiding under the capsized cruise ship, and researchers are now doing their best in rescuing them before the wre... |
3 November 2012
11:11 GMT |
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President Barack Obama missed the deadline imposed by Donald Trump, to make public private documents for $5 million (€3.8 million) that would have gone to charity, but not all is lost. Mark Cuban has a counter-offer.
Much like Stephen Colbert, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, is offering The ... |
3 November 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Black Friday is right around the corner and everyone is getting ready to shop until they drop. However, Black Friday is not just about fabulous deals. There’s something you should know about the scams that make the rounds this time of year and the little secrets retailers don’t want you to know about. Ex... |
3 November 2012
10:51 GMT |
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A few years ago, Chrome OS and Android were going head to head at Google. Now, it's pretty obvious to see which is the most popular and important to Google. Granted, there's a brand new and cheap Chromebook, but the three Nexus devices are getting a lot more attention.
What's more, Android 4.2, the la... |
3 November 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Dr. Sharon O'Steen, of DeBary, Florida, got her dentist's license suspended as soon as authorities found she had been inhaling laughing gas before procedures. She had been practicing general and cosmetic dentistry for over 16 years, according to her ad on local television, and she had long struggled with ad... |
3 November 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Maybe Twitter is going through midlife crisis. For a while, it was the cool new thing, first only the cool people used it. Then, more and more joined, but it was still fresh, it was still the "future" and was getting a lot of praise from the mainstream media.
But then, just like a youngster fresh out of college, it... |
3 November 2012
09:31 GMT |
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343 Industries, the developer of the upcoming Halo 4, has confirmed that it's going to use the game's updates not just to fix glitches but also to add new options and features, like a Theater Mode or extended support for clans.
Halo 4 is one of the biggest releases of the year and millions upon millions of... |
3 November 2012
09:11 GMT |
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After teasing fans with a short trailer last week, Activision has now posted a full gameplay video of the Nuketown 2025 map that’s currently available as a pre-order bonus for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.Black Ops II is set to deliver an intense first-person shooter experience in two weeks and you can bet that th... |
3 November 2012
09:09 GMT |
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When Snoop Dogg announced he’d be changing his name to Snoop Lion and turn his back to rap music, fans were shocked and, I might as well say it, very skeptic about it. Above is a first look at how that might turn out for the hip hop icon. This is the official video for “La La La,” which marks his f... |
3 November 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Facebook is making some changes to the signup process to make it easier for new users to get information regarding Facebook settings and features, specifically privacy settings. The idea is to make sure people make informed decisions as soon as they signed up.
The site didn't come up with this idea all by itsel... |
3 November 2012
08:31 GMT |
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John D. White, an ex-convict turned pastor in the small community of Broomfield, Isabella County, Michigan, is being charged with murdering 24-year-old Rebekah Gay, his fiancee's daughter. Gay disappeared from a trailer park on Halloween. Police have a confession from the pastor for the murder, which was motiva... |
3 November 2012
08:22 GMT |
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Amanda Bynes has been grabbing many headlines in recent months but, she insists, everything they’re writing about her in the tabs is false. She’s taking legal action against InTouch Weekly for a very recent story claiming she’s “troubled.”
The other day, the mag came out with a story s... |
3 November 2012
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The new desktop case that Xigmatek put together is not yet available. Although orders can already be placed through Caseking.de, shipments won't begin until November 30, 2012.
Being a mid-tower, the enclosure can house mini-ITX, micro-ATX and full ATX motherboards.
There really isn't much that qualifies a... |
3 November 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Evercool managed to give an unusual spin even to the fairly normal dual-tower design of CPU coolers.
Yes, the Silent Shark CPU cooler (HPO 12025) has two aluminum fin arrays that stay upright on the motherboard, and yes, there are two fans.
The odd part is that, while one fan sits on the outside of the cooler, the ... |
3 November 2012
07:30 GMT |
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iPhone 5 owners updating to the new iOS 6.0.1 are greeted by an additional update screen that doesn’t pop up for older-generation iPhones, iPads and iPod touch players. It presents them with an iOS Updater application that facilitates over-the-air (OTA) updates on the new smartphone.
Before iOS 6.0.1 is presen... |
3 November 2012
07:25 GMT |
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A short while ago, Lady Gaga grabbed headlines all over the world by daring to bare her (now curvier) body to silence those who were saying she was “fat.” She’s now namedropping Adele in a new interview.
Speaking with Styleist UK about the controversy around her weight, which shouldn’t hav... |
3 November 2012
07:21 GMT |
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A new study published in the Journal Obesity Reviews argues that bariatric surgery can lead to a decrease in bone density, especially in the case of young people whose bone structures have not yet fully matured.
According to endocrinologists working with the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, these findings do n... |
3 November 2012
07:14 GMT |
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Cybercriminals have managed to breach Bloomberg’s Businessweek website. The attackers injected malicious scripts with the purpose of pushing malware onto the visitors' computers. According to The Hacker News, the attackers have injected an iframe loading a malicious PHP file placed on a compromised Italia... |
3 November 2012
07:12 GMT |
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At their core, servers aren't that different from consumer PCs, in terms of hardware layout and interoperability. That means that data centers need large storage arrays separate from the server nodes in order to store everything.
Iomega has just launched one such network storage array: StorCenter px12-400r, wit... |
3 November 2012
06:55 GMT |
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Assassin’s Creed 3 came out earlier this week on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 console and we’ve already run our own in-depth review about Ubisoft’s latest action title. While the game has quite a lot of good and bad aspects, as we pointed out in our review, there’s one segment that will cer... |
3 November 2012
06:47 GMT |
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Experts have identified an interesting piece of malware whose main goal is to steal all the picture files from an infected computer and upload them to a remote FTP server.
The picture files we store on our computers often hold valuable information. Whether it’s work-related stuff, documents containing personal infor... |
3 November 2012
06:47 GMT |
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Ubisoft has released a brand new video with its upcoming Watch Dogs game, this time hyping up both the actual title and the global resources that are being pooled together to make the huge title. E3 2012 saw the announcement of plenty of games, but by far one of the most popular and the few all-new properties reveal... |
3 November 2012
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Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, the remake of the classic role-playing game from Black Isle Studios handled by Overhaul Games, is now set to launch on November 28 on all platforms, as long as the team can get all the approvals they need from platform holders. Overhaul wants to make the game available on the P... |
3 November 2012
06:30 GMT |
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3-way speakers don't need a separate subwoofer, since they each have a woofer for low frequencies, in addition to a tweeter for high frequencies and a mid-range driver.
Genius has introduced a pair of 3-way speakers called SP-HF800A.
From within their classic maple wood boxes, they can produce sound in 20W int... |
3 November 2012
06:28 GMT |
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A hacker calling himself KillCode has leaked over 5,000 account credentials allegedly stolen from the IT Service Desk domain of the National Institutes of Health website (itservicedesk.nih.gov).
The leak comprises information obtained from the “dbo.User_Staff_JOIN” table of the “RemedyMirror”... |
3 November 2012
06:28 GMT |
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A team of researchers working with the US Naval Research Laboratory is now busy investigating whether or not rotating detonation-wave engines can up the country's Navy fuel efficiency, while at the same time delivering more power than conventional gas-turbine engines.
Various experiments and calculations carri... |
3 November 2012
06:26 GMT |
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This picture of a restaurant tab went viral, with many users criticizing a female client that failed to leave a tip on a $138.35 (€108) bill.
The bill was posted by Reddit editor PhenixSongFawkes (story via Inquisitr).
He was amused by the fact that the woman wrote she was a single mom in the Tip section. In ... |
3 November 2012
06:16 GMT |
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Roger Avary, the co-writer of cult classic film Pulp Fiction, has confirmed that he’s going to write and direct a movie adaptation of the iconic Castle Wolfenstein game.
While most gamers no doubt remember id Software’s classic Wolfenstein 3D shooter, few remember that it was actually based on a previous... |
3 November 2012
06:10 GMT |
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Many Twitter users would like to get more followers or at least some recognition for the effort they put into their tweets. However, don’t expect to get any of these from the “Twitter courtesy patrol.”
Emails entitled “Hi this is the Twitter courtesy patrol” are making the rounds, infor... |
3 November 2012
06:08 GMT |
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The arrival of the ColorEdge CG276 monitor makes it seem as though EIZO was waiting for some sort of cue before completely ignoring the Full HD image quality standard.
Linux' creator, Linus Torvalds, opened the month (November 2013), by bluntly saying that it is ridiculous for laptops to still be hung up on HD... |
3 November 2012
06:00 GMT |
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Hurricane Sandy has certainly caused a lot of damage on the US coastline and a large number of individuals have already started volunteering to help out those affected by it. While there’s a lot to do in the real world, there’s also a lot that can be done in cyberspace as well.
“Hurricane Hackers&r... |
3 November 2012
05:42 GMT |
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One woman from Bournemouth, Dorset recently decided that the time has come for her German Shepherd to visit the local grooming salon.
Thus, Snieguole Ghuman simply drove Simba to the canine beauty parlor, and entrusted him to the people working at this salon.
When she returned to pick him up, she was quite surpri... |
3 November 2012
05:41 GMT |
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19-year-old Brandon Spencer, of Inglewood, California, was arrested on attempted murder charges, in connection to the USC Tutor Campus Center shooting, on Halloween night.
As we reported at the time, four were wounded on the USC campus on October 31, with one person suffering severe injuries. The incident occurred d... |
3 November 2012
05:40 GMT |
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A breast cancer awareness campaign video from Chile has received a lot of mixed reviews, with many dubbing the commercial inconsiderate, as it focuses more on female body parts than it does on women's health. The PSA ran in Chile, and it includes a tagline in Spanish, encouraging men to take an interest in prot... |
3 November 2012
05:39 GMT |
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Christina Aguilera was just one of the many celebrities who rallied for a benefit gala meant to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Above is her performance, which was live and, as expected, jaw-dropping.
Put together by NBC, the Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together special was hosted by Matt Lauer, with all... |
3 November 2012
05:32 GMT |
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WiGig (Wireless Gigabit Alliance) has been developing better wireless networking technologies. Dell is finally showing just what all those R&D efforts and funds have led to.
The Latitude 6430u is a new ultrabook that Dell created, and which we actually spotted back in September, quite some time before even the relea... |
3 November 2012
05:29 GMT |
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FIFA 13 is already very successful on the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the PC, having sold more than 7 million units since launch, but the developers at EA Sports also want to make the game a leader on the upcoming Wii U from Nintendo.This means that the development team needs to make the new GamePad controller a ... |
3 November 2012
05:06 GMT |
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Dr. Charles Eugster can do 57 dips, 61 chin-ups, 48 abdominal crunches and 50 push-ups, in 45 seconds each. What's impressive is that he is 93 years old. Eugster was always athletic, having participated in rowing competitions in his youth, but only started lifting weights at 87, when he noticed he started putt... |
3 November 2012
04:45 GMT |
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The Chinese state says that the PlayStation 3 home console from Sony now has the China Compulsory Certificate, which might mean that the hardware might soon be officially sold on the open market in the Communist country.
The certificate is described as “a compulsory safety mark for many products imported, sold... |
3 November 2012
04:36 GMT |
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YouTube is acting up again, it had a few problems earlier this week and it's happening again. This time around it's dead for good, the site only retrieves a "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" if you try to visit.
Even embedded videos aren't working, so it's obviously a bigger problem.
The emb... |
3 November 2012
04:36 GMT |
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If you look closely, you might see Miley Cyrus’ fiancé Liam Hemsworth in the official music video for “Decisions,” her collaboration with Borgore. Check it out above and let me know if you spot him.
If you didn’t, here’s why: Liam is the guy wearing the unicorn head mask that Mil... |
3 November 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds has very specific tastes regarding the operating system he uses and now he wants to give KDE another chance.
We all remember his reaction to openSUSE when he invited the people responsible with security in the distribution to “kill themselves,” so now we’re rather curios to check out... |
3 November 2012
04:10 GMT |
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Despite the fact that it’s not yet being launched, Halo 4 is already breaking records, with the soundtrack for the title already managing to become the best-selling soundtrack based on a video game product.
According to a report from Billboard, the Original Soundtrack for Halo 4 sits in 50th place in the overall cha... |
3 November 2012
03:50 GMT |
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Piledriver, the architecture behind AMD's Trinity accelerated processing units (APUs) and Vishera FX central processing units (CPUs), has been mostly well-received, even if the FX line didn't stir too much awe. Perhaps this is why Advanced Micro Devices has decided to keep using Piledriver even for the ser... |
3 November 2012
03:46 GMT |
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The Australian division of Sony has made video game space history by taking a Sackboy figure, the mascot of the Little Big Planet universe, and then putting in a weather balloon which took it up to 95,000 feet (close to 29 kilometers) before dropping it in order to gently return it to the ground.
Sackboy was attacke... |
3 November 2012
03:23 GMT |
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Arch Linux, an independently developed i686/x86-64 general purpose GNU/Linux distribution that focuses on simplicity, minimalism, and code elegance, is now at version 2012.11.01.
Unlike the previous release of Arch Linux, this version comes with just a few bugfixes.
The developers have announced while ago that they... |
3 November 2012
03:21 GMT |
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Rush Limbaugh isn’t going to like this one bit: actor John Cusack is in the early stages of development of a Limbaugh biopic, The Hollywood Reporter informs, citing the AP.
Cusack will produce the film through his own production company, New Crime Productions, but also star in it, THR says.
For the time bein... |
3 November 2012
02:52 GMT |
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Taylor Lautner knows he owes his entire career in the industry to “The Twilight Saga” but that’s not the only thing that he takes from the experience now that it’s over. As it happens, he also has a couple of regrets.
Speaking to Access Hollywood, the hunky actor admitted that his biggest wa... |
3 November 2012
02:27 GMT |
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After analyzing the Martian atmosphere, NASA's Curiosity rover delivered a rather disappointing conclusion: there is no methane in this planet's atmosphere.
Since living organisms are the most important source of methane on Earth (about 90 is produced by them), some say that the lack of methane in this pl... |
3 November 2012
01:39 GMT |
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doubleTwist player for Android devices has been recently updated with new features and improvements.
The application offers users access to podcasts, radio, video and music sync, which makes it one of the best all-in-one music tools.
The latest version of doubleTwist has been improved with additional sharing optio... |
3 November 2012
00:01 GMT |
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