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A large number of obese men experience the negative side-effects of their condition in the form of sleep apnea – the condition in which the respiratory pathways can become jammed during sleep. This leads to a decrease in their quality of life, and also to long-lasting effects on their brains and general health.... |
4 December 2009
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As scientists working with nanoparticles know, detecting the extremely small formations can be as difficult as producing them in the first place. They have to be searched for using advanced pieces of technology, and even then there is no guarantee that they will be found. Now, experts at the Washington University in ... |
4 December 2009
20:01 GMT |
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Over the past couple of years, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has become one of the most impressive brain-imaging methods available. The technique has the ability to observe the changes that take place in the brain of a person in real-time. It can notice which portions of the cortex are active, as well ... |
4 December 2009
19:01 GMT |
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A Canadian company may have developed a prototype for a new generation of wind turbines. Rather than relying on complex gearboxes to convert wind energy into electricity, the new design, of which a scale model has already been built, makes use of friction forces to do exactly the same thing. The innovation, if applic... |
4 December 2009
18:01 GMT |
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BioWare has confirmed on the official forums for Mass Effect 2 that the science fiction action role playing title, which is set to arrive at the end of January 2010, will be coming on two game disks on both the PC and the Xbox 360. Some gamers might actually receive a third DVD in their package if they get a Collecto... |
4 December 2009
17:41 GMT |
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Since ancient times, people have known that some insects and small animals produce venom. Over the years, they have learned how to use these chemicals to their advantage, either by dipping their spears and arrows in the stuff, or by using it for therapeutic purposes. With the advent of modern technologies, scientists... |
4 December 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Telecommunications solutions provider Motorola seems determined to separate its mobile phones division from the rest of the company at a certain point in the future. The company, which cut a large number of jobs from its handset business at the beginning of this year, is said to be already considering the implicatio... |
4 December 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: After several weekends that were dominated by Dragon Age: Origins, I tend to think that I need to take on some other genre. I'm not putting the BioWare role-playing game away for good, but only reducing the play time I devote to it. In the coming two days, I will return to Hearts of Iron 3, ... |
4 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) College of Letters, Arts and Sciences say that they have just finished developing a new tool for forecasting large earthquakes. While plagued with uncertainties, just like all the other warning methods, the new one is also a lot more specific, in that it focus... |
4 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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It’s normal for parents to be anxious when they’re expecting their first child, especially since the birth means their life until then has to change altogether. Preparations must be made in all areas, from buying diapers and child-proofing the house to learning how to cope with certain situations but, no ... |
4 December 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Earlier today, we saw that Rebellion's upcoming resurrection of the Aliens vs Predator series, in all its gore and glory, wouldn't be allowed access onto Australian soil in its current form. The country's rating board decided that the game was not suitable for an MA15+ rating, and, since there is no hi... |
4 December 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Legacy Interactive has announced that it plans to continue releasing titles in its Hollywood Hits by offering gamers a chance to take on the roles of the characters in the hit television show House M.D.The company has a history of creating games based on TV shows with big followings, launching Murder She Wrote, C.S.I... |
4 December 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Scientists at the Tel Aviv University (TAU), in Israel, announce the development of nanoscale peptide assemblies, which hold great promise for creating a new class of coatings. They could be used for solar panels, or for windows, and could endow these structures with the ability to clean themselves, and always retain... |
4 December 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier AT&T announced recently the availability of a new promotion for its users during the holiday season. Starting with today, December 4, AT&T customers will be able to enjoy a series of BlackBerry smartphones from the company at half the usual price tag, and they will also have the opportunity to g... |
4 December 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Girls, as they grow up, make a resolution to never be like their mothers, in the sense of taking after them in terms of nagging and using one-liners that don’t leave any room for reasonable argument or discussion. As they become mothers themselves, they deliberately try to avoid making the same “mistakes,... |
4 December 2009
14:41 GMT |
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The total number of WiMAX subscribers is expected to reach 2 million users during 2009, ABI Research says. According to the firm, the growth in WiMAX subscribers base will be determined by larger-scale network deployments all around the world. Moreover, it seems that the vast majority of subscribers will only come f... |
4 December 2009
14:21 GMT |
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In a first-of-its-kind investigation, scientists have finally mapped the correlations that exist between anger, age and education in the American population. The experts have determined that the most angry citizens are young people, followed by those with children at home and those with minimal education. The work wa... |
4 December 2009
14:01 GMT |
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One of Windows 7’s strongest points is the customization capabilities it offers to users. And the best way to take advantage of the personalization options of the latest Windows client from Microsoft is via the themes that the company is offering. The latest addition to an already extensive collection of conten... |
4 December 2009
13:58 GMT |
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Telefonica Brazil is one carrier which chose to deliver a brand new innovative device to its users, in the form of Orby multimedia, touch-screen smartphone for the digital home. The new product comes to the market with a touch-screen platform and multimedia IP interface from OpenPeak, the provider of VoIP multimedia ... |
4 December 2009
13:51 GMT |
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Nokia 6600 launched in April last year received a facelift, even though the handset is no older than one year. The new device is called Nokia 6600i slide and features just about the same technical specifications, as well as design. Still, the few differences between the two might tip the balance in 6600i's favor... |
4 December 2009
13:35 GMT |
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Sarah Jessica Parker is admittedly the most influential trendsetter the fashion world has discovered on television. Her outfits, always successfully combining vintage with ultra modern without even coming close to mainstream, have been the talk of town ever since she first started to be known as Carrie Bradshaw from ... |
4 December 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Neocore Games, as the developer, and Paradox Interactive, as the publisher, have announced that they are partnering up in order to create and release a new real time strategy title called Lionheart: Kings’ Crusade, which is expected to arrive in the second quarter of 2010 and will be depicting the battles that ... |
4 December 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Without a doubt, Apple is already prepping to send out the first alpha builds of Mac OS X 10.6.3 to its testers (if it hasn’t done so already). Remember, the first incremental update to Mac OS X 10.6 came just two weeks after Snow Leopard had been released to the public. The second, Mac OS X 10.6.2, arrived two... |
4 December 2009
12:54 GMT |
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One of the major features that, at least in Microsoft’s perspective, recommend Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise to customers is the ability to encrypt the hard drives via BitLocker, in order to safeguard data in the eventuality of computer theft, or access from unauthorized persons. Just a little over a month... |
4 December 2009
12:31 GMT |
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Wireless carrier AT&T announced on Thursday the introduction of a series of new Lenovo PCs that are bundled with the carrier's Tech Support 360 and which are aimed mainly at small and mid-size businesses. According to the carrier, the new devices are meant to offer industry-leading solutions to small and mid-si... |
4 December 2009
12:21 GMT |
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Despite what its execs may be claiming lately, MySpace is still a social network and a large one at that. It has been bleeding users for the past year or so but the ones that are still around should be glad to hear that the social network has just launched a new mobile version of the site dedicated to iPhone, Android... |
4 December 2009
12:15 GMT |
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SingSong is an affordable extravagance. You don't have to wear diamonds, to act as a skinny model on the catwalk or to perform together with your band in front of millions of people to feel like a STAR.All you need to do is to have a bit of confidence in yourself and a strong desire to leave everything behind so... |
4 December 2009
12:11 GMT |
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When games become popular, they quickly turn into series, and when these prove to be at least close in success to the original titles, new installments are added as soon as possible. A good example of such a series is Call of Duty that had Activision and the developers involved with the project spill into the world y... |
4 December 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Jennifer Lopez made her official comeback to the spotlight at the American Music Awards 2009 with a live rendition of her latest single off the upcoming “Love?” album, “Louboutins.” The event was marked though by one minor incident, when the singer fell flat on her backside in the middle of th... |
4 December 2009
11:50 GMT |
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The economic downturn has taken its toll on the retail sector, even online but one bright spot, at least in Europe, has been private sales clubs, which have taken off in recent years. One of the most promising companies of this type is Vente-Privee, a French one, which is seeing some serious revenue numbers these day... |
4 December 2009
11:42 GMT |
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The first Beta testing program for the next iteration of the Office System is a smashing success. According to Microsoft, in excess of 1 million users around the world have crowded to Office 2010 Beta and downloaded the bits since the development milestone was made available at the Professional Developers Conference ... |
4 December 2009
11:31 GMT |
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She just wrapped up her Circus tour, the Australian leg, just in time to celebrate her birthday. On both a personal and a professional level, the Britney Spears of today is just as big, if not actually bigger, than the teen of ten years ago who sang “Hit Me Baby One More Time.” To honor her long and succe... |
4 December 2009
11:27 GMT |
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Because of the age difference between them and the fact that, until she met him, she seemed a very sweet, non-goth kind of girl, Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood have always been considered one of showbiz’s oddest couples. That’s not to say though that they are not destined to be together, especially s... |
4 December 2009
11:11 GMT |
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Well, here's another anti-IE6 (Internet Explorer 6) article to go with the 254,000 I found on Google recently. While many of IE6's detractors are web designers or web developers, we can certainly put on the board some greater flaws in Microsoft's browser than the extra amount of working hours put by pr... |
4 December 2009
11:08 GMT |
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Just because a software product is cheap enough to fit into the “too good to be true” category, or even free from BitTorrent trackers or warez software, it doesn’t mean that users aren’t paying for it. It’s just that the hidden costs associated with piracy are less, and not immediately, ... |
4 December 2009
11:04 GMT |
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Scientists were just given the go-ahead from sponsors and funders to embark on the largest music-related endeavor that a group has ever undertaken online. The goal of the Structural Analysis of Large Amounts of Music Information (SALAMI) project is to allow experts to analyze more than 350,000 songs at the same time,... |
4 December 2009
11:02 GMT |
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Kodak and LG announced not one but two agreements that would effectively end the patent litigation, which has been going on since earlier this year, involving a subset of their imaging technologies. The two agreements include Kodak's decision to sell all assets of its OLED business to LG, as well as signing a fu... |
4 December 2009
10:55 GMT |
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The Symbian operating system is set to come to the market with a great deal of new features in 2010, the Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced at its Nokia Capital Markets Day earlier this week. While we already had the chance to take a look at what the future Symbian UI might look like, it seems that the opera... |
4 December 2009
10:51 GMT |
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Apple UK has announced through its iTunes12DaysOfChristmas.co.uk website that it will be offering free songs, music videos, apps, TV episodes and movies on a daily basis from December 26 to January 6. The Mac maker encourages brits to sign up for the company’s newsletter so they don’t miss a thing. &ldqu... |
4 December 2009
10:51 GMT |
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Friendster, the social network which started it all, just got significant revamp with a design focused more on its demographic core at the moment, ahead of a possible sale by the end of the year. Barely a day after it revealed its new design, Reuters reports that the social network will be sold to an Asian investor ... |
4 December 2009
10:49 GMT |
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On December 8, Chris Brown will release his first album after the February assault and backlash, a moment that reportedly came extremely close to costing him his entire career. “Graffiti” is the singer’s way of getting his side of the story out there, while also trying to find redemption as an artis... |
4 December 2009
10:47 GMT |
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Scientists from a number of universities in Finland have joined forces for a common interest, the development of a silicon-based delivery system at the nanoscale. The innovation holds great promise for carrying drugs to their alloted destinations, and may also provide a new way of combating obesity and excessive appe... |
4 December 2009
10:46 GMT |
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The Galapagos Islands, some of the most famous in the world, have already been drastically altered by global warming and human activity. Their marine ecosystems have been destroyed by artificial structures, overfishing, and the introduction of sea urchins that destroy coral reefs, and there isn't much that anyon... |
4 December 2009
10:33 GMT |
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Dynasty Warriors 2 is a videogame developed by Omega Force and published by KOEI Co. Ltd. The game was only released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony on October 25, 2000. It is classed as an action game played from a third person perspective and combines elements from real time strategy titles and draws most o... |
4 December 2009
10:31 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has recently released a firmware update for its high-end Symbian-based handset Satio, which has recently been pulled off the shelves by a series of UK retailers due to a series of issues the device came to the market with. The new firmware version R1CA037 is reported... |
4 December 2009
10:27 GMT |
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After performing live on the British show X Factor a few days ago, Rihanna officially told her fans to get ready for the experience of their lifetime, her upcoming 2010 tour, in support of her latest album, “Rated R.” MTV caught up with the singer on the set of her video for “Hard” and she agr... |
4 December 2009
10:26 GMT |
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After it saw shipment increases of 32% starting with Q2 2009, Acer's market share rose from 12% to 13.4%. Following Dell's market decline to as low as 12.9%, Acer officially became the No. 2 ranking PC supplier in the world. This was possible thanks to Acer's large increase in PC shipments during this ... |
4 December 2009
10:19 GMT |
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In an ironic twist of faith, PayPal security staff mistakenly concluded that a legit email message sent by the company was a phishing attack. The message was forwarded back to them by a security professional who wanted to raise awareness about insecure practices.Randy Abrams, director of technical education at ESET, ... |
4 December 2009
10:18 GMT |
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Microsoft has readied a security bulletin designed to address a Critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer, including the latest iteration of the browser running in Windows 7. The IE patch will, in fact, be the only one that will impact the successor of Windows Vista, as Windows 7 RTM is not affected by any of the s... |
4 December 2009
10:05 GMT |
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Since the Nobel Prizes first started being awarded, more than a century ago, they have constantly grown in popularity and fame, until they reached their current status, as the most prestigious scientific awards in the world. But, while for most categories the winners are always selected after rigorous criteria, such ... |
4 December 2009
10:05 GMT |
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Street View can be great for showing your friends where you grew up or exploring a location online before visiting it. But apart from its utilitarian nature, the site can also be a great way of exploring famous landmarks and interesting locations around the world regardless if you plan on visiting them soon or not. ... |
4 December 2009
09:44 GMT |
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The world record for the highest graphics processing unit clock/memory speed was broken by a renowned overclocker using a system configuration that employed the MSI R5870-PM2D1G for graphics. Calling himself “Deanzo,” the overclocker built a machinery that used a significant quantity of LN2 in order to ke... |
4 December 2009
09:41 GMT |
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Conrad Hilton III is the youngest brother of ever-popular heiress and socialite extraordinaire Paris Hilton. He’s 15 and has just gotten his learner’s permit, which means he can’t drive without an adult’s supervision yet, but that’s not to say he can’t travel in style, as The Sun i... |
4 December 2009
09:40 GMT |
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One of the hottest mobile phones that reached the market during the ongoing year is the Nokia N900, an Internet Tablet that went out of the Finnish mobile phone maker's door with the Maemo 5 operating system on board. The handset looks great on the outside, and so does the Maemo platform on its wide touchscreen... |
4 December 2009
09:34 GMT |
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Last evening, Alexander Tratsevskiy updated the entire line of Calculate Linux products to version 10.0. Being based on Gentoo Linux, the Desktop Edition of Calculate Linux 10.0 is now powered by Linux Kernel 2.6.31.6 and X.Org 7.4, it is built on top of the KDE 4.3.3 desktop environment and it includes the popular O... |
4 December 2009
09:33 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation announced recently the launch of its international YOU advertising campaign, and now we can enjoy three new clips for some of the company's latest mobile phones. The new ads include the HTC HD2 and Touch2 handsets, which are powered by the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.... |
4 December 2009
09:12 GMT |
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InstantAction, an online gaming innovator developing 3D, multiplayer, console-quality games, and Garage Games claim to have delivered the most engaging and exciting puzzle platformer for the iPhone to date. Flipt, as the game is called, has players racing to solve puzzles and blast their way around deadly traps to un... |
4 December 2009
09:05 GMT |
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Shuttle Endeavor has been designated by NASA officials to be the carrier of the Node 3 module to the International Space Station (ISS). As part of the STS-130 mission, the spacecraft will deliver the new module, also known as Tranquility, to the outpost, alongside the Cupola structure, a facility providing astronauts... |
4 December 2009
09:01 GMT |
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Normally, the name of a product, or of anything, for that matter, usually contains the essence of that which it determines. However, in the case of the new, upcoming cooler from Thermalright, one could say that the name actually describes the total opposite of what the product is actually meant to do (and does). For ... |
4 December 2009
08:58 GMT |
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With just a few days until launch, Vevo has announced a new partnership with CBS which will bring some sort of Last.fm integration, as well as content from 90 CBS music radio stations. There aren't too many details at the moment, but the deal should round out the content coming from the site's parents Univ... |
4 December 2009
08:57 GMT |
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Four of the world's leading vendors of small, low-power netbook systems, ASUSTek, Acer, Lenovo and Micro-Star International (MSI), are expected to launch a new line of netbooks, featuring Intel's next-generation Atom N450 processor, which is based on the Pineview core. According to the most recent details,... |
4 December 2009
08:51 GMT |
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Wireless carrier AT&T announced recently that it had just put in place a new holiday offer for users, following the recently announced promotions for the Black Friday. Shoppers in Connecticut now have the opportunity to win a free TV ($1,000 gift card) per day, until Christmas Eve, by visiting one of AT&T's reta... |
4 December 2009
08:33 GMT |
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Konami has announced that March 18, 2010 is now the official release date for Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, the PlayStation Portable videogame set to carry on the legacy of the long running series, which last year saw the release of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.March 18 is the release date only for the J... |
4 December 2009
08:31 GMT |
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Our planet has been ruthless to some of the species living on it over the long years of its existence. Extinction events and evolutionary bottlenecks have almost wiped out life on Earth on several occasions, but the culprit has always been nature. Now, it's humans. Excessive hunting and increased pollution are d... |
4 December 2009
08:31 GMT |
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Thermaltake released its award-winning Level 10 computer case during the CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany, where this uniquely designed chassis received great acclaim. Today, the company's attention towards the mid-end market doesn't seem to have waned as a result of this success on the high-end segment. Ther... |
4 December 2009
08:23 GMT |
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According to Microsoft, customers that buy a new OEM computer with Windows 7 preinstalled can experience problems related to the system language. The Redmond company informs that issues can range from having the system language changed on restart to receiving a Stop error messages "0x00000021a," also on the reboot o... |
4 December 2009
08:20 GMT |
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Cisco has announced it plans to go ahead with the acquisition of Norwegian video conferencing services and equipment provider Tandberg. The company had previously made an offer to buy all outstanding shares with the Norwegian company valued at $3.4 billion. It now says it has managed to acquire 89 percent of the shar... |
4 December 2009
08:11 GMT |
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TOCA Race Driver 2 is a videogame developed and published by the Codemasters Software Company Limited. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the PlayStation Portable handheld and the PC platform on April 13, 2004. The title can be classed as a racing simulation fea... |
4 December 2009
08:07 GMT |
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Google has just announced the release of a new version of the Android Software Development Kit, which now includes support for the yet unannounced Android 2.0.1 flavor of the operating system, which comes as a minor update for the already available Android 2.0 iteration. Along with the Android 2.0.1, revision 1 vers... |
4 December 2009
08:05 GMT |
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Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight is a fighting game based on the live-action TV show that will allow you to play as any of the 13 superheroes, the Kamen Riders. You will be able to enter Mirror World and take part in the fast-paced action in the same style as your favorite Kamen Rider.Each character has its own special Con... |
4 December 2009
07:46 GMT |
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For many years, Johnny Depp struggled to make people see beyond his hottie status and to where it mattered the most, the films he made. Again, for many years, Depp picked only parts that challenged him the most, even if that meant choosing box-office bombs over roles that would make him a rich man. For that, and for ... |
4 December 2009
07:42 GMT |
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Although ASUS usually focuses on stuffing as much performance into all of its laptops as possible, this latest release seems to be more focused on portability and smart design. The new product developed by the company is the ASUS UM30 laptop and is a mid-range performance mobile platform. The body of the product is m... |
4 December 2009
07:35 GMT |
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Twitter is a great service and its creators want to keep it that way. Not the 'great' part, presumably they want this as well, but the 'service' part. It always catered to third-party developers and avoided adding too much features to the basic product. This has changed slightly recently, but Twi... |
4 December 2009
07:11 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Forefront enterprise security suite is slowly coming together as the Redmond company announced the release of two components, namely Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG) and Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 (UAG). In November, enterprise customers looking to migrate to the latest iter... |
4 December 2009
07:06 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 first met with Games on Demand in August, and now Microsoft is ready to move the Game for Windows service into Live mode as well. The company has decided that it's time to push the service into major digital-distribution-gear, so, starting December 15, you'll be able to purchase more than just ... |
4 December 2009
06:56 GMT |
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In a finding that could mean the age of electrical vehicles is almost upon us, scientists at the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, near Paris, France, managed to replace the expensive chemical element platinum as the main catalyst used in hydrogen production. This means that, as soon as the method is adopted wo... |
4 December 2009
06:56 GMT |
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The backlash against Adam Lambert for his live performance at the American Music Awards 2009, spearheaded by ABC, the network carrying the awards ceremony, continues. Following a cancelation on Good Morning America, the network has now decided to disinvite the singer from two other shows, Jimmy Kimmel and New Year&rs... |
4 December 2009
06:53 GMT |
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The online admission test for India's most prestigious business schools was rescheduled for thousands of candidates after many testing laboratories across the country had problems with computer viruses. The incident raises both legal and organizational issues.The nationwide Common Admission Test (CAT) into the s... |
4 December 2009
06:50 GMT |
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Worldwide provider of microcontrollers and analog semiconductors Microchip Technology Inc. was revealed today to have received no less than three different awards in three different countries for its technology, which excels in the area of low-power consumption. Microchip's portfolio is comprised of products tha... |
4 December 2009
06:50 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless debuted at the beginning of last month its first handsets running under Google's Android operating system, namely the Motorola DROID, which sports the Eclair flavor of the platform (Android 2.0), and the HTC DROID Eris, running under the older Cupcake flavor of Android (1.5... |
4 December 2009
06:37 GMT |
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Birds have gathered around human settlements since the earliest days, because villages and cities offer them an inexhaustible source of food. Over time, some of the species were domesticated, like the house sparrow, and became increasingly connected with people. According to studies, it may be that these interactions... |
4 December 2009
06:28 GMT |
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For many, sexagenarian actor Sylvester Stallone is just the guy who made “Rocky” and “Rambo” and who had his career sprinkled with Razzie Awards, the most shameful distinction ever bestowed upon a thespian. For others, he’s an icon. For a select few, he’s a painter who is now ridin... |
4 December 2009
06:25 GMT |
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From Microsoft MOF Action Plan: Release Readiness for Windows 7 is one of the new additions to the latest iteration of the Microsoft Operations Framework. Version 4.0 of MOF has been released to web on December 3rd, 2009, and is currently up for grabs from the Microsoft Download Center. With MOF 4.0, Microsoft is of... |
4 December 2009
06:23 GMT |
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While being escorted to the Iga village, the Kirihime princess is kidnapped by Yoshiro Yukikusa, the commander of a demon army. Loyal ninjas to the Iga hidden village, Kage and Chihiro will do whatever is in their power to rescue her. But to do this, they'll have to confront and defeat the endless demon horde of... |
4 December 2009
06:19 GMT |
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After being found to have been one of the only two corporations that were not negatively affected by the general downturn of the semiconductor market, the other being Mediatek, Samsung seems to have topped the combined performance of four companies in a different area, namely that of capital expenditure. The four c... |
4 December 2009
06:10 GMT |
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Take-Two Interactive suffered quite a blow this morning after it announced a drop in its full-year predictions for earnings. Following the model of the self-fulfilling prophecy, the company already paid the consequences for telling the truth and its stock dropped by 21 percent. Related or not, its fiscal report also ... |
4 December 2009
06:09 GMT |
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Layar has released a new version of its augmented reality browser, and has also included a wide range of new features inside it, so as to enable the creation of new AR experiences to developers. According to the company, the new version of their browser offers those that have basic web development skills the possibi... |
4 December 2009
06:06 GMT |
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It's not exactly a surprise that Google wants to be involved with everything that has to do with the Internet, even marginally, and so far it's been building towards this goal. From the front end, the web browser and now even a dedicated operating system, to the very basics of Internet communications, the ... |
4 December 2009
05:53 GMT |
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Perhaps not that many would associate vodka with a very classy drink, something so subtle and stylish that even the pickiest of ladies would enjoy. The latest campaign from Absolut Vodka has managed to cause quite a stir in this sense, using actress Kate Beckinsale for a plus of glamour and sophistication in what is ... |
4 December 2009
05:52 GMT |
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Scientists at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in France, have recently demonstrated that the human brain has a virtually limitless potential when it comes to perceptual learning. They say that mental imagery training has the ability to boost this ability, and argue that thinking about something over and... |
4 December 2009
05:45 GMT |
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Once you get diabetes, the only possible way to survive is to use specific drugs, or to take daily shots of insulin, depending on the form of the disease. But a new study shows that popular types of diabetes drugs actually put people at increased risks of heart failure and even death. Sulphonylureas and metformin, tw... |
4 December 2009
05:34 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is hard at work with delivering an extensive set of tools to the developers for its BlackBerry smartphone operating system. The company has launched not too long ago its application portal for the users of a BlackBerry smartphone, the App World, and now it is working cl... |
4 December 2009
05:32 GMT |
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Every time a new games comes out, the question that becomes number one on everybody's mind is whether or not it will be approved in Australia. The country has a very faulty rating system, where the maximum rating a title can receive is an MA15+, after which it is refused classification and, as a consequence, it&... |
4 December 2009
05:26 GMT |
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There were some things that caught our attention during this year's CeBIT show, in Hanover, Germany, and the Level 10 case, designed by Thermaltake in collaboration with the BMW Group DesignworksUSA, was certainly one of them. The concept, which later turned into a consumer-ready product, stands out from the cr... |
4 December 2009
05:25 GMT |
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In the wake of having its patent claims against NVIDIA denied in court, Rambus saw some favorable developments in the decision of Samsung Electronics Co. to start the manufacture of XDR DRAM memory chips. Through this development, Rambus's technology will finally begin to see more widespread availability, after ... |
4 December 2009
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Dynasty Tactics 2 is a videogame created and published by KOEI Ltd. Inc. The game was released exclusively on the PlayStation 2 console from Sony on September 23, 2003. It is classed as a hybrid between a role playing experience and a strategy game with elements taken from real life history, which is being played fro... |
4 December 2009
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Just yesterday, I was telling you that Microsoft was offering resources designed to help administrators manage Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 R2. Today is reserved for a tool also designed to streamline administrative work associated with Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core installs: namely Core Conf... |
4 December 2009
05:21 GMT |
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Sony, as the publisher, and Polyphony Digital, as the developer, have announced that they are releasing something that might be considered a demo of the upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive Gran Turismo 5 on December 17. The content is officially called Gran Turismo 5 Time Trial Challenge in the United States and GT Acad... |
4 December 2009
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Brain Age 2 is the sequel to the Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training – How Old Is Your Brain, more simply known as just Brain Age in North America. The title is basically a puzzle game, with several others meant to bring the brain out of its vegetative state. It also features some games and tests made to estima... |
4 December 2009
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Even though there will always be a gaming desktop personal computer that will surpass even the most performance-packed of the gaming notebooks, Acer seems to want to make sure that the respective most capable notebook has its name on it. To that end, the company announced its plan to replace its Acer Aspire 8935 note... |
4 December 2009
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The Ubuntu CE development team proudly announced a couple of days ago (December 2nd) the immediate availability of the Beta release of Ubuntu Christian Edition 6.0. Being based on the powerful Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), the new, highly anticipated release of Ubuntu Christian Edition improves the DansGuardian GUI and... |
4 December 2009
04:46 GMT |
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Aging Rolling Stones rocker Ronnie Wood was arrested the other night on suspicion of assaulting his 21-year-old girlfriend, former cocktail waitress Ekaterina Ivanova, whom he has been dating for about a year. Police have arrested Wood at his place in Surrey, took him to the station and he was then released on bail. ... |
4 December 2009
04:43 GMT |
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More and more countries seem to lose income-tax generators, as large game developers are slowly relocating from their native lands to colder climates. The “Blame Canada” tune will pop in a lot of heads, as the city of Montreal will house yet another game studio. THQ has just announced that it plans to ope... |
4 December 2009
04:41 GMT |
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Hospitals have become over recent years the top places where patients can get bacterial infections from, in spite of experts' best efforts to disinfect the buildings. It would appear that resilient bacteria such as the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have become fond of setting up residence in... |
4 December 2009
04:40 GMT |
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Developer Ed Hamrick (Hamrick Software) has just released a new version of his powerful scanning solution for Mac OS X, VueScan. Also available for Windows and Linux PC fans, VueScan supports over 1,200 flatbed and film scanners and 321 digital-camera raw file types, and assists users by automatically adjusting image... |
4 December 2009
04:39 GMT |
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As reported earlier today, Apple has issued two separate Java updates for Mac OS X users, addressing not only bugs, but also a range of security issues on both Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. For users of the latter, two vulnerabilities have been patched. On Leopard, four such holes are plugged... |
4 December 2009
04:26 GMT |
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Google's self-proclaimed goal is to organize the world's information and, for the most part, it sticks to that. Once in a while though, it's not satisfied with what it finds or the way the information is available elsewhere, so it just builds its own resource. And when you've got thousands of the... |
4 December 2009
04:24 GMT |
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Over the course of its restless history, our planet has also experienced bottlenecks, series of events that almost destroyed all life on Earth. There were five known such instances, which are now called extinction events. During these ages, which scientists have yet to analyze in full detail, most animal and plant li... |
4 December 2009
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The Creative Assembly and SEGA have announced that they are planning to launch the public beta stage for the Campaign Multiplayer component for Empire: Total War. The stage will be outed on December 7 and all those players interested in taking part in it should log into the official Total War site and sign up.Ever si... |
4 December 2009
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There’s no way around it, Microsoft needs to make the next iteration of Internet Explorer, IE9, as fast as Google Chrome, if not even faster. As a general rule, Google Chrome evolves at a much faster pace compared to Internet Explorer, after all, the Mountain View-based search giant has gone through t... |
4 December 2009
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation seems set to expand its offering of handsets powered by Google's Android operating system to a quite large extent in the near future. The company already has a series of appealing such devices available on the market, yet some more will arrive in the future, as a rec... |
4 December 2009
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Age of Conan did pretty well when it was launched, even with Mythic Entertainment's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning launched in the same year. The new things the game tried to bring were some very neat-looking graphics as far as MMOs went, as well as some single-player – story elements to propel charact... |
4 December 2009
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For quite a few months now, various manufacturing-related issues have been reported concerning TSMC's total yields of the 40nm process. Back in late October, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company stated that the issues related to the 40nm process manufacture would be resolved by the end of December. Now... |
4 December 2009
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Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, or TomKat as they’re known as a couple, have been subject to much speculation since they first started dating. Their life at home and the exact nature of their relationship, seemingly conducted by the strict rules of Scientology (as rumors say), has proved very fascinating to t... |
4 December 2009
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When John Riccitiello returned as Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Arts, he put forward a new philosophy: his company would no longer just put out annual iterations of its biggest franchises, like Madden or FIFA or Rock Band, but would try to create and promote new intellectual properties that would establish lo... |
4 December 2009
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Mobile phone maker Motorola seems hard at work with delivering to the market a new series of devices that will run under Google's Android operating system, and one of them was said to be the Motorola Sholes Tablet. While a series of alleged photos with the device surfaced a few days ago into the wild, now more ... |
4 December 2009
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that building large dams on rivers may influence the local climate, to the extent that more weather extremes would occur over that specific region in the coming years. The finding is very worrisome for another reason too – many of these large dams are very old, and... |
4 December 2009
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British singer Lily Allen, although not popular with the vast majority of music critics and / or fans, has, so far, enjoyed the support of many who agreed with her idea of what music should sound like and, in particular, of how it should only express real thoughts and not just contain words that rhyme. Admittedly sic... |
4 December 2009
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Mirror's Edge was a confusing game, mainly because it had some really good, innovative ideas, but there were a lot of things that just didn't seem to fit together. It was like the developers just found out that it had terminal cancer and had to pour all the ideas they ever had into this one, final creation ... |
4 December 2009
03:16 GMT |
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The web can be a wonderful resource for all kinds of information, but language is as much of a barrier as ever. It doesn't really matter if you can access a piece of information if you can't understand it. Translation tools have been around for years now, and Google is certainly interested in the space. Go... |
4 December 2009
03:15 GMT |
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Apple has issued Java updates for Mac OS X users, marking the sixth release on Mac OS X version 10.5 and the first for Snow Leopard – Mac OS X version 10.6. Delivering improved reliability and compatibility, the updates also have a security side, which Apple details in two separate Support documents posted onli... |
4 December 2009
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One of the latest mobile phones that surfaced into the wild in the past few days was the HTC Touch.B/Rome. The handset has been spotted into the wild before, only that this time a series of images with it also emerge, showing how it might look like when it will be delivered on the market. There are not too many deta... |
4 December 2009
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Each year, as Christmas nears, members of the international scientific community start celebrating the season in their own way, by taking the high-tech approach. For instance, this year, experts at the UK National Physics Laboratory (NPL) have created a snowman, which would be nothing special in itself, if their crea... |
4 December 2009
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Microsoft search/decision engine wasn’t able to help users make any searches, let alone actual decisions for approximately half an hour, yesterday, December 3rd, 2009. This because the successor of Live Search suffered a blackout which locked out users worldwide completely. Microsoft was quick to identify the ... |
4 December 2009
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Leading Japanese mobile phone carrier NTT DOCOMO is set to deliver to the market a number of 9 new handsets that will run under the Symbian operating system, a recent post on the Symbian Blog shows. The company, which will deliver 19 handsets in total during this winter season, will also have the said 9 Symbian phon... |
4 December 2009
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The US Hawaii Islands are located on top of a very sensitive tectonic and volcanic center, which is part of the Ring of Fire, the hypothesized circle that surrounds the Pacific Ocean. This area features intense volcanic activity, as well as earthquakes, all caused by the subduction processes that take place between t... |
4 December 2009
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One would think that hardware developers would do their best to disclose as little information as possible concerning their upcoming releases. Still, not long after the pictures of an alleged Radeon HD 5670 motherboard somehow found their way to the Internet, one of Intel's products seems to have suffered a simi... |
4 December 2009
03:00 GMT |
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The Dukes of Hazard: Return of the General Lee is a videogame developed by Ratbag Pty. Ltd. and published by Ubisoft. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and the original Xbox from Microsoft in September 2004. It is classed as an action adventure title featuring driving elements and is based... |
4 December 2009
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Jump! Ultimate Stars is an uptake on the previous release, Jump Super Stars. It features a similar Super Smash Bros.-style fighting gameplay with a huge array of licensed manga characters. In total, 300 characters from 41 different mangas are available and will enable players to go wild and have some real fun. Player... |
4 December 2009
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BlackBerry mobile phone users can now enjoy a brand new application on their handsets, as Nimbuzz has just announced on Thursday that it now delivers a mobile instant messaging app for BlackBerry smartphones. The popular IM application is now available on a series of mobile phones from the Canadian handset vendor Re... |
4 December 2009
02:29 GMT |
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A little more than one month ago, NASA finally managed to launch its newest rocket prototype, the ARES I-X. The delivery system is to be the backbone of Project Constellation, the space agency's new approach to space exploration, which is scheduled to start running in 2015-2016. Everything went smoothly with the... |
4 December 2009
02:17 GMT |
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DRIV3R, also known as Driver 3, is a videogame created by Reflections Interactive and published by Atari. It was released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the Game Boy, the PC (a GameCube version was in production but got canceled). The game was also later ported to mobile ph... |
4 December 2009
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The international astronomical community is buzzing with excitement, following the announcement that the first observations of a planet-like object around its parent star have been made. The newly imaged bodies, which are known as GJ 758 B, and possibly GJ 758 C, orbit a Sun-like star located approximately 50 light-y... |
4 December 2009
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