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The original Nintendo Wii would have not achieved its tremendous popularity without a solid slate of launch titles and the company behind the console plans to replicate the strategy by partnering up the upcoming Wii U with the newly revealed NintendoLand. NintendoLand combines some of the best elements of previous t... |
5 June 2012
23:39 GMT |
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The current generation of devices has evolved to be all about shared experiences and multiplayer gaming and, regardless of the used parameters, Nintendo is way behind Microsoft and Sony in this field and has never been able to deliver an experience that directly competes with Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. ... |
5 June 2012
23:00 GMT |
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Korean semiconductor and electronics company Samsung is preparing a new All-In-One system that will feature a rather large 27” screen and new user interface technologies. When it comes to PCs, no “smart” technologies seem to be emerging. The only smart and intuitive feature that seems to have rea... |
5 June 2012
21:31 GMT |
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Japanese giant technology company Toshiba seems rather open to new ideas and concepts. It is now clear that ASUS’ Transformer concept is becoming a real product type and Toshiba acknowledges that and prepares a Transformer-like tablet of itself. For us, the users, this can only mean good news, as competition &... |
5 June 2012
21:21 GMT |
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Japanese electronics and technology giant Toshiba is always trying the enthusiast-filled Japanese market with novel and sometimes strange solutions. The company’s new 21:9 UltraBook is a perfect example of good technology in a very strange package. The new mobile computing unit from Toshiba is called Satellite... |
5 June 2012
21:21 GMT |
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tapTrak, an iPhone app designed to be “the mobile micro-journal for everyone,” has climbed to the #1 spot on the App Store's New and Noteworthy list after just one week of existence.
“A selective group of the most interesting new apps according to Apple,” as tapTrak LLC puts it, the char... |
5 June 2012
21:11 GMT |
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FlickStackr, an app that brings Flickr photo sharing to the iPad, has been redesigned and updated with a bunch of new features, including Retina display support for the new iPad, 1600px and 2048px resolutions, iCloud integration, and more.
Before anyone takes the plunge, developer iPoint emphasizes that whoever is u... |
5 June 2012
20:41 GMT |
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Technology giant, Japanese company Toshiba has chosen Computex 2012 as the right moment to launch the company’s new All-In-One (AIO) system. The LX830 AIO from Toshiba has lots of connectivity options and comes packed with a wireless keyboard and mouse. The new AIO system from Toshiba is powered by Intel&rsquo... |
5 June 2012
20:41 GMT |
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The intriguing indie brawler Zeno Clash is getting a sequel, in the form of Zeno Clash II, which has just been announced by Chilean developer Ace Team and publisher Atlus for an early 2013 release.
The first Zeno Clash delivered a really weird world in which all sorts of creatures lived together and battled using on... |
5 June 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Pong Research Corporation has released “the world’s most advanced iPad case,” which protects your tablet computer, boosts its 3G/4G and Wi-Fi reception, and reduces the user's exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR), a Class 2B carcinogen.
Developed by a team of PhD scientists trained at M... |
5 June 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Regional handset manufacturer Micromax has just announced the upcoming availability of Superfone A45 Punk Android smartphone.
According to Micromax, the handset will soon be available via all leading retailers. Customers will be able to purchase the Superfone A45 Punk in two colors, black and white, for only Rs 5,49... |
5 June 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Computer accessory vendor Belkin has issued upgrades to its Thunderbolt Express Dock range, as well as new Thunderbolt cables for Macs. The Thunderbolt Express Dock connects to up to nine desktop peripherals with one cable. It turns a mobile PC into a desktop solution in a few seconds, and the upgraded version inclu... |
5 June 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Besides presenting an array of videos and games during its E3 2012 press conference, Sony also pinned a release date on the eagerly awaited God of War: Ascension, confirming that gamers will be able to once again hack and slash their way alongside Kratos on March 12, 2013.
God of War: Ascension was revealed to the w... |
5 June 2012
18:11 GMT |
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FileTrek, Inc. has released an iPad management dashboard tool designed for workgroup managers to track the flow of projects, data and collaborative activity while away from the desk. FileTrek for iPad offers live activity updates of projects and displays how project files are related and how those files are being ch... |
5 June 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Mobile game publisher and developer, Gameloft has just announced the upcoming availability of “The Amazing Spider-Man” mobile game. This is the second launch announcement made by Gameloft this week, after the company introduced the highly-acclaimed N.O.V.A. 3 game for Android devices. In order to offer ... |
5 June 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Days before the start of the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, which will take place in Poland and Ukraine, security experts have found an email lottery campaign that tries to dupe unsuspecting Internet users into handing over their personal data and maybe even some money.
Similar to other typical lottery sc... |
5 June 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Accessory maker Cellairis has announced the Shell Shock: G-Class, a new range of highly durable screen protectors for iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. The glass protectors are also compatible with the fourth-generation iPod touch. Available in both front and back protectors, Shell Shock: G-Class is made from impact-resistant... |
5 June 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Kate Winslet has long established herself as a champion of a healthy body image, the idol of millions of normal-sized women from all over the world. Her latest interview with Vanity Fair Italia is to be read in this context. Once a chubbier version of the woman she is today, Kate knows a lot about low self-esteem a... |
5 June 2012
16:11 GMT |
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After plenty of leaks and rumors, Electronic Arts together with DICE have revealed the Battlefield Premium DLC for Battlefield 3, which includes access to all of the game’s expansions, as well as a variety of extra items and benefits. Battlefield 3 has been around for quite some time and now, ahead of the rele... |
5 June 2012
15:51 GMT |
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The built-in PDF viewer in Firefox is still not enabled by default, but Mozilla is making progress. The viewer itself is mostly done, as it's able to render most PDF files at this point. In the latest update though, the team introduced a brand new and much more spiffy UI. The new black UI certainly looks a lot b... |
5 June 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Last week, one of the most shocking crimes took place in Miami, when one man ate the face off another man in an attack that got people talking of a “zombie apocalypse.” Two guys thought this would be the perfect idea for a prank. As panic swept over America – enough to get the Center for Disease C... |
5 June 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Coolers come in various forms, but SilverStone decided to go even further outside the norm than usual when it created the SST-NT01 Pro.
We aren't sure what CPUs or APUs the product is supposed to be compatible with. The report didn't say.
We suspect that both Intel and AMD chips are supported, as is the... |
5 June 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Back in October 2011, personal trainer Drew Manning announced he would be embarking on the adventure of his life: he would become fat so that he could slim down again, just so he would better understand all those struggling with their weight. Mission accomplished. The other day, Manning and his wife stopped by ABC&... |
5 June 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Liquidmetal Technologies, a publicly traded company whose amorphous metal alloys are winning over the entire tech industry, has confirmed its involvement with Apple over the commercialization of the elusive material in products envisioned by the Cupertino, California-based giant. In a video shot at Alan Stone's... |
5 June 2012
14:21 GMT |
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The new Windows 8 craze seems to be driving this year’s Computex. We’ve already reported here about what we like and what we dislike about Acer’s new AIO, but now you can see it in action.
In very striking contrast with the massive Windows 8 operating system, Acer’s 7600U is very responsive a... |
5 June 2012
14:21 GMT |
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The hacker that goes by the name of Gambit has identified non-persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities on a number of important sites, including the US Department of Energy (doe.gov), Minute Workers, NASDAQ, US Office of the Secretary of Defense (osd.mil), NASA (starbrite.jpl.nasa.gov), Canadian media co... |
5 June 2012
14:21 GMT |
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FileSoup is the oldest surviving BitTorrent site in existence. It's close to celebrating its 10-year birthday, but it won't get to that since the site is shutting down. Unfortunately, old age, spurred by a police raid on its two administrators, has contributed to its demise. The site's owner and one ... |
5 June 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Valve has pinned a release date on its upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive online shooter, confirming that it’s going to be out for the PC, Mac, PS3 and Xbox 360 platforms on August 21, with a price of just $15 (around €12).
The Counter-Strike series is set to make a triumphant comeback with Global ... |
5 June 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Corning, the company which develops the durable glass used in Apple’s iPhones, has announced a new development involving a flexible ‘Willow Glass.’ The fledging material is most likely not going to be a part of the next-generation of iPhones, but it might just wrap around the iPhone 6 next year. A ... |
5 June 2012
13:31 GMT |
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After a few rumors that the Xbox 360 might soon start communicating more with other devices, Microsoft has confirmed at its E3 2012 press conference that a new technology called Xbox SmartGlass is coming to its home console, which allows it to interact with smartphones or tablets.
The Xbox 360 is being turned into a... |
5 June 2012
13:21 GMT |
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No better place to promote a movie than the MTV Movie Awards 2012, which took place over the weekend. The producers of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” thought the same, so they introed the first trailer for it here. Starring Emma Watson (with an American accent), Ezra Miller, and Logan Lerman as the t... |
5 June 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Now that we've written about some Trinity-supporting motherboards, we're going to report on a cooler that can collaborate with socket FM2 processors.
The product we are talking about is the Gelid Gamer Series Black Edition, made of two dark aluminum towers, seven heatpipes (three 8mm and four 6mm ones) an... |
5 June 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Qualcomm is the largest chip maker that supports Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, and it plans on remaining so. The company’s processors are found in current Windows Phone 7 devices and are said to be en-route to provide great performance capabilities to upcoming Windows Phone 8 handsets as w... |
5 June 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Nintendo has just wrapped up its full-fledged E3 2012 press conference, after the pre-expo one we saw earlier this week, and unveiled an array of details about the upcoming Wii U console and some of the games that will appear for it.Nintendo's E3 2012 press conference has been focused on the Wii U and one of the... |
5 June 2012
12:48 GMT |
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Facebook has been criticized for its poor showing in the mobile space. For a company with hundreds of millions of daily mobile users, that's probably unwarranted. Still, mobile hasn't been a priority until recently. Facebook is a large company now, whether it likes it or not, so things move a bit slower. ... |
5 June 2012
12:11 GMT |
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When MSI launched the famous GT70 gaming notebook, we were so enthusiastic about its performance and speed that nobody even thought about slim and light UltraBook with integrated graphics. To show that they’re a company that really masters mobile computing technology, MSI is now back in the true mobility game w... |
5 June 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Stratus is a small project from Lee Martin, a SoundCloud employee, for easily embedding SoundCloud-hosted audio files in remote web pages. By default, Stratus adds a jQuery-powered SoundCloud audio player at the bottom of the page. The player, modeled as a bar, is shown in a fixed, floating position, so it is always... |
5 June 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Officials announced that there were no recorded deaths on account of tornadoes this May in the United States, making 2012 the first year since 2005 when no casualties were recorded before the official start of the hurricane season.
Statistics provided by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)... |
5 June 2012
11:52 GMT |
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Robert Shingledecker announced last evening, June 4th, the immediate availability for download of the Tiny Core 4.5.4 Linux operating system, including the Tiny Core Plus edition.
Tiny Core Linux 4.5.4 is another minor maintenance and bug fix release, bringing a few updated packages and tools, such as:
· Bu... |
5 June 2012
11:41 GMT |
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The US National Research Council identified the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) telescope as a priority for the next decade, but NASA has not yet received funding to get the project going. A donation from the National Reconnaissance Office might just get things rolling.
Back in 2011, the space agency t... |
5 June 2012
11:35 GMT |
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While celebrity bloggers continue to speculate on whether Lindsay Lohan will sink Lifetime's biopic “Liz & Dick,” the first photo of her in character has emerged online.
It shows Lohan in darker hair and in full makeup, leaning backwards, with Grant Bowler, who plays Richard Burton, leaning in to p... |
5 June 2012
11:17 GMT |
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Airtime, the secretive and hyped startup created by Napster founder Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, is finally here. The name already suggested that the company had something to do with video and anyone following Sean Parker for the past couple of years should have been able to tell very easily what Airtime is, it... |
5 June 2012
11:17 GMT |
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A second beta for Miranda 0.9.50 has been launched recently. It looks like this release does not integrate too many modifications, since the change list is composed of only one entry.
All repairs present in this revision address Yahoo- related problems. There aren’t any details on the nature of these issues, t... |
5 June 2012
11:16 GMT |
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Quelitu, a multilingual operating system based on Lubuntu 12.04 and Bodhi Linux, which aims to power antique computers, is now at version 4-12.04.
The new release of Quelitu, 4-12.04, comes with a great number of interesting features and quite a few updates, such as:
· Quelitu proprietary HUD, similar to the... |
5 June 2012
11:13 GMT |
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Even though wireless charging isn't a totally new idea, it seems to interest people nowadays, as we saw after writing that bit about the new reference designs.
Intel probably didn't expect all its ultrabooks, and other products, to be totally overshadowed by a keyboard.
Sure, it may have prepared for ge... |
5 June 2012
11:13 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has started the roll-out of a new software update for its Motorola XOOM devices, providing users with the full set of features that Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich has to offer to them. The new update began arriving on XOOM tablets on June 4th as software IMM76L and is being de... |
5 June 2012
11:11 GMT |
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On June 1st, Microsoft made available for download the final pre-release version of its Windows 8 platform, namely Windows 8 Release Preview.
Those users who haven’t had the possibility to take a look at the operating system by downloading and installing it can learn more on what it has to offer through the u... |
5 June 2012
11:02 GMT |
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Officials at the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the agency in charge of operating American spy satellites, decided to hand over command of two observation instruments to NASA. The assets will be used as astronomical observatories starting no earlier than 2020.
The original design of the telescopes has not ... |
5 June 2012
10:59 GMT |
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Dell's Alienware line of gaming notebooks makes a point of being both good-looking and powerful, so it would be strange if the laptops didn't immediately enlist the services of NVIDIA's new mobile GPU.
And by NVIDIA's new mobile GPU we naturally mean the GeForce GTX 680M.
Two Alienware systems... |
5 June 2012
10:52 GMT |
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A few years ago, professor Rakesh Agrawal, presently employed as a chemical engineer at the Purdue University in Indiana, US, succeeded in designing a new process for creating eco-fuels from biomass. The latest news regarding this issue are that professor Agrawal's H2Bioil method is quite ready to step outside l... |
5 June 2012
10:49 GMT |
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Celine Dion has spent the past few months on the side bench after a virus that affected her vocal chords forced her to cancel many dates of her extremely successful Las Vegas show. She sat down for an interview with NBC for the first time since getting the all-clear from doctors.
Video of it is below, embedded at t... |
5 June 2012
10:45 GMT |
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Sony has overhauled the PlayStation Plus service and is now offering its premium members access to a collection of free games, including big titles like Infamous 2, LittleBigPlanet 2, Just Cause 2 or Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine.
The PlayStation Plus service offered some pretty sweet benefits to PlayStation Networ... |
5 June 2012
10:41 GMT |
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As much as I am hoping to see the stable release for Opera 12 this week, it’s definitely not going to be launched today. Instead, the development team rolled out a new snapshot for the beta version of the application.
The fresh build addresses some issues that affected Skydrive upload, JavaScript errors as wel... |
5 June 2012
10:34 GMT |
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Google Analytics now enables website owners to see what their visitors see via a tool that displays the window size of the browsers used by them.
It's a very useful tool if you're trying to determine what stays above the fold and what not, since now you know where the actual "fold" is.
You can customize... |
5 June 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Motorola is one of the few handset makers that did not manage to deliver an Ice Cream Sandwich update for a smartphone. Other important companies like HTC, Samsung and LG have already deployed the Android 4.0 ICS upgrade for at least one of their phones, but not Motorola.
However, the US-based company recently relea... |
5 June 2012
10:31 GMT |
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A new research has discovered an interesting link between leaving depression untreated during adolescence and people's risk of abusing drugs later on in life. However, the work also shows that treating teen depression is an effective way of eliminating this correlation.
The research was carried out on 192 adol... |
5 June 2012
10:30 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available for download the Release Candidate (RC) version of Microsoft DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant (DCA) 2.0.
The application requires client computers to be based on Windows 7 and to be connected to an internal corporate network through the DirectAccess feature present in Windows Server ... |
5 June 2012
10:29 GMT |
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In order to get to the 2012 edition of the E3 trade show, which takes place in Los Angeles this week, I had to fly no less than 14 hours overall, deal with two significant delays and spend 4 hours in terminal 5 at Heathrow.
I had a lot of time to think during the hours spent travelling and, because of my destination... |
5 June 2012
10:29 GMT |
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We used to think that NVIDIA had nailed the dual-GPU market with the GeForce GTX 690, but ASUS is using Computex as an occasion to teach everyone what a real dual-GPU board is.
ASUS has revealed a product that stands next to the dual-GPU Zeus motherboard in terms of weirdness and performance level.
Whereas the Ze... |
5 June 2012
10:20 GMT |
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At Computex 2012, in Taipei, Taiwan, ASUS has several products bearing the Republic of Gamers logo. One of them is a motherboard called Maximus V Extreme.
Maximus V Extreme (M5E) is part of a ROG motherboard trio, whose other two members are Maximus V Formula and Maximus V Gene.
The Maximus V Extreme is powered b... |
5 June 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Open Xange, a simple-to-use Linux operating system based on the KDE SC desktop environment, is now at version 2012.06.
Open Xang 2012.06 brings quite a few features, not to mention support for a lot of cloud-based applications.
Highlights of Open Xang 2012.06:
· Linux kernel 3.3.0;
· KDE SC was upda... |
5 June 2012
10:11 GMT |
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She basically invented the concept of “fierce” so it should probably come as no surprise that Grace Jones was precisely so at the Diamond Jubilee Concert held outside the Buckingham Palace. Unlike Cheryl Cole, the 64-year-old model and singer and full-time fierce bringer, sang with gusto and conviction ... |
5 June 2012
10:09 GMT |
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The core experience of E3 2012 might be linked to high-profile video games, but a lot of users are now using their home consoles for more than gaming and Sony plans to make the PlayStation 3 more attractive in the near future with a new service called simply Wonderbook.
Andrew House, who is the president and the chi... |
5 June 2012
10:08 GMT |
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Emsisoft rolled out today version 2.0 of their Emergency Kit bundle, a bundle of tools designed to get you out of trouble in case of malware infections. Apart from other modifications, the new release is also portable.
At the moment, Emsisoft Emergency Kit is a unique bundle because it is the only malware scanner re... |
5 June 2012
10:07 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has big plans for its Xbox console moving forth and has just announced a new set of enhancements brought to it that confirms this. At the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, the company announced the availability of new entertainment experiences for Xbox users, inclu... |
5 June 2012
10:01 GMT |
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digiKam, a digital photo management application for KDE and Linux that includes an image editor for photo corrections and manipulation, is now at version 2.6.0.
digiKam 2.6.0 has a handful of new features, including the following ones:
· Support of Little CMS version 2 has been added;
· A new tool to... |
5 June 2012
09:57 GMT |
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Earlier this year Facebook joined the DNSChanger Working Group with the purpose of aiding potential victims with the cleaning process. To make sure that their users don’t lose Internet access on July 9, when the temporary DNS servers will be unplugged, the social media website has started warning customers whos... |
5 June 2012
09:55 GMT |
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According to an industrial design student, the “off the richter” amounts of electronic waste our society is presently responsible for creating are also due to the fact that industries design rather expensive products that, oddly enough, can only satisfy one of our needs throughout their entire lifespan.
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5 June 2012
09:53 GMT |
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Kristen Stewart has just landed another magazine cover this month. The “Twilight” actress, now promoting “Snow White and the Huntsman,” is featured in the latest issue of Vanity Fair – and the interview is definitely worth a read. She must be one of the most famous young women in the w... |
5 June 2012
09:53 GMT |
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Higher blood levels of caffeine were positively associated with a protective effect on the human brain, especially against forms of dementia and neural decline, including Alzheimer's disease. Serving some coffee may not be that bad for the elderly after all.
The conclusions belong to a new epidemiological study... |
5 June 2012
09:52 GMT |
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MythTV, a Digital Video Recorder and home media center hub featuring automatic commercial detection/skipping, intelligent schedules recordings, parental control, remote administration, and many more other functions, is now at version 0.25.1.
The developers of MythTV have implemented a lot of changes and updates in ... |
5 June 2012
09:50 GMT |
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Corning succeeded in creating some new, portable display glass substrates, making it possible to manufacture cheaper LCDs for laptops.
Corning's Eagle XG glass composition and the company's proprietary fusion process is what enabled the creation of Eagle SG Slim.
Eagle SG Slim is currently used in phones,... |
5 June 2012
09:49 GMT |
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1.7.2 and 1.7.3 version updates for Golf and Non-Golf, respectively, are being pushed to MOTOACTV devices with redesigned screens, new workout plans and improved performance. GPS Tracker, Smart MP3 Player, Heart Rate Monitor, Wireless Music are the highlights of Motorola's Smartwatch, MOTOACTV. Starting at $24... |
5 June 2012
09:42 GMT |
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EURO 2012 is only a few days away and all European football fans, but not only, will be glued to their TV sets to keep up with the action for the next month.
But it's not just their TVs they'll be glued to, they'll probably have a tablet or a laptop nearby too.
Which is just as well, if you're... |
5 June 2012
09:40 GMT |
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After a few rumors last week, Ubisoft has now confirmed Splinter Cell: Blacklist, a brand new spy game starring the franchise’s protagonist, Sam Fisher, who must now save the U.S. from a group of terrorists that are threatening the whole country.
The Splinter Cell series delivered a pretty decent last installm... |
5 June 2012
09:31 GMT |
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In an attempt to simplify management and to align products, Microsoft is performing changes to more of its services, the latest of which being Zune. At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, the company announced the launch of Xbox Music, a new service for its users. The company also showed a snea... |
5 June 2012
09:28 GMT |
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Microsoft has released a second security advisory to detail the way Flame, the now-infamous piece of malware, has managed to sign its code to make it look like it comes from Microsoft.
According to Mike Reavey, senior director at MSRC, Flame utilized a cryptographic collision attack, along with the terminal server l... |
5 June 2012
09:17 GMT |
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The latest developments in the field of constructions brought us solar shingles, a new roofing option that combines solar technology with the materials typically used in construction.
Preliminary reports indicate that more than 75% of the households throughout America can be made to use this solar shingle technolog... |
5 June 2012
09:15 GMT |
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Their low mass and hydrophobic bodies help mosquitoes withstand mid-flight impacts with raindrops without suffering any structural damage. In a new study conducted using slow-motion cameras, scientists were able to figure out how these factors, and others, interact to spawn this ability.
It is very important to not... |
5 June 2012
09:12 GMT |
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Google has updated the Chrome dev channel, incrementing the build number to 21.0.1163.0. The new release is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame).
Common to all the platforms is the update to version 3.11.8 of the JavaScript engine, V8. Apart from sporting performance and stab... |
5 June 2012
08:51 GMT |
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In the early days Twitter search was mostly useless. Today, it's not that different. For a site where search would be so important, it's hard to understand why it just isn't. Well, it turns out the problem is much bigger and more difficult than it would seem and that Google has conditioned us to think.... |
5 June 2012
08:50 GMT |
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We've seen Sapphire's FM2 motherboard and now we get to see another platform ready to accept the Trinity APUs from Advanced Micro Devices.
Foxconn is present at Computex 2012, in Taipei, Taiwan, and one of the products on show at its booth is the AMD A85 FCH.
Long story short, this is a motherboard feat... |
5 June 2012
08:48 GMT |
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An international collaboration of researchers has just placed the most precise set of restraints on the nature of neutrinoless double beta decay, a form of atomic decay that can be used to establish the mass of neutrinos with great precision. In turn, this could be used to unlock the mysteries of the Universe. Neutr... |
5 June 2012
08:43 GMT |
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On June 1st, Microsoft has quietly made available for download a new version of its Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010. FIM 2010 R2 is now available for download for all TechNet and MSDN subscribers and should become available for the general public in the not too distant future. The digital-identity-managemen... |
5 June 2012
08:35 GMT |
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Recent reports indicate that, from an environmental standpoint, it's better to stick to your old paperback books, rather than switch to e-readers.
A common misconception among people living in the modern world is that one who wants to help protect national and international forests, and by extension the enviro... |
5 June 2012
08:34 GMT |
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A group of hackers has released a video in which they announce the return of the LulzSec collective. As expected, the news has already raised a lot of controversy among online activists, some Anonymous channels naming the decision an “insult” to the famous Topiary.
“ITs out ! FBI did not destroy Lu... |
5 June 2012
08:32 GMT |
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Now that normal Eyefinity isn't an advantage anymore, Advanced Micro Devices and its partners are placing emphasis on the stronger version of the technology.
The reason we are saying Eyefinity is no longer an advantage is simple: NVIDIA's video cards are not limited to two-display operation anymore.
AMD... |
5 June 2012
08:31 GMT |
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There's a reason why Cheryl Cole hardly sings live and a complicated choreography has nothing to do with it. Fans are terribly disappointed in her performance at the Diamond Jubilee Concert, where she duetted with Gary Barlow. The duo, looking their best in black and white outfits, took to the giant stage to p... |
5 June 2012
08:29 GMT |
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The latest version of Nokia Transport promises to bring more features and improvements in the mix, while keeping the same level of performance and stability.
Although it’s still a work in progress, the on-the-move application for urban travels, already comprises thousands of maps, schedules and timetables for ... |
5 June 2012
08:11 GMT |
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The Bluetooth wireless technology is used for a lot of things, so Intel figured it might invent an anti-theft system reliant on it. At Computex 2012, the company is demonstrating an alarm system that can be configured to go off when an ultrabook is taken outside the range of your phone. A custom Android app designa... |
5 June 2012
08:10 GMT |
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There is a new version available for RoboForm. The fixes listed touch on various components of the application, starting with the installer and ending with browser integration and synchronization.
Significant modifications available in RoboForm 7.7.8 address problems affecting the sync module. In some cases, the sta... |
5 June 2012
08:07 GMT |
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One of the great applications that Nokia’s Windows Phone devices in the Lumia series have to offer is Nokia Maps. The software was designed to provide users with the best mapping experience on their Lumia phones, and it can be downloaded for free from Nokia’s collection section in the Windows Phone Mark... |
5 June 2012
08:04 GMT |
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Well-known mainboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company MSI lately seems to have left the true concept of mobility unexplored with the company’s products. At this year’s Computex, MSI is back in the true mobility game with the S20 Slider Convertible Ultrabook/Tablet. Sure MSI was one of the top netbook play... |
5 June 2012
08:04 GMT |
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Capcom took the stage during Microsoft’s E3 2012 press conference and presented to the world the first gameplay footage of Resident Evil 6, its upcoming survival horror game.
Microsoft presented demonstrations of a variety of games yesterday, from Xbox 360 exclusives, like Halo 4, to third-party titles, like T... |
5 June 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Entirely self-contained robotic units called SPHERES will return to the International Space Station soon, under a new Zero-Robotics competition hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA). Each Member State in the organization will participate with a maximum of 25 student teams.
The miniature satellites were activated... |
5 June 2012
07:55 GMT |
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HTML5 is the popular catch-all term for all modern web technologies, but there are several separate efforts to make the web more powerful and more beautiful. CSS3 is about the latter. Google Chrome now has support for CSS filters, powerful tools for transforming the look of any HTML element.
The filters work best wi... |
5 June 2012
07:53 GMT |
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After breaching the State of Rhode Island website yesterday, today The Unknowns return with another target from the same category. This time the victim is the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, a subdomain hosted on ca.gov. If the hackers haven’t leaked any sensitive data from Rhode Island,... |
5 June 2012
07:51 GMT |
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With environmentalists going on and on about how nations all around the world need to drastically reduce their use of fossil fuels, the UK is seriously considering using the tidal flows in its Severn Estuary as a source for environmentally friendly energy.
As the Severn Estuary presently drains the longest river in... |
5 June 2012
07:50 GMT |
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For people who want some fast solid-state drives, Corsair has developed the Neutron Series, which don't use any of the controllers so far advertised.
We can't really guarantee that the storage devices will be cheaper than SandForce or other high-end models, but we suspect they will be, since the write spe... |
5 June 2012
07:48 GMT |
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With Bane threatening to bring Gotham and Batman to their knees in the upcoming “The Dark Knight Rises,” and Catwoman doing some serious damage on her own, it's interesting to hear what Warner Bros. had initially planned for the final installment in Chris Nolan's trilogy. Screenwriter David Goy... |
5 June 2012
07:40 GMT |
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Security expert and iPhone hacker Grant Paul, also known as @chpwn in Twitter circles, has finished his first day as an intern at Facebook, noting that he is “very excited.” It’s no mystery Facebook is trying to spit out its own smartphone, in what will undoubtedly crowd the mobile space even furth... |
5 June 2012
07:31 GMT |
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A potentially-fake MacBook Pro fact sheet has been leaked out indicating that this year’s refresh will be far from “resolutionary.” The computers will allegedly boast high-end graphics and Ivy Bridge CPUS, as well as the latest ports and connectors, and an optical drive. If these specs pan out, it ... |
5 June 2012
07:30 GMT |
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The latest issue of W Magazine brings a very naughty spread with Tom Cruise as aging rocker Stacee Jaxx from “Rock of Ages,” with ladies literally throwing themselves at him. The idea has upset Tom's real-life wife Katie Holmes to the extreme. According to the latest print issue of The National Enqu... |
5 June 2012
07:23 GMT |
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A new build has been released for the alpha version of uTorrent. The update does not introduce new features as the entries in the change log include only modifications and repairs. In the new revision, the I/O is no longer unbuffered, a change that should automatically result in a performance boost. On the same note... |
5 June 2012
07:12 GMT |
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Codenamed Apollo, the next flavor of Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system is expected to arrive sometime in fall, yet specific info on what it would have to offer hasn’t been officially unveiled until now. However, that might change as soon as June 20th, when the company will kick off the Windows ... |
5 June 2012
07:11 GMT |
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The official website of the Civilian Secretariat for Police of South Africa (policesecretariat.gov.za) has been defaced by a hacktivist collective calling itself Moroccan Ghosts.
City Press reports that the group hasn’t revealed the reasons for which the site of the police has been targeted, the only elem... |
5 June 2012
07:10 GMT |
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Like a bunch of other companies, Sapphire is attending this year's edition of the Computex trade show.
One of the products on display at its booth is a motherboard equipped with the A75 Hudson chipset.
That's right, the Pure Platinum A75 will act as Sapphire's offering to those consumers who plan o... |
5 June 2012
06:59 GMT |
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Qualcomm is the proud developer of the famous “Krait” architecture, and now the company is showing the first ARM tablet running on Windows RT. This is a device that likely uses a 1.5 GHz SnapDragon S4 processor and 2 GB of RAM system memory. We liked the “Windows on ARM” moniker better than W... |
5 June 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Lars Torben Kremer proudly announced last evening, June 4th, the immediate availability for download of the Cinnamon edition of the Snowlinux 2 operating system.
Dubbed Cream, Snowlinux 2 Cinnamon is based on the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system and it is powered by Linux kernel 3.2.0 and Cinnam... |
5 June 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Shortly after the world learned of the existence of the Flame malware, security experts from Kaspersky rushed not only to analyze the threat, but also to remove the risks it posed. Collaborating with GoDaddy’s Network Abuse Department and OpenDNS’s security research team, Kaspersky has managed to sinkhol... |
5 June 2012
06:33 GMT |
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Electronic Arts’ E3 2012 press conference was headlined by Need for Speed: Most Wanted, a reboot of the original 2005 installment in the racing game series, this time developed by Criterion and enriched with all sorts of brand new features.
Criterion Games impressed back in 2010 with the Need for Speed: Hot Pu... |
5 June 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Though it's been shooting for some time, it's only now that we have the first official look at the upcoming “Iron Man 3,” thanks to a photo Marvel has just released. Click on the image above to enlarge. After the success of “The Avengers,” fans must be dying to see what happens in ... |
5 June 2012
06:09 GMT |
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Experts are currently analyzing the requirements of assembling the world's most complex and complete tree of life, to feature everything researchers know about all living things. It would also include the interactions between all known species and their ecosystems.
Understanding these relations is extremely im... |
5 June 2012
05:55 GMT |
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Google has confirmed that it's buying Meebo, the social media company that started out as instant messaging client. The Meebo team, which is smaller than it used to be, will be joining the company and working on Google+. Most major acquisitions of late have been centered around Google+. There's no officia... |
5 June 2012
05:50 GMT |
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Presently, northern Brazil is slowly but surely turning into a battlefield between the will of various energy companies, on the one hand, and the will of conservationists and local people, on the other. The reason for this feud is as follows: a large consortium of energy companies is planning on having a dam comp... |
5 June 2012
05:49 GMT |
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Starz's bold project “Spartacus” has just received an expiry date: the series will end with the upcoming and third season, “Spartacus: War of the Damned,” the network has announced. Fans of the show must already know that it ran a troubled course, though a very successful one as well. ... |
5 June 2012
05:48 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced a wide range of enhancements brought to Internet Explorer 10 in its new Windows 8 Release Preview, yet it seems that there are others too aimed at delivering a better experience to all users. The goal is to provide users with a consistent “same markup, same results” approach acro... |
5 June 2012
05:43 GMT |
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ASUS came to this year's Computex trade show with the intention to cause jaws to drop to the floor, and the Zeus motherboard may just make that happen.
Zeus is a peculiar product, in that it goes beyond the normal concept of a motherboard, even when thinking of platforms with integrated graphics.
Even at jus... |
5 June 2012
05:40 GMT |
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Researchers Charlie Miller and Jon Oberheide have made available a teaser of their presentation at this week’s SummerCon conference in New York. They plan on demonstrating how they have been able to bypass the Android Bouncer and slip malicious apps into Google’s official app market.
Android Bouncer is a... |
5 June 2012
05:26 GMT |
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Famous mainboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company MSI is powering Futuremark’s show system presenting the latest version of 3D Mark graphics performance benchmarking suite. The new version of the benchmark is still in development and its name is simply “3D Mark for Windows 8.” Hardware experts from ... |
5 June 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is coming to Mac OS X on August 21st. The game will be available as a digital download via Steam. According to a fresh post on steampowered.com, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is actively being developed by Valve Software in cooperation with Hidden Path Entertainment, a Seattle-bas... |
5 June 2012
05:11 GMT |
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As all those who live in the city know, one of the major drawbacks of urban life is the high temperatures recorded in these areas during summer time. Of course, air-conditioning can help improve your living conditions at the office and at home, but whenever one has to go out and run some errands, heat can really ta... |
5 June 2012
05:09 GMT |
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Microsoft introduced an array of games during its E3 2012 press conference and, as always, it made sure to present the first gameplay video of this year’s new Call of Duty game, namely Black Ops II.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is set to arrive this November and, while it’s coming to all sorts of platforms,... |
5 June 2012
05:03 GMT |
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The Orbital Science Corporation (OSC) L-1011 Stargazer aircraft has just been outfitted with the Pegasus XL rocket that will deliver the NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) spacecraft to Earth's orbit.
The aircraft is located at the Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), in California, where it is c... |
5 June 2012
04:55 GMT |
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The mother of a 9-month-old girl is trying to retrieve her stolen iPhone, or at least the pictures stored on the flash memory, after dropping the device in a taxi during a business trip to Beijing. Xie Danhong, 33, said the photos and video clips on her iPhone are invaluable. The device was jailbroken at the time sh... |
5 June 2012
04:52 GMT |
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The Kardashians have long made a tradition of making every aspect of their life known to the public. If it's not on their reality shows, it's in their interviews or, more recently, in their “music videos.” The latest accompanies B.I.G's “Hypnotize” hit and was shot while the fa... |
5 June 2012
04:48 GMT |
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The latest hoax that’s making the rounds on Facebook is not only somewhat amusing, but it can also be seen as something that may give some naïve users a false sense of security.
Here’s what the phony post looks like:
Facebook is now a publicly traded entity. Unless you state otherwise, anyone ... |
5 June 2012
04:43 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers in the United States, including scientists from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the US Air Force Academy (USAFA), in Colorado, are currently working on an optical technology inspired by a common kitchen utensil.
Their photon sieve is a diffrac... |
5 June 2012
04:36 GMT |
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It looks like the success of the Galaxy Note convinced Samsung to build a sequel as soon as possible. The Galaxy Note 2 has just been tipped for an October release. The guys over at UbuntuLife claim the design of the next Galaxy Note smartphone will be inspired by Samsung’s Android flagship handset, the Galaxy... |
5 June 2012
04:34 GMT |
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Foursquare is one of the most popular applications on mobile phones, providing users with the possibility to easily share their location with their friends, or to send recommendations on places to visit. Apparently, Foursquare is about to change. The company behind the application is currently teasing a new version... |
5 June 2012
04:27 GMT |
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Security experts from Sophos have come across a number of fake emails that purport to originate from booking.com. Internet users are advised to be on the lookout since these phony notifications carry some nasty pieces of malware.
Bearing the subject “Hotel booking confirmation [random number],” the messa... |
5 June 2012
04:24 GMT |
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Ever since the industrial revolution – all-hail to the Rankine cycle –, countless amounts of toxins, ranging from industrial waste to landfills and gas leaks, have been building up in soils and, naturally, making their way into our underground water systems. Up until now, the favorite method to somehow ... |
5 June 2012
04:23 GMT |
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Colorful is a somewhat less-known Chinese video card manufacturer that usually comes up with original and rather effective product designs. At this year’s Computex, Colorful presents the N2 concept. The company reportedly calls N2 “The world’s first liquid nitrogen customized version” fan-kit... |
5 June 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Though Charlie Sheen put in an appearance at the MTV Movie Awards 2012 over the weekend and he seemed sober, reports are still making the rounds that he might be off the wagon and back to a life of non-stop partying and heavy drugs. Fans must know that his stint on “Two and a Half Men” ended precisely bec... |
5 June 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Microsoft held its own E3 2012 press conference yesterday and, besides exclusive titles like Halo 4, the company also brought in third-party developers like Crystal Dynamics, which once again showed off some gameplay footage from its upcoming Tomb Raider reboot.
The Tomb Raider series hasn’t exactly gone throu... |
5 June 2012
04:17 GMT |
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During the last Venusian transit of the Sun, in 2004, astronomers photographed a mysterious arc of light around our neighboring world. Though theories to explain its origin exist, scientists now plan to use multiple spacecraft and ground telescopes to observe the phenomenon yet again.
As evidenced in the image to t... |
5 June 2012
04:10 GMT |
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Penn Station, Inc. has released a statement informing customers that they’ve identified credit card security issues in a few of their restaurants. More precisely, the attackers seem to have obtained names and credit/debit card information.
According to the company, they’ve discovered that less than 20 pe... |
5 June 2012
04:04 GMT |
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The Snapdragon chipset line may have once been mostly restricted to phones and tablets, but that is history now, especially since the S4 generation has come forth. Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 series of ARM-based processors is composed of four different chips: S4 Prime, S4 Pro, S4 Plus and S4 Play. The last two w... |
5 June 2012
03:51 GMT |
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Gears of War: Judgment may have been revealed last week, but yesterday, during Microsoft’s E3 2012 press conference, the first video and details of the game were presented to the world.
The Gears of War franchise seemed to end with last year’s third installment but now, with Judgment, developers Epic Gam... |
5 June 2012
03:42 GMT |
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WWDC 2012 is shaping up to become “the biggest simultaneous launch of new Macs in Apple’s history,” according to people who are familiar with the company’s plans for this year’s developer-centric conference. Sources close to 9to5mac are churning up tidbit after tidbit with six days left... |
5 June 2012
03:40 GMT |
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) experts announce the discovery of a weird object in space, which appears to be a black hole currently being cast out of its host galaxy. The massive cosmic structure is traveling extremely fast.
Astronomers estimate that its speed may reach several million miles per... |
5 June 2012
03:35 GMT |
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According to Nature Climate Change, a monthly journal that deals with researching the impact of climate change on the world's economy, both Europe and the USA are soon to be faced with having their power generating capacities severely impaired.
Thus, odds are that, starting with the year 2031 and up until the ... |
5 June 2012
03:34 GMT |
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Perhaps not many remember the name of Alana Thompson, but the nickname of Honey Boo Boo Child must surely ring a bell. Famous for her antics on “Toddlers & Tiaras” and her love of the “go go juice,” Alana has just landed her own spinoff on TLC. For those not up to speed with “Toddlers ... |
5 June 2012
03:31 GMT |
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Texas-based CPU designer AMD is presenting today the company’s new Opteron server processors part for the 6200 and 4200 lines. AMD is proud to announce that these new processors are part of HP’s latest generation of ProLiant Gen8 servers. AMD's “Bulldozer”-based processors have als... |
5 June 2012
03:31 GMT |
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At the end of May we reported that researchers from Cambridge University claimed to have found a backdoor in Microsemi chips. As expected, the Chinese manufacturer has come forward with a statement denying the accusations.
“Microsemi has not been able to confirm or deny the researchers’ claims since they... |
5 June 2012
03:30 GMT |
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Much like Toshiba, SanDisk has started mass production of its latest and best NAND Flash storage chips, designed and built on the 19nm manufacturing process technology. SanDisk has begun its campaign on the nascent storage market segment rather differently than Toshiba did not long ago. The latter kicked things o... |
5 June 2012
03:10 GMT |
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Quantic Dream, the French developer behind the impressive Heavy Rain interactive drama, has just presented its newest project, Beyond: Two Souls, an interactive “psychological action thriller” that stars Oscar nominated actress Ellen Page as the protagonist.
Heavy Rain tried to take the interactive enter... |
5 June 2012
03:03 GMT |
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It isn’t clear why Apple is forced to take down its online store for the second time in less than a week, but it is clear that the Cupertino giant is busy cleaning up its virtual shelves in the days leading up to the WWDC 2012 keynote address. After Tim Cook’s memorable appearance at All Things D (D10) t... |
5 June 2012
03:01 GMT |
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On Monday, Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. announced that the former has joined the PlayStation Certified license program. Through this partnership, Sony ensures that the PlayStation experience will be delivered to a wider range of users all around the world. Sony... |
5 June 2012
02:57 GMT |
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It is a well-known fact that Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, has a rather peculiar urban geography, meaning that it hosts countless canals and about 1,500 bridges that help local people and tourists “navigate” their way around the city. Therefore, it shouldn't surprise us that, given the... |
5 June 2012
02:46 GMT |
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Greg Kroah-Hartman announced last evening, June 4th, the immediate availability for download of the first maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.4 kernel series.
Linux kernel 3.4.1 includes mostly updated drivers, a few ARM, PowerPC, x86, and SPARC fixes, and other small improvements related to wireless network... |
5 June 2012
02:40 GMT |
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Just like Gigabyte revealed its flagship Z77-based motherboard yesterday, NVIDIA has officially introduced the latest and greatest of its mobile graphics products.
The new graphics processing units (GPU) from the Santa Clara, California-based company bears the name of GeForce GTX 680M.
Obviously, it is the counte... |
5 June 2012
02:38 GMT |
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Ubisoft made quite a few big announcements at E3 2012 last night, chief among which being Assassin’s Creed III that received not just a new cinematic trailer but also a lengthy gameplay video that showed the new protagonist, Connor, in action. Assassin’s Creed III is set to introduce a wide array of chan... |
5 June 2012
02:32 GMT |
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At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Redmond-based giant Microsoft announced a new application for mobile devices aimed at providing users with interaction with their Xbox 360 consoles, namely Xbox SmartGlass. The app was announced for Windows Phone, Android and iOS devices, enabling easy navigation on the la... |
5 June 2012
02:26 GMT |
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The KDE Project announced last evening, June 5th, the first Beta release for the upcoming KDE Software Compilation 4.9 environment. KDE Software Compilation 4.9 will contain features such as Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces, improved searching, sorting, display and inline rename on Dolphin, better integration of Activ... |
5 June 2012
02:19 GMT |
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AT&T is the latest wireless carrier in the United States to announce official details regarding the launch of Samsung’s Galaxy S III smartphone on its network. The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich handset should arrive at AT&T this summer in the usual Blue and White versions, accompanied by an exclusive Red ver... |
5 June 2012
02:01 GMT |
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