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IPS monitors are becoming more and more popular these days, and the fact that tablets are becoming extremely popular and mostly use IPS screens is only going to make IPS technology more affordable. Even so, we were quite surprised to hear DELL is preparing a WQHD monitor for the $500 price range. The new model is re... |
7 August 2012
20:21 GMT |
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USB flash drives that are really capable of taking full advantage of USB 3.0 wide bandwidth are still quite rare these days and USB 2.0 thumb drives are still being launched by various manufacturers. Luckily for us, Corsair is concentrating on performance and quality and, thus, the company is getting ready to launch... |
7 August 2012
20:01 GMT |
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The world’s fifth fabless IC designer, American company AMD, is finally enjoying the fruits of its ATI buyout from six years ago. AMD is now in the privileged position to sell workstation FirePro APUs that are perfectly tailored for the professional market.
Getting enough user-friendly applications that put Tr... |
7 August 2012
19:11 GMT |
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Two weeks ago, Australian carrier Vodafone confirmed approval for Google’s Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich update for HTC EVO 3D.
Even though we’ve been expecting the operator to announce a timeframe for the rollout, Vodafone needs to push an intermediary Android 4.0.3 ICS update for HTC EVO 3D, before ... |
7 August 2012
19:01 GMT |
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The Haswell system-on-chip (SoC) devices that Intel will launch in the first half of 2013 are looked upon as a holy grail, of sorts, by the market watchers and notebook vendors alike. Along with the 8-Series chipsets, Intel is expected to release the Haswell series of central processing units at some point in Q1 or... |
7 August 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Sony has revealed that it’s going to organize all of its future game bundles under the Collections tag, and confirmed that, besides the already announced Ratchet & Clank HD Collection, it’s also going to deploy the God of War Saga and the Infamous Collection. The PlayStation 3 is already quite old by the... |
7 August 2012
18:41 GMT |
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One of the main developers of the Halo series has stated that shooters are not suited to touch screen devices like the iPad, that and developers should only create them for platforms that are designed to support them, like the PC and home consoles.
Alex Seropian, who is a former Bungie founder and now works at the s... |
7 August 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Emails purporting to come from AT&T Wireless inform recipients that they can “Enjoy Free Shipping Today with a New Phone Purchase.”
A sample, provided by millersmiles.co.uk, reads:
Enjoy Free Shipping Today with a New Phone Purchase
This email was sent to name@gmail.com. If you no longer wish to recei... |
7 August 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Nokia has already released the next major software update for the N9, MeeGo PR1.3. Lots of N9 owners have already upgraded to the latest version of MeeGo, but there are still people who are waiting for the update.
Vodafone Australia is one of the few carriers who added the Nokia N9 to its portfolio, though the Finni... |
7 August 2012
18:01 GMT |
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After games industry analyst Michael Pachter speculated that this year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 might not sell as well as previous installments, analyst Jeremy Miller believes that Activision will extract profits from other projects, like the recently announced Call of Duty Online.
The Call of Duty franchis... |
7 August 2012
17:21 GMT |
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She managed to get people talking about her work and the topics it aimed to tackle with “The Hurt Locker” and she scooped up countless awards for it. Now, director Kathryn Bigelow is poised to come back into the spotlight once more.
“Zero Dark Thirty,” her latest project, follows the Navy SE... |
7 August 2012
16:41 GMT |
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It really is starting to look like people should finally be noticing the ridiculousness of the current copyright system and the extent to which it is being abused. But that's probably optimistic. Still, having an official NASA video of the Curiosity Mars rover landing taken down for several hours by a copyright... |
7 August 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Despite the body of research that suggests that no clear connection exists between violent video games and real-life behavior, various officials seem to still hold outdated views and now an Australian police official has suggested that virtual crime can lead to real- world trouble.
Andrew Scipione, who is the police... |
7 August 2012
16:31 GMT |
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The Mountain Lion battery drain issue has escalated. Complaint after complaint keeps hitting an Apple forum thread that has racked up roughly 35,000 views (at the time of this writing) in under two weeks.At the time we reported this issue it had already seemed to be a widespread problem among owners of MacBook laptop... |
7 August 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Much has been said about the upcoming “The Bourne Legacy” and how it shouldn't even exist because, obviously, a film without Matt Damon and Jason Bourne should have never been made. Two new featurettes should help put things more in context.
The video above is a featurette that has Rachel Weisz tal... |
7 August 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Emails apparently coming from the British mutual financial institution called the Nationwide Building Society try to dupe users into handing over their account credentials.
The emails (via millersmiles.co.uk) look something like this:
Dear Valued customer,
Your Nationwide Bank account has been accessed from an una... |
7 August 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Chrome OS has been around for a while now, but it's still seeing quite a lot of changes and updates. Not just minor improvements, major changes in the look and feel are quite common. But that's probably a good thing to the early adopters that use Chromebooks in the first place. One of the latest visual upd... |
7 August 2012
15:21 GMT |
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If you were looking forward for Baz Luhrmann's take on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel “The Great Gatsby,” we have rather sad tidings: Warner Bros. has decided to push it back by six months.
Initially scheduled for December 2012, which would have made it a perfect awards season contender, the film... |
7 August 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Despite the sales success, publisher THQ has handled the Metro franchise badly and has plans to offer more support for the post-apocalyptic shooter on its second outing and capitalize on the launch of the upcoming Metro: Last Light.
Huw Beynon, who is the leader of the communications on the Metro franchise, has told... |
7 August 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Sony Mobile's next Android flagship smartphone, the Xperia T has been leaked several days ago and is expected to be announced a few days ahead of IFA 2012 trade fair, which is set to kick-off on August 31.Although we already know most of the phone's specs, the folks over at Nixanbal have just published a ne... |
7 August 2012
14:29 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Windows Live General Manager, Brian Hall, has inadvertently confirmed during a podcast that the company is working on a new Xbox console, saying that it will be in line with all of the new things currently being released by the large software and hardware manufacturer. Even if the Xbox 360 was rel... |
7 August 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Seeing how significant weight loss is typically linked to decreasing bone density, most people fear that undergoing bariatric surgery will leave them with fragile bones, thus making them more vulnerable to accidents and injuries.
However, a new study led by specialists working at the Medical Research Council Lifeco... |
7 August 2012
13:51 GMT |
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By now, you've probably taken a swing at beating some world record in the 100m hurdles Google doodle. What you may not have noticed is that the game can actually be played with a gamepad, straight from the browser. The latest Chrome stable update, Google Chrome 21, added support for the Gamepad JavaScript API. I... |
7 August 2012
13:42 GMT |
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iOS 6 scales perfectly to the rumored taller resolution of the next-generation iPhone, according to tests run by people playing around with the latest beta seeded by Apple this week.After making the discovery described in the above paragraph, 9to5mac could also confirm that the iOS Simulator (an emulator app included... |
7 August 2012
13:27 GMT |
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Solid-state drives have stopped being the main ones responsible for the poor performance of the NAND Flash memory market, but it has become apparent that they never did cause the segment to drag its feet on their own.
One might say that solid-state drives are experiencing a better sales level than a year before, en... |
7 August 2012
13:01 GMT |
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In a surprise move, Apple has pulled its new Mac (Genius) TV commercials from the Olympics, with ad agency TBWA/Media/Arts Lab informing the press that this was the plan all along.Reaching Apple’s ad agency for a comment, Mashable learned that “The ads were intended only for a ‘first run’ duri... |
7 August 2012
12:24 GMT |
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The Google Books saga continues, many years after the lawsuit has first been filed. With a settlement between Google and a couple of author and publisher groups in the US being dismissed by the court, the two sides are going forward with the lawsuit.
Progress is slow and it will be a few years before anything is don... |
7 August 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Amazium is a great tool for creating responsive websites that adjust their layout according to the user's viewport size. It shifts elements around so they perfectly fit inside the user's screen, without him being forced to scroll laterally.
It relies on CSS 3 media queries to get user device details and de... |
7 August 2012
12:01 GMT |
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The first indicator of making it in Hollywood (in the movie industry, that is) is the kind of paycheck you can command on a single movie. By this account, Jennifer Lawrence has made it.
She's been working steadily for quite some time, working her way into the heart of the audience and the critics but, at the e... |
7 August 2012
11:45 GMT |
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When Colin Farrell was attached to Len Wiseman's remake of “Total Recall,” the cult classic originally starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, fans were thrilled: after all, he'd done such an awesome job in “Fright Night.” However, they could have done without this more recent release.
In a... |
7 August 2012
11:24 GMT |
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Sony Xperia miro has been up for pre-order in the UK since early July, but the smartphone has yet to hit shelves. Customers can pre-purchase the device for 105 GBP (165 USD or 130 EUR) outright via Clove UK, or they can wait until the phone becomes available for free on select plans.
Today, another UK-based retailer... |
7 August 2012
11:03 GMT |
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A new flavor of Microsoft’s Camera Codec Pack is now available for download, namely version 16.4.1620.0719.
The codecs pack was made available for download with support for a wide range of device-specific file formats in Windows Live Photo Gallery, as well as in other apps that build on Windows Imaging Codecs... |
7 August 2012
10:59 GMT |
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Japanese company Logitec is an expert in data storage, and the latest product launched only comes to confirm its status. The new data unit is an impressive 8-bay device able to hold eight 3.5” HDDs, each having a maximum capacity of 3 TB. The new storage unit is officially called LHR-8BNEU3 in its RAID-less ve... |
7 August 2012
10:59 GMT |
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As the Demonoid story unravels, the fate of the site becomes gloomier. While there was still hope yesterday, it's been shattered now as it seems that the owners and admins of the site, who allegedly are from Mexico, are being investigated by the local police.
TorrentFreak reports that, apparently, one of the si... |
7 August 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Samsung launched the Galaxy S III back in May and promised that a 64GB of the smartphone would be available later this year.
Well, it appears that Canadian customers who were looking to purchase this particular version of the Galaxy S III will be able to do so in the near future. Check it out here.
Although the 64G... |
7 August 2012
10:49 GMT |
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Normally-sized desktop cases don't have any problem fitting things, but vertical space becomes as big an issue as horizontal room when the form factor gets smaller.
Lian Li tried to solve the interior problem by giving the PC-V650, a new mini tower, a square shape and a side-mounted PSU compartment.
It also ... |
7 August 2012
10:45 GMT |
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Just today, Greenpeace made it public news that in the Vidarbha region in India, local farmers are engaged in a constant battle with the national government. The main drive behind this feud: access to local water resources.
As members of Greenpeace India explain, water in this part of the world is already scarce, w... |
7 August 2012
10:45 GMT |
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Owners of a Microsoft mouse and keyboard can get the most out of their hardware via a dedicated application that the Redmond-based software giant has made available for them, namely the Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center.
Currently available for download as version 1.1.500.0, the application provides a variety of c... |
7 August 2012
10:44 GMT |
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“Youve Won: Amazon $500 Gift Card with Kindle Fire - see details,” reads the hastily written scam email that may land in your inbox these days.
Internauts who fall for it and click on the link are taken to a website that – based upon their location – displays a hard-to-resist offer.
The vic... |
7 August 2012
10:43 GMT |
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GhostBSD LXDE, a FreeBSD-based operating system based on LXDE desktop environment, is now at version 3.0 Beta 1.
GhostBSD 3.0 Beta 1 is now available in the LXDE flavor. The developers already have a GNOME 2 distribution launched and are planning to release another one with Gnome 3 support.
Highlights of GhostBSD L... |
7 August 2012
10:35 GMT |
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Music lovers who like to listen to their favorite artists from the cloud on their iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, have a new version of Amazon Cloud Player to install.
Released this week as a free update (not that the app itself costs any money), Amazon Cloud Player 1.2.0 features higher resolution album art, the abili... |
7 August 2012
10:34 GMT |
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US-based carrier Sprint plans to quietly upgrade its network in order to offer customers a new service, HD Voice. Sprint is expected to make this service widely available starting 2013, though the operator has yet to confirm a timeframe for the release.
According to PhoneScoop, Sprint will launch its HD Voice servic... |
7 August 2012
10:24 GMT |
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iOS 6 is packed to the brim with new features and enhancements, and the fourth beta arrives with even more changes, some of which have been documented by developers already.
Released to a sea of registered Apple developers yesterday, iOS 6 Beta 4 (or Developer Preview 4) includes a bunch of noteworthy changes, such ... |
7 August 2012
10:23 GMT |
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Tanya Byron, author of the influential Byron Review in 2008, stated, “When I did the review in 2008, I didn’t see a cynical industry that was there to create games just to exploit and make money. The industry has always been very clear with me, in a very genuine way, that adult content is created for adul... |
7 August 2012
10:20 GMT |
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Seeing that Advanced Micro Devices has revealed new workstation series of graphics controllers, and some FirePro APUs to boot, NVIDIA formally introduced the Maximus platform with a similar purpose.
This product launch is a curious thing. Coming more than half a year after the initial announcement, it does not incl... |
7 August 2012
10:18 GMT |
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Up until recently, it was generally agreed on that natural calamities such as wildfires, avalanches, floods, earthquakes and the like only cause damage to the environment, as vast areas of land end up being virtually destroyed.
As interesting as it might sound, an environmental scientist from the Washington State U... |
7 August 2012
10:14 GMT |
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Since Simon Cowell already has the panel of judges completed for season 2 of X Factor USA, all that's missing now is a host. An unlikely candidate for the job has emerged, in the person of reality star Khloe Kardashian.
Brit Steve Jones was let go after the first season of the show for what was perceived as hi... |
7 August 2012
10:11 GMT |
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As the Kristen Stewart cheating scandal continues to rage on, it's time to turn our attention again to what's important: Kristen Stewart, the actress. In a brilliant move on part of the movie studio, a new trailer for her latest film has dropped.
Check it out above in full.
Called “On the Road,&rd... |
7 August 2012
10:08 GMT |
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Four new variants of the ZeuS-in-the-Mobile malware, also known as ZitMo, have been found by security researchers. ZitMo is not new, but it's not often that a version designed to target BlackBerry users is identified.
There’s nothing really new in the way this malicious element is designed. However, the m... |
7 August 2012
10:06 GMT |
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Arch Linux, an independently developed i686/x86-64 general purpose GNU/Linux distribution that focuses on simplicity, minimalism, and code elegance, is now at version 2012.08.04.
According to the developers, the biggest change in this new version of Arch Linux, 2012.08.04, is the introduction of GRUB 2.0 instead of ... |
7 August 2012
09:57 GMT |
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The series of leaked Windows 8 builds continues with new ISOs available online, including Windows 8 RTM for China. We’ve already seen Enterprise flavors of the platform leaked to various sharing websites, including the N version of the final build, and an original x64 build, but it seems that this is not all.... |
7 August 2012
09:57 GMT |
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Indie video game developers have offered their opinions on the upcoming Windows 8 operating system for the PC, which Microsoft will be launching late this year, and it seems that most of them see its closed-down nature as a potential problem.
Chris Delay, who is the lead designer at Introversion, has told Games Indu... |
7 August 2012
09:51 GMT |
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By now, you've probably heard the story of the Wired journalist that got hacked in the worst possible way, having his Google account erased along with all of his Apple devices, his phone, his tablet and his laptop. It's a scary story only because it can happen to most of us.
The story also uncovered some w... |
7 August 2012
09:50 GMT |
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The lawsuit that publisher Electronic Arts has launched against social game creator Zynga over the copyright issues linked to The Sims Social and The Ville is not a clear win according to at least one major analysis firm that’s watching the video game industry.
The analysis firm Wedbush Morgan stated in a note... |
7 August 2012
09:42 GMT |
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Apple has released Xcode 4.5 Developer Preview 4, the latest version of the company’s digital toolset aimed at application development for iOS and OS X. The software is compatible with OS X Mountain Lion and OS X Lion.
Listed in the release notes included with iOS 6 Beta 4 and Apple TV Software Beta 4, the app... |
7 August 2012
09:34 GMT |
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If Microsoft closes down the PC platform with its upcoming Windows 8 operating system, then quite a few independent developers are worried that it’s going to result in plenty of problems and will force them to abandon it. Windows 8, the next big operating system from Microsoft, is set to appear this October. S... |
7 August 2012
09:32 GMT |
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Video game developer and publisher Codemasters has announced that it would be introducing a new game mode to its upcoming F1 2012 simulation title, which will be called Champions Mode and which will allow players to take on all the six World Champions who are now part of the competition.
The six drivers are: Kimi R&... |
7 August 2012
09:25 GMT |
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TLC made countless headlines for the “Toddlers and Tiaras” series and, even if it was for the wrong reasons, it has no plans to stop now. “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” a spinoff of this program, premieres tomorrow.
As the trailer just released, which you can check out in full below, will confi... |
7 August 2012
09:22 GMT |
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World-renowned security firm McAfee has been chosen by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide the agency with services, products, and support for its networks and endpoint systems.
McAfee – which has been collaborating with the DHS since 2003 – will not only help the organization extend ... |
7 August 2012
09:18 GMT |
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We've been doing our best to cover the progress of the MSL Curiosity space rover ever since NASA began to work on it a couple of years ago, so it's about time we gave a full overview of the machine. MLS (Mars Science Laboratory) Curiosity is the most sophisticated machine that mankind has sent to the red ... |
7 August 2012
09:17 GMT |
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Lucas Townsend Henderson, a 23-year-old student from Lubbock, Texas, has admitted to creating, using and spreading fake online coupons. His crimes caused the affected retailers to lose around $900,000 (729,000 EUR).
According to the FBI, Henderson began creating counterfeit coupons back in July 2010. He made them lo... |
7 August 2012
09:04 GMT |
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The same as Windows 8, Microsoft’s latest version of the Office productivity suite, namely Office 2013, will be accompanied by a software portal when made commercially available.
Microsoft has already pushed to the public a preview flavor of Office 2013, which is available for download from Softpedia as well, ... |
7 August 2012
09:02 GMT |
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Just recently, a pair of lions living in captivity at the Berlin Zoo showed signs of being severely sick. More precisely, they turned down all offers to receive meat or water and started foaming at the mouth. Seeing how these health conditions had to have been caused by something the lions ate, zoo keepers believe ... |
7 August 2012
08:52 GMT |
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The feud between Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin is about to be reignited. He aims to seek full custody of their son Tripp, arguing that she's not good enough of a parent for the child – and he plans to use her own reality show as proof.
Bristol Palin can now be seen in the Lifetime program “Life&#... |
7 August 2012
08:42 GMT |
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Twitter is continuing to add even more translations. The site really is on its way of becoming truly global but localized. It is adding these translations in batches, several languages at a time, as soon as they become available. The site relies on volunteer translators for all of the languages.
The latest addition ... |
7 August 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Following Windows 8’s RTM milestone, the final code of the platform has leaked online, and some of the latest changes that Microsoft has brought to it have been revealed.
Among them, there is the fact that users won’t be able to set their Windows 8 computers to boot straight to the desktop.
Basically,... |
7 August 2012
08:36 GMT |
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The British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology just made it public news that, thanks to a new online tool known as iBatsID, European conservation projects aimed at safeguarding various bat species will soon be much more efficient than they have been in the past. Apparently, over the past 50 years,... |
7 August 2012
08:34 GMT |
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Comedian Jeff Ross managed to ruffle a lot of feathers at the recent taping for “Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne,” when he cracked a joke about the Aurora shootings. It won't be included in the final program.
One of the producers on the program confirms for TMZ that the joke directed at Seth Green ... |
7 August 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Owners of Toshiba's Thrive were given a reason to rejoice back in February, and then a reason to feel disgruntled a couple of months later, but they are finally getting what they were promised.
We said, right here, that Toshiba was going to roll out the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system update to... |
7 August 2012
08:18 GMT |
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The National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council of Ukraine (nrada.gov.ua) and the Ukrainian Agency for Copyright and Related Rights (uacrr.kiev.ua) are currently down as a result of a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack launched by Anonymous. Yesterday we learned that the already crippled Demonoid rec... |
7 August 2012
08:18 GMT |
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Seeing how SUVs are regarded by most environmentalists as being top-polluters, it comes as no surprise that automakers are constantly looking into the possibility of making them more environmentally-friendly by cutting down on the amounts of fossil fuels they use and by making them run on renewable energy sources.
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7 August 2012
08:13 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is reportedly planning to enter the battle of large screen smartphones with the launch of a new device this fall.
Rumor has it that the upcoming handset would pack a large 5-inch touchscreen display on the front, and that it would also be able to deliver a 1794 x 1080 pi... |
7 August 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Noticing how considerable amounts of oyster are merely discarded on the fields as waste, supposedly because they are not fit for consumption, Martine Lelu decided to take matters into her own hands and work out a way to make the most out of these natural resources which simply get thrown out by the food industry.
T... |
7 August 2012
07:51 GMT |
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A few days ago, Lady Gaga took to her Twitter page to show her followers her new tattoo, which she got to celebrate her upcoming album. She's now setting the record straight on the name of the material.
“make sure when writing about my new album/project ARTPOP that you CAPITALIZE the title, *its all in th... |
7 August 2012
07:41 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola is gearing up for the release of a new smartphone that packs LTE connectivity inside, and is already teasing it on Facebook.
The company did not offer other info on the new device, but it did say that more hints at the phone’s capabilities would be provided each day this week.
On... |
7 August 2012
07:38 GMT |
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26-year-old Slovenian Matjaz Škorjancu, known on the hacking scene as Iserdo, has appeared in a Maribor District Court, being accused of developing the software behind the Mariposa botnet. The suspect’s former girlfriend, Nusa Čoh, also stands trial, facing money laundering accusations. Back in 2010, wh... |
7 August 2012
07:34 GMT |
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Just recently, employees of a private zoo in Tasmania woke up and came to work only to find that, during night time, somebody had broken in, killed some of the animals and stole others. According to preliminary reports, as much as 60 animals are presently missing, and dozens others have been killed in a brutal mann... |
7 August 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Most people would argue that bicycles are amongst the greenest ways to get around, and that their ecological footprint is pretty much inexistent. However, Izhar Gafni found a way to make them even more environmentally-friendly than they presently are.
More precisely: he decided to give up on using materials such as... |
7 August 2012
07:14 GMT |
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Wikipedia has provided a more detailed explanation for yesterday's outage. And, as they stereotypically say, "the plot thickens." The outage was indeed caused by two cut cables. The problem is that those two cables shouldn't have been anywhere near each other as they were supposed to be redundant, i.e. on... |
7 August 2012
07:14 GMT |
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Adam Levine shows off his tattoos in the latest issue of Ink Magazine and takes on the critics who dared write negative critiques for his band's latest record, “Overexposed”: their opinion doesn't matter because they're all idiots either way. Adam has always been known for calling a spade ... |
7 August 2012
07:08 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Sprint does not plan the launch of a Windows Phone 8 device this fall, when the first such smartphones will arrive on shelves.
The operator will add a Windows Phone 8 handset to its offering at some point in the future, but it won’t make the move when the first such devices are made offic... |
7 August 2012
06:21 GMT |
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The world’s most successful fabless CPU designer, British company ARM has just launched the new Mali-600 GPUs for powerful tablets, TVs and smartphones. The new chips bring more than 1000% the performance exhibited by the popular Mali-400 generation of GPUs.
The new products launched today are the Mali-T624, M... |
7 August 2012
06:11 GMT |
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The Olympic doodles have been fairly predictable so far. The day's main event, in the eyes of Google, was celebrated with a cartoony depiction. There was an Easter Egg in yesterday's javelin doodle, a cameo by the Curiosity Mars rover, but nothing out of the ordinary except that. Until today that is, when ... |
7 August 2012
06:11 GMT |
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GFI Software has released MailArchiver 2012, a product that allows companies to create reports and alerts, and to protect sensitive information such as credit card details and social security numbers against data leaks.
The solution is designed to help organizations address their email management issues on Exchange ... |
7 August 2012
06:05 GMT |
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Motherboards usually work fine with just one or two network interfaces, especially if they are smaller than most, but the Gigabyte H77N-WiFi is an exception. Featuring the mini-ITX form factor, it supports socket LGA 1155 central processing units from Intel (Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge). Two of the three network ... |
7 August 2012
06:02 GMT |
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Windows 8 has been released to manufacturing last week, and Microsoft is gearing up for the commercial availability of the platform, set for October 26th this year.
The company hasn’t provided too many details on its plans for selling the platform, yet it seems that there will also be boxed versions of the pl... |
7 August 2012
05:47 GMT |
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Since Miley Cyrus announced she was engaged to longtime beau Liam Hemsworth, the tabloids have already “married” them at least twice. As it turns out, she's really not in a hurry to tie the knot, she says in a new interview with Marie Claire.
The former Disney child star wows in a series of stunning... |
7 August 2012
05:45 GMT |
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Throughout the past few days, we kept drawing your attention to the fact that poaching activities involving elephants are a pressing issue which needs be dealt with as soon as possible.
It now seems that a researcher from the University of Illinois (UI) has come across a new way of helping authorities put an end to... |
7 August 2012
05:34 GMT |
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Owners of Sony Xperia devices released last year can now get a taste of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, though in an unofficial manner.
An alpha flavor of the CyanogenMod 10 software is available for these handsets, following its availability for Xperia S only a few weeks ago.
However, users should know that the software... |
7 August 2012
05:15 GMT |
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PBBans – the community of server admins who dedicate their existence to fighting cheaters – has become the target of a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack that forced it to take serious measures.
“As some are already aware PBBans is currently under multiple DDoS attacks which are ta... |
7 August 2012
05:13 GMT |
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Both Apple and Google have confirmed that YouTube will not be built into the upcoming iOS 6, which will power the iPhone 5, the rumored mini iPad and any future iPad Apple has planned for the next year. The YouTube app has been built into the iPhone since launch, in 2007, and it was one of the big features back then.... |
7 August 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Lenovo is one of the most successful IT players at the moment, but even it can't boast of having succeeded in every area where it pushed products forward.
In fact, though the company is the fastest growing PC market, and might take the top spot form HP in a few months, it has nothing to brag about on the TV fro... |
7 August 2012
04:57 GMT |
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On Monday morning GMT (Sunday evening PDT), NASA’s Curiosity rover, the most sophisticated machinery that the humankind has sent to Mars, landed on the Red Planet.
This was a great achievement for NASA, as the landing was one of the most complex ever tried, and it has been declared a success so far.
However... |
7 August 2012
04:56 GMT |
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After Wired’s Mat Honan saw his iCloud account hacked, the Apple blogosphere went into a frenzy about the insecurity of Cupertino’s web suite of services. Even co-founder Steve Wozniak said the implications were major. Now, Apple has a few things to say about what happened.Wired magazine, the current empl... |
7 August 2012
04:54 GMT |
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Users of Valve’s new Source Filmmaker program have found some rather interesting mentions in the tool’s various files, with lines of code referring to the next-generation Source 2 game engine and to Half-Life 2: Episode 3.
Valve released the Source Filmmaker tool last month and it was quickly adopted by ... |
7 August 2012
04:50 GMT |
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As far as most people are concerned, seafood can be labeled as either wild or farmed, depending on where it grew and what happened to it before it hit the local markets.
However, it now seems that a third labeling possibility might soon be introduced: hybrid seafood. In spite of this misleading name, we are not dea... |
7 August 2012
04:48 GMT |
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Emails entitled “Groupon dicount (sic) gifts” have been making the rounds for the past week or so. Users are advised to be on the lookout since they carry dangerous pieces of malware.
The first ones to notice the large wave of spam messages were researchers from Sophos. The emails they’ve encounter... |
7 August 2012
04:44 GMT |
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Some new details about Mass Effect 3’s upcoming story-based Leviathan DLC have appeared on the web, revealing more info about Commander Shepard’s new adventure, who’s trying to find the mysterious Leviathan being that might hold the secret to destroying the Reapers.
Mass Effect 3 delivered an inten... |
7 August 2012
04:33 GMT |
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Well-known vendor of high-end gaming notebooks and desktops, Maingear has formally introduced a quartet of quickship mobile PCs called Vybe 15. That is to say they really are just different hardware configurations of the same notebook: Good, Better, Best and Ultimate. We would weep for the fact that the “be... |
7 August 2012
04:32 GMT |
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Microsoft has started to provide developers with info on the various options they have when it comes to monetizing the applications they have built for its upcoming mobile operating system, Windows Phone 8.
For that, the company has published a great deal of documentation on the Windows Phone Dev Center, so as to p... |
7 August 2012
04:30 GMT |
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London 2012: The Official Video Game from publisher SEGA has managed to keep its number one position in the United Kingdom software chart for the third week in a row, showing how a medium profile video game can be propelled to greatness by a real-world event like the Olympics. London 2012: The Official Video Game al... |
7 August 2012
04:26 GMT |
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A study published just recently in the Social Indicators Research journal argues that nations that keep freedom of press at the center of their preoccupations are more likely to constantly work on improving their ecological footprint and push for sustainable development.
This investigation was carried out by Edson ... |
7 August 2012
04:14 GMT |
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Italian journalist Tommaso De Benedetti is responsible for yet another hoax that caused a lot of waves. He created a fake Twitter account representing Russian Minister of Interior Vladimir Kolokoltsev and posted a tweet saying that Syria’s president had been killed.
Three tweets were posted yesterday from the ... |
7 August 2012
04:10 GMT |
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Speaking to Eurogamer, Nolan Bushnell, who is the founder of Atari, said that, “The best game that I ever played at Atari was the game of putting my competitors out of business. I really turned out to be pretty good at that.”
He added, “You know, Atari didn’t ship the most Pong games. We were... |
7 August 2012
03:58 GMT |
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Back in July, when Acer expressed its misgivings with Microsoft's decision to enter the tablet market, the company's founder was fairly restrained, but that cannot be said about the CEO.
As it happens, the Chief Executive Officer, J.T. Wang, decided to be much more blunt when it spoke to Financial Times. ... |
7 August 2012
03:52 GMT |
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The iPhone, the iPad, and the iPod lines are getting refreshed this fall to include a new specification that Apple plans to make a standard across the iOS ecosystem.
Already confirmed in hardware leaks, the new “mini” dock connector is said to be making its way into Apple’s bestselling iOS devices,... |
7 August 2012
03:49 GMT |
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Forza Motorsport 4 is going to receive yet another downloadable add-on later today, in the form of the Playseat Car Pack, which brings 10 impressive cars to the Xbox 360 exclusive racing game.
Turn 10 Studios launched Forza Motorsport 4 last year and, ever since, it has released monthly DLC packs that added all sort... |
7 August 2012
03:44 GMT |
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According to the latest hearsay, Nokia is expected to announce the first Windows Phone 8 devices next month, possibly during one of the Nokia World 2012 events.
Lots of pictures with alleged upcoming Nokia smartphones powered by Windows Phone 8 have already leaked in the wild, but most of these photos seem to be fak... |
7 August 2012
03:43 GMT |
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Leading aircraft manufacturer Airbus recently announced plans to test the possibility of reducing the fuel consumption of an A320 by as much as 15%.
Their plan is to have a fuel-cell system installed into the aircraft, the end goal being that of powering the A320's lights, environmental controls and entertainm... |
7 August 2012
03:31 GMT |
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Pakistani hackers from the Pak Cyber Pyrates have attacked a website owned by Southern Railways (southernrailway.gov.in), an organization whose railroad networks cover Indian states such as Andhra Pradesh, Pondicherry, Kerala and Tamilnadu. The hacktivists defaced the site’s main page to display their protest... |
7 August 2012
03:31 GMT |
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The Anonymous community is warning Internet users of a bill proposed by Australian officials that’s meant to reform privacy and security laws. “We are all familiar with draconian bills such as SOPA and CISPA which aim to prevent online piracy, but this paper and its recommendations are Orwellian in thei... |
7 August 2012
03:09 GMT |
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Sony revealed last week that it was holding a special Summer Sale on its European PlayStation Store, slashing prices on all sorts of big games until September 5.
Lots of summer sales have been organized on various digital distribution services on the PC platform, and now Sony has decided to bring the promotional sch... |
7 August 2012
03:09 GMT |
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One of the developers working on Star Wars 1313 believes that in no more than ten years technology will have reached a point where it’s impossible to distinguish between computer created graphics rendered in real-time and pre-rendered content.
Kim Libreri, who is a VFX supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic,... |
7 August 2012
03:06 GMT |
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Today’s smartphones can provide users with increased durability when it comes to scratches, mainly due to the fact that most handset vendors choose to pack their products with Corning’s Gorilla Glass solution.
Following the release of Gorilla Glass and Gorilla Glass 2, the company is moving a step furth... |
7 August 2012
02:59 GMT |
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Texas-based fabless CPU and GPU designer, American company AMD has just launched the new workstation graphic cards using the famous Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. The company calls these the “world’s most powerful workstation graphics line” and, seeing the numbers, we tend to agree.
AMD has... |
7 August 2012
02:59 GMT |
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Gigabyte's GeForce GTX 670 WindForce 3X OC graphics card was promoted as one of the best high-end NVIDIA-based cards, not counting GTX 680 products, but there is a problem. Assuming we are reading this right, the video board (GV-N670OC-2GD) has a variety of stability issues regarding the way the GPU addresses ... |
7 August 2012
02:55 GMT |
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A team of researchers working with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the University of Azores recently investigated how our remaining coral reefs are responding to the changing dynamics of their surrounding environment.
Thus, they found that, apart from affecting coral reefs directly, pollution and heavy fishin... |
7 August 2012
02:55 GMT |
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Today, mobile phone maker LG Electronics officially confirmed the availability of its QuickMemo feature for the entire set of devices included in its Optimus L-Series.
Users will receive the new feature by means of a maintenance update, which is already being delivered in various regions.
The software update is b... |
7 August 2012
02:42 GMT |
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THQ has canceled the Insane project that’s been in development at Volition Studios, confirming that it has returned the game’s rights to reputed movie director Guillermo Del Toro.
Insane was first revealed to the world at the end of 2010, when THQ promised that it would work together with Guillermo Del T... |
7 August 2012
02:41 GMT |
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The latest iOS beta removes the dedicated YouTube app for playing videos on the go. Both the iPhone and the iPad versions of iOS 6 are letting YouTube go, in what seems to be Apple’s last effort to pull away from Google services in its mobile operating system.
Owned by Google, the popular video streaming servi... |
7 August 2012
02:39 GMT |
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Battleship, one of this summer's would-be blockbusters, has landed on BitTorrent and it shot up straight to the number one position of the top 10 most downloaded movies of last week. Despite some horrible reviews, Rihanna's film debut seems to have gained enough attention from pirates.
What's surprisi... |
7 August 2012
02:31 GMT |
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The development team at United Front Games and publisher Square Enix have launched a new trailer for their upcoming Sleeping Dogs which shows main character Wei Shen doing actual old-school detective work and trying to get clues about a serial killer.
The game follows the policeman as he is sent to Hong Kong in orde... |
7 August 2012
02:31 GMT |
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Anyone who thought AMD's accelerated processing units would always be exclusively for consumers has been proven wrong now that the FirePro A300 Series has been released.
FirePro is a brand that Advanced Micro Devices has used, for years, to market its graphics processing units and cards on the business and ind... |
7 August 2012
02:29 GMT |
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