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The amazingly popular KakaoTalk application for Android devices has just been updated with new features and bug fixes.
The application that allows users to make free calls has more than 50 million downloads on Google Play Store, which says something about the usefulness and quality of the software.
The latest versi... |
8 January 2013
22:01 GMT |
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Satoru Iwata, the president of Nintendo, reveals that Animal Crossing for the 3DS handheld is one of a limited number of games from his company that have attracted a majority female audience. The executive tells Nikkei in an interview that, “If we look at the first three weeks of Animal Crossing sales to the e... |
8 January 2013
21:41 GMT |
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Maxthon is an interesting alternative to stock Android browser, which comes in handy to those who also use the desktop version.
The latest version of Maxthon features Cloud Push through email and SMS, but also comes with full support for Nexus 7.
In fact, developers claim they have optimized the mobile browser to w... |
8 January 2013
21:31 GMT |
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The Carphone Warehouse is another retailer in the UK to have officially confirmed plans to make the new Android-based Sony Xperia Z smartphone available for purchase to its users.
In fact, the company has already listed the new device on its website with a “coming soon” tag attached to it, but did not o... |
8 January 2013
21:31 GMT |
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KeyPoint Technologies, creators of Adaptxt Keyboard for Android smartphones, have just released a new update for their application, adding more features and improvements.
For example, the latest update brings a new theme-board feature that allows users to customize keyboard and create personalized themes by choosing... |
8 January 2013
21:01 GMT |
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What we know: SimCity is a reboot of the well-known city building franchise that uses an entire new engine and a new philosophy in order to appeal to long-term fans and attract new gamers that have not played the original series.
The star of the re-launch is the GlassBox engine, designed from the ground up by Maxis ... |
8 January 2013
20:41 GMT |
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On January 7, Chinese mobile phone maker Huawei announced at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the largest Android-based smartphone in the world, namely the Ascend Mate.
The new device arrives on shelves with a large 6.1-inch touchscreen display that can deliver a 720p HD resolution, while being power... |
8 January 2013
20:21 GMT |
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If you come across an email entitled “Baby please check my photo,” or one bearing the subject “I miss you, Check my new video please,” be sure not to click on the link it contains since it points to a malware-serving website. Experts from security firm Bitdefender have analyzed this recent sp... |
8 January 2013
20:01 GMT |
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The team working on The Elder Scrolls Online at developer ZeniMax Online seeks to keep the fan base interested in the coming MMO by answering a bunch of new questions about one of the three core game factions, the Daggerfall Covenant.
In an extensive session, the team talks about the races that make it up and how th... |
8 January 2013
19:41 GMT |
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On Monday, computer maker Acer announced at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas cross-platform support for its AcerCloud service, which enables Acer customers to easily share files between their devices.
Courtesy of the newly expanded support, customers will have the possibility to easily share, retriev... |
8 January 2013
19:31 GMT |
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The less-featured Windows Phone 8 handset launched by Nokia, the Lumia 620 is now available for purchase in China. NokiaPowerUser reports that Chinese retailers TMall and 360Buy are now offering the smartphone for 2000 yuan outright, which is about $320 or €240. It is also worth mentioning that the Lumia 620 ... |
8 January 2013
19:31 GMT |
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Helly Hansen has officially announced that it’ll make the move to Office 365 as the company’s communication and social platform. The Scandinavian outdoor brand that currently has 350 full-time employees on five different continents hopes to cut costs with Office 365, but also to improve communication and... |
8 January 2013
19:11 GMT |
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ZTE’s Nubia Z5 is one of the most appealing devices of this quarter, yet it seems that it might soon be bested by another high-end smartphone coming from ZTE themselves, dubbed Nubia Z7. Rumor has it that the new device will sport only the latest in mobile technology, which makes us a bit suspicious about the... |
8 January 2013
19:01 GMT |
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Android users rejoice as a new version of Adaptxt Keyboard application for tablets has just been released in Google Play Store. The most important change is the addition of Android 4.0 Ice Cream and Jelly Bean support. Aside from that, the new version comes with several new features, such as theme-board and key resi... |
8 January 2013
19:01 GMT |
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Michael Pachter, the analyst watching the video game industry for Wedbush Morgan, believes that the NPD Group compiled sales data for the month of December in the United States will show an industry-wide decline of 11 percent.
The main reasons for the continuing decline for the month that includes the strong Christm... |
8 January 2013
18:51 GMT |
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Members of the Bangladesh Grey Hat Hackers (BGHH) claim to have breached and defaced a total of more than 1,400 Indian websites.
“Today is the anniversary of the death of Felani. Felani is a poor girl from Bangladesh who was brutally killed by Indian border guards from the BSF. On this occasion, we strongly c... |
8 January 2013
18:41 GMT |
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Today, wireless carrier AT&T announced that it managed to sell over 10 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of the last year, thus marking a new sales record in its history.
The company managed to sell over 110,000 devices a day in the timeframe and topped its previous record of 9.4 million smartphones sold in... |
8 January 2013
18:21 GMT |
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A hacker has found a way to bypass a Windows RT restriction in order to run unsigned apps, and even though all those using Microsoft’s tablet OS have applauded his efforts, security company Sophos says it’s all a very risky thing.
The vendor explained in a blog post that jailbreaking Windows RT has the s... |
8 January 2013
18:11 GMT |
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Today, Opera announced the availability of an update for its Opera Mobile for Android browser, now available for download through the Google Play Store as version 12.1.4.
According to a recent post on Opera’s forums, the new app release was mainly meant to deliver security enhancements to users. The main chang... |
8 January 2013
18:01 GMT |
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Video game developer PopCap Games and toy company Hasbro are now working together in order to create a new board game based on the Bejeweled series, which will allow fans to enjoy the unique experience of the game face to face. There are two games set to be launched by the two companies during the spring of 2013. T... |
8 January 2013
17:52 GMT |
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The latest version of SoundHound for Windows Phone devices features lots of improvements and new options. The application allows users to identify music or a singing search with a simple touch of a button.
Developed by SoundHound, the new version features improved search performance, as well as fast application resu... |
8 January 2013
17:31 GMT |
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After yesterday’s demonstration of Ubuntu Phone OS by Mark Shuttleworth at CES 2013, here comes another video preview (longer this time) of this spectacular operating system for smartphones, created by Canonical.
In the above video (go ahead and click it), Richard Collins, Ubuntu Mobile product manager, is th... |
8 January 2013
17:21 GMT |
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The development team at ZeniMax Online is giving hints that it might include Daedra worship in the upcoming The Elder Scrolls Online, allowing those who know the lore of the game universe to pledge allegiance to the evil oriented lords of the world.
Answering a question from a fan, the team states, “Orcish lea... |
8 January 2013
17:17 GMT |
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On January 8, Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, proudly announced the immediate availability for the ninth update for their powerful and still supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 is a maintenance release, fixing lots of annoyin... |
8 January 2013
17:11 GMT |
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A new development team formed around Missing Worlds Media is announcing that its first video game project is a new MMO called The Phoenix Project, which is supposed to be a spiritual successor to City of Heroes.
The original superhero-powered MMO, which received extensive support and a City of Villains expansion, wa... |
8 January 2013
17:04 GMT |
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Owners of Android-based devices can now download and install a brand new Blockbuster application to access the catalog of more than 100,000 movie and game titles that the company has to offer.
The new mobile application was also designed to provide users with management capabilities over their Blockbuster By Mail q... |
8 January 2013
17:01 GMT |
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Solar 2, a sand-box game set in an infinite abstract universe in which the player is able to control planets and stars, is now available on Steam with a huge discount of 75%.
Solar 2 is not your average sand box game. The players start as a simple asteroid, cruising around the galaxy and soon enough it evolves into ... |
8 January 2013
17:01 GMT |
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Scout, the GPS voice navigation app by TeleNav, is now fully supported on the iPhone 5 and has a brand new dashboard, favorite places, upcoming turns, and more.
Scout Personalized GPS Voice Navigation & Traffic version 1.6.0.91 is out today with a number of enhancements that you simply can’t ignore should you ... |
8 January 2013
16:51 GMT |
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GFI Software has released its VIPRE Report for December 2012. According to the report, the most prevalent threats were mobile Trojans masqueraded as Android apps hosted on fake Google Play sites, and spam campaigns targeting Amazon, LinkedIn and PayPal customers.
Malware-spreading campaigns that leveraged the BlackH... |
8 January 2013
16:51 GMT |
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The Android tablet family has just received two new members, as Velocity used the 2013 CES to introduce its new D610 and Q610 devices.
As you may figure out by simply reading their names, the D610 is based on a dual-core processor, while the Velocity Cruze Q610 employs a quad-core chip.
Both tablets are running And... |
8 January 2013
16:31 GMT |
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This year's annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America witnessed the unveiling of some very interesting facts concerning the life of Roman children and teenagers.
After investigating the footwear remains found in and around several military bases, archaeologists reached the conclusion that, much... |
8 January 2013
16:21 GMT |
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While US citizens are still waiting for the White House to decide whether or not it will soon begin work on the nation's first Death Star, a German company named Rheinmetall Defense successfully tested a high-energy (50 kW, to be more precise) laser.
The testing activities for this state-of-the-art laser took ... |
8 January 2013
16:11 GMT |
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This past Monday, it became public news that, according to a government-funded study, the toxins released by Alberta's oil sands must be held accountable for contaminating lakes found in their proximity.
After analyzing the toxic hydrocarbons concentrations of six such water sources located in the oil sands re... |
8 January 2013
16:01 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision confirms that the new Revolution downloadable content pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 will be launched on January 29 via the Xbox Live service from Microsoft and is also offering a new preview video designed to show off its assets.
Revolution will include four new multiplayer maps,... |
8 January 2013
15:58 GMT |
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Online retailer Clove has announced plans to make the newly announced Sony Xperia Z smartphone available for its customers, and has already listed the phone on its website.
Furthermore, the company announced that users interested in the purchase of this device can now place pre-orders for it, but that the first sto... |
8 January 2013
15:51 GMT |
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Internauts are advised to be on the lookout for fake emails purporting to come from Belfius Bank, the Belgian financial institution that up until recently was known as Dexia Bank Belgium. The bogus notifications appear to come from email addresses such as: - beveiligingswaarschuwing@belfius.be - info@belfius.b... |
8 January 2013
15:41 GMT |
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Nvidia revealed Project Shield yesterday during the first day of CES 2013 and the company also demoed a special version of the upcoming mech-based shooter Hawken, which is specifically designed for the Tegra 4 chipset powering the new handheld console.
Project Shield is Nvidia's big bet on Android gaming, as no... |
8 January 2013
15:31 GMT |
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Over the past few years, people have grown accustomed to hearing researchers talking about how fossil fuels up pollution levels worldwide and how these energy sources must be linked to numerous cases of pollution-related medical conditions and even deaths.
However, a new investigation has revealed that the biofuels... |
8 January 2013
15:31 GMT |
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The Kepler Space Telescope, which is keeping an eye on a relatively small portion of the sky to check for exoplanets, has now officially discovered 461 new planet candidates, in the last year. This means that in less than four years, Kepler has discovered 2,740 alien planet candidates around 2,036 stars.
In fact, th... |
8 January 2013
15:11 GMT |
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If you’re planning to work on your neighbor’s computer without leaving your house, here’s a way to easily plug in your USB mouse and keyboard.
Corning has presented at the 2013 CES in Las Vegas what could very well be considered the longest USB and Thunderbolt cables in the entire world.
The USB c... |
8 January 2013
15:11 GMT |
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Blizzard hasn’t proved to be the most Linux friendly company so far, especially if we keep in mind they are banning Diablo 3 Wine Linux players, but it seems that things are about to change.
There’s no denying that Blizzard is one of the most famous gaming companies and their releases have always been ex... |
8 January 2013
15:01 GMT |
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There is no denying that this little creature is by far one of the cutest in the world, both because of its tiny stature and expressive figure, and because it looks so darn happy while eating and sleeping. In all fairness, almost everybody enjoys said two activities, yet it seems that this small mammal appreciates ... |
8 January 2013
15:01 GMT |
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The military shooter Spec Ops: The Line, developed by Yager Entertainment and published by 2K Games, is available on the Steam digital distribution service from Valve until Thursday at 4 PM Pacific Standard Time.
The game is part of the Midweek Madness initiative and has been widely praised after it was launched for... |
8 January 2013
14:58 GMT |
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Google Chrome, a browser built on the WebKit layout engine that aims to be minimalistic and versatile at the same time, is now at version 24.0.1312.52.
The Beta version of Google Chrome is now out for Linux users, and even if it's not a major release, it brings quite a few fixes.
This latest version was releas... |
8 January 2013
14:53 GMT |
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Samhain, a host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) which provides file integrity checking and log file monitoring/analysis, as well as rootkit detection, port monitoring, detection of rogue SUID executables, and hidden processes, is now at version 3.0.9.Samhain 3.0.9 was designed to monitor multiple hosts with p... |
8 January 2013
14:51 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system has started to grow in the last months, greatly fueled by the availability of new devices running under Windows Phone 8, and Finnish handset vendor Nokia appears to be benefiting from this the most.
According to recent data that Adduplex have shared with Paul Thurrot... |
8 January 2013
14:51 GMT |
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released an advisory to warn Internet users about new twists to previously existing scams. For instance, authorities warn that in one instance of a tech support scam, the victim’s computer screen turned blue and then black... |
8 January 2013
14:21 GMT |
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A piece of software developed by the FBI and Ernst & Young has helped authorities determine what are the most common words and phrases utilized in email conversations by employees engaged in corporate fraud.
The most common appear to be “cover up,” followed by “write off” and “illegal.&... |
8 January 2013
14:21 GMT |
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Pink diamonds aren't highly coveted just by the "girl who has it all;" scientists are equally fascinated by the rare stone, albeit for different reasons. Unless the scientist in question is one of said girls. In any case, some mystery of why pink diamonds are pink has now finally been uncovered.
Materials have ... |
8 January 2013
14:11 GMT |
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It was not very long ago when the news that a young girl's death might have been caused by the amount of caffeine found in one of the energy drinks she ingested caused quite a media stir. Caffeine is now back in the spotlight, courtesy of a new study claiming that the dietary supplements distributed in militar... |
8 January 2013
14:01 GMT |
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Even though Microsoft is yet to announce the release date of the new Office 2013 productivity suite, the company has revealed today that its new software would support a total of 106 languages.
Microsoft said in a blog post published a few hours ago that Office 2013 would also support three new Asian languages, name... |
8 January 2013
14:01 GMT |
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Owners of Android-based devices can now download and install a new flavor of the ASTRO File Manager application, namely version 4.2.459.
The new software release arrives on devices with Box integration, while also providing users with the possibility to change size of icons in View Settings.
At the same time, the... |
8 January 2013
13:51 GMT |
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GStreamer, a development framework for creating applications such as media players, video editors, and so on, has finally reached version 1.0.5.
The GStreamer project has announced that a new API and ABI-stable 1.x series, which makes up the GStreamer multimedia framework, has been released.
Highlights of GStreamer... |
8 January 2013
13:49 GMT |
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Chris Bovis, 26, a builder from Tilbury, Essex, got a £19,000 bill (around €23,000 or $30,000) from Orange after his iPhone reportedly transferred massive amounts of data without his knowledge. After getting the unfortunate call from Orange UK, Bovis discovered he was the owner of a faulty iPhone, somethi... |
8 January 2013
13:41 GMT |
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An escalator starts going in reverse at the Exchange Place station in New Jersey, and people are thrown back, landing one on top of the other on the base.
I can imagine more than 100 people are on that escalator on one given point, and it would have been very uncomfortable to be stuck there.
5 minor injuries were r... |
8 January 2013
13:21 GMT |
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Search suggestions in the browser are great, they speed up your searches and may even lead you in a direction you wouldn't have taken without them. However, they do pose a privacy issue, especially when the suggestions are baked into the address bar.
It's not a huge issue and it's not a privacy risk ... |
8 January 2013
13:21 GMT |
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One of Google's big goals is to make it easier for everyone to search, or rather, to provide better and better answers to any question. Most of the time, the problem with finding something is getting Google to understand what you're trying to find.
This is how the Google Knowledge Graph came about, which ... |
8 January 2013
13:21 GMT |
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“A Sincere Compliment” is the initiative of a high-school student who, inspired by anti-bullying campaigns, decided to make a change. Instead of trashing his classmates, he realized he would be better off saying nice things about them online. It's strange that such a thing would be in the news, bu... |
8 January 2013
12:41 GMT |
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Fedora Utils, a tool allowing users to install codecs and additional software, fix problems, tweak and cleanup the operating system, view system information and much more with just few clicks, is now at version 2.3.2.
Highlights of Fedora Utils 2.3.2:
• The codec installation has been fixed;
• The Oracle ... |
8 January 2013
12:41 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Adobe Reader application is now available for download for Windows Phone devices, with a series of enhancements packed inside, along with fixes and other improvements.
Available through the Windows Phone Store portal as version 10.1.2.0, the app provides users with the possibility to quickly ope... |
8 January 2013
12:31 GMT |
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Confusing. A pretty familiar term for all those who have already made the move to Windows 8, Microsoft’s latest operating system that has always been criticized for its new user interface.
Pentagram Design, the company behind Windows 8’s logo, will have to deal with a confusing job once again, as it has ... |
8 January 2013
12:31 GMT |
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As we reported yesterday, Samsung will release additional color options for the Galaxy S III mini, such as grey, red and black.
Although the South Korean company has yet to come forward with an official announcement, there have been quite a few leaks that showed the new colors for the Galaxy S III mini.
Today, the ... |
8 January 2013
12:01 GMT |
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Developers that made the switch from Flash to HTML5 for their online video players will find a trusty ally in Captionator, a small JavaScript library for displaying closed captions (subtitles) on top of the video canvas.
Captionator currently supports subtitles in the SRT, SBV, SUB and WebVTT formats and will work a... |
8 January 2013
12:01 GMT |
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Giant squids have long been the domain of fairytales and fishermen legends, but scientists have known they exist from specimens that wash up on beaches or found inside giant sperm whales, the only thing that is known to prey on them. No giant squid had ever been observed in its natural habitat, let alone filmed in ... |
8 January 2013
11:52 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is focused on building new devices running under Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, and does not plan on trying out another mobile OS out there, the company has said once again loud and clear. Nokia’s statement follows recent speculation that its CEO Stephen Elo... |
8 January 2013
11:51 GMT |
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SABnzbd, an open source binary newsreader written in Python that makes Usenet as simple and streamlined as possible by automating everything, is now at version 0.7.9.
SABnzbd 0.7.9 works in the background and simplifies the downloading, verifying, and extracting of files from Usenet.
Highlights of SABnzbd 0.7.9:
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8 January 2013
11:32 GMT |
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A rare and beautiful phenomenon caught observers' eye in California this week. You can see more than 1,000 dolphins engaged in a stampede, off the coast of Dana Point.
Passengers on a whale watching boat got to observe them turn towards the boat. The vessel in question is Captain Dave's Dolphin and Whale S... |
8 January 2013
11:27 GMT |
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After confirming that it's now accepting entries into the upcoming beta stage for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, Square Enix has just posted a brand new trailer with the MMORPG, in the form of an extended video that shows off the opening segments of the game. Final Fantasy XIV didn't succeed when it fi... |
8 January 2013
11:21 GMT |
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Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean has finally reached Samsung Galaxy S III devices purchased via Three UK. The carrier has just confirmed that the update is available for download via Samsung Kies desktop software.
However, those who do not want to connect their smartphone to a PC can try to manually pull the upgrade by goin... |
8 January 2013
11:18 GMT |
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Canon U.S.A. is showcasing its latest innovations in digital imaging at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, with a focus on all-in-one printers compatible with Apple’s AirPrint wireless printing protocol. A leader in digital imaging solutions, Canon today announced that its newest line of PIXMA W... |
8 January 2013
11:11 GMT |
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With the holidays over and 2013 on its way, Mozilla is back at work and the results are already visible, the latest stable version of Firefox is almost here. Firefox 18 is ready and available for download if you know where to look, Mozilla hasn't made the official announcement. It makes little difference, the n... |
8 January 2013
11:10 GMT |
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James Franco sure knows how to have some fun. The actor and his rumored girlfriend Ashley Benson have recorded their own version of one of Justin Bieber’s most recent videos, and it’s gone viral already.
Check out their take on “Boyfriend” above in full.
Fans might remember that this is not... |
8 January 2013
11:06 GMT |
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The stream of CES 2013 product announced continues with Mushkin revealing that its collection of USB 3.0-connected flash drives has increased by one.
The image gallery shows Mushkin's flash drive without its coverings, and it is only to prove a point: Mushkin used fewer NAND Flash chips than normal when making ... |
8 January 2013
11:05 GMT |
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Dating Game killer Rodney Alcala has been sentenced for a series of murders dating back to the 1970s. 69-year-old Alcala pleaded guilty and got 25 years to life for two murders he committed in New York, Sky News reports. In California, he is facing the death penalty for five counts of felony murder. He planned to c... |
8 January 2013
11:04 GMT |
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In the aftermath of hurricane Sandy, numerous people got separated from their pets, and some are still looking for them in various animal shelters.
Funny enough, a Rhodesian Ridgeback-Shepherd mix named Buster managed to stick with its family when the storm hit, yet somehow decided to run away from home a few weeks... |
8 January 2013
10:57 GMT |
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Buzz for Guillermo del Toro’s “Pacific Rim,” a film that promises to be big in every sense of the word, has been extremely mixed. If you’re among those who still have doubts about giving it a try because it’s too Transformers-like, perhaps the brand new trailer will help to make up your ... |
8 January 2013
10:56 GMT |
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This year's CES is turning out to be less overwhelmed with tablets than the last one, but there are still a fair few at the show in Las Vegas, two of them because of Gigabyte. Their names are S1082 and S1185. The former has a 500 GB HDD, an 11.6-inch display with a native resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, an In... |
8 January 2013
10:51 GMT |
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The stable version for Firefox 18 has been officially released for all supported desktop platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux). It promises to deliver significant JavaScript improvements through changing the JIT compiler monkeys, IonMonkey replaces JagerMonkey. Further performance improvements touch on tab switching an... |
8 January 2013
10:49 GMT |
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Courtesy of an incredibly hot summer, Australia was recently hit by several devastating wildfires.
Recent news on the topic of weather and high temperatures in this part of the world informs us that the Bureau of Meteorology was left with no choice except add two new colors to its temperature charts.
Thus, wherea... |
8 January 2013
10:49 GMT |
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HTC kicked off the rollout of the Jelly Bean update for One X since last month, but Rogers’ customers were left out from the initial deployment.
It appears that HTC decided to make the upgrade available to unlocked One X devices at first, so those with carrier-bounded smartphones had to wait a few more weeks.
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8 January 2013
10:46 GMT |
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Satoru Iwata, the leader of Nintendo, says that his company is finally exploring the possibility of using the free-to-play model for upcoming video games although core franchises like Mario and Legend of Zelda will probably not be affected any time soon.
The executive tells Nikkei in a NeoGAF translated interview th... |
8 January 2013
10:41 GMT |
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Google isn't becoming an ISP, yet, but it is more interested in bringing internet to people, especially in circumstances where most people don't already have access. This is where its free WiFi scheme comes in. The company has been working on rolling out free WiFi areas across the US. In the latest such mo... |
8 January 2013
10:41 GMT |
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Celebrities are confronted with extraordinary situations more than us regular people but, many times, they’re not the kind we should envy them for. Laurence Fishburne got a restraining order against a stalker, it has emerged.
As if that wasn’t creepy enough, TMZ reports that the stalker even tried to ha... |
8 January 2013
10:40 GMT |
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Dell has just announced at the 2013 CES in Las Vegas that its low-cost Inspiron R product family would make the move to Windows 8 and, in order to make the most of the new OS, to touchscreens.
A report by Engadget reveals that the three available models, the 14-inch, the 15-inch and the 17-inch units will be redesig... |
8 January 2013
10:39 GMT |
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SOLDIERX – a community of hackers, programmers, pentesters and other experts – is believed to have the largest public hacker database in the world. Jay Turla of the Infosec Institute has published an interesting article on SOLDIERX. The expert believes that the hacker database, dubbed SOLDIERX HDB, coul... |
8 January 2013
10:31 GMT |
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Indie Royale has just revealed a brand new package, in the form of the Replay Bundle, which includes some really impressive independent games, namely Nuclear Dawn, Defense Grid: The Awakening (plus its DLCs), Gemini Rue, as well as Soulcaster 1 and 2.
Indie Royale has kept releasing all sorts of new bundles and, whi... |
8 January 2013
10:25 GMT |
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The development team at CCP is offering fans of both the upcoming Dust 514 and the MMO EVE Online a chance to see how the two games will be linked via the newly announced orbital bombardment feature.
The idea is to allow mercenaries battling on the planet surface in Dust 514 to call upon those flying in spaceships i... |
8 January 2013
10:22 GMT |
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Deezer doesn't get as much recognition as other music streaming services, but that's down to just one thing, it's not available in the US and it's not going to be for a while to come. Yet, that's precisely the reason for its success so far.
Deezer attacked the rest of the world, the entire ... |
8 January 2013
10:21 GMT |
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systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts that provides aggressive parallelization capabilities and uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, is now at version 197. systemd 197 is mainly just a maintenance release, but it also comes with some new feature... |
8 January 2013
10:20 GMT |
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Since Lenovo is the greatest supplier of PCs now, it brought all sorts of systems to CES 2013, as well as tablets and ultrabooks. Right now we are talking about a very mean-looking gaming desktop PC. The Erazer X700 is clearly a different cup of tea than the ThinkPad Helix ultrabook and the IdeaPad Yoga 11S tablet.... |
8 January 2013
10:19 GMT |
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The Beliebers, Justin Bieber’s fans, are taking the photos of him smoking weed, which emerged over the weekend, a little too tragically. A new, very worrying Twitter trend is apparently “encouraging” them to cut themselves to show just how upset they are because of the photos.
Under the hashtag #C... |
8 January 2013
10:15 GMT |
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After a leak earlier today, Ubisoft has now confirmed that the second add-on for Assassin's Creed 3, the Battle Hardened DLC, is now available for download for the Xbox 360 and that it's going to arrive soon on the PlayStation 3 and PC.
Assassin's Creed 3 has been a huge success and Ubisoft has some i... |
8 January 2013
10:14 GMT |
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If I had a dime for every DigiTimes report citing its industry sources on the hottest circulating Apple rumor I’d be blogging this from a solid gold keyboard. That’s not to say the trade publication hasn’t been reliable in the past. It’s just that most rumors dished out by the Taiwanese site ... |
8 January 2013
10:12 GMT |
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A total of 80 individuals suspected of running Internet phone extortion schemes have been arrested over the weekend by Cambodian authorities. The alleged scammers are believed to have extorted money from victims in China. The suspects, Chinese and Taiwanese nationals, will be deported over the upcoming period. An o... |
8 January 2013
10:06 GMT |
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Curiosity is continuing its mission on Mars and, while it looks for a suitable location to test its rock drill for the first time, it managed to use a less impressive but equally important piece of equipment for the first time, its brush.
The brush is designed to help clear away the Martian dust to reveal the rocks... |
8 January 2013
10:01 GMT |
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Today is a great day for music: for the first time in 10 years, we have new David Bowie music. Check out his brand new single and video – both amazing! – above in full. Called “Where Are We Now,” the single has a video directed by artist Tony Oursler, a tribute to the time Bowie spent in Be... |
8 January 2013
10:00 GMT |
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Having had a year to read customer reactions to the K90 keyboard, Corsair has launched the K95 Vengeance Keyboard and the M95 and M65 gaming mice, which are part of the same series. Like so many other IT companies around the world, Corsair is attending this year's edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES ... |
8 January 2013
09:59 GMT |
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Posters have gone up at the new BBC headquarters in London, outlawing, believe it or not, bananas.
The UK Telegraph explains that one of the members of the staff is allergic to the fruit, and cannot even come in contact with a banana or its peel.
As a result, “specific areas of the newsroom” have been p... |
8 January 2013
09:57 GMT |
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WireframeSketcher, a wireframing tool that helps product managers, designers and developers quickly create wireframes, mockups and prototypes for desktop, web and mobile applications, is now at version 3.8.2.
Highlights of WireframeSketcher 3.8.2:
• A way to specify external links for websites like YouTube and... |
8 January 2013
09:52 GMT |
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After attending Sharp’s IGZO demo at CES 2013, Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White released a prediction calling Apple a “prime candidate” to adopt IGZO in future iPhones and iPads.
White praised Sharp’s advancements in developing a low-power high-quality display using panels made of i... |
8 January 2013
09:51 GMT |
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Cevat Yerli, the chief executive officer at developer Crytek, says that the upcoming Crysis 3 video game will not be launched on the Wii U home consoles because of a business decision taken by publisher Electronic Arts and hardware maker Nintendo.The executive is quoted by Digital Trends as saying that, &l... |
8 January 2013
09:51 GMT |
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The first release candidate for Maxthon 4.0.3 has emerged, bringing with it a new feature called Cloud Push, which is designed to help you share web content and download files through Maxthon Cloud.
Apart from integrating new functionality in the browser, the developer also did away with some issues affecting overal... |
8 January 2013
09:41 GMT |
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Google's changes to the privacy policy of most of its products last year, which created a unified policy for most and made it possible for Google to share data between its services, generated quite a lot of noise. Plenty of people threatened to quit evil Google and some even sued the company over the changes. N... |
8 January 2013
09:41 GMT |
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This video was shot on a highway in Australia only a few days ago and shows how a koala gets hit by a bike, yet still manages to walk away from the scene of the accident without any signs of injury.
Luckily for the animal, the bike was not going very fast and the rider managed to hit the brakes just in time.
Thes... |
8 January 2013
09:36 GMT |
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Fitbit has used the 2013 CES in Las Vegas to announce the latest addition to its product lineup: the wearable wristband with Bluetooth 4.0 that helps you stay in shape 24/7.
The wristband tracks essential data, such as distance and burned calories, with the device using illumination to alert you whenever you reach a... |
8 January 2013
09:34 GMT |
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WD Sentinel DX4000 server firmware version 1.5.7.30 is out. Fixed issues include the forced default Server Time Zone to Baja, California (Mexico) during initial onboard, and various language translation problems in the User Interface (UI).From the feature enhancements list, we would like to point out the compatibilit... |
8 January 2013
09:33 GMT |
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iHealth Labs Inc. has released two new products at CES 2013, beefing up its portfolio of mobile personal healthcare products for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch – the iHealth Wireless Smart Gluco-Monitoring System and iHealth Pulse Oximeter.
At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, iHealth unveiled the next-g... |
8 January 2013
09:27 GMT |
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Tulsa, Oklahoma was the scene of a horrific multiple murder on Monday, January 7, as 4 women have lost their lives in an apartment. Police responding to a 911 call entered Fairmont Terrace Apartments to find the victims’ four bodies. A 3-year-old boy was found alive at the scene, Christian Post reports. He was... |
8 January 2013
09:26 GMT |
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The Shadow of the Colossus movie project seems to be steadily moving ahead, with Seth Lochhead, the scriptwriter for action title Hanna, now set to create the narrative for the video game adaptation.
Previously, the movie was supposed to get a script from the writer who created the widely-panned story for Chun Li, a... |
8 January 2013
09:20 GMT |
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Sony has just revealed the new things available for PlayStation Plus members in North America, confirming that they can now access the multiplayer beta stage for God of War: Ascension, as well as get the free Mega Man 9 and 10 combo pack, not to mention a special discount for Eufloria and some free NCAA Football 13 D... |
8 January 2013
09:17 GMT |
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Seattle rapper Freddy E took his own life over the weekend, his family confirms. Before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the face, the 22-year-old upcoming star tweeted the very motions of his final, desperate act.
Fans believed he was just messing with them or, at best, pulling some kind of twisted medi... |
8 January 2013
09:16 GMT |
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Since Samsung has announced new OLED TVs, LG wasn't about to let CES 2013 pass by without doing something similar.
LG isn't actually launching anything new in terms of OLED though. After all, its new 55-inch WRGB OLED TV has been up for pre-order in Korea for days.
The official US pricing is of $11,999 ... |
8 January 2013
09:16 GMT |
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Just after Google proudly announced that it had reached a settlement with the FTC over its antitrust case, Microsoft published a long blog post to explain the reason why it does not agree with this decision.
Sadly for the Redmond-based technology giant, many readers of the company’s blog post have criticized M... |
8 January 2013
09:12 GMT |
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27-year-old Romanian national Cezar Butu has been sentenced to serve 21 months in prison for his role in the international fraud scheme that targeted payment card data from hundreds of United States merchants. Butu, who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud and agreed to be sentence... |
8 January 2013
09:11 GMT |
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4MLinux Allinone Edition, a Linux distro focusing on the following 4M editions: Maintenance (system rescue Live CD), Multimedia (e.g., playing video DVDs), Miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and Mystery (Linux games), is now at version 5.0.
According to the developers, 4MLinux Allinone Edition 5.0 features all the... |
8 January 2013
09:00 GMT |
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Mozilla’s Firefox for Android browser is one of the most popular applications that users take advantage of when it comes to Internet navigation on their devices, and it is set to get a nice range of enhancements this year.
In fact, Mozilla has already provided some info on the main changes that it plans on ma... |
8 January 2013
08:59 GMT |
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Bonnie Land was expecting a reward when she found an expensive diamond ring in a tanning salon individual booth. Instead of being compensated for returning it, she got arrested.
Land, of St. Charles, Missouri, stumbled upon Melisa Boucek's $20,000 (€15,200) diamond ring. The jewel is adorned with a two-car... |
8 January 2013
08:44 GMT |
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Whether or not it feels strange and tiresome to reach forward and touch a monitor all the time, ViewSonic has immersed itself fully in the idea of touch-enabled displays. Windows 8 demands no less.
In its press release, made in Las Vegas, Nevada during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2013), it spoke of three 10-... |
8 January 2013
08:43 GMT |
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Back in 2009, David Letterman’s public image took a serious hit when word got out that he had been cheating on his new wife (but girlfriend of 23 years) with some of his female staff. He’s finally opening up about the scandal and how it affected his marriage.
Below are two excerpts from Letterman’... |
8 January 2013
08:40 GMT |
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USB Graphics technology provider DisplayLink today announced a range of new USB 3.0 Mac Drivers, alongside a bunch of USB 3.0 Docking Stations at CES 2013, Las Vegas. Enabling Mac users to benefit from DisplayLink’s Award Winning Chip and Software Technology, DisplayLink’s docking stations coupled with a... |
8 January 2013
08:37 GMT |
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Irrational Games has just posted a batch of new screenshots from the upcoming BioShock Infinite game, this time showing off the protagonist, Booker DeWitt, in action, as well as some of the environments from the city of Columbia and, of course, Elizabeth.
Even if there's still quite some time before BioShock In... |
8 January 2013
08:32 GMT |
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Ben Cousins, an industry veteran who has worked for video game companies like Sony, Electronic Arts and LIonhead, says that all major console manufacturers have lost vast amounts of money on the current generation of home devices.
Speaking to Kotaku the former developer states, “Consoles like Xboxes, PlayStati... |
8 January 2013
08:32 GMT |
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As it turns out, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters like to take a mathematical approach to their operation, whose sole purpose is allegedly to get the controversial Innocence of Muslims movie removed from the Web.
In the first phase of Operation Ababil, they asked US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to solv... |
8 January 2013
08:30 GMT |
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Beeline Interactive has updated Zombie Café, an iOS game where you transform customers into zombie waiters using toxin and have them do your bidding.
Players must be careful not to work a zombie too hard as he or she will get tired and will try to eat customers.
Zombie Café 1.2.6 stars five new B-movi... |
8 January 2013
08:19 GMT |
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Ubuntu Phone OS is not even out the door yet and the Internet is already buzzing with interest, especially when it's about the performance capabilities.
When it was first showed a week ago, Ubuntu Phone OS may have looked pretty and interesting, but everyone noticed that it had some considerable lag.
Mark Shu... |
8 January 2013
08:17 GMT |
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Not even old age can safeguard a marriage. Famous former American astronaut Buzz Aldrin knows that first-hand now, having just divorced his wife of 23 years, Lois Driggs Cannon. Aldrin filed for divorce in June 2011 but it’s just now that it became final. In fact, this might have been just the Christmas pre... |
8 January 2013
08:16 GMT |
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Since AMD was nice enough to formally introduce its new APUs, even if they aren't shipping to consumers yet, MSI figured it might as well launch a motherboard ready to receive them.
Called A85XMA-P33, it is of the micro-ATX variety, but has fewer features than MSI would have been able to cram into it if it rea... |
8 January 2013
08:12 GMT |
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Following a long series of rumors and leaks, Sony Mobile has finally made Xperia Z official as its next flagship smartphone running under Google’s Android operating system.
Launched at CES 2013 in Las Vegas, the new device has a lot to offer to its users, starting with a great viewing experience on its large ... |
8 January 2013
08:11 GMT |
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The Independent Games Festival has announced the nominees and the honorable mentions for this year’s series of awards linked to the ever growing and more successful indie genre, which will be given to winners during a ceremony that will take place on March 27 in San Francisco.The full list of games selected for... |
8 January 2013
08:09 GMT |
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Forest City Ratner Companies is building the tallest modular building in the world in New York – B2 is set to be 32-stores high.
The 340,000 square-foot (31.600 square-meter) residential tower will feature modular blocks exclusively.
“Designed by SHoP Architects and with Arup as the engineers, this will be ... |
8 January 2013
07:58 GMT |
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If you think there’s no theme song cooler than “Mission Impossible,” wait till you hear it interpreted by the awesome dudes from The Piano Guys with some help from the unmistakable Lindsey Stirling. Both these (incredibly talented) acts rose to international fame on YouTube and social media, but I ... |
8 January 2013
07:57 GMT |
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If you’re double-wielding displays with your OS X installation and want your mouse cursor to jump over to the other screen faster, might we point your attention to the newly-gone-free Wormhole - Mouse Warping from Tod LLC.
Wormhole - Mouse Warping is a very simple yet efficient app. It creates wormholes much l... |
8 January 2013
07:57 GMT |
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The Entertainment Software Rating Board from the U.S. has just posted a listing for the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot, mentioning new details about the game's story and its gameplay, while giving it an M rating.
The ESRB has made a habit of leaking not just the existence of certain games but also for revealing sp... |
8 January 2013
07:54 GMT |
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If you’re the type of person who chooses sports over fiber bars, this is the kind of gadget that’s really worth your attention.
The Sony NWZ-W273 W Series Walkman Sports is a wire-free MP3 player that offers up to 4 GB of storage space and approximately eight hours of continuous playback on a full batter... |
8 January 2013
07:50 GMT |
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Google rolled out the first updates for their browser for 2013. The company increased the build number for the dev and beta versions of Chrome to 25.0.1364.26 and 24.0.1312.49 respectively.
Both are available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame) and integrate stability fixes.
Among th... |
8 January 2013
07:49 GMT |
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Last week we said that AMD's CES 2013 exhibition would focus on APUs and GPUs for mobile and gaming devices. As it happens though, its new products are good for things besides those.
We got the Sea Islands and Solar System GPUs out of the way yesterday, so today we can see what AMD had to say about its new acc... |
8 January 2013
07:43 GMT |
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ZAGG-owned iFrogz, a company specializing in creative mobile accessories, is launching its Caliber Advantage mobile gaming controller for iPhone and iPod touch at CES 2013 in Las Vegas. Attendees to the special, invitation-only event will witness a product introduction from ZAGG, as well as a live demonstration of t... |
8 January 2013
07:40 GMT |
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O2 is the third UK-based operator to confirm that it will carry the Sony Xperia Z, after Vodafone and Three made similar announcements earlier today. According to O2 UK, the Xperia Z will be available for purchase beginning with February, but the carrier does not offer more details on the phone’s exact release... |
8 January 2013
07:40 GMT |
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Everyone is carefully following the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas these days to see what’s new on the tech scene. However, according to experts, it’s likely that more than one CES attendee will leave Vegas without their mobile device.
An infographic released by Novell reveals that with ove... |
8 January 2013
07:33 GMT |
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Netgear isn't the only one coming up with Google TV devices at CES, Asus, which already builds the popular Nexus 7, has revealed the Qube, its first Google TV device. If the name sounds familiar, it's because of the Q, the ill-fated living room device Google unveiled last summer at Google I/O and then nev... |
8 January 2013
07:31 GMT |
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Vodafone is yet another wireless carrier in the UK to have confirmed the upcoming availability of Sony’s new Xperia Z flagship Android device on its network.
Unveiled not long ago at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the smartphone is set to hit shelves at Vodafone as soon as it is made available in... |
8 January 2013
07:31 GMT |
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Nintendo has just wrapped up its special Direct video conference in which the company's president, Satoru Iwata, has confirmed that two new Pokemon games will be released this fall for the Nintendo 3DS handheld, in the form of Pokemon X and Y.
The 3DS has been doing great in terms of sales, despite the fact tha... |
8 January 2013
07:30 GMT |
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For the past couple of years, if not actually more, Starz has been slowly but surely making a name for itself with its impressive offering in scripted programming. The network is preparing another surprise for fans, one for which it just premiered a brand new trailer.
Check it out above.
The new series is called ... |
8 January 2013
07:30 GMT |
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A murder trial begins today for former Pastor Arthur “A.B.” Schirmer of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. The churchman is accused of killing his second wife, Betty Jean, in 2008. Schirmer has also been charged with first-degree murder of his first wife. Jewel suffered a suspicious death in 1999. Betty Jean... |
8 January 2013
07:28 GMT |
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Scala, a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way, is now at version 2.10.0.
Scala 2.10.0 smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages, enabling Java and other programmers to be more productive
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8 January 2013
07:26 GMT |
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There’s no doubt that the number of apps available in the Windows Store is increasing every day and according to some unofficial reports, there are more than 35,000 titles available right now for Windows 8 users. But Steve Ballmer has confirmed that Windows 8’s Store is getting more and more apps, reveal... |
8 January 2013
07:26 GMT |
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This past Monday, Eli Lilly and Co, together with Boehringer Ingelheim made it public news that a new diabetes drug known as empagliflozin did well in trials, meaning that it proved quite successful in terms of lowering the blood sugar levels of patients suffering with type 2 diabetes.
The companies explained that ... |
8 January 2013
07:26 GMT |
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South Korean handset maker LG did not make any phone-related announcement at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, but the company introduced quite a slew of other electronic devices, including TVs.
However, LG promised it would launch at least one new smartphone next month at Mobile World Congress 2013, in B... |
8 January 2013
07:22 GMT |
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Intel has been working hard to offer games a driver that fixes known game issues. Without further ado: introducing the Intel HD Graphics build number 2932. This release helps users to play games like Doom 3 BFG, League of Legends, Worms Revolution, Worms Ultimate Mayhem and Crysis 2 without fails, screen corruption, ... |
8 January 2013
07:17 GMT |
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Dead Rising 3 is apparently happening, as a rigging supervisor for Blur Studios, a company that specializes in creating video game trailers, has listed the new game on his resume.
Capcom's Dead Rising franchise has been quite successful, managing to earn a loyal following even if some of its mechanics put off a... |
8 January 2013
07:14 GMT |
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Henrik Fahraeus, the project lead and designer working on Crusader Kings II, reveals that the team has drawn inspiration from medieval history when creating the game.
But Paradox Interactive has also looked to more exotic sources of inspiration, like the fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire from R.R. Marin and the ... |
8 January 2013
07:12 GMT |
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Google has been trying to penetrate the smart TV market for a couple of years now, to no great success. But it's not giving up and it seems to be inspiring at least some to follow, as it's now gotten a new hardware maker to build a Google TV device. The Netgear NeoTV PRIME will be the top device in the Neo... |
8 January 2013
07:11 GMT |
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Intel and McAfee are determined to revolutionize security by delivering personalized solutions capable of protecting every aspect of a consumer’s digital life.
“As consumers live their lives online and use two, three, or more different types of devices to accommodate their online lifestyles, their needs ... |
8 January 2013
07:04 GMT |
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The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico – a facility in charge of the design of nuclear weapons – has replaced networking equipment from Chinese vendor H3C because of security concerns.
According to Reuters, which reviewed a letter dated November 5 to the US Department of Energy's National ... |
8 January 2013
07:00 GMT |
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Just as expected, Nokia’s Lumia 920 smartphone became available for purchase in the UK once again today, but it seems that supplies were tight, and that the device has already gone out of stock. At the time of this article, Expansys still lists the black Lumia 920 as in stock but, with only a few units remain... |
8 January 2013
06:59 GMT |
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Computer maker Intel announced on January 7 at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas a new generation of mobile processors aimed at the emerging markets and expected to make it on shelves inside devices coming from Acer and Xolo.
In fact, both companies have brought such phones to CES 2013’s floor, ... |
8 January 2013
06:51 GMT |
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In October last year, a video of Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj fighting during the American Idol auditions emerged online. Speaking to Barbara Walters, Mariah admits that she did increase security after the incident.
Check out the video below to hear it straight from the diva.
Though she says the whole thing is wa... |
8 January 2013
06:48 GMT |
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As it happens, CES 2013 is proving to be more than a stage for new products. It is acting as the place where companies are announcing the broadening of availability for existing devices as well. Nikon's D5200 DSLR camera has been up for sale in Europe and other areas for a while now. The US has been a bit slow... |
8 January 2013
06:38 GMT |
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We reported yesterday on the possible release of the Lumia 920 and 820 smartphones in India on January 11, and now we have more info pointing to the same launch date.
MyNokiaBlog reports that Nokia Care India replied via email to several Indian customers inquiring for the availability of the Lumia 920 in the country... |
8 January 2013
06:21 GMT |
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At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, chip maker Qualcomm announced the upcoming availability of a new series of Snapdragon processors for smartphones. The company has once again raised the bar in mobile computing performance through its newest Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 and 600 processors, which are sai... |
8 January 2013
06:21 GMT |
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Ever since Windows 8 got to see daylight, the operating system was constantly criticized by analysts around the world who emphasized that Microsoft’s new product fails to impress in the same way as its predecessor.
Now Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu says that Windows 8 may convince a bunch of people to buy new ha... |
8 January 2013
06:11 GMT |
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Some girls are so pretty that not even veteran sports announcers can keep their cool when the camera zooms in on their pretty face. Just ask Brent Musburger.
While doing the play-by-play for the BCS championship game between the Tide and Notre Dame, Musburger simply lost his cool when the camera zoomed in on former... |
8 January 2013
05:57 GMT |
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Nintendo is admitting that the Wii U home console, which was launched in late 2012 on all major markets, has failed to reach the same initial sales as its predecessor, but the company maintains that the device has moved units at a steady pace all over the world. Satoru Iwata, the leader of Nintendo, is quoted by CVG... |
8 January 2013
05:53 GMT |
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After speaking his mind on the need for gun control in the US in the aftermath of the Newtown, Connecticut shooting, Piers Morgan fell out of favor with millions of gun-owning Americans, many of whom want him deported back to the UK.
One of them is Alex Jones, a radio personality who started the petition on the Wh... |
8 January 2013
05:48 GMT |
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MADFINGER Games, creators of highly-acclaimed Dead Trigger, Samurai II Vengeance and Shadowgun titles for Android devices, have just confirmed the former’s sequel will be launched in Q2 2013.
Dead Trigger 2 will be one of the first games optimized for Nvidia’s Tegra 4 chipset, which was recently announce... |
8 January 2013
05:43 GMT |
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Jeffrey Hall, of Riverside, California, was part of the National Socialist Movement. He was abusive to his 10-year-old son Joseph, his other three children and their stepmother. He was killed by the boy earlier this year, a publicized trial following. Hall's 11-year-old daughter, the sister of the juvenile def... |
8 January 2013
05:42 GMT |
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The news that NASA's Kepler Space Telescope succeeded in pinning down as many as 461 new potential alien planets is now causing quite a media stir.
Truth be told, this is probably because, as Space reports, four of these distant worlds seem fairly capable of supporting life as we know it. This is because they ... |
8 January 2013
05:39 GMT |
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What we know:
The main Gears of War trilogy may have ended in 2011, but this means that the series has come to a conclusion, as Epic Games, together with its People Can Fly subsidiary, are now working on Gears of War: Judgment.
The upcoming game is a sort of prequel that's set right after Emergence Day, when t... |
8 January 2013
05:35 GMT |
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Google Chrome, a browser built on the WebKit layout engine that aims to be minimalistic and versatile at the same time, is now at version 25.0.1364.26.
The dev version of Google Chrome is now out for Linux users, and even if it's not a major release, it brings quite a few fixes.
Highlights of Google Chrome 25.... |
8 January 2013
05:35 GMT |
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The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is getting more interesting as Atmel is now showcasing the XSense flexible touch sensor.
Especially aimed at curved devices, the flexible touchscreen allows for new form factors that could kill buttons once and for all from smartphones, tablets or other touch-capable device... |
8 January 2013
05:33 GMT |
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Mighty consumer electronics devices are all well and good, but the bulk of IT companies' revenues still comes from sales of mid-range products, which is why Samsung, like everyone else attending CES 2013, made sure to have a bunch of mainstream displays on site.
People looking for top-quality TVs large enough ... |
8 January 2013
05:30 GMT |
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Opera has never been incredibly popular on the desktop, yet it managed to survive for decades. It's done it by branching out into other niches, low-end mobile phones, internet-enabled devices and more recently, TVs. To drive that point home, Opera is now opening up a TV app store. Opera is hardly alone in the ... |
8 January 2013
05:22 GMT |
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Dell vCloud, Cloud Dedicated Service and VMware vCenter 5.0 customers can now benefit from Dell SecureWorks’ new add-on cloud security solutions: a Vulnerability Management Service (VMS) and a new Web Application Scanning (WAS) Service.
SecureWorks is also offering cloud customers its Global Threat Intelligenc... |
8 January 2013
05:20 GMT |
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The development team at Firaxis is updating XCOM: Enemy Unknown with Patch 3, designed to introduce all the new Second Wave options for free while also eliminating a number of problems and unlocking a new hero for the player to use. The Artificial Intelligence bug has been fixed, which means that aliens will no lon... |
8 January 2013
05:20 GMT |
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Wildlife rangers and police officials in Kenya are now on the hunt for a team of ten poachers who shot and killed an entire family of elephants.
The incident occurred this past Saturday in Kenya's Tsavo East National Park, and almost everybody refers to it as the biggest mass shooting of animals this country h... |
8 January 2013
05:19 GMT |
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Apple has just enough time to get Corning Gorilla Glass 3 tested and fit onto its next-generation iPhones, with the latter planning to ramp up production at the end of Q1 this year, according to Corning’s own announcements at CES 2013. A leading manufacturer of the glass used in many liquid crystal displays, C... |
8 January 2013
05:15 GMT |
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FIFA 13, the EA Sports made football simulation, sits at the top of the United Kingdom video game chart for the first week of 2013, dethroning Far Cry 3, the game that managed to hold the same position during the last week of 2012.
FIFA 13 is one of the best video games launched last year, with an upgraded Player Im... |
8 January 2013
05:14 GMT |
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The budget-friendly Nokia Lumia 620 smartphone is about to make its debut on the market. The device was officially announced last month and is expected to hit shelves in January.
We reported yesterday that the smartphone had been confirmed to arrive in India in late January, and now the folks over at WMPoweruser hav... |
8 January 2013
05:09 GMT |
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are so loaded they have no intention of cashing in on their unborn child – yet. The celebrity couple is literally flooded with offers for their baby’s first photos but they have turned them all down, it has emerged. TMZ reports that the two stars are being courted like craz... |
8 January 2013
05:08 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has been named among the other investors that are interested in THQ, especially since the bankruptcy process will now contain an auction for the different franchises owned by the struggling publisher. THQ, after many financial problems, revealed last month that it was going bankrupt and that a buyer ... |
8 January 2013
05:00 GMT |
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BitTorrent rolled out a new build for uTorrent 3.4 alpha, which brings to the table plenty of corrections, some changes and a new feature (optimization of DHT lookup times).
Starting this revision, the application no longer offers the possibility to display torrent entries in a simplified list.
Among the changes op... |
8 January 2013
04:59 GMT |
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Kingston has recently announced at the 2013 CES in Las Vegas that its Flash drive product lineup received a new member offering no less than 1TB of storage.
Yes, you’ve heard it right, 1TB of storage on a simple Flash drive with USB 3.0 support. The DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0 will go on sale in the first... |
8 January 2013
04:57 GMT |
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The news just broke that a 70-year-old turtle named Willie recently went missing in Brooklyn. More precisely, the turtle ran away from home and its owner, Ed Schloeman, is desperate to find it. Ed explains that Willie has been his pet for decades, seeing how it was purchased by his parents in the 1940s. ... |
8 January 2013
04:56 GMT |
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Facebook has addressed a serious vulnerability after being notified by independent security researcher Sow Ching Shiong. The security hole allowed hackers to change the passwords of accounts they had compromised without knowing the old passwords.
Whenever users change the password that protects their Facebook accoun... |
8 January 2013
04:53 GMT |
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Al Roker confidently stepped into the TMI zone the other night on NBC’s Dateline, when he admitted to going number 2 in his pants during a visit to the White House. Out of all the places in the world…
Check out the video above to his admission – granted, of course, you’re not the kind to be easily... |
8 January 2013
04:52 GMT |
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Nokia announced several days ago it would lock down access to its firmware repository, also known as NaviFirm, beginning late January. This means that connecting to NaviFirm will require a valid Nokia account, so access for general public will be restricted. This is bad news for Nokia smartphone owners that are cu... |
8 January 2013
04:51 GMT |
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The fight over whether or not LG stole its OLED technology is still going on, but Samsung isn't putting its plans on hold because of it, as shown by the abundance of such displays at CES 2013.
Samsung is advertising OLED as the next great display technology. It expects it to eventually be used by all products ... |
8 January 2013
04:47 GMT |
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ISS astronaut Chris Hadfield is busy enough in space, but he still makes time to get in touch with us mere mortals down on Earth. He's a relatively active Twitter user, as active as you can be in space, and now he's branching out to Google+. While he's had a profile set up for a while, it was his son t... |
8 January 2013
04:44 GMT |
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Only recently, a Boulder police officer shot and killed an elk which made it its habit to walk about a neighborhood in this part of the US. Several days after this incident occurred, people decided to hold a candlelight vigil and mourn the animal's death.
Whereas some individuals claim that this elk displayed... |
8 January 2013
04:38 GMT |
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The McDonald's “Mighty Wings” should be available a bit longer, as the company has decided to try out its product in Chicago.
So in case you haven't tried them, these are not McNuggets, and apparently they are nothing like Chicken McBites.
Perhaps adding the word “mighty” in the n... |
8 January 2013
04:34 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto V might be set to launch in the first half of 2013, but the development team at Rockstar has offered a limited number of details on the game experience, which has prompted fans to be especially attentive to Internet rumors.
A Twitter message from a French journalist named Mouloud Achour suggests tha... |
8 January 2013
04:31 GMT |
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Just like it happens every single year, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas comes with many, many out-of-this-world gadgets that no one would ever buy. Samsung’s very own T9000 Four-Door Refrigerator isn’t your typical refrigerator. It’s an all-in-one fridge that comes with an Ultra HD 4K LC... |
8 January 2013
04:30 GMT |
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After hearing rumors about the oft-rumored Steam Box mini PC that's supposedly going to appear from Valve, Xi3 Corporation, a company specialized in making custom PC designs, has revealed at CES 2013 that it has partnered with Valve to create a special device that's capable of supporting Steam and its Big P... |
8 January 2013
04:29 GMT |
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Following the official unveiling of Sony’s new Android-based flagship Xperia Z smartphone, wireless carriers and retailers around the world have started to announce plans to make it available for their customers.
UK retailer Phones 4u is one of them, confirming not only that the phone will be added to its off... |
8 January 2013
04:27 GMT |
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The development team at Harmonix is announcing that fans of Dance Central 3 will be able to buy and download four DLC packs for the video game in January, getting access to a number of new tracks and routines. Today Nicki Minaj – “Whip It” Choreographer – Marcos Aguirre Difficulty – Le... |
8 January 2013
04:27 GMT |
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As it happens at the start of every new year, loads of new PCs and PC components are coming out. Since all new PCs need a good PSU, NZXT has put together a collection of such products.
The HALE90 V2 is everything that users belonging to the high-end market could ever want.
Granted, they do not have 80Plus Platinum ... |
8 January 2013
04:22 GMT |
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CES 2013 has arrived in full force and Mark Shuttleworth is down in the tranches demoing the working of Ubuntu for smartphones.
This type of marketing was usually done by other people, but Mark Shuttleworth has taken a personal interest in Ubuntu for smartphones and it's now demonstrating the operating system, ... |
8 January 2013
04:17 GMT |
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The “Hey Girls, Did You Know” Facebook page is ridiculed by some, but liked by many. It includes posts of girls showing other girls that they can be appreciated even without wearing a lot of make-up and revealing clothing. According to Daily Mail, it was started in June 2012, and it has almost 40,000 Lik... |
8 January 2013
04:17 GMT |
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It is a common held belief that alcohol and drug addictions are hard to beat. However, a Siberian doctor now claims that, given the proper utensils (canes and whips), one can literally beat a harmful habit out of an individual.
Dr. German Pilipenko, the man who first started making use of this innovative way of curi... |
8 January 2013
04:15 GMT |
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Netflix customers constantly seeking the perfect viewing experience are encouraged to hit up the iTunes App Store and download the new Netflix 2.4.4. The developers have incorporated new tweaks and fixes to make the app run smoothly. “We are always improving the app so it is easier and better to use,” ac... |
8 January 2013
04:15 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile appears to be gearing up for the launch of visual voicemail for its Windows Phone 8 users, the latest reports on the matter suggest. In fact, it seems that the company itself has confirmed in a recent post on its community forums plans to make the feature available to customers. Through ... |
8 January 2013
04:14 GMT |
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The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has released its Cyber Threat Landscape analysis of 2012. The study, based on over 120 threat reports, highlights the top threats and their trends.
According to the report, drive-by exploits – malicious code injects used to exploit web browser vulner... |
8 January 2013
03:58 GMT |
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We’ve already told you that Westinghouse wants to steal the CES 2013 show with its 110-inch TV, but the company has actually managed to gain everyone’s attention with something different. The TV is on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and even though the UHDTV (ultra high-definition)... |
8 January 2013
03:58 GMT |
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Attorneys for Casey Anthony, whom the media dubbed “Toddler Mom” during the controversial trial in which she stood accused of the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, will be today in court to appeal the 4 convictions of lying to authorities.
Anthony herself won’t show up, but her team will present t... |
8 January 2013
03:58 GMT |
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The first trailer for CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 game, which was rumored last week, is going to be released on Thursday, January 10, as the developer has confirmed the release and has also posted a couple of teaser images from the game.
Cyberpunk 2077 is the first all-new project from CD Projekt Red, as th... |
8 January 2013
03:57 GMT |
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At CES 2013, Seagate has revealed the Central shared hybrid device that combines the benefits of an external HDD with those of a consumer NAS device (Network-attached storage).
Essentially, it is a multi-functional data hub that can store and stream audio and video, wirelessly, to Samsung Smart TVs, mobile gadgets, ... |
8 January 2013
03:52 GMT |
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As a Chicago lottery winner is killed with cyanide, questions over disclosure of winners' names arise. The case of Urooj Khan, reported on earlier today, is causing a bit of controversy on this matter. Khan had won $1 million (€762,660), of which he stood to collect $600,000 (€457,212) in one lump su... |
8 January 2013
03:52 GMT |
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Online shoppers, but particularly the sellers using the handy eBay app on their iPhones and iPads may want to look into the latest update rolled out by eBay Inc. this week.
The new eBay 2.7.0 brings a new listing flow that makes it “faster and easier to sell,” according to the developers. Users get categ... |
8 January 2013
03:42 GMT |
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The Bangladesh Cyber Army is back and it claims to have already defaced over 1,000 Indian websites as a form of protest against the country’s Border Security Force (BSF). Besides the defacements, they also claim to have taken down two major Indian sites.
They resumed their operation against India on January 7,... |
8 January 2013
03:41 GMT |
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Not one to let the Consumer Electronics Show pass without some measure of participation, Seagate is attending the show in Las Vegas, Nevada. One of the products ready to start selling for $199 / 151-199 Euro is an AirPlay-connected magnetic storage device that exists to stream media to Samsung smart TVs or any other... |
8 January 2013
03:30 GMT |
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The next add-on for Assassin's Creed 3, the Battle Hardened pack for the multiplayer mode, is going to appear this week, according to a leak from the official website of the game.
Assassin's Creed 3 appeared last year and was quickly followed by the release of different types of DLC, like the Ancient Secre... |
8 January 2013
03:29 GMT |
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Fuduntu 2013.1, a lighthearted and fun Linux distribution that fits somewhere in-between Fedora and Ubuntu and designed to be aesthetically pleasing, is now available for download. Users who already have the previous Fuduntu version installed, can rest assured as they can easily upgrade to the 2013.1 version with a... |
8 January 2013
03:28 GMT |
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American McGee, the founder of Spicy Horse, says that the Kickstarter effort for his upcoming title Akaneiro: Demon Hunters is not a sign that it is running out of money, but an effort to take the most interesting elements of the game and improve them before launch.
The developer tells Kotaku that, “The game i... |
8 January 2013
03:22 GMT |
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Of all the people you’d think could wear a Marilyn Monroe costume and do it justice, Mama June (aka June Shannon) of TLC’s Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is perhaps last on the list. Sugarbear disagrees though.
This Sunday’s “HOLLADay” special on TLC brought a massive surprise for fans of th... |
8 January 2013
03:18 GMT |
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Anonymous Canada has released a new video statement to warn the country’s citizens about the recently introduced, controversial Bill C-45, also known as the second omnibus budget bill.
The hacktivists claim that the Harper government is trying to use the 400-page bill to hide its secret agenda.
“Omnibus... |
8 January 2013
03:17 GMT |
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ASUS has added a new product to its already extensive ROG line (Republic of Gamers). It isn't a new PC or motherboard though, nor a peripheral or gaming gadget.
Instead, it is a solid-state drive. And not just any solid-state drive, but a PCI Express SSD card.
The add-in board is made of several MSATA SSD sub-... |
8 January 2013
03:13 GMT |
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More often than not, doctors keep telling both their patients and ordinary folks to lay off fizzy drinks, seeing how they toy with one's organism and also cause people to gain considerable amounts of weight.
Still, it looks like one fizzy drink in particular, i.e. Coca-Cola, is quite appreciated by some medica... |
8 January 2013
03:09 GMT |
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The fresh build is not officially released at the moment but it is already present on Mozilla’s FTP as well as on Softpedia. The official release notes are also available.
The most significant modification in Firefox 18 is the integration of a new JavaScript engine, dubbed IonMonkey. It replaces JagerMonkey JI... |
8 January 2013
03:06 GMT |
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12 homes have been demolished in Detroit's east side, in the Morningside neighborhood, after being sold at auction. It appears the new owners had never been advised not to purchase the residences, as they were up for demolition before being put up for auction. The Land Bank Fast Track Authority tore up the ho... |
8 January 2013
03:05 GMT |
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Mozilla’s Firefox operating system for mobile devices has been in development for quite some time. The company made a few announcements last year informing mobile phone users Firefox OS would be launched this year in South America. In fact, the first devices powered by Firefox OS will be available for purchase... |
8 January 2013
03:03 GMT |
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The newly redesigned Dropbox application for iPhone and iPad users has been updated yet again, this time only to streamline your experience using the cloud service. For those who’ve missed the 2.0 update, Dropbox now has a completely new interface with more intuitive navigation, visually-appealing gradients, a... |
8 January 2013
03:01 GMT |
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The Tomb Raider reboot that's set to appear at the beginning of March has a special type of combat system that emphasizes agility and moving between pieces of cover, not on being more powerful than your enemies or on having the biggest gun.
Crystal Dynamics will reboot its long-running Tomb Raider series with i... |
8 January 2013
03:00 GMT |
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JP LeBreton, one of the lead designers working at developer Double Fine, says that he is very happy with the way the company is trying to integrate fans and their unique energy in the game development process.
He tells Gamasutra that, “I’m sure that will prove in the long run to have its own set of advan... |
8 January 2013
02:54 GMT |
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Supporting a recent rumor saying Apple was planning to beef up the wireless capabilities of its Macs, a new job posting over at the company’s website reveals that Apple wants to hire a Wi-Fi expert who knows a thing or two about the 802.11ac standard.
802.11ac, or 5G Wi-Fi, offers faster throughput, higher cap... |
8 January 2013
02:54 GMT |
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Taylor Swift is single again and, if her track record is any indication, perhaps writing a song about her most recent breakup as we speak. She and One Direction singer Harry Styles have split after an intensely mediated romance.
Hot on the heels of reports that the two had exchanged “I love yous” on New... |
8 January 2013
02:46 GMT |
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Intel may have decided against releasing the Haswell CPU series during CES 2013, but that doesn't mean it is staying silent during the occasion. Indeed, the company has already unleashed three new CPUs.
One chip we have already written about: the Atom Z2420. Intel hopes it is both strong and energy-efficient ... |
8 January 2013
02:45 GMT |
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According to a new report pieced together by an international team made up of 30 researchers, climate change and global warming will eventually force people to start looking less like humans, and more like hobbits.
The working principles behind this theory are fairly easy to comprehend: as several other studies hav... |
8 January 2013
02:43 GMT |
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Ever since Microsoft announced that it’s working on Windows 8 and the Surface RT, Acer has constantly stepped in front of the media to criticize the software company for its efforts in the hardware industry. Of course, it all happened because Microsoft, the long-time Acer partner, could become a rival fighting... |
8 January 2013
02:40 GMT |
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LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, a new platform for consumer robotics designed to introduce a new generation to the excitement of building and programming robots, while adding new flexibility for its devoted following of robotics enthusiasts, has been announced by the LEGO Group. The first edition of LEGO MINDSTORMS was launche... |
8 January 2013
02:39 GMT |
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Several hours ago, Japanese handset vendor Sony Mobile made official its new flagship Android device, the Xperia Z, which is set to arrive on shelves in the first quarter of the year, accompanied by Xperia ZL, which is aimed only at select markets.
The two smartphones are almost identical when it comes to their har... |
8 January 2013
02:38 GMT |
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Mozilla uploaded a few hours ago, January 7, the final packages of the Mozilla Firefox 18.0 web browser for all supported platforms, including Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
Actually, Mozilla Firefox 18.0 was supposed to be officially announced by Mozilla on January 6, but there is no release announcement for it at t... |
8 January 2013
02:38 GMT |
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Video game publisher Square Enix is working on a new browser-based video game called Legend World, which is designed to allow players to fight a lot of the monsters that have appeared in the long-running Final Fantasy franchise.Gamers will be able to create their own avatar and then customize it before taking the fie... |
8 January 2013
02:31 GMT |
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After confirming the fact that it's going to release an all-new Android-powered handheld gaming console, in the form of Project Shield, Nvidia has just revealed a video with the device in action.
The Android operating system is slowly becoming a major influence on the gaming industry, as already not one but two... |
8 January 2013
02:29 GMT |
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32-year-old Angela Cottam of Flintshire, Wales has gone through a horrid experience as she fought for her life while giving birth to her twin daughters.
Amelie and Ava were born at 8 months, due to their mother suffering from pre-eclampsia. The condition, which causes high blood pressure and swelling, could have pro... |
8 January 2013
02:28 GMT |
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Safari, the standard web browser that comes pre-installed with every new Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch player, is now 10 years old. Launched on January 7 2003, Safari is one of the fastest and most reliable web browsers out there.
The native web browser in all of Apple’s key products today, Safari was first... |
8 January 2013
02:27 GMT |
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Disney owns a patent for a handheld gaming device that seems very similar to the final incarnation of the Nintendo made 3DS, which appears to be still in the prototype phase. VentureBeat has uncovered the patent application that was filed back in June 2011 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The off... |
8 January 2013
02:22 GMT |
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Huawei Ascend Mate is currently the largest mobile phone in the world to run under Google’s Android operating system, and it seems that the company is also considering grabbing the title on the Windows Phone segment.
The company mentioned at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it was working ... |
8 January 2013
02:12 GMT |
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Microsoft has decided to say “no” to this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but Windows 8 managed to be the number one guest star thanks to an increasing number of devices running the new operating system.
Since PCs, laptops and tablets are playing quite a key role in the way Windows 8... |
8 January 2013
02:07 GMT |
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In addition to bringing to the spotlight new Android-based devices, including the 6.1-inch Ascend Mate, Chinese mobile phone maker Huawei also detailed its Windows Phone 8-based Ascend W1. The new mobile phone arrives on shelves with a Qualcomm MSM 8230-3 dual-core 1.2GHz processor, and featuring a 4-inch IPS displa... |
8 January 2013
02:01 GMT |
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Microsoft is skipping this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but Steve Ballmer, the always-excited CEO of the Redmond-based technology giant, couldn’t stay away from the Sin City.Ballmer appeared out of nowhere at CES 2013, just when Qualcomm’s CEO Paul Jacobs was talking about Windows ... |
8 January 2013
01:40 GMT |
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The news just broke that, over the course of the past two weeks, several wild dogs inhabiting the regions close to Mexico City went haywire and started attacking people.
Information made available to the general public thus far says that these wild animals are known to have made four victims, whose bodies were foun... |
8 January 2013
01:30 GMT |
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BlueStacks has already released a Windows version of its popular Android App Player, but the company is also looking into ways to port the software to Microsoft’s latest operating system.
After announcing a deal to pre-install the Android app emulator on Lenovo’s Idea line of computers, BlueStacks has al... |
8 January 2013
01:24 GMT |
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Microsoft has decided to release a public statement on the recent announcement that a security researcher managed to break into Windows RT and force the operating system to run unsigned desktop apps.
Even though the company initially wanted to remain tight-lipped on the subject, a Microsoft spokesperson has sent us ... |
8 January 2013
01:07 GMT |
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One of the most successful revivals of an old franchise, XCOM: Enemy Unknown will soon receive a new content DLC.
After introducing the Slingshot DLC several weeks ago, 2K Games and Firaxis Games have just announced that Second Wave content for XCOM: Enemy Unknown is now available for download for Windows PC, the Xb... |
8 January 2013
00:57 GMT |
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The first Patch Tuesday of the year will bring a total of seven different updates created to fix vulnerabilities in 12 software solutions developed by Microsoft.
While information on these bugs is pretty limited for the time being, Microsoft did reveal that almost all Windows versions currently on the market would r... |
8 January 2013
00:50 GMT |
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Fans in Thailand are up in arms after Channel 3 decided to pull the plug on the controversial but extremely successful TV drama “Nua Mek 2” on political considerations, the Bangkok Post reports.
“The storyline of Nua Mek 2 (Beyond the Clouds or Beyond Comparison) above the cloud (literal Thai tra... |
8 January 2013
00:34 GMT |
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As expected, Sony Mobile unveiled the Xperia Z smartphone at Consumer Electronics Show 2013 (CES), in Last Vegas.
The Japanese company confirmed that the handset would launch globally in Q1 2013, but no details on the Xperia Z's exact release date and pricing options were offered.
However, it appears that Thre... |
8 January 2013
00:24 GMT |
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Neo-Nazi Jeffrey Hall was shot and killed in his home, with his own gun, by his 10-year-old son. He’s told investigators that he never thought he’d be punished for the crime, having seen a similar one on the hit TV drama “Criminal Minds,” it has emerged.
His 11-year-old sister initially told... |
8 January 2013
00:17 GMT |
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Lindsay Lohan partied in London until 5 in the morning of the day she was supposed to be in court in the US for an assault hearing but, considering that the hearing was postponed, she probably knew what would happen, which is why she was a no-show.
Lohan was arrested in November in NYC after allegedly punching a wom... |
8 January 2013
00:00 GMT |
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