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Remember the iPhone 5 video rendering we showed you earlier today? Well, designer Bryce Haymond wasn’t happy with just that. He wanted to give the media some imagery to use in the sea of speculative articles to come in the time left until Apple’s big announcement. “I thought it would be fun to piec... |
8 June 2012
21:11 GMT |
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Now that Advanced Micro Devices has shown its mettle on the tablet segment, it has taken a more active role in shaping consumer perception and expectations.
Computex 2012 has proven to be less one-sided than the other trade shows of the past year. No longer has a single product type or company stolen the show.
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8 June 2012
21:01 GMT |
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I write news for a living, and I’m also an avid Mac user and a fan of the Apple ecosystem at large. Of course, that doesn’t mean I have to like everything about Apple, its brand, or its products. And a good example are the incredibly annoying scroll bars in Lion. Hoping to single-handedly convince A... |
8 June 2012
20:41 GMT |
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Sony and Microsoft are reluctant to slash the price of their PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, respectively, as both companies are waiting to see the final price of the upcoming Nintendo Wii U, according to analyst Michael Pachter.
E3 2012 took place this week and, while plenty of big announcements were made, none involve... |
8 June 2012
20:21 GMT |
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In a Support document updated June 07, 2012, Apple outlines for Lion Server customers that Workgroup Manager is “not included.” The terse headline of the KB article tells half the story, as Apple soon reveals what’s really going on. Knowledge base article HT5308 begins with Apple stating that &ldqu... |
8 June 2012
19:41 GMT |
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Twitter is the place to be for hot news and real-time updates, but Facebook's huge reach makes it a good place to post your witty comments or interesting links as well.Twitter users have long been able to send their tweets to Facebook, but Twitter has now improved the integration considerably adding a lot of req... |
8 June 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Quite a lot of interesting Nintendo Wii U games were confirmed during the company’s E3 2012 press conference, but one of the most outlandish is ZombiU, coming from Ubisoft exclusively for the new home console. Nintendo showed off different types of games at E3 2012, from its own projects, like New Super Mario ... |
8 June 2012
19:21 GMT |
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The latest water-proof Motorola smartphones, the DEFY XT and DEFY MINI have just been launched in India. Although the handsets are not available on the market yet, Motorola confirmed they would go on sale beginning June 20.
Customers will be able to purchase Motorola DEFY XT and DEFY XT for a suggested retail price ... |
8 June 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Yankee Group, a research and advisory firm, estimates that tablets in use in the U.S. will climb from 25 million in 2011 to more than 134 million in 2015. The iPad’s continued popularity is bad news for competitors, says the company. Tablet sales will eventually eclipse those of PCs, according to Yankee Group&... |
8 June 2012
18:41 GMT |
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After confirming that God of War: Ascension is coming next year, Sony has now posted a fresh batch of screenshots from the upcoming hack and slash game, this time showing off both the single-player campaign as well as a match from the multiplayer mode.
Ascension is set to introduce a variety of new things to the God... |
8 June 2012
18:21 GMT |
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Game of Thrones has been one of the most talked about shows recently. The second season just ended after a 10 week run. Fans have to wait until next year for the next season.The first season is out on DVD and Blu-Ray, but if you want to catch up or watch episodes from the second season again you're going to have... |
8 June 2012
18:11 GMT |
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Frozenbyte has confirmed that it’s going to bring Trine 2: Director’s Cut onto the Nintendo Wii U this holiday season, which features both the original game that appeared last year, as well as a new gameplay mode, called Magic Mayhem, and the upcoming expansion pack. Trine 2 delivered a stunning puzzle p... |
8 June 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Drivers for Realtek audio controllers have just been posted for download and we have them. With this release, Realtek introduces support for Windows 8.According to the changelog file, 2.69 drivers have WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) certification. ALC283 is the latest addition to chipsets list, with support for... |
8 June 2012
17:19 GMT |
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Seagate and Western Digital now own more than 85% of the HDD market and are seemingly in a complete agreement to artificially raise worldwide HDD prices. After they bought Hitachi, Samsung and Toshiba’s HDD divisions last year, the duopoly is now free to bleed us dry. There are many uninformed readers that ha... |
8 June 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Having technology that is able to recognize you and adapt to your needs has been mostly a pipe dream until now, but it won't be long before previous decades' Sci-Fi ideas become reality.
TV broadcasts isn't the technology field we'd have expected Intel to aim for next, but that's precisely ... |
8 June 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Early summer is a great time for elections as several countries are holding them around this time. The French are particularly active. They just elected a new president, in May, and are now getting ready for Parliamentary elections.The French are going out on Sunday to vote and Google is going to provide coverage of ... |
8 June 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Microsoft is betting big on the cloud moving forth, and is ensuring that it can deliver all the necessary features and services that meet user’s needs.
Recently, the company introduced the concept of “Hybrid cloud,” which involves the use and building of applications that connect to data across mu... |
8 June 2012
16:11 GMT |
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New Bing Rewards Sweepstakes have been put in place for Windows Live users, with appealing prizes for all those living in the United States to win. The new promotions will run until July 16th and are available only for Bing Rewards members who live in any of the fifty United States and the District of Columbia (the... |
8 June 2012
16:11 GMT |
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One of the tools that Research In Motion has made available for download for developers interested in building applications for its upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform is the BlackBerry 10 SDK for Adobe AIR, now in a beta version. Through this SDK, devs can design Adobe AIR applications and have them ready for distribu... |
8 June 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Jada Pinkett Smith has always been in excellent shape and, from what she's saying, she doesn't even work that hard to maintain her slim figure. In a new interview, she admits she hardly ever eats for pleasure. Now promoting “Madagascar 3,” the star explains that she owes her enviable figure to... |
8 June 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Firefox 14 is now in the beta stage. It comes with several new features, click-to-play plugins, Google SSL search by default and so on. But it also comes with one seemingly minor tweak that will have a great effect on the workflow of any users, with those spending a lot of time in the browser being the most affected ... |
8 June 2012
15:11 GMT |
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The GeForce GTX 680M graphics card is strong but not something that companies can actually use on a mainstream product, so Eurocom chose a different GPU when it made the Fox 4.0.
Granted, the Fox 4.0 is still part of the upper half of the consumer laptop market. Pretty much every notebook with discrete graphics is ... |
8 June 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Firefox for Android has just been updated in the Beta channel to Firefox 14 build 6, in line with the latest release of the browser for desktop platforms. The application comes with a nice range of enhancements aimed at Android phones, such as support for Flash Player, a new user interface, and a new start page. T... |
8 June 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Ubisoft has confirmed that its impressive Watch Dogs open world game will be released next year for platforms like the PC, PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360.Plenty of great games have been revealed at E3 2012 this week, but one of the most impressive was Watch Dogs from Ubisoft, an open world action game where players needed... |
8 June 2012
14:31 GMT |
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One of the titles that Gameloft will make available for Google’s Android users this year is Amazing Spider-Man, a game that arrives in conjunction with a new superhero movie. The company already announced plans to have the game available in July, when the movie hits theaters, and it is now offering us a glimp... |
8 June 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Security researchers from Secfence Technologies have noticed that a lot of Indian online stores contain cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, exposing their customers to attacks that rely on social engineering.
The list of websites appointed by the experts as containing the flaws includes: Naaptol (naaptol.com... |
8 June 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Even before she gave birth to her first child, daughter Maxwell, Jessica Simpson signed a deal with Weight Watchers to lose the pregnancy weight. The other day, nearly five weeks after welcoming her bundle of joy into the world, she was at the gym, kickstarting her weight loss program. The star was photographed arri... |
8 June 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Logitech may be a world-famous maker of PC peripherals, but it hasn't been doing all that well lately.
In fact, its finances have been declining, so the company has entered a restructuring process.
Part of the plan will have been put into effect by the time Logitech exits the first quarter of its fiscal year 2... |
8 June 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Even if Rayman Legends was leaked earlier this year, Ubisoft still managed to impress with its brand new platformer at E3 2012, revealing it both during its own press conference and during Nintendo’s press conference.
Rayman Origins delivered a great experience last year on the PS3 and Xbox 360 platforms, as w... |
8 June 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Although TELUS recently confirmed the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for Samsung Galaxy S II X as being available beginning June 12, it appears that the update has just popped-up in Kies.
According to MobileSyrup, Galaxy S II X owners can now upgrade their devices to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich via Samsung Kies d... |
8 June 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Lenovo did not let Computex 2012 pass without contributing somehow, and by this we are referring to more than the Windows 8 ThinkPad Tablet, the U310 and U410 Ultrabooks and the IdeaTab S2109 Tablet.
There is a new laptop up for order on the company's website, although it would be just as accurate to say that ... |
8 June 2012
13:11 GMT |
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It looks like fans of actor Robert Pattinson and especially those of director David Cronenber's work won't have to wait that long to see “Cosmopolis.” The film has just been picked up for US distribution. Audiences here will get to see the film this summer, starting August 17th, shortly after... |
8 June 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is moving closer to the release of its BlackBerry 10 platform, and has made available for download refreshed tools for developers interested in coming up with applications for the platform. Among these, we can count the BlackBerry 10 WebWorks SDK and Native SDK, the fo... |
8 June 2012
12:51 GMT |
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The Ubuntu development team, through James Page, announced a couple of days ago (June 6th) that they plan to move to OpenJDK 7 as the default Java Runtime Environment. OpenJDK 6 will be replaced by OpenJDK 7, and it will be moved to the Universe repository, to be used in case some apps don't work with the new ... |
8 June 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Well-known motherboard company Biostar has decided to get back in the high-end computer mainboard market segment. The company is usually manufacturing affordable motherboard solutions, but it has experimented with higher-quality designs before, and this year’s Computex is yet another such occasion. The Hi-Fi l... |
8 June 2012
12:11 GMT |
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I spent some time queuing up near the big Konami booth at E3 2012 and I might have just seen the most ridiculous video teaser of the show. It promotes Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance by having main character Raiden at one point jump from one rocket to another in order to reach the gunship firing them and then slash it... |
8 June 2012
12:01 GMT |
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When it first launched a few years back, Zoomooz was a ground-breaking jQuery plugin that blew your mind every time you triggered one of its animations. Zoomooz allowed developers to create unique zoom effects that acted on the entire page, zooming in and out of page sections. For a long time, Zoomooz was the fi... |
8 June 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Nvidia’s Kepler architecture is very impressive, as it sometimes overtakes AMD’s Tahiti-based cards, despite AMD’s chip having 21% more transistors and a 50% wider memory BUS. The rough power of AMD’s GCN architecture is still a considerable advantage for the Texas-based fabless GPU designer.... |
8 June 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Investigators at the Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announce the development of a technique that enables them to create extremely small, 3D structures from self-assembling copolymers. The structures may be used to create even smaller chips.
In the field of electronics and microprocessors... |
8 June 2012
11:40 GMT |
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Chris Rock was one of the guests on The Today Show with Matt Lauer and, though he probably hadn't planned it, roasted Chris Brown when Lauer provided him with the right material for a joke.
Video of the whole thing is below and, as expected, the roasting had a lot to do with Chris Brown's assault on former... |
8 June 2012
11:40 GMT |
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The Elder Scrolls Online is not yet ready for a playable demo, but at E3 2012 ZeniMax Online and Bethesda have delivered the next best thing, an expensive presentation with half an hour of video and commentary from the developer leading the team working on the game, Matt Firor.
The MMO is certainly ambitious, becaus... |
8 June 2012
11:21 GMT |
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Recently, officials at the European Space Agency have announced that they will pull the plug on the Envisat mission. While the satellite's failure left them no choice, they are now in a very uncomfortable position in terms of capabilities, which requires them to begin launching the Sentinel satellite constellati... |
8 June 2012
11:18 GMT |
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Starting with the 3rd of June, countless shoals of sardines have begun to wash up at Ohara, one of Japan's fishing ports.
The residents of Ohara now have to deal with two major issues.
Firstly, the waters surrounding the port have turned red. Secondly, the air is becoming more and more unbreathable.
Local aut... |
8 June 2012
11:16 GMT |
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One of the most talked about projects right now is, undoubtedly, the feature film adaptation of E.L. James trilogy “Fifty Shades of Grey.” As Hollywood is buzzing with anticipation about it, one name has recently popped up in conversation: Angelina Jolie. The trilogy is inspired by Stephenie Meyer'... |
8 June 2012
11:14 GMT |
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The fight for the high sales/low price market segment has been won by AMD for the past year, and the company is getting ready to conquer even a higher percentage of the market. AMD needs huge volumes and it’s likely that the company will have to face shortages this summer, as spreading Brazos 2.0 and Trinity o... |
8 June 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Using a medical imaging technique called functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), researchers at the University of Iowa, led by neuroscientist William Hedgcock, have found that self-control is a resource of the human brain that can be depleted.
The way this works is that a certain situation or scenario may dep... |
8 June 2012
11:03 GMT |
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What appeared to be a godsend to TV watchers turned into the perfect lawsuit bait, but the company getting flack for a convenient feature is not about to go down easily.
Some people probably know that, in a somewhat absurd turn of events, a TV service provider got sued for making a consumer dream come true.
Dish ... |
8 June 2012
11:01 GMT |
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DiskTrix released the stable version for Ultimate Defrag 4. The modifications available in the new build touch on usability as well as functionality and performance. The application now features two modes, one for advanced users and another for novices, who can opt for a “one-click” defragmentation proce... |
8 June 2012
11:00 GMT |
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One of the most famous voices in showbiz was also famous for coming with a sweet and snaggle smile. Having repeatedly said she would never fix her teeth, Jewel has definitely had a change of heart.
She just posted the first picture of herself in character as June Carter Cash for an upcoming Lifetime biopic.
Not on... |
8 June 2012
11:00 GMT |
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Canonical has declared its Computer experience as great success, citing a major interest for their products. According to Canonical, over 1000 people visited the Ubuntu booth at Computex, where they have also given 25 media interviews rewarding some of their flagship products, Ubuntu for Android, Ubuntu Cloud and U... |
8 June 2012
11:00 GMT |
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The American space agency is currently in the process of evaluating the performances of its Advanced Crew Escape Suit (ACES). The new design is meant to make it easier for astronauts to conduct extra-vehicular activities (EVA), or spacewalks.
In this image, astronaut Rex Walheim is seen dangling from the Active Res... |
8 June 2012
10:52 GMT |
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The latest issue of Elle Magazine brings a stunning photospread with former Disney darling Selena Gomez, who is now working out the ways she can most effectively break from her Disney image. It also comes with a revealing interview with the star. Currently dating teen heartthrob Justin Bieber, Selena tells Elle tha... |
8 June 2012
10:47 GMT |
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According to Swedish researchers, humans exhibit a far weaker sense of smell than other animals simply because neurons in a region of the brain that process data input from the nose do not get replenished over time.
The number of nerve cells in the olfactory bulb remains constant or decreases throughout a person�... |
8 June 2012
10:44 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft announced the availability of a new set of services and enhancements for its Windows Azure platform. Among the new services that are now available as a preview for Windows Azure, Microsoft lists Virtual Machines, Virtual Network, and Web Sites. Additionally, SQL Reporting has been made generally ... |
8 June 2012
10:43 GMT |
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The second Beta release of the upcoming Emmabuntüs 2 Linux distribution, created for reconditioning old computers, which relies on the robustness of Xubuntu 12.04 LTS, has been released. According to the developers, Beta 2 is a development version for the final release of Emmabuntüs 2, which will be avail... |
8 June 2012
10:40 GMT |
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In an attempt to make their customers’ experience as “safe and secure” as possible, Facebook has rolled out a few enhancements that should offer additional protection for users who surf the social network from their mobile phones.
One of the new additions is the Code Generator, which is meant as an... |
8 June 2012
10:38 GMT |
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Up until recently, attempts to diminish the amount of power used by data centers came at a cost: performance levels sometimes also found themselves somewhat lowered. However, researchers employed by Microsoft seem to have developed a tool that allows for maximizing energy efficiency and, in the same time, minimizin... |
8 June 2012
10:36 GMT |
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Here they go again. Samsung and Apple are moving into the next episode of their drawn-out patent dispute, with the former being the proactive party in this instance.
Apple and Samsung used to be pals, but they ended up going after each other with a vengeance once Apple sued Samsung over the Galaxy Tab 10.1, back in... |
8 June 2012
10:36 GMT |
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Cheryl Cole might be one of the hottest pop stars on the British scene right now but, as it so happens, she's also very controversial because her talent is debatable. In a recent interview, Cheryl addresses the rumors about her lip-syncing every one of her performances. She never mimes, she says, as cited by t... |
8 June 2012
10:33 GMT |
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The second Far Cry was one of my favorite games and the upcoming Far Cry 3 that Ubisoft is ready to publish has become of the title I’m most interested in when it comes to first-person experiences set to arrive during this year.
The E3 2012 single-player oriented demo is built around smart enemies, a set of we... |
8 June 2012
10:31 GMT |
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F-Secure just released the beta version for their Internet Security 2013 suite. The novelties touted for this revision are designed to increase the protection level it delivers as well as the overall performance of the package. Browser support in F-Secure Internet Security 2013 has been extended to include Google Ch... |
8 June 2012
10:31 GMT |
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It's been a very long wait, almost a year, but the new Opera 12 is almost here. The Norwegian software maker has made available the first release candidate of the long-awaited Opera 12.
This means that the latest and greatest Opera version, which comes with hardware acceleration, WebGL and plenty of other impr... |
8 June 2012
10:24 GMT |
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While we already heard of Dead Space 3 last week, thanks to a couple of big leaks, Electronic Arts’ E3 2012 brought forth the first official look at the new horror shooter from Visceral Games, as the first details and two videos were made available.
Dead Space 1 kicked off a pretty interesting franchise for EA... |
8 June 2012
10:21 GMT |
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The world can never have too many mini PCs, especially when said mini PCs are made out of versatile processors and sell for a pittance. In this case, we can't really guarantee the product will be cheap. Advanced Micro Devices didn't say what price we should expect, or when shipments would be ready to star... |
8 June 2012
10:12 GMT |
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We’ve come across a Reddit post in which users discuss a hack part of Anonymous’ Operation Blitzkrieg, an op aimed at extremists. This time the target was the Aryan Front (aryan-front.com), a discussion forum with over 1,400 users. As a result of the breach, the hackers have not only posted the classic &... |
8 June 2012
10:03 GMT |
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The latest round of auditions for America's Got Talent, the Austin stage, included a war veteran named Timothy Poe who had discovered singing after he was wounded in combat and suffered a brain injury. As it turns out, he might be a fraud. Video of his segment on AGT is below. As you can see, Poe says he was... |
8 June 2012
10:02 GMT |
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After the latest incidents involving the leakage of millions of passwords, many experts have rushed to teach users how to choose strong passwords. John Graham-Cumming, the founder of Electric Cloud and the author of “The Geek Atlas”, has made something more interesting: an advisory that tells websi... |
8 June 2012
09:57 GMT |
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Microsoft has been long touting its focus on providing users with the most relevant information they need, and it has made another step in this direction. The company has partnered with Encyclopedia Britannica so as to deliver Britannica Online answers to its users straight on the Bing results page. Following the ... |
8 June 2012
09:55 GMT |
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A group of researchers from the Karolinska Institutet, in Sweden, reports that a vaccine against Alzheimer's has been successfully tested in a new series of clinical trials. The drug is said to be able to stop the disease from progressing.
The CAD106 vaccine holds great promise towards addressing this illness,... |
8 June 2012
09:52 GMT |
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Twitter just got a brand new logo. Twitter says it's full of optimism and the simplified form better suits the site. But the new Twitter logo has a dark secret.
By day, it may be all about soaring towards the sky, but by night, it's more likely to soar from a tall building as the Twitter bird has a secret... |
8 June 2012
09:46 GMT |
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We are currently rolling out drivers and apps for Acer Predator series, starting with Predator G3 gaming desktops, and welcome users to download and install them. On the official website, Acer lists only the AG3610-UR30P and AG3610-UR10P models for the Predator series, but its support site reveals more than tw... |
8 June 2012
09:38 GMT |
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Pieces of information made public by the Energy Information Administration in the US indicate that, as a result of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster from March 2011, Japan's administration was forced to go back to using fossil fuels in order to keep the country afloat.
Therefore, Japan's use of coal,... |
8 June 2012
09:37 GMT |
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There are a couple of new reports about the now-infamous Flame that we thought of sharing with our readers. One group of researchers has stated that the malware may have been developed by world-class experts, while Symantec has revealed that the threat comes with a “suicide” functionality. While analyzin... |
8 June 2012
09:32 GMT |
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Facebook has got its own application portal up and running, easily accessible for mobile phone users who own devices powered by Android, as well as for those powered by iOS. The App Center packs over 600 social apps, including games such as Nike+ GPS, Ubisoft Ghost Recon Commander, Stitcher Radio, Draw Something, a... |
8 June 2012
09:31 GMT |
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For years, fans of the Kardashian family, especially of the three sisters – Kim, Kourtney and Khloe, have been wondering how come Kourtney and boyfriend Scott Disick never got married. Her answer to that question is in the video below. Invited on Jimmy Kimmel to talk about their future projects, which happen ... |
8 June 2012
09:28 GMT |
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World IPv6 Launch day came and went and nobody noticed a thing. Which is a sign that things went off without a hitch. Not that any problems should have been expected, but the glitch-less roll-out is due to a bit of cheating in that several big sites actually enabled IPv6 connectivity well ahead of launch day. In fac... |
8 June 2012
09:11 GMT |
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A new release candidate emerged today for Opera 12. Although dubbed “Euro 2012 edition,” the change log shows no soccer-related entry. However, it integrates fixes that improve the stability of the application. The development team kicked out some glitches that affected HTML5 Drag and Drop, repaired plug... |
8 June 2012
09:07 GMT |
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Dropping by AliExpress online will show that a certain MK802 ARM PC is up for sale, so you can go and order one right now if you want.
Many people will be reluctant to jump in blind though, so to speak. Fortunately, Brad Linder from Liliputing has what we all need: information.
We'll get the facts out of the... |
8 June 2012
09:03 GMT |
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Officials at Virgin Galactic hope to begin ferrying paying passengers to suborbital altitudes by the end of next year. The SpaceShipTwo vehicle and the WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft will be used in tandem in order to achieve this objective.
The former has already completed a number of 16 drop tests, meant to ensu... |
8 June 2012
09:03 GMT |
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The latest release of the Sysinternals suite brings along a new version of the Process Explorer utility, now available for download as version 15.2. According to the application’s release notes, this is a major update of the tool, which comes as a Task Manager replacement. The release merges Autorun's func... |
8 June 2012
08:55 GMT |
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HiS has been a longtime partner of ATi and AMD and the company is well known for building high-quality video card using very effective and silent cooling systems. Now, HiS is planning to release a dual-GPU video card based on AMD’s Tahiti GPU. We don’t know yet the exact naming of the card, but it is sur... |
8 June 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Mobile game publisher Gameloft is gearing up for the release of new, appealing titles for devices running under Google’s Android operating system. One of these would be Asphalt 7: Heat, which promises stunning graphics, great gameplay, and an amazing experience on Android smartphones. The game will become a... |
8 June 2012
08:40 GMT |
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HTPCs are often little more than glorified media players with web browsing, but it is perfectly possible to make truly strong compact PCs. All it takes is a strong CPU and a small enough video card.
CPUs are easy to solve. As long as a micro-ATX or mini-ITX motherboard has the required socket, even high-end chips ca... |
8 June 2012
08:37 GMT |
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The Great Outdoor Gym Company (TGOGC) recently came up with a plan to both encourage people to exercise, and generate significant amounts of electrical power. Given the sedentary lifestyle lead by most people in urban areas, it's no news that, once the working day is over, considerable efforts go in making it ... |
8 June 2012
08:27 GMT |
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CyberZeist, a hacker part of the UGNazi hacker collective, has made available a number of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities that affect the websites of Discovery Channel, CNN, New York Times, US Army’s Medical Regiment, and the National Guard. He claims that the proof-of-concepts have been published af... |
8 June 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Anticipation is slowly building for the upcoming James Bond film, “Skyfall,” which sees Daniel Craig reprise his role as the dangerous, swift and extremely fashionable 007 agent. To promote the film, a new videoblog has emerged online on the official website, showing costume designer Jany Temime (&ldquo... |
8 June 2012
08:02 GMT |
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It looks like ASUS' solution to give AMD-based systems support for Intel's Thunderbolt technology was made more for its own benefit than AMD's. We say this because all evidence suggests AMD does not, in fact, need Thunderbolt at all. For some reason, no one besides the folks at NetbookNews has report... |
8 June 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Bethesda has confirmed that update 1.6 for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on the Xbox 360 is now available for download and will appear on the PS3 in the near future. Meanwhile, PC owners can still enjoy the beta version of the update via Steam.
While Skyrim delivered a complex experience, it was a buggy one, so develo... |
8 June 2012
07:48 GMT |
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Jay Moore, known by his online moniker as t0pp8uzz, and his accomplice Damian Horne, aka GM, have been sentenced to jail after investigators accused them of running a fraud website worth an estimate of £26.9 million ($41 million or 33.2 million EUR).
According to UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA... |
8 June 2012
07:41 GMT |
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Linux Mint, in collaboration with CompuLab, is proud to announce today, June 8th, the immediate availability for purchase of a mini PC called mintBox. mintBox is powered by a custom version of Linux Mint 12 with MATE 1.2 desktop environment and the XBMC media center. Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon is also supported, with f... |
8 June 2012
07:40 GMT |
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Kickstarter is hosting another interesting little project, one that Infinitec made but didn't quite have the funds to turn into a mass-produced device.
The gadget we're talking about is called pocket TV for a very good reason: it's a nice little gizmo that, once plugged into a television set, turns i... |
8 June 2012
07:37 GMT |
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Even though FolderWatch is not the most graphically-intensive application you could install on your Mac (far from it, actually), developer Brothers Roloff has included “Retina graphics,” suggesting they know something we don’t.Apple has been widely rumored (for quite some time now) to unveil a whole... |
8 June 2012
07:37 GMT |
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Representatives of the General Motors recently made public new pieces of information regarding the company's 2013 Chevrolet Volt. Thus, it seems that requests made by customers urged engineers to improve on the vehicle's battery capacities. Although no official photos of the said car are yet available, of... |
8 June 2012
07:35 GMT |
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Capcom showed off Resident Evil 6 during Microsoft’s own E3 2012 press conference and now the Japanese company has revealed more details about the upcoming action horror game, as well as some new screenshots. Resident Evil 6 is set to appear this October and, as we heard up until now, Capcom wants to make it t... |
8 June 2012
07:31 GMT |
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“360,” the latest thriller from Fernando Meirelles (“City of God,” “The Constant Gardener”), has been around for almost a year on the festival circuit. It has finally gotten a US release date as well. On June 29th, the film will become available on iTunes, and it will arrive in t... |
8 June 2012
07:29 GMT |
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With Firefox 13 safely in the stable channel release, Mozilla has pushed Firefox 14 from Aurora to the Beta channel. Firefox 14 comes with a solid set of new features.
Mozilla has made the switch to SSL Google, meaning all searches initiated from within the browser are now encrypted. Another interesting addition is... |
8 June 2012
07:11 GMT |
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After writing about so many laptops, tablets, motherboards and processors, we finally get to switch gears a bit, thanks to Canon and its new DSLR camera.
The new product that the company has released is called EOS Rebel and is Canon's first digital single-lens reflex camera to boast a 3-inch, 1.04m dot LCD tou... |
8 June 2012
07:11 GMT |
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It took only five days for foobar2000 1.1.13 to move from beta to the stable stage of development. And it looks like no major changes have been operated for this transition to occur.
As such, the modifications announced for the stable release remain the same. foobar2000 1.1.13 aims at improving the application by el... |
8 June 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Michael Fassbender can now be seen on the big screen as David the android in Ridley Scott's “Prometheus.” On Jon Stewart the other night, he was asked to reveal the film's ending – and he did just that. Check out the video below if you don't believe us. Of course, Fassbender is on... |
8 June 2012
06:44 GMT |
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After revealing quite a few things about the upcoming Dawnguard expansion for its The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim title, Bethesda has now posted a fresh batch of screenshots that show off all sorts of things, from new monsters to new environments and much more.
Skyrim delivered an expansive experience last year, when it... |
8 June 2012
06:41 GMT |
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God of War: Ascension might be the most fun I’ve had with a video game during E3 2012 when it comes to a versus mode, and Sony Santa Monica can be proud of how well they managed to bring the spirit of the franchise to the multiplayer space.
The concept is simple: players choose their weapons and a god they pla... |
8 June 2012
06:31 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has made available for download a new version of its S Pen SDK for Android. The SDK was designed to provide developers with the possibility to come up with applications that take advantage of Samsung’s S Pen. For those out of the loop, we should note that the S Pen was... |
8 June 2012
06:31 GMT |
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I have now gone through three days of E3, from opening to closing hours, and I am ready to deliver a game idea that is all about navigating such an event: called First Person Convention.
The game will allow any fan who hasn’t had the chance to experience the E3 convention to try it, with different game modes o... |
8 June 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Engineers from the US National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) for EUV Science and Technology announce the development of a laser-like, coherent and directed light beam that contains photon wavelengths ranging from ultraviolet to X-rays.
This is one of only a handful of sources that... |
8 June 2012
06:06 GMT |
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Soccer fans can follow the UEFA EURO 2012 with the Official UEFA EURO 2012 app which, according to the Union of European Football Associations, offers “the full UEFA EURO 2012 experience.”“The official UEFA EURO 2012 app keeps you close to all the action during the 14th UEFA European Football Champi... |
8 June 2012
05:58 GMT |
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Startling reports inform us that, presently, one in five people around the globe carry on with their lives without the benefits of electricity. Naturally, this situation takes its toll both on their educational perspectives and on their economical well-being. Seeing how 400,000 of the afore-mentioned people come from... |
8 June 2012
05:55 GMT |
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I was playing the Fat Princess and I dominated one round of PlayStation All-Star Battle Royale, deceiving my enemies with my apparent clumsiness while taking them out with specials and a wand attack.
My enemies included Kratos, who was quick and had his trusty chains to throw around, Nathan Drake, ready to punch peo... |
8 June 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Scientists are very interested in determining the exact spots where migratory birds make pit stops on their way from the boreal forests of Canada and New England to various locations in Central and South America. For this purpose, they enlisted the help of NASA.
The American space agency is contributing with a serie... |
8 June 2012
05:50 GMT |
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The website of the International Aviation Academy (internationalaviationacademy.com), owned by Salem Air and considered to be one of the top flight schools in India, has been defaced by ZCompany Hacking Crew as a form of protest against NATO and the United States.
The defaced page contains a message from the hackers... |
8 June 2012
05:48 GMT |
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Earlier today we reported that cybercriminals were sending out fake Craigslist notification emails, trying to lure unsuspecting internauts to websites that hosted the Blackhole exploit kit in an attempt to spread malware. As it turns out, the same group has also been sending phony Xanga emails.
Websense researchers,... |
8 June 2012
05:32 GMT |
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PowerColor’s Vortex III cooling system will take care of cooling the video card and your banker should take care of the funds needed to purchase the monster. The Taiwanese video card company is reportedly planning to charge $1,200 for the PowerColor HD7970 X2 Devil13 graphics adapter in the United States. In ... |
8 June 2012
05:32 GMT |
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Facebook's App Center is here. The feature should make it easier for users to discover new apps and for developers to expand their audience. The App Center works on all devices and is the most interesting on the mobile platforms since it goes head to head, to a degree, with the native app marketplaces. Facebook... |
8 June 2012
05:23 GMT |
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Recent studies show that, ever since the rise of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and online-based newspapers, society's views on the concept of “the written word” have significantly been altered.
Thus, the amount of paper needed to satisfy humanity's need for information has been... |
8 June 2012
05:21 GMT |
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The focus in the latest version of Maxthon Browser is on improving the product performance. As such, there is no surprise that the changes in revision 3.3.9.200 do away with various glitches affecting the main frame and the core of the application.
In Maxthon 3.3.9.200 the issue with the search bar display should no... |
8 June 2012
05:17 GMT |
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SoundHound, the instant music search and discovery app, has been promoted to version 5.0 with faster music recognition, high-res album art and photos, a redesigned home screen, and an overall cleaner interface. According to SoundHound, Inc., music search and discovery is “fast, easy, and beautiful” in So... |
8 June 2012
05:17 GMT |
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EA Sports is a huge division inside publisher Electronic Arts and the big surprise this year at E3 2012 is that it was willing to show players a new game in the NBA series of simulation that has been absent in recent years because of quality concerns.
The shown gameplay suggested a solid simulation, with players tha... |
8 June 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Miley Cyrus got engaged to Liam Hemsworth a few days ago and might, for all we know, be preparing for the wedding. That's not all she's doing these days, though: a new report says she's also working on a new album, which will be more “adult” and confident than all her previous releases. Fa... |
8 June 2012
05:09 GMT |
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A new study indicates that cannabidiol (CBD), a compound found in marijuana, is much more efficient at treating schizophrenia than regular antipsychotics, and does so with fewer side-effects. A preliminary clinical trial confirmed the discovery.
The trial included 39 schizophrenia patients who had been committed to ... |
8 June 2012
05:06 GMT |
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A new flavor of the official Facebook application for Android is now available for download, namely version 1.9.5. The latest application release brings along a series of fixes for crashes that occurred after logout and long periods of app inactivity. The application is available for download for free, offering u... |
8 June 2012
04:54 GMT |
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According to investigators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM), it would appear that stress can hamper the development of a critically important area of the brain in children. The prefrontal cortex, which is most affected, encodes complex cognitive abilities.
The conclusion belongs to a series of studies c... |
8 June 2012
04:47 GMT |
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In the past few days we have made a couple of advisories in which we have detailed how Craigslist scams work and how fraudsters trick users. However, such schemes are not the only thing internauts should worry about, since experts have found emails allegedly coming from Craigslist that lead to the infamous Blackhole ... |
8 June 2012
04:42 GMT |
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NASA officials announce that their new X-ray space telescope has been successfully delivered to the US Army's Reagan test site, on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The tiny island is located halfway between Hawaii and Australia.
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) will be launched to sp... |
8 June 2012
04:33 GMT |
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Mission officials at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that the plasma spectrometer instrument aboard the Cassini spacecraft was turned off on Friday, June 1, due to unexpected voltage shifts that activated a circuit breaker.
The device shut down in order to avoid damage, pr... |
8 June 2012
04:27 GMT |
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Social networking app Nimbuzz Messenger has just gotten a major overhaul. It lets newcomers hit play on a guided tour to get acquainted with the app, and it features contact blocking, meaning you’ll never get bugged again. It also includes a new discovery feature called Friend Finder. Read on for the full scoop... |
8 June 2012
04:25 GMT |
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Having biodegradable alternatives to traditional plastic materials is nothing new. However, things may soon take a very interesting turn, as a scientist is working towards developing a new type of plastic that could be used to replace steel.
Professor Moshe Kol, presently an employee of the Tel Aviv University in I... |
8 June 2012
04:24 GMT |
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Australian mobile phone carrier Vodafone is getting ready to make available for download software updates for two popular devices from Samsung, namely Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S. The carrier has announced that the updates have been approved for deployment, and that it will start their roll-out in the not too distant... |
8 June 2012
04:19 GMT |
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Electronic Arts’ Sports division revealed during Microsoft’s E3 2012 press conference that the upcoming FIFA 13 football (soccer) simulator will feature support for the Xbox 360’s Kinect sensor, allowing owners of the device to issue commands using only their voice.
FIFA 13 is set to deliver a thor... |
8 June 2012
04:14 GMT |
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While Intel continues to promote ultrabooks, Advanced Micro Devices is content, at least for the time being, to keep referring to such laptops as ultrathin devices.
Speaking of ultrathins, it has become clear that AMD will do its best to secure a stake in this market segment. It wouldn't do for Trinity's ... |
8 June 2012
04:10 GMT |
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I played Hitman: Absolution for about 20 minutes and died probably 10 times during that period; yet, I still had a lot of fun with a game that promises to appeal to both long-term fans of the assassin and those who are more interested in shooting their way out of tight situations than in going stealth. The E3 2012 d... |
8 June 2012
04:09 GMT |
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The KDE Project announced earlier today, June 8th, the fourth maintenance release for the KDE Software Compilation 4.8 environment.
KDE Software Compilation 4.8.4 incorporates many bugfixes for the following applications: KAlarm, KGpg, KWin, and to the KHTML engine.
Apparently, the new release of KDE SC also inclu... |
8 June 2012
04:07 GMT |
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Patrick Verner proudly announced last evening, June 7th, yet another maintenance release, version 2012_06_07, of his Parted Magic Linux operating system for partitioning tasks. Parted Magic 2012_06_07 comes with the following updated packages: Clonezilla 1.2.12-60, Partclone 0.2.48, ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs 2012.1.15AR.5,... |
8 June 2012
03:59 GMT |
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Intel’s Thunderbolt technology is a way of connecting the PCI-Express BUS to an external apparatus. The technology is kept on a tight leash and usually only Intel and Apple products have access to such an upgrade. AMD computers seem like are going to get Thunderbolt after all is ASUS reportedly will have ... |
8 June 2012
03:51 GMT |
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LinkedIn representatives still haven’t clearly said “yes, we have been breached” or “we haven’t been breached,” but while they continue to investigate the massive password leak, they reveal the fact that the law enforcement has been notified, the matter being currently investigated... |
8 June 2012
03:51 GMT |
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Canonical and Microsoft have formed a partnership in order to make Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating system available on Windows Azure. In case you were wondering what Windows Azure is and why Canonical is interested in it, you must know that the new service from Microsoft is an easy-to-use management portal and command-l... |
8 June 2012
03:50 GMT |
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Foursquare has made available for download a new flavor of their mobile application for devices running under Google’s Android operating system. The brand new application promises an enhanced user experience, providing people with the possibility to share location easier than before, and to find places faster... |
8 June 2012
03:46 GMT |
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Scientists who conducted the Impacts of Climate on EcoSystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment (ICESCAPE) study were puzzled to discover that the waters of the Arctic Ocean are the most phytoplankton-rich in the world.
The team likened this discovery to finding a tropical rain forest in the middle of ... |
8 June 2012
03:45 GMT |
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In April this year, as per her father's request, Britney Spears' fiancé Jason Trawick became her co-conservator, thus obtaining legal control over her life. Britney still doesn't understand why the conservatorship is still necessary, especially considering she's been doing so well lately. ... |
8 June 2012
03:44 GMT |
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently made public the findings of a survey it carried out so as to see whether urban communities worldwide are ready to deal with climate change.
The conclusions reached by the researchers in charge of this survey are rather alarming: the lack of money keeps local author... |
8 June 2012
03:35 GMT |
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Forza Horizon was confirmed earlier this year by Turn 10 Studios and Playground Games but only this week, during Microsoft’s E3 2012 press conference, did we get to hear the first details about the new racing game, as well as see a video and a new series of screenshots. Forza Motorsport 4 delivered a great rac... |
8 June 2012
03:35 GMT |
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Research In Motion launched BlackBerry Native SDK 2.0 Beta about a week ago and promised that new features and improvements would be added in future versions. True to its promise, RIM has just released another build of the SDK that comes with a new Camera Library allowing devs to interact with cameras connected to a... |
8 June 2012
03:34 GMT |
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According to astronomers who have recently used the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope for a new series of investigations, it may be that the observatory has identified the faint glow produced by the very first objects ever to form in the Universe following the Big Bang.
The event took place roughly 13.75 billion years ag... |
8 June 2012
03:26 GMT |
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Apple agreed to pay the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) $2.25 million (the reports don’t say if the currency is in American or Australian dollars) over the misleading marketing of its 4G iPads. As many people should know by now, Apple’s newest-generation of iPads does ultra-fas... |
8 June 2012
03:24 GMT |
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Version 0.8.55 of the e-book reader and management software Calibre was announced on May 25th, with some important new features and fixes.
Calibre 0.8.55 comes with a new look and feel, making the application more modern, with improved functionality.
Highlights of Calibre 0.8.55:
• A new 'Calibre style&... |
8 June 2012
03:24 GMT |
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The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity is currently on track for an August 5 landing on the surface of Mars, on the slopes of Mount Sharp inside the Gale Crater. Mission controllers have just released a video showing what the spacecraft must do in order to land successfully.
Since Curiosity is the largest... |
8 June 2012
03:10 GMT |
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Kim Kardashian has already moved on from her failed 72-day marriage to Kris Humphries, so there's no reason he shouldn't do the same. The basketball player was recently photographed with a new girl, and it turns out they have been dating since January this year. The other day, photos of Kris with a black-... |
8 June 2012
03:09 GMT |
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After already showing off the Unreal Engine 4 to developers, Epic Games has finally posted a video with its next-generation technology for the rest of the world, giving gamers a chance to see just how titles for platforms like the PlayStation 4 or Xbox 720 might look like.
Epic Games has shaped the current generatio... |
8 June 2012
03:04 GMT |
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Industrial designer Bryce Haymond has created a CAD rendering of the upcoming iPhone 5. He based his 360 degree animation on nothing but leaked parts. He basically crammed them all together in his mind and envisioned what the device would look like when Tim Cook launches it this fall. Haymond says “there&rsquo... |
8 June 2012
03:03 GMT |
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A new version of the Dolphin Browser for Android has been made available for download, with a series of small changes inside, but capable of offering a completely new experience to all users. The new Dolphin Browser for Android 8.2 comes with the possibility to customize the launch screen with three options. Thus... |
8 June 2012
02:52 GMT |
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The Green Climate Fund (GCF), founded back in 2009 in Copenhagen, is expected to have a new headquarters in Germany, on the banks of the Rhine River in Bonn. Thus, the said country offered to build one of the world's greenest buildings, which is to be the center stage for all GCF activities. For those unawar... |
8 June 2012
02:51 GMT |
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“We are currently investigating the leak of some Last.fm user passwords. This follows recent password leaks on other sites, as well as information posted online. As a precautionary measure, we’re asking all our users to change their passwords immediately,” reads a security update posted by the popul... |
8 June 2012
02:49 GMT |
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Skeptics will probably say it's not worth making an opinion before people publish some independent benchmark and gaming tests, but everyone else should be quite impressed by the gameplay demo AMD made at Computex 2012.
The folks at NetbookNews have brought us a nice video of AMD's A-Series Trinity complet... |
8 June 2012
02:45 GMT |
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The Humble Indie Bundle V offer has just gotten even sweeter as three extra games, in the form of Braid, Super Meat Boy, and Lone Survivor, have been added to the five existing ones.
Quite a lot of impressive bundles have appeared in the last few weeks, from services like Indie Royale or the Indie Gala.
The biggest... |
8 June 2012
02:33 GMT |
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Patriot’s HDD enclosure is very useful and quite original. Just like IO Data’s innovative autonomous wireless external HDD, it comes with wireless connectivity and an internal battery. There are two things you usually need when using an external HDD: a power outlet, if the drive needs more current like a... |
8 June 2012
02:28 GMT |
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