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The body of a woman reported missing last Friday, Oklahoma mother Ebony Jackson has been found in the trunk of her car in St. Louis at 4400 block of Elmbank, the police have confirmed, as the video above will show.
Jackson was reported missing last week, when her 3-month baby was found alone in an apartment complex... |
9 January 2013
23:45 GMT |
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Comedian Katt Williams has landed himself into a spot of trouble again: he was arrested in Los Angeles a few hours ago, after failing to show up in court to be arraigned in a November case.
“The oft-troubled comedian was arrested on an outstanding warrant after skipping out on a Sacramento, Calif., court da... |
9 January 2013
23:27 GMT |
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Publisher Paradox Interactive and developer Critical Studio have just announced the upcoming release of Dungeonland, a co-op hand and slash game for PC.
Dungeonland is now available for pre-purchase on Steam for only $10/€10 and it will unlock on January 22. Check it out here.
Given that developers emphasize t... |
9 January 2013
22:01 GMT |
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Lookout Mobile Security has just released a new update for their popular Android application, which promises to fix some minor bugs. Although it does not come with any new features or improvements, the latest version of Lookout Security & Antivirus is more stable than previous iterations. According to developers, u... |
9 January 2013
21:31 GMT |
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Nokia and Avanade have announced an agreement through which handset vendor’s Windows Phone-based Lumia devices will be delivered to enterprise customers as part of a package that also includes applications and services.
Avanade, a global provider of business technology solutions and managed services, will pro... |
9 January 2013
21:31 GMT |
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The Kickstarter service has announced that during 2012 it saw 2,796 funding initiatives launched for video games, of which 911 were successful.
1,378,143 backers have given the projects more than 83 million dollars (64 million Euro), which makes video games as a category the second biggest on Kickstarter after the o... |
9 January 2013
21:31 GMT |
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GAMEVIL, owners of Zenonia franchise, have just released a new patch for their fifth installment of the series.
Even though patch 1.0.5 does not bring major changes to Zenonia 5, players will be happy to know that the update adds a few more customization options.
According to GAMEVIL, the latest version of Zenonia ... |
9 January 2013
21:31 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Nokia Pulse app is now available for download for the owners of Windows Phone devices, namely version 0.10.24, which is still a beta release. No specific info on what was changed in the new app iteration has been provided as of now, but it seems that Nokia has finally included support for Window... |
9 January 2013
20:51 GMT |
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Video game developer Level 5 is announcing that it has settled on February 28 as the launch date for Professor Layton: The Azran Legacy on the Japanese market.
The game will be offered on the Nintendo 3DS handheld and each copy of the game will include a random bonus item, which might be a bronze figure or a 18K gol... |
9 January 2013
20:31 GMT |
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Kumobius today released Time Surfer, a 2D running/flying/surfing game for iPhone and iPad. Its faced-paced gameplay and 8-bit score are likely to leave quite an impression on Nintendo and SEGA fans alike.
Developer Kumobius says players have to surf for their lives across the galaxy as an inevitable destructive forc... |
9 January 2013
20:11 GMT |
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Lenovo has already announced a trio of Android smartphones at Consumer Electronics Show 2013 (CES), the IdeaPhone P770, S890 and S720. All three handsets have been confirmed to arrive on the market in Q1/Q2 2013. According to Lenovo, IdeaPhone P770, S890 and S720 will be released in Russia, Indonesia and India, but ... |
9 January 2013
20:01 GMT |
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Game Insight, LLC has released version 2.0 of its iPad game, Paradise Island HD which lets you build your own sunny island and grow a business there. If you like the roller-coaster tycoon genre, you’ll love Paradise Island. You get to tend to tourists and entertain them in casinos, restaurants and discos, welc... |
9 January 2013
19:51 GMT |
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Xperia Z might be the phone that enthusiasts are talking about at the moment, but its Xperia ZL sibling should not be forgotten either.
Packing the same hardware specifications as Xperia Z, this device proposes a different, more compact design, while also leaving aside the dust and water proof capabilities of the f... |
9 January 2013
19:51 GMT |
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What we know: Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning Returns is the final part of the saga within a franchise that Square Enix has created around the Fabula Nova Crystallis universe, designed to wrap up all the narrative threads of the previous two releases and offer a clear ending for the main character.The video game will m... |
9 January 2013
19:41 GMT |
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Indian company Simmtronics has just announced the immediate availability of its affordable XPAD X-801 tablet.
AndroidOS reports that the slate offers voice calling for only Rs 8,499 ($155/€130) but, sadly, is powered by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system out of the box.
As the title says, the XPAD... |
9 January 2013
19:31 GMT |
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The Nintendo 3DS is now over the 10 million units sold mark on the home Japanese market, with an extra 68,192 units sold as of January 6 of this year.
The gaming device has been selling in Japan for 98 weeks, more than in the rest of the world, and is currently topping weekly hardware sales charts.
The data comes f... |
9 January 2013
19:31 GMT |
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Although Lenovo has been present on the Indian market for quite some time now, the company has just launched a budget-friendly Android tablet that doesn’t seem to be competitively priced at all.
Lenovo IdeaTab A2107 is now available for purchase in India for Rs 14,000, which is about $255 or €195. The sla... |
9 January 2013
19:01 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is reportedly gearing up for presenting its customers with a treat for Valentine’s Day, with two existing smartphones in its offering getting new clothes. The deal will include the Nokia Lumia 822 and the Motorola DROID RAZR M, with the Windows Phone 8 handset expected to... |
9 January 2013
18:51 GMT |
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Codecademy is one of the sites that are contributing to the online learning revolution. Its aim is to make it easy to learn programming and to make it accessible to anyone, the only requirement is an internet connection. So far, it has focused on web technologies, JavaScript along with HTML and CSS and more recently ... |
9 January 2013
18:35 GMT |
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Japanese handset vendor Sony Mobile has started to roll out a new software update for its Xperia P users, namely version 6.1.1.B.1.75, after receiving PTCRB certification in mid-December.
According to a recent post on XperiaBlog, the new software update is set to arrive on all devices that feature the ST-Ericsson N... |
9 January 2013
18:31 GMT |
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The budget-friendly Nokia Lumia 620 is expected to arrive in Europe this month, but the smartphone has already been launched in some Asian countries.
We reported a few days ago the Lumia 620 is available for purchase in China for $320/€240, and now it appears that that the device has been released in Hong Kong ... |
9 January 2013
18:31 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 and older versions are still vulnerable to a flaw that would allow an attacker to take control of an unpatched system, especially because Microsoft is working on an update to address the glitch.
The company has already released a “Fix it” tool that configures the browsers in order to ... |
9 January 2013
18:11 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is ready to deliver three big expansion packs for The Sims 3 in the coming 12 months and the first of them to arrive is University Life, a March release that will allow players to go back to school and acquire a virtual higher education.
Sims characters will get unique actions based on their college ... |
9 January 2013
18:02 GMT |
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Shortly after Simmtronics launched its affordable XPAD X-801 tablet, another Indian manufacturer announced the immediate availability of an Android slate, HCL. According to AndroidOS, the new HCL Me V1 tablet is available for purchase via major Indian retailers for just Rs 7,790 ($140/€110). However, the low p... |
9 January 2013
18:01 GMT |
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Google has backtracked on its poorly timed and very poorly explained decision to stop supporting Windows Phone on its Google Maps website. Windows Phone users now get the really basic mobile Google Maps website as was the case up until recently.
Not long ago, Google apparently decided it wanted some bad PR just as t... |
9 January 2013
18:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has just announced that Tesco, the UK-based retailer, had decided to pick Office 365 as its number one communication and collaboration solution for most of its 500,000 workers around the world.
The company currently has 6,000 stores worldwide, so Office 365 is going to play a key role in the way its staff ... |
9 January 2013
17:51 GMT |
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SouthingtonSOS is announcing that it is no longer planning to burn video games that the community has returned because of the logistical difficulties that the event would have implied.
Dick Fortunato, a spokesman for SouthingtonSOS, is quoted by Polygon as saying that, “We succeeded in our program. Our mission... |
9 January 2013
17:22 GMT |
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ThinkTime Creations LLC has released Instant: The Polaroid Instant Camera for iOS devices which mimics the workflow of a classic Polaroid instant camera with realistic visual and sound effects. Using the $0.99/€0.89 app iPhone and iPad users can shoot a new picture (or load one up from their camera roll) and app... |
9 January 2013
17:21 GMT |
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The development team at EA Sports is ready to offer more detail on the new Legends of the Majors game mode for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14, which will allow gamers to try and beat the most important golfers of the modern age.The mode features: Seve Ballesteros, Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary P... |
9 January 2013
17:06 GMT |
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Nokia has made available for download the final flavor of its Nokia Suite 3.7 desktop application, providing users with official support for Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system.
Starting with the beta flavor of the app, users had the chance to use it on devices powered by the newest desktop OS from Microsof... |
9 January 2013
16:51 GMT |
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Cybercriminals continue to leverage the conflict in Syria for their operations. One campaign, which targets hotels, oil companies, and government agencies, relies on fake emails allegedly coming from Sheikh Adnan Mohammed al-Aroor, considered to be the face of the anti-government movement in Syria.
According to Syma... |
9 January 2013
16:51 GMT |
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Most greenheads are quite fond of animals, and many of them keep pets. However, one must always bear is mind the fact that, although fun and loving most of the times, pets can sometimes cause serious problems.
More so if they are of a more “exotic” variety and happen to fall ill.
Four people living in ... |
9 January 2013
16:51 GMT |
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Rumors regarding a possible connection of China blogging service Sina Weibo to the Microsoft account aren’t quite new, but it seems like the software company has finally decided to give the green light to this plan.
LiveSide.net writes that starting this morning, Sina Weibo users can see their contacts on the ... |
9 January 2013
16:41 GMT |
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The Humane Society of the United States has just released this video showing how the fashion industry's use of fur must be linked to horrific cases of animal cruelty. Woody Harrelson, a defender of animal rights, is the person who narrates this video. The idea he wishes to bring forth is very simple and quite ... |
9 January 2013
16:21 GMT |
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Sony Mobile announced at CES 2013 in Las Vegas that its Xperia Z smartphone would be launched in select markets as Xperia ZL, and it seems that Brazil will receive it, though under the name of Xperia ZQ.
The device is now listed on the company’s local website, and Sony Mobile Brazil has already confirmed that... |
9 January 2013
16:11 GMT |
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For those unaware, climate change and global warming are not just about heat waves and extended periods of drought.
Quite the contrary: said phenomena are all about extreme weather manifestations, which is why some people now dare argue that Chicago's setting a new snowless record must also be linked to global... |
9 January 2013
15:51 GMT |
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Steam for Linux, the digital distribution platform developed by Valve, has just received an important update and gets a little closer to a stable release.
Steam for Linux is still in the Beta stage of development and Valve is making a lot of changes to the client.
Highlights of Steam for Linux 1.0.0.20:
• Th... |
9 January 2013
15:31 GMT |
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Apparently, these past twelve months were the hottest on record for the United States. As the video above shows, this basically means that 2012 is quite likely to go down in history as the year when climate change and global warming got real for Americans. As reported on numerous occasions, 2012 brought people in t... |
9 January 2013
15:21 GMT |
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The US National Climatic Data Center has just finished compiling data concerning the meteorological conditions that manifested themselves in all American states over the course of the past 12 months.
Their conclusion is quite troubling: the year 2012 was the hottest on record for the contiguous US.
Thus, the aver... |
9 January 2013
15:21 GMT |
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Video game publisher Sony says that it has plans to launch a special version of the Dual Shock 3 controller alongside the upcoming God of War: Ascension video game.
The new PlayStation 3 controller, which you can see in the picture attached to this article, will be Kratos-themed.
At the moment, it has only been co... |
9 January 2013
15:15 GMT |
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Basketball star Shaquille O'Neal is the main character in Hiptic Games' action game for Android devices ShaqDown.
This is one of the few opportunities that O'Neal's fans can see their favorite player killing … zombies. ShaqDown is a zombie game set in a post-apocalyptic future, but it'... |
9 January 2013
15:13 GMT |
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Titan has long been one of the most interesting bodies in the solar system. Saturn's moon may be quite alien, but it's more similar to Earth than anything else that we know of, in some respects. It's the one place in the solar system, apart from Earth, that has lakes, seas, rivers and rain. Scientists... |
9 January 2013
15:11 GMT |
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Research In Motion’s BlackBerry 10 smartphones, set to become official starting with January 30 this year, should cover all price points, the company’s CMO Frank Boulben confirmed. For the time being, the company hasn’t provided specific info on the handsets running under the new operating system,... |
9 January 2013
15:11 GMT |
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West African lions (i.e. a subspecies of lions that are native to western Africa) are now running the risk of becoming extinct sooner than one might expect.
This is because, according to several estimates carried out by conservationists, only 645 genetically distinct such felines are left in the natural habitats in... |
9 January 2013
15:11 GMT |
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Microsoft announced this morning that it had managed to sell approximately 60 million licenses including both upgrades and sales to OEMs for new devices, so things are going very well for the new operating system.
So well that Windows 8 has managed to match Windows 7’s sales performance, Windows Chief Marketin... |
9 January 2013
15:01 GMT |
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Sony brought to the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas its latest flagship Android-based smartphone, the Xperia Z, and indeed managed to impress everyone.
Featuring a large 5-inch full HD touchscreen display, the new device packs a quad-core processor inside, 2GB of RAM, and a 13-megapixel photo snapper on... |
9 January 2013
14:41 GMT |
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Brown dwarfs bridge the gap between small stars and large planets, but are neither entirely. While they don't produce energy, like a star, they were created via the same process as stars. NASA recently pointed both its Spitzer infrared telescope and the Hubble telescope at one particular brown dwarf, the 2MASS... |
9 January 2013
14:21 GMT |
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US officials say they’re certain that Iran is behind the recent attacks launched against financial institutions. They say that the cyberattacks are part of a covert operation that comes in retaliation for the attacks launched against Iran and the Western economic sanctions imposed on the country.
The intellige... |
9 January 2013
14:21 GMT |
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Microsoft’s CEO is definitely an inspiring man, so inspiring that some people decided to create apps with Steve Ballmer as the main character.
The “Steve Ballmer Facts” app available in the Windows Store right now is probably the best example, as it comes with a large collection of jokes aimed at M... |
9 January 2013
14:11 GMT |
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Squid, a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP that helps reducing bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages, is now at version 3.2.6. Squid 3.2.6 is mainly a maintenance release, with just a few bug fixes and improvements. Users should upgrade noneth... |
9 January 2013
14:11 GMT |
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Postal 2 Complete, one of the most controversial games ever made, has made its way onto Steam for Linux and will be available soon.
Postal 2 Complete has managed to go through the Greenlight process and secured itself a place in the Steam catalogue. Even more important, the developers from Running With Scissors has ... |
9 January 2013
14:09 GMT |
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Gearbox Software has just announced the immediate availability of a new patch for the highly-acclaimed Borderlands 2 game.
The following changes and improvements have been included in patch 1.3.1 for Borderlands 2:
- Added support for text input using the gamepad for Steam's Big Picture mode;
- Fixed a bug cau... |
9 January 2013
13:24 GMT |
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Kickstarter has had its ups and downs in the last year though, to be fair, they were mostly "ups." The site became increasingly popular, projects have been becoming more ambitious and more successful.
2.2 million people pledged money last year, a huge increase over the previous year, raising a total of almost $320 ... |
9 January 2013
13:21 GMT |
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Buck, alias “The Dog Who Wouldn’t Die,” as the media nicknamed him, is receiving medical attention and recovering from horrific injuries.
The 3-year-old mixed breed pooch was found in a garbage bag, after being shot in the face, head, neck and shoulders, with a pellet gun. The bag was tied to a fen... |
9 January 2013
13:21 GMT |
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Sony’s Xperia Z indeed managed to impress the audience at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but it seems that the good news is not yet over for enthusiasts.
Sony also announced the availability of a specially designed charging dock for the new Android-based smartphone, to make users’ lives easi... |
9 January 2013
13:21 GMT |
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THQ's upcoming bankruptcy auction, which takes place on January 22, will not only see the company's different properties, including its video game franchises, sold to potential bidders, but also its internal studios, including groups like Volition, Vigil Games, Relic Entertainment, or THQ Montreal.
THQ dec... |
9 January 2013
13:11 GMT |
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Percona Server, an enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL that will allow queries to run faster and more consistently and to consolidate servers on powerful hardware, is now at version 5.5.28-29.3.
Highlights of Percona Server 5.5.28-29.3:
• Rows_read was calculated in a way that lead to a negative value being... |
9 January 2013
13:11 GMT |
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Hankinsoft Development Inc. has released SQLite Professional, a new developer tool for OS X coders. The SQLite editor is offered as a free download for a limited time.
Available immediately from the Mac App Store, SQLite Professional is a handy SQLite editor which features version integration (for mucked databases);... |
9 January 2013
13:11 GMT |
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Sony’s Xperia Z flagship Android smartphone is expected to arrive on shelves in Europe as soon as next month, and more wireless carriers and retailers on the Old Continent have confirmed this.
The handset has emerged on the websites of various retailers in the UK, with Clove pricing it at £528 ($847 / &... |
9 January 2013
13:01 GMT |
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Although radio devices suffered major transformations in the past years, radio stations and people’s habit to listen to them are still the same. Songs still have to make it on radio in order to become hits and radio shows are still pretty much an important aspect, especially in the U.S. It is hard to approxima... |
9 January 2013
13:01 GMT |
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A car park in Melbourne Airport had an unusual visitor on January 7, as a kangaroo met travelers and was chased by airport security. Police officers were called in to try to catch the animal, and chased it around for a bit in the parking lot. You can see as it is shot with a tranquilizer gun, the only way to capture... |
9 January 2013
12:51 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile USA has announced a new enhancement brought to its nationwide HSPA+ network, with the addition of HD Voice features.
Through this improvement, the company can deliver far better in-call voice quality to its users, as long as they have compatible smartphones in their hands.
Courtesy of th... |
9 January 2013
12:41 GMT |
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Samsung silently released four new color options for the Galaxy S III mini. These new color schemes have been tipped for quite some time now, so they’re not a surprise at all.
Android enthusiasts who wish to purchase the Samsung Galaxy S III mini will be able to choose from no less than six colors, Pebble Blue... |
9 January 2013
12:31 GMT |
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Windows 8 is selling very well, Windows Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer Tami Reller said a few hours ago, with more than 60 million copies sold since launch. But Reller also reveals that there are now more than 1,700 certified systems for both Windows 8 and Windows RT, with plenty of new devices ... |
9 January 2013
12:31 GMT |
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Mushkin has multiple NAND Flash storage devices on display at CES, but we haven't looked at the Scorpion PCI Express SSDs, so we will do that now.
Just like the new USB 3.0 flash drives, the Scorpion SSDs use the SandForce SF-2281 controller.
These aren't the first Scorpion SSDs to see the light of day. M... |
9 January 2013
12:21 GMT |
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Despite the bounty of new options introduced with the Second Wave free downloadable content, fans of XCOM: Enemy Unknown have been asking for a possible change to alter the currently fixed hit chance for shots.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun asked lead designer Jake Solomon about it and he answered: “I probably should h... |
9 January 2013
12:11 GMT |
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Tweed can help you embed an entire Twitter timeline on a remote Web page, along with hashtag search results and even personal Twitter lists.
Embedding tweets has become trivial thanks to the many tools Twitter has been providing itself.
But if you want a more configurable solution, more easier to change and edit vi... |
9 January 2013
12:01 GMT |
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The news just broke that early Wednesday morning a ferryboat transporting commuters got into an accident which lead to over 50 individuals being injured and needing medical attention.
Information leaked to the general public thus far says that the ferry was coming from Highlands, New Jersey, and that it somehow end... |
9 January 2013
11:44 GMT |
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Naughty Dog has confirmed that it's just posted a brand new update for The Lab mode in the Uncharted 3 multiplayer experience, complete with a new block mesh map made by one of its employees, as well as a new DLC switch priority mechanic.
While Uncharted 3 was released more than a year ago, its multiplayer mode... |
9 January 2013
11:41 GMT |
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The Fedora development team has announced the immediate availability for download of the first Beta version of the upcoming Fedora 18 operating system for the ARM architecture.
The ARM architecture is starting to get some traction and quite a few major distributions have released versions for it.
“We invite y... |
9 January 2013
11:36 GMT |
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Nokia appears indeed convinced that the Windows Phone 7.8 platform release will arrive on devices as soon as this month.
In fact, Nokia Spain has already confirmed to its users that the update is expected to land on devices this month, but also said that the roll-out is carrier-dependent.
Microsoft has unveiled pl... |
9 January 2013
11:31 GMT |
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Earlier today, while analyzing the hacks of the Syrian Electronic Army – the hacker collective that attacks anyone who opposes the Syrian government – on the websites of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense, I came across an interesting thing. The hackers appear to have breached the Payments Perspect... |
9 January 2013
11:23 GMT |
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On January 8, Canonical published details about Firefox vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems, providing a much needed update to version 18.0.
According to Canonical, multiple security issues were fixed in Mozilla Firefox. For example, an attacke... |
9 January 2013
11:19 GMT |
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Empathy, a messaging program that supports text, voice, video chat, and file transfers over many different protocols, is now at version 3.6.3.
Empathy 3.6.3 is just a maintenance release and fixes a bunch of annoying bugs and one crasher. Users of all distributions which include Gnome 3.6 have been advised to upgrad... |
9 January 2013
11:13 GMT |
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One of the most surprising horror releases of 2010 was, without a doubt, “The Last Exorcism.” It wasn’t the “last” though, because a sequel is coming out in March 2013.
Check out the new trailer for the unimaginatively titled “The Last Exorcism Part II” above in full.
Wher... |
9 January 2013
11:12 GMT |
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Those not physically present in Las Vegas, Nevada might be tempted to think that cases, peripherals and pretty lights are all that Rosewill has to show at its booth.
This is not so, according to reports. The company also has a docking station for SATA hard drives that, for some reason or another, lay around uselessl... |
9 January 2013
11:03 GMT |
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Major retailer Walmart has just announced that it will start selling Apple’s iPhone 5 without contracts on Straight Talk plans.
According to the company, the iPhone 5 will be available starting January 11 in more than 2,000 Walmart stores and online.
Customers will be able to grab the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4 on... |
9 January 2013
11:01 GMT |
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The Czech presidential elections have offered a surprise candidate this year: inexperienced, tattooed composer and professor Vladimir Franz.
I've written about Mr. Franz before, but this time it's to give an update on his ambitious plans to become president. It seems he is running third in the race at this... |
9 January 2013
10:54 GMT |
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LinkedIn doesn't get the recognition it deserves, but then again it makes Facebook look glamorous and hip by comparison, so perhaps it's understandable. But the publicly traded social network is chugging along.
It's now announcing a major milestone, 200 million users, not exactly Facebook numbers, bu... |
9 January 2013
10:54 GMT |
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Since we've already seen MSI's usual brood, we may as well take a look at the oddballs in the company's CES 2013 exhibition.
And by oddballs we mean the first ever peripherals that the company has created, though likely not the last.
Two keyboards have been introduced, called GK Series and GS Series.... |
9 January 2013
10:53 GMT |
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Arnold Schwarzenegger is making his acting comeback and, by the looks of this brand new trailer for “The Last Stand,” he’s sparing no punches to get the job done. Check out the new red band preview above but *please be advised that it contains images of violence and several instances of language t... |
9 January 2013
10:50 GMT |
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Anonymous hacktivists have initiated a campaign called Operation Grand Jury Resisters (OpGJResisters).
“It has recently come to our attention that the FBI, local police and the department of homeland security are now and have been engaged in acts of espionage against US citizens,” the hackers said.
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9 January 2013
10:50 GMT |
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Transmission, an Open Source cross-platform BitTorrent client that strives to be as simple as possible, is now at version 2.76.
The new version of Transmission, 2.76, comes with a large number of fixes and changes, but also a few improvements.
Highlights of Transmission 2.76:
• The error logging has been impr... |
9 January 2013
10:48 GMT |
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While TP-Link's Pocket Router is ready to tackle the needs of people on-the-go, the company has launched a different device for the homes of the well-off.
We are referring to a dual-band wireless router called N600 Universal Wireless Dual Band Entertainment Adapter.
With the codename TL-WA3164EA, it has four p... |
9 January 2013
10:48 GMT |
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Specialist video game retailer GameStop reports that it has seen a big drop in both new and used game sales over the 2012 Christmas period and that an increase in digital content delivered to players has failed to make up for it. New software sales were down by 5 percent when compared to the same period in 2011, whi... |
9 January 2013
10:45 GMT |
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According to a new study carried out by a researcher working with the University of Illinois, ratsnakes might actually turn out to be huge fans of global warming and climate change. This is because, as a result of increased average temperatures, these snakes will most likely shift towards being night time predators... |
9 January 2013
10:39 GMT |
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Actor Thomas Gibson, best known to fans for his role on “Criminal Minds” and on the sitcom “Dharma and Greg” before that, was arrested over the weekend for driving under the influence. Video of his arrest has emerged online.
Check it out below.
As you can see, it took no less than 5 office... |
9 January 2013
10:34 GMT |
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Google's Motorola Mobility has made a few changes to the ongoing lawsuit between it and Microsoft, as it has just withdrawn two of the three patents on which the Xbox 360 is infringing, thereby conforming to a past ruling from the FTC.
Motorola and Microsoft have been engaged in a bitter patent war for quite so... |
9 January 2013
10:33 GMT |
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Mojang is out with a new version of Minecraft for OS X which sadly doesn’t deliver many goodies, but does some healing instead. Players who’ve experienced some trouble when firing arrows and fireworks may be interested in this release.
The latest version of Minecraft for Macs focuses on bugs. Apparently ... |
9 January 2013
10:32 GMT |
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One of the best Android smartphones launched by LG, the Optimus G hit shelves in the United States a few months ago.
Unfortunately, the device was released with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system out of the box, and has yet to receive a Jelly Bean upgrade.
All in all, the smartphone has already receive... |
9 January 2013
10:31 GMT |
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The only major carrier in the United States that still doesn’t have an LTE network, T-Mobile USA is about to launch its own 4G services within the next few weeks.
T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray told PCMag in a recent interview that the carrier planned to launch its LTE network in several markets, including Las Vegas... |
9 January 2013
10:31 GMT |
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The happiest day in a couple's life ended in a big bang as the hot air balloon they boarded right after the ceremony crashed.
Raw footage of the harsh landing can be watched above. The Mirror writes that groom Jonathan and bride Kerin Narcisse were joined by 12 other people on the balloon. The incident occurred... |
9 January 2013
10:31 GMT |
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SimpleAudioPlayer, a tool that has the main task of quickly and easily open some music files selected by a filemanager, is now at version 1.10.0.
SimpleAudioPlayer 1.10.0 works well with 'drag & drop' and 'open with...' functions and uses very little memory. It supports a large number of formats,... |
9 January 2013
10:29 GMT |
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Microsoft has started sending emails to users informing them that it will retire Windows Live Messenger on March 15, but not everyone is happy with this decision. A synchronization problem between Skype and the Windows Phone People Hub has removed the contact lists of hundreds of users. Most of them have decided to ... |
9 January 2013
10:26 GMT |
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After downloading and installing the latest Mountain Lion beta (build 12D50) from Apple, one anonymous developer tells us that the company should be preparing a final release soon.
A developer who wishes to remain anonymous tells us that OS X 10.8.3 build 12D50 bears telltale signs that it’s a polished build r... |
9 January 2013
10:24 GMT |
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Since EVGA and ASUS have both released E-ATX motherboards with LGA 2011 sockets, Micro-Star International has done so as well.
The LGA 2011 socket is the one reserved for Intel's mightiest CPUs, the Ivy Bridge-E (which won't be out for months) and the Sandy Bridge-E (which are already out).
MSI's m... |
9 January 2013
10:24 GMT |
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Whether they like it or not, the fact remains that most men and women shave on a regular basis. More often than not, this negatively impacts on the environment, simply because tremendous amounts of water get wasted in the process.
However, an innovative new gadget promises to foster a shaving revolution, provided, ... |
9 January 2013
10:21 GMT |
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Razer has just pushed out a new driver for their Mamba gaming mouse series, offering Windows 8 support for both 32bit and 64bit architectures.If you intend to buy this mouse, you should probably consider that some users have been complaining about the connection to the base or the fact that profiles don’t load.... |
9 January 2013
10:19 GMT |
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Minecraft owners on the PC platform can now download patch 1.4.7 for their game, as developer Mojang has just released the small update that should address a number of crashes and a few other issues.
Minecraft is a true phenomenon, spawning not just a successful release on the PC but also a very popular Xbox 360 ver... |
9 January 2013
10:19 GMT |
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Having introduced new USB 3.0 flash drives and PCI Express solid-state drives, Mushkin is rounding up its product lineup with normal SSDs.
Truth be told, Mushkin formally announced all these products at the same time, and arranged them all next to one another at its booth in Las Vegas, Nevada, at CES.
The ProSpec ... |
9 January 2013
10:18 GMT |
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The Book of Unwritten Tales – The Critter Chronicles is a game that surprises users at every turn, despite its technical shortcomings, and it’s safe to say it has a great future if the developers increase the production efforts.
The Book of Unwritten Tales – The Critter Chronicles is basically a po... |
9 January 2013
10:11 GMT |
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The development team at CCP says that it plans to integrate the server structure of the EVE Online MMO with that of the free-to-play Dust 514 tomorrow. In practical terms that means that all those who are currently engaged in the closed beta stage for Dust 514 will be moved from Singularity to Tranquility. The offi... |
9 January 2013
10:04 GMT |
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Twitter is no advertising giant by any means, but it's starting to make some decent money. That's the estimate of course, though the only official figure to come out of the company, not voluntarily mind you, is barely enough to pay for utilities.
Twitter reported just £16,500, $26,500 or €20,27... |
9 January 2013
10:02 GMT |
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Guitarist Dave Navarro has recently agreed to join hands with PETA and help put an end to the practice of testing various cosmetic products on animals.
Hence his agreeing to pose for this add, whose sole purpose is that of convincing people to only buy and use cosmetics that are cruelty-free.
According to Look to... |
9 January 2013
09:57 GMT |
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While Microsoft’s very own Surface RT is made of vapor magnesium to withstand very severe hits, Panasonic’s Toughpad FZ-G1 is the kind of device that has the power to deal with drops, rain and dust.
Launched today at CES 2013, the device comes with a 10.1-inch screen offering a full HD 1920x1080 resoluti... |
9 January 2013
09:52 GMT |
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The folks at Truphone today announced the availability of their Nano Tru SIM for iPhone 5 and iPad minis with cellular capabilities. The hardware enables iDevice owners to roam free with multiple numbers and uninterrupted cellphone coverage worldwide.
Now available in nano SIM format, the Nano Tru SIM enables millio... |
9 January 2013
09:49 GMT |
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With just three weeks left until BlackBerry 10’s official launch, Research In Motion is testing its first devices with more than 150 carriers around the globe.
Some of them have already confirmed they will carry one or both BlackBerry 10 smartphones that will be announced on January 30, while others are still ... |
9 January 2013
09:47 GMT |
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MSI has added a series of updates to the newest versions of BIOSes for B75A-G41, B75IA-E33, Z77A-G45 Thunderbolt, Z77A-G45 and Z77MA-G45 boards. It appears that the focus was on improving PCI-E display card compatibility but also memory compatibility, the latter being noticeable in every version, from the first to th... |
9 January 2013
09:45 GMT |
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Following the US Court of Appeals' deciding that Captain Paul Watson must keep his distance from Japanese whaling fleets, the head of the Sea Shepherd organization agreed to quit his position altogether and settle for being a mere “observer.”
Wishing to explain his decision, the Captain posted a st... |
9 January 2013
09:41 GMT |
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Sony may have organized a variety of great deals on the PlayStation Store in PAL regions last month, but the company is eager to continue this trend of discounts and has now revealed the January Sale and the different price cuts included within it.
PlayStation 3 and PS Vita owners were treated with a variety of grea... |
9 January 2013
09:39 GMT |
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Routers are box-like devices, with varying aesthetic value, that use antennas to provide web connectivity by exploiting the principles of electromagnetism.
They are, sadly, also a bit complicated to install, and they aren't always easy to take along on a trip.
TP-LINK decided to make a router specially designe... |
9 January 2013
09:30 GMT |
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Shortly after making the new Xperia Z official at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Sony Mobile published the white paper for the device, offering some more info on it. The document confirms that there will be two flavors of the device brought to the market, one featuring model number C6603 attached ... |
9 January 2013
09:28 GMT |
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According to a report published today by the United Kingdom’s Defence Committee on cyber security, cyberattacks could “fatally compromise” the ability of the Armed Forces to operate. That’s because the Armed Forces are dependent on information and communication technology.
Over the past perio... |
9 January 2013
09:26 GMT |
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You gotta love Mariah Carey. Speaking with Barbara Walters about that highly mediated incident on American Idol, when she and Nicki Minaj came to blows and it was all caught on camera, she managed to throw some major shade at the rapper, the kind she hasn’t thrown since this interview here.
Check out her fu... |
9 January 2013
09:25 GMT |
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There are plenty of "boxes" that offer ways of hooking up your TV to the internet or of serving digital content to the big screen. And with CES underway, more are bound to come. But the BBK BitTorrent Box is a somewhat special and its name should tell you why.
The BBK BitTorrent Box is the first Android-powered dev... |
9 January 2013
09:23 GMT |
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Today, wireless services provider T-Mobile started offering to users the first Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data plan with no annual contract.
Through this launch, T-Mobile becomes the first wireless carrier in the United States to offer an unlimited, nationwide, 4G data plan to its customers, while providing them with ... |
9 January 2013
09:18 GMT |
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Video game developer Maxis and publisher Electronic Arts are allowing gamers to take a look at the official intro video for the upcoming SimCity, designed to show off the new graphics engine of the game and its most important features in action.
The official description states, “Using all gameplay footage, the... |
9 January 2013
09:15 GMT |
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Valve has officially clarified the speculation around its long-awaited Steam Box device, saying through the voice of its hardware engineer, Ben Krasnow, that the mini PC won't be revealed in 2013, despite previous reports.
Rumors about Valve's Steam Box have floated around the web for quite some time, but ... |
9 January 2013
09:12 GMT |
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Brandi Glanville may have reconciled with the idea that her marriage to Eddie Cibrian is over and that he’s moved on, but she’s yet to come to terms with the reason why it ended: his numerous affairs.
On the latest episode of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, she confronted one of the ... |
9 January 2013
09:03 GMT |
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A Beijing court has denied Microsoft’s appeal and ruled that the company used Chinese character fonts belonging to Zhongyi Electronic without authorization in several of its products.
Windows 98, 2000, 2003 and XP versions sold in China and in several other markets included Zhongyi’s set of fonts, the co... |
9 January 2013
09:02 GMT |
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Although Mozilla’s Boot2Gecko operating system is nothing new, Canonical’s Ubuntu platform for mobile phones is definitely something innovative. Well, it appears that Canonical’s Ubuntu attracted the eyes of major players in the smartphone market. The folks over at IloveUbuntu report that AT&T mi... |
9 January 2013
09:01 GMT |
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Research In Motion (RIM) bet big on its upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphones, the Z10 and X10. Also known as L-Series and N-Series, both devices will be unveiled at the end of the month, along with the new BlackBerry 10 operating system.
Several Canadian carriers have already opened up pre-registrations for BlackBerry... |
9 January 2013
09:01 GMT |
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2012 was the year of 3D, and 2013 seems to have become the year of 4K resolution, or UHD: 3840 x 2160. Panasonic is definitely adding credibility to that train of thought, having actually made a 4K tablet.
Some may have been tempted to think that the 56-inch OLED, the largest ever OLED TV, would be Panasonic's... |
9 January 2013
08:58 GMT |
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41-year-old Tamara Diane Brown, of Eugene, Oregon, has pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud. Authorities say the woman sold over 5,000 mobile phones on eBay after illegally obtaining them from Sprint.
According to the FBI, the fraudster was working for The Pape Group when she started ordering Sprint mobile phon... |
9 January 2013
08:56 GMT |
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The Apple-certified Meridian iPhone Battery Case from LENMAR is now in full swing, according to its creators, who are showing off the product at the 2013 International CES Show in Las Vegas.
Demonstrating its iPhone 5 battery case at Booth #5222 in the North Hall, LENMAR is proud to state, “We have just receiv... |
9 January 2013
08:55 GMT |
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Kate Upton was a name that didn’t ring that many bells a couple of years back, but things are looking up for her these days. She is slowly but surely becoming the “It” girl in fashion, and her latest spread for V Magazine should explain why.
Photographed by Sebastian Faena, the pictorial has Kate p... |
9 January 2013
08:45 GMT |
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The cheapest Windows Phone 8 handset announced by Nokia, the Lumia 620 has just been confirmed to land in the UK on January 28.
In fact, Clove UK claims it will receive the first stock of the Nokia Lumia 620 in black color, during the week commencing January 28.
For the time being, customers can pre-order the smar... |
9 January 2013
08:43 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts says that it has big plans for The Sims franchise during 2013, with three core expansions and other smaller updates set to be delivered to gamers who are playing the third full installment in the series. The main additions to the game will be offered through the The Sims 3 Univer... |
9 January 2013
08:39 GMT |
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On January 8, Canonical published details about Thunderbird vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems in a security notice.
According to Canonical, several security issues have been fixed in Thunderbird, which allowed a remote attacker to cause a den... |
9 January 2013
08:34 GMT |
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The Syrian Electronic Army – the notorious hacker group that supports the Syrian government – is back with another major hack. Their latest targets are several Saudi Arabian government websites, among which the one of the Ministry of Defense.
The list of affected websites includes the one of the Ministry... |
9 January 2013
08:33 GMT |
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The M7 is Polaroid’s first try on Android tablets, but we’re not sure whether it will get enough attention given its unimpressive specs sheet.
Although Polaroid M7 is priced at $130/€100, thus undercutting Google’s Nexus 7 with quite a lot, the tablet fails to impress when it comes to hardware... |
9 January 2013
08:30 GMT |
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Usually, celebrities who do the talk show circuit have something to promote, but Jimmy Kimmel wanted to start the New Year with a totally random – but still very entertaining – interview, with his good friend Jennifer Aniston.
Among the highlights of her appearance, which you can see in full in the vide... |
9 January 2013
08:29 GMT |
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Professor and conspiracy theorist James Tracy, of the Florida Atlantic University, is claiming that the Newtown massacre never occurred. In his view, it was just a political marketing stunt by the Obama administration. He set up a blog, pointing out the “holes” in the Sandy Hook timeline. He finds incon... |
9 January 2013
08:28 GMT |
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Despite CES and all the attention it demands, NVIDIA has managed to quietly introduce a couple new graphics processing units, out of obligation to empty its inventories if for no other reason.
They are called GeForce GT 730M and 710M and should replace the 640M and 620M, despite the name incongruities.
The GeForce... |
9 January 2013
08:25 GMT |
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What we know:
Tomb Raider games may still occupy a special place in the memories of gamers from around the world, but recent titles haven't exactly impressed through gameplay or story, as they just relied on Lara Croft's sex appeal to draw in customers.
The Tomb Raider reboot promises to implement a parad... |
9 January 2013
08:15 GMT |
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Ubuntu Phone has garnered a lot of attention at CES 2013 and the developers from Canonical have shown some of the OS’s capabilities, including the Facebook integration.
Ubuntu Phone was announced only a week ago and the developers have been quick to show what it can do and why they think it will be a viable alternat... |
9 January 2013
08:11 GMT |
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Not very long ago, Jason and Jennifer Helvenston from Orlando, Florida decided to embrace a greener lifestyle and began growing their own fruits and vegetables.
Speaking strictly from an environmental standpoint, their idea is nothing if not praiseworthy. However, it looks like when the city's officials starte... |
9 January 2013
08:11 GMT |
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Today is iTunes’ 12th birthday and a lot has happened in this past decade, from the app’s inception as a simple music player to a digital download storefront accessed by hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Pretty much every soul on the planed who has used Apple products knows iTunes, that colorful (... |
9 January 2013
08:08 GMT |
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It’s only been a few days since Harry Styles and Taylor Swift ended their 2-month, highly mediated romance, but he’s already moving on. After she flew back to the US from the Caribbean, Harry went on to hook up with TV host Hermione Way, it has emerged.
Swift has long been making headlines for her bad l... |
9 January 2013
08:03 GMT |
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The Taco Cid Mexican food Restaurant in West Columbia, South Carolina prides itself with good food and a better sense of humor.
Company shirts have a design on their back, in which a risqué joke about the Mexican people is illustrated.
“How to catch an illegal immigrant,” it reads.
Taco Cid have caused... |
9 January 2013
07:58 GMT |
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Panasonic has finished introducing one of the smallest 4K TVs we've seen so far, and the reason for the size is not what most people would expect, although it isn't impossible to guess.
Long story short, OLED display technology hasn't reached the point where it can easily be made into screens larger ... |
9 January 2013
07:53 GMT |
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Following the unveiling of plans to launch a 4G LTE network in the United States this year, wireless carrier T-Mobile also confirmed that it would be adding a new, LTE-capable flavor of Samsung’s Galaxy S III handset to its offering.
For the time being, no specific details on when the network will be fired up... |
9 January 2013
07:51 GMT |
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Blizzard has just confirmed that more details will be released for Diablo 3's upcoming patch 1.0.7 in the following days.
Diablo 3 came out back in May of last year and Blizzard has since released quite a lot of updates and patches, which not only solved major bugs and glitches but also added a variety of new f... |
9 January 2013
07:50 GMT |
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On Monday, we learned that a DOM-based cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that affected Yahoo! could be exploited by cybercriminals to take over accounts. The company rushed to issue a fix for the security hole, but experts have found that the patch is not effective. Security expert Shahin Ramezany, the one wh... |
9 January 2013
07:47 GMT |
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Video game publisher 2K Games is putting its biggest franchises on sale via the Xbox Live until January 14, allowing those who play on the Microsoft home consoles to get access to some of the best titles of the last few years. The 50 percent off deal applies to: Borderlands and all its downloadable content The Mech... |
9 January 2013
07:41 GMT |
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Even though Microsoft has already announced that it had sold 60 million copies of Windows 8, there are plenty of users who are disappointed with the operating system and wish to go back to Windows 7.
Well, it’s definitely very important to know that some Windows 8 computers currently on sale are delivered with... |
9 January 2013
07:37 GMT |
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It is a well-known fact that spending too much time swimming, doing dishes or in the bathtub ultimately leads to one's fingers getting all wrinkly.
Most people take this phenomenon for granted, and do not bother asking why it is that water affects our fingers in this manner.
Still, a team of scientists work... |
9 January 2013
07:36 GMT |
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The guys from Screen Junkies have long made Internet history with their hilarious Honest Trailers, videos for popular releases that aim to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth about each of them. Their latest offering is for “Inception.” Check it out above in full. “You asked for it,... |
9 January 2013
07:35 GMT |
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Fishermen in Kona, Hawaii stumbled upon this long fish, only the mystery creature was found with no head and no tail.
The ribbon-like fish is about 7-foot (2.13-m) long. It was encountered by Capt. Dale Leverone traveling on the Sea Strike, Pete Thomas writes in his Outdoors blog.
"I thought it was a car bumper, bu... |
9 January 2013
07:29 GMT |
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Months after Opera and Google Chrome updated their browsers to support the HiDPI screens on Apple’s new MacBook Pros, Mozilla has released its own Retina update for fans of the Firefox web browser on OS X.
Arguably the most popular web browser on any desktop platform, Firefox is strangely the last of the big b... |
9 January 2013
07:29 GMT |
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The developers of Unvanquished, a free, open-source first-person shooter combining real-time strategy elements with a futuristic and sci-fi setting, have just released the eleventh Alpha version.
The work on the Unvanquished continues at a steady pace and it shows no signs of slowing down. If they keep this up, we m... |
9 January 2013
07:22 GMT |
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NASA and ESA have pointed their Spitzer Space Telescope and Herschel Space Observatory at a couple of nearby stars, confirming previous observations and discovering an asteroid belt near the star Vega, the second brightest in the Northern hemisphere. Astronomers already knew Vega was surrounded by a cool dust cloud,... |
9 January 2013
07:21 GMT |
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DejaOffice, a complete CRM productivity suite with business-class contacts, calendar, tasks and notepad apps, has been updated this week to add support for multi-line subjects, an improved user interface, and more.
DejaOffice 1.3.9 adds support for multi-line subject in calendar and tasks, and features an improved u... |
9 January 2013
07:21 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Sprint has announced plans to provide its users with the possibility to listen to their local FM radio stations while on the go on their Android and Windows Phone devices. The carrier’s customers will receive access to a wide range of radio companies and aggregators, but only on select de... |
9 January 2013
07:21 GMT |
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Nothing beats a lesson in feminism with a good splash of violence on the side. The new trailer for “Girls Against Boys” from director Austin Chick aims to be just that.
Check it out above.
The film first premiered at SXSW and has been making the rounds on the festival circuit ever since. It is now gear... |
9 January 2013
07:19 GMT |
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Researchers have been constantly analyzing the distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks launched by Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters against United States financial institutions but, up until now, little was known about the resources used by the hacktivists.
Incapsula, a cloud-based security and acceleration ... |
9 January 2013
07:19 GMT |
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Shaquille O'Neal and One Spear Entertainment have released the first action game for iOS starring the basketball star in a post-apocalyptic future where the mutation of a zombie virus creates a new breed of zombies that have enslaved mankind.
Great plot, right? You’ll be jumping into Shaq’s size 22 ... |
9 January 2013
07:16 GMT |
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Valve has just posted a brand new update for Team Fortress 2 on the Steam digital distribution platform today, January 9, and the patch includes all sorts of huge bug fixes that solve either crashes or various glitches relating to certain weapons and items. Team Fortress 2 is one of the most popular online shooters ... |
9 January 2013
07:13 GMT |
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Sony Online Entertainment says that it has fixed a hex crash issue in the MMO Planetside 2 and that it will now be using logged game data in order to issue bans to all those players who used the exploit during the Christmas period.
Matt Highby, the creative director working on Planetside 2, writes via Twitter that, ... |
9 January 2013
07:09 GMT |
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A friendly manager at a diner made a future mom's day by giving her and her family a discount for their meal.
The restaurant manager put down a personalized inspirational message in the promotional box on the receipt:
“MOM 2 BEE GOOD LUC,” he wrote.
The Consumerist tells us that this occurred at ... |
9 January 2013
07:02 GMT |
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The Ivy Bridge-E collection of CPUs is half a year away, but motherboards compatible with those chips are also compatible with Sandy Bridge-E units, which are already available. ASUS has just revealed one such motherboard.
The name of the new motherboard from ASUS is P9X79-E WS, indicative of the X79 chipset used b... |
9 January 2013
07:01 GMT |
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Lance Armstrong’s image took a serious hit in October, when he decided to no longer fight the doping charges against him and he was consequently stripped of all his Tour de France titles. He will open up on the controversy this month.
Since being thus disgraced, Armstrong has not said a peep, a stance he maint... |
9 January 2013
06:58 GMT |
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WordPress for Windows Phone devices has just been upgraded to version 1.9, with some appealing new features packed inside. According to the development team, the new flavor of the mobile application brings along support for full-screen content creation, which provides users with the possibility to edit and create n... |
9 January 2013
06:41 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile is hard at work with the launch of a new 4G service in the United States, this time based on LTE technology, complementing its already existing HSPA+ network. The company has confirmed at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show plans to fire up the LTE network in Las Vegas in a matter of weeks ... |
9 January 2013
06:31 GMT |
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There’s no doubt about it, WhatsApp Messenger is among the most popular messaging applications for mobile phones of all time.
The Android version has more than 100 million downloads on Google Play Store, and we can safely assume it has at least as much in the App Store.
The latest iteration of WhatsApp for An... |
9 January 2013
06:31 GMT |
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Apparently, Telstra won’t be the only wireless carrier in Australia set to bring the new Sony Xperia Z smartphone to shelves in the country.
Sony has partnered with three major operators in that market for the launch, and the device will land at them in March (no names were provided, but he might have been re... |
9 January 2013
06:31 GMT |
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Rumors about the possibility of Ryan Lochte getting his own reality show have been making the rounds for a few months now, with confirmation coming now from Deadline that it will air on E! this spring.
This goes to show that, as they say, there’s never smoke without fire.
Called “What Would Ryan Locht... |
9 January 2013
06:31 GMT |
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Chrome OS' dev channel has gotten an update and, in a rare occurrence, it's actually keeping up with the desktop channel. Chromebook owners that want the latest and greatest now get Chrome 25.1364.26, same as desktop users, part of Chrome OS 3428.49.0.
Not only is the version a recent one, the update cove... |
9 January 2013
06:21 GMT |
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Patch Tuesday doesn’t bring a fix for the recently discovered Internet Explorer 8 security flaw, but Microsoft claims that it’s still working on it, so an official patch should be released anytime soon. Even though a security company has revealed that it had managed to bypass Microsoft’s one-click ... |
9 January 2013
06:11 GMT |
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Emma Watson is one of the most beautiful and talented actresses of her generation (as per her own fans and industry publications) but, according to a new report, she’s also one of the youngest looking.
Though she’s 22, the gorgeous “Harry Potter” star was stopped at JFK at passport control b... |
9 January 2013
06:06 GMT |
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Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters have initiated the fifth week of Operation Ababil 2, the campaign whose purpose is the removal of the Innocence of Muslims movie, which they consider to be an insult. This week’s first targets are the websites of BB&T, PNC, HSBC and Fifth Third Bank, Hilf-ol-Fozoul, a public... |
9 January 2013
06:03 GMT |
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Chinese company Lenovo recently has announced a trio of Android smartphones at Consumer Electronics Show 2013 (CES), IdeaPhone P770, S890 and S720. We have already reported on the first two, so let’s see what the IdeaPhone S720 has to offer.
Unlike the P770 and S890, the S720 is a budget-friendly smartphone. ... |
9 January 2013
05:55 GMT |
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Tonight’s ceremony of People’s Choice Awards will officially kick off the awards season but, unlike all the other, more pretentious galas that will follow, this one is perhaps more important because the winners are determined by fans’ votes. The 39th edition of People’s Choice Awards will a... |
9 January 2013
05:52 GMT |
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Gabe Newell, the leader of video game developer and now hardware maker Valve, believes that one of the core elements of the future of gaming will be biometric data, which will be first integrated into controllers in order to allow players to better interact with their experiences.
Speaking to The Verge at the CES 20... |
9 January 2013
05:51 GMT |
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Velma Kellen of Yelm, Washington, recently learned she had an unwanted visitor staying with her. She had no idea a squatter had made a home right under her house. 73-year-old Kellen was alerted about the issue by a repairman called in to fix her heating issues. She had just bought a new furnace, and was surprised wh... |
9 January 2013
05:48 GMT |
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Less than one week has passed since Ruby on Rails 3.2.10 was released to address an SQL Injection vulnerability. However, yesterday, the developers were forced to issue another update because of two “extremely critical” security holes. One of the vulnerabilities exists when Active Record is used in conju... |
9 January 2013
05:46 GMT |
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Not very long ago, wildlife rangers in charge of looking after Kenya's biodiversity found a baby rhino that for one reason or another had trouble walking about and kept bumping into things.
The rangers soon realized that the animal was blind, and decided that it had very little – if any – chances o... |
9 January 2013
05:43 GMT |
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Razer has confirmed at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that the Project Fiona showcased 12 months ago at the same trade fair was ready to go in production.
Baptized Razer Edge, the gaming tablet will feature Windows 8 Pro and will come with Intel and Nvidia hardware specifically developed fo... |
9 January 2013
05:41 GMT |
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Vimeo, the video sharing site that, while definitely not as large as YouTube – nothing is – occupies a special place in the landscape, is now finally going international with the addition of a French and German language version.
You should be getting the French or German version of the site if that's the defau... |
9 January 2013
05:41 GMT |
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A brand new rumor has appeared about Fallout 4, possibly the next big project from developer Bethesda, as Erik Todd Dellums, the voice actor of Fallout 3's Three Dog, has hinted on his Twitter that he'll reprise his role soon enough.
Fallout 3 impressed millions of gamers from around the world by reviving ... |
9 January 2013
05:40 GMT |
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Video game developer TT Games and publisher Warner Bros. announce that they are working on LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, a game that will blend the rich universe of Marvel-made comic books with the unique destructibility and building mechanics of LEGO.
The game is expected to arrive on the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the X... |
9 January 2013
05:37 GMT |
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SeaMonkey 2.15, a web browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing suite, has been released.
SeaMonkey 2.15 is a new major release in the series and comes with a couple of important new features, not to mention all the bugfixes made available.
Highlights of SeaMonkey 2.15:
• T... |
9 January 2013
05:32 GMT |
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As always, NVIDIA is one of the highest-profile companies attending the Consumer Electronics Show. This implies, among other things, a large-scale press conference.
We've already covered the highlights, namely the Tegra 4 Mobile Processor, Project SHIELD, and the Grid cloud graphics.
Still, for those that wa... |
9 January 2013
05:29 GMT |
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The attorney representing Michael Nodianos, the teen who was filmed joking about how Steubenville High School students abused a 16-year-old girl, has revealed that his client’s email, Facebook and Twitter accounts were hacked after the controversial video was published.
Nodianos has dropped out of the Ohio Sta... |
9 January 2013
05:25 GMT |
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ASUS is in full throttle today, as it will be throughout CES. We've written about the Ares II dual-GPU HD 7990 graphics card, and now we can see something else that is twice as large as normal.
The word “double” defines many things today. The aforementioned dual-GPU board is one example. The ASUS M... |
9 January 2013
05:20 GMT |
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Fomalhaut b, the exoplanet that only recently came back from the dead, the first to ever be seen in visible light, is getting stranger and stranger.
Scientists were very excited when they discovered it in 2008, but when they couldn't detect it in infrared light coupled with its very strange apparent orbit, the... |
9 January 2013
05:18 GMT |
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Not even former Miss Alabama Katherine Webb was upset when she found out that veteran announcer Brent Musburger could not stop gushing about her good looks during the BCS title game between Crimson Tide and Notre Dame, but ESPN isn’t taking any risks. After video of Musburger gushing about how “hot&rdqu... |
9 January 2013
05:13 GMT |
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As expected, the Lumia 920 has just arrived at Vodafone UK. The carrier announced a few weeks ago that it would offer the smartphone beginning early 2013 and the device is available from two online retailers.
The folks at NokiaPowerUser report Vodafone UK customers can purchase the Lumia 920 from MobilePhonesDirect ... |
9 January 2013
05:13 GMT |
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5 US citizens are among the 7 victims of a helicopter crash in the Amazonian jungle in Peru, on Monday, January 7. The incident occurred near Pucallpa, where the passengers on the chopper were conducting an oil exploration. The members of the team were employed by Canadian company Petrominerales Ltd. Dann Immel, Ed... |
9 January 2013
05:11 GMT |
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A brand new developer diary has just been released about God of War: Ascension, this time with the team at Sony Santa Monica talking about the creation of the multiplayer mode in the upcoming hack and slash game.
God of War: Ascension is going to be released in March and, besides offering a new single-player experie... |
9 January 2013
05:08 GMT |
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The well-known P2P file sharing client Transmission has been updated this week with a slew of tweaks and fixes, including one minor change for Macintosh customers. Changes to be noticed by users on all platforms include better error logging when user-provided scripts can't be executed, a tweak to the “Tim... |
9 January 2013
05:07 GMT |
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Painkiller Hell & Damnation will be launched on the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft on April 5, according to publisher Nordic Games. The revival of the classic first-person shooter was created by The Farm 51, a studio based in Poland, using all the capabilities of the Unreal Engine 3 from Epi... |
9 January 2013
05:06 GMT |
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A security expert has already managed to bypass Microsoft’s restrictions to find a way to run unsigned desktop apps on Windows RT, so the jailbreak community has started work on developing new ways to make the most of this exploit.
XDA Forums user Netham45 has ported several apps to Windows RT, including PuTTy... |
9 January 2013
05:05 GMT |
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Only yesterday, Mars One (i.e. a Netherlands-based nonprofit organization whose members hope that they will be the first to walk on said planet in ten years’ time) made it public news that ordinary folks can also apply for a job as a “Mars colonist.”
Apparently, the organization wishes to debut a reality... |
9 January 2013
05:03 GMT |
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T-Mobile USA is the only major wireless carrier in the country to not have added the Apple iPhone to its offering as of now, but it seems that this is set to change in the first half of the year.
At the 2013 Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the carrier’s Chief Executive John Legere confirmed this to R... |
9 January 2013
04:43 GMT |
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A specialty gym offers overweight clients the option of working out without skinnier people around them.
They even have a rule for choosing their clients – one has to require losing at least 50 Lbs (22 Kg) to get in.
I believe the Downsize Gym brings forward a great concept, as there is indeed a level of emba... |
9 January 2013
04:43 GMT |
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Anonymous hacktivists reveal that the date of February 23, 2013, will be an “international day of action against censorship and surveillance.” In their latest video, Anonymous calls for German users to join the protests part of the operations known as OpBigBrother, OpWCIT and OpTrapwire.
Governments keep... |
9 January 2013
04:42 GMT |
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Microsoft has recently announced a bunch of improvements for its SkyDrive.com cloud storage service, including more HTML5 features for touch devices to make the browsing experience faster and more fluid.
Drag-and-drop features have been enhanced too, while users can now move files to anywhere in the hierarchy of the... |
9 January 2013
04:35 GMT |
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Intel hasn't launched the Ivy Bridge-E super high-end central processing units yet, and the third quarter is still a bit far off, but that isn't stopping EVGA from releasing motherboards ready for them.
Indeed, the company has prepared a platform featuring the LGA 2011 socket, one that will make its debut... |
9 January 2013
04:32 GMT |
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Adobe has addressed a total of 27 vulnerabilities that affect Reader and Acrobat XI (11.0.0) and earlier versions for Windows and Mac, and Adobe Reader 9.5.1 and earlier 9.x versions for Linux.
Users are advised to apply the updates as soon as possible since the security holes can be exploited to cause a crash or e... |
9 January 2013
04:31 GMT |
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A photo taken at an Apple reseller in China has been released to the press depicting CEO Tim Cook and Phil Schiller paying a rare visit to a non-official retail store in the company’s sales chain. It makes sense for the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing to tag along with the CEO on his visit to the ... |
9 January 2013
04:29 GMT |
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After confirming two brand new installments in the Pokemon franchise yesterday, in the form of Pokemon X and Pokemon Y, Nintendo has now posted some more details about the two titles, as well as a few screenshots showcasing the protagonist and even a higher quality trailer.
Pokemon titles have entertained owners of ... |
9 January 2013
04:29 GMT |
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Twitter's technological prowess is miles ahead of what it was just a couple of years ago. But technology can only help you so much, things happen so fast on Twitter that there's no time for algorithms to recognize patterns and come up with appropriate responses.
Search is the perfect example of this, Twitt... |
9 January 2013
04:25 GMT |
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Absolute, an x86 Linux distribution based upon Slackware that concentrates on making sure that Internet, multimedia, document, and general home use works out of the box, is now at version 14.03.
As expected, the Absolute Linux operating system is designed to be lightweight, to run on older hardware, and to make the ... |
9 January 2013
04:23 GMT |
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Adobe rolled out a maintenance update for their Acrobat product. This is a planned release that integrates security fixes, feature enhancements and overall repairs.
The developer introduced a fully automatic update mode on Windows. Users are prompted to opt for this feature at the first launch of the new version of ... |
9 January 2013
04:21 GMT |
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GRID 2 might be set for a summer launch, but the development team at Codemasters has offered limited information on the core mechanics of the new racing title so far, asking fans to wait in order to get a clear look at actual gameplay.
Ross Gowing, a senior games designer at Codemasters, speaks to CVG about GRID 2 a... |
9 January 2013
04:16 GMT |
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Mozilla has released Firefox 18 and Thunderbird 17.0.2. Both releases address a number of critical vulnerabilities that could have been leveraged by a remote attacker to seamlessly install software or execute malicious code. With these updates, Mozilla has blocked the mis-issued TURKTRUST certificates. It’s wo... |
9 January 2013
04:16 GMT |
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Amy Winehouse led a troubled life and met her end just as she had determined to start fresh and get sober and clean. A second inquest into the cause of her death has revealed that she did die of alcohol poisoning.
The singer, who was just 27 at the time she passed away, was found unresponsive at her London home in ... |
9 January 2013
04:14 GMT |
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Panasonic has a whole bunch of cameras on display at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2013), but not all of them follow the usual type of blueprint. The HX-A100, in particular, is quite unusual.
The first reason the HX-A100 qualifies as unusual is the fact that it is a piece of headwear, not something carried in ... |
9 January 2013
04:07 GMT |
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A schoolgirl from Tam Ky, in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam is missing a year from school following a Facebook post who authorities believe “seriously insulted” the school system. Nguyen Thanh Vy, a student at Ly Tu Trong Secondary School, wrote a manifesto in which she “criticized the first term exam... |
9 January 2013
04:01 GMT |
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OS4, a custom Linux distribution compatible with Ubuntu and Debian Linux that aims for ease of use and user friendliness, has just reached version 13.2. The goal of OS4 is to offer users a Linux alternative to Windows and Mac OS that is just as simple and ready to use as its counterparts. Highlights of OS4 OpenDesk... |
9 January 2013
03:59 GMT |
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Capcom and Dontnod Entertainment have just posted a brand new gameplay video with their upcoming Remember Me action game, this time showing off protagonist Nilin as she explores a new area of Neo Paris and fights against one of the main villains of the game, a hulking behemoth called Kid Xmas.
Remember Me is one of ... |
9 January 2013
03:59 GMT |
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Google+ is already one of the best places on the web to showcase your photos so it's no surprise that it's becoming a favorite place for photographers, even the ones in space. Now, Google+ is getting another feature that should come in handy to those sharing high-resolution photos.
It's a small addit... |
9 January 2013
03:53 GMT |
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Gabe Newell, the leader of Steam creator Valve, believes that one of the main changes that could be implemented in the coming months is an expansion of the user-generated elements of the digital distribution service.
Speaking to The Verge, he says, “We think that the store should actually be more like user gen... |
9 January 2013
03:52 GMT |
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Roughly three weeks after Toutatis caused quite a media stir by coming fairly close to Earth, another space rock is set to pass by our planet this Wednesday.
This asteroid is roughly 900 feet (about 274.5 meters) wide, and specialists explain that, all things considered, it will remain at a distance of approximatel... |
9 January 2013
03:49 GMT |
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have a lot of planning to do these days. With their first baby on the way – she is about 13 weeks pregnant – the two have decided to move in together and have already purchased their own mansion.
It cost a whopping $11 million (€8.4 million) and will see them rubbing e... |
9 January 2013
03:40 GMT |
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Two new characters have just been confirmed for the upcoming Injustice: Gods Among Us fighting game, in the form of Lex Luthor and Bane, two of the most infamous super villains in the DC Comics universe. Injustice: Gods Among Us is going to appear later this year and is supposed to deliver a pretty interesting fight... |
9 January 2013
03:34 GMT |
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Hackers of the LulzSec Peru collective have breached and defaced the official website of Venezuela’s Ministry of Defense (or Ministry of Popular Power for the Defense).
The hacktivists altered the site’s main page to display the LulzSec logo.
The administrators of the midefensa.gob.ve website have remov... |
9 January 2013
03:33 GMT |
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A new update has emerged for Thunderbird email client. The new build is 17.0.2 and it brings to the table a small set of modifications designed to improve the functionality of the application. There are no new features available, only a brief list of repairs that include security fixes as well. One of the fixed bug... |
9 January 2013
03:33 GMT |
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Ross Gowing, the senior games designer working on GRID 2, believes that gamers appreciate quality over quantity when it comes to racing titles and wants to use the philosophy for his current project.
He tells CVG that, “we're really excited about showing the world the amount of attention we've paid t... |
9 January 2013
03:31 GMT |
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A man from Portland, Oregon, is to be arraigned next Tuesday, after allegedly assaulting a woman using his own dreadlocked hair. 32-year-old Caleb Grotberg, of Portland, was apprehended by police on Monday, January 7, at the 3200 block of Southeast 22nd Avenue. Someone had called 911 at 2:28 a.m. local time, ABC ... |
9 January 2013
03:29 GMT |
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The first Patch Tuesday fixes of 2013 also include a Surface firmware update that is supposed to fix some sound issues discovered on Microsoft’s first tablet in history.
According to a blog post on Microsoft’s support forums, Patch Tuesday comes with a few improvements for Surface with Windows RT, includ... |
9 January 2013
03:22 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices never actually released a Radeon HD 7990 video card, but that hasn't stopped its OEMs from launching dual-GPU boards independently. ASUS has just released the latest such card.
ASUS appears undaunted by the fact that the Sea Islands series have essentially been formally introduced by Adv... |
9 January 2013
03:19 GMT |
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Although Nokia has yet to officially confirm plans to launch its Windows Phone 8-based Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 in India, retailers in the country have already listed the two devices as up for pre-order.
The Mobile Store is one of them, having the two up for reservations now at Rs. 39,999 ($728 / €556) fo... |
9 January 2013
03:18 GMT |
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown was one of the most lauded video games of 2012 and the team working on it at Firaxis wants to keep it relevant in the new year by launching a piece of free downloadable content called Second Wave, with more on the way.
Jake Solomon, the leader of the team that created the turn-based tactical expe... |
9 January 2013
03:16 GMT |
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Just the other day, Piers Morgan got into a very heated discussion with Alex Jones on his CNN show on gun control but, as it turns out, he covers other, just as important issues as well. Like, say, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s unborn baby, aka Kimye the fetus. Above is a brand new video from Barely Politic... |
9 January 2013
03:14 GMT |
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Apple’s plan to dominate the smartphone market is moving forward, according to people who have been briefed on the company’s low-end iPhone about to launch later this year. An unlikely scenario for some, Apple’s launch of an inexpensive iPhone is said to occur sometime at the end of 2013. People w... |
9 January 2013
03:12 GMT |
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Earlier this week, a team of scientists made it public news that, after conducting a study that involved as many as 774 elderly Japanese-American male patients, they reached the conclusion that beta blockers have the potential to reduce an individual’s risks of developing Alzheimer's and/or other types of dement... |
9 January 2013
03:11 GMT |
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Valve boss Gabe Newell has talked openly about the oft-rumored Steam Box mini PC, saying that his company will make its own official version of the device and help other companies, like Xi3, create their own versions of it. Valve has won over many gamers with great franchises like Half-Life or Portal, but also with ... |
9 January 2013
03:07 GMT |
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Steam Box is a concept console from Valve and, according to Gabe Newell, it will be Linux-based, although it's not going be limited only to the open source solution. A lot of rumors have circulated before and during CES 2013 about a possible Steam console, including one about an interesting mini PC called Xi3. ... |
9 January 2013
03:01 GMT |
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An incident having occurred in Saudi Arabia is grabbing headlines internationally, as a 70-year-old man gets married to a 15-year-old girl, after paying the sum of $20,000 (€15,300) to her family. His young bride became discontent with her spouse and apparently ran away to her family. She returned to them, in A... |
9 January 2013
03:01 GMT |
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It’s a good thing that “The Twilight Saga” is over considering that not a year would pass without it getting a handful of Razzie nominations. 2013 is no exception, with the final installment in the vampire franchise leading the pack at the awards show no one wants to hear their name mentioned. For... |
9 January 2013
02:59 GMT |
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On Monday, Disney officially revealed its intentions to introduce a project called MyMagic+ at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. As part of this program, customers will be given RFID (radio-frequency identification) enabled wristbands that monitor their behavior and help enhance customer experience.
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9 January 2013
02:59 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Yahoo! Mail mobile client is now available for download for the owners of Android-based devices, namely version 2.0.6.
The new app release brings along a nice range of enhancements when compared to the previous flavor, while also resolving some of the issues previously discovered to affect it.
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9 January 2013
02:56 GMT |
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Valve’s CEO Gabe Newell has already criticized Windows 8 with several occasions, but this time he calls Microsoft’s latest operating system an “unusable” software.
Newell said in an interview with The Verge that Windows 8 is like a giant sadness that does nothing more than to affect sales of ... |
9 January 2013
02:52 GMT |
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Mozilla has just announced a new version of Firefox for Android devices is now available for download. Version 18 has just arrived on Google Play Store and promises lots of improvements and bug fixes.
According to Mozilla, the JavaScript performance is much faster via IonMonkey compiler. Moreover, the browser has be... |
9 January 2013
02:52 GMT |
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On Tuesday, wireless carrier O2 announced plans to bring the new Windows Phone 8-based Huawei Ascend W1 smartphone to its network in the UK.
The new device will be released as an entry-level device, though still offering powerful features and capabilities to its users, courtesy of its dual-core processor.
Huawei ... |
9 January 2013
02:42 GMT |
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The Second Wave free downloadable content for XCOM: Enemy Unknown introduces a host of new options for the single-player campaign, but some of them are only available to those who have finished the game on all possible difficulty levels. Jake Solomon, the leading developer working on XCOM: Enemy Unknown, tells Rock,... |
9 January 2013
02:39 GMT |
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Minecraft for Xbox 360 will receive a brand new patch soon enough, in the form of update 8, and developer 4J Studios has just revealed a few more details about its contents, confirming that it will finally bring a fix for the ongoing sleeping bug, while making other changes.
Minecraft for Xbox 360 has been a huge su... |
9 January 2013
02:32 GMT |
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Samsung's CES 2013 product collection is extensive, featuring normal TVs, OLED, Smart and Large 4K UHDTVs, touch-enabled refrigerators and, now, curved OLED TVs.
The reason the curved OLED TV wasn't included with the other OLED HDTVs was the fact that it is easy to mistake for a normal TV, from afar at le... |
9 January 2013
02:32 GMT |
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Parkersburg High School, in West Virginia, is getting the press' attention over a teacher's treatment of a student.
The boy with Asperger's syndrome was acting out in class, so the teacher decided to inflict the punishment of putting him inside a "bad kid fort."
Parents Beth Dean and Jeff Richards c... |
9 January 2013
02:30 GMT |
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Sony Mobile has recently unveiled its next Android flagship smartphone, the Xperia Z. Previously known as Sony Xperia Yuga, the handset has been confirmed to arrive in the UK in February. Aside from the fact that it comes with Jelly Bean platform and a stunning 5.0-inch full HD (1080p) display, Sony Xperia Z also bo... |
9 January 2013
02:29 GMT |
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Developers enrolled with Apple’s annual seeding programs can now download and test a new Mountain Lion beta which requires particular attention in core areas of the operating system, including wireless connections, graphics, and the Safari web browser. Released via the newly implemented OS X Software Update Se... |
9 January 2013
02:24 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Telstra is gearing up for the launch of Sony’s new Xperia Z flagship smartphone in Australia, and has already confirmed such plans.
No specific info on when the handset might be released has been provided, but users can already head over to the carrier’s website to register their int... |
9 January 2013
02:16 GMT |
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Chinese mobile phone maker Lenovo has made official at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas a new handset powered by an Intel processor, namely the IdeaPhone K900. The new device sports the new Clover Trail+ processor from Intel, which features two cores clocked in at 2GHz each. Furthermore, it will ar... |
9 January 2013
02:00 GMT |
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According to a new study, people between the ages of 50 and 70 who drink diet soda on a regular basis have an increased risk of developing depression.
More precisely, they are 31% more likely to sooner or later begin suffering with this medical condition than individuals who belong to the same age group but who mor... |
9 January 2013
01:49 GMT |
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After Huawei unveiled its Android high-end devices, the Ascend Mate and Ascend D2 at Consumer Electronics Show 2013 (CES), another Chinese handset maker has taken the wrap off its products, ZTE.
Although ZTE announced a few days ago plans to introduce its Android flagship, the Grand S, during CES 2013, the company d... |
9 January 2013
01:48 GMT |
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Microsoft has already announced that it was planning to kill Windows Live Messenger in early 2013, but the company has now confirmed that it would retire the service on March 15. The Redmond-based software firm is now sending emails to Windows Live Messenger users to inform them about the change, adding that China w... |
9 January 2013
01:44 GMT |
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Even though many important apps are still missing from the Windows Store, Microsoft claims that its new Windows 8 feature is growing up at a very fast pace, mostly thanks to developers who discover the benefits of creating software for this new platform.
Now Microsoft says that the number of apps available in the Wi... |
9 January 2013
01:27 GMT |
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With Microsoft usually remaining tight-lipped on the subject, analysts and retailers across the world have constantly criticized Windows 8, emphasizing that its UI changes keep consumers away. The Redmond-based technology company has decided to release some sales figures on Windows 8, as it tries to fight against al... |
9 January 2013
01:15 GMT |
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Microsoft has recently rolled out the first Patch Tuesday updates of 2013, trying to patch two critical vulnerabilities and five important flaws found in its software.
The first critical vulnerability, labeled by Microsoft as MS13-001, is actually a security flaw in the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 print spo... |
9 January 2013
00:53 GMT |
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