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Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil Speakers Touch application allowing iOS devices to stream content to one another over AirPlay was rejected and then approved back in the App Store after the developers agreed to remove the app’s key feature.It now only allows a few speaker manufacturers to access the streaming stand... |
9 June 2012
20:41 GMT |
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Lately there wasn’t much talk about AMD’s professional line of graphics card. The company seems to lack the will to make its professional solutions more popular unlike Nvidia is doing with their Quadro line.AMD seems to be leaving such marketing and announcements to its partners and Sapphire is happy to o... |
9 June 2012
20:01 GMT |
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The people behind the Growl project are not afraid of the upcoming Mountain Lion and its neat Notification Center borrowed from iOS.Far from it, actually. They’ve updated their longstanding system-wide notification app for Mac users, and they’re proudly touting this release as “a major overhaul.&rdq... |
9 June 2012
19:41 GMT |
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While not being displayed at this year’s Computex, WirelessAD chips already taped out and are being tested. The WirelessAD standard promises transfer speeds of 7 GB/s, but the technology will not replace WirelessN and WirelessAC.The 802.11ad wireless communication standard operates in the 60 GHz band and is mos... |
9 June 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Firefox 15 is out and it's a pretty nice update. If you're following the Aurora channel, chances are, you're a bit more knowledgeable than the average user so you may be interested to know that the dev tools in Firefox, which are already pretty good, have gotten a couple of really interesting features.... |
9 June 2012
18:21 GMT |
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Shortly after Research In Motion (RIM) announced the immediate availability of the BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9981 in Singapore, the Canadian company introduced the smartphone in Indonesia.Porsche Design and Research In Motion recently confirmed that the premium Porsche Design P’9981 smartphone will be ... |
9 June 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Intel has again showed their company’s mini system called Intel NUC. The device is only 4” by 4” in size and that’s about 98 millimeters by 98 for European miniPC fans.We’ve just presented VIA’s ARTiGO 1200 and the differences are considerable. Intel’s NUC Core i5 processor i... |
9 June 2012
16:58 GMT |
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Apple’s WWDC kicking off next Monday will discuss (among other things) Safari and WebKit, and how these have evolved to support a wide range of open web technologies, which developers are invited to use to create sophisticated UIs and interactions.Developers will learn how to implement their end results through... |
9 June 2012
16:41 GMT |
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A week ago, Facebook started allowing people to vote on whether to implement the new data retention policy and the new terms of service. It wasn't exactly Facebook's idea, but it went through with it despite having reservations about its success.Facebook had set the precedent for users voting on these docum... |
9 June 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Toshiba’s 19nm NAND flash technology has been demonstrated in SSD products using SandForce’s 2281 controller at this year’s Computex. These new memory chips should bring the SSD prices further down and, hopefully, will also maintain the NAND durability that has decreased dramatically since the times... |
9 June 2012
15:25 GMT |
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Firefox 15 has just landed in the Aurora channel, meaning it's ready for wider testing. One of the big new features is the built-in PDF viewer which is now good enough to be bundled with Firefox. But the latest Aurora has plenty of improvements under the hood as well. One of the big new features is support for t... |
9 June 2012
14:31 GMT |
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As expected, TELUS has just introduced the cheapest Android smartphone in the HTC One family, the One V.Customers can purchase the device beginning this weekend for as low as $30 CAD with a new three year agreement. Furthermore, TELUS offers customers the possibility to grab the HTC One V for $290 CAD off-contract.Ad... |
9 June 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Peter Daboll, CEO of ad-tracking firm Ace Metrix, is disappointed by Apple’s decision to bring in celebrities to promote Siri, and the iPhone 4S.According to Daboll, Apple’s latest TV spots featuring celebrities having the time of their lives with Siri, “[is] a departure for a company that typically... |
9 June 2012
14:21 GMT |
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E3 2012 took place this week and, despite hearing a lot of details about a wide range of games, the three large hardware manufacturers - Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft - have disappointed a large number of fans by playing everything safe and not making any truly huge announcements.Microsoft had already professed its ... |
9 June 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Chinese handset manufacturer Huawei and MetroPCS have teamed up to offer U.S. customers the former's first LTE-enabled smartphone.While this is not MetroPCS' first LTE smartphone, the Activa 4G is definitely the first of its kind manufactured by Huawei for the U.S. Market. Customers can purchase the handset... |
9 June 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Wine 1.5.6, a new development version of the famous framework used to run Windows applications on Linux, has been announced by Alexandre Julliard, the leader of the Wine project. Wine 1.5.6 brings some much needed updates and represents an important milestone in the development of Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator).Highl... |
9 June 2012
12:58 GMT |
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The affordable BlackBerry Curve 9350 smartphone has just made its debut at Cricket Wireless. The carrier now offers the handset for only $130 USD after instant and web discounts.No contracts are required, but customers can pair the smartphone with Cricket's $55 USD plan, which offers unlimited talk, text and mob... |
9 June 2012
12:31 GMT |
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phpMyFAQ is a PHP-driven web script for building, managing and publishing FAQ and documentation systems. A FAQ system is a collection of answers to common questions clients might have when using an app or service. phpMyFAQ is perfect for this, allowing webmasters to run more than one set of questions, organize them... |
9 June 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Despite rumors that Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on the next Xbox console - the oft-rumored Xbox 720 - the company is quite confident in the current device, the Xbox 360, which has at least two more great years ahead of it, according to the head of Microsoft's Game Studios, Phil Spencer.E3 2012 cam... |
9 June 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Everybody’s favorite note-taking application, Evernote, has been updated to version 3.1.2 which adds new file manipulation features, including the ability to rotate images from within the note editor.Via a bunch of right-click commands, Evernote users can now enable rotation of images from within the note edito... |
9 June 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds announced last evening, June 8th, the second Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.5 kernel. Linux kernel 3.5 RC2 contains updated drivers, fixes for x86 and PowerPC architectures, IRQ, timer and scheduler fixes, fixes for FUSE, EXT4, UBIfs, and CIFS filesystems, as well as some documentation upd... |
9 June 2012
10:35 GMT |
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While Samsung and HTC continue the global rollout of their Android flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S III and One X, Motorola plans to release another RAZR model.Rumors on the unannounced DROID RAZR HD emerged months ago, but Verizon and Motorola are still mum on the device. Although most of the details about the sma... |
9 June 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Every computer user needs to take a screen capture at least once, whether for work or for fun. This can be done using Onde Screen Capture, an application that allows you to take window, fullscreen or area captures with ease.
Making screen captures can be a hassle sometimes, especially if you want to grab a certain... |
9 June 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Calibre is one of the best eBook management software available right now, but its strength lies in the abundance of plugins available for it. This week we’ll take a look at an interesting plugin called EpubSplit. According to the developer, this plugin provides the ability to create new EPUBs by splitting par... |
9 June 2012
10:15 GMT |
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What do you get the guy who has everything? For Kanye West's 35th birthday, current girlfriend Kim Kardashian must have thought long and hard before going out shopping for a present – and eventually settled for a rare Lamborghini.
We're talking of the Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4, which sells for mo... |
9 June 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier US Cellular will provide its users with the possibility to purchase the latest flagship Android smartphone from Samsung – the Galaxy S III – before the end of this month.
In fact, the company is gearing up to make the phone available for pre-order as soon as next week, starting with... |
9 June 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Apple has prepared a surprise announcement for third-party developers next week. CEO Tim Cook, who will kick off the event with a keynote address, reportedly plans to unveil a software development kit geared towards coding apps for the company’s set-top box and, possibly, for a rumored, full-fledged television ... |
9 June 2012
09:30 GMT |
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Initially conceived as a prequel to the 1979 classic “Alien” but later transformed into a stand-alone project, “Prometheus” not only marks Ridley Scott's return to the genre he helped define and perfect, but also one of the most hotly anticipated releases of the year. Given the buzz aroun... |
9 June 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Activision has confirmed that it will soon announce a special Angry Birds HD title in a couple of weeks, which will arrive on consoles like the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360.
Angry Birds is a true global phenomenon, starting off as a small mobile game and quickly becoming a household name, while reaching other platforms... |
9 June 2012
08:31 GMT |
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The 2012 edition of the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam featured a world premier: for the first time ever the entire Chronic Dev Team got together. As many of our readers may already know from our HITB coverage, we’ve had the honor of interviewing the hackers to whom most people are grateful for being... |
9 June 2012
08:31 GMT |
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With Firefox 13 in the stable channel and Firefox 14 in beta, it was Firefox 15's turn to make the jump. Aurora users are now getting updated to the latest version of the browser that has spent the last six weeks in active development in the Nightly channel. Firefox 15 is already shaping up to be quite an inter... |
9 June 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Apple continues to install various banners inside San Francisco’s Moscone West, the latest of which confirms one key announcement about to be made at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference this next Monday.“We have a great WWDC planned this year and can’t wait to share the latest news a... |
9 June 2012
08:18 GMT |
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Micromax has silently launched a second Android phone after the release of A45 Punk, the A52. The latter is an affordable smartphone that comes with Gingerbread platform and dual-SIM capability. According to AndroidOS, Micromax A52 is now available for purchase for only Rs 5,990 (110 USD or 85 EUR) off-contract. The... |
9 June 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Critics have said that Justin Bieber's most recent live performance didn't really live up to his own hype. If you too happen to think so, his performance of “Boyfriend” in Germany might be just the thing to make you change your mind.
Justin and Adam Levine were the two musical guests on German... |
9 June 2012
07:14 GMT |
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This is getting confusing. We've been able to figure out that the new Twitter bird logo is actually Batman in disguise. Well, the other way around most likely. Now, perhaps in an effort to throw us off our tracks or in elaborate ruse to make us believe that the bird is Batman when in fact it is not, new eviden... |
9 June 2012
07:11 GMT |
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On the 29th of June, Singapore is expected to open the gates to the largest of the three gardens designed and created as part of the Gardens by the Bay project.
With a total area of 54 hectares (about 250 acres), the Bay South garden features a typical tropical landscape: quite a lot of flowers and climbing ferns.
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9 June 2012
07:07 GMT |
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One of the things that NASA engineers are most aware of when it comes to exploring the Red Planet, is that they need to come up with advanced deceleration technologies as soon as possible. Current techniques for cushioning the landing of spacecraft on Mars will simply not cut it anymore. By the early 2030s, the Ame... |
9 June 2012
07:03 GMT |
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Microsoft has the Xbox 360, Nintendo has the Wii, Sony has the PlayStation. In short, there definitely are game consoles to choose from. What buyers don't have a choice in the matter is what game pad they get to use after buying one. Normally, this wouldn't be much of a problem. Getting used to a controll... |
9 June 2012
07:01 GMT |
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She's one of the hottest pop stars on the British scene right now but, at the same time, her career is also bound to get fans divided. Cheryl Cole stopped by The Graham Norton Show to perform her latest single.
You can see a video of it above.
“Call My Name” is Cheryl's first release from th... |
9 June 2012
07:01 GMT |
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Windows 8 will arrive with improved connectivity capabilities, better social networking, and support for new, appealing applications, as well as with various media features, Microsoft says.
For a platform designed to power a new range of mobile computers, it was only natural for it to deliver great entertainment ca... |
9 June 2012
06:59 GMT |
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“Anonymous” and “sporting event” are the key words that bring together the incidents we are about to present. On one hand, the hacktivists have leaked around 3,000 data sets from Formula Tours, the other victim being the Kiev Euro 2012 Football Championship website (kieveuro2012.org) which the... |
9 June 2012
06:50 GMT |
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Globalfoundries is a relative newcomer on the semiconductor manufacturing industry, but that doesn't seem to be affecting the company's goals and hopes.
The foundry should be currently showing prospective contractors its 28nm manufacturing process. If it isn't doing that yet, it will probably get aro... |
9 June 2012
06:48 GMT |
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Experts at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in Greenbelt, Maryland, will soon begin installing the first science suite onto a newly-completed instrument deck, which will act as the basis for one of four satellites that will make up the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission.
The platform will host 25 se... |
9 June 2012
06:46 GMT |
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Charged with DUI the other day, Amanda Bynes thought she'd found her savior in President Barack Obama who, she believed, should fire the cop who arrested her. Not quite so, Anderson Cooper says on the latest issue of the RidicuList.
“If you don’t know who she is, join the club. She apparently used ... |
9 June 2012
06:45 GMT |
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Dropbox, the popular cloud storage service, has signed agreements with various mobile phone makers out there to provide their users with free storage offerings.
Samsung was one of these handset vendors, and the owners of a new Galaxy S III smartphone the lucky people to take advantage of the deal, which includes 50... |
9 June 2012
06:41 GMT |
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It’s time to get excited again as the new versions for Adobe Flash Player and AIR are out and deliver new capabilities.
The new version of AIR 3.3 SDK allows developers to build expressive mobile apps and native extensions that target iOS 5.1. The runtime integrates packaging support for iOS 5.1 on Windows and... |
9 June 2012
06:36 GMT |
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Microsoft has been long rumored to plan bringing the Metro user interface to more of its products, and some more info on the changes that Hotmail would suffer as part of this process hasjust emerged.
We already had the chance to have a look at some of the modifications that Microsoft was planning for the service to... |
9 June 2012
06:36 GMT |
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In June 2010, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the nearby galaxy Messier 99. Upon close inspection of the photo, astronomers found a bright flash of light that could not be readily explained. To this day, experts can't seem to agree on what that might be.
M99 was being surveyed because i... |
9 June 2012
06:36 GMT |
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Companies sometime abandon the market they started in, like Kodak has been forced to, but sometimes they come back.
Walton Chaintech, Chaintech for short, is the corporation showing signs of once again approaching its initial market segment: motherboards.
The company backed out of the market back in 2006, because... |
9 June 2012
06:32 GMT |
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Nokia 808 PureView was officially unveiled back in February at the Mobile World Congress trade fair and the Finnish company promised the smartphone will be launched on the market sometime in May.However, it appears that the handset maker was forced to delay the release of the Symbian smartphone for a few weeks, so i... |
9 June 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Those in favor of bioenergy claim that growing plants in order to produce biofuel absorbs sufficient amounts of CO2 to counteract the carbon emissions that result from refining and combusting the fuel.
However, two scientists from the University of Edinburgh argue that the development of the bioenergy industry does... |
9 June 2012
06:24 GMT |
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Windows Phone users who are so in love with their devices and the platform running on them that would like to spice up their lives with more Windows Phone goodies now have a reason to rejoice.
Microsoft has launched a brand new Windows Phone Gear Store on CafePress, providing them with the possibility to buy T-shir... |
9 June 2012
06:20 GMT |
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Since January this year, two short months after Kim Kardashian decided to divorce him, Kris Humphries found love again in the arms of another curvaceous brunette. He's now trying to gag her with a confidentiality agreement.
Some days ago, Kris and Myla (real name Fatmire Sinanaj) were photographed together for... |
9 June 2012
06:14 GMT |
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After LinkedIn revealed that the company is aided by authorities in analyzing the incident as a result of which millions of passwords have ended up online, eHarmony also released an updated statement saying that they’re doing the same.
“We have also been working with law enforcement authorities in our in... |
9 June 2012
06:09 GMT |
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It feels like “The Amazing Spider-Man” has been promoted for ages, considering how much footage Sony has been releasing from it. Yet, there's more: just check out the videos included with this blog post.
Ahead of its July 3 release, Sony has released a 25-minute B-roll documentary showing how some ... |
9 June 2012
05:55 GMT |
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We'd have expected E Ink to be the one to show us a new color e-paper screen, but that didn't happen. Instead, Fuji Xerox Co Ltd brought out a model at on the opening day of SID 2012 (June 3, 2012, in Boston, US).
There are three layers to this color e-paper. One of them is the “visible” one, t... |
9 June 2012
05:54 GMT |
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The Galaxy S III is not the only Samsung handset that has been recently making its entrance on the smartphone market. The South Korean company plans to release the Galaxy Beam unusual handset as well.Samsung Galaxy Beam is now “Coming Soon” at UK-based major retailer Carphone Warehouse, though there are n... |
9 June 2012
05:51 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a study conducted using the NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), it would appear that the solar neighborhood contains fewer failed stars called brown dwarfs than originally suspected.
Brown dwarfs are celestial bodies that blur the distinction between stars and gas giants... |
9 June 2012
05:40 GMT |
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This month, Internet giant Google is expected to unveil to the world its first tablet PC in the popular Google Nexus series.
The device has been long rumored to arrive on shelves with a 7-inch touchscreen display, a low price tag and to be manufactured by ASUS.
Recent reports also suggest that it might pack addit... |
9 June 2012
05:35 GMT |
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Although the majority of the world's nations are making plans to put nuclear energy behind them, the US openly admits to having decided to keep 71 of their reactors working for an additional 20 years.
In the aftermath of Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster from March 2011, European countries decided to shu... |
9 June 2012
05:31 GMT |
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Lindsay Lohan just totaled a rental Porsche after crashing into an 18-wheeler. She was driving the car and both she and her passenger, her personal assistant, were rushed to the hospital for investigations.
The actress was released some hours ago and, according to online reports, she was fine. She did not require m... |
9 June 2012
05:28 GMT |
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ASUS' Padfone started off as a smartphone with a special dock that allowed it to assume the role of a 10-inch tablet. A 24-inch all-in-one computer has now been added to the list. More precisely, ASUS brought the 24-inch ASUS Padfone Docking monitor to Computex 2012, as reported by Engadget. The phone dock i... |
9 June 2012
05:26 GMT |
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Samsung’s Galaxy S III Android flagship device was unveiled to the world with a quad-core application processor inside, complemented by 1GB of RAM.
Since this CPU did not offer support for LTE networks, Samsung announced a new version of the device to address that, with a Snapdragon dual-core processor and 2GB... |
9 June 2012
05:13 GMT |
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The official website of Wawa (wawa.com), the US convenience store and gas station chain, has been breached by UGNazi. The hackers defaced the site’s main webpage so users who wanted to access it were met by a screen that featured hackers’ logo and their names.
“We did this not only for the fame but... |
9 June 2012
05:05 GMT |
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While Intel's engineers are receiving honors for inventing 3D Tri-gate transistors, Samsung is setting up a new semiconductor fabrication line in Hwaseong, South Korea.
Since the semiconductor industry is still in a bit of a bind, chip makers have to step up their technological advancement.
UMC has already b... |
9 June 2012
05:03 GMT |
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Google’s mobile payment service for Android devices, Google Wallet, is reportedly set to receive a major update soon.
According to NFC Times, Google is working on Wallet 2.0, with focus on the cloud, which should carry payments, offers and promotions. Specific details are still unclear on this.
However, it ... |
9 June 2012
04:55 GMT |
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Officials with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announce that they have commissioned a new, state-of-the-art coastal mapping vessel yesterday, June 8. The ship is called Ferdinand R. Hassler, and was commissioned at the NOAA Marine Operations Center-Atlantic.
The sensitive seafloor data ... |
9 June 2012
04:45 GMT |
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Results of studies carried out on the topic of geothermal power in the UK indicate that the country's present geothermal resources could provide for 20% of the country's energy needs.
Although geothermal reserves seem to be spread throughout the entire British territory, the regions of Southwest England, ... |
9 June 2012
04:37 GMT |
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Researchers at the NASA Ames Research Laboratory (ARC), in California, are currently testing a 1/11th-scale model of an advanced aircraft, which could form the basis of a new generation of passenger transport aircraft.
The Advanced Model for Extreme Lift and Improved Aeroacoustics (AMELIA) features a weird design, a... |
9 June 2012
04:35 GMT |
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Last.fm has released another update regarding the recently discovered incident. The details provided by the company don’t contain any useful information, but according to one user the list might have been leaked more than one year ago.
The Twitter user CrackMeIfYouCan, who is apparently the individual that ran... |
9 June 2012
04:25 GMT |
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Epic Games finally unveiled to the public the first video with its Unreal Engine 4 yesterday, showing off the impressive next generation technology and some of the visual effects it's capable of rendering. Now, the studio has posted a batch of screenshots that depict the level of detail rendered by the technolog... |
9 June 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Officials at the NASA John C. Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi, announce the successful completion of a new series of rocket firings, meant to test the performances of the J-2X motor.
The engine will power up the upper stage of the American space agency's Space Launch System (SLS), a heavy-lift rocket that... |
9 June 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Not too long ago, mobile phone maker Motorola was rumored to plan the release of a new series of devices on the networks of AT&T and Verizon in the United States, and new details on the matter have emerged.
There was a certain device codenamed “Dinara” included among the rumored handsets for these carri... |
9 June 2012
04:05 GMT |
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The press has been going on and on about Intel's new CPUs and their new transistors, but few people have been interested in learning just how the company came up with them. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers did look into it though. In fact, IEEE reached the conclusion that the two engineers... |
9 June 2012
03:55 GMT |
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Recent developments in California's legislation include the decision to invest in making renewable energy sources more readily-available to the general public, with special emphasis placed on installing more rooftop solar panels.
Studies show that, at the present moment, California's economy is largely su... |
9 June 2012
03:37 GMT |
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Bethesda was showing three things at E3 2012 and, despite the promise of The Elder Scrolls Online and the old-school feel of the upgraded Doom, its best future launch is Dishonored, the first-person assassin title from Arkane.
Initially, the two co-directors of the game showed two very different ways of running thro... |
9 June 2012
03:31 GMT |
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Chinese mobile phone maker ZTE has made official another new device for its homeland market, the ZTE Tania, which runs under Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. The handset was announced for China Unicom, and it features a series of small enhancements when compared to the initially unveiled specificat... |
9 June 2012
03:11 GMT |
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Epic Games has released a brand new video for its upcoming Gears of War: Judgment game, this time showing off the all-new OverRun mode, which is basically a combination between the Horde and Beast modes from last year's Gears of War 3.Gears of War: Judgment was revealed last week but it received a full array of ... |
9 June 2012
01:21 GMT |
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In between other big games being shown off at Microsoft’s E3 2012 press conference, Harmonix revealed Dance Central 3, the next iteration in its hugely successful dancing franchise.Dance Central was among the first blockbuster Kinect games, with Harmonix delivering a great experience, even if it was a bit clunk... |
9 June 2012
00:31 GMT |
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