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Startup nbryte has announced an iPad accessory via Kickstarter.com to eliminate arm fatigue for people using their tablets for long video sessions. A recent Nielson survey has found that some of the heaviest use of tablet devices takes place while lying in bed. However, many people complain about the weight of the i... |
9 July 2012
20:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is applying the latest touches to its Windows Phone 8 platform, there’s no doubt about that. The company unveiled the new platform a few weeks ago, and is expected to have smartphones running under it available for purchase before the end of this year. Apparently, the software giant is advancing fa... |
9 July 2012
19:51 GMT |
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Nintendo has apparently confirmed that the Wii U’s online store and the 3DS’ eShop would have unified accounts, meaning owners of both consoles are going to be able to buy items digitally without having to create multiple accounts. Nintendo’s online efforts haven’t been that impressive, as bo... |
9 July 2012
19:31 GMT |
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The development team at Netherrealm Studios, best known for their work on the Mortal Kombat franchise, have offered an extensive demo of their upcoming Injustice: Gods Among Us, allowing those interested to watch close to 15 minutes of gameplay.
Ed Boon, the leader of the company, narrates the entire video and talks... |
9 July 2012
19:21 GMT |
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Unveiled back in March, Sony Xperia neo L has just hit shelves in China. This is the first Sony Xperia smartphone to come with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich onboard. According to the folks over at GSMInsider, the Xperia neo L can now be purchased in the Mainland for only 1699 Yuan (265 USD or 215 EUR) outright. Al... |
9 July 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Customers attempting to download OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion when it’s released this month will have their systems screened by the Mac App Store before Apple charges any credit cards, according to a new report. 512 Pixels reports that “some people have had the App Store balk at downloading 10.8 betas on mach... |
9 July 2012
18:31 GMT |
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UK publisher Reef Entertainment has confirmed that it would showcase at the upcoming Gamescom 2012 expo Rambo: The Video Game, a title based on the iconic soldier and his adventures. Rambo was made famous by the array of movies starring Sylvester Stallone, but the franchise has also seen the release of two games, bo... |
9 July 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Civilization IV is still one of the games I fire up regularly at home, using the excellent Dune Wars mod, but the fifth full game in the turn-based strategy series has never managed to capture my attention in similar fashion.I always felt like something was missing and then I remembered that even the mighty Civ IV wa... |
9 July 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Samsung’s Galaxy S III, the latest flagship Android-based device from the South Korean mobile phone maker, comes to the market with great sharing features, in addition to other capabilities. The smartphone, available in a wide range of markets around the world, including the United States, provides users with... |
9 July 2012
18:21 GMT |
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Another Android-based mobile phone from Sony has received the necessary approvals from the FCC, namely the Xperia acro S. The handset, made official a few months ago, was granted GCF certification last week and is now approved for use in the United States. The FCC listing shows that Sony's Xperia acro S comes... |
9 July 2012
18:01 GMT |
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The development team at Certain Affinity has announced that it is working on the Forge mode for Halo 4, which will allow players to edit content linked to the game and deliver their own maps.
The development studio is based in Austin and has previous experience working on a number of Halo map packages in the past.
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9 July 2012
17:41 GMT |
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A host of unannounced Nokia smartphones made an appearance online during the past several days, courtesy of leaked info coming from the company’s Remote Device Access service. Apparently, the company is currently working on more than one new Windows Phone, and is set to launch both new high-end devices and en... |
9 July 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Even if retail distribution is losing ground in front of digital one, Sony believes that brick-and-mortar stores will be crucial to the success of the next generation consoles, when they’re, eventually, released onto the market. The gaming industry isn't doing that great nowadays, with sharp declines regi... |
9 July 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Video conferencing expert, Vidyo Inc. today showcased software that has the ability to deliver five megapixel multipoint Vidyo conferences with data collaboration on the new MacBook Pro with Retina display. Vidyo’s software has the ability to render a mix of 1080p and 720p video streams, and up to 5MP data sha... |
9 July 2012
17:11 GMT |
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It took Samsung a long time to realize that its Galaxy S could not be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. However, due to overwhelming negative feedback, the South Korean company decided to make a compromise and offer Galaxy S owners a glimpse of what Ice Cream Sandwich has to offer. Based... |
9 July 2012
17:11 GMT |
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So far, most of the 4 TB HDDs we've seen are external, USB-connected models, but there are a few SATA ones as well, which means that it was about time NAS devices got up to speed with that capacity. Thecus is one of the companies supplying consumers and small and medium businesses with network-attached storage ... |
9 July 2012
16:51 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, Microsoft unveiled to the world its own tablet PCs running under the Windows 8 platform, and many users wondered whether a handset powered by Windows Phone 8 would also emerge. Microsoft already confirmed that it did not have such plans, but that did not prevent enthusiasts from dreaming of such as d... |
9 July 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion will bring to the market devices powered by its BlackBerry 10 operating system only next year, after targeting late 2012 as the initial launch timeframe for them. According to the company’s CEO Thorsten Heins, the reason behind this push back is a simple one: bet... |
9 July 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Video game developer EA Sports says that it is ready to move its entire stable of sports-based franchises towards a free-to-play model in the coming year, allowing players to use microtransactions in order to get the content they want.
Andrew Wilson, who is leader of the EA Sports label, has told Gamasutra that, &ld... |
9 July 2012
16:31 GMT |
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This could be the news fans have been praying for ever since Destiny's Child broke up so that the girls could each pursue a solo career. In a new interview, their manager Matthew Knowles says a reunion is very likely.
While one has been the subject of speculation for years now, Mr. Knowles is actually pretty c... |
9 July 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Nokia is pushing its Lumia devices to the front as often as it can, and it seems that it has every right to do so. The phones are great options for users of all kinds, the company notes, adding that businesses can also take advantage of their features when necessary. In fact, the company is suggesting that Lumia de... |
9 July 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Sony has confirmed that the beta stage for LittleBigPlanet Karting would kick off tomorrow, July 10, on the PlayStation 3 platform. The LittleBigPlanet series has been quite successful across an array of platforms, from the PS3 to the PSP and is currently getting ready for its debut on the PlayStation Vita. Besides... |
9 July 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Windows 8, the next-generation operating system from Microsoft, is officially set to arrive on shelves in late October, and will benefit from wide availability all around the world.
Today, Microsoft’s Windows Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer Tami Reller confirmed that at the annual Worldwid... |
9 July 2012
15:31 GMT |
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It looks like Bell won’t be the only carrier to introduce the LG Optimus L5 in Canada. According to the latest hearsay, the Android smartphone is set to arrive at Bell on July 13.
However, the folks over at MobileSyrup have been tipped on the upcoming launch of the Optimus L5 at Virgin Mobile as well.
Even t... |
9 July 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Since Hollywood has turned its attention to the classics, all of which it's either remaking or rebooting, “RoboCop” could not have escaped its notice. Above is the first video from a newly launched viral campaign for the remake. Directed by Jose Padilha and starring Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Samu... |
9 July 2012
15:21 GMT |
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American Reunion, the successor to the American Pie series and (maybe) the last installment, managed to keep a hold of the first place in the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent. It debuted in the previous week, straight at number one, and is still going strong.
Elsewhere in the top 10 collected by TorrentFr... |
9 July 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Developer Telltale Games has issued an official apology to the fan base for the delays linked to the second episode of its The Walking Dead series and has promised that the third piece of content will certainly be launched on all platforms during August.
A blog post from the company states, “Although we can&rs... |
9 July 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Kate Upton, one of the latest Sports Illustrated cover girls, is also one of the most controversial models of the day: a self-styled catwalk queen, she is far from the standard model, in that she weighs more. It is precisely this what's wrong with her. Those who are familiar with the thinspiration movement mus... |
9 July 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone users who would like to grab a new Windows Phone handset from Nokia now have the possibility to purchase the Nokia Lumia 710 smartphone from Videotron. The wireless carrier has been long touting the availability of this smartphone on its network and even put it on a coming soon page recently. ... |
9 July 2012
14:51 GMT |
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T-Mobile USA has yet to confirm the exact release of the Samsung Galaxy Note. Previous rumors pointed to a possible June 25 official announcement and a July 3 appearance on the carrier’s “Coming Soon” webpage.However, the latest hearsay suggests that T-Mobile USA won’t be releasing the Galaxy ... |
9 July 2012
14:31 GMT |
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With the new Spider-Man now in theaters, Marc Webb's reboot “The Amazing Spider-Man,” it's time to take a few minutes to remember the original trilogy, the franchise that actually made it all possible for today's superhero films. Without a doubt, none of today's superhero movies woul... |
9 July 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Square Enix and IO Interactive have posted two new videos in order to promote their upcoming Hitman: Absolution title, this time focusing on the mysterious Saints group and showing off the voice actress for the leader of the assassination squad, Vivica Fox. Hitman: Absolution received a rather controversial cinemati... |
9 July 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Borderlands 2 will not get an official Software Development Kit, but the player community is encouraged to try and mod the game in different ways once it is out.
Randy Pitchford, the boss of Gearbox, has said during a Rezzed session that, “There was a moment after Borderlands shipped where we thought about rel... |
9 July 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Chrome 21 has graduated to the beta channel. Unlike other recent releases, this Chrome actually has some things to brag about, though they may sound a bit technical.Google Chrome 21 boasts support for getUserMedia a API which enables websites to get access to a user's webcam or microphone without the need of any... |
9 July 2012
14:11 GMT |
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The following tutorial will teach Linux users how to install the Mass Effect 3 game on their open source operating system. The third installment in the Mass Effect franchise, Mass Effect 3, is an action role-playing game (RPG) developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts. For more details about Mass Effec... |
9 July 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Above is a brand new, 13-minute featurette for “The Dark Knight Rises,” which is scheduled for theatrical release on July 20. It contains plenty of details on the characters and some spoilers for the plot. The video shows director Chris Nolan shooting action scenes, talking about the incredible cast he ... |
9 July 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Major carrier AT&T has just announced the upcoming availability of a couple of new improvements for its international prepaid plans.
According to the carrier, customers who choose the $25 per month GoPhone plan will be able to take advantage of unlimited texting to Canada, Mexico and 100 other countries. This new f... |
9 July 2012
13:31 GMT |
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OCZ has formally introduced the Z-Drive R4 series of PCI Express enterprise solid state drives months ago, but that same series of storage devices is making the news again, thanks to a newly gained functionality. The SSDs have been paired with the VXL software and have apparently acquired the ability to significant... |
9 July 2012
13:31 GMT |
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This week, we’ll see a new BOGO (Buy One Get One) deal launched at T-Mobile, the latest reports on the matter suggest. The promotion should kick off on July 11th, and will include a wide range of smartphones from Samsung, with service activations on any Value or Classic plan. Upgraders can benefit from the de... |
9 July 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Plugins, extensions and scripts that mess with the web at large have been around from the early beginnings. But that doesn't mean there's no innovation in this field. fontBomb is exactly what it sounds like, but don't let that fool you, it's inexplicably fun in practice.
Essentially, you use a bo... |
9 July 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Colorful appears to be dead set on making an impact in the high-end gaming and overclocking market. We’ve just presented their Colorful Shark Bionic Cooler here and now the first card using the design has been snapped in photos.
Nvidia’s GTX 670 GPU is the chip getting the Shark Bionic iGame makeover and... |
9 July 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Nokia has just announced the upcoming availability of the pink-themed Nokia Lumia 900 smartphone in the United States.
As expected, the smartphone will be exclusively available through AT&T’s brick and mortar stores, as well as online. Customers who want to purchase the pink Lumia 900 will be able to do so sta... |
9 July 2012
13:01 GMT |
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The development team at CS1 working on the upcoming Yakuza 5 have revealed some information on the taxi-based missions that the game will offer via Kazuma Kiryu, the character who was once a gang leader and has since decided to go into retirement.
Players will need to pick up clients and then follow their directions... |
9 July 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Windows 8, the next-generation operating system from Microsoft, is currently available in a pre-release flavor for people all around the world to take it for a spin for free. This is the same approach that Microsoft used for Windows 7, allowing users to get a taste of the product before it even reached shelves, so a... |
9 July 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Users in the United States interested in the purchase of a new Windows Phone handset from Nokia don’t have that many options to go with, though this might change soon. The Finnish mobile phone maker is gearing up for the launch of Windows Phone handsets on Verizon’s network, after having them available ... |
9 July 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Although Verizon delayed the launch of the Galaxy S III once again, Samsung has already released the smartphone’s source code.
A few days after officially confirming the availability of the device in July, Verizon backtracked and said the Galaxy S III would not hit shelves until July 12.
However, several cust... |
9 July 2012
12:31 GMT |
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HTC’s latest Android smartphones are great devices, especially courtesy of their powerful application processors, yet it seems that some people believe that they might have more to offer. Thus, some enthusiasts took the HTC One X smartphone that is currently available in the US on AT&T’s network and in ... |
9 July 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Currently, hospital-acquired infections pose an extreme danger for patients committed in these institutions. The surfaces doctors, patients and visitors come into contact with are the main vector of propagation, so researchers are currently interested in learning if other surfaces may prevent infections.Hospitals are... |
9 July 2012
12:05 GMT |
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Sony’s Xperia ion smartphone is set to arrive on shelves at Rogers in Canada in the near future, and it seems that it might be an exclusive to this wireless carrier. Rogers has announced plans to carry the smartphone last week, but it did not offer specific info on the launch. However, a leaked internal doc... |
9 July 2012
12:01 GMT |
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For any projects where you might need a graphical representation of statistical data, we recommend pChart, an OOP PHP library for plotting graphs via a web server.
In our “Script of the Day” series, we have previously highlighted some JavaScript and HTML5 charting utilities, which, even if very useful an... |
9 July 2012
12:01 GMT |
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According to a number of physicists, the results recently produced by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and its Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which seem to reveal the Higgs boson, may in fact point to two other particles.
In other words, beside the fifth boson, there are two more particles that m... |
9 July 2012
11:55 GMT |
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The fight against piracy is a tough one. Especially when you're constantly finding new targets to fight. It doesn't really matter if they have anything to do with piracy, every little bit counts, right?
Probably not, but don't tell the anti-piracy groups around the world that. Not that they care that... |
9 July 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Astronomers were recently able to capture the first image ever of a supernova shock wave making its way through the gaseous cocoon that surrounded the exploded star. This was made possible through the use of the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Using the amazing capabilities of the CXO, a team of experts managed to p... |
9 July 2012
11:38 GMT |
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There is a new version available for download for Wise Disk Cleaner. Most of the entries in the change log are improvements and optimizations, but there is also a new scheduling task type, which is set at log on.
As far as improvements are concerned, Wise Disk Cleaner 7.54 brings to the table advanced cleaning secur... |
9 July 2012
11:24 GMT |
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Made official in early May, Samsung Galaxy S III hit shelves in Romania at the beginning of June.
Although the smartphone comes with Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich platform onboard, it appears that Samsung decided to push a maintenance update one month after the phone’s launch.
The update has already been ... |
9 July 2012
11:16 GMT |
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San Francisco State University (SFSU) investigators recently took a closer look at the types of meditation people choose to perform, and determined that the most popular methods are not necessarily the most well-suited for an individual's particular needs or desires.
The team believes that people who say medit... |
9 July 2012
11:13 GMT |
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Even as the threat of mass Apple lawsuits looms on the horizon, Intel is pushing ahead with its ultrabook plans, faster and more boldly than any of its OEMs.
Intel finally agreed to cut the price of one or more Core i3 ultrabook CPUs, since the alternative was to give up on too many other features.
This made us t... |
9 July 2012
11:12 GMT |
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According to one of Apple’s former engineers, Matt Drance, a developer trying to get Apple’s attention, has to follow five relatively simple steps. One of them is to make a video of their app in action and try not to goof around too much.
Quoted in a Cultofmac piece, Drance says one of the first things y... |
9 July 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Today, Redmond-based software giant Microsoft announced plans to acquire Perceptive Pixel Inc. (PPI), a leading developer of multi-touch display solutions. The two companies have entered a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will incorporate the PPI, a leader in the research, development and production of mu... |
9 July 2012
10:58 GMT |
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We finished writing the relevant information pertaining to the 11.6-Inch Stylistic Q702 hybrid tablet, so now we can take our time with the other slate Fujitsu introduced at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. Featuring 10-finger multitouch support, the frameless 13.3-inch HD+ (1,600 x 900 pixels) anti-glar... |
9 July 2012
10:53 GMT |
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No Doubt is back and getting ready to take the world by storm once more. In anticipation of the release of their brand new single “Settle Down,” the band has released a sneak peek of it. The four bandmembers shot the video last week, and it's now being processed for a July 16 release. The album i... |
9 July 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Scammers pretending to be from Microsoft are once again attempting to fool users into paying them for alleged tech support services.
In a recent variant spotted by Avast!, the fraudsters try to convince potential victims to install Ammyy Admin, a completely legitimate tool designed for remote administration.
As al... |
9 July 2012
10:48 GMT |
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Just recently, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization released a report clearly stating that 30% of our planet’s present marine fish stocks are over-exploited, and that illegal fishing activities play a major part in this being so.
Moreover, 50% of the remainder are exploited at their fullest, so the overall figu... |
9 July 2012
10:46 GMT |
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Scientists at the University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology (ION), in the United Kingdom, announce the development of a new method for improving attention in patients who suffer from strokes.
According to the researchers, administering the drug rotigotine through a skin patch helps solve inattention i... |
9 July 2012
10:44 GMT |
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When you're making millions off your reality shows, endorsement deals and fashion empire, it's probably no big thing to cover a baby in diamonds – which is precisely what Kim Kardashian is doing to Beyonce and Jay-Z's daughter Blue Ivy Carter. The Enquirer claims in its latest print issue (story... |
9 July 2012
10:39 GMT |
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The launch of a stable version for Total Commander 8.01 seems to be getting closer as the developer rolled out the third release candidate, which includes a small batch of repairs. Most of the fixes refer to both the 64-bit and the 32-bit variant of the file manager, but some of them are particular to the former. Su... |
9 July 2012
10:38 GMT |
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Thermaltake has decided to update its well-known Big Typhoon cooler design in the light of hot CPUs coming from Intel and AMD in the following months. AMD is getting ready to launch the new FX Vishera processor like we reported here, and Intel will likely follow with an Ivy Bridge based hexa-core CPU. The new Therma... |
9 July 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Shortly after the RedHack hacktivist collective breached the website of Turkey’s Foreign Ministry, the country’s officials announced that they would put the group on the list of terrorist organizations.
After hearing the news, Anonymous has released a statement to show its support for RedHack.
“Th... |
9 July 2012
10:33 GMT |
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On June 29, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit blocked sales of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus due to an Apple patent infringement.
Although the smartphone was added by Google onto its Google Play store, the phone was banned from sale after a short time.
Fortunately, it only took Samsung and Google several days... |
9 July 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Gearbox Software, the developer of the upcoming Borderlands 2 first-person shooter, has revealed that it would love to bring the game onto the PlayStation Vita handheld platform but only if Sony handled the porting process.
Borderlands 2 is awaited by many gamers across the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 platforms this Septe... |
9 July 2012
10:31 GMT |
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During the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Fujitsu officially introduced a pair of tablets that business users might find interesting: the Stylistic Q702 and Lifebook T902. Here, we will only analyze the former. We will write of the Lifebook T902 at length in a different article. The first thing to note a... |
9 July 2012
10:29 GMT |
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Borderlands 2 might be just a few months away and developer Gearbox is currently offering more and more information about it, but the first game in the series was a big risk that could have led to the demise of the company.
Randy Pitchford, the leader of the Gearbox development team, tells the audience at Rezzed tha... |
9 July 2012
10:27 GMT |
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The Siberian tiger is one of this planet's endangered species, so naturally each and every one of them is crucial for safeguarding our world's biodiversity.
Therefore, when two Siberian tiger cubs were abandoned by their mother, which simply refused to feed them any longer, zoo keepers were left worrying ... |
9 July 2012
10:19 GMT |
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Two years ago, a team of scientists published a research paper revealing the existence of what the scientists in the group termed an extraordinary bacterium. The organism used arsenic instead of phosphorus, and was therefore remarkable. Two new studies cast doubt on these discoveries.
Back in 2010, following an ext... |
9 July 2012
10:17 GMT |
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It appears that Samsung has just started to roll out the Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich update for Galaxy S II. However, the update is currently available in Russia, but more countries will get it as well.
According to the folks over at Sammyhub, Android 4.0.4 ICS for Samsung Galaxy S II (I9100) is now available f... |
9 July 2012
10:17 GMT |
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Today at its annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Microsoft shared some more information on the upcoming availability of Windows 8. The company confirmed that the next-generation platform would be released to manufacturing in the first week of August, so that its partners would have enough time to get th... |
9 July 2012
10:11 GMT |
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On July 9th, Canonical announced that a vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel packages, this time affecting the OMAP4 kernel of the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system.
The CVE-2012-2375 Linux kernel vulnerability affects Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) OMAP4. As usual, you can click on the link to s... |
9 July 2012
10:09 GMT |
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During the monsoon season, a lot of India's frogs end up being killed by poachers, in spite of their being an endangered species and therefore under the law’s protection.
However, environmentalists and conservationists will be glad to hear that forest department officials in this part of the world recently dec... |
9 July 2012
09:59 GMT |
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digiKam, a digital photo management application for KDE and Linux that includes an image editor for photo corrections and manipulation, is now at version 2.7.0. Highlights of digiKam 2.7.0: · Fading between photo's in diashow has been fixed; · Zoom reset in Image view for each downloaded image h... |
9 July 2012
09:58 GMT |
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On July 6, an unknown number of Acronis customers were notified of a technical issue as a result of which a spreadsheet containing their email addresses and product upgrade serial numbers ended up being indexed by Google.
According to the email sent out to users, only 14 people accessed the file while it was publicl... |
9 July 2012
09:58 GMT |
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Notepad++ reached a new version number recently, one that contains significant bug fixes, three of them being of critical importance. In build 6.15 of the application, the developer repairs an HTML tag match that caused the Notepad++ to freeze up. The sidebar splitter would fail on Windows 8 operating system, but in... |
9 July 2012
09:58 GMT |
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The only big launch of the week is NCAA Football 13, the EA Sports title designed to simulate the American football game at the college level.Players often look at the title as a sign of the core changes that will be introduced in the much bigger Madden NFL installment for the year, to be launched on August 28 on the... |
9 July 2012
09:53 GMT |
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Thunderbird will no longer be developed by Mozilla, that much is certain. But that doesn't mean that the open-source outfit is abandoning all development on the desktop email client. Instead, Mozilla is committing itself to releasing security and stability updates for the foreseeable future.
But it won't b... |
9 July 2012
09:53 GMT |
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ESPN has already launched several Android applications in the Google Play store, but all seem to be ports of the iOS versions.
The same goes for the ESPN Radio application that was launched on the Android platform a while back. However, this is about to change as the developers decided to overhaul the application&rs... |
9 July 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Officials at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announce the beginning of the new Integrated Hypersonics (IH) program, an effort to restore the supremacy of the US Air Force (USAF) on any battlefield.
The agency was one of the main drivers that led to the development of stealth technology for ... |
9 July 2012
09:40 GMT |
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AMD has been very modest in performance predictions about its new “Steamroller” x86 core design. The company is touting a 10% improvement over “Bulldozer” architecture, but real life benchmarks with 3.8GHz “Trinity” processor and overclocked 3.8 GHz FX 8150 CPU has exposed some rea... |
9 July 2012
09:40 GMT |
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Judge Colin Birss has ruled in a British court today that Samsung’s tablets are simply not cool enough for Apple to claim they infringe on design patents owned by the Cupertino, California-based giant. “(Samsung's tablets) do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by... |
9 July 2012
09:37 GMT |
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Last week we reported that fake ADP Security Management emails were making the rounds, luring users to malware-serving websites.
Today, on July 9, a new variant has been spotted, warning recipients that their certificates are about to expire.
Apparently originating from adp_netsecure@adp.com, the shady notificatio... |
9 July 2012
09:30 GMT |
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In an attempt to solve one major issue EV owners currently have to face – the fact that they can't drive over long distances without having to stop and re-charge – a team of researchers developed a way to “feed” electricity to such cars through their tires.
The experiment was conducted ... |
9 July 2012
09:28 GMT |
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Process Hacker is nifty process manager that can replace Windows Task Manager altogether. Recently, the application updated to version 2.28, which carries plenty of improvements and fixes over the previous release. The current revision includes updates for the following plugins: DotNetTools (improved accuracy for st... |
9 July 2012
09:23 GMT |
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She's finally here: the Kardashians have welcomed another member into their midst. Penelope Scotland Disick, daughter of Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick, who was born over the weekend in LA, is healthy and happy. Despite a report claiming the same a couple of weeks ago, it's just now that Kourtney ge... |
9 July 2012
09:19 GMT |
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The Commodore 64 is unusual by default, being a remake of the original keyboard PC, but we have clear proof that it can become much stranger still. Jeri Ellsworth put her imagination to the test when thinking up a way to more easily record and edit herself playing the guitar. In the end, she took the neck of a ba... |
9 July 2012
09:14 GMT |
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The breakaway is one of the most interesting “mechanics” of cycling as a sport and I plan to talk about them a little because one will probably feature heavily in both the real world and the virtual versions of Stage 8 of Le Tour.
A breakaway, as the name implies, represents a group of riders (as small a... |
9 July 2012
09:06 GMT |
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It appears that Nokia bets everything on the Windows Phone platform. The Finnish handset maker launched the Lumia 710 and 800 in India for quite a while, but due to low sales it decided to kick off an interesting promotion.
Dubbed “Amazing Money Back Challenge” is aimed at customers who are not sure whet... |
9 July 2012
09:06 GMT |
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Some 300,000 people may discover that their internet connection has stopped working sometime today. Those people were all infected with the DNSChanger trojan at some point and may still be infected now.
As the name of the trojan implies, it messed with the DNS settings on computers, bypassing the default DNS' ... |
9 July 2012
09:04 GMT |
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Astronomers handling the data flowing out from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory have just published a new image collected by the world's most complex telescope. The dataset covers the Vela C region, one of four such areas in the much-larger Vela Complex.
The latter is a stellar... |
9 July 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Jean-Pierre Lesueur, aka DarkCoderSc, the developer of the infamous DarkComet remote administration tool (RAT) has revealed his intentions to terminate the project. The decision comes after the application has been found to be misused on numerous occasions.
“It is with deep regret that i am here to announce th... |
9 July 2012
09:00 GMT |
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Mozilla is gearing up for the launch of its own mobile operating system, which should land on shelves sometime in early 2013. Called Firefox OS, the platform would be loaded on handsets coming from various partners, Mozilla has confirmed. Moreover, Rob Hawkes, a technical evangelist at Mozilla, has published a phot... |
9 July 2012
08:57 GMT |
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In a strange move, BMW decided to enter the gadget market, and we’re not talking about mini cars or wrist watches. In this case, the famous car maker decided to market a new series of USB thumb drives that look like an original BMW car key. We thought that the times where many ladies were impressed by a keycha... |
9 July 2012
08:50 GMT |
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This August, conspiracy theorists were supposed to finally get the chance to see in theaters a movie they'd been expecting for years. Directed by Keith Allen, the documentary “Unlawful Killing,” tackled the death of Princess Diana and offered answers – but it has now been shelved permanently. ... |
9 July 2012
08:43 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 9 can deliver a more beautiful web, the Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has been touting since about two years ago. The application, launched in beta in 2010 for Windows 7 computers, and available for Windows Vista as well, is seen as a truly modern browser, capable of delivering a great ex... |
9 July 2012
08:40 GMT |
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We've only just finished writing about an Apple-Samsung lawsuit and there’s already another demanding our attention, involving Sharp, Dell and two others. Sharp's TFT business in North America and Europe has come under fire from Dell and a pair of other plaintiffs. The motives are unclear, as are ... |
9 July 2012
08:37 GMT |
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This year's International Coral Reef Symposium (9-13 July) brought together countless marine biologists and zoologists, most of whom agree on the following pressing issue: unless something is soon done to safeguard coral reefs worldwide, global economy might also end up being affected. Thus, about 2,600 top sp... |
9 July 2012
08:36 GMT |
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The London Olympics will likely become the most watched sporting event in history, but that's not entirely because of TV coverage. Fans will be able to see pretty much every event, in the US at least; but it won't be on TV, it's going to be online.
NBC, who has the rights to the games in the US will b... |
9 July 2012
08:35 GMT |
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Microgravity research conducted by experts at the European Space Agency (ESA) could finally enable research groups around the world to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of foams. The knowledge could benefit the food industry, as well as cooks trying to create complex dishes.
Getting a chocolate mousse right,... |
9 July 2012
08:34 GMT |
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Sony has revealed quite a few new details about its upcoming PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale fighting game, this time unveiling two new characters – Heihachi Mishima from the Tekken franchose and Sony Mascot Toro Inoue, as well as a pre-order bonus and a release date. PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale wa... |
9 July 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Phishing scams are not new and neither are fake surveys that promise fabulous prizes to anyone willing to click on a few links. However, a new scheme seen on Facebook combines the two in an attempt to steal login credentials and redirect unsuspecting users towards websites that earn the fraudsters a commission.
This... |
9 July 2012
08:25 GMT |
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Galaxy S III might not land on shelves at Verizon Wireless until July 12th, but its user manual is already available for download for those who would like to learn more on the device. The new flagship Android smartphone from Samsung has a lot to offer to its owners, and the user manual (available at Samsung here) s... |
9 July 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Whatever concerns there were about Samsung possibly not being allowed to sell Galaxy Tabs in UK can now be put to rest. Apple's lawsuit against the Tab 7.7, 10.1 and 8.9 has been dismissed. We are sad to say that patent infringement lawsuits have become the favorite tool in IT corporations' attempts to el... |
9 July 2012
08:14 GMT |
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Apple’s Special Deals area, where customers can get substantial discounts on refurbished products, is featuring an all-time low price of $429 / €349 for the 32GB iPad 1 with Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity. The savings amount to $200 / €160, Apple says. Launched two and a half years ago, the first-generati... |
9 July 2012
08:11 GMT |
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Capcom advises all those who have bought Dragon’s Dogma, its action role-playing game, to keep their copy of the game because the company is working on creating more features linked to the title.
Hideaki Itsuno, the game director working on Dragon’s Dogma, has said during an interview with 4Gamer that, ... |
9 July 2012
08:10 GMT |
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They were married for just 72 days, but Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries are having quite a hard time divorcing. In light of recent events, Kris' attorney is advising him to settle and stop trying to get Kim's money in the divorce, it has emerged.
As gossip lovers might now, Kim filed for divorce but Kri... |
9 July 2012
08:09 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that atmospheric nitrogen dioxide levels across much of Europe and the United States have fallen significantly as compared to 15 years ago.
This is excellent news for air quality advocates, and a victory for those interested in a health... |
9 July 2012
08:03 GMT |
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BatteryCare is more than just battery-monitoring software for your laptop because it offers additional information about other system components besides the level of the juice powering the device. It can also read temperatures for HDD and the processor.
The change log for the new release, 0.9.10, is quite poor in en... |
9 July 2012
08:01 GMT |
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DICE, the studio behind the hugely successful Battlefield franchise, has shared its thoughts on the current state of the first-person shooter genre, revealing that the modern setting for such games is beginning to get stale and, as a result, is now driving people away. Shooter titles are among the most popular and m... |
9 July 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Groupon is probably the culmination of Silicon Valley's need for speed, despite not actually being located in Silicon Valley. The company grew faster than any company in history. It got new users and revenues grew accordingly.
Groupon was so hot it afforded to blow off an acquisition offer from Google worth $6... |
9 July 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Dr. Wirachai Roynarin recently argued about how Thailand can find an easy solution for the energy crisis in turbines designed especially to harvest environmentally friendly energy at low winds speeds.
The professor, who also happens to be the owner of Prapai Technologies, a company that specializes in manufacturing... |
9 July 2012
08:00 GMT |
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"We're working on something fun and will have more to share soon" is what users can read on a new website coming from Microsoft, called Bing Fund. A Twitter account has been associated to the website as well, also with few to none details on what the initiative will be all about. All that said account explains... |
9 July 2012
07:56 GMT |
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ARM announced a few days ago, on July 6th, that they posted a set of Linux kernel patches, implementing support for the AArch64 architecture, also known as the ARM 64-bit architecture.
The initial support for the ARMv8 64-bit architecture has been added by ARM in the Linux kernel via a set of 36 patches.
"The AArc... |
9 July 2012
07:50 GMT |
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As surprising as this may be, the only way to continuously monitor your heart rate was to use a chest strap or a big watch that needed to be accessed by hand in order to show the monitoring results. Well, this is not the case anymore. Liz Dickinson, the inventor of the MIO heart rate watch listened to suggestions fr... |
9 July 2012
07:50 GMT |
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Time has run out for the computers affected by the now-infamous DNSChanger Trojan because today the replacement DNS servers that kept the Internet connection “alive” for all the infected devices will be shut down.
While some victims will not lose Internet access because their ISPs have instated other bac... |
9 July 2012
07:49 GMT |
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D-Link's wireless connectivity hardware lineup is extensive, so the company decided to pay equal attention to software as it moves forward. This choice is reflected in the latest product release. Some time ago, the company initiated the mydlink Cloud Services, through which it lets owners of its devices monitor... |
9 July 2012
07:40 GMT |
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Guillermo del Toro's “Pacific Rim” is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated films of 2013 and, if you too happen to be one of the millions of fans looking forward to it, today's a good day. The first Comic-Con poster for the film has been released – and it unveils one of the gigantic J... |
9 July 2012
07:40 GMT |
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The $60 million (€48.8 Million) compensation paid by Apple to Proview Technology in the iPad trademark lawsuit is almost the same amount in dividends Tim Cook turned down earlier this year, people familiar with the lawsuit said. Citing a Chinese-language story on IT Times, ZD Net reports that both Proview... |
9 July 2012
07:37 GMT |
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A space image enthusiast who goes by the Vimeo user name of Joan has recently uploaded a high-resolution, time-lapse video that was put together from a large number of images sent back to Earth from aboard the International Space Station. This is definitely worthy of your attention.
According to the author, the imag... |
9 July 2012
07:37 GMT |
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It is no news that these past few weeks have brought extreme heat waves in various regions across the world. Climatologists now argue that most of these temperatures were record-breaking, and environmentalists claim that it is all due to climate change.
Back in the 1930s, breeches of ecological and agricultural pro... |
9 July 2012
07:31 GMT |
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One would think that stealing luxury cars is a completely different crime compared to hacking. However, a group of car thieves from the UK demonstrated that when it comes to vehicles with high-tech gadgets onboard, hacking plays an important role.
42-year-old Alan Watkins of Essex is suspected of coordinating an ope... |
9 July 2012
07:14 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay lawsuit saga has been dragging on for years. Even as all appeals have been exhausted and the Swedish supreme court refused to hear the case, those directly involved and directly affected, the four men connected to the site, are facing prison sentences and huge fines and they're all dealing with th... |
9 July 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Just today, Tourism Concern made public a report that clearly shows how, in developing countries, tourists receive preferential treatment when it comes to access to water.
This study focuses on the communities of people living in Bali, The Gambia, Zanzibar, Goa and Kerala, south India, and aims at raising awareness... |
9 July 2012
06:58 GMT |
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Primary school teacher Simon Haughton decided to make his classes more interesting by employing an Apple TV to project large images and switch between slides from afar. He discovered it was "fantastic" for the job. After using Apple’s set-top box in just one class, Haughton decided to make a blog entry and let... |
9 July 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Wireless services provider T-Mobile is preparing the launch of a new Android-based smartphone from Samsung on its network. The device, spotted online a few times before with the Samsung SGH-T699 model number attached to it, is now said to be bound to land on shelves under the name of Galaxy S Blaze Q. A recently ... |
9 July 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the NASA Terra satellite, experts were recently able to observe a massive level of ice loss in the Beaufort Sea. Two images, taken on May 13 and June 16, respectively, reveal the tremendous difference.
The Arctic lost a great deal of sea i... |
9 July 2012
06:02 GMT |
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Despite Intel’s Xeon-Phi x86 push, Nvidia’s CUDA is gaining more and more popularity. The American chip designer has just announced that UK’s Appleton Laboratory has powered up the country’s most powerful GPU supercomputer. The new high-performance, GPU-accelerated supercomputer has been unvei... |
9 July 2012
06:01 GMT |
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A brand new trailer for “Taken 2” with Liam Neeson gives away a major detail in the plot, one that was probably deliberately left out in the first teaser released some time ago. Indeed, Neeson's character will also be taken. Since the 2008 film, Neeson's former agent turned bodyguard has reco... |
9 July 2012
06:01 GMT |
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The X.Org Foundation has announced that a new version of their XOrg Server is now available for download.
According to the developers, X.Org X server 1.12.3 is the third stable release, bringing just a few changes, fixing some memory leaks and some out-of-bounds array access bugs.
Highlights of XOrg Server 1.12.3:... |
9 July 2012
05:54 GMT |
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ASUS didn't see the need to shout from the rooftops that it had revised the Radeon HD 7950 DirectCU II graphics adapter, but the folks at VR-Zone spotted the change anyway. The company did not make any major modifications to the performance specs. Indeed, it kept them the same as it refined the physical layout... |
9 July 2012
05:53 GMT |
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One of the main aims of The Creative Assembly development team for the upcoming Total War: Rome 2 is to create a darker take on war, emphasizing the impact it has both on the population and on the men leading armies.
Jamie Russell, the leading designer working on Total War: Rome 2, tells the audience at Rezzed that,... |
9 July 2012
05:53 GMT |
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The competition for the fastest Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 graphics card design seems to have been won by Point of View’s GeForce GTX 680 “BEAST/Backplate” video card using a rather simplistic cooling system and PCB. Don’t get us wrong, there is nothing simple about a GTX 680 PCB, but Point of Vi... |
9 July 2012
05:53 GMT |
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LG is one of the few handset makers to report positive financial results this year, but the South Korean company has bigger plans for the rest of the year. At least that’s what LG Electronics chairman Koo Bon-moo recently said, dissatisfied that the company did not use all its potential for the latest products... |
9 July 2012
05:52 GMT |
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Tails, a live system that aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity and that helps you use the Internet anonymously, is now at version 0.12.1.
Tails 0.12.1 has a lot of changes and users are urged to upgrade to the latest version, especially because of the new Linux kernel implemented.
Highlights of Tails 0.12... |
9 July 2012
05:52 GMT |
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The iOS 6 beta currently in the hands of Apple’s registered developers has yielded an important tidbit for Twitter fans – the changelog for version 4.3, which brings tons of new features and enhancements. Developers report that the redesigned App Store inside iOS 6 has leaked a major upcoming release of ... |
9 July 2012
05:51 GMT |
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As global warming progresses, and the amount of carbon dioxide released by humans into the atmosphere increases annually, solutions for cleaning up the air are becoming more and more desperately needed. A new study will look at the performances of aquifers in this regard.
Aquifers are natural water sponges. They ar... |
9 July 2012
05:45 GMT |
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The Weinstein Company is using all the hype around Chris Nolan's “The Dark Knight Rises” to boost Tom Hardy's profile even further. Considering they have “Lawless” to promote, we can't really complain. We wouldn't otherwise either, especially since we think Hardy is one o... |
9 July 2012
05:44 GMT |
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After releasing the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut DLC for free, BioWare is now offering the soundtrack made specifically for the new endings as a free download. Mass Effect 3 came out in March and, despite offering quite a few different conclusions, lots of fans weren't happy with the endings they got. As such, ... |
9 July 2012
05:41 GMT |
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Although Nokia announced extra-color options for Lumia 800, it looks like the pink-themed variant has yet to make it to the market. UK-based retailer Carphone Warehouse confirmed the availability of the pink version of Nokia Lumia 800 back in January, but the smartphone was on sale for a limited time. However, that... |
9 July 2012
05:28 GMT |
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After adding the 100th champion, Jayce, to the test servers it seems that the development team at Riot Games is already prepared to deliver yet another character for players to enjoy.
The new champion is rumored to bear the name Zyra and it appears that she will be very different from the other members of the roster... |
9 July 2012
05:26 GMT |
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Facebook doesn't waste too much time shutting down its acquisitions. Few have survived being gobbled up by Facebook, the notable exception being Instagram, the most expensive company the social network ever bought. A couple of weeks ago when Face.com got acquired, the company assured developers that they're... |
9 July 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Just a few days ago, the police of Guangxi Zhuang, one of China's autonomous regions, succeeded in keeping smugglers from taking around 3,600 Siamese crocodiles to cities in the southern part of the country, where they would have been killed and served as exotic dishes.
In spite of their being an endangered sp... |
9 July 2012
05:21 GMT |
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The UK’s anti-piracy bill known as the Digital Economy Act (DEA) has given fraudsters new ideas on how to dupe unsuspecting individuals into handing over their money. Shortly after OFCOM released the Initial Obligations Code, users started seeing suspicious emails landing in their inboxes.
“Attention, yo... |
9 July 2012
05:14 GMT |
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When we talking about $600 smartphones, we keep in mind that the bulk of the market can’t really afford such devices, while another significant portion can’t afford to buy both a smartphone and a notebook. Despite that, the performance of mobile ARM Cortex A9 and Cortex A15 processors is high enough to s... |
9 July 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in Pasadena, announce that they were recently able to develop a new class of catalysts, which has been under research for years. A catalyst is a substance that makes it easier for other chemicals to interact.
Catalysts can be used to make a chemical re... |
9 July 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Infamous hacker iH8sn0w is spreading the word on Twitter that Apple could roll out the third beta of iOS 6 as soon as today. The code tinkerer is also extremely happy to be a part of the upcoming JailbreakCon. iH8sn0w admits he’s “super excited,” as each day that passes puts JailbreakCon closer wit... |
9 July 2012
05:10 GMT |
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Nowadays, photo/video cameras with 16 megapixel image sensors are considered high-end, but it is only a matter of time before they are completely surpassed, especially with DARPA on the case. As morbid as it sounds, military applications are usually a few steps ahead of the consumer technology development curve. ... |
9 July 2012
05:01 GMT |
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R&B singer Usher and ex-wife Tameka Foster did not part on amicable terms, but they're still by each other's side in times of trouble. Tameka's 11-year-old son from a previous relationship has been pronounced brain dead by doctors. Over the weekend, Kyle Glover was involved in a very serious accident... |
9 July 2012
04:47 GMT |
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A couple of fraudsters accused of stealing £1.5 million ($2.3 million or €1.9million) from unsuspecting students have been sentenced to prison by UK authorities.
On July 6, 27-year-old Damola Clement Olatunji was ordered to serve 6.5 years in prison for running a phishing scheme. Amos Njoroge Mwangi, aged... |
9 July 2012
04:42 GMT |
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Given the fact that, in an attempt to lead a more healthy lifestyle, more and more people are looking into the possibility of growing their own vegetables, a team of German researchers decided to investigate how safe home gardens really are.
They found that, particularly in the case of vegetables grown in urban are... |
9 July 2012
04:41 GMT |
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A group of researchers in the United States is currently trying to develop new methods of using lasers for advanced applications, such as in the field of spintronics and for improving quantum computing. The group is convinced that it is on the right track, as its latest results indicate.
At this point, people have ... |
9 July 2012
04:34 GMT |
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WinPatrol has been around for a very long time and it does not show any sign of falling into oblivion, especially with the new release integrating new features that extend its functionality; some bugs have also been dealt with and improvements are available as well.
One of the new features added to the freshly launc... |
9 July 2012
04:33 GMT |
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Samsung uses the “Series 9” moniker on a variety of devices, and it is the notebook line that we are concerning ourselves with right now.
According to Samsung Hub, the Series 9 notebook will gain a silver color option in South Korea soon.
The 15-inch model will be available before the end of the month... |
9 July 2012
04:27 GMT |
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They say children are not their parents' keepers but, in the case of someone as famous as Brad Pitt, his mother's anti-gay, anti-abortion and anti-Obama open letter was bound to make headlines precisely because she is his mother.
The piece in question was printed in The Springfield News-Leader over the w... |
9 July 2012
04:24 GMT |
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The PC is firmly at the core of the development process for the upcoming Borderlands 2, according to the development team working on the game, and even the versions for home console borrow a lot of the elements from the PC-based template.
Randy Pitchford, the leader of Gearbox Software, has said during the Rezzed sh... |
9 July 2012
04:17 GMT |
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Capcom confirmed that it’s going to finally release the controversial downloadable content pack for Street Fighter X Tekken later this month, effectively unlocking the 12 new fighters and costumes that are already on the game’s disc. Street Fighter X Tekken was launched earlier this year for the PlayStat... |
9 July 2012
04:16 GMT |
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Although the world's great white population has significantly declined, primarily as a result of water pollution and of poaching, it now seems that two representatives of this species have made it all the way to Cape Cod. As marine biologists explain, the sharks were most likely drawn here by seals, which are ... |
9 July 2012
04:10 GMT |
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A few days ago, WikiLeaks published over 2 million emails allegedly obtained from Syrian officials and organizations connected to the Assad regime. The source of the large quantity of data was unknown, but a few days ago, the Anonymous community took credit for its involvement.
According to the hackers, Anonymous an... |
9 July 2012
04:07 GMT |
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Scientists in charge of handling the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity say that, if any indicators to the presence of past lifeforms on the surface of the Red Planet exist, the robot will identify them. The team says that the soil is the most likely keeper of such records. One of the most encouraging th... |
9 July 2012
04:02 GMT |
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Qualcomm did something very curious lately, something that seems to have led to speculations about whether or not NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices might seek out different 28nm suppliers. For those who haven't learned of it yet, Qualcomm has decided to ask UMC and Samsung to make its Snapdragon S4 processors.... |
9 July 2012
04:00 GMT |
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Sites selling UDID activation codes are getting shut down at the hand of Apple Inc., the company whose developer programs allow programmers to install and test pre-release software on 100 devices per account. Andy Baio said in a feature piece on Wired, “For a small developer, unauthorized activations are a luc... |
9 July 2012
03:56 GMT |
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Ever since Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise, lot of ink has been spilled on whether the decision had anything to do with Scientology or not. According to a new report, it had more to do with Tom's controlling ways than with his involvement in the cult. Katie filed divorce papers a little over a we... |
9 July 2012
03:54 GMT |
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A few days ago, the FBI made public the results of a two-year investigation that targeted credit card fraudsters. Two of the ones arrested were Mir Islam, the leader of the UGNazi collective, and Cosmo, another member of the group whose identity had not been revealed due to the fact that he is still a minor.
After b... |
9 July 2012
03:46 GMT |
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Owners of Windows Phone devices are certain to love applications, data coming from Microsoft shows. As of March 2012, Windows Phone 7 users download an average of 50.9 applications, said report from the software giant unveils. The average downloads per user are actually growing, and they might increase significantl... |
9 July 2012
03:44 GMT |
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Working on the assumption that human society has yet to make the most out of the sun's energy, a team of researchers from Utah decided to work towards incorporating solar panels into the clothes we wear on a daily basis.
The main idea is that, whilst traditional solar panels only harvest sun energy nearby vari... |
9 July 2012
03:40 GMT |
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Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator behind hit franchises like Mario or The Legend of Zelda, has shared his wishes for the upcoming Wii U home console in terms of games, saying that titles in the Metroid or Star Fox franchises are a great fit for the device.
Nintendo is getting ready to debut the Wii U la... |
9 July 2012
03:39 GMT |
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TSMC is the world’s largest contract semiconductor manufacturer that produces processors and different chips for fabless companies doing chip design. Qualcomm is the world’s largest fabless chip designer and it is a traditional customer of TSMC. When one of your biggest customers is signing contracts wit... |
9 July 2012
03:31 GMT |
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Last time we wrote about HP and its plans, we were looking at the future, but now we have a more immediate concern to occupy our thoughts, though nothing unfortunate. Indeed, “concern” isn't precisely the best word to use here, unlike when the decision was taken to let go of 8,000 european employee... |
9 July 2012
03:13 GMT |
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After further analyzing the alleged Android spam botnet, experts from mobile security firm Lookout believe that they found the missing piece of the puzzle.
They state that the Yahoo! Mail application for Android does not encrypt communications by default, allowing an attacker to hijack sessions and use them to send... |
9 July 2012
03:13 GMT |
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Justin Bieber likes his cars flashy, customized and, most importantly, fast. Over the weekend, the teen heartthrob was pulled over for going at least 80 mph on the 101 freeway, but got off with just a fine. TMZ reports that at least 10 people called 911 to report a vehicle waving in and out of traffic at alarming s... |
9 July 2012
03:10 GMT |
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A spotted snake, known as Russell's viper, and 17 of its hatchlings were just recently rescued from a drainpipe by forest department officials.
The latter took the animals to a rescue center nearby Lawspet, India, where they placed them in glass enclosures to make sure they are out of harm's way.
Appare... |
9 July 2012
03:08 GMT |
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The biggest video game releases of the current and the last few years are mostly sequels, and one of the best-known designers in the industry believes that companies need to drop this approach as long as they plan to keep making money.
David Cage, the leader of the Quantic Dream development team, has told Games Indu... |
9 July 2012
03:06 GMT |
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Robot Entertainment, the studio behind the upcoming Orcs Must Die 2, has revealed a brand new feature for the game, in the form of the Endless Mode that pits players against never-ending waves of enemies. Orcs Must Die 2 is out later this month and it’s looking set to enhance upon the original in all sorts of ... |
9 July 2012
03:04 GMT |
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Despite Steve Jobs’ reluctance to kick off development of a 7-inch tablet, Apple this year seems poised to introduce a smaller iPad with a 7.85-inch display. The device is said to be produced on two separate continents. OS X Daily points out to reports by MacStories and MacRumors, who have put together mockups... |
9 July 2012
03:02 GMT |
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Nokia announced last year that it would focus its entire resource on Windows Phone platform. The partnership with Microsoft is meant to turn the tides for the Finnish company, which lost its leading spot in the mobile phones sales.
The company’s new CEO, Stephen Elop, stated at that time that the transition f... |
9 July 2012
02:58 GMT |
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UK's ministers argue that the media created an untruthful image of the Fukushima nuclear disaster from March 2011, and that this made people throughout the world – British citizens in particular – fear this energy source more than they should.
On account of UK's population being confused with ... |
9 July 2012
02:48 GMT |
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Microsoft will release its newest operating system in October, meaning that a host of new devices will appear around that time as well, including desktops, notebooks and, of course, tablets. Samsung is the latest company to add its name to the unofficial list of IT players looking to be part of the first wave of Wi... |
9 July 2012
02:36 GMT |
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Video game developer Telltale Games has announced that it is already in the early planning stages for the second season of its episode-based The Walking Dead video game.
Before it moves all its resources to the second season, the company still has to launch the remaining three episodes of the first season and create... |
9 July 2012
02:33 GMT |
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City Interactive and Namco Bandai confirmed that their upcoming Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 shooter has been pushed back from its initial August release date and would now appear in October. Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 promises to enhance greatly on the original game in the series, using the new CryEngine 3 technology and b... |
9 July 2012
02:32 GMT |
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A new Nokia smartphone was reportedly spotted in the company’s Remote Device Access (RDA) service, namely the Nokia Lumia 1001. The service was designed to allow access to a wide range of devices through the use of a browser, enabling developers to test applications even though they do not have the actual har... |
9 July 2012
02:29 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has started to deliver a new set of software updates for its Windows Phone-based Lumia devices. Through this update, the company is aiming at providing the owners of a Nokia Lumia 900, Lumia 710 and Lumia 610 with an enhanced experience on their devices. The company was previously... |
9 July 2012
02:12 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has pushed the launch of Galaxy S III once again, now listing it on its website with a release date of July 12th. The operator was initially expected to launch the Android flagship smartphone before the end of June, but issues with available stock determined it to push it back ... |
9 July 2012
01:47 GMT |
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