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HTC Imagio and HTC Predator on Verizon This Fall

Cellphone users in the United States should soon have a wider array of devices available for them to choose from, including a new Motorola Android handset, some BlackBerry goodness and other smartphones that Verizon Wireless seems poised to deliver to them in the following months. Among these handsets, BGR says that ...

18 September 2009
09:58 GMT

Aliens vs. Predator Is Official, Classic Looking

SEGA has announced that it plans to release a new game, named Aliens vs. Predator, the first in an upcoming series of Aliens titles that have been licensed by Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising. The game is set to be developed by Rebellion, which has also created the first title in the series, and should...

22 May 2009
05:11 GMT

Rebellion Talks About Aliens vs. Predator

Rebellion has unveiled quite a few details regarding the new Aliens vs. Predator videogames, which is set to be released for the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the PC.It seems that the developers want to bring back the successful elements of the 1999 original, while offering upgraded graphical quality and better gam...

24 April 2009
16:11 GMT

Robert Rodriguez Working on ‘Predator’ Reboot, ‘Machete’

Earlier reports that famed director Robert Rodriguez was looking to reboot the classic 1987 “Predator” film have just been confirmed by Variety. Not only will Rodriguez helm the reboot, but he’ll be doing so based on his own script. At the same time, he will also be co-directing a long feature film ...

24 April 2009
12:37 GMT

Acer's Predator PCs Are Hot, Literally

It appears that there's a time when you need to stay away from high-end gaming rigs, especially if those computer systems can pose a threat to your life. As it turns out, Acer's mean-looking Aspire Predator gaming-focused desktop PCs offer more than a combination of blazing speed and interesting exterior de...

20 March 2009
05:40 GMT

Acer Brings Its Predator to CeBIT 2009

Another nice product that managed to impress us on the floor of the CeBIT 2009 show in Hanover is the Acer Predator, which the company chose to bring along for showcasing. This gaming PC is part of the maker's Aspire line, and it is surely meant to make a stand, especially when it comes to its design, which one ...

4 March 2009
05:59 GMT

Acer Brings Predator to the States

Earlier this year, Acer, one of the leading makers of computer systems, introduced its cool-looking desktop gaming rig, also known as the “Predator.” With all that, it took the company this long, until now, to finally bring its high-performance “Predator” to the good Ol' US of A. In addit...

2 October 2008
11:20 GMT

When Death Nears, Spider Mites Go Nighty-Night

When they feel a life-threatening scent in the air, the tiny spider mites behave very oddly: they fall asleep. A recent study shows that this effect could be used against them, in order to save crops, their main food source.Martijn Egas and his team from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands observed that wh...

29 September 2008
07:27 GMT

50,000:1 Contrast Ratio LCD from Acer

About one month ago, Acer announced a 24-inch full-HD display, classified as being a "world's first". We have not seen that on the market yet, but Acer says it has another wild beast in development, the 24-inch Acer G24 LCD monitor with a 50,000:1 contrast ratio. No word on where it will be available or how much...

5 July 2008
04:46 GMT

About Dingo

They are shot, trapped, poisoned by sheep and cattle farmers. No wonder that the Australian wild dog, the dingo, is menaced. Ecologists warn that pure breed animals may vanish in 40-100 years, due to the cross with the ordinary dogs. By now, the main issue is the proliferation of the hybrids. Dingoes mate once a year...

15 April 2008
14:26 GMT

Top 10 Deadly Sharks

The biology books say that sharks and rays make the group of cartilaginous fish, less evolved than most of the other species, that make the group of the bonny fish. Still, sharks, with their highly developed senses and teeth, make the top predators of the seas. Paradoxically, the two largest species of shark, that m...

22 March 2008
07:53 GMT

Women Are Turning into Sexual Predators

Biological rules say the male is the active sex in humans. They look for fertilizing as many females as possible for the maximum biological effectiveness, being real sexual predators, always ready for some hanky-panky, while women look for quality and a partner for a monogamous relationship, who is able to deliver an...

19 March 2008
14:06 GMT

Not Online Sex Predator but Lover, Study Shows

The framed image of the guy lurking in the shadow, deceiving his way into a date with an unsuspecting youngster and later raping him or her, was shattered to pieces by a study conducted in a report issued by the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham. Janis Wolak of the ...

19 February 2008
14:51 GMT

5 Things About Martens and Polecats

1. Martens differ from other animals in the weasel's family by being excellent climbers. They spend the day sleeping in the trees and have cats' ability, being able to make jumps through the branches of the trees as easy as the squirrels. Amongst the martens of the Old World, beech marten is the most widesp...

23 January 2008
16:57 GMT

The Terror of the Wild West: Grizzly Bear

The grizzly bear is nothing more than the North American form of the Eurasian brown bear. Once, the terrible grizzly bear was in the whole western half of North America, from Alaska to northern Mexico. Today, it is still present in Alaska and Canada, while in the rest of the US it barely survives in Montana, Washing...

21 December 2007
02:31 GMT

Some Amazing Facts About Ladybirds

We usually detest insects, but this one is amongst our favorites. Ladybirds are beautiful, but for reputed gardeners they are also very useful. Why? Because their food is made almost entirely of plant lice, small soft bodied insects that invade garden plants and crops. Ladybirds eat plant lice both as adult and larva...

6 December 2007
07:09 GMT

8 Amazing Facts About the Great White Shark

It is difficult to trigger the sympathy of the audience with a giant conical head, a set of huge razor sharp serrated teeth, a carnivorous appetite, a malicious grin and a reputation of "man-eater". The slightest encounter with people is enough to fill the headlines. 1.With a strong rocket-like body, up to 7.2 m (24 ...

4 December 2007
14:06 GMT

Predator-Style Helmets Allow Pillots to See Through Planes!

When I look at this, I have to say that the fellows from Daily Mail.com were right. It is only the neck and shoulders that prove there is a human being in there somewhere.And this isn't any Star Trek or Final Fantasy kind of trick, but the next generation of RAF fighter pilots' look, which kinda makes you w...

10 November 2007
10:56 GMT

The Oldest Fossil Russian Doll: 290 Million Years Old

This is a 290 million years old Russian doll, on a pattern shark-amphibian-fish. An extraordinary fossil preserved both the predator's last meal, and also the last meal of the prey, in a period long before the emergence of the dinosaurs, being the oldest snapshot of a vertebrate food chain, described in a new re...

9 November 2007
04:01 GMT

14 Amazing Facts About Crocodiles

1. The largest crocodile species is saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), encountered from India to northern Australia and Fiji. In can reach 7 m (23 ft) in length and 1 tonne in weight! At 5 m (17 ft) length, it already has 0.5 tonne!Even so, a crocodile egg is no larger than that of a goose!The smallest crocodi...

3 November 2007
08:06 GMT

7 Things You Did Not Know About Tigers

1. Today we say the tiger is the king of the jungle but the tiger originated in the Pleistocene of Asia, about 2 million years ago, in a clime of temperate forests. This nocturnal and solitary cat has a territory varying in the case of the male from 60 square kilometers in tropical forests and savannas to 4,000 squar...

3 November 2007
05:01 GMT

Fish Swallows Four Times Bigger Prey Fish!

Logic will always sustain that big fish eat small fish. But what a fisherman from Grand Cayman has found could be a world record contradicting the 'rule'. McPherson 'Dorson' Wright was fishing at about 1,400 feet (570 m) off the South Coast of Grand Cayman, when he observed an object floating on t...

31 October 2007
12:13 GMT

The Largest Land Predator Ever

When you think about something huge that has caused terror on earth, T-rex is perhaps the first thing that comes to your mind. It was popular before, and its image became extremely popular with the movie "Jurassic Park". Indeed, a huge beast: up to 12.8 (42 ft) in length and 7.2 tonnes in weight. Bigger than an eleph...

24 October 2007
15:11 GMT

The Man-Eater Lion

People are an easy prey for any large predator. And between death by hunger and death by shooting, perhaps a lion won't starve till dying. In Mozambique, the rainy season is the moment when the lions turn into man-eaters, because the too tall grass impedes them to approach to their normal preys. This happened in...

20 October 2007
06:24 GMT

The Deadly Light of Sex

They may look like little living lanterns that bestow a fairytale atmosphere on rural landscape during summer months, but a new research made at Tufts University has found a dark side behind the magic show of the fireflies. The researchers found that even if fireflies waste little energy to produce the flash signals,...

26 September 2007
04:11 GMT

Buzz Off, Predator!

When the cat's away/The Mice will play. Prey animals, like the moose, caribou, bison and elk can lose their fear of predators if they are not constantly hunted by them, as found by Joel Berger of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in New York. But they were also found to "relearn" their fears very quickly, ...

21 June 2007
05:48 GMT

More Halo 3 Content Discovered - Armour Parts

Just a few days ago, the Internet blew up in flames with news about modders being able to break into the Halo 3 Beta code and extract vital information on future new implemented features in the game. Today's news brings even more hot features and items, found by the same hackers, such as new armour types and sep...

29 May 2007
03:35 GMT

Global Warming and Ice Predators

Can it be that simple: no ice, no polar bears?In the International Polar Year (IPY), Norwegian researchers at the University of Tromso will start four projects investigating how climate change due to global warming affects Arctic's predators, like the the Arctic fox, now an endangered species. "We will collabora...

28 May 2007
07:21 GMT

How the Minigun (Chaingun) Works

One of the most important technologies of the past 100 years, according to most historians, is the machine gun. it was probably what contributed most to the development of both World War I and World War II, and set the tone for future, local wars.It only took one soldier equipped with this machine gun to start firin...

2 April 2007
10:28 GMT


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