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One of the latest time-lapse videos of Earth released by the American space agency showcases parts of the North American continent, including the United States and Canada, and provides a brief glimpse of stupendous auroras taking place at higher latitudes.
The video is shot during the nighttime, so all major cities ... |
13 February 2012
07:38 GMT |
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Yesterday, February 9, authorities in the United States gave the go-ahead for the construction of two new nuclear reactors in the state of Georgia. This is the first time the building of nuclear reactors is authorized in the United States, since the Three Mile Island nuclear accident three decades ago.
North Americ... |
10 February 2012
05:38 GMT |
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The market analysis firm Nielsen has offered a report on gaming trends in the United States for 2011, revealing that overall gaming time has grown by no less than 7 percent during the 12-month period, despite the less than impressive results posted when it comes to hardware and video game sales.
Nielsen says that th... |
9 February 2012
15:21 GMT |
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I've always viewed NASA's move, of relying on the Russian Federal Space Agency for access to space once it retires its shuttles, with suspicion. Relaying on private space companies is even crazier, and the recent delays in the Soyuz launch scheduled proved my point yet again.
Space analysts are now beginn... |
6 February 2012
09:59 GMT |
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A number of sources have seen video games for the PlayStation Vita from Sony already on store shelves in the United States both at Walmart and at other retailers, suggesting that gamers are able to get their games and even a console before launch date.
ModNation Racers: Road Trip is one of the titles that are availa... |
6 February 2012
07:55 GMT |
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Officials with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say that spacecraft operated by the agency were essential to the rescue of 207 people last year, throughout the United States and surrounding waters. All of these individuals were lost hikers, downed pilots, shipwrecked boaters and people ... |
24 January 2012
03:44 GMT |
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A solicitation from the Department of Defense of the United States suggests that the institution plans to contract companies to create a number of video games that can be used to refine the way a variety of weapons systems work and eliminate errors and bugs from them.The document coming from the Pentagon says that th... |
20 January 2012
10:46 GMT |
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According to an announcement made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on January 17, the United States is willing to cooperate with other nations for developing an international code that regulates how nations explore and behave in space, as long as the agreement does not interfere with national security.
The Whit... |
18 January 2012
09:40 GMT |
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A Senator in the United States has singled out video game preservation as one of the wasteful projects that the United States government is spending money on, as part of a bigger report criticizing the Democratic administration.The video game related grant that Tom Coburn, who is the junior Republican Senator from th... |
23 December 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Sony Computer Entertainment of America has announced the official launch line-up that will accompany the United States launch of the PlayStation Vita, emphasizing that gamers will have a varied line-up to choose from when the new handheld is finally out.The launch titles delivered by Sony Online Entertainment of Amer... |
23 December 2011
04:46 GMT |
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Developer Wargaming.net has announced that the initial line-up of United States made and run aircraft has been added to the closed alpha stage of World of Warplanes, the multiplayer game that focuses on the flying circus of the World of War II period.The initial American flying machines will include both a line of li... |
22 December 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Charlie Miller, the former hacker that proved many of Apple’s most successful products to be vulnerable to cleverly set up attacks, has been contacted by the US Department of Defense (DoD) to share his insight on the security issues that currently imperil companies and individuals. He was invited to NATO&rsquo... |
8 December 2011
03:43 GMT |
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Smartphone sales in China are going up, and the market has just claimed the top position in the world, a recent report from Strategy Analytics unveils.
During the third quarter of the year, sales of smartphones reached a record 24 million units in China, which allowed the country to get in front of the United State... |
23 November 2011
16:01 GMT |
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A new report called the MMO Games Market Report from analysis firm Newzoo is showing that most of the MMO players in the United States are playing browser based experiences while also spending money on client based experiences.The report also shows that 47 percent of all MMO spending on the United States market, whic... |
10 November 2011
09:06 GMT |
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A new report launched by the market analysis firm Newzoo has shown that sales of used titles and of digitally distributed content make up 35 percent of the overall amount of money spent on video games in the United Stated.23% of the money is linked to the second hand game market, which publishers and developers have ... |
8 November 2011
09:18 GMT |
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The most recent analysis from experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) indicates that the month of September brought a wide array of climate irregularities to the United States. The change in patterns was not consistent throughout the country.
In fact, researchers say, the western a... |
8 October 2011
05:35 GMT |
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The NPD Group, a market research firm which often deals with issues in the video game industry, is estimating that the total amount which will be spent on gaming hardware, content, services and accessories will reach 4.5 billion dollars (about 3.4 billion Euro at current exchange rates) for the second half of the yea... |
6 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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For many years, experts have been arguing that the more educated a person gets, the more likely they are to renounce religious beliefs, and move farther away from religion in general. However, a new scientific investigation proved that that is not always the case. What the research did uncover was that more educated ... |
9 August 2011
07:45 GMT |
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A understudied, barely-there patch of stormy weather that developed off the western coasts of Central America appears to be responsible for the onset of the massive heat wave that affected the central regions of North America, and especially the United States.All around the region, people have been blasted by unforgi... |
27 July 2011
06:05 GMT |
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The Pokemon Company has announced the results of the 2011 Pokemon Video Game United States National Championships, announcing the names of the 24 players that will go on to represent the nation at the upcoming Video Game World Championships, where they will face off against other gamers coming from Japan, Europe and ... |
12 July 2011
03:25 GMT |
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A team of experts at the Brown University has just released a new report on the War on Terror, which seeks to quantify the exact costs the United States are facing, and will continue to face, in this conflict. The document shows that more than 225,000 lives have already been lost, alongside $4 trillion.
The docume... |
29 June 2011
02:42 GMT |
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The debate on whether video games can be art has been raging for some time and now the United States federal government has thrown its weight behind the medium, making video games eligible for funding that comes from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Its guidelines for the following year, originally designed fo... |
18 May 2011
16:31 GMT |
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According to the latest scientific study on the issue, global warming and climate change will not affect the power output of wind farms in any discernible manner. Slight fluctuations are likely to appear, but they will not influence the overall production levels significantly.While the work needs to be expanded to an... |
3 May 2011
10:32 GMT |
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Generally speaking, citizens in the United States are more fond of doing something than others around the world. Regardless of whether they have a fixed, important goal, or they are engaged in trivial activities, they are more likely to keep themselves busy than other people. In an recent study, experts demonstrated ... |
2 May 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Though episodes of major depression affect a relatively large number of teenagers in the United States, less than a third of them seek treatment for their condition. Official statistics estimate that 8 percent of all teens in the country experienced at least once such episode in the past year alone. These conclusions... |
29 April 2011
08:01 GMT |
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The failure of three nuclear reactors in Japan has prompted talks in the United States about the risk the country runs of being exposed to radioactive particles emanating from the facility. According to experts, the general public can rest assured that little to no such particles will reach North America. At this poi... |
15 March 2011
08:26 GMT |
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In a speech she held yesterday, March 14, Janet Napolitano underlined the importance that science and technology have in ensuring that the United States remain safe, and are protected from those that would harm it and its people. Napolitano, who is the US Secretary of Homeland Security, held the address on Monday at ... |
15 March 2011
06:17 GMT |
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Pokemon Black and White, the new video games in the long-running franchise published by Nintendo and developed by Game Freak, have managed to sell more than 1 million copies on the United States market in just one day, breaking all the records set by the very successful Soul Silver and Heart Gold launch.Those games o... |
9 March 2011
02:59 GMT |
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Yesterday, March 2, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced that the eastern cougar is officially extinct. This was a subspecies of the largest cat that lives in North America. The eastern cougar, also known as the eastern puma, could initially be found in 21 states across the US, and the FWS cons... |
3 March 2011
11:00 GMT |
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The United States spam levels have begun recovering in January which pushed the country back into the list of top 20 spam sources after two months of absence.According to data from Russian security vendor Kaspersky Lab, the overall amount of spam slightly increased last month by 0.5 percentage points and averaged 77.... |
22 February 2011
04:55 GMT |
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According to statistics gathered by Trusteer, a provider of secure browsing solutions, the highest number of ZeuS command and control (C&C) servers are hosted in the United States.The United States is usually at the top of malware charts, either as top hoster, the country with largest number of infected computers or ... |
4 February 2011
13:58 GMT |
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The continental United States are currently half-covered by a massive atmospheric front, that brings with it massive amounts of precipitations in the form of snow storms and heavy winds.All of the East Coast and parts of the South and the Midwest are affected by the atmospheric event, which is considerably more &ldqu... |
3 February 2011
10:13 GMT |
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Nintendo of America has announced that it will be holding an event on January 19 of next year in New York City, designed to answer all the questions that United States gamers have about the Nintendo 3DS, including the price tag the new handheld will have in the region and the exact release date, which is expected to ... |
21 December 2010
17:31 GMT |
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Despite the fact that the new Nintendo 3DS handheld is set to be available all over the world before the end of March 2011 Nintendo as a company still has long term plans for the DS family, aiming to make sure that customers have options when they look for a platform that allows gaming on the go.Satoru Iwata told Nin... |
15 November 2010
08:25 GMT |
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A new research paper says that existing nuclear deterrent measures at work in the United States are a danger to national security, and qualifies them as pure fantasy. The document shows that the new strategy, set in place this year, needs immediate revision.The paper appears in the SAGE publication Bulletin of Atomic... |
1 November 2010
07:42 GMT |
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According to data gathered by Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), the United States had the highest number of computers infected with botnet malware, during the first half of 2010.Botnet are armies of infected computers, which connect to remote command and control (C&C) servers and listen to inst... |
14 October 2010
08:51 GMT |
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A new Commonwealth Fund-supported study, concluded that the life expectancy of Americans continues to fall behind other countries', and the phenomenon has nothing to do with obesity, smoking, traffic fatalities, and homicide.The study was carried out by Peter Muennig and Sherry Glied at Columbia University, who ... |
7 October 2010
05:51 GMT |
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A team of investigators from several institutions in the United States, led by scientists from the University of Michigan, has just been awarded a $5 million grant to study water quality in the North American Great Lakes.The funds, which are provided by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) are mainly aimed at dis... |
18 September 2010
05:12 GMT |
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Bing Maps added transit guidance to its directions options, for every one of you Eco-friendly public transportation users out there!So now, you can continue taking the bus, the subway or whatever local rail you want, without risking of getting in the middle of nowhere, because you can turn to Bing Maps and establish ... |
17 September 2010
03:31 GMT |
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Lazard Capital Markets is expecting to see the Nintendo 3DS handheld arriving in North America in March 2011, with a price set between 249 and 299 dollars. The device will initially be launched in Japan, with the predicted date coming before the end of 2010. The new mobile gaming platform will allow gamers to experie... |
23 June 2010
02:02 GMT |
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EA Sports is staging quite the event in order to celebrate the beginning of the 2010 South Africa World Cup, the biggest football event of the year. On Friday, the company is inviting fans of the teams of England and the United States, who are set to clash in the competition, to gather at selected locations and send ... |
10 June 2010
04:02 GMT |
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Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation announced on Tuesday the launch of its e-commerce site for mobile-phone users in the United States. According to the company, users in the country are now offered the possibility to browse and purchase a range of HTC mobile phones and accessories, not to mention that th... |
24 March 2010
09:51 GMT |
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In a move that is being hailed as the most daring social reform the United States experienced in the last 40 years, the US Congress passed the new health care reform bill on Sunday night. The vote, 219 to 212, was decided for by a Democrat-held Congress, although some of the most conservative democrats voted against ... |
22 March 2010
10:04 GMT |
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Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy XIII has managed to sell no less than 1 million units in the first five days on sale, becoming the best selling title in the history of the franchise in the United States. The game was launched on both the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and on the PlayStation 3 from Sony, also a ... |
22 March 2010
06:40 GMT |
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A new Nielsen study is showing that 54% of the consumer base is owners of a home gaming console or of a handheld console. The 2010 Media Fact Sheet is also noting that dedicated PCs powerful enough to play modern titles get the percentage up to 73.Of these, no less than 23% are only owners of a portable gaming system... |
11 January 2010
15:11 GMT |
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2009 might have been a bad year for the videogame industry, with the world wide economic slowdown affecting revenue and sales, but it seems that it might have been a good one for videogaming as a phenomenon.A new study commissioned by accounting firm Deloitte shows that close to 60% of the households in the United St... |
18 December 2009
13:31 GMT |
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The NPD Group is well known for putting up two charts every month showing how videogame consoles and software releases perform in the United States market. But the group also does other researches related to the industry, and its newest study is saying that more American are playing videogames than are going to the m... |
25 May 2009
02:39 GMT |
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It seems that the North American version of Nokia E75 has made it to the company's flagship stores in the US, and the device is already available for purchase. According to the news, only the black version of the handset has been shipped to the Nokia stores in the United States, yet the red and gold versions sho... |
7 May 2009
06:21 GMT |
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Now that Eidos is officially and entirely the property of Square Enix, the Japanese publisher might again go out and seek new companies to acquire. Yoichi Wada, who is the president of the company, sees acquisitions as the first steps in a global expansion strategy for Square Enix.Wada has talked to the Financial Tim... |
30 April 2009
02:04 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 currently has the upper hand on its rivals as, despite the very low price it currently has, there are a lot of features that will attract people who might be interested in other consoles like the Wii or PlayStation 3, most important being the Netflix deal that Microsoft made in order for people to view t... |
5 March 2009
15:01 GMT |
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