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| Ancient Relic Found in Israel's Mediterranean Waters |  | A white marble disc some 20 centimeters across, flat on one side and convex on the other, perforated in the center and presenting two concentric circles on the convex side, was found in the Mediterranean coast of Israel near the ancient Yavne-Yam port city. The Israeli authorities said in a press release issued this week-end that the 2,500 year old artifact is believed to be a talisman representing an eye meant protect the ships of superst ... [read more >>] | | 15 July 2008, 04:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ancient Graveyard for the Poor Found Near Rome |  | Although this is not the first time when an ancient burial ground is found near Rome, the one recently discovered is amongst the few belonging to people of a lower social class. It is located near the main airport of today's Rome and was dated to the 1st, possibly the 2nd century. The remaining skeletons indicate that the men buried there had hard jobs, probably as manual workers who carried heavy loads on their backs at the harbor du ... [read more >>] | | 10 June 2008, 09:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple Patent Hints at Revamped Air. More Ports! |  | In a world where you can patent your shorts if you like, Apple has filed an application to pro ... [read more >>] | | 29 February 2008, 04:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| World in Conflict Coming to Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 Consoles |  | World in Conflict was indeed one of the best RTS (real time strategy) titles in 2007, clearly defining a new "action-strategy" genre. It only seemed natural that a console port will be cooked up soon, since there are probably no game developers (or publi ... [read more >>] | | 15 February 2008, 04:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Silent Hill Origins for PS2 Arrives in March! |  | Hurray for Konami and their long-running horror-survival series! It seems that the latest installment in this series, Silent Hill Origins, will be ported to the PS2 after being a major hit on the PSP. Would believe if I told you that Origins i ... [read more >>] | | 16 January 2008, 14:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| PS3 BioShock More Than a Rumor?! |  | We've heard this one a million times before: some major PC and Xbox 360 title mysteriously goes the PS3 way. Hail to the non-believers as they never get fooled by such seemingly fake pieces of information. However, you might remember that nobody thought that we'll ever see a PC version of Gears of War and that's exactly what we're playing right now. Anyhow, an inside source from ... [read more >>] | | 13 November 2007, 10:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Lost Planet Will be Released on the PS3 Too |  | Thanks to Capcom's Gamers Day we got to find out a couple of hot and spicy new rumors, like the fact that Lost Planet is coming to the PS3. The acclaimed third person shooter was a hit on the Xbox 360 and the PC, but now it's heading to Sony's platform ready ... [read more >>] | | 18 October 2007, 10:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Half Life 2's OS X Port Costs $ 1 Million |  | EA have recently hit the market with NFS and Battlefield ports for the OS X, so Valve couldn't wait to seize the opportunity and make an OS X port of their own. Of course, Half Life 2 seems to have been the chosen title and the talks with Apple were on their way when suddenly...th ... [read more >>] | | 08 October 2007, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| USB Lockdown, The Easy Way |  | Using the Universal Serial Bus is a fast and easy method to copy file to and from a host computer system by means of a NAND flash storage device. While most users like and appreciate this feature there are situations when the blocking of the USB ports is of paramount importance because of security reasons.
There are many software solutions for blocking the USB ports and prevent users from accessing them, but most of them are t ... [read more >>] | | 04 October 2007, 04:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Multi-functional Connecting Hub |  | As the number of devices that are using either the USB or the FireWire connection standards in order to connect to a host computer system is huge and growing every day and thanks to the fact that now almost every computer user sports one of more such gadgets, it is very easy for some to be left out in the cold when it comes to available and free ports.
For such cases there are the USB and FireWire hubs that are using a single ... [read more >>] | | 03 October 2007, 11:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A More Unusual USB Hub |  | The USB port is by far the most widely used and popular method of connecting different kinds of devices to a computer, from a mouse or a keyboard, to a Web camera, printer or MP3 player. While there are a number of other peripherals connectivity standards around – like the FireWire standard – which offer better transferring speeds, the Universal Serial Bus (now at its 2.0 version) is still the most widely used and it can be found ... [read more >>] | | 11 September 2007, 03:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What Do You Want on Your Motherboard? |  | High-end motherboards are anything but cheap but they (at least theoretically) should provide the best possible environment for the processor, memory and all the other components to work in. Because some benefits are not so easily to quantify ( the board's overclocking ability for example) most producers rely on a growin ... [read more >>] | | 17 July 2007, 10:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The World's Oldest Wooden Anchor |  | One of the first maritime civilizations rose on the Mediterranean, so it's no wonder that now archaeologists have found embedded in the mud of the seafloor the world's oldest wooden anchor of an ancient port at the Aegean Sea in what is now Turkey.
The ancient Greek colony, named Klazomenai, founded in the 1st millennium BC, was located near the modern Turkish port city of Urla.
The 2,700 years old anchor was discovered ... [read more >>] | | 18 May 2007, 02:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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