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Nick Earl, a senior vice president of Electronic Arts, says that most gamers are happy to use the freemium business model, which mixes free-to-play experiences with extra content delivered via microtransactions.
GamesIndustry quotes the executive as saying that, “The market has spoken very loudly that that&rsq...; |
3 April 2013
12:51 GMT |
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At least 62 inmates have been involved in a melee at Los Angeles County's Twin Towers Jail on Tuesday, April 2.
A report by the Los Angeles Times mentions that four prisoners have been injured during the fight, and law enforcement officials describe that they have only suffered minor bruising and cuts.
Jail au... |
3 April 2013
12:41 GMT |
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A new flavor of the UberSocial application is now available for download for the owners of legacy BlackBerry devices out there, namely version 1.416.
The new app release arrives on handsets manly with fixes for the various bugs that were found to affect the user experience, but also with a series of other enhanceme... |
3 April 2013
12:41 GMT |
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Dark matter is accepted as fact these days, but we haven't been able to observe it directly, since its very nature makes it unobservable. We have seen its effects on the universe though and we know that it's a huge chunk, more than a quarter, of what the universe is made up of. But we're now seeing th... |
3 April 2013
12:31 GMT |
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Large retailer GameStop has talked about next-gen consoles and how Microsoft's unrevealed Xbox 720 will be a very "hot" and "compelling" device, according to its CEO, J. Paul Raines.
Sony revealed to the world the PlayStation 4 back in February and, since then, rumors have started appearing about when Microsoft... |
3 April 2013
12:31 GMT |
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Yahoo Mail for Windows 8 has been around for a while, but users complained about the lack of some essential features, including multi-account support.
It appears that the Sunnyvale-based company has listened to its users, as a new version of Yahoo Mail for Windows 8 is now available for download from the Store, brin... |
3 April 2013
12:21 GMT |
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The latest version for Adobe Lightroom adds a correction to the demosaic algorithms for Fujifilm cameras equipped with the X-Trans and the EXR sensor. But apart from this, the fresh revision also packs fixes for plenty of bugs.
As such, the crop overlay tool should no longer resize incorrectly when the “Constr... |
3 April 2013
12:03 GMT |
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Rovio Mobile Ltd., the popular mobile game publisher, has made available for download a new flavor of its latest game for devices running under Android, namely The Croods, now up for grabs as version 1.0.5.
According to the company, the new flavor of the mobile app was meant to provide users with a better overall e... |
3 April 2013
12:01 GMT |
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The WP Butler plugin can provide a very useful shortcut system for common actions in the WordPress dashboard and admin panel. Want to add a new blog category but hate navigating the default WordPress sidebar menu? It's simple with WP Butler. Press SHIFT+ALT+B and type “add” or “category”... |
3 April 2013
12:01 GMT |
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The development team at Capcom announces that it is planning to launch a host of in-game events for Resident Evil 6 during April, designed to offer new challenges for the player community. The list on the official publisher blog mentions: - Bound by Fate – from April 5 to 11, challenges players to get through... |
3 April 2013
11:51 GMT |
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Extracting text from a PDF file is a pretty simple operation that relies on copy/paste actions if the document is not protected against copying. But things are getting a little more complicated if you want to preserve the formatting, because simply pasting into a text processor does not save such information. With P... |
3 April 2013
11:51 GMT |
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The stable version for Dropbox client received an update that brings to the table a hefty set of repairs for all supported platforms. Users should no longer experience difficulties with seeing the sharing dialog when clicking the Share Link button, and on Windows the tray pop up menu is now displayed correctly when ... |
3 April 2013
11:46 GMT |
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VLC (aka VideoLAN), one of the most popular media players on desktop computers, is set to become available for the owners of Windows Phone 8 devices in the coming months, it seems.
The team behind the application has confirmed back in December plans to bring the player to this OS, and has reaffirmed its commitment ... |
3 April 2013
11:41 GMT |
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Mozilla has its hands busy, particularly for such a small outfit. It's busy bringing Firefox to Android, with limited success, it's busy launching its own mobile operating system (we'll see how that goes) and it's got several other smaller projects on the sidelines. But one of the biggest, at lea... |
3 April 2013
11:37 GMT |
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Several weeks ago, Amazon introduced AutoRip, a feature that added the MP3 versions of every CD you ever bought from Amazon to your Cloud Player account. Anyone could have ripped those songs for themselves, but having it done automatically by Amazon was an interesting move. Now, the move is getting even more inter... |
3 April 2013
11:30 GMT |
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Last week, wireless carrier AT&T; officially confirmed plans to make the Samsung Galaxy S 4 smartphone available for reservations on its network starting with April 16, and also said that the device would cost $249.99 (194 Euro) on contract.
However, it appears that it was actually referring to the 32GB flavor of th... |
3 April 2013
11:12 GMT |
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As expected, Verizon Wireless has just confirmed that it will carry the sequel to the LG Lucid mid-range Android smartphone. The new device is called LG Lucid 2 and it will go on sale tomorrow via Verizon’s online store. According to the carrier, the handset will arrive at its brick and mortar stores in the co... |
3 April 2013
11:01 GMT |
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The Plex LED from Diamantini & Domeniconi might become a favorite item of people who like unusual products and don't mind paying for them.
That last part is particularly important, because the desktop clock costs $400 / 400 Euro.
The only issue people may have with it is the numberless face. We suppose it is &... |
3 April 2013
10:59 GMT |
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Dropbox, a client for an online service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere, no matter the platform, is now at version 2.1.7.
Dropbox 2.1.7 is an experimental version and is way ahead of the stable branch. It brings a lot of new features, but keep in mind that not all of them will make it ... |
3 April 2013
10:53 GMT |
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While most of you are enjoying the brand-new release of the popular GNOME desktop environment, version 3.8, deep down in some "caves" the GNOME developers are hard at work, forging the features of the next major release, GNOME 3.10.
First of all, we already know that the GNOME 3.10 desktop environment will be porte... |
3 April 2013
10:52 GMT |
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Google has released new data on the distribution of the various versions of its Android platform on devices out there, unveiling that Jelly Bean accounts for 25 percent of them as of April 2, 2013.
The company usually releases such info at the beginning of each month, but today it announced some changes in the way ... |
3 April 2013
10:51 GMT |
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Students in India are working on an anti-rape project in the form of a bra that can help protect from attackers.
According to RT, the bra will force any assailant to back off by means of electrocuting them. They would be subjected to 3,800 kV and a signal would alert police about a rape going on.
The zapping functi... |
3 April 2013
10:49 GMT |
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Leshcat, a young Linux IT administrator from Belarus, released his own public beta driver for AMD's Catalyst 13.3 Beta 3. His version of the Catalyst includes ATi Graphic Driver 12.100.17.0000, Intel HD Graphics Legacy 15.22.58.2993 and Modern 15.28.12.64.2932 and the optional ATi HDMI audio driver 7.12.0.7714 o... |
3 April 2013
10:46 GMT |
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In a discussion on Branch, Apple pundit John Gruber shared his thoughts about Apple’s potential iPad 5 launch event this month, noting that even if it gets pushed to May, it would not witness the unveiling of a new iOS version as well.
Dropping a bit of a bombshell in a discussion spawned by a Wall Street Jour... |
3 April 2013
10:44 GMT |
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Video game publisher SEGA admits that it has deceived gamers with the trailers for Aliens: Colonial Marines, the first-person shooter that was launched earlier during the year.
A gamer known on Reddit as subpardave has complained about the difference between trailers for Aliens and the final look of the game to the ... |
3 April 2013
10:44 GMT |
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It may very well be that elephants are very much helpless when it comes to defending themselves against poachers, yet it is also true that these animals are just not the gentle giants most people believe them to be.
The mother elephant pictured above thoroughly proved this when charging a pack of hyenas and eventua... |
3 April 2013
10:43 GMT |
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Bethesda has confirmed that a new version of Doom 4 is now in production, as an early version of the project made by id Software was canceled due to quality issues. Veteran developer id Software hasn't been going through the best of times, as after the lackluster debut of Rage back in 2011, many expected the co... |
3 April 2013
10:39 GMT |
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The development team behind the MATE desktop environment proudly announces that the stable 1.6 version of the popular project is now available for download and upgrade.
MATE 1.6 is a fork of GNOME 2, providing a traditional desktop environment for Linux operating systems and low-end machines.
Highlights of MATE 1.6... |
3 April 2013
10:37 GMT |
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Demi Lovato is promoting her upcoming album, titled simply “Demi,” with a very lively and quite awesome performance of the leading single off it, “Heart Attack,” on DWTS.
Check it out in full above.
Useless to say, ABC’s Dancing With the Stars is one huge and amazing platform to drum ... |
3 April 2013
10:36 GMT |
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Giant windmills that spin in the wind are a grand sight, especially in wind power plants, but they are rather dangerous, some keep arguing.
To be fair, if one of those propellers, or just one blade, suddenly broke off from the stem/pole/building, it could definitely cause some damage.
That is why the Delft Universi... |
3 April 2013
10:34 GMT |
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It’s a well-known fact that Microsoft and Mozilla send each other cakes whenever they release new versions of their browsers, even though they’re considered two of the fiercest rivals on the market.
Mozilla has recently celebrated its 15th anniversary, so the Redmond-based software vendor has decided to ... |
3 April 2013
10:32 GMT |
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A man suspected of burglarizing dozens of cabins and hiding out in Utah’s mountainous region has been arrested on Tuesday, reports say.
Police in the area have been looking for survivalist Troy Knapp, also known as Utah’s "Mountain Man" for years. The Emery County Sheriff’s office tracked him down ... |
3 April 2013
10:30 GMT |
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Back in 2011, Semeru went down in history as the first male zoo-born orangutan to be released in the wild. Unfortunately, it appears that the orangutan recently passed away following his being bitten by a venomous snake.
The wildlife rangers who discovered his body in a rainforest on the island of Sumatra, Indonesi... |
3 April 2013
10:29 GMT |
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Altitude, a multiplayer action game developed and published by Nimbly Games, will be arriving on Steam for Linux, soon.
Altitude is a 2D action game, in which the player controls a plane and fights in huge multiplayer battles, against friends or other online users.
The game comes with a few multiplayer modes, inclu... |
3 April 2013
10:16 GMT |
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Here’s one for the books. Analysts at Topeka Capital Markets are boasting in a new research note that Apple’s Chinese suppliers have tipped them off regarding a new product that will “revolutionize the TV experience forever.” It’s called the iRing, and it’s said to be Apple’s... |
3 April 2013
10:16 GMT |
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Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s personal doctor, is now serving a 4-year prison sentence for manslaughter and, in a recent interview with Anderson Cooper, he explains why he has no intention of testifying in the Michael Jackson wrongful death lawsuit against AEG Live.
And he does that by singing. No joke, ch... |
3 April 2013
10:16 GMT |
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News and rumor websites tend to be the bearer of good news just as often as they bear the bad, and what we have here is definitely the bad.
According to a report from Digitimes, something important and unfortunate will take place over the next few months.
Graphics cards from AMD and NVIDIA that use DDR3 memory will... |
3 April 2013
10:16 GMT |
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Judging by what several researchers now have to say about the psychological benefits of not apologizing, some might wish to argue that the practice of saying “sorry” is no more and no less than a result of society's brainwashing us into trying to make amends whenever we accidentally or purposely harm... |
3 April 2013
10:12 GMT |
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A brand new video has appeared showcasing the nine different personalization packs that are available in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 as microtransactions, showing off what players can get in exchange for their real-life money.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 appeared last November, but in March developer Treyarch introduced... |
3 April 2013
10:11 GMT |
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SymmetricDS, an open source software for multi-master database replication, filtered synchronization, or transformation across the network in a heterogeneous environment, is now at version 3.3.6.
SymmetricDS 3.3.6 supports multiple subscribers with one direction or bi-directional asynchronous data replication and us... |
3 April 2013
10:10 GMT |
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It may not last for long, but Google is still trying to play nice with everyone and work on web standards with the rest of the browser makers.
Case in point is its support for the Opus audio codec, developed mostly by Mozilla, for the WebRTC spec, which was first developed and proposed by Google.
Google has built ... |
3 April 2013
10:04 GMT |
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Owners of Windows Phone devices might not get an official Instagram client anytime soon, but they will be able to shoot photos with their handsets’ cameras and post them on Instagram, it seems. Instagraph, a mobile client that would allow that, has emerged online recently, and should serve its purpose, though... |
3 April 2013
10:03 GMT |
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The team at Eidos Montreal working on the new Thief video game says that it has abandoned Stephen Russell, who voiced the main character for the original series, because motion capture techniques now require actors who can also perform their own stunts.
Steven Gallagher, the narrative director working on the reboot,... |
3 April 2013
10:02 GMT |
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This summer, get ready for a hefty dose of Stephen King translated to the small screen: CBS will air a new series called “Under the Dome,” based on King’s book of the same name.
Check out the first look at the show in the video above.
Produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, the s... |
3 April 2013
10:00 GMT |
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The first season of The Walking Dead adventure game from Telltale Games will see its retail version appear across Europe, Australia, and New Zealand in May.
The Walking Dead series of episodic adventure titles delivered a stunning interactive experience that amazed millions of gamers on the PC, PS3, Xbox 360 or iOS ... |
3 April 2013
09:57 GMT |
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Microsoft brags about its Lync communication and collaboration platform with every single occasion, so the company is now telling everyone that this particular service has actually played a decisive role in President Obama’s victory in the 2012 elections.
According to a press release rolled out by the Redmond-... |
3 April 2013
09:52 GMT |
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Most sites don't allow you to use obscene or offensive user names, some don't want you using obscenities in comments or posts, but few would prevent you from using profane passwords. Except AT&T;, it seems. On the company's password reset page, AT&T; instructs users not to use their IDs or common words ... |
3 April 2013
09:47 GMT |
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Made official at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January, the Lenovo K900 smartphone will arrive on the market with a 2GHz dual-core Intel Atom Clover Trail+ processor, which should make it one of the most powerful Android-based devices out there.
In fact, benchmarking tests performed by the guy... |
3 April 2013
09:45 GMT |
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Facebook has been steadily issuing updates for its iOS offerings on a regular basis, and the latest such maintenance release is for the iPhone and iPad implementation of Facebook Pages Manager, which now sports improved accessibility.
Pages Manager helps administrators connect with their followers and keep up with a... |
3 April 2013
09:42 GMT |
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Few can argue against the fact that the video above truly is a tearjerker, and I mean this in the best possible way.
The footage was posted online by Mill Dog Rescue only yesterday, and shows one pooch named Lizzy walking on grass for the first time in her life.
By the looks of it, Lizzy has spent the first 12 ye... |
3 April 2013
09:42 GMT |
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Reality star Vicki Gunvalson of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Orange County has a new face and she’s showing it off on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live. Check out the two videos below.
Fans of RHOC already know that she had work done because she was on the show shortly after surgery. In retrospect... |
3 April 2013
09:40 GMT |
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There might once have been some resistance to the idea of cutting prices further in China, but Samsung Display has chosen to go ahead with it after all.
Apparently, Samsung isn't doing as well as it would like in that particular region. Innolux Corporation and AU Optronics are proving strong competitors.
That ... |
3 April 2013
09:40 GMT |
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MINIX has just released firmware version 006 for their NEO G4 device. The new update has some similar changes to its X5 sibling, like the more convenient default launcher option under “Android Settings,” “Display” menu, enlarged mouse pointer and the, now removable, Tuzi.TV HD 2.0 app.
Other ... |
3 April 2013
09:38 GMT |
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Developer and publisher Tecmo Koei announces that Dynasty Warriors 8 is officially in development and will be launched on July 12 in Europe and four days later in North America of this year on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony, with a number of new gameplay features.
The core game experienc... |
3 April 2013
09:36 GMT |
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A 220-pound (100-Kg) bomb dating back to World War II has been uncovered in Germany, in the city of Berlin.
The explosive device has been unearthed near Hauptbahnhof Railway Station, reports say. According to RT, operations to secure the perimeter have caused disruptions for commuters on Wednesday.
Bomb disposal ... |
3 April 2013
09:34 GMT |
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Verizon’s Casio G’z0ne Commando smartphone has been quite popular among Android fans, but the Japanese company did not seem interested in launching a sequel. Well, it looks like Casio changed its mind and the long-awaited sequel to G’z0ne Commando is about to hit shelves in the United States. Dubb... |
3 April 2013
09:31 GMT |
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As reported on several occasions, four young people are currently getting ready to travel to the North Pole and plant a flag on the seabed in this part of the world.
Their goal is to prove that the Arctic belongs to the people, and that the people do not want various companies to commence drilling activities in the... |
3 April 2013
09:31 GMT |
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0 A.D., a free, open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy (RTS) game of ancient warfare with historically-based war/economy, that allows players to relive or rewrite the history of Western civilizations, is now at version Alpha 13.
The latest version of 0 A.D, Alpha 13, has been dubbed Magadha and comes with a ... |
3 April 2013
09:27 GMT |
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After releasing a few details about the upcoming update 1.0.8 for Diablo 3, like how it's going to improve co-op farming, Blizzard has now posted a lengthy list of major changes coming to the role-playing dungeon crawler through the future patch, from bonuses to XP, Magic Find or Gold Find when playing with othe... |
3 April 2013
09:27 GMT |
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The awesome side-scrolling shooter Duke Nukem 2 is up for grabs on the iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPad. The game sells for $1.99 / €1.89 and supports all iDevices that can run iOS 5.1.
A 1993 arcade classic designed and developed by Apogee, Duke Nukem II offers smooth side-scrolling action with 32 action-f... |
3 April 2013
09:26 GMT |
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Since semiconductors are nearing the limit of what they can accomplish by sticking to a single plane, foundries have been doing their best to come up with new ways of building them, even if it means going 3D.
Tri-gate transistors were the first thing that happened, then the idea arose for three-dimensional memory c... |
3 April 2013
09:22 GMT |
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Skype is undoubtedly the number one VoIP platform in the world, so Microsoft uses every single occasion to brag about its service, especially as the company prepares to kill Windows Live Messenger.
The Redmond-based technology titan says that Skype is now being used to talk more than 2 billion minutes over the Inter... |
3 April 2013
09:20 GMT |
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One year ago, Patricia Krentcil earned herself the nickname of Tanning Mom after word got out that she’d taken her 5-year-old daughter to the tanning salon because she thought she looked too “pale.” Today, she’s ok with the tanning bed ban.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is behind the so... |
3 April 2013
09:18 GMT |
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One of the things Google is focusing on with Drive, is file previews and management. If it's going to take on Dropbox, this is the area that is going to need improvement. The latest such improvement is a relatively small change to shared folders.
"Viewing shared folders in Google Drive just got a whole lot pret... |
3 April 2013
09:12 GMT |
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Apple has finally made up its mind in regard to who will handle the chip production for its iPhone 6. The A7 chip, as it is believed the SoC will be called, is reportedly going to be produced by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). Japan’s Macotakara takes it upon itself to convey a rumor stemmin... |
3 April 2013
09:10 GMT |
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Nvidia believes that the next series of mobile devices, like smartphones or tablets, will overtake the current generation of consoles, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, in terms of performance.
The PS3 and Xbox 360 have been around for quite some time, but game developers still manage to squeeze out performance from t... |
3 April 2013
08:59 GMT |
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After rolling out several campaigns aimed at encouraging people to become vegans, green-oriented group PETA saw fit to launch a website whose sole purpose is that of teaching those who do wish to embrace a meat- and dairy-free diet how to make the transition.
The website has three sections: What to Buy, What to Mak... |
3 April 2013
08:57 GMT |
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Google is making some progress in bringing Now to the desktop. There's been a Google Now flag in Chrome for weeks now. It doesn't do anything, it most likely only works for Google employees and trusted testers.
It still doesn't do anything in the latest Chrome Canary builds, but having it and the rich... |
3 April 2013
08:53 GMT |
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Microsoft will start the Windows Live Messenger shutdown next week, hoping to see most, if not all, users migrating to Skype. Basically, the gigantic Skype user base is one of the reasons why Microsoft has decided to retire its popular Windows Live Messenger app, so making the switch to Skype’s integrated Mess... |
3 April 2013
08:52 GMT |
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Sprint has just confirmed thatit will start taking pre-orders for HTC One on April 5 and that the smartphone will go on sale on April 19. Customers will soon be able to pre-purchase the HTC One via Sprint for $200/€155 with a new two-year agreement (excludes taxes and surcharges). Keep in mind that Sprint will... |
3 April 2013
08:52 GMT |
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Owners of a Nokia Lumia 920 smartphone in Europe should start seeing a new software update being delivered to them, in the form of firmware 1308 (or 1232.5957.1308.0004, since this is its full version). The update is currently being pushed to various markets across the Old Continent, it seems, after it has already b... |
3 April 2013
08:51 GMT |
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Retro Groupees, a bundle of games available on multiple platforms, contains a couple of Linux titles, Foreline and Anodyne. The game bundles sold through Groupees are not well known, but they do have some pretty interesting games and, sometimes, a few of them are Linux-compatible. Forceline is a 2D action platforme... |
3 April 2013
08:47 GMT |
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A second grade student from Washington County, Tennessee has incurred 24 one-day suspensions over a foul body odor that she gives out. Teachers, students and school officials agree that the smell has become a disruption and have sent her home on repeated occasions. According to WSAV, counselors have tried asking th... |
3 April 2013
08:45 GMT |
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Today, ASRock launched a full set of drivers for the IMB-161-D motherboard. This device is part of the IPC (Industrial PC) series and can be found in information booths, gaming machines or devices like POS units. The list includes sound, chipset, Ethernet, AHCI and graphics drivers, most of which are from Intel. Rea... |
3 April 2013
08:44 GMT |
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Wyatt Cheng, the technical designer working on Diablo III, says that his team has big plans for the cooperative aspect of the game, with a raft of changes prepared for the upcoming patch 1.0.8, designed to make it more attractive to players.In an official blog post, the developer states that, “From day one, it&... |
3 April 2013
08:44 GMT |
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Quickoffice Inc. has released an iPhone-compatible version of the company’s productivity suite meant to create, edit, and view Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on iOS platforms.
Quickoffice is designed for Google Apps users to offer access to all their files stored in Google Drive. The free solution... |
3 April 2013
08:41 GMT |
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Adam Shaw and his pet dog Rocky are now referred to as true Canadian heroes following their rescuing two sisters, Krymzen and Samara Sunshine, from drowning in the North Saskatchewan River. Sources say that Adam was merely enjoying a quite walk with his wife, his kids and Rocky when they became aware of the fact tha... |
3 April 2013
08:41 GMT |
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Halle Berry has always been very vocal about how much she dislikes the paparazzi. Her fiancé Olivier Martinez certainly feels the same way, especially after last night’s incident at LAX, as they were returning from Hawaii.
Check out the video above to see how the whole thing played out.
Basically, Ha... |
3 April 2013
08:35 GMT |
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Top-mounded hard disk drive and solid-state drive docks seem to be the rave nowadays, though a theory closer to the truth would be that there isn't much else that can add flavor to PC cases.
Whichever the reason may be, Thermaltake has installed one on top of the Urban S71 enclosure, the latest addition to a r... |
3 April 2013
08:33 GMT |
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It’s been two weeks since the last update for WhatsApp Messenger for BlackBerry 10 devices, and developers have just released a new version on BlackBerry World.
WhatsApp Messenger 2.9.4662 comes with several new features and tweaks, as well as some bug fixes and improvements. The full list of changes is availa... |
3 April 2013
08:31 GMT |
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Dan Ayoub, a developer working on the Castle map pack for Halo 4, says that his team at 343 Industries and fellow developers Certain Affinity are constantly surprised by the multiplayer community and the way they come to use the content that they receive. He tells VG247 that, “we’re constantly surprised ... |
3 April 2013
08:28 GMT |
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Hayden Panettiere usually likes to keep to herself, especially when it comes to her personal life, but her brand new interview with Glamour magazine is the exception. In it, the pint-sized star talks about anything from plans to start a family to her misspelled ribcage tattoo.
As fans must know, Hayden recently reco... |
3 April 2013
08:22 GMT |
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Today, South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics officially published the suggested retail price for the dual-SIM flavor of its LG Optimus L7 II smartphone in India.
The handset can be seen on this page on the company’s website, with a MRP of Rs. 18,650 ($343 / 267 Euro) next to it, although no specific ... |
3 April 2013
08:21 GMT |
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PAC Manager, a Perl/GTK replacement for SecureCRT, Putty, and so on (linux ssh/telnet/gui) that provides a GUI to configure connections, is now at version 4.5.2.
Highlights of PAC Manager 4.5.2:
• Support for non UTF-8 encodings has been added in KeePass;
• The possibility to have BOTH "rdesktop" and "xfr... |
3 April 2013
08:21 GMT |
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Having covered the market for small form factor PCs when it put together the GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU Mini graphics card, ASUS is now preparing a stronger and larger board. Called GeForce GTX 660 Ti Dragon, it has a clock speed of up to 1,150 MHz for the GPU, an 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM with memory frequency of 6.1 GHz. ... |
3 April 2013
08:18 GMT |
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Square Enix has just posted a video with the recently confirmed Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut game for the Nintendo Wii U, not to mention a lengthy list of features that will be included in the new version of the action RPG. Deus Ex: Human Revolution delivered an impressive experience back in 2011 wh... |
3 April 2013
08:17 GMT |
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A team of researchers speaking at yesterday's annual meeting of the British Sociological Association in London maintain that, as their investigations have shown, men do wish to have children, and are likely to get more depressed than childless women if they don't.
Apart from their being depressed because ... |
3 April 2013
08:12 GMT |
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David Tavares announced last week that the second Beta release of the upcoming Pear OS 7 Linux operating system was made available for download and testing.
Pear OS 7 Beta 2 fixes even more bugs found in the previous Beta release, cleans the entire system, fixes bugs in CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System), and fixes... |
3 April 2013
08:08 GMT |
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Nokia and Nimbuzz have just announced the immediate availability of one of the largest and fastest growing mobile messaging applications available on the market, Nimbuzz for Windows Phone 8. With this release, Nimbuzz hopes to bring its popular messaging service to Windows Phone 8 users and expand its market even fu... |
3 April 2013
08:01 GMT |
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Quinto, a lamb born with five legs at the Whitehouse Farm in Morpeth, in the UK, is by far the cutest mutant animal I have seen in a while.Sky Tyne and Wear wrote that Quinto was born on Easter Sunday and her owner, Helen Miller chose to name her after the Latin word for “five.”A genetic anomaly, the lamb... |
3 April 2013
07:55 GMT |
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The teams at developer Maxis and publisher Electronic Arts are partnering with Nissan to launch a free piece of downloadable content for SimCity, allowing players to create a charging station for the Leaf that will deliver a happiness boost for nearby businesses and to every citizen that uses it.
Gamers need to visi... |
3 April 2013
07:54 GMT |
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Even though it was known by most of FreeBSD users that the 9.0 release of the best BSD operating system will reach EOL (End-Of-Life) on March 31, 2013, we feel obliged to announce users that FreeBSD 9.0 is no longer supported.
Originally released on January 10, 2012, FreeBSD 9.0 was a short-term supported release (... |
3 April 2013
07:53 GMT |
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The Xbox 720 controller is quite similar to the Xbox 360 one, although it's a bit smaller in overall size, according to a brand new report about the next-gen platform.
The Xbox 720 is expected to be revealed at the end of May, according to recent rumors, and now a brand new report has surfaced, focusing on the ... |
3 April 2013
07:42 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics is reportedly gearing up for the launch of a new-generation Galaxy Ace smartphone, to continue the already popular lineup.
Featuring model number GT-S7272, the new Galaxy Ace 3 is expected to arrive on the market sometime in week 22 or 23, and might pack dual-SIM ... |
3 April 2013
07:41 GMT |
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When it comes to rugged products, the surest way to drive the point home that they really are very physically strong is to get them certified to “military” standards, even if they aren't meant for use by the army.
For hard disk drive, it is particularly tricky to get them certified to those levels,... |
3 April 2013
07:38 GMT |
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Back in December 2012, the news broke that air pollution should be held accountable for a whopping 3.2 million yearly premature deaths worldwide. As reported at that time, China takes the lion's share when it comes to deadly health conditions developed as a result of air pollution. In all fairness, China'... |
3 April 2013
07:36 GMT |
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Shain Gandee, star of MTV’s controversial reality show “Buckwild,” was found dead in his truck the other day, together with his uncle and another, still unidentified male. Authorities have confirmed the cause of death.
The three died of carbon monoxide poisoning, as speculated shortly after word o... |
3 April 2013
07:31 GMT |
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A fisherman has landed a gigantic, 7-foot (2.1-m) long, 102-pound (46-kg) barracuda in Angola, on the Cuanza River while aiming to catch a tarpon.Cam Nicolson tells GrindTV that it is by far the biggest one he has ever seen in his life. His record so far has been a 65 pounder (30 kg), while the average one that can b... |
3 April 2013
07:29 GMT |
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Intel’s team has made a new Ethernet Connections CD, version 18.2, that just like the previous 18.1 package, contains all the drivers needed for most of its Ethernet adapters, and is compatible with all known versions of Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems. Although an official release note is p... |
3 April 2013
07:14 GMT |
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Indie developer Curve Studios has confirmed that Stealth Bastard, the stealth platformer it released for the PC last year, is going to appear for the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita consoles this summer.
What's more, the studio is organizing a special contest to find a new, less profane name, so fans can enter their... |
3 April 2013
07:12 GMT |
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The development team at Visual Concepts and publisher 2K Sports announce that they are eliminating a number of exploits from MLB 2K13 in order to make sure that all those who take part in the Million Dollar Challenge play fair.
According to Kotaku, in 2012, gamers were able to use the loading time for matches to mak... |
3 April 2013
07:06 GMT |
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As reported a few days ago, UCWeb, the company behind the popular UC Browser, has kicked off the private testing of version 9.0 of their Android application. Today, the company posted on its forum a download link for the app, and also delivered some info on what users should expect to see in the new UC Browser 9.0 ... |
3 April 2013
07:05 GMT |
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Optimus L3 II, the cheapest smartphone in LG’s new L II series, has just made an appearance in India, suggesting that the South Korean vendor might be gearing up for the launch of the entire lineup in this country shortly. The Black LG Optimus L3 II E435 can be seen listed on this page at online retailer Flip... |
3 April 2013
07:01 GMT |
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The few (?) people still using the Picasa desktop software now have one more reason to worry or one less reason to use it, depending on how you look at it. Google has now enabled full-size photo uploads to Google+ on the desktop site.
"Today we're making it possible upload full-size photos from your desktop --... |
3 April 2013
06:31 GMT |
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Another day, another update for the official WhatsApp Messenger application aimed at Android devices. Although this is just a minor update, those who wish to use the latest version of WhatsApp can download it for free.
Keep in mind that this version of WhatsApp has yet to be uploaded on Google Play, so you can only ... |
3 April 2013
06:31 GMT |
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Unveiled last month, Sony Xperia SP and Xperia L have been confirmed to arrive in the UK in Q2 2013. At least one UK-based retailer hinted to a possible release of the phones in late April and now we’ve just received additional confirmation that Xperia SP and Xperia L will arrive this month.
UnwiredView report... |
3 April 2013
06:21 GMT |
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It’s official: break out the 3D glasses (most likely) and the handkerchiefs because Nemo and Dory are coming back. Above is a video of Ellen DeGeneres confirming the highly anticipated sequel to “Finding Nemo.”
The film will focus on Dory and, as speculated back in August last year, it will be cal... |
3 April 2013
06:14 GMT |
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Music streaming service Spotify Ltd. has unveiled a new version of its mobile application for iOS customers, which introduces support for the Ford SYNC AppLink platform. According to the release notes accompanying the new Spotify Mobile 0.6.2, “you can [now] listen in your car with the Ford SYNC AppLink platfo... |
3 April 2013
06:11 GMT |
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Microsoft will most likely implement several app updates in the new Windows 8.1, including major improvements for the Modern tools installed by default.
Fresh Paint is one of the programs expected to receive several enhancements, so the Redmond-based software vendor is now releasing the latest updates ahead of the W... |
3 April 2013
06:11 GMT |
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Since most monitors and TVs released lately use IPS panels, I-O Data figured it wouldn't hurt to offer a model that employed one of those good old-fashioned TN screens instead.
IPS panels (in-plane switching) have the advantage of wider viewing angles and, in some ways, better image quality, but they sacrifice... |
3 April 2013
05:56 GMT |
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Louisville Cardinals guard Kevin Ware has gained a lot of support on Twitter after he snapped his lower right leg on the court during the Duke March Madness game on March 31.
According to Mashable, the player's official Twitter account is @_billionairebev, and supportive messages are pouring in from fans.
They... |
3 April 2013
05:55 GMT |
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One of the smartphones that South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung might announce as part of its Galaxy lineup in the near future is the Galaxy Win, which has just made an official appearance online.
The device is expected to land on shelves with a 4.7-inch sAMOLED display that can deliver a 480 x 800 pixel resolu... |
3 April 2013
05:52 GMT |
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phpMyAdmin, the popular tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases, has just reached version 4.0.0 RC1.
The developers of phpMyAdmin have just released the first release candidate, in a new branch of the application. There aren't many changes from the previous release, but an R... |
3 April 2013
05:51 GMT |
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Today, Amanda Bynes turns 27. She is of the same age as Lindsay Lohan, so the question arises: do they have more in common than this? Online reports would seem to point to “yes.”
For the past several months, Bynes has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons: retiring and un-retiring from acting, ... |
3 April 2013
05:50 GMT |
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Mozilla this week rolled out Firefox 20.0, a major new version of the company’s popular web browser for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux computers alike.
Firefox 20 packs the usual security fixes, as well as a few enhancements. One of them is “per-window Private Browsing,” which lets you browse the web... |
3 April 2013
05:49 GMT |
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Battlefield 4 has been revealed by developer DICE and publisher Electronic Arts via a 17-minute-long single-player video and it seems that the team wants to focus on the story of the coming first-person shooter, which is expected to be dramatic and driven by general human emotions. Karl Magnus Troedsson, the general... |
3 April 2013
05:47 GMT |
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In an attempt to further improve on its ecological footprint by upping its dependency on environmentally-friendly energy sources, Japan is planning on building a 400MW solar power park on a remote island located just off the coast of the Sasebo city.
Business Green informs us that the costs for building this solar ... |
3 April 2013
05:39 GMT |
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Law enforcement are looking to identify suspects in a robbery that has taken place in Lakewood, Colorado on Monday, April 1.
Photos captured via CCTV revealed that two men used a baby stroller to carry out merchandise looted from a LensCrafters store.
The pair made out with eyewear, optometry equipment and parts su... |
3 April 2013
05:38 GMT |
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Microsoft has unleashed yet another impressive sale on its Xbox Live online service, slashing the price on a variety of great downloadable games that have been published by its own Game Studios, including Trials Evolution, Castle Crashers, Deadlight, Mark of the Ninja, Full House Poker, and much more.
Plenty of grea... |
3 April 2013
05:38 GMT |
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Wynonna Judd is on the current season of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars but this week meant for her more than the stress of elimination, as she reveals in a new interview with People magazine. Her husband walked for the first time since he had his leg amputated.
Last August, Michael Scott “Cactus” Mo... |
3 April 2013
05:34 GMT |
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The development team at Blizzard in charge of the Starcraft 2 World Championship will offer a total prize purse of more than 1.6 million dollars (1.24 million Euro) to the best players in the world when it starts, later during the year.
Gamespot says that it will split the competition into three parallel streams, on... |
3 April 2013
05:29 GMT |
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CradlePoint has released the 4.2.1 firmware version that is targeted at 9 of its routers, and replaces the 4.2.0 package.
Besides the MBR1400, MBR1400V2, CBR400, CBR450, IBR600 and IBR650 routers that were already supported by the previous version, the new release includes the MBR1200B, MBR95, and CBA750B routers ... |
3 April 2013
05:26 GMT |
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield has plenty of free time, apparently being on the ISS is much like being on a vacation.
So he's been putting out "instructional" videos on how to accomplish everyday tasks in space, things like cooking or clipping your nails.
Because even clipping your nails is exciting in space. Now, h... |
3 April 2013
05:24 GMT |
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A woman who went through a near-death experience documents her experience on an interview with Fox & Friends host Gretchen Carlson.
Crystal McVea wrote Waking Up in Heaven after a pancreatitis intervention during which her heart stopped beating and she was legally dead for five minutes.
She describes meeting God in... |
3 April 2013
05:22 GMT |
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The woman without whom kids from all over the world would have never gotten to enjoy the Muppets, Jane Nebel Henson, has died after a lengthy battle with cancer.
A puppeteer, puppet designer and co-founder of the empire of the Muppets, Henson stayed active with the Jim Henson Co., which confirms her passing to the ... |
3 April 2013
05:21 GMT |
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Hard drive units need to maintain their capacity lead over solid-state drives in order to keep their role on the IT market.
That is why Western Digital, Seagate and Toshiba have been developing platters with higher data densities.
Seagate is the one taking the lead now, having released the industry’s first 4 TB HDD... |
3 April 2013
05:20 GMT |
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Piriform updated Recuva, their file recovery application, to version 1.46. This is a minor release; nevertheless, it packs new features and improves overall functionality of the product. The new Recuva includes the possibility to start a folder scan straight from Windows context menu and expands the file filtering b... |
3 April 2013
05:15 GMT |
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A Branch conversation among tech pundits was kicked off yesterday after the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple’s next iPhone was entering production in Q2 2013. Numerous interesting tidbits emerged. As John Gruber had just dropped the bombshell that iOS 7 was getting delayed, TechCrunch columnist MG Siegl... |
3 April 2013
05:15 GMT |
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Microsoft has just announced the availability of the first Cumulative Update for Exchange Server 2013 RTM, a large collection of updates and bug fixes that should be deployed as soon as possible.
Just like Microsoft explains in a blog post, this new download represents a full build of the product, so it can be easil... |
3 April 2013
05:14 GMT |
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Google is making quite a fuss with its Glass device, the smart and connected glasses that are soon to be handed out to Twitter royalty. But it's not much of a secret that it's not the only one working on wearable computing devices or even on smart glasses such as these.
Still, other than Google, whoever i... |
3 April 2013
05:13 GMT |
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They say that nobody is perfect but, until just now, it sure seemed that Barbie was. Graphic designer Eddi Aguirre has set out to prove that, with the famous Mattel doll, this too is just an illusion made possible by clever makeup and other… womanly tricks.
Click on the image above to see it in full.
Barb... |
3 April 2013
05:02 GMT |
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Google Chrome, a browser built on the WebKit layout engine that aims to be minimalistic and versatile at the same time, is now at version 27.0.1453.12 Dev.
The Google Chrome versions keep on pouring and another Dev release has been made available, with a reasonable amount of fixes and improvements.
Highlights of Go... |
3 April 2013
04:59 GMT |
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Experiments carried out by a team of scientists working with the Cornell University in New York State have recently shown that organic foods are more often than not bought by consumers because of a so-called health halo effect.
More precisely, it is being said that most shoppers tend to overestimate the health bene... |
3 April 2013
04:59 GMT |
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Google recently introduced Google+ Sign-Ins, a new way of logging into or registering for apps and websites. While Google already offers an option like this for regular Google accounts, the Google+ version comes with additional user profile info.
Now, Google is expanding the reach of Google+ sign-ins with a couple o... |
3 April 2013
04:56 GMT |
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When it comes to small form factor PCs, the ideal graphics card is a low-profile, short model that still has decent capabilities.
The higher the performance is, however, the harder it gets to meet all those criteria.
That is why the ASUS GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU Mini is noteworthy even though it has a full-height P... |
3 April 2013
04:54 GMT |
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A high-school student answering questions on the STAAR test by writing “YOLO” in large letters and posting that online has incurred a suspension.
Kyron Birdine tweeted a photo of the test paper on which he mentioned his opinion on the standardized test, which did not go well with officials at Arlington H... |
3 April 2013
04:51 GMT |
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There’s no doubt that Windows 8 games with Xbox support are among the most popular in the Store, especially because they provide multiplayer support and daily challenges, so it’s no surprise that Microsoft is trying to make the most of this terrific success.
The company has just launched a discount campa... |
3 April 2013
04:50 GMT |
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Samsung unveiled both Galaxy Pocket Neo and Galaxy Star budget-friendly smartphones during a Samsung Forum in South Africa, about two weeks ago.
However, the company did not reveal too much info on the smartphones’ specs sheet, availability and pricing at that time.
Today, the South Korean company has officia... |
3 April 2013
04:50 GMT |
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The Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean operating system is finally available for download for Samsung Galaxy S II smartphones in India, it seems.
The new platform release started to arrive on Galaxy S II devices around the world earlier this year, with the UK being the latest to receive it.
Starting this week, however, own... |
3 April 2013
04:49 GMT |
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Certain Affinity, the studio responsible for the upcoming Halo 4 Castle Map Pack DLC that will appear on the Xbox 360 next week, has talked about map making and how constantly iterating designs based on user feedback is crucial to making a great level.
Halo 4 delivered a pretty varied set of maps in its Infinity mul... |
3 April 2013
04:49 GMT |
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Twitter is more than happy to have developers work on its platform, just as long as they don't build clients or any features Twitter already has or plans to add. But anyone using the new Cards platform is welcomed.
Cards make it possible to add content to a tweet, be it videos, images and so on. Twitter is now ... |
3 April 2013
04:44 GMT |
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Fans of Hermione will get to see Emma Watson attempt to ditch that wholesome image in Sofia Coppola’s upcoming film “The Bling Ring.” The cover of the latest issue of GQ offers an indication as to just how different a role she’s undertaken in it.
Check out the image attached to this article ... |
3 April 2013
04:37 GMT |
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The body of a car crash victim has been recovered from the vehicle she was in three days after the incident.
Police found the remains of the woman from Clayton, North Carolina in the front seat of her 2000 Pontiac Sunfire on Monday, April 1, while the vehicle was in an impound lot.
According to WRAL, her car had b... |
3 April 2013
04:28 GMT |
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Randolph Divisions is a company that makes a digital hearing aid called the HearPod. Which sounds a lot like EarPod, the new headphones from Apple Inc. introduced in September 2012 along with the iPhone 5 and the 5th-generation iPod touch.
Why would two words that sound alike be in the news? Well, because one of the... |
3 April 2013
04:28 GMT |
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Mark Rein, a vice president of developer Epic Games and one of the veterans of the company, says that the upcoming PlayStation 4 home console from Sony is a perfect gaming PC that will give players and game creators more freedom. The executive tells CVG during an interview that, “I think it’s a very smar... |
3 April 2013
04:27 GMT |
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Conservationists have argued time and time again that fishing nets have to be held accountable for the death of thousands on marine animals on a yearly basis.
Therefore, they will probably be glad to hear that one company in Hawaii, i.e. Covanta Energy, has recently decided to collect fishing nets and use them to p... |
3 April 2013
04:26 GMT |
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KickassTorrents fans in the US are getting a scare similar to their UK pirate brothers, though, thankfully for them, it's only a temporary problem. The KickassTorrents domain, kat.ph is inaccessible in the US and apparently, in Canada and Brazil as well.
It's a DNS problem, TorrentFreak reports that it ha... |
3 April 2013
04:22 GMT |
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Apple is reportedly gearing up to release its next iPhone this summer. The company has commissioned its assembly partner(s) to start production in a few months, according to people familiar with the production of the device.
The next-generation iPhone from Apple is entering production this summer, according to peopl... |
3 April 2013
04:20 GMT |
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After successfully reviving the Mortal Kombat franchise back in 2011, developer NetherRealm is now trying its hand within the DC Comics universe with Injustice: Gods Among Us. In the new title, some of the most famous and infamous characters from the popular comic book company are fighting it out to prove their supe... |
3 April 2013
04:16 GMT |
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Having more or less reached a limit of how they can customize their PC cases, and since there isn't much else they can do, makers of gaming-related PC hardware are teaming up.
NZXT, SteelSeries and XSplit have joined forces to help each other sell products faster.
The NZXT Armory Store is providing the Phant... |
3 April 2013
04:16 GMT |
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Malwarebytes partnered up with SOS Backup Online to create a new product that combines cloud backup features with malware scanning. The result is Secure Backup. The purpose of the application (currently in beta stage of development) is to make sure that the backup copies uploaded to the cloud are malware free and ca... |
3 April 2013
04:11 GMT |
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Google has explained why, seemingly, direct iTunes links to various iOS apps were hard to find in Google searches. This led plenty of people to speculate that Google may be downranking iTunes links. The developers themselves wondered why the links were so far down in the results.
Google says there are problems index... |
3 April 2013
04:05 GMT |
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According to a research whose findings were published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE this past April 2, being hungry does have its benefits. Thus, this study claims that hunger can be quite beneficial to an individual's brain, in the sense that it can help keep Alzheimer's disease at bay.
For those un... |
3 April 2013
04:01 GMT |
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The development team at Obsidian working on the upcoming Project Eternity is ready to give fans some more pieces of information about the documentary that was one of the more interesting rewards offered during the Kickstarter-funding process.
Adam Brennecke, an executive producer and lead programmer, says on the off... |
3 April 2013
03:56 GMT |
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A dispatcher taking a 911 call about a kayaking incident in Wahkiakum County, Washington state on Sunday, has sent out her own family members to rescue a stranded woman.
The caller was stuck on a log piling on a jetty after her kayak sank, as currents near the jetty flipped it.
The woman was boating in the Cathlam... |
3 April 2013
03:55 GMT |
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Existing DDR3 memory can operate at 11 GB/s, which is actually not too shabby, but the time may soon come when that specification is considered scoff-worthy, and it will all be the HMC Consortium's fault. The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium was very thorough and meticulous in its development of the HMC standard.... |
3 April 2013
03:49 GMT |
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I am sure most people agree that rubbing noses is nothing if not a pleasant experience. Still, seeing one full-grown male lion enjoying a nose rub with a human seems to take things to a whole new level. The picture above was taken at Lujan Zoo in Argentina, and oddly enough, it is neither the first nor the last of ... |
3 April 2013
03:42 GMT |
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Intel has released a new package, namely the 15.31.3.3071 (for x86) and 15.31.3.64.3071 (for x64) versions, that will replace the previous 3062 build version. The new driver is compatible with both bit variants of Microsoft’s Windows 7 and 8 operating systems. Intel’s new version will fix the background ... |
3 April 2013
03:41 GMT |
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Kate Hudson is doing promo work for the thriller “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” her latest film – and it includes an interview with the May 2013 issue of Elle UK as well. One of the topics up for discussion is marriage and family life.
Kate has been engaged to rocker Matt Bellamy for nearly 3 year... |
3 April 2013
03:38 GMT |
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Every once in a while, a project will be published that can turn the world on its head, or at least open up new doors to how we interact with technology. The transparent 3D PC from MIT is one such project.
Jinha Lee, an interaction researcher and PhD candidate at MIT, has created what he dubs a “see-through 3... |
3 April 2013
03:38 GMT |
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Microsoft has recently rolled out a new version of the Outlook.com calendar, more than one month after the company finally pushed the email service out of beta.
The new calendar service “is faster than ever,” Microsoft said in a blog post, and “helps you focus on the events and appointments and tas... |
3 April 2013
03:35 GMT |
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Indie developer The Behemoth is set to release BattleBlock Theater today, April 3, on the Xbox Live online service and the studio has confirmed that the game will reward owners of its previous titles with different things both inside BattleBlock Theater and in Castle Crashers.
The Behemoth has released a variety of ... |
3 April 2013
03:34 GMT |
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Apple pundit John Gruber reveals in a Branch chat that the delayed iOS 7 boasts a “significant system-wide UI overhaul,” adding that the engineers working on it actually have to carry special displays that prevent outsiders from peeking at the software.
Kickstarting a wave of speculation that Apple is ha... |
3 April 2013
03:33 GMT |
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The WebKit-based Opera browser for Android devices is still a work in progress, but those who wish to test its capabilities can download it via Google Play. The latest update delivered by Opera Software brings a new text-wrap feature, along with fixes for some 3G configurations. It is also worth mentioning that dev... |
3 April 2013
03:32 GMT |
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Following its getting cataract, one puffer fish living at the Bristol Zoo had to be operated on by a team of veterinarians.
Since the fish's right eye was badly affected, the vets who performed the surgery were left with no choice except remove it altogether.
“We had to move quickly to help. The eye wa... |
3 April 2013
03:28 GMT |
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The US Federal Trade Commission decided that to put an end to the robocall plague, it will need help. It created the Robocall Challenge, asking people and companies to come up with ways of blocking robocalls before they ever ring a phone. The FTC gets 200,000 complaints about robocalls each month.
There are 800 entr... |
3 April 2013
03:28 GMT |
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Although Sony Germany has stated that the highly-anticipated Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update for Xperia S will commence by the end of March, it appears that the information was inaccurate.
Sony Xperia S owners have yet to receive the promised update, but there’s a slight chance that the Japanese company will s... |
3 April 2013
03:25 GMT |
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Dropbox, a client for an online service that lets you take all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere, no matter the platform, is now at version 2.0.4.
After multiple releases of the Dropbox experimental branch, it's now time for the stable version to make an entrance. This means that there are plenty of change... |
3 April 2013
03:22 GMT |
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A number of retailers report that the Wii U home console from Nintendo is suddenly more popular on the United Kingdom market, with a 125 percent increase in the number of consoles bought during the previous week.
MCV says that a number of shops report that a combination of price cut for the hardware and the launch o... |
3 April 2013
03:21 GMT |
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Earvin “E.J.” Johnson III, Magic Johnson’s son, is gay and proud. Paparazzi caught up with the 20-year-old the other night, as he walked down Sunset Strip hand in hand with an unidentified man.
The same paparazzi (TMZ) claim that the man was E.J.’s boyfriend and that this was his coming out ... |
3 April 2013
03:20 GMT |
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A new flavor of the QuickOffice application is now available for download for the owners of Android-based devices, though only for those who have a Google Apps for Business account, namely version 6.0.101.
The application, designed to provide users with the possibility to easily create, edit and view Word documents... |
3 April 2013
03:13 GMT |
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Kobo may not be as well-known as Amazon, or even Barnes & Noble, on the e-reader market, but it has a whole collection of e-readers, which we have even seen at some of the trade shows that we have attended over the years.
The sales have actually been doing rather well, with 2012 bringing twice the number compared t... |
3 April 2013
03:12 GMT |
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The official Twitter client has landed on Windows 8 a few weeks ago and, even if it lacks several essential features, it’s still experiencing a terrific success on Microsoft’s new operating system.
The app has just received an update supposed to bring several bug fixes, so no new features or options are ... |
3 April 2013
03:08 GMT |
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Hilary Duff has landed a role on the still-popular CBS sitcom “Two and a Half Men,” Us Weekly reports. She will be playing Ashton Kutcher’s love interest and, honestly, you have to admit that they will make a very good looking pair.
Stacey, as Duff’s character is named, will fall for Kutcher&... |
3 April 2013
03:07 GMT |
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New York Senator Malcolm Smith has been arrested for trying to bribe his way into the mayor's position in the upcoming elections.
Queens city councilman Daniel Halloran, a Republican, has been charged for using bribery to get Smith on the GOP ballot.
The lawmakers taking the bribes, Bronx Republican Party Cha... |
3 April 2013
03:06 GMT |
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Supergiant Games, the independent developer behind the popular Bastion, has talked about its next project, Transistor, and how it features a sort of multiplayer mode that allows players to see the paths taken by others in the game.
Bastion impressed lots of people when it first appeared back in 2011 by delivering a ... |
3 April 2013
03:06 GMT |
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Daring Fireball’s John Gruber claims to have heard that Apple is moving developers from OS X 10.9 over to iOS 7, in an effort to get the new mobile OS back on track for its summer debut.
Apple generally rolls out a major new version of its mobile operating system every summer but, this time around, the launch ... |
3 April 2013
02:59 GMT |
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While we've seen plenty of water cooling products for consumer-grade graphics cards, the number of waterblocks for professional units is not as high. EK isn't likely to rectify this all on its own, but it can help.
The Ljubljana-based premium water-cooling gear manufacturer has released the EK-FCS10000, a ... |
3 April 2013
02:59 GMT |
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Only recently, a new species of see-through fish has been discovered by researchers studying the biodiversity of the Amazon rainforest.
By the looks of it, fish belonging to this species measure an average of 17 mm (0.66 inches) from head to tail, which is why the wildlife researchers who found and documented them ... |
3 April 2013
02:59 GMT |
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The official MLB app for Windows 8 is now available for download for all users of Microsoft’s new operating system, offering not only live video or on demand, but also team schedules, scoreboards, and video archives. The application comes with support for all Windows 8 versions, including x86, x64 and ARM, so ... |
3 April 2013
02:58 GMT |
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SeaMonkey 2.17, a web browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing suite, has been released.
SeaMonkey 2.17 is a new major release in the series and comes with important new features, not to mention all the bugfixes made available.
Highlights of SeaMonkey 2.17:
• Performance i... |
3 April 2013
02:57 GMT |
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With just one day left until the official reveal of the Facebook Phone and the company’s specially tailored Android UI, the Windows Phone client has just gotten a major update. Although Facebook did not offer in-depth details on all the changes included in this update, it has confirmed it added support for mul... |
3 April 2013
02:54 GMT |
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The new Android-powered Ouya console is currently available for all those who have backed it on Kickstarter and it seems that they will be able to play more than 1000 video games on the new device.
30plusgamer has been keeping track of announcements linked to the new platform and has compiled a list of the involved ... |
3 April 2013
02:48 GMT |
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A new flavor of the UC Browser is now available for download for devices running under Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, namely 2.9.0.300.
The new app version brings along appealing enhancements, such as Watch Offline, offering the possibility to watch videos that have been cached on the device.
T... |
3 April 2013
02:46 GMT |
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Thanks to several Hollywood movies, bats have a rather bad reputation amongst people. Still, few can deny the fact that Blossom, the blossom bat (yup, she was named after her species) featured in the video above is annoyingly adorable.
Blossom was rehabilitated by Louise Saunders from the Bat Conservation & Rescue ... |
3 April 2013
02:44 GMT |
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NVIDIA may have lost the chance to have its graphics processors used in Sony's PlayStation 4 console, but the company is showing less consternation regarding AMD getting one over it than one would expect.
Granted, Advanced Micro Devices believes that NVIDIA is only putting up an act, and that it is, secretly, ... |
3 April 2013
02:38 GMT |
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Yesterday, we caught a glimpse of a possible Instagram replacement set to arrive on Windows Phone devices in the near future, and it seems that the application has already received the approvals for being published in the Windows Phone Store. As a photo published on WPCentral shows, given that the software has alre... |
3 April 2013
02:34 GMT |
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There have been lots of rumors surrounding the Facebook Phone, but all this ranting will be put to rest tomorrow when the company claims that it will reveal its new “Facebook Home.” Although we originally thought that Facebook would not unveil any phones and that it would only show a new launcher for the... |
3 April 2013
02:34 GMT |
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Mozilla officially released Mozilla Thunderbird 17.0.5 for Linux, an email and RSS client, featuring just a few security fixes.
This is just a minor update for Mozilla Thunderbird, as it can be easily seen from the small number of changes and fixes.
Highlights of Mozilla Thunderbird 17.0.5:
• An out-of-bounds... |
3 April 2013
02:32 GMT |
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Dead Island: Riptide, the upcoming zombie game from Techland and Deep Silver, is now available for pre-purchase on the PC platform via the Steam digital distribution service, and those who place an order will receive a free copy of Dead Island: Game of the Year Edition, as well as a free Dead Island: Riptide Survival... |
3 April 2013
02:29 GMT |
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Mountain View-based Internet giant Google is reportedly gearing up for the launch of a successor for last year’s Nexus 7 tablet PC, and might release it on shelves as soon as July, a new report on the matter suggests.
We have already reported on a possible new 7-inch Nexus tablet coming from Google and ASUS, ... |
3 April 2013
02:24 GMT |
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BioShock Infinite, the narrative driven shooter from developer Irrational Games and publisher 2K Games, is taking over the United Kingdom video game chart for the week that ended on March 30, showing off that critical quality can be paired with solid launch sales.
The game, which has a full review on Softpedia, take... |
3 April 2013
02:16 GMT |
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On April 2, the KDE Project has announced the immediate availability for download and update of the second maintenance release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.10 environment for Linux systems.
KDE 4.10.2 brings over 100 bugfixes submitted by various users, as well as updated translations and general improvements,... |
3 April 2013
02:13 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has already been rumored to plan the launch of new devices in its popular Lumia lineup, and one new such phone appears to have leaked online now, namely the Nokia Lumia 950.
Although previous rumors were pointing at an upcoming Lumia 928, supposedly the specific Verizon flavor of the... |
3 April 2013
02:11 GMT |
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Canonical announced last evening, April 2, in a security notice that a new upgrade for the Linux kernel packages in its Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system is available, fixing three vulnerabilities found by various developers in the Linux 3.0 kernel packages.
These are the three vulnerabilities found in... |
3 April 2013
01:59 GMT |
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Microsoft yesterday launched the Surface Pro in China, the first market to get the device after Canada and the United States.
In addition, the Redmond-based technology giant also introduced a so-called Surface Chinese version of the tablet that comes with the standard version of Windows 8 and with either 64 GB or 12... |
3 April 2013
01:44 GMT |
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After two months of waiting, Viber Media, the company behind one of the most popular communications app for Windows Phone devices, has just released a new version of Viber aimed at WP8-based devices. Aside from the fact that Viber is now fully compatible with all Windows Phone 8 devices and supports free calls with H... |
3 April 2013
01:35 GMT |
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VLC developers have just published a new set of screenshots showing the upcoming Windows RT flavor of their multimedia player, a new version that should be released in the next few months.
While the team behind this project only said that the app is showing a “tremendous progress,” no information on the ... |
3 April 2013
01:26 GMT |
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Windows Blue, the first major Windows 8 refresh that could hit the market as Windows 8.1, is very likely to bring a better search tool, obviously available via the integrated Search Charm.
Paul Thurrott of WinSuperSite.com discovered that Windows Blue might search through apps, settings and files by default, without... |
3 April 2013
01:13 GMT |
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