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 According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that evolution in modern humans has entered into full gear. Over the past 40,000 years or so, experts show, the rate at which our species evolves has accelerated remarkably.
The new results are in direct contradiction with the conclusions of other scientific studies,... (read more) |
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 LightSquared, one of the major providers of integrated wireless broadband and satellite network, has just announced that it has found a solution to the problem of interference with Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers.
For those who don't know, LightSquared's proposed broadband network in the L-Band spectrum... (read more) |
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 For the past few years, Google has been flirting with news, either by expanding its Google News product but also through several other tools designed for news publishers, partly because of the tension between the company and old school publications. But it's been lacking focus, something that may change now that it's bringing in Richard Gingras, the ... (read more) |
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 European Union's new legislation that forces websites to ask users for permission before storing cookies on their computers is likely to cause serious traffic losses for websites that conform to the new provisions.
EU Telecoms Reform Directive (TRD), commonly referred to as the cookie law, was supposed to come into effec... (read more) |
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 Announced at the beginning of Octomber 2012, the Logitech Revue Google TV set-top box failed to capture the markets attention in all the time that it was available for sale, but all this could change soon as the unit is set to receive the second generation of the Google TV platform this summer.
The Google TV 2.0 software is based on the... (read more) |
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 Looks like VIZIO figured this was a good time to unleash not one or two, or even three, but an entire collection of TVs with support for the Theater 3D technology, plus other features, all in a wide variety of screen sizes.
Since this is the IT industry, new things, naturally, come out all the time, and even though tablets seem to be taking ... (read more) |
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 For the better part of 50 years, astronomers have been analyzing and studying a binary system they discovered by accident during an early rocket flight. Cygnus X-1 has since become maybe the most studied object in the Universe, and even now experts are learning new thing about it.
The massively-strong X-ray source – the brightest... (read more) |
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 A new report claims the Apple iPhone 5 will come equipped with not one, but two LED flashes, but the people who claim to have learned of this development fail to provide any specifics, such as where the second flash would be placed on Apple’s next-generation iPhone.
Industry publication DigiTimes cites recent market ... (read more) |
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 This fall, Nokia should bring to the market their first Windows Phone handset, and we are all wondering just how that might look, since no specific info on the matter was unveiled for the time being, but that seems to have changed courtesy of leaked photos and a video that just emerged into the wild.
What appears to be the very first Nokia Windo... (read more) |
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 It looks like Acer is not about to let ASUS grab all of today's attention, whether by its intent or not, as some information has now surfaced in regards to a certain tablet device.
Not many official things seem to be happening on the IT market, but it looks like a formal announcement is precisely what Acer chose to do in order to grab t... (read more) |
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 Mozilla has announced the second and final beta for its Thunderbird 5.0 email and messaging client. Mozilla Thunderbird 5.0 Beta 2 is a bug fixing release and it is very close to the upcoming final build. With Thunderbird 5.0, the dev team wants to align to the new Firefox/Gecko rapid release cycle and this means borrowing the version numbe... (read more) |
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 Fabio Erculiani proudly announced a few minutes ago the immediate availability for download of the Sabayon Linux 6.0 operating system, designed for Linux enthusiasts who want the latest packages and the best performance, but don't want to spend days getting things working properly.
Sabayon Linux 6.0 comes, as usual, distributed as GNO... (read more) |
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 Angry customers who rely on Final Cut, some even to make a living, have taken to the company’s forums to demand refunds saying Final Cut Pro X is nothing more than a blown-up iMovie.
Kevin Lewis gives Final Cut Pro X 2 stars and reviews the software on the Mac App Store saying "I love the idea of 64bit editing and all of the other featur... (read more) |
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 Star Wars: Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith is a video game developed by The Collective, in partnership with the Ubisoft Montreal studio, and published by LucasArts, in North America, and Ubisoft in the rest of the world, released on May 5, around the globe, right alongside the launch in theaters of actual movie on which is based.
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Opera 11.50 is on its way, it's in the beta stage for now and it should be launching any time now, but part of the team is already working on what's coming next and has now revealed the first glimpse, and snapshot, of project Featherweight, an attempt at freshening up and cleaning up the Opera UI. And it's already part of the upcoming Opera 11.50.
"Today we are excited to share results of the first phase of project Featherweight. Our goal has been to make Opera as light, bright and ... (read more) |
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 Samsung will introduce a new line of laptops for this year's back to school season, including the Series 3 notebook range that was designed to meet the requirements of most of the company's customers.
The Samsung Series 3 line will include mobile computers with displays ranging from 11.6 all the way up to 15.6 inches, b... (read more) |
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 Zune HD owners out there will certainly rejoice learning that they can send and receive mails from the touch-screen digital media player in their hands, courtesy of a new Exchange email client coming from Matchbox Mobile.
The company is already known leader in custom software and application development, and is the first one to come up with a mail ... (read more) |
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 It appears that ASUS is on a real roll these days, or at least at the moment, as not just rumors but even official press releases dealing with its products are coming out in packs, in this instance dealing with all-in-one systems.
ASUS has definitely not been bothering to keep a low profile recently, or it tried but failed, as little ... (read more) |
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 The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced the addition of Apple Inc. as a member of its board of directors. Insight from Apple on platform development will ensure a smooth growth trajectory of Bluetooth v. 4.0, the organization said.
Bluetooth is a wireless technology and currently the global standard for simple wireless... (read more) |
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 Even though many of us believed that AMD's Sempron processor line is dead and buried, the Sunnyvale-based company has recently introduced a new SKU based on this core, which is already retailing in some low-end systems.
This latest addition brought to the AMD's value CPU line is called the Sempron 130 and it features a ... (read more) |
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 Super Mario 64 DS is a game created by Nintendo's own Entertainment Analysis and Development group, and published by the company itself exclusively for its own DS handheld device, released on November 21, 2004, in North America, December 2, that same year, in Japan, on February 24, 2005, in Australia, and on March 11, 2005, in Europe, as a remastered version of the fi... (read more) |
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 In a letter sent to some members of the press, VIA has confirmed that it has left the BAPCo organization as the company believes the recently released SYSmark 2012 benchmark doesn't accurately reflect real world PC usage scenarios and workloads.
Just yesterday, AMD and Nvidia also left BAPCo, the former issuing a press release in which it ... (read more) |
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 Unscrupulous Facebook spammers have launched a scam that lures users with a video of Ryan Dunn allegedly recorded shortly before his death.
Jackass member and reality TV personality Ryan Dunn died on June 20 after his Porsche 911 GT3 came off road and hit a tree in West Goshen Township, Pennsylvania.
Facecrooks reports that the n... (read more) |
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 The Internet Archive may be going old school with its plan to start archiving physical books, but it's still in touch with technology, in fact it's just rolled out a massive update to its video section enabling all of the 500,000 or so videos will be available via a HTML5 player provided by Kaltura.
"The Internet Archive.... (read more) |
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 HTC Sensation, the high-end smartphone that HTC brought to the market with Google's Android operating system only several weeks ago, is now available for purchase in the UK SIM-free and unlocked.
The mobile phone was already launched on the market in the UK, on the airwaves of wireless carrier Vodafone, and also made it to Three... (read more) |
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 During a meeting held yesterday, June 22, at the 2011 Paris Air and Space Show, representatives from the European Space Agency (ESA) signed the final contracts covering the satellite control and related systems needed for the good operations of the ESA Galileo satellite navigation network.
The first two spacecraft of the constellation are sc... (read more) |
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 As with so many things, the rate at which tablets have been draining netbooks of their customers may have been a bit overstated, at least this is what an ABI Research survey appears to suggest.
Back in 2010, most people didn't expect tablets to take off quite so quickly, but they definitely did, making sure netbooks didn't get to... (read more) |
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 iPhone Dev Team member Comex has confirmed via Twitter that a jailbreak is on the way for all devices supporting iOS versions from 4.2.1 to .4.3.3, including the iPad 2.
Comex is behind the JailbreakMe hack tool which is basically a web app that users access through Safari, swipe a slider and wait for the tool to do its hacking bit.
A user w... (read more) |
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 The EA Sports division of publisher Electronic Arts has announced that the official launch date for FIFA 12, the football simulation that it creates, is set for September 27 in North America and for the last day of the month for the rest of the world.
FIFA 12 is set to be launched on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the P... (read more) |
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 Earlier this week, mobile phone maker Nokia announced the release of a new high-end smartphone, the Nokia N9, their first device to run under the MeeGo operating system, and some info on when might the handset land on shelves has just emerged.
Apparently, the company would aim at having the new Nokia N9 put on shelves in Sweden on Sept... (read more) |
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 NVIDIA may have been locked out of the x86 chipset market by that Intel lawsuit, but it seems to be reaping quite a few benefits from switching over to ARM, to the point where the outfit thinks things will change on the PC market.
That ARM products would come to seriously challenge x86 processors, if not steal their market share, h... (read more) |
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 Creating water purification methods to aid the people of the Third World is a goal for many universities, but some experts have more interesting ideas than others. A group recently proposed using special, coated sand for purifying water.
The science team, based at the Rice University, says that nanotechnology is providing them with t... (read more) |
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 After alleging on countless occasions that ‘App Store’ should be allowed its own trademark, Apple is now facing difficulty in convincing even the judge presiding over its case against Amazon, who uses the term to market its own digital downloads storefront.
Apple sued Amazon in March claiming its new... (read more) |
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 A group of engineering researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) announces the creation of a new investigation method aimed at gathering vast amounts of biochemical data from nanoscale bone samples. The innovation has numerous potential applications.
Its main use will be in the fight against osteoporosis, a condition that mostly a... (read more) |
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 Gmail is a pretty powerful email client and offers plenty of features, shortcuts and advanced functionality for power users. What's more, the Gmail Labs are a great way of discovering tools that you didn't realize how much you'd need them until you found out about them. But if even that is not enough, there are other ways of expanding... (read more) |
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 It appears that things have been changing in the supercomputer industry, as the most recent TOP500 list turned out to be one that allowed AMD's advancements to stand out quite visibly.
TOP500 is a periodically updated list where the many supercomputers around the world are tested for performance.
Advanced Micro Devices d... (read more) |
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 Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro warn that searching for Apple's upcoming iCloud service can lead to scareware websites.
iCloud is a new platform announced by Apple earlier this month that is set replace a series of services the company currently offers and bring new ones as well.
There's been a lot of buzz surrou... (read more) |
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 Gabe Newell, the current managing director at Valve, has said that Portal 2 has managed to sell more than 3 million copies since launch and is on track to get better overall sales figures that the first title in the series.
Newell was talking at the Games for Change conference at the Games for Learning Institute and has not specified whether h... (read more) |
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 A brand new firmware for the PlayStation 3 home console has been released by Sony, taking the device's software up to version 3.66.
Sony has been rolling out firmware updates after it got the PlayStation Network online service operational after the infamous hacker attack, with the 3.61 software version forcing users to change their PSN... (read more) |
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 A group of experts in the United States announces the development of a new method for detecting liver cancer, which they say could help oncologists discover the disease earlier on than currently possible.
The approach can detect cancer tumors that are as small as 5 millimeters, a significant improvement from other available techniques. Th... (read more) |
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 A UK teenager arrested earlier this week has been officially charged in connection with LulzSec and Anonymous attacks against the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
Ryan Cleary, 19, of Wickford, Essex, was charged... (read more) |
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 The PCI Special Interest group has just announced that it plans to start developing a cabled version of PCI Express that should be able to deliver transfer speeds up to 32Gbits and that could prove to be a competitor for Intel's Thunderbolt high-speed interconnect.
The new technology is based on the third generation of PCI E... (read more) |
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 Owners of handsets powered by Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system have now the possibility to download and install a new highly popular game, namely Plants vs. Zombies.
Already available on a wide range of other platforms out there, both on mobile devices and on desktop PCs, the game was just brought to the Windows Phone M... (read more) |
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 Final Fantasy XII is a video game that was published and developed by Square Enix, launching exclusively on the PlayStation 2 from Sony in May 2006.
The game can be classed as a Japanese role playing game that has fantasy and science fiction elements and introduces a whole new combat system for the series.
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 LG's first try on Android tablets, the Optimus Pad has just become cheaper for Rogers customers, as the carrier axed the tablet's suggested retail price for quite a lot.
The Optimus Pad was released via Rogers last month and was available for purchase for $449.99 with a new three-year agreement or for $699.99 off-contract.
Howev... (read more) |
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 "Titans", a CNBC show that profiles remarkable people who made careers turning the “unthinkable” into reality, and companies that grew from humble roots to worldwide recognition, is kicking off tonight with a special on Steve Jobs.
Described as “Irrepressible, irascible, and iconic, Steve Jobs has reign... (read more) |
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 ASUS definitely seems to be very active lately, apparently doing its best to grab a stake in as many segments of the IT market as possible, although its most recently unleashed product is not as unusual as others.
The mobile computer market has still not truly found the answer as to whether or not it includes the media tablet segment.read more) |
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 One of the mobile phones that should arrive on the market in South Korea in the near future with Google's Android operating system on board is the previously leaked HTC Rider, which is supposedly set to land on shelves in the country under the name of HTC EVO 4G+.
The mobile phone should sport features similar with those included in the recently relea... (read more) |
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 Crysis 2 will finally receive support for DirectX 11 as well as for high resolution textures, as Crytek, the developer of the first person shooter, has pinned a concrete release date on the free updates that include these features.
Crysis 2 was a stunning game in terms of graphics, showcasing the power of the new ... (read more) |
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 Scientists gathered at a workshop held on June 21 in Washington DC agreed that Earth needs a unified approach to defending against the effects of potentially-devastating solar flares. The experts called into view the September 1859 flare that caused widespread damage.
At the time, the solar storm that struck Earth was one of the most inte... (read more) |
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