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 A couple of days ago Asetek and PNY announced they have joined forces in order to develop a new series of water-cooled graphics cards, and today the two companies have made their first such product, the XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580, official.
According to PNY, the new water cooling system employed by its latest creation is able to ... (read more) |
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 Nintendo's E3 2011 press conference brought forth a massive amount of information about all of its platforms, from the DS or 3DS to the current Wii or upcoming Wii U, as well as in regards to the many games that will be released for all of the platforms.
We've already presented the Nintendo ... (read more) |
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 While celebrating the “World IPv6 Day” Nokia has reaffirmed its commitment to the IPv6 standard that should be deployed in the next couple of months.
With the IPv4 addresses exhausting at a fast pace, the only solution remains to switch to the new system, IPv6, which has a huge address space in comparis... (read more) |
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 Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the leading causes of blindness in a number of countries, including Australia. Experts at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have now developed a new method of detecting the condition early on.
Applying it on a large scale could result in a sharp decrease in the numbe... (read more) |
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 Microsoft upped the ante in the war against the Rustock botnet, going after the cybercriminals that operated the zombie network of computers, which it believes to have either operated or still be operating out of Russia.
Having shut down the Rustock botnet in March 2011 through a collaborative effort inv... (read more) |
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 Apple CEO Steve Jobs is having a busy week. Not only did he kick off his company’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2011 with another iconic keynote, he also took it upon himself to reveal the Cupertino City Council Apple’s plans for building a new campus.
In what can only be described as a mother-ship Apple ... (read more) |
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 Wireless services provider T-Mobile USA has a new appealing offering available for its customers, with the high-end Windows Phone-based HTC HD7 free upon the signing of a contract agreement.
The smartphone sports one of the largest touchscreen displays that today's mobile phones feature, also the largest screen of a Windows Phone-based device.... (read more) |
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 Humans, as well as other species, are superstitious creatures, even though there is no evolutionary benefit to being so. Or is there one, researchers ask, in light of new studies that explain how the behavior caught root and endured over the ages.
In humans, superstition is more widespread than in other species. Many carry luck charm ... (read more) |
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 OnLive, the popular company that focuses on cloud gaming has just announced its new application for Android and iPad tablets.
The new application allows gamers to integrate their tablets and HDTVs with high-end gaming and promises to provide far higher performance, richer gameplay and deeper social integra... (read more) |
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 If some were saying before that the Kardashian sisters tend to over-share, they really have reason to gossip now, after Khloe went braless under a very sheer top on Fox News for a Fox & Friends interview, leaving very little to the imagination of viewers at home.
Sisters Khloe and Kourtney were on Fox & Friends t... (read more) |
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 Mobile phone users in the United States will soon have the opportunity to enjoy 3D content on the go without the use of glasses via a series of mobile phones that are about to become available for purchase in the country, and the Thrill 4G that just received the necessary approvals from the FCC is one of the handsets set to enable this.
The mo... (read more) |
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 Oracle has released update 26 for its Java SE 6 platform in order to address a number of seventeen remotely exploitable vulnerabilities, many of which could result in arbitrary code execution.
Of the included patches, eleven apply only to the Java SE client and one only to the server version. The rest affect both of the platform's flavo... (read more) |
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 As you can imagine, Sony didn't miss the opportunity to once again proudly display its 3D support with the PlayStation 3 at the E3 2011 conference, this time showcasing a special PlayStation-branded 3DTV set which will be made available this fall.
Sony is always pushing 3D technology forward with the help o... (read more) |
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 Because she probably considers herself a real-life Barbie, Katie Price (aka ex-Jordan) loves everything pink. In fact, she loves the color so much, she even has her own fleet of pink cars, to which she’s added another customized vehicle: a brand new Range Rover.
The new car was delivered to Price’s house the other day, the... (read more) |
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 Twitter is reintroducing a feature it dropped when it upgraded to the New Twitter, automated link shortening. Now, when you add an URL to your tweets, it will automatically be shortened to take up only 19 characters. You can also use your preferred URL shortener, if you want detailed analytics for example.
"We’ve been working on a ... (read more) |
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 Adobe has issued a warning to Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris and Android users about an important vulnerability that has been discovered recently.
The security hole has been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.16 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.3.185.22 and... (read more) |
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 Scientists at the American space agency have devised a cunning plan to obtain a 3D view of salinity levels in the world's ocean. The idea came from the SAC-D satellite and its Aquarius instrument.
The spacecraft, which will launch this week, carries a NASA instrument called Aquarius, which is capable of analyzing the first centimeter (0.4 inch)... (read more) |
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 Google has wrapped up yet another stable release of its open source browser, taking Chrome all the way up to version 12.0.
Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users, which the search giant reveals have reached the 160 million mark, can now download Chrome 12 through the Stable Channel.
What customers will get is Chr... (read more) |
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 Apple has confirmed that developers registered with their $99 program can immediately download a preview version of Safari 5.1, the latest build of Apple’s web browsing application.
On its Developer connection channels, Apple is telling Safari and Mac Developer Program members that they can “download Safari 5.1 Developer Preview ... (read more) |
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 Leading mobile software developer SPB Software has just announced the release of a new application for Nokia devices running under the Symbian platform, one that would provide users with access to the social network VKontakte.
The new mobile application was developed in collaboration with Nokia, and is aimed mainly at th... (read more) |
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 Nintendo presented at its E3 2011 press conference the brand new Wii U home console, alongside its innovative controller, which includes, besides buttons, a 6.2-inch touchscreen.
Nintendo new home console was heavily rumored before the start of E3, with speculation ranging from what name the device will have to... (read more) |
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 Following yesterday’s statement from Freemantle Media confirming that, indeed, Cheryl Cole was out of the US X Factor and there was zero chance for her to return on the judging panel, Simon Cowell too is speaking out on the issue, apologizing for the mess and saying he was actually looking out for Cheryl.
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 Researchers from the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) have recently put up a new public website, which can be used to access a host of data related to global warming and climate change.
The online tool - which can be accessed here - also provides forecasts into how Earth's climate will look like in the future. The simulations are b... (read more) |
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 Musclenerd, the ever vocal member of the iPhone Dev Team, has tweeted information regarding the iOS 5 jailbreak status.
The hacker confirms in a tweet that iOS 5 was jailbroken using a fourth-generation iPod touch hours into the beta release.
According to Musclenerd, the hack was achieved with limera1n, a tool developed by hacker ... (read more) |
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 Firefox for Android Beta, the mobile browser flavor that Mozilla pushed recently as part of their new fast release system, has just been updated with a wide range of enhancements and bug fixes.
Apparently, the team of developers behind the application is moving towards a final flavor, and they are now focused on fixing the b... (read more) |
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 Microsoft has yet to confirm officially that Kinect is coming to Windows 8, but I have a pretty good feeling about this, especially since a company representative told me last year that the software giant was hard at work porting the NUI technology beyond Xbox.
The E3 2011 demos that the Redmond company presented, especially those ... (read more) |
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 iBuyPower, a company well renowned for its high-performance gaming systems, has just announced that the Gamer Supreme 922SLCK desktop has become available for purchase exclusively through Tiger Direct.
This is the second system that iBuyPower retails through THE Fountainbleau, Florida-based retailer, after the Gamer Extreme... (read more) |
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 The Google Chrome developers at Google proudly announced last evening (June 7th) the stable release and immediate availability for download of the Google Chrome 12 web browser for Linux, Windows, Macintosh and Chrome Frame platforms.
The new Google Chrome 12 web browser includes various interesting new features, such as the highly anticipa... (read more) |
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 Electronic Arts' brand new digital distribution service, Origin, isn't trying to become a direct rival to Valve's hugely successful Steam, as EA believes that the two services can co-exist in the future, but that many fans of the company will be tempted with exclusive deals to start using Origin.
Electronic Arts surprised a lot of people... (read more) |
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 HTC Sensation, the latest flagship Android-based mobile phone from Taiwanese handset vendor HTC Corporation, is now available for pre-order in the UK with service agreements on the airwaves of O2, Orange, Three and T-Mobile.
The handset was already launched on Vodafone's network in the country, but it seems that the wireles... (read more) |
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 I was clearly not prepared for E3 2011, for the scale, for the masses of people and for the constant fight of getting pictures and access, even though I have also reported last year on the gamescom event that takes place in Cologne.
After having my flight into Los Angeles delayed for some time yesterday and some jetlag issues, I arrived at the press reg... (read more) |
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 When 2K Marin and publisher Take Two announced their intention to create a video game called XCOM and showed their initial ideas the gaming community was highly critical, saying that the game should not use the venerable name and that the third-person shooter space was not suited for it.
But the presentation for XCOM that the publisher and developer offered at E3 ... (read more) |
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