Finally, thanks to NASA Spitzer Science Center’s scientist-and-artist Dr. Robert L. Hurt, we’ve a gorgeous overhead view of the entire Milky Way galaxy! 93-ish million miles from the tip of the yellow arrow you, thru squinting + much imagination, can even see DIGG’s diggers, Reddit’s redditors, Slashdot’s slashdotters doing what comes naturally…
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I started by asking Dave about the company, how they developed 1Passwd, and some general interest questions. We moved on to some juicy iPhone news and beta invites that you’ll certainly want to know about if you use 1Passwd.
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Regardless, an insider in Japan who attended Konami’s analyst meeting today passed along this info:
• Metal Gear Solid 4’s release date announced at TGS
• Konami President Tanaka stated that release is likely Q4 March 8
• President Tanaka also stated, “we are open to taking this franchise across to other platforms.”
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The Ubuntu US Teams Mentoring Project is working hard to get an approved Local Community (LoCo) Team in every state by the end of 2007. At the beginning of the year, there were only a couple state teams (see the map). Now, 7 months later, there is a LoCo in just about every state, minus a handful (see the updated map). See http://ubuntu-us.org.
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Speaking at a Microsoft press conference in Amsterdam earlier today, Bungie has confirmed, once and for all, that Halo 3 will feature two to four player online co-operative play over Xbox Live.
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Adding fuel to the 360 price drop tire-fire of rumors, a recently leaked Circuit City ad shows a price drop of $50 on all models from Elite to Core.
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Epic Games VP Mark Rein recently told CVG that, despite Microsoft’s efforts to push the technology, DirectX 10 won’t see much in the way of enthusiastic adoption, largely because game developers will “have to dumb the games down for the consoles” making it “less and less economically viable to do the super high-end stuff.”
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Most Web users probably use at least one Yahoo product on a regular basis. So let’s take a look at 10 that are among the leaders in their particular market segment, or are particularly innovative. These are subjective selections, because it’s almost impossible to use objective criteria to judge such different web properties.
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This just in from Planet KDE. Includes screenshot. Some of the new features: An opengl playground at the bottom with an experimental”CoverFlow” inspired album selector; The big central area has just been switched to using Plasma, the cool new desktop and widget technology in KDE4; The new playlist.
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Tried to visit Facebook today and had no luck? It appears that the social-networking site has been experiencing some growing pains. No one in CNET News.com’s newsroom was able to access the site starting around 10 a.m. PDT.
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