29 Jan, 2008
It has been news in the first half of 2007 that a “somewhat earthlike” planet appears to exist in orbit around the star Gliese 581c, at a distance from that star that may favor temperatures suitable for liquid water and life.
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29 Jan, 2008
Sweden plans this week to charge the people running Pirate Bay, one of the world’s most visited Web sites, with being accessories in breaking copyright law.
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29 Jan, 2008
Look long enough on eBay and you’ll find an item that the mere knowledge of its existence brings shock and dismay. Then, you must cope with the fact that the seller thought we would be willing to pay good money for it, and then come to terms with the fact that usually they’re right.
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29 Jan, 2008
Famous anti-gaming crusader Jack Thompson calls the Fox News vs Mass Effect story contrived and self-help author Cooper Lawrence. In other news Hell freezes over.
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29 Jan, 2008
Gartner, the fat lady of research firms, is singing HD DVD’s swan song this morning. Hiroyuki Shimizu, Principal Research Analyst in Japan, says in Gartner’s Semiconductor DQ Monday Report that, “Gartner believes that Toshiba’s price-cutting may prolong HD DVD’s life a little, but the limited line-up of film titles will inflict fatal damage…
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29 Jan, 2008
Facebook announced Friday a new JavaScript client library that will allow Facebook apps to be displayed on any website.
I’m not sure anyone saw this move coming, but Facebook may have just changed the game again
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29 Jan, 2008
One of the more anticipated video cards of this year is finally here, AMD is launching the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2. What will two 3870 GPUs on one board do for you in gaming? We are going to find out exactly that in Crysis, UT3, COD 4 and HL2.
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29 Jan, 2008
Not only does Tetsuya Nomura swear by the game’s 2008 release date, he also teases at a playable demo for FFXIII on the PlayStation Network a while before the game is released, to show off the game’s revamped battle system.
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29 Jan, 2008
The Skyfire browser is set to finally bring PC-like browsing to your Windows Mobile device with crazy speeds and support for all manner of embedded content. Sure, there are ways to get Youtube and other mobile video content through proxy sites that convert on the go or with other 3rd-party applications, but this puppy does it [...]
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29 Jan, 2008
There’s been quite a bit of buzz recently after it was announced that OpenOffice 3 was due in September. It seems, however, most people still aren’t aware of what’s in store.
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29 Jan, 2008
“Yes, that’s right - an exploit for the Nintendo Wii has been discovered and it allows you to run custom code. The method is pretty simple. Copy over a save file for Zelda, load it and the code runs….”
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29 Jan, 2008
Our inside source of all things video gaming has been right almost every time it comes out of the shadows to give us information, so I’m going to dispense with the back story. Wherever his or her information is coming from, it’s usually solid. After I spoke to Sony about the possible discontinuation of the 80GB PS3 model, I lit the mole-signal.
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