It seems the retail giant known as “Wal-Mart” will soon be making another step in it’s ongoing endeavors to censor its own stock. Stores will soon begin displaying “M” rated games in a black sleeve that obscures 3/4 of the game’s cover, much like adult magazines in many news shops.
To name a few: better KDE 4 integration, several magnification options (magnifying glass, anyone?), a “showmouse” plugin, a Rubik’s cube, a maze and extensive Wiimote integration. Lots of screenshots and videos included.
Mike Libby uses the carapaces of real insects to create tiny, mechanical works of art. They look like they could be part of a new insect-driven A.I. Not only does Libby’s work adorn a new anthology of speculative writing from Tachyon Press called The New Weird.
One of the boldest but least provable claims of string theory is that there are (at least) eleven dimensions, but the seven we’ve strangely failed to notice so far are too tiny too observe (about a thousandth of the radius of a proton).
“Team Twiizers” have just released a hacked save file for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess that allows unsigned code to run. It requires nothing more than an SD card and a copy of Twilight Princess.
When we first saw the Nokia Symbian Touch UI over the familiar S60/Symbian OS, we were stoked. Then we found out it was not a working proto but a rendering, we wondered how far along they really were in their touchscreen UI. Turns out, not as far as we would like.
Microsoft was too busy to read its rejection letter from Yahoo this morning, as it announced its intention to buy Danger, the maker of the popular Sidekick smart phone. The move suggests that the Redmond Giant plans to compete with its partners in the handset business.
At the Southern California Linux Expo, Chris Blizzard of Mozilla provided insight into the future of the Firefox web browser. Ars attended the event and has all the details.
Starbucks Corp. today announced that it’s dumping longtime partner T-Mobile, and switching to AT&T. Best of all, Starbucks announced that WiFi will now be free in many stores for the first two hours (as I predicted).
Rockstar talks about reinventing their most popular franchise.
Leopard finally gets its second patch, and boy does it fix a lot of stuff. The first patch hit back in November, with test builds of the second making it out a month later. Here’s a list of the major things the 10.5.2 patch fixes (including menubar transparency and Stacks).
Are you a member of Facebook.com? You may have a lifetime contract. Some users have discovered that it is nearly impossible to remove themselves entirely from Facebook, setting off a fresh round of concern over the popular social network’s use of personal data.
