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Youtube to hand over all user histories and IP addresses!

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:38:52 +0000

Due to a recent judge ruling, google will be forced to turn over every record of ever video watched by youtube users, including user’s names, and IP addresses to viacom.

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A Month of Spam: Enlarge Your Inbox Today, Improve Sex Life!

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:38:51 +0000

From April 1 to May 1, McAfee ran an experiment with 50 volunteers designed to measure just how much spam a person would receive if they actually registering at all the sites that request your e-mail address. The total amount of spam that comes flooding down the system is almost awe-inspiring.

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PlayStation 3 Firmware Upgrade is Bricking Some PS3s!

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:38:46 +0000

The PlayStation forums are scattered with various reports of bricked PS3s — users report that upon booting their system, the SIXAXIS controller will not sync and the video signal is blank with no sound.

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‘Absolutely No Possibility’ of Disconnecting File-Sharers

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:38:44 +0000

Virgin Media, plagued by a recent flurry of bad publicity thanks to its policy of working with the music industry to warn file-sharers, has announced today that there is “absolutely no possibility” that it will disconnect its users from the Internet or hand over their details to the music industry.

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Game Ratings War Brewing in the UK

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:38:43 +0000

Is the video game rating system in the UK too confusing? According to gaming giant EA you will be confused. So which side has the more valid argument? Read on to find out.

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First look: Mozilla Weave 0.2 puts Firefox in the cloud

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:38:41 +0000

Mozilla Labs has announced the availability of Weave 0.2, the third major release of its experimental Firefox synchronization add-on. This version brings a broader feature set, improved reliability, and streamlined notification support. Although it is still in the early testing stage, Weave is already effective and easy to use.

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Are You Ready to Subscribe to Microsoft Office?

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:38:40 +0000

It is one of these products and service you may not look forward to, but knew it was coming: A subscription model to Microsoft Office. Microsoft envisions that more and more users will not own a copy of Microsoft Office in the future anymore, but rent it and provide the company with recurring revenue stream every year, instead a onetime fee.

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Graphics board vendor touts faster Linux drivers

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:37:03 +0000

AMD has released faster new ATI Catalyst drivers for Linux customers of its ATI FireGL professional graphics cards. The 8.49.7 Linux driver provides 33 percent faster OpenGL performance than the previous driver, claims the company.

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New nanowire storage ups memory: The end of just 0 & 1?

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:33:48 +0000

Researchers have created a type of nanowire-based information storage device that is capable of storing three bit values rather than the usual two—that is, “0,” “1,” and “2″ instead of just “0″ and “1.” This ability could lead to a new generation of high-capacity information storage for electronic devices.

What Happens When You Reply To ALL of Your Spam

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:32:34 +0000

Each S.P.A.M. volunteer saw an average of 70 spam messages arrive in their in-box each day, with men receiving about 15 more per day than women. That was a lot to answer, but “Penelope Retch” — the alias that Mooney chose for her S.P.A.M. adventure — answered every single message.

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Firefox Goes Mobile

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:31:09 +0000

Mozilla’s chairman explains why mobile devices need an open-source browser.

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Apple cuts SSD-based MacBook Air price by $500

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:31:00 +0000

With the price of NAND flash memory continuing its steady sequential decline, Apple Inc. this month cut the price of its Solid State Drive (SSD)-equipped MacBook Air by half a grand, AppleInsider has discovered. The Cupertino-based Mac maker is now selling its super slim 13-inch 1.8GHz MacBook Air with a 64GB Solid State Drive for $2598.

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Report: Outdated browsers put 637m users at risk

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:30:03 +0000

A group of researchers on Tuesday said 637 million web users are surfing with outdated internet browsers and are, therefore, at greater risk of web-based attacks.

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Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 1 Screenshot Tour

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:29:57 +0000

Even if there aren’t big changes compared to the final version of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, released on April 24th, 2008, the Alpha 1 of Intrepid brings a brand new theme, completely redesigned, which in time will become what everyone was expecting.

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Mac OS X Market Share Nears 8%

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:27:25 +0000

Apple’s share of the global operating system market is climbing steadily, and could top 8% this month, statistics from a Web metrics firm showed Wednesday.

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Mac OS X Market Share Surges 32% In One Year

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:27:23 +0000

Vista grows by 256% in the same period, but Windows is down overall. Last month, Apple’s Mac OS X accounted for 7.94% of the operating systems powering computers that accessed the 40,000 Web sites Net Applications monitors for its clients, the company reported yesterday. A year ago, Mac OS X’s usage share stood at 6.03%.

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1.8GHz SSD MacBook Air Drops $500

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:26:31 +0000

Apple has quietly dropped the price of the high end MacBook Air by $500. The high end MacBook Air comes equipped with a 1.8GHz upgrade (from 1.6GHz) and a 64GB Solid State Drive (SSD). The total price for the high end laptop is $2598. Compare this to the original price of the 1.8GHz/SSD MacBook…

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NVIDIA - “significant quantities” of laptop GPUs defective

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:26:31 +0000

informed investors that “significant quantities” of previous-generation graphics chips have been failing at “higher than normal rates,” and that it’s lowering its Q2 estimates due to pricing pressure.

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Games Sales Overtake DVD Sales In The US

Universe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:26:30 +0000

h goodie, another bound-to-be-misconstrued “games are bigger/better than X” story! This time, it’s the results of the Entertainment Merchants Association’s annual report, which reveals that not only did games rake in more cash than movie theatres last year, but for the first time DVD sales as well.

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Google now offers Google Talk on the iPhone

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:47:46 +0000

Attention iPhone owners! You can now chat with all your Google Talk buddies while on the go. Our new version of Google Talk is designed specifically for the iPhone and runs in the iPhone’s browser, so you don’t need to download or install anything. Just visit www.google.com/talk on your iPhone

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Flash on Linux no longer breaks webpages

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:43:07 +0000

“There’s a new beta for Flash Player 10 (Astro) available for Windows, Mac, and — you guessed it — Linux.” Drop-down menus, like the one on Adobe’s webpages, can now properly overlay Flash animations in both Firefox and Opera. There’s also better camera support, better language support and speed and stability improvements.

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Study claims Windows usage market share could fall below 90%

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:43:06 +0000

A new study released by Net Applications indicates that a decreasing percentage of the Internet population is using Windows as their operating system. It appears that Mac OS X could soon be listed in the double digit-range, while Windows could fall below the 90% mark.

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One live DVD, one ton of Linux games

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:45:59 +0000

LinuX-Gamers Live is a live DVD from Germany based on Arch Linux that includes nothing but games. Version 0.9.3 was released in June and provides an excellent means of sampling Linux games or setting up a home arcade, although a few of the games wouldn’t run on my machine.

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PS3 expected to remain the driving force behind Blu-ray

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:45:05 +0000

Lots of data on movie sales. It is somewhat obvious that the PS3 rescued the Blu-ray format from failure and if it wasn’t for the PS3, movie sales could not protect themselves from HD DVD (if it was still alive) either. Funny to see that Microsoft sold only 316,000 Xbox 360 HD DVD add-ons.

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Day of Defeat: Source Update.

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:44:56 +0000

Brings Achievements, Steam Player statistics, and more…

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Intel says to prepare for ‘thousands of cores’ in processors

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:08:55 +0000

Intel is telling software developers to start thinking about not just tens but thousands of processing cores.the chipmaker is now thinking well beyond the traditional processor in a PC or server.”The more cores we have the better. Provided that we can supply memory bandwidth to the device.”

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Sweden tops world’s most wired countries

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:03:17 +0000

European countries, including other Nordic nations Denmark and Iceland, occupy most of the top 10 spots.

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RIAA Says Proof is Not Necessary To Sue For Infringement

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:03:16 +0000

The RIAA echoed its sister lobbying group, the MPAA, by telling the Jammie Thomas judge that solely making available copyrighted works on a peer-to-peer network is enough to prove unauthorized distribution with fines of up to $150,000 per violation. Any higher standard of actual proof would “cripple” copyright enforcement in the digital age.

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Not just for Games Anymore, The Present and Future of GP-GPU

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:03:14 +0000

It wasn’t so long ago that 3D graphics cards were only expected to deliver higher frames-per-second in your favorite 3D games. But now we are about to enter the age of “GP-GPU,” general-purpose computing on a GPU, and it’s about ready for the mainstream. Here’s some of what you can look forward to.

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The 11 Best “God Games” Of All Time

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:03:12 +0000

#6. Sim City 2000 - Players are able to build new facilities, namely, stadiums, prisons, and zoos etc. This game allowed the player to build is the arcology, a giant and futuristic structure meant to house many people and at one point in the game, if the player has built enough arcologies, all of they take off to civilizations on far away planets.

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Solid State Drives Don’t Extend Battery Life - Shorten’s It

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:52:35 +0000

Solid state drives (SSDs) are the inevitable future of mobile computing, but a new experiment by Tom’s Hardware is extremely disappointing. It ends up that the touted power savings of SSDs over their moving-parts-laden cousins are nonexistent. In fact, SSDs are sucking more power than conventional hard drives. How is this possible?

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iPhone Apps: To Pay or Not to Pay?

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:50:11 +0000

It’s probably been a while since you bought new software. That’s because so many tech firms — buoyed by ads placed in Web-based applications like the Google Docs word processor and the thousands of apps on Facebook — can now afford to give their programs away for free. But don’t expect the same deal when you’re shopping for add-ons for your iphone.

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Microsoft buys Powerset, gets foot in semantic search door

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:50:09 +0000

Microsoft announced today that it has purchased natural language search startup Powerset in hopes of adding its team and technology to Live Search. The move is yet another attempt by Microsoft to chip away at Google’s market share, but at least this one is centered around staying ahead of the competition… for now.

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Lawyers to Judge: Hans Reiser May Be ‘Mentally Incompetent’

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:50:08 +0000

Lawyers for Hans Reiser claim the Linux developer convicted of murdering his wife may be “mentally incompetent,”

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IPhone 2.0 Video, ITunes 7 Confidential Screenshots

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:50:06 +0000

I have tried the iTunes 7.7 confidential pre-release which will be required to install the new iPhone OS, and the latest iPhone OS 2.0 release. After a few days of heavy use, I can tell you that both versions are rock-solid. As you can see in the video, the App Store is there -although it’s not active yet- along with the new Push data feature

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Apple Spurns Intel, For Now

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:50:04 +0000

Intel’s technologists revealed Monday that the chip giant will not win a spot on Apple’s iconic iPhone anytime soon, even as he outlined Intel’s plans to keep growing as it turns 40 on July 18. Apple appears to be going it alone for now, buying chip designer P.A. Semi for $278 million in cash earlier this year to power its next generation of phones

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Mozilla Sets World Record

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:50:01 +0000

With over 8 million downloads Mozilla sets the Guinness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours.

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Sony Pulls PS3 3 2.40 Firmware Update After Hardware Issues

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:48:28 +0000

The release of PlayStation 3 firmware 2.40 seems to have caused a wide number of issues for those who updated to the new release, as reported earlier. It now appears that Sony has since pulled the new update, reverting back to firmware 2.36 as the most recent updated. This may be a temporary move to prevent further reliability issues.

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40% of surfers don’t bother with browser security updates

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:48:24 +0000

A new collaborative study between Google, IBM, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology suggests that users are slower to move between product updates than they should be
—especially those using Internet Explorer. The researchers believe that browsers could learn from the food industry, of all things.

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Jonathan Ive takes home MDA award for iconic iPhone design

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:47:43 +0000

Apple’s SVP of design is recognized by the Mobile Data Association for his work on the industry-redefining iPhone.

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A Breakdown of Internet Comments From 8 Sites [PICS]

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:47:38 +0000

If you think Al Gore invented the internet so people could share information, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. Read the comments section of most sites and you’ll see that the internet was made so people could say really dumb shit without facing the repercussions of saying the same things in person.

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Diablo III Producer: “Color Is Your Friend”

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:47:35 +0000

Yes, Diablo III is going to be much more vivid and vibrant than its predecessors, a fact that has some fans signing a petition against the shinier, happier art direction - now with over fifteen thousand signatures.

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Mozilla sets Guinness World Record with Firefox 3 launch

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:44:57 +0000

The launch of the open source Firefox 3 web browser has set the new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. Mozilla’s mirrors served 8,002,530 complete, individual downloads during the download day event following the official release of Firefox 3 last month.

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Exposed! Minesweeper Caught Cheating

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:44:55 +0000

Hacker debugs good ol’ Minesweeper and finds that it actually cheats. Apparently it only spawns about half the bombs, and moves bombs mid-game.

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‘Heroes’ Producer Recognizes Benefits of BitTorrent

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:44:54 +0000

Half of the people who use BitTorrent do so to download TV-shows. Some episodes of popular shows such as ‘Heroes’ and ‘Lost’ get up to 10 million downloads. We had a chat with Jesse Alexander, the co-producer of both ‘Heroes’ and ‘Lost’, and asked him what his thoughts are on BitTorrent, piracy and the future of TV.

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Analyst: Wii Might Not Be A Fad

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:41:37 +0000

DFC Intelligence has a theory. David Cole, analyst at the firm, says that the Wii “does not appear to be a fad and it has the chance to be one of the best selling systems of all-time” according to new report.

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PDF now is an ISO standard.

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:39:44 +0000

Adobe has relinquished control of the Portable Document Format (PDF) to the ISO (International Organization for Standardization), which will now assume developmental control of the format as an industry standard.

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Court Hits BitTorrent Users Who Failed to Appear

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:38:11 +0000

Last week, lawyers Davenport Lyons who are currently threatening hundreds of BitTorrent users with legal action, tasted victory in Central London County Court with wins in cases against four file-sharers. Fortunately, these ‘victories’ mean little, as Davenport chose not to go after people who defend themselves, instead picking on people they knew

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iPhone Gets a MacBook Air Keyboard Mod

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:38:10 +0000

Love the MacBook Air’s keyboard? Who doesn’t. what do you think about having that kind of keyboard on your iPhone?

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Firefox sets new record, cracks 19% market share

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:38:00 +0000

Mozilla Corp. used the launch of Firefox 3.0 last month to boost its browser market share to over 19%, an Internet measurement company said today.Most of Firefox’s increase came during the week following Version 3.0’s release, when the combined share of Firefox 2.0 and 3.0 jumped from 18.2% before the June 17 launch to 18.6% immediately after.

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Blizzard has a new MMO still in the works, 4th new game, int

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:37:59 +0000

It was speculated before the Diablo III announcement at WWI Paris that the crew at Blizzard was developing an new MMO. There was speculation late last year thanks to job postings on Blizzard’s end.

In the video above Rob Pardo VP at Blizzard confirms they are working on another title that happens to be a next generation MMO. He

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Denmark has the worst iPhone Data Plan ever.

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:37:55 +0000

Only 300mb… or about half an hour on Youtube.

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Hologram Google Earth

Universe — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:37:41 +0000

Google Earth projected and interacted with as a hologram.

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Campus copyright battle moves to textbook torrents

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:15:47 +0000

The RIAA’s extensive campaign against filesharing has drawn in a lot of individuals, but college campuses have remained a major target of the content owners’ legal threats. It’s pretty clear that there’s significant expertise with filesharing on college campuses, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that this expertise has been put to use with other

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Google, Yahoo spiders can now crawl through Flash sites

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:15:45 +0000

Adobe has announced that it is working with Google and Yahoo to finally ensure that Flash SWF files are indexable by search engines. Google has already gotten a jump start on this feature that designers have been asking for since the late 90s, too.

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Xbox 360 To Get A 3D Dashboard Makover

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:15:39 +0000

Something big is in the works for the Xbox 360 Spring update. How big? Well besides the gi-normous list of rumored updates we’re now hearing from a number of sources that the Live dashboard is going to be getting a second interface option, one that will use the yet-to-be announced motion controller to navigate.

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Get Root on 10.5.4 - It’s Not Exactly Difficult

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:37:27 +0000

There’s a wide open door on Mac OS X 10.5.4 Leopard - yes, the latest update. It goes way back to Tiger at least. And it’s child’s play to ‘root’ a Mac OS X box. No hacking required! This is deadly serious. It’s yet another gaping design flaw.

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10 Useful Apps To Reduce Your Dependency On Google

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:28:46 +0000

They are worth being familiar with so that you can avoid a crisis situation when you cannot access a Google product for some reason.

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How The FBI Dismantled a BitTorrent Community

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:28:38 +0000

On June 25th 2005, the homepage of the EliteTorrents.org tracker displayed an ominous message. Thousands of members trying to log in to get a sneak peak at a leaked copy of Star Wars: Episode 3 were surprised and confused in equal numbers. Had the FBI really raided one of the largest BitTorrent communities and put up a badly made Word document, or

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The Golden Age of Unknown Software

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:27:22 +0000

There is an endless supply of nifty apps and utilities out there that you simply have never heard of.

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NY Video Game Bill Barks but It Doesn’t Bite

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:27:20 +0000

Last week New York legislature passed a controversial gaming statute. This is an in-depth legal breakdown of where this bill fails and why it is largely symbolic, perhaps designed to persuade voters that legislators are doing something to address that familiar cultural whipping boy, video game violence.

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Diablo 3 - Everything We Know So Far

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:27:19 +0000

Shacknews.com sums up the information released/discovered so far about Diablo 3. More nerdgasms ensue.

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Will the QC kill the PC?

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:27:11 +0000

Quantum computers could become a reality very soon, opening up some fantastic possibilities - including teleportation…These machines would have the ability to perform calculations that would take normal computers millions of years, while carrying out a vast number of tasks simultaneously. They promise to make as big an impact on information

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ATI readies OEM special: SuperRV770 to challenge GeForce GTX

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:25:10 +0000

AMD’s Radeon 4850 and 4870 have been widely praised in the media and put the ATI team back on the map. But it appears that we have just seen a small portion of what the ATI guys have in space for users. The new boards are actually running at well below the clock speed they can support and these cards will be challenging Nvidia’s very best.

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Blizzard Confirms Unannounced Fourth Game, Next-Gen MMO

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:21:55 +0000

Despite ongoing efforts with StarCraft II, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King and Diablo III, PC developer Blizzard has confirmed that it has another MMO in the works.

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Diablo III First Look

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:21:52 +0000

Blizzard shows off the first trailer and gameplay of its latest dungeon crawler, and we’ve got the first look.The Barbarian sees, and the Barbarian smashes. The Witch Doctor sees, and usually let’s something else do his dirty work. The two character classes shown off during today’s announcement of Diablo III….

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The Website Is Down

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:17:43 +0000

A mashup of true and mostly-true stories from IT hell. If you’ve ever called tech support and wondered what the hell they are doing down there… well, this should answer some questions for you.
Starring Apache, Windows XP, Linux and Halo (among many others)

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Adobe, Google, Yahoo Team Up for Flash Search

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:00:21 +0000

In a Move Long in the Making, Adobe Systems is teaming up with Search Engine leaders to make Flash content more Searchable.

50 Skills that Every Gamer Should Master

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:59:58 +0000

Just being able to play games is only the beginning. If you’re going to call yourself a proper gamer (as opposed to a casual pretender) there are a few requisite skills that you must master first. 50 skills, in fact. And they’re all right here…

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Joystiq hands-on: Spore (the whole thing)

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:57:14 +0000

Before being lead into a private demo area with a half-dozen high-end gaming rigs outfitted with the latest build of Spore, Will Wright – along with what seemed to be every other team at EA – gave a short presentation covering … well, he covered a lot (see above). I was able to extract two fascinating details from my furiously scribbled notes.

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TF2 Heavy Class Next to Get Achievements, Unlockable Weapons

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:57:13 +0000

TF2 Heavy gets same treatment as Pyro.

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Chrono Trigger officially coming to the DS

Universe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:57:11 +0000

A new page on publisher Square Enix’s Japanese web site reveals that the company is planning to port its acclaimed SNES RPG Chrono Trigger to the Nintendo DS.

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Australian Drug Mafia to Sell Pirated DVDs?

Universe — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:40:31 +0000

If you ask any Australian what the most annoying thing is about TV shows or movies, a common response is that it can take a long time for things popular in the US and UK to make it ‘down under’. Apparently, the Mafia has picked up on this, as they have started selling pirated movies and TV-shows on the streets, or have they?

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SCEE officially announces date for Firmware 2.40

Universe — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:33:20 +0000

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe today announced that the new online gaming functions for PlayStation 3, will be available on July 2, with 2.40 enhancements, an automatic firmware upgrade that delivers several of the features requested by gamers.

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An iPhone with a Keyboard: Prototype Exists

Universe — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:40:33 +0000

It is an article of faith, of course, that whatever Steve Jobs does is right. And so, since the iPhone currently has no keyboard on it, it must logically follow that it is wrong to have a keyboard, and therefore that Steve Jobs will never produce a version that does have a keyboard.

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The More You Play With it, the Harder it Gets [PIC]

Universe — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:14:43 +0000

Old Sega ad using sexual innuendos. Never seen this one before…

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Think Rogers iPhone plans are unfair? Try living in Sweden

Universe — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:13:58 +0000

While Canadians have been shortchanged with Rogers iPhone plans there are still some people getting an even worse deal, the Swedes. A 16GB iPhone will set you back $4 356 after 2 years with unlimited data.

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GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers

Universe — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:12:48 +0000

A GoDaddy Vice President has been caught bidding against customers in their own domain name auctions. The employee Adam Dicker isn’t just any GoDaddy employee; he’s head of the GoDaddy subsidiary that controls the auctions. Dicker won some of the domains he bid for, and pushed up the bid price on auctions he didn’t win.

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Horny for Ubuntu 8.10: first look at Intrepid Ibex

Universe — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:12:28 +0000

The first alpha release of Ubuntu 8.10, codenamed Intrepid Ibex, was made available on Saturday. This preliminary Intrepid prerelease includes updated packages, a new version of the Linux kernel, and an experimental new visual style.

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The Downfall of the Classic RPG

Universe — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:12:27 +0000

Call me old school, but I grew up with traditional RPG games like Ultima and Might ‘n’ Magic on the PC and Final Fantasy/Dragon Warrior on the NES and SNES. I understand that technology has to evolve, but why does the gameplay have to be thrown out the window?

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