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They are near :p
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20111229
SETI to check moon for signs of aliens
Physicist builds Large Hadron Collider out of Lego
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20111223
Transformer Optimus Prime wants his name back, right now preferably
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In a cunning bid to remind the adult world of its long-lost childhood, in which even the most vacuous fictional characters could somehow seem magical, Hasbro has suddenly decided to sue ASUS over its 'Transformer Prime' branding. It doesn't matter that the Transformer Prime really does transform -- you know, in real-life -- or that it exists in a non-competing market, or that the latest Transformers movie was a complete waste of everybody's time. Nope, Hasbro still feels the need to "aggressively protect its brands and products" from illusory enemies, and it's fully prepared to threaten ASUS with a sales injunction until some sort of conciliatory gesture appears on its bank statement. If this lawsuit takes hold -- please, not another Düsseldorf -- then we promise that our future children will never buy, watch or touch a single Hasbro product. Except maybe that R2-D2 version of Operation, which is pretty sweet.
Transformer Optimus Prime wants his name back, right now preferably originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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20111221
Seagate shores up its hard drive business, finalizes Samsung purchase
http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/20/seagate-shores-up-its-hard-drive-business-finalizes-samsung-pur/
Seagate ftw
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20111219
12/19/11 PHD comic: 'The Claus Hypothesis'
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20111217
20111216
ASUS Transformer Prime hits UK preorder, ships January
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ASUS has thrown open UK pre-orders for the Eee Pad Transformer Prime, offering the Tegra 3 based Android tablet for £449 ahead of shipments beginning in January 2012. Only the 32GB WiFi model will be sold in the UK, bundled with the battery-toting keyboard dock, while those unwilling to wait for a quadcore can also get a discounted original Transformer to tide them over.
The original Transformer is now just £299 for the 16GB model, slate-only, while the 16GB bundle with the keyboard dock is now £399. The 32GB Transformer – again, slate-only, is now £349. Promotional pricing will last until December 30.
For most, though, the lure of the Prime will be too much to ignore. The 10.1-inch tablet has a high-quality IPS+ display, WiFi a/b/g/n, quadcore NVIDIA processor, an 8-megapixel main camera with 1080p Full HD video recording, and of course that special dual-battery capability. The internal battery on the Prime is rated for 12hrs alone, but the keyboard-dock adds a further 6hrs to that.
An Ice Cream Sandwich update will be pushed out OTA shortly, ASUS says. More details on the Transformer Prime in the full SlashGear review.
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ASUS Transformer Prime hits UK preorder, ships January is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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20111215
Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliance will be free-to-play
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Yet another Electronic Arts game will join the free-to-play category. Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances, announced today, is a new massively multiplayer online strategy game in EA's real-time strategy series. Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances will be the first in the series to be MMO style and free-to-play. Players can expect "a completely interactive and dynamic gameplay experience", according to EA.
There are two factions, Global Defense Initiative and Brotherhood of Nod. The two are engaged in a war over a potent yet volatile resource, Tiberium. Players must not forget they will also be battling the Forgotten, humans who have been mentally and physically mutated by exposure to this resource. As the title states, Alliances will be important for allying with players and fight the Forgotten or other players. Be careful who you trust.
With the popularity of social media continually increasing, it is not surprising we are seeing it more in-game. Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances will feature in-game social and news feeds updated in real time. Similar to some Battlefield titles, the game will run in Web browsers and on mobile devices, with support for cross-platform play. Testing for the closed beta begins December 15th , be sure to sign up!
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Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliance will be free-to-play is written by Christen McGregor & originally posted on SlashGear.
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20111213
Transmission Remote GTK
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Transmission Remote GTK features:
- Cross-platform
- Remotely add (file/url), start, stop, remove, remove & delete, verify, reannounce torrents.
- Works as a .torrent handler (eg. from a web browser).
- Set torrent properties such as speed, seed, peer limits, file priorities, add/edit/remove trackers.
- Change remote settings like global limits, download directory, and connectivity preferences.
- Run commands when download finishes
- Directory labels
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Diablo III opening cinematic released
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There's nothing quite like a good ol' game of Diablo to get you out of the everyday hum-drum of normal human life, and as Blizzard has proven with their eternally entertaining first two installments of this birds-eye-view hack and slash adventure game, Diablo III has a lot to live up to — today we get our first glimpse of the first three minutes of the game as it's set to be released in 2012, cinematic one and the start of the continued hellish storyline. What you're about to see is Deckard Cain, also known as the dirty old man whose fortune it's been to both be the keeper of the lore of this game series and the one who's always burning in hell while you fight the forces of evil. Cain has a niece now too, and as a meteor shower is about to prove, his ramblings about the return of the forces of hell to the earth to bring about a new terror are more than just a little bit true – great holes of flame!
This isn't the first time we've posted an anticipatory story about the coming of the third Diablo game, also known as Diablo 3, and it won't be the last by the looks of it. Bear witness to this first cinematic and, if you're lucky enough, you'll not have seen the second one also in this post, the one with Cain's niece continuing Cain's work into the nightmare heart of the Black Soulstone. This language epic enough for you? It can never EVER be epic enough when it comes to Diablo. Here's how it all begins:
It looks basically like Cain has discovered that the evil is not finished, even though we've massacred Diablo Lord of Terror, Mephisto Lord of Hatred, and Baal Lord of Destruction already. Now what we've got is a show not unlike what we saw in the Lord of the Rings series from a few years ago with moving pages and stories of war, this time with some gigantic beasts with horns and fire galore – seems similar to the last game, doesn't it? Have a look at the stained glass window above Cain's desk and see Tryael, the Archangel of Justice you should be familiar with from the Sanctuary in the last level of Diablo II, the final defeat of Baal in Lord of Destruction, and under the desert in Tal Rasha's tomb as well. Will this protector of good be an ally to you the hero again as he was in Diablo II, or will he have become corrupted back to his original demonic form?
Then there's this slightly older and just as telling cinematic containing Azmodan, Lord of Sin. A fat grub of a demon whose goal it is to ravage the earth until they find the Black Soulstone. When the Black Soulstone is found, Azmodan says he'll be able to reign as the Prime Evil.
Lovely stuff – can't wait to see it! Burning flesh and the massacre of all goodness!
Story Timeline
- Diablo III announced on Jun 30th 2008
- Diablo III producer under fire for adding color on Jul 3rd 2008
- Diablo III designer comments on angry fan's screenshots on Aug 5th 2008
- Diablo III Beta Testing: Yes, Finally, For Real, at BlizzCon on Oct 25th 2010
- Diablo III "Followers" Announced on May 16th 2011
- Diablo III Runestone System Details on May 25th 2011
- Bad news for Diablo III fans as Blizzard makes fundamental changes to franchise on Aug 1st 2011
- Diablo III Beta Gameplay Video Preview Released on Aug 1st 2011
- Diablo III closed beta testing goes live on Sep 20th 2011
- Diablo 3 release date pushed back to 2012, Beta extended on Sep 23rd 2011
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- No Diablo III console release
Diablo III opening cinematic released is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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20111206
VIDEO: Earth-like planet is confirmed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/science-environment-16044761
Cool
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20111201
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime review
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Is there any tablet that's hotter than the Transformer Prime right now? (Please, don't say the Kindle Fire.) For weeks we geeks, early adopters and people who love their tech toys have been awaiting this, and none too patiently. Make no mistake: this will be one of the slickest products we test this year and it isn't just because the original Transformer had such an inventive design. The Prime is the first device packing NVIDIA's hot-off-the-presses Tegra 3 SoC, making it the world's first quad-core tablet. This comes with promises of longer-than-ever runtime and blazing performance (five times faster than Tegra 2, to be exact), all wrapped in a package measuring just 8.3mm (0.33 inches) thick -- even skinnier than the iPad 2 or Galaxy Tab 10.1. Throw in specs like a Super IPS+ Gorilla Glass display, eight megapixel rear camera and a confirmed ICS update in the pipe and even we seen-it-all Engadget editors were drooling.
All of which means we dropped just everything when a 32GB Prime showed up on our doorstep earlier this week, and soon enough, you'll have your chance to nab one too. ASUS announced today that the WiFi-only models will be available through online sellers the week of December 19th, and in retail the week after. (No word yet on 3G versions for the US just yet.) It'll start at $499 for the 32GB model -- not bad considering five hundred bucks is the going rate for a high-end tablet with 16GB of storage. From there you can get a 64GB number for $599, while that signature keyboard dock will set you back a further $149. Worth it? Read on to find out.
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20111126
Asus Transformer Prime available for pre-order at Best Buy now
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Transformer Prime (optimus?) Powered by NVIDIA tegra3 (kal-el[superman]) and running android
The geeky overdose :p
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20111125
The First Android Ever, the HTC G1, Gets ICS Port
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Whether you have an Android phone that is old or new, chances are that you can find an Android 4.0 port for it on XDA-Developers. Today we got word that XDA Recognized Developer jcarrz1 has developed a partially-working ICS port for the original HTC G1. While WiFi, Bluetooth, and screen rotation isn't working, everything else seems to be functioning. If you have the original G1 and want to usher it into modern times with the latest version of Android, check out the discussion thread.
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20111123
20111122
'Space camouflage' coating claim
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Engineers claim a black carbon nanotube coating could be used to conceal objects in deep space from detection.
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20111117
Alien rats take on prey's role
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/science-environment-15738837
The struggle of the alien rats :p
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Europe and crisis for democracy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-europe-15754521
The age of the technocracy. WoD ftw
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South Park Renewed Through Season 20!
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CREATORS TREY PARKER AND MATT STONE
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New York, November 16, 2011 - Trey Parker and Matt Stone have reached a new deal with COMEDY CENTRAL to extend cable's longest-running animated series, "South Park," it was announced today by Michele Ganeless, president, COMEDY CENTRAL. The deal for three additional seasons ensures the top-rated Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series will remain in original episodes through 2016 and a milestone 20th season. Parker and Stone will continue to write, direct and edit every episode of "South Park," as they have since the premiere of the series in 1997.
"The collective genius of Matt and Trey knows no bounds," said Ganeless. "Week after week and season after season they continue to surprise and delight 'South Park' fans, and that includes all of us here at COMEDY CENTRAL. We're thrilled that the adventures of Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman will continue through 2016."
"COMEDY CENTRAL has been our home for 15 years and we love working there," said Parker and Stone. "'South Park' is a blast and we can't wait to make more."
Recently voted "The Greatest Animated TV Series" in a poll conducted by Entertainment Weekly, "South Park," which wraps its 15th season tonight, averaged over 3.5 million viewers per episode during its most recent season (most current data), in which it was the #1 show in all of television among Men 18-24 in Wednesday Prime and the #1 show in cable among Adults 18-49, Adults 18-34, Adults 18-24, Men 18-34 and Men 18-24 in Wednesday Prime. The series has also accumulated 35 million fans on Facebook, making it the most-liked series in cable and the #3 series in all of television.
"South Park" launched on August 13, 1997 and premiered its 15th season on April 27, 2011.Co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are executive producers, along with Anne Garefino, of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning "South Park." Frank C. Agnone II is the supervising producer. Eric Stough, Adrien Beard, Bruce Howell and Vernon Chatman are producers. "South Park's" Web site is www.southparkstudios.com. The series airs Wednesday nights at 10:00 p.m. and repeats later that night at midnight (all times ET/PT).
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20111116
Intel outs new single chip capable of teraflop performance
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I've been piddling with tech since I was in grade school. Thinking back to that old Tandy computer I had as a kid and comparing it to the 6-core beast we have on desktops today it's amazing how tech has changed over the decades. I often wonder what sort of tech my kids will be toting around 20 years from now. Intel has a new chip that hits at what the future will be like.
The latest chip from Intel is a 1-teraflop beast that has over 50-cores. Intel is testing the processor inside a computer at the SC11 supercomputer conference in Seattle. The little chip that is pushing out so much performance is the size of a matchbook and called Knights Ferry. The architecture of the chip is called many integrated core or MIC.
To put a bit of perspective on the teraflop number, that means that the chip is capable of a trillion floating-point operations per second. The photo above is of a slide from the presentation that sums things up nicely. The Knights Bridge chip needs a single PCIe slot to hit 1TF. Back in 1997 to hit 1TF performance took 9,298 Pentium II Xeon processors and 72 cabinets. How's that for progress?
[via Seattle Times]
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Intel outs new single chip capable of teraflop performance is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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20111115
Intel 4004, world's first commercial microprocessor, celebrates 40th birthday
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20111110
11/07/11 PHD comic: 'I've looked at it'
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20111108
White House denies alien contact
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The US government has formally declared it has no knowledge of the existence of extraterrestrial life, in response to petitions submitted to the White House.
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20111107
Tui prepares for Greek euro exit
Always be prepared
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German tour operator Tui asks hotels in Greece to sign new contracts specifying how bills will be paid if Greece leaves the euro.
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20111102
HTC grabs lead in US smartphone sales
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NASA developing tractor beams, no plans for Death Star... yet (video)
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Fully functional LightSabre aside, a tractor beam has to be high on most geek wish-lists; lucky for you NASA has started working on one. Before you drop your sandwich (or whatever that object in your left hand is), this won't be for sucking up star cruisers, but the more modest task of sample and space dust collection. The basic concept has already been proven, but now NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist has given boffins $100,000 to make the dream a reality. Three potential methods are already on the table, which in lay-terms resemble laser tweezers, a light vortex and a conceptual rippling beam. Once developed, it could signal the end of traditional mechanical sample collecting -- and just plain luck -- consigning robotic arms to the history books. Check the video after the break for science-tastic mock up of how it might work.
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20111101
Greece PM faces party rebellion
Bagpipers play the tunes of war
Death or glory I will find
Rebellion on my mind
\m/
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Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou should resign, say six leading members of his party, as one MP defects and the opposition calls for early elections.
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20111031
10/31/11 PHD comic: 'Division of Labor'
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Russian clocks stay on summertime
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-europe-15512177
Who needs daylight either ways.. it's overrated.
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20111027
Eurozone: Now for the hard work
I really like the idea of Greece being the analogue of Florida (a.k.a. the sunshine state), when comparing the two countries (i.e. the US and the EU :P).
Greece ain't got something like Cape Canaveral, but it has an impressive history.
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Eurozone leaders have delivered a rescue package with more detail than investors feared it would, but which is less ambitious than they would ideally like to see.
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