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Apple remains on top with the new iPhone 4

When it comes to talking about the new iPhone 4, the first thing to announce is that it will be available on 24th June in both white and black colors and with two versions, one of 16GB of built-in storage at $199 and the other of 32GB at $299, each of them with a two year service agreement with AT&T. This new model has useful improvements like a second camera, that...

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by Naidin at June 12th, 2010 at 11:06 am
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Intel reveals plans for new high-performance computing product

Intel Corporation has announced plans for the delivery of new products based on M.I.C. (Intel Many Integrated Core architecture) at the International Supercomputing Conference. The first product, codenamed “Knights Corner”, sill target supercomputing segments such as scientific research and exploration, to be designed on Intel’s 22 nm manufacturing process. The technology...

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by Alex at May 31st, 2010 at 12:05 pm
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Steam says Go! for Macs

“Steam – The ultimate gaming platform”. This is the description you’ll see once you enter the official web page. For those who don’t know what “steam” is, it is a worldwide communication platform, translated into 21 languages, used to distribute a large number of games and media. And with a number of 25 million users, one can easily state that real gamers...

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by admin at May 12th, 2010 at 02:05 pm
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Starcraft 2 beta Mac client available

One of the most awaited games for quite some time now is Starcraft 2,developed by Blizzard. The game is still in beta stage, and Blizzard has just released the beta client version for Mac. Both PC and Mac clients are available for download, only after pre-ordering the game, available as the $60 regular edition, or the $100 collector’s edition. The official Starcraft...

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by Alex at April 29th, 2010 at 01:04 am
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Craft of Gods prepares for the next Open Beta

Developed by Cyberdemons and published by Kalicanthus Entertainment, Craft of Gods is a new 3D Fantasy MMORPG, inspired from Slavic mythology. The story takes place in the land of Akvilon, a world that becomes divided into two opposing sides, by the war between its benevolent creator and a force of jealous evil. Navi - the dark side and Avi - the light, are each represented...

Tagged with: Akvilon, Craft of Gods, Cyberdemons, Kalicanthus, MMORPG, open beta, Slavic mythology
by Alex at April 28th, 2010 at 05:04 am
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Online game Mytheon starts its open beta today

Developed by True Games Interactive and Petroglyph, Mytheon is an online action-RPG game with strategic game play, built in a mythology-based universe, where players challenge legendary gods to define their own fate. Known as “Stonecasters”, the players are powerful humans gifted with spell casting abilities, able to summon minions and erect structures to...

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by Alex at April 28th, 2010 at 01:04 am
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PETMAN robot being developed to simulate soldiers

A freely walking robot is being developed to emulate a soldier in protective clothing. The Protection Ensemble Test Mannequin (PETMAN for short), is being developed by Boston Dynamics for US Army tests regarding chemical protection clothing. The robot will be able to generally move freely like a human being (crawling, walking), while being exposed to chemical warfare agents. PETMAN...

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by Alex at April 27th, 2010 at 07:04 am
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Hubble celebrated its 20th anniversary

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has just celebrated its 20th anniversary since it was positioned in orbit on April 24, 1990 by the space shuttle Discovery. NASA, together with the Space Telescope Science Institute and the European Space Agency, celebrated the event with the release of a new image from the Carina Nebula, one of the largest known star-birth regions of the...

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by Alex at April 26th, 2010 at 06:04 am
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Google BUZZ proves to be Buzzkill

Recently accused of trying to take on Apple by going into the phone business, Google continues the way to world domination by introducing a new service: Google Buzz. With the short excerpt on their blog talking about the expansion of the online interactions in terms of social relations, they explain the need to enter this challenge of managing the “social web”. To...

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by IULY at February 11th, 2010 at 09:02 am
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Safer Internet Day

The development of technology has turned the most of us, and mainly the users of young age, into publishers of different types of information: text, images, video etc. Uploading this information can have both positive and negative sides, depending on the way people manage data, especially sensitive and personal data. courtesy of Shutterstock. Tesla’s officer of Internet...

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by IULY at February 10th, 2010 at 02:02 am