Huge swathes of my childhood were devoted to two things: X-Com, and the X-Files. And now both of those wonderful things are being poured into one mold, called "XCOM". Unlike the original turn-based game, it is an FPS. Made by 2K Games, the same devious bastards who brought us BioShock. It looks to be set in the late-40s, early 50s, which place it much earlier in time than the original X-Com.
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The New X-Com Trailer: Better than my Childhood?
Internet ‘Kill Switch’ Bill Hits Congress Again
Egypt's sudden removal and equally sudden return to the web has given open Internet advocates a stockpile of new ammunition. The first target of this arsenal will be S.3480, a new version of an old piece of (failed) legislation. The "Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act" was first introduced in 2010. It didn't work then, but Senators Lieberman (I-Conn), Collins (R-Maine) and Carper (D-Dela) think 2011 is the magic year.
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HTC Thunderbolt Will Function as Mobile Hotspot
The HTC Thunderbolt is shaping up to be one hell of a powerhouse. The next-gen 1 GHz Snapdragon processor is blazing fast. I spent a lot of time with this phone at CES, and found it just as zippy as any dual-core option at the show. It feels like magic and cold molasses in your hand- HTC's best design by far. Today we've received further confirmation that the LTE smartphone will offer simultaneous voice and data- and we've learned that the ThunderBolt will launch with mobile hotspot functionality.
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Al Jazeera Puts Egypt Coverage Under Creative Commons License
Egypt may be offline for the time being, but that hasn't stopped footage of the unrest in Cairo from finding its way onto cyberspace. The much-maligned Al Jazeera is one of the few news agencies with a heavy presence in the country. And they're releasing their coverage under a Creative Commons license.
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RIM Releases New BlackBery PlayBook for Business Video
Those of you fiending for a hit of PlayBook are in luck today. RIM has just posted an official video that shows the new BlackBerry tablet in action. This demo is geared towards enterprise customers/users. It highlights the way the PlayBook syncs up with and pulls data from a BlackBerry.
PlayBook for Business
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People Use Apps Once 26% of the Time
It's a good thing that apps don't take up any physical space. If they did, we'd be up to our ankles in rusty iFarts and buggy home screen widgets. A new Localytics study shows that 26% of new apps are never opened a second time.
Download numbers only matter so much. If you have an ad-supported app, you need people coming back again and again to make any money. For the people who make pay apps though, this might not be bad news. It suggests that people are rather frivolous about their app downloading habits.
This trend has been on the rise since the start of 2010. We've all had it happen. You find some neat "time-saving" app or organizational app, download it, and promptly shelve it forever because change is tough. I'd be interested to see what percentage of these "one-time" apps are exercise or fitness-related.
LG Plans to Push NFC Technology in 2012
If 2011 is the year of the tablets, 2012 will be the year of NFC technology. We've already heard that the iPhone 5 and iPad 2 will both support NFC- which make them second to the Nexus S. And now it looks like LG has plans on joining Apple and Google in 2012.
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Nintendo Sticks Head in the Sand, Pretends Social Media isn’t Happening
Nintendo has a bad habit of ignoring big threats until they become implacable foes. The latest goof? President Satoru Iwata attempted to allay investor's fears about social media games like FarmVille. He didn't do it by announcing a new Nintendo Facebook game or social networking service. Instead, he said this: "Nintendo has been developing social entertainment in the field of video games for a long time."
Read The Full StoryWorld Governments Clamp Down on Anonymous, UK Arrests & FBI Warrants Served
Wikileaks isn't the best-loved website in the world right now. Anyone associated with the leak page and its crusade against everyone are coming under harsh scrutiny. And that includes Anonymous, the Internet's blind, vicious animal brain.
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Android Honeycomb Could Support Smartphones?
Android 3.0, aka Honeycomb, has been pushed by Google and Motorola as a tablet-centric version of the Android OS. Google is open about their plans to unify Android and we may in the midst of a stirring towards that now. While Honeycomb's default setting is 1280x768, it switches into a different mode when you change the screen setting to WVGA.
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Amazon Sells More Kindles, But the Margins are Razor-Thin
It's a bold new day for reading. Amazon has just announced their financial results for Q4 of 2010. For the first time ever, the online retailer is now selling more Kindle books than paperback books. For every 100 "real" books, Amazon now moves 115 ebooks. Three times as many Kindle books sell as hardcover books.
Read The Full StoryThe Next Generation of Leak Sites: 5 Wikileaks Descendants
From Apple to his own once-loyal followers, Julian Assange is suffering from a lack of support on all sides. The future of Wikileaks is questionable at best. But that website's death (or neutering) won't be enough to stop a new wave of whistleblowing. The first new wave of leak sites is already here.
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