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Only a day after announcing the latest update to the TouchSmart PC range, HP management has told reporters that the company expects MultiTouch - where a display responds to simultaneous contact from more than one finger - to make it into consumer products “long before” the launch of Windows 7. Microsoft has recently confirmed that [...]
Who wants more Portal? I know that I’ll be first in line to snag a sequel to one of my favorite games from last year. Sure, people keep putting up new maps and such for the original, but I’m itching for something with a storyline. Thanks to a new job posting by Valve, we not [...]
SanDisk are looking to take on Microsoft’s WiFi enabled Zune and Apple’s mobile iTunes store, with the company today revealing that they have bought out MusicGremlin. Described as a “digital content distribution” specialist, MusicGremlin were responsible for the short-lived MG-1000 PMP, the claim to fame of which was its ability to download tracks on a [...]
Every generation it seems that the blame for all the world’s troubles is placed on some form of pop culture. Usually it comes down to music, or in more recent years, video games. So what is the solution? According to Pastor Richard Patrick, it’s time to burn it all.
Not exactly a computer you can pick up at your local Circuit City, but we’ll make an exception for something that can break the petaflop barrier. IBM’s Roadrunner can fathom in excess of 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second, which makes it twice as fast as the company’s previous machine, Blue Gene/L, that topped out at [...]
In a WoW-dominated world, it’s tough for new MMOs to really take off. FunCom doesn’t seem too worried, as Age of Conan is well on its way to becoming one of the larger games out there. Not long ago we told you that they had reached 400,000 subscribers, and now they’ve reached another milestone.
Bless this woman for at least trying to look sultry while sporting a ridiculous pair of VR glasses. Fresh from Myvu, the oddly-amber frames are the new flagship Crystal 701 model, running at 640 x 480 VGA resolution and promising a 22.5 degree field-of-view; that’s 33-percent wider than previous versions. Creating the perception of a 4:3 screen 2m [...]
As VIA’s energy-efficient mobile processor range gets faster, the chips become more suited to applications other than basic ultraportable notebooks. That’s why the company has developed a new Mini-ITX 2.0 standard, an updated version of the 17cm square motherboard which has proved so popular with case modders and small-form-factor HTPCs. Mini-ITX 2.0 specifies a CPU such [...]
When you turn on your TV, you are generally greeted with a slew of commercials and product placement within your favorite shows. Walk outside and you see billboards, buses and building sides plastered with advertisements. At least most of the time when you pop in your favorite games you are immersed in a new world [...]
What’s up with all of the secrecy over at Crytek these days? First, they announce that there will be no 1.3 patch to the game, which obviously set some people into panic mode. Now they’ve casually dropped this image upon us.
