NVIDIA at its Gaming Festival in Shanghai unveiled the expected GeForce GTX 690. The dual-chip board is billed as the fastest on offer and combines two partly downscaled GTX 680 units for a major leap in speed over the GTX 590. With 3,072 processing cores, it in many cases runs games twice as fast as […]
Google has given an advance copy of the FCC’s report on its Street View Wi-Fi scraping incident. Details posted by the LA Times confirmed Google’s initial story of an engineer writing code that collected data wholesale, but revealed a lack of attention that let the code get on Street View cars. The engineer, whose name […]
Sony is working on a mash-up fighting game for the PlayStation 3. PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, due later this year, rounds up your favorite protagonists from Sony PlayStation games through the years and puts them in a wacky four-player fighting game. Among the combatants: Kratos (God of War); Sweet Tooth (Twisted Metal); Col. Radec (Killzone); […]
Foursquare recently updated its BlackBerry application to version 3.9. The most significant new feature is NFC (near field communications) on certain BlackBerry models, such as the Bold 9900, to let users simply tap their handsets on NFC stickers to share their locations. The update also includes improvements for overall app speed and GPS performance, as […]
TV Land has renewed their original sitcom, Happily Divorced, for a third season. The cable channel has ordered another 12 episodes, matching the TV show’s second season count. Starring Fran Drescher, Happily Divorced is inspired by the actresses’ real-life story. It revolves around a Los Angeles florist (Drescher) whose husband comes out of the closet […]
A new, free app called SloPro says it can shoot 60 frames per second recording with the iPhone 4S. A $2 “pro upgrade” allows users to save the raw footage to iTunes for third-party editing. The program, when used on an iPhone 4S, records at 60fps natively and thus users have the option of either […]
Walt Disney Pictures and Marvel Studios have provided us with estimates of the overseas box office for Marvel’s The Avengers so far. The Joss Whedon action adventure has earned an estimated $73.1 million in its first Wednesday through Friday of overseas release from 41 territories representing approximately 70% of the film’s potential performance (the figure […]
Julianne Moore has been offered the role of Margaret White in Kim Peirce’s upcoming remake of the Stephen King novel, Carrie, Deadline reports. Margaret is the mother of the titular Carrie White, who will be played by Chloe Moretz. Released in 1974, Carrie was King’s first published novel and tells the story of a high […]
Kristen Stewart has lined up a leading role in the action film Cali, Variety reports. 30 Minutes of Less screenwriter Michael Diliberti is providing the screenplay, which will feature Stewart as Mya, a young woman who, with her boyfriend, Chris, fakes her own death as part of a snuff film and runs away. Years later, […]
Deadlin reports that Twentieth Century Fox has set David James Kelly to rewrite the script for the Daredevil reboot to be directed by David Slade (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, 30 Days of Night). The film will adapt Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s “Born Again” storyline, which ran in Daredevil #227-233 in 1986. The story involves an […]
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