Seagate has unveiled a version of its Backup Plus portable and desktop drives for the Mac. The new release includes USB 3.0 support, which did not exist on Macs until the MacBook Pro with Retina was put on the market, though it can be upgraded to use FireWire 800 or a Thunderbolt connection if required, via […]
Nintendo unveiled the UK’s first Wii U commercial last night. The ad aired during a Homeland break on Channel 4, and YouTube user Neil Wheatley uploaded it shortly after. The minute-long commercial is narrated by TV and radio presenter Adam Buxton, he of The Adam and Joe Show fame. On top of featuring Buxton’s squeaky […]
Oct 22 2012 | Posted in
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Corpse Party, the most surprisingly disturbing PSP game, is getting a sequel in North America this winter, and Europe “shortly thereafter.” Corpse Party: Book of Shadows is a collection of eight self-contained scenarios in the Corpse Party universe, also for PSP, and also released exclusively as a download. “Some of them help fill in the […]
AMD is dong graphics card bundle which includes games you want to play. Engadget reports the company’s new ‘Never Settle’ campaign gives away Far Cry 3, Hitman: Absolution, and Sleeping Dogs with any Radeon HD 7900 series purchase, along with 20 percent off Medal of Honor: Warfighter. The promotion extends across Radeon HD 7770 GHz […]
The partnership between Sony and Stanford University on the Folding@home distributed computing project will come to a close at the end of the month after five years. The project utilized the ‘idle’ hours on a PlayStation 3 that were donated by a user in order to harness the considerable power of the Cell processor and […]
Oct 22 2012 | Posted in
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Researchers from the University of Alberta, the University of Toronto, and Autodesk Research have teamed up to create a gadget called Magic Finger. It attaches to a user’s finger and effectively turns any surface into a touchscreen as it tracks their movement. Still largely a working prototype, the device is said to be capable of […]
Oct 22 2012 | Posted in
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Walt Disney Pictures will make Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, the adaptation of the 1972 children’s book which was put into turnaround by Twentieth Century Fox Film last month. Judith Viorst’s book is described as follows: He could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very […]
Warner Bros. Pictures has shifted the release date of their upcoming LEGO, moving it three weeks earlier, from February 28, 2014 to February 7. The film, the first-ever full length theatrical LEGO movie, follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to […]
Sprint today announced that its LTE 4G network is now live in a handful of new markets around the country. Sprint customers in Hutchinson and McPherson, Kan.; New Bedford/Fall River, Mass.; Wichita Falls, Texas; as well as many Chicago-area suburbs can all use Sprint’s high-speed 4G network with compatible hardware. According to Sprint, its LTE […]
Oct 22 2012 | Posted in
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ABC Family has set the return dates for several of their popular dramas. Pretty Little Liars, The Lying Game, Bunheads and Switched at Birth will all be back during the second week of January, the cable network announced Monday. The second season of Switched at Birth will kick off Monday, Jan. 7 at 8 p.m., […]