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Gigabyte PC revamps include game-ready Ultrabooks, AMD A4-based tablet (hands-on)
Engadget - 3 Jun 2013 06:37
Gigabyte loves to pull out all the stops at Computex, and this year is no exception: the company just unveiled 11 (mostly) new laptops and tablets. According to a brochure on hand at the computer maker's demo table, the ...
Roger Cicala gives first impressions of new Zeiss Touit 32mm F1.8
DP Review - 3 Jun 2013 22:46
Roger Cicala of Lensrentals has published a blog post in which he gives his first impressions of the new Carl Zeiss 32mm F1.8 'Touit' lens, in Sony E-mount. Unlike Roger's normal approach, where he exhaustively tests mul...
Zynga to shutter New York and LA studios, cut 18% of workforce
Engadget - 3 Jun 2013 21:18
Social game monolith Zynga plans to shutter its New York City, Dalles and Los Angeles game development studios. Sources at Zynga confirmed the closures to Engadget, and also confirmed reports of layoffs affecting 520 emp...
Bell Labs creates a lensless camera that's always in focus
The Verge - 3 Jun 2013 16:53
One day, cameras may be able to capture less data but produce images that look just as good as a traditional photo. Bell Labs is the latest to attempt such a feat, and it's doing so while eschewing another major camera s...
Broadcom intros a trio of 802.11ac WiFi chips for PCs and set-top boxes
Engadget - 3 Jun 2013 14:00
Broadcom has focused most of its 802.11ac WiFi efforts this year on high- and low-end mobile chips. Today, it's swinging that attention back to bigger machinery like PCs and set-top boxes. The company's new BCM4350, BCM4...
Spamhaus-style DDoS attacks: All the hackers are doing it
The Register - 3 Jun 2013 10:04
'All you need is 10 lines of code and a lot of patience' Hackers are increasingly turning to DNS reflection to amplify the volume of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks....
Ex-Microsoft man plans brand of consumer marijuana 'fine cigars'
The Register - 3 Jun 2013 07:03
Puff the magic, drag on one of these An ex-Microsoft executive plans to establish a chain of retail outlets serving premium marijuana across the US, both to get rich and - apparently - to undermine drugs traffickers....
Acer Aspire S7 and S3 hands-on: Haswell mania begins
The Verge - 3 Jun 2013 05:06
The Aspire S7 was, for many of us, the best ultrabook of the Ivy Bridge CPU generation. No Windows laptop before it had ever been quite so thin, beautiful and robust, and while the S7 could clearly match aesthetics with ...
Acer upgrades Aspire S7 with Haswell and bigger battery, introduces S3 performance model
The Verge - 3 Jun 2013 04:14
Last year, Acer's Aspire S7 surprised us by bringing a whole new level of design finesse to the company's laptop line, with solid build quality and an eye-catching anodized aluminum chassis. This year, the company is ite...
Researchers Say They Can Hack Your iPhone With A Malicious Charger
Forbes - 3 Jun 2013 01:32Platform numbers for May 2013 are in: Android 4.x on 59% of devices
Android Central - 3 Jun 2013 23:57
Jelly Bean climbs as older versions fall, continuing the trend we're used to The platform version numbers for the month of May 2013 are in, and there are still a lot of versions of Android out in the wild. It comes as no...
Copying grows along with data, driving attempts to rein it in
PC World - 3 Jun 2013 23:56
All that new data flowing into enterprises can bring along an expensive partner: multiple copies. For better or worse, many types of data are copied multiple times for multiple purposes, including backup, archiving and d...
Hot New Titles Stay Strong at Softening Broadway B.O.
Variety - 3 Jun 2013 23:54
Broadway box office slipped in the wake of Memorial Day weekend, with most shows on the boards reporting declines for the first week of the 2013-14 season. With overall attendance down, it helped to be one of the Main St...
Photographer Captures Rare Photograph of a Sprite with an Aurora
PetaPixel - 3 Jun 2013 23:53
Categories: Inspiration Tags: astronomyastrophotographyauroramikehollingsheadnightskyphenomenonraresprite Check out this aurora photograph captured last Friday night by photographer Mike Hollingshead. See those small red...
Must See HDTV (June 3rd - 9th)
Engadget - 3 Jun 2013 23:53
The summer programming schedule has officially arrived, and this week familiar warm weather favorites return including Continuum, Falling Skies and Burn Notice. There are also a few new entire including TNT's The Hero re...
Twitter back online after brief outage
Reuters - 3 Jun 2013 23:48
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NASA's Magic Thermal Tiles: Hold 2,200 Degree Heat in Your Bare Hands
Gizmodo - 3 Jun 2013 23:46
There's science, and there's magic. And incredibly, this is the the first one. Behold the thermal tiles NASA used to protect shuttles from totally disintegrating on their way back to Earth. Awesome.
Watch 'Game of Thrones' Fans Freak Out Over the 'Red Wedding'
Mashable - 3 Jun 2013 23:43
Game of Thrones viewers had their minds blown during Sunday's "The Rains of Castamere" episode, which many people online are referring to as the "Red Wedding" episode Across social media, fans quickly expressed their dis...
Zynga lays off 18 percent of workforce, shifts focus to mobile
PC World - 3 Jun 2013 23:43
Zynga, the social gaming services company, is laying off 18 percent of its employees in an effort to reduce its cost structure. CEO Mark Pincus announced the layoffs Monday in a note to employees posted on the company's ...
Another cat accused of smuggling cell phone into jail
CNET - 3 Jun 2013 23:39
After a Brazilian cat was caught by security guards smuggling a cell phone and charger into a prison, authorities in Northern Russia say they've intercepted a similar feline felon.
Stratolaunch firms up its relationship with Orbital for air-launch system
NBC News - 3 Jun 2013 23:38
Stratolaunch has solidified its partnership with Orbital Sciences Corp. to develop a new rocket capable of launching into orbit from what will be the world's widest airplane."We've been together now for nine months and w...
One small step for astronaut and his famous moon quote
NBC News - 3 Jun 2013 23:38
By Robert Z. PearlmanSpace.comDid Neil Armstrong's famous first words spoken on the moon include the "a" in "one small step for a man" or not? Debated for more than four decades, the answer may be found in the astronaut'...