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PlayStation 3 finally hacked thanks to GeoHot

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It has been more than two years since the initial launch of PlayStation 3, but until now no one has ever succeeded to get full control of the device. Well, its reign over the pirate world is over.

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Launch trailer of Mass Effect 2, one week left to the most epic sci-fi journey

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Today BioWare released the last and final trailer of Mass Effect 2, the long awaited sequel to one of the best sci-fi adventures ever. The game promises to reach epic proportions with enormous gameplay world, non-linear story where player’s decisions affects the direction they take all the time and one hell of a plot.

Collectors and Keepers, Shepard is coming!
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The new iPhone V4 gossip roundup, wishes and rumors united

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I just stumbled upon a pretty nice roundup of all rumors about what the next iPhone could be. As you may have heard Apple prepares a big event on 27th January and most of the rumors point they will announce the first Apple Tablet (most probably named iSlate or iPad or iTablet) along with possibly the fourth generation iPhone OS. The announcement of the 4th generation iPhone is still way ahead in the future (possibly summer as usual), but that doesn’t mean there already isn’t a good pile of rumored features and specs.


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Fermilab built a 570 megapixel camera to shoot the universe. Say cheese, dark energy!

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Fermilab built one of the biggest digital cameras in the world in order to understand the mysteries of the universe in their quest for dark energy. It has 74CCD sensors, it’s as big as a Mini Cooper (you call that big?) and costs $35 million.

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NVIDIA Fermi-based (GF100) family comes in March, details revealed

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After announcing a significant three-month delay, the new NVIDIA GF100 product line is finally scheduled for launch in March. The Fermi cores will offer native DirectX 11 support, lots of technology improvements and supposed superior performance.


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Windows Mobile 6.6 coming in February, 7.0 to be delayed again?

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Microsoft plans to launch the 6.6 update for their Windows Mobile OS next month bringing capacitive touchscreen support, among other performance optimizations and bug fixes.

The official announcement of the new version will most probably take place at the MWC 2010 in February in Barcelona.

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ATI Radeon HD5670 delivers DirectX 11 graphics for less than $100

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After releasing the most powerful video card in the world (HD5970 live pics here), ATI seems to have concentrated their work on the low-budget segment. The first dirt cheap, but capable Radeon will be the HD5670, offering DirectX11 support, GDDR5 memory and Eyefinity multi-display technology.

Price you ask? Under $100, ATI will tell you.
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Android 2.1 SDK released, meanwhile Nexus One gets unlocked and rooted

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Recently Google released the new SDK component package for Android 2.1 OS. Thanks to it, the developers will be able to take full advantage of the new features coming with the 2.1 version of the free mobile OS.


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Capacitive screens test round 1 – iPhone, HTC Droid Eris, Motorola Milestone and Google Nexus One

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Now you know having a capacitive touchscreen is cool but have you ever wondered which one is the coolest of them non-stylus lot? MOTO developed very simple and yet effective test for comparing different capacitive touchscreens. The first four handsets to be tested are four of the top-end smartphones available on the market – iPhone, HTC Droid Eris, Motorola Milestone and Google Nexus One.

The test is rather simple – drawing lines on the screen with a finger – the first time barely touching the screen and applying some force on the second go. Now there are several outside factors that can affect the performance of each device (moisture of the finger or how steady the hand of the tester is to name the two most obvious) but hopefully the guys from MOTO took them into consideration and did their best so the test remains as objective as possible.

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Avatar ranks second in the all time box-office chart – overtakes Lord of the Rings and takes on Titanic

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After beating the former bronze medalist Pirates of Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Avatar has just moved into second place in the all time generated revenue leaderboard. The previous runner-up – Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King now occupies the last podium spot. Earning more than 1.36 billion US dollars worldwide for 20 days only from IMAX/3D cinemas, Avatar is almost sure to dethrone the current leader – Titanic with its revenue of 1.84 billion US dollars.


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Alienware announced the first 11-inch powerful gaming laptop

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The Alienware has just announced the most portable gaming laptop ever. The 11-inch Alienware M11X will pack a powerful Intel Core2Duo processor (unknown at this stage), DDR3 RAM, and a NVIDIA 335M graphic processor with 1GB DDR3 video memory.

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MSI is preparing a dual touchscreen e-reader running Windows 7

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It looks MSI are on the way to give us the best netbook we have ever seen, disguised as an e-reader.

The MSI gadget will sport two 10-inches capacitive touch displays supporting multi-touch, Intel Atom Z530 processor and will run on Windows 7 Home Premium.
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Samsung Bada S8200 will be the pioneer with the new OS, 4-inch Galaxy 2 is on the way

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Eldar Murtazin posted a tweet with some juicy info about two new Samsung smartphones.

The first is Bada S8200, which name is more than enough to conclude it will be the first smartphone with the new Bada OS.
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Threaded email messaging finally coming with Windows Mobile 6.5.3

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A leaked recent build of the Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade (6.5.3 or whatever it’s called) is the source of even more new features that we haven’t seen on Windows Mobile smartphones before. This time it’s threaded email messaging.

You’ve seen us comment on some of the new features that are expected with the yet unannounced update of Windows Mobile 6.5. The leaked unofficial ROMs are all over the place and users have been experimenting with them for quite some time. Every now and then, new features come up bringing the mobile OS a step forward in the right direction.

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Apple Magic Mouse successfully paired to iPhone, app for the keyboard already available

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The guys from the BTstack project successfully paired an Apple Magic Mouse to an iPhone over Bluetooth. As you may see from the video bellow, the thing works just fine.

For the time being, the mouse drivers are not ready for prime time, but their release should be just around the corner.

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