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Daryl Hall and John Oates warn their homeboys about a carnivorous `80s chick.
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NowGamer: Game developers have used rain to great effect over the years. From the days of 16-bit consoles, to today's multi-million pound budget-blockbusters, it's been an easy and effective way of making a game atmospheric. And with our Heavy Rain review due to hit next week, we ask: which games have done it best?
Former Beverly Hills, 90210 star Ian Ziering is set to walk down the aisle after proposing to his girlfriend. The actor began dating Erin Kristine Ludwig in September (09) and now the
For a blast of accessible fun, the Mini Cooper Challenge invites players of all abilities to take the wheel.
New trailer slaps you in the middle of a battlefield.
Sony's released a lovely new gameplay trailer for Resistance 3, giving you a short but exciting look at the chaos the Chimera will be causing in the upcoming shooter.
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Artist:
Nneka
Review:
"What is life without knowing that death comes?" asks the
Nigerian-German singer-songwriter Nneka Egbuna in "Mind vs. Heart."
If you're going to wax philosophical on a pop record, you better be
able to back it up with gravitas and some great music. Luckily,
Nneka has plenty of both. She has a husky, supple voice and is
equally adept at blasting out guitar anthems ("Focus") and
sauntering through neosoul rave-ups. She's clearly listened to
Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu, but the production on
Concre...
Rating:
3.5 Stars
Apparently the Xbox 360 and PS3 X-Blades box art are different? NSFW, even, someone somewhere said. We can't tell, there's got to be something.
Please, please help Kotaku get to the bottom of this. We'd like to crack this case. Cheeky of us to ask, I know.
Microsoft senior VP Bob Muglia discusses the upcoming launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and other topics.
In a trailer released yesterday for Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box, Criterion has hinted that police will be returning to Burnout in a future DLC pack.
At the sixty second mark the trailer shows Burnout Paradise's new 'Burnout Store' with a mouse hovering over a button marked with a PCPD badge, which we presume to be an abbreviation of Paradise City Police Department. Underneath the button are the words 'Coming Soon'.
Amazing images of Africa wildlife
Source: KMazur/Getty Images
Lauryn Hill Surfaces in New Zealand
Watch the Trailer for Animal Collective's Movie
Justin Timberlake Wins Harvard's Hasty Pudding Award
Hope For Haiti Now Draws 83 Million Viewers In U.S.
Ozzy Osbourne Will Not Reunite with Black Sabbath Any Time Soon
Judi Dench is set to reprise her role as M in the upcoming (and currently untitled) Bond 23 , reports James Bond fansite MI6 .
The surviving members of the Monty Python troupe -- John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin -- have very rarely appeared as Monty Python since the death of Graham Chapman in 1989.
But the five actors have shown up together in various configurations in a few projects over the years. Now a new one is brewing: Absolutely Anything, a hybrid live-action/CG sci-fi farce that is planning to feature the living Pythons as "a group of aliens who endow an earthling with the power to do "absolutely anything" to see what a mess he'll make of things."
Variety reports that the film will be directed by Terry Jones, who last made The Wind in the Willows in 1996, itself a sort of minor Python reunion. (Jones also co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and directed Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life.) He told the trade, "it's not a Monty Python picture, but it certainly has that sensibility."
Jones and Gavin Scott have worked on the screenplay on and off over two decades, and the story also features a talking dog "who seems to understand more about the mayhem that ensues than anyone else does." Robin Williams is attached to voice that character. He could also play another role, "a pompous Frenchman reminiscent of Inspector Clouseau."
Right now, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese and Michael Palin have agreed to voice alien characters, and producer Mike Medavoy (The Pink Panther, Black Swan) and the other producers are working on signing Eric Idle.
I like the sound of this so far -- reminds me in a way of something that Douglas Adams might have cooked up.
Director Terry Jones, by the way, is also reported to be working on a metal version of The Nutcracker, with lyricist Jim Steinman, and is co-writing an opera based on The Owl and the Pussycat. That one will be presented on barges on the Thames during the London Summer Olympics.
Sega announced today that it will soon begin distributing its Sega Master System titles on the Nintendo Virtual Console.
Master System titles will start appearing in Japan first, but European and North American gamers should start to see them shortly after February. The first titles to be released will be the Fist of the North Star, which is 600 Wii points and Fantasy Zone at 500 Wii points.
Sega on Friday announced plans to re-release Master System games on Nintendo's downloadable service.
A new book is being released in Finland that is comprised only of text messages. Yes, 332 pages of texts, complete with obnoxious abbreviations and misspellings for authenticities sake.
Geez, Finland. First your Prime Minister dumps his girlfriend via text message and now this? Get a grip, people. Texting is a convenient way of sending lazy messages, not something to try to stuff literature into. But maybe I'm just a snob. Would you read a book comprised only of text messages? –Adam Frucci
Text message novel published in Finland [via Along Those Lines]
Brief IT news items.
GameSpot gets its paws on the sequel to point-and-click adventure Secret Files: Tunguska.
Artist:
Young Money
Review:
Rebirth sounds like the first album that didn't come
easily for Lil Wayne: He started working on it two years ago
— an eternity for a guy who tosses off tracks in his hotel
room between shows. If you have an Internet connection, you know
that it's his rock & roll record — not such a crazy idea
for this leather-clad Martian with serious rock-star appeal. The
problem is that Wayne has very questionable taste in rock. He
splutters and wails over tracks stuffed with aggro stomp and
bland...
Rating:
2.5 Stars
UK-based Codemasters recruiting for new division solely for the new online racing title.
It doesn't feel like a proper news week unless a mysterious trademark pops up offering minimal but intriguing information, and this week's will surely please fans of Certain Affinity's
Age of Booty. The trademark sifters at Superannuation have
uncovered a filing for "Legend of Booty," indicating a sequel is on the way (
via Joystiq).
Age of Booty, released in 2008 on Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation Network, and PC, is a real-time strategy game involving navigating a ship across a hexagonal sea map and battling rival ships and towns. Obviously there are no details about Legend of Booty -- in fact, it technically doesn't officially exist -- but hopefully that'll change soon enough.
You can check out our review of Age of Booty here.
EMC plans to introduce a line of solid-state drives using flash memory as an option to replace some disk drives in the company's high-end Symmetrix storage arrays, a company spokesman said Monday.
EMC will offer solid-state drives with capacities of 73GB and 146GB, said Abhrajit Bhattacharjee, an EMC spokesman in Singapore. The drives, which will ship this quarter, will only be available as an option with Symmetrix storage arrays, and will not be available with other products, he said.
Pricing for the solid-state drives was not immediately available, but using four 73GB solid-state drives to replace four of the 146GB hard disk drives in a Symmetrix 100-disk array would increase the cost by less than 10 percent compared to a comparable system using only hard disk drives, Bhattacharjee said.
Solid-state drives use memory chips instead of magnetic platters to store information. These types of drives are generally faster and consume less power than traditional disk drives, but they are also significantly more expensive.
The solid-state drives are aimed at customers willing to pay a premium for the significantly faster response times these drives offer, Bhattacharjee said.
EMC plans to use single-cell flash memory in its solid-state drives, which will allow for higher performance but costs more than multicell flash memory.
Single-cell flash memory stores one bit of information in each memory cell, while multicell flash memory stores two. The greater density of multicell flash makes it perfect for music players and digital cameras. But multicell flash is significantly slower, making single-cell flash more suitable for high-performance applications such as solid-state drives. Single-cell flash memory is also more durable that multicell flash. Each cell on a multicell flash chip is generally good for 10,000 write/erase cycles, while the cells on single-cell chips can last for 100,000 write/erase cycles. The durability of a flash memory chip can be increased with the use of wear leveling, a technique that writes data equally to all of the memory cells on a chip instead of using the same cells repeatedly.
Drives based on magnetic platters are capable of enduring unlimited write/erase cycles, but they have moving parts which can break down. Solid-state drives do not have moving parts.
STEC -- the maker of the solid-state drives that EMC plans to offer -- said its solid-state drives, which use wear leveling, last more than 2 million write/erase cycles. There was no indication of how many write/erase cycles the EMC solid-state drives will be capable of sustaining.
"Daddy's got to work! The baby needs shoes... I've told (creator) SHONDA (RHIMES), 'I will stay here as long as you'll have me.' I owe these guys my career." GREY'S ANATOMY star ERIC DANE has no plans to take time off the hit U.S. show after wife REBECCA GAYHEART gives birth to the couple's first child in the spring (10).
At next week's Black Hat conference, security expert reportedly plans to divulge method for breaking wireless networking passwords through brute force attack.
The porn industry is fluffing one format.
FIGMA has released finnish software sales figures in the form of percentages. Finland represents 6% of total European sales and 4% of total sales in the PAL region.
Sony PlayStation 3 13,0%
Microsoft Xbox 360 9,7%
Sony PlayStation 2 30,8%
Nintendo DS 4,3%
Nintendo Wii 7,3%
Sony PSP 1,7%
WoW.com has learned through sources close to the situation that after their series of posts describing some questionable internal policies at Blizzard concerning account administration and security, as well as the likely introduction of mandatory authenticators, a few of these policies have been changed.
First b-roll of two for
Daybreakers. B-roll provides a compilation of behind the scenes footage from the film.
Part I
Part II
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It had everything going for it, but it got beaten by animated chipmunks anyway.
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Luminous Coward writes "As previously discussed on Slashdot, according to AnandTech and The Tech Report, hard disk drive manufacturers are now ready to bump the size of the disk sector from 512 to 4096 bytes, in order to minimize storage lost to ECC and sync. This may not be a smooth transition, because some OSes do not align partitions on 4K boundaries."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Digital photo frames might not be the most exciting gadgets on the planet, but it is one of those products everyone can get into —even Grandma. So lets get to the newness shall we? Digital Foci is set to introduce three new frames at this years CES. The best of the bunch is definitely the Image Moments 15 with a 15" XGA (1024x768) digital LCD, a high contrast ratio of 700:1, an AV input, and an interchangeable frame and mat design. It also features 200MB of storage, USB 2.0 connectivity, and a memory card reader that can handle all popular cards.
The other two releases are as follows:
•Image Moments 6: Features 5.7" VGA (640x480) digital LCD with high pixel density of 140 PPI, LED backlight, and two-tone, mirror-polished chrome finish.
•Image Moments 8: Features 8" SVGA (800x600) digital LCD with high contrast ratio of 500:1, LED backlight, and interchangeable frame & mat design.
All devices include the same 200MB storage, USB connectivity, and reader capability mentioned earlier. The Image Moments 6, 8, and 15 should be available this March for or $149, $199 and $399, respectively. [
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It's beginning to look a lot like Blade Runner: Breakthrough technology could lead to truly wild applications -- like text and images that seem to float midair -- by 2008. In Gear Factor.
Standards Blog: "Yesterday I filed a pro bono amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of the Federal Trade Commission's petition for writ of certiorari in its suit against Rambus Technologies. I'm pleased to report that 19 standard setting organizations (SSOs), representing over 13,300 members, joined as amici curiae supporting this brief; the list of participants appears later in this blog entry."
The healthcare services company moved 50 of its 70 applications to Linux over the last two years and will complete the process with the remaining 20 within a year or two.
Do you dare allow Tucker Max into your home? Guard your alcohol, prized possessions, and any female relatives or friends, because on January 26th, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell on DVD
The Library of Congress’ “Chronicling America” Web site, freely available at http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/, has added 287,000 newspaper images from 15 states and DC, which brings the
total on the site to 1.7 million pages from 212 newspaper titles published between 1880 and 1922. I reviwed the site back in May so I’m not going to get deeply [...]
The latest rapid release of the independent browser gets faster and better Mac OS X Lion compatibility.
There are heroes… there are superheroes… and then there’s Hancock (Will Smith). With great power comes great responsibility – everyone knows that – everyone, that is, but Hancock. Edgy, conflicted, sarcastic, and misunderstood, Hancock’s well-intentioned heroics might get the job done and save countless lives, but always seem to leave jaw-dropping damage in their wake. The public has finally had enough – as grateful as they are to have their local hero, the good citizens of Los Angeles are wondering what they ever did to deserve this guy. Hancock isn’t the kind of man who cares what other people think – until the day that he saves the life of PR executive Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman), and the sardonic superhero begins to realize that he may have a vulnerable side after all. Facing that will be Hancock’s greatest challenge yet – and a task that may prove impossible as Ray’s wife, Mary (Charlize Theron), insists that he’s a lost cause.
Seven-minute "Et Tu, Brute?" Halo 3 video documentary available in standard and high definition formats.
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With the help of some fancy editing, legendary pop icons lip-sync a sentimental rock tune by the Irish quartet.
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As a former morning news Chyron operator responsible for countless typos including broadcast headlines like "Pubic Relations," I'm allowed to laugh—even if this guy got fired. You, on the other hand, must only chuckle into your sleeve.
