EA announced Tuesday that it will buy PopCap for $650 million plus stock and earn-outs, which altogether could add up to as much as $1.2 billion.

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danomac writes “Apple is testing out new chip suppliers, trying to find a supplier other than Samsung. Apple is currently suing Android phone manufacturers, and Samsung is included in the lawsuit. ‘Apple faces several hurdles should it want to make a switch to TSMC, including patents and chip design issues as well as a push by Samsung to retain the business. … Analysts and other sources had previously said TSMC, the world’s largest contract chip (more…)

Even BPA-free plastic can leach hormone-like chemicals, research shows, and there’s no way to tell which products pose the risk.

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Christian Lopez may be kicking himself right now. The dude who caught Derek Jeter’s 3,000th hit opted to give the ball back to the team instead of keeping it and selling it for upwards of $250,000 at auction. The Yankees thanked him by showering him with four box-seat tickets for the 32 home games left in the season. A pretty sweet deal for a Yanks fan except for one thing:

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Amid a plethora of injuries, the Rockets’ Yao Ming retires

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Humans have been the most successful species on the planet (roaches and rats have done well, too). Scientists credit our success to three traits: technology innovation, group collaboration, and communication. Humans not only have all three abilities, but we excel at all three. The question of when we started being human and flexing our abilities has been coming under constant revision in recent years.

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â‹Most high-budget video games take around three to four years of development time to complete. However, there are some games that have been in production for much longer. Those games are called Vaporware, and here are five shining examples.

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dkd903 writes “Yesterday, many users of Google+ noticed Google spamming their inbox with multiple email notifications in very quick succession. Earlier today, Vic Gundotra, Head of Social at Google, explained what was causing it – Google ran out of disk space on the server that keeps track of notifications.”

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The mysterious, armor-clad hero of the human race is not quite human himself: As part of the Spartan program, Halo’s Master Chief, aka John-117, was genetically engineered and reared by the military to become the xenocidal savior of everything.

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fangmcgee writes with this excerpt from a University of Oxford news release:
“Technology developed for mobile phones and computer gaming – such as video cameras, position detectors, face recognition and tracking software, and depth sensors – is now readily and cheaply available. So Oxford researchers have been looking at ways that this technology can be combined into a normal-looking pair of glasses to help those who might have just a (more…)