According to IMS, the internet will see its five billionth device plugged in sometime this month – I would presume, of course, that their projection excludes the possibility of any humanity-extinguishing catastrophes.

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Kinect–the upcoming motion control camera for the Xbox 360–will recognize American Sign Language and will visually recognize spoken words.

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It came as no surprise that something as good as Portal appealed not only to a hardcore audience, but also casual gamers. The wait for Portal 2 is getting shorter, but as more information is revealed one thing keeps coming up: is Portal 2 going to be too hard? Will it scare off the casual fans Portal was able to pick up?

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Olympic champion Victoria Pendleton tells BBC Sport she is withdrawing from the Commonwealth Games in Delhi to focus instead on the European Championships.

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Fifty years after Arnie’s historic U.S. Open win, Will Ferrell recreates a classic Palmer moment.

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itwbennett writes “Having previously denied demands from Germany that the company turn over hard drives with data it secretly collected from open wireless networks over the past three years, Google has reversed course. A Google representative said that it will hand over the data to German, French and Spanish authorities within a matter of days, according to the Financial Times, which first reported this latest development on Wednesday. ‘We screwed (more…)

Apparently, LucasFilm has decided to covert the Star Wars Trilogies into 3D. This is not exactly a surprise, as Hollywood is an a rush to make every movie 3D. But how big of a money maker will it be for the franchise?

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Big Ben will miss somewhere between four and six games, depending on the “conditions attached” to the suspension (which may just mean: don’t sexually harass anyone between now and then, or you get two more).

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The Hooters franchise in Augusta, Georgia will throw a week-long festival with a bikini contest and special competitions for Tiger Woods to participate in if he chooses to do so.

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After a Zerg rush of critics have been pressing forward to slam StarCraft 2, the beautiful beta gives players all the reason they need to fall in love with StarCraft all over again.

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