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  • Wolfenstein 3-D Celebrates 20 Years With Free Browser-Based Version
    By on May 10, 2012 | No Comments  Comments

    Dr Herbert West writes “20 years ago today, id software released Wolfenstein 3D, inspired by the classic Apple II game, Castle Wolfenstein. To celebrate, Bethesda Softworks on Wednesday released a free, browser-based version of the iconic first-person shooter. Users can pick which level they wish to play in the browser version, even the secret levels.”

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  • Book Review: Drupal Intranets With Open Atrium
    By on April 30, 2012 | No Comments  Comments

    New submitter nuvoleweb writes “Drupal Intranets with Open Atrium, by Tracy Charles Smith is a comprehensive guide to Open Atrium, the popular open source Intranet system. Open Atrium is a derivative (distribution) of Drupal specifically meant for group collaboration, and the author works in the Open Atrium core team at Phase2 Technology.” Read below for the rest of Andrea’s review.

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  • Restoring China’s Forbidden City With 3-D Printing
    By on April 15, 2012 | No Comments  Comments

    First time accepted submitter jcho5 writes “China’s 600-year-old Forbidden City is looking less forbidding these days. As part of a major restoration, the Chinese Palace museum will use 3D-Printers to re-manufacture and replicate many of the city’s most precious and unique objects. From the article: ‘PhD student Fangjin Zhang—along with her colleagues at Loughborough Design School in the East Midlands of England—had, for a (more…)

  • VIDEO: Jol satisfied with Fulham points tally
    By on March 31, 2012 | No Comments  Comments

    Fulham manager Martin Jol believes his side have enough points to avoid relegation after a 2-1 win against Norwich at Craven Cottage.

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  • Third-Generation Apple TV Lands With a Thud
    By on March 10, 2012 | No Comments  Comments

    DeviceGuru writes “Although generally overshadowed by the iPad 3 debut, Apple also introduced the third incarnation of its Apple TV streaming media players this week. Sporting a revamped icon-based UI, the third-generation Apple TV doesn’t add much to its predecessor beyond a truly-HD 1080p video output mode. Although Apple TV is still not supported by an Apple Apps Store plug-in apps ecosystem, its new UI (available as a free update for (more…)

  • Half of Fortune 500s, US Agencies Still Infected With DNSChanger Trojan
    By on February 5, 2012 | Comments Off  Comments

    tsu doh nimh writes “Two months after authorities shut down a massive Internet traffic hijacking scheme, the malicious software that powered the criminal network is still running on computers at half of the Fortune 500 companies, and on PCs at nearly 50 percent of all federal government agencies. Internet Identity, a Tacoma, Wash. company that sells security services, found evidence of at least one DNSChanger infection in computers at (more…)

  • Jetman Yves Rossy Flies In Formation With Jets
    By on December 1, 2011 | Comments Off  Comments

    smitty777 writes “Slashdot has been following Yves Rossy in his previous exploits across the Grand Canyon and his attempts at international flight. He is now flying in formations with real jets. He even does a barrel roll around the two fighters in the video below.”

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  • Window Shopping With Gesture Recognition
    By on September 5, 2011 | Comments Off  Comments

    angry tapir writes “German researchers have given a new meaning to window shopping. At the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute showed a prototype that lets shoppers learn more about what’s in a store display window when the store is closed. Called the Interactive Shop Window, the system consists of a flat screen monitor and a motion tracker positioned behind the glass of a store’s front window.”

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  • GameStop going head to head with Steam, announce they will get Battlefield 3 download exclusive
    By on July 20, 2011 | Comments Off  Comments

    A new investor-driven study predicts that retailer GameStop’s new digital strategy will lead the company to grow to $1.5 billion in annual sales volume by 2014, thanks in part to its recent purchase of Impulse.

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  • Google+ Runs Out of Disk Space, Swamps Users With Notifications
    By on July 10, 2011 | Comments Off  Comments

    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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