Take a look at the new ending below, but remember it’s spoilerific if you haven’t completed the game yet.

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bugzappy notes a development out of the University of Oxford, where scientists have developed a technology capable of capturing a high-resolution still image alongside very high-speed video. The researchers started out trying to capture images of biological processes, such as the behavior of heart tissue under various circumstances. They combined off-the-shelf technologies found in standard cameras and digital movie projectors. What’s new is that (more…)

Did Big John just retire??? What the hell: Asked, “So, is this it,” Daly answered, “pretty much.”

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Lewis Hamilton declares himself happy after his first test in McLaren’s new car despite lagging behind Felipe Massa’s Ferrari.

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modeca writes “Using only commonly available kitchen equipment this guy demonstrates the amazing powers of an ordinary metal pan to boost the 3G reception of his USB modem. It really seems to work, check the right hand side of the graph in the video.” It’s not that crazy: cheap antenna boosting (for USB WiFi dongles, Bluetooth, and more) has been elevated to a fine art in New Zealand.

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An anonymous reader writes “So far, there are over 35 pages of people posting about why EA released Pandemic Studios’ final game, Saboteur, to first the EU on December 4th and then, after knowing full well it did not work properly, to the Americas on December 8th. They have been promising to work on a patch that is apparently now in the QA stage of testing. It is not a small bug; rather, if you have an ATI video card and either Windows 7 or Windows (more…)

Portland Trail Blazers prized Big Man Greg Oden is once again out for the season with a knee injury, announced tonight by the team.

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Jack Black helps gamers with an uplifting self-affirmation exercise.

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Petr Pilat takes the Mayor of Prague as co-pilot for this first ever tandem motorbike backflip. It’s his town, he’s the Mayor, he can do what he likes.

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An anonymous reader writes “Two weeks ago, The Daily WTF’s Alex Papadimoulis announced Bad Code Offsets, a join venture between many big names in the software development community (including StackOverflow’s Jeff Atwood and Jon Skeet and SourceGear’s Eric Sink). The premise is that you can offset bad code by purchasing Bad Code Offsets (much in the same way a carbon-footprint is offset). The profits are donated to Free Software projects which work (more…)