Earlier this month we took a look at Recorded Future, a company that uses information scoured from thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to make predictions about the future. Now, Yahoo’s Barcelona research lab has created a similar prototype news search engine called Time Explorer. It creates timelines based on search queries that not [...]
Mozilla has announced the availability of the fourth Firefox 4 beta release. The new beta brings some extremely significant new features that have been gestating in Mozilla’s labs, including built-in synchronization functionality and a sophisticated new tab management system. Tabs have arguably had a major impact on how users operate Web browsers, but the concept [...]
Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) is forming a new video game label this year as part of a wider digital strategy to make its brand more mainstream, Paul H. Lee, the company’s managing director for new digital ventures, told paidContent. The company hasn’t decided on a name yet, but it already has lined up German online [...]
British gamers and fans of portable movie viewing can now purchase Plantronics’ 7.1 surround sound headphones. New GameCom 777 now available in UK Plantronics latest £80 cans support Dolby 7.1 headphone tech, which is pretty much designed for those PC gamers that like to game on a laptop, either when travelling away from home or [...]
Computer monitoring system was infected with Trojan horse, authorities say Authorities investigating the 2008 crash of Spanair flight 5022 have discovered a central computer system used to monitor technical problems in the aircraft was infected with malware. An internal report issued by the airline revealed the infected computer failed to detect three technical problems with [...]
Virus-repellent chips coming to internet-enabled devices Intel’s announcement of agreeing to pay £4.9 billion for McAfee caught everyone by surprise for a number of reasons. It seems odd that a chip maker would shell out that kind of money for an anti-virus company, despite its vast portfolio of home and enterprise products. McAfee may be [...]
Media Molecule has confirmed a beta for LittleBigPlanet 2 will be making its way to PlayStation 3 soon. Although there was no specific information, the developer did say it will have more news on how it will recruit for the beta soon. The post also promised those who are already beta testers will definitely be [...]
Toy Story 3 remained top of the UK charts this week, despite a resurgence from Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption. The popular open world westerner, which climbed three spaces to number two, has no doubt felt the benefits of the Legends and Killers DLC which was released on both PSN and Xbox Live last week. Meanwhile, [...]
Sleep problems in kids don’t just drive parents batty, they also affect children’s health and development. What can be done? Get any group of parents together and before too long the conversation turns to sleep, or how many children don’t seem to get enough. It is hardly surprising that parents are concerned, given that some [...]
BENTLEY MOTORS ANNOUNCES DEBUT OF TWO LIMITED-EDITION DROPHEADS AT PEBBLE BEACH Continental GTC and GTC Speed 80-11 Editions Unveiled (Pebble Beach, CA) Bentley Motors is displaying the company’s new limited-edition Continental GTC and GTC Speed 80-11 models, designed exclusively for the North American market, on the Concept Lawn at the 60th Annual Pebble Beach Concours [...]
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