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Sony Panel: Single Player Games Extinct In Three Years

We’re not entirely sure what makes otherwise discerning professionals go in for these fanciful predictions. We just hope video game consultant Mark Cerny provided more than the one example Eurogamer wrote about, although it’s not like anyone actually takes

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New Wii Loses GameCube Support, Not Coming To US

New information is trickling out about Nintendo’s non-update to its formerly barely next-gen, soon to be stone age-gen console. Sure, it’s reportedly slightly slimmer and it has a newfound fondness for the horizontal plane, but apparently it’s losing something

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Skype WiFi Arrives On iOS Devices, Enabling Access To 1 Million Hotspots Worldwide

Skype Wifi

Skype has just announced that its Skype WiFi service (formerly known as Skype Access) has arrived on iOS devices, with the launch of a new iOS application that is now available to download for free from Apple’s iTunes App

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14 Year Old Gets A Bionic Arm After Writing Letter

Bionic Arm kid

In a rare chain of events that would make a decent Hollywood tear-jerker, a 14 year old lad from Berkshire got a new arm from a Scottish robotics company courtesy of Mercedes. That’s a lot of parties involved if

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StumbleUpon Introduces New Explore Box Feature (video)

StumbleUpon Explore Feature

StumbleUpon has today introduced a new feature called the “Explore box” which allows users to search recommendations on more specific level. The new beta “Explore box” feature enables you to stumble hundreds of thousands on specific topics rather than

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Nano-Structured Glass Creates New Five-Dimensional Computer Memory

Nano Structured Glass

Researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK have created new nano-structured glass and used it to create a new type of computer memory. Since the team of researchers published their paper in May this year, the new technology has been developed

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Sony Announces PS3 Price Drop To $249

PS3

During its GamesCom presentation in Cologne, Germany today Sony announced it would be dropping the price of both its PS3 console models across all territories. Now the Sony 160GB PS3 system will priced at $249 in the US, €250

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Google Maps Android App Receives “Bubble Buttons” For Easier Navigation And Calls

Bubble Buttons Google Maps

If you use Google Maps on your Android device you might be interested in a new feature called “Bubble Buttons” which has arrived with the latest update from Google. Bubble Buttons, as you can see in the image below, the larger buttons

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Google Photovine Application Launches, Now Available For All To Download (video)

Google Photovine

Google’s new photo sharing application Photovine, has today now moved out of its closed beta environment, and is available to everyone for download from the Apple iTunes App Store. Photovine has been designed by Google to provide you with a new

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Linux Then And Now, 20 Years Of Linux (Infographic)

Linux

This Summer Linux turned 20 years old, growing from a hobby coding language into a Linux operating system we all rely on today. Thanks to Linus Torvalds, who made a bold decision to share his operating system with the world,

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Mozilla Launches Firefox 6 and Thunderbird 6

Firefox 6

As expected Mozilla has now rolled out its new browser Firefox 6 and alongside it, their new Thunderbird 6 email client. Firefox 6 is Mozilla’s second release under its new quarterly development cycle and new updates have been made

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New €99 Sony PSP Lacks WiFi & Is Europe Only

That’s one way to compete with smartphones, we guess, though thinking back to the PSP’s heyday as a sleek and sexy luxury handheld nearly brought a tear to our eyes. Sony’s new PSP will be dubbed E-1000 and will

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