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Minecraft Pocket Edition Sells 1 MiIlion Copies
Sega Unveils Mobile Total War Series
Half Life Developer Valve Rumoured To Announce “Steam Box” Hardware at GDC
Electronic Voting Machines Get Hacked, Bender Bending Rodriguez Elected to School Board
Japanese Creates Device That Shuts People Up
Assassin’s Creed 3 Screenshots Leaked
Researcher Pair Invents Device That Detects Diseases In Minutes
Robots Use Metabolism To Manipulate Trusses
Can You Tell the Difference Between the Next Metal Gear Solid Engine and Real Life
Documentary on Freeing the Internet Showing Soon
Apple Can Legally Force Motorola To Destroy Their Phones
Sprint Giving Away 30 Galaxy Nexus Phones As Release Nears
14-Year Old Constructs Printer Out of LEGO
Bike Planter:Bringing Your Plants While You Cycle
Outline Tool Will Aid You With The Ironing
Innovative Eco-Perch Modular Treehouses For Nature Enthusiasts
The Futuristic 3D Desktop
Cupcake ATM Satisfies Your Sugary Goodness
PS3 Exclusive Journey Release Date Announced
April Release For Samsung Galaxy S III?
VLC For Android Now In Beta, Ready For Download

Minecraft Pocket Edition Sells 1 MiIlion Copies

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 10:48 AM PST

There’s no denying Minecraft is something of a force of nature, which means that its success, even on the notoriously inhospitable Android platform, comes as no surprise. The game just broke the million sales barrier on Android alone, though no information is forthcoming about how it performed sales-wise on Apple devices.

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Sega Unveils Mobile Total War Series

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 10:07 AM PST

Total War Battles is the name the mobile incarnation of the beloved real time strategy franchise will be released under. The new game will be handled by a new Creative Assembly team, Total War Digital.”This isn’t the traditional Total War you might expect,” according to lead designer Renaud Charpentier.

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Half Life Developer Valve Rumoured To Announce “Steam Box” Hardware at GDC

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 09:37 AM PST

Valve started out by making scary smart narrative – driven FPS games. Then they made a smart digital store for PC games. And according to Joshua Topolsky and The Verge, it is now paving the way for smart hardware. The house of Half-Life is reportedly working together with PC manufacturers to release Steam-powered PC hardware. The aim is apparently to establish a more structured, console-style PC gaming platform while still maintaining its openness.

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Electronic Voting Machines Get Hacked, Bender Bending Rodriguez Elected to School Board

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 08:38 AM PST

This is the best story ever. Firstly, because it shows people how electronic voting machines are total garbage and secondly, because Bender from Futurama got elected to a school board.
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Japanese Creates Device That Shuts People Up

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 08:29 AM PST

It’s such a bummer to get stuck with a person who doesn’t know how to shut up. If only there’s a way to shut them up without hurting their feelings (or punching their faces. Haha!) A pair of Japanese researchers just might have the answer.

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Assassin’s Creed 3 Screenshots Leaked

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 08:21 AM PST

Hot on the heels of the leak that revealed the American Revolution setting, now we have some leaked screenshots of Assassin’s Creed 3 that show the unidentified main character walking around a colony and in the wilderness. The shots look pretty impressive and they have a lot of people excited about the game.
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Researcher Pair Invents Device That Detects Diseases In Minutes

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 08:18 AM PST

Early detection and quarantining is crucial to prevent the outbreak of disease. Luckily, there is now a portable device that can be used to detect pathogens, infectious diseases and physiological conditions in both people and animals.

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Robots Use Metabolism To Manipulate Trusses

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 08:13 AM PST

According to basic biology, organisms can metabolize or break down the nutrients they take in into their most basic form and use this form to create new things. What would happen if a race of bio-robots can be created? That would certainly be good news in the fields of manufacturing, construction and engineering.

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Can You Tell the Difference Between the Next Metal Gear Solid Engine and Real Life

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 08:01 AM PST

Like all good video game franchises, Metal Gear Solid isn’t over, it is just awaiting it’s next revival. And while we wait, Konami has now shown off the Fox Engine, which is the engine being used to develop that next Metal Gear Solid game. They are so proud that they placed these visuals next to shots from real life. Can you tell which ones are reality? Is it the Left column or right?
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Documentary on Freeing the Internet Showing Soon

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 07:56 AM PST

“Most people look at the internet as magic, they don’t care to acknowledge the actual physical infrastructure that’s moving that data.” These are some strong and powerful words from Isaac Wilder, a social activist-turned-director with his new free documentary “Free the Network” premiering next month on Vice’s Motherboard site.

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Apple Can Legally Force Motorola To Destroy Their Phones

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 07:45 AM PST

This is some very upsetting and serious news for Motorola and it is just the latest chapter in the Apple vs Motorola Mobility legal battle. Now a new ruling has found that Motorola did violate Apple's EU Patent No. EP2059868 on a "portable electronic device for photo management".
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Sprint Giving Away 30 Galaxy Nexus Phones As Release Nears

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 07:18 AM PST

If you have been dreaming about a Galaxy Nexus on Sprint, here is some good news. Sprint is giving away 30 Galaxy Nexus phones for its Sprint Data Storm Sweepstakes. This means that from now until April 5th, you can enter to win one of the phones. Of course your odds are not great with only 30 phones being given away.
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14-Year Old Constructs Printer Out of LEGO

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 05:12 AM PST

Constructing a fully operational printer is not child’s play. Try telling that to Leon Overweel, the 14-year old kid who created PriNXT, a fully functional black-and-white printer… made of LEGOs.

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Bike Planter:Bringing Your Plants While You Cycle

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 04:04 AM PST

Some people like bringing friends or even pets on bike rides, but what if you wanted to bring along a potted plant while you cycle? Or perhaps you simply want some quirky and earth-friendly adornment on your two-wheeler?

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Outline Tool Will Aid You With The Ironing

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 03:34 AM PST

Dress shirts and pants are usually difficult to iron, especially since one has to not only iron the creases out of one side, but also the other. Often, this causes wrinkles to repeatedly appear since the fabric often moves around and the seams become misaligned once we turn the piece of clothing over.

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Innovative Eco-Perch Modular Treehouses For Nature Enthusiasts

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 02:34 AM PST

Remember the treehouse you used to build as a child? The engineers of Blue Forest probably remember theirs, and they have taken it to the extreme by creating a line of luxurious residences with them.

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The Futuristic 3D Desktop

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 01:22 AM PST

With so much focus on developing tablet PCs and other mobile devices today, it appears that other kinds of innovations on desktop computing are left ignored. Jinha Lee and Cati Boulanger, who formerly worked for Microsoft Applied Sciences, however, are introducing a new See-Through 3D Desktop that might revolutionalize desktop computing

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Cupcake ATM Satisfies Your Sugary Goodness

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 12:22 AM PST

Leave it to geeks to come up with solutions for problems you never even knew existed.

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PS3 Exclusive Journey Release Date Announced

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:27 PM PST

Journey, brain child of commercially successful art game poster child thatgamecompany has been announced for March 14th. From my time with Journey at last year’s Eurogamer Expo it seemed to follow a more traditional and structured approach than Flower, the studio’s best known effort. It did share Flower’s casual disinterest in mechanics with any sort of friction, giving it the appearance of an empty framework which rich atmosphere and lush visuals are expected to fill on their own.

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April Release For Samsung Galaxy S III?

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 12:33 PM PST

The iPad 3 may be a regular attraction for rumours and speculations but the much-awaited Samsung Galaxy S III is proving that it could also generate the same amount of buzz in the tech world.

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VLC For Android Now In Beta, Ready For Download

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 12:18 PM PST

Itching to try out VLC Media Player for Android? It’s now available for download although it’s still in beta so expect a little bump here and there, but the good thing is that it’s now available.

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