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A lot happened this week. We learned who would be going to the Super Bowl, the Australian Open went down, President Obama gave his State of the Union Address, and so much more. If you missed any of what was buzzing on Twitter, we’ve got you covered.

Here are the top trending Twitter topics for the week ending on January 28:

1. I’m Proud to Say
So, one of the biggest trends on Twitter this week wasn’t even actually news. It was just a meme that had people talking about what they are proud to say. #improudtosay

2. Andy Gray Firing
Sky Sports soccer commentator Andy Gray was fired from his position after he made (supposedly off-air) sexist remarks about female referee Sian Massey. The initial reprimand was a one-game suspension, but was changed to dismissal after other examples of inappropriate behavior came about. #AndyGray

3. State of the Union / Sputnik

The President of the United States has given his annual State of the Union address, using the phrase “this is our generation’s Sputnik moment” as a metaphor for America as a country to rise the challenges ahead. #Sputnik

Check out the rest of the list after the jump!

Pico projectors just keep shrinking, and a new prototype developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Engineering is helping said shrinking along pretty strikingly. The team has developed a prototype pico which is just 6mm thick, making it the world’s slimmest ever. Better yet, the projected image is 10 times brighter than a pico projector of its size would have previously been — had it existed. The new lens on the projector is so small that it could potentially be integrated into smart phones without boosting size or weight. The new prototype is made of 45 red, green or blue microlenses, each with a 200 x 200 pixel LCD, inspired by a microlens array called a fly’s eye condenser. The resulting resolution is nearly, but not quite, WVGA with 11 lumens of brightness. The prototype will be shown off at Nano Tech 2011 in Tokyo.

[Image credit: Fraunhofer Institute]

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This article was written on June 28, 2006 by CyberNet.

Mozilla has announced that they are pushing the Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 code freeze back to July 5 and the ship date back to July 11. The ship date was expected to be July 6 so this is about a 1-week delay.

The final Firefox 2.0 will hopefully still stay on schedule with the vague release date of August. The release would probably be towards the end of August because they also plan to release RC1 in August. Let’s cross our fingers for an on-time release.

The latest meeting notes for Firefox 2.0 have not been published from yesterday’s meeting, but they should be up soon. I am looking forward to reading the notes to see if they say anything about the Visual Refresh and the new default theme.

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This week Sony’s PlayStation people showed off a sexy new portable, Kindle books outpaced paperbacks on Amazon, and NASA tried to keep sonic booms quiet.

This article was written on October 16, 2009 by CyberNet.

Have a few minutes to spare for a quick online game? OMGPOP has over ten different multiplayer games (and counting) that have one thing in common: they’re excellent at getting your productivity down a notch! And thanks to the site’s obligatory social networking features, it’s really easy to challenge your friends to a Bomberman game over the internet. Here’s a selection of some of their best games.

Hover Kart Racing is a 3D racing game. Even if you’re not good at its more advanced counterparts such as Need for Speed, it’s pretty easy to get the hang of this game. Watch out for mines, bombs and other Super Mario Kart-ish dangers. Expert tip: to cut corners, use the Shift key to drift.
How to play it: Up accelerates, Down brakes, Left/Right steers, Shift jumps or drifts, Space activates power-up.

Balloono is an excellent Bomberman clone, with a small difference. Instead of dropping bombs to blow up your opponents, you have to use water balloons. On the plus side, you no longer need to share your keyboard with your friends to play against them.
How to play it: use the arrow keys, hit the spacebar to drop bombs.

Ballracer is a 2D racing game. Every time you play it, you’ll be dropped in a random level from Ballracer’s large level set. There are plenty of speed powerups, hidden shortcuts and pitfalls to separate the men from the boys.
How to play it: use the arrow keys, press Up to jump.

If you consider yourself a button masher, you might like Hit Machine. The concept is no different from Guitar Hero or Tap Tap Revenge: when a note hits the bottom of the screen, you have to hit the appropriate button. The music in Hit Machine is limited to unknown songs, so if you’re looking for Lady Gaga’s newest hits or that old Beatles classic, you’re out of luck. The multiplayer element of this game is limited to a leaderboard.
How to play it: use the letters ASDJKL on your keyboard.

In the early days of OMGPOP, their games were largely cool adaptations of popular games. You used to be able to play a killer Tetris clone with power-ups called Blockles on OMGPOP but – you guessed it – the lawyers from The Tetris Company weren’t too happy with that, so OMGPOP had to kill it. The current version of Blockles is a Dr. Mario clone. A few other “clone” games such as Tracism (Pacman with a fun twist) seem to have shared that same fate.

Fortunately though, most games that are worth playing are still available so play ‘em while you still can! Be careful though… don’t get caught visiting this site at work.

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