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Despite a fashionably late entrance to the social networking party 12 months ago, Google+ is already able to claim 400 million users and 100 million monthly active users across both the website and the mobile apps. That compares to just 250 million total users back in June, suggesting the service is growing faster than ever. Revealing the figures as part of his announcement of Google’s latest corporate acquisition, a victorious Vic Gundotra said that his team “couldn’t have imagined that so many people would join” within a year of G+ going public.

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Biomimicry is almost a byword of the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Indeed, if any group has
discovered that ‘nature does it better,’ it’s DARPA, and you have to
admit the Agency is pretty adept at imitating it.  Here, are two of
DARPA’s latest robotic tributes to nature’s designs: the Cheetah Bot and
the Pack Mule Bot.

Leica has outed its latest rangefinder range, kicking off with a pared-back M-E this month but culminating in the simply-named Leica M flagship in early 2013. The Leica M will clad a 24-megapixel full-frame Leica Max sensor in a deliciously retro housing, but the specifications aren’t old-fashioned: count on ISO 200 to 6,400, Full HD 1080p (24/25) video recording, and an optional electronic viewfinder, when it arrives to replace the highly-coveted M9 of 2009.

That EVF pairs with the Leica M’s 3-inch 920k dot display, which Leica has sensible placed behind a sheet of toughened Gorilla glass. Inside, Leica’s new Maestro image processor does the heavy lifting, protected by dust/splash-proofing.

Perhaps most exciting for Leica aficionados, however, is the fact that the Leica M will not only work with the company’s dedicated M-series lenses, but with classic R-series lenses too. You’ll need an adapter in order to do that, but we can see plenty of shutterbugs happy to put up with that.

As for the Leica M-E, that’s a more affordable – in Leica terms, of course – version, with an 18-megapixel full-frame sensor and a focus entirely locked onto photography. The M-E won’t shoot video, but does offer ISO 160 – 2500 and a 2.5-inch 230k dot preview display, along with an integrated viewfinder.

The Leica M-E is available now, priced at around $5,450, while the Leica M will follow on early in the new year, price to be confirmed. We’d be surprised if it came in at under the $7,000 tag of the M9 it replaces, however.

Leica M and M-E rangefinders are retro-delicious is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Earlier this morning, we took a look at the rumor of a new super slim PS3 getting ready to be announced at the Tokyo Game Show which is happening at the end of this month, although one would also do well to take this bit of news with a pinch of salt. Well, here we are with a more detailed look at the super slim PS3, where it is said to come with a 500GB model in addition to a far less spacious (data-wise, of course) 12GB super slim PS3 which is made available over at Polish electronics retailer Media Expert.

September 28th is the listed available date for both new models, where the 12GB super slim PS3 will retail for €199, while those who want the far more spacious 500GB model will have to fork out €299 a pop. It goes without saying just which purchase makes far more sense, although in these economically trying moments, we could see some folks prefer to hold back on the €100 and spend it on other more crucial and important things, like food. Do you think that there will be a new budget friendly super slim PS3 coming our way in time for Christmas, and why?

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