Oct 09
A new way of verifying you’re a real person and not a spam machine might eliminate the chore of typing phrases like “beetle sausage” and so on, with a start-up looking to gamify the art of verifying you’re a human.
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Oct 09
Back in late September AMD went official with its new Radeon R9 and R7 video cards. Yesterday AMD offered up specifications on several R7 GPUs including pricing and more. Since AMD has multiple card partners and most partners use the same basic hardware, a lot of companies try to set themselves apart with various clock […]
Oct 09
Earlier this year there were rumors that Panasonic would be pulling out from the plasma TV business and this was semi-confirmed when the Japanese company announced that the ZT60 would be their last plasma TV effort. Well it looks like it has been confirmed as Panasonic has since revealed that come March 2014, the Japanese company will be exiting the plasma TV market which is when the current fiscal year comes to an end. While it had been rumored to be happening, it seems that March 2014 is a little earlier than analysts had expected.
Pulling out of the plasma TV market is definitely the right call as it seems that interest in such televisions have been declining over the years. The demand has seen a drop of 21% in 2012, versus a 1% drop for LCD TVs, indicating that consumers are more interested in LCD compared to plasma. Not to mention Panasonic is currently bleeding billions of dollars, with the company announcing job cuts back in 2012 where it would see about 10,000 staff laid off. Hopefully this exit will allow Panasonic to focus on more current trends, but what do you guys think? Are you sad to see plasma TVs go?
Panasonic To Exit Plasma TV Market In March 2014 original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Oct 09
It turns out that 18 carat gold is slightly too soft to be a sensible material for smartphones. We’ve been hands-on with one of just five MOBO-branded gold HTC Ones, which are evidently a lot less subtle than the gold iPhone 5s (shown top right). While the exclusive $4,500 handset definitely wasn’t …
Oct 09
The MMO videogame EverQuest isn’t as popular as it once was, but it still boasts a large number of players. Sony Online Entertainment has announced the launch of the new expansion pack for EverQuest that is available as of today. The new expansion pack is called EverQuest: Call of the Forsaken and it’s the 20th […]
Oct 09
Lenovo Rumored To Buy Out HTC
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Despite HTC’s chairwoman, Cher Wang, coming forward and refuting rumors of the company selling out, new rumors have surfaced suggesting that Lenovo could be the company that will buy out HTC. The rumor comes about as HTC has recently posted an operating loss of $101 million, making it the company’s first in over a decade, and that because of that (amongst other reasons), HTC and Lenovo’s top executives have begun to meet with each other, dating as far back in August, about a possible buy out.
Given that Lenovo has already taken over IBM’s ThinkPad division, we guess acquiring new companies would not be a stretch of the imagination. Not to mention Lenovo is a pretty well-respected company amongst Chinese manufacturers, so for them to takeover HTC would not be such a bad thing. In any case this rumor is a bit odd given that HTC has flat out denied such a possibility only a day ago, so take it with a grain of salt for now, and hopefully either HTC or Lenovo will come forward with an official statement refuting the matter, or their silence could basically be a form of implicit acknowledgement. What do you guys think? If Lenovo were to takeover HTC, would they have better luck in the smartphone market?
Lenovo Rumored To Buy Out HTC original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Oct 09
When it comes to video games and movies, Russians seem to get a bad rap as usually portraying either communists or the bad guys, but it seems that the Russian government is hoping to change that by encouraging local developers to create more “patriotic” games that will help promote “historically truthful” events, at least that’s what the folks at the Hollywood Reporter are saying. According to Arseny Mironov, an aide to the Russian culture minister, Vladimir Medinsky, he was quoted as telling Russian nuewspaper Izvestiya, “A video game has to have not only an entertainment value, but it also has to teach and be conducive to patriotic education.”
This was in response to Relic Entertainment’s Company of Heroes 2, which some felt unfairly portrayed the country’s actions in World War 2. The Russian government is also looking at the possibility of banning games that will “discredit the Russian soldier” and “distort historic facts”. The first game in development will be focused on World War 1 and the Russian military’s aviation and will most likely see a release in 2014, although it is unclear if this will be a global release or if it will be exclusive to Russia where they hope their citizens will feel some kind of national pride by playing these games. What do you guys think of patriotic games?
Russian Government Wants To Create More Patriotic Video Games original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Oct 09
Back in August of 2011, NASA launched a spacecraft called Juno on a mission to study Jupiter. With the vast distance between the Earth and Jupiter, NASA scientists had to devise a way to get the spacecraft up to an incredible rate of speed. To achieve the high velocity required scientists used the gravity of […]
Oct 09
Flickr’s new iOS 7 app now offers automatic uploading at full resolution, with sharing set to privat
Posted in: Today's ChiliFlickr’s new iOS 7 app now offers automatic uploading at full resolution, with sharing set to private by default. Neat.
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Oct 09
Oppo phone, not Nexus 5, will be first to nab DigitalOptics’ speedy MEMS camera
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DigitalOptics has just announced that its MEMS multi-focus camera unit will arrive first on an Oppo handset, calling reports that it might first come to a rumored LG Nexus 5 “inaccurate.” It added that Oppo is an “exclusive launch partner” for now, saying the modules will arrive in its premium …
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