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Here’s the newest member to Kouziro Frontier’s slim desktop PC line-up, the FRGS521S / D. As part of the GS series, the system is equipped with a 3.10GHz Intel Core i5-3450 processor, an Intel B75 Express Chipset, an Intel HD Graphics 2500, a 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 120GB SSD, a 1TB hard drive, a DVD Super Multi Drive, a multi-card reader and runs on Windows 8 64-bit OS. The FRGS521S / D sells for 59,800 Yen (about $601). [Product Page]

Microsoft is expected to make a lot of announcements at the Build Conference,which takes place in the last week of June. The company will reveal more information about the upcoming software updates, though quite a lot is already known courtesy of leaked builds. They’ll also be making hardware related announcements. Microsoft CFO Peter Klein has already confirmed that the company is working with OEMs on smaller Windows RT/Windows 8 devices. These purported leaked images of an Acer Iconia W3 tablet lead us to believe that Acer will be the first manufacturer to release a smaller device based on the aforementioned platform.

This 8-inch tablet is supposedly powered by a 1.8Ghz Intel Atom Z2760 processor coupled with 2GB of RAM. Though the package isn’t as powerful as other tablets in the market, it will reportedly be enough to run all Windows applications correctly. No specific information is available right now about the display. The tablet is expected to have dual cameras for taking photos and video conferencing. An optional keyboard may also be available for the Acer Iconia W3, it will ship with a pocket that protects the tablet against bumps and also doubles as a stand. No clear details regarding pricing have been revealed, but the device is expected to be available in September.

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Recently, we were talking about how Leap Motion and HP worked together in order to integrate Leap Motion’s technology in its upcoming devices. Doing their bit to honor Earth Day, both Google and Leap Motion have just announced (and it is not even April Fool’s!) that there is an update to Google Earth available today, where this update would be able to detect input from the Leap Motion Controller. Basically, you are now able to “reach in” and “grab” the world within your display using Leap Motion, not to mention flying around at will.

Of course, this particular freedom to fly around does come with a catch. The only folks who will be able to make use of hand gestures to fly around Google Earth on Earth Day will be limited to approximately 10,000 or so members of Leap Motion’s developer program. As for the rest of the world, they will just have to be patient and wait until May as the pre-orders will ship then, retailing for $79.99 a pop. Any takers for this collaboration between Google Earth and Leap Motion?

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Guns and the right to bear arms is an extremely touchy subject, especially for folks living in the US. The thing is, we have seen our fair share of tragedies borne out on TV because of mindless and senseless killings, where even teenagers were able to obtain firearms and run amok with them, be it at campuses or in a movie theater. Well, it seems that the Facebook fan page for Pittsburgh Tactical Firearm has been shut down by the powers-that-be at Facebook. The thing is, not only was the main page shuttered, but the second page which begun as a replacement for the first was killed off, too. Apparently, this could very well be because the owner of Pittsburgh Tactical Firearm has been running a giveaway contest for an AR-15.

Shop owner Erik Lowry said, “I still don’t know what’s going on.” He realized that the page was shut down three days back, and many of the page’s 27,000 followers subsequently called and emailed to ask what had happened. Lowry then stepped up to begin a replacement page, but that one was also shut down shortly, and despite asking at least 100 times, according to him, Facebook did not respond with any explanation. Do you think that such “censorship” is unconstitutional?

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The self-styled “front page of the Internet” was not working for some time, as the site itself underwent a flood of traffic that has been attributed to what is known as a “distributed denial of service attack”, or a malicious DDoS attack in short, which resulted in the social site’s servers huffing and puffing away as it tried to keep up. Needless to say, there were certain quarters who speculated that this could be due to the massive Boston manhunt traffic, but Reddit says otherwise. Not much information has been released on who is responsible behind the DDoS attack, as nobody decided to step forward and proudly (I use the term here rather loosely) announce that they are the ones behind it.

According to a Reddit employee who called himself “alienth,” he claimed that “the load from the Boston incident was measurable. The attack which is ongoing is orders of magnitude larger. We’re mitigating it the best we can.” Partial service has since been restored after its outage happened, and as at press time, Reddit is purring away like a newly serviced engine. We have seen our fair share of outages in the past, too, and are glad that none of them proved to be beyond redemption.

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