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If you’re a fan of Angry Birds, and you must absolutely play every available level for the game, you’ll definitely want to check out the new Intel branded version of the popular game on Facebook. In the Intel Angry Birds game, the birds follow those dastardly green pigs inside the brains of an computer.

You’ll notice Intel branded backdrop, and the green pigs also have what appear to be circuit etchings on their foreheads and there are various resistors and other parts lying about, and some of the wooden pieces you’re used to seeing in the game have been replaced with green circuit boards in this version. The birds can also be found lounging about on a tiny ultrabook if you look carefully.

Other than the branding and the odd high-tech sound effect, the gameplay mechanics are the same as any other version of Angry Birds on Facebook, though these are brand new levels. Use the mouse to pull the slingshot back and shoot the bird. Birds with special features such as bombs or the ability to speed up need to be clicked to activate. The scoreboards from the game can be shared with other Facebook friends as well. If you’re looking to waste some time, head on over to Facebook and play it now.

Parisian gaming company Gameloft has pulled the wraps off its first Unreal Engine Android game, but is being rather coy about what it actually is. The teaser image — which was released on the company’s Facebook page — reveals little more than a bloody sword and skull along with a cryptic message, saying that a clue was hidden in the artwork. Viewers were also invited to vote for the next hint, which will either be another image or a YouTube teaser trailer. Whether the macabre-looking game itself will create as much suspense as its marketing tease remains to be seen.

Update: Some sources have reported the platform as Android, but that has not been officially announced.

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When fall arrives, and you are not part of the 83 million fake Facebook users, chances are you might stumble upon blurred out photos in Facebook. The reason behind this is not that Facebook users have gotten more diligent in blurring out faces of their family members and friends in some of their photos using an image manipulation software, but rather, because this fall is when McAfee will roll out their Social Protection product which allows you to gain more control over just who are able to view photos on your site, in addition to preventing folks from downloading such images for viewing at a different place.

Social Protection for Facebook is a collaboration between Intel and McAfee, where the browser’s plug-in will show off your photos as blurs, at least until your recipients also go ahead and install the plug-in. When they view your pictures using Social Protection, they cannot download or share these pictures, and those who think that they can circumvent this using the classic screenshot technique will be disappointed to know it does not work. I guess the only way would be to use a digital camera, snap a photo of it, and you’re good to go.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Facebook Partners With McAfee To Offer Security Software, Facebook Stories helps spin a yarn,

Well folks, the end of Thursday is nearly upon us, which means we’ll be kicking off the weekend soon. Today brought quite a bit more news about the Apple vs. Samsung trial than yesterday did, with Samsung’s lawyer fighting back against allegations made by Apple’s counsel. Things aren’t looking too good for Samsung though, as it appears that Judge Lucy Koh has thrown out quite a bit of the company’s evidence, and now Apple is requesting sanctions that uphold its patents based on yesterday’s evidence leak. The upside to all of this, however, is that we got another peek at an early iPhone prototype today, so be sure to check that one out.

Use of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is on the rise, while some XDA developers have discovered that Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has at least partially implemented support for multiple user accounts. Speaking of Android, the CyanogenMod team announced today that they will be dropping support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 with CyanogenMod 9, so you S1 users may want to start looking for a different custom ROM. Samsung started sending out invites today for its “Pushing Boundaries” press conference at the end of the month, and we have a feeling that a new Galaxy Note device will be revealed there.

Sadly, we’ve got some bad news about Nokia, as new reports say that it has shuttered its Qt offices in Australia and laid off staff. SHIELD, a new bill that has been introduced in the US House of Representatives, looks to stop patent trolls in their tracks, and it turns out that around 83 million of Facebook’s users are fake profiles. With Facebook quickly approaching the 1 billion user mark, this means that about 9% of the profiles on the site are fake. AT&T announced its planned acquisition of NextWave Wireless today, a purchase which should help it boost its 4G LTE service.

Astronomers have taken a very clear picture of a spiral galaxy that has produced two supernovas in the past 30 years, so be sure to have a look at that one. Apparently Prometheus 2 is a thing now (raise your hand if you knew that was coming), and we talk to the director of Total Recall about a certain strange-looking dollar bill that appears in the movie. As far as video games go, today Gameloft began teasing its first game made with the Unreal engine, and we tried our best to guess what it is. Assassin’s Creed III got a new trailer today, but this particular trailer takes a closer look at what players can expect with Ubisoft’s new AnvilNext engine. Needless to say, it looks very… snowy.

That’s about it for the news, but there are also a couple reviews we suggest you check out. First up is Vincent Nguyen with a review of the 2013 Cadillac ATS, and Chris Burns has a review of Total Recall. Is Colin Farrell a good replacement for Arnold Schwarzenegger? You’ll just have to read the review to find out. Enjoy the rest of your Thursday evening everyone!

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: August 2, 2012 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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As Facebook’s public persona ramps up another new month, less than a year after it’s first put itself on the public market with an IPO of some great disaster, the social network faces several allegations of advertising network faux pas. The most recent bit comes in as a release in their very own company filings, a note on how more than 8.7% of its 955 million active accounts are “rule breakers” or completely fake accounts altogether. The second and third negative news bits come from 3rd party groups saying Facebook’s advertising network relies too heavily on “likes” that may not even be real, so to speak.

The Facebook company filings shown this week by Facebook say that the Zuckerberg-owned company is made up of 4.8% duplicate member accounts. That’s a fairly massive number when you consider that it’s more than half of what the company suggests are simply rule breakers. An amount of 2.4% of the total number of members on Facebook then are user-misclassified, that being personal profiles for pets, businesses, or objects. Finally there’s the eerily titled “Undesirable” category which makes up 1.5% of the members on Facebook.

The “Undesirable” category is made up of what Facebook says are profile “intended to be used for purposes that violate our terms of service, such as spamming.” This is not good news for the company that also notes in its most recent filing that, “the loss of advertisers, or reduction in spending by advertisers with Facebook, could seriously harm our business.”

Earlier this week the digital distribution firm known as Limited Press let it be known that they were quite suspicious of Facebook’s ways and means of charging them for advertisements and clicks on the social network. They noted that based on their own 3rd party analytics software, they found 80% of clicks on their advertisements to have been made by bots – aka not real users in the least.

Limited Press now notes that after substantial attention from the press, Facebook is now looking in to the matter.

Meanwhile the BBC’s technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones had a hankering last month to investigate Facebook’s recent round of fake “likes” allegations. He created a fake company by the name of VirtualBagel and found that a large majority of the interactions the company had were from non-English-speaking regions in the Middle East and Asia. Cellan-Jones also observed that many of the accounts – if not a majority of them – were entirely fake and/or created for spam.

Have a peek at the timeline below to find our more about Facebook’s recent past and see if you can track their movements with several pointed news bits.

Facebook faces loose Likes at crucial ad crux is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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