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PlayStation 4 will stream PS3 games, reports WSJ
Last June, Sony purchased Gaikai, a company that can stream games — delivering them over the internet in real time from remote servers, by sending compressed video frames. Now, The Wall Street Journal reports what many have suspected for months: Sony...
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Tips To Maintain A Healthy Skin
While more youthful individuals underestimate their skin, more seasoned and more accomplished folks buy up items that make a guarantee to them dewy, sound and young skin. These said items case to keep the indications of maturing under control, including...
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Angry Birds sequel Bad Piggies launching next week
Rovio has announced that the sequel to Angry Birds, “Bad Piggies”, will arrive on September 27th, first on iOS, Android and Mac with Windows 8 and Windows Phone versions to follow later. This game will let you play as Angry Birds’ antagonists, the wicked...
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Forza Horizon Rally Expansion Dated and Detailed
Forza Horizon developers Playground Games and Turn 10 Studios have revealed details of their upcoming Rally expansion pack, out December 18 on Xbox Live Marketplace for 1600 Microsoft Points ($20 USD). The add-on, in fact, goes well beyond the typical...
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Victoria Justice Mini Red Dress
Victoria Justice (born February 19, 1993) is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and dancer. She debuted as an actress at the age of 10 and has since appeared in several films and television series including the Nickelodeon series Zoey 101 and Victorious....
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Miranda Kerr
Miranda Kerr Releases Book "Treasure Yourself" Miranda Kerr, successful model and one of Victoria's Secrets Angels, is preparing to release the story of her inspirational journey. In Treasure Yourself (Hay House US, December 3, 2012), Miranda offers her...
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Tablet technology takes teaching into 21st century
PARIS: Emma McCluskey's classroom looks much like any other. A verb chart, posters and pupils' work adorn the walls. The children lean over their desks, seven and eight-year-old brows furrowed in concentration. In its essence, it is a scene that could...
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Cable Industry Finally Admits That Data Caps Have Nothing To Do With Congestion
For years, the key rationale given by broadband providers for implementing data caps was that it was the only way they could deal with "congestion." Of course, for years, independent researchers showed that this was bogus, and there was no data crunch...
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University students are being required to work for Foxconn ahead of the new iPhone launch, according to the Shanghai Daily
Students from a university in Huai'an, Jiangsu Province, allegedly have been forced to do assembly work at a Foxconn plant under the guise of internships, according to the Shanghai Daily. The newspaper reports that 200 students were driven to a factory...
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North Korea in financial trouble after blowing $100 million on tributes to dead
North Korea is in serious financial trouble largely due to $110 million it has spent on the personality cult surrounding late leader Kim Jong-il, Business Insider reports. The South Korean newspaper, Chosun Ilbo, says that one 23-foot statue of Kim, who...
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Karlie Kloss poses for Juicy Couture’s latest ‘Couture La La’ perfume
We’d better make the most of seeing Karlie Kloss’s long locks flowing freely in the (probably fake) wind while we can, seeing as the 20-year-old model went for quite a dramatic chop earlier this month! Karlie and her precious brunette mane and gorgeous...
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Google Fiber 'not a hobby,' could expand, tech giant's execs say
Google Fiber, the Internet search giant's super-fast Internet experiment in Kansas City, Mo., that operates at a speed 100 times faster than a typical broadband connection, could be coming to a city near you. During Google's fourth-quarter earnings call,...
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AMD cuts wafer orders
AMD, in the last quarter of this year significantly reduced wafer orders from GlobalFoundries. According to the original agreement, AMD was supposed to but $500 Million worth of wafers from GlobalFoundries, but that figure is now down to about $ 115 million....
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Police drone crashes into police SWAT team
In a recent investigative report by the Center for Responsive Politics and Hearst newspapers, the authors expressed concern that drones were being pushed into the domestic market before safety and ethics issues had been sufficiently addressed. Such fears...
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Our never ending obsession with the apocalypse
Fears that the world will end on 21 December are rife, despite there being no evidence. So, why are we so fixated with end of the world theories? I have bad news. The world is going to end. But I also have good news. Probably not anytime soon. It’s only...
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Jon Stewart on the GOP, ‘If a woman wants to have a baby via IVF she can’t. Rape? She has to.’
The Daily Show host summed the issue up in an understandable way that every American should hear. The Republican Party has gone so far to the extreme that their position is to force women to have their rapists’ babies, while they forbid women from conceiving...
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HAPPY 45TH BIRTHDAY, JULIA ROBERTS!
Julia Roberts turns 45 today, and to celebrate, we're taking a look back at some of her happiest moments. The actress, activist, wife, and mother of three has always been known for her megawatt smile and infectious laugh. Over the years, she's shared...
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Guys, take note: Male birth control pill may be ready soon, says Texas A&M professor
Attention men: The day may be coming soon when you can take your own birth control pill with no side effects, according to a study done by a group of scientists that includes a Texas A&M University researcher. Qinglei Li, an assistant professor in Texas...
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Brain Signal ID’s Responders to Fast-Acting Antidepressant
Scientists have discovered a biological marker that may help to identify which depressed patients will respond to an experimental, rapid-acting antidepressant. The brain signal, detectable by noninvasive imaging, also holds clues to the agent’s underlying...
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Scientists say harvesting uranium from seawater makes more economic sense than they’d thought
Next time you go to the beach, think about this: You’re swimming in nuclear fuel. Our oceans contain an estimated 4.5 billion metric tons of uranium, diluted down to a minuscule 3.3 parts per billion. The idea of extracting uranium from seawater has been...
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1,000 Chinese boats headed for Senkakus: report
Around 1,000 Chinese fishing boats are expected to arrive in waters near the Senkaku Islands claimed by China later Monday, the state-run China National Radio reported, in what may be Beijing's additional countermeasures over Japan's nationalization of...
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Studies: Alzheimer drug may stabilize brain plaque
An experimental drug that failed to stop mental decline in Alzheimer's patients also signaled potential benefit that suggests it might help if given earlier, fuller results of two major studies show. Some patients on the drug had stable levels of brain...
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ABC Buys Zach Braff Ensemble Comedy
Scrubs star Zach Braff is returning to the single-camera comedy series arena, this time as a writer-director. After fielding interest from multiple networks, half-hour Garage Bar, from Braff and 20th Century Fox TV, has sold to ABC, where Scrubs finished...
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Apple Raises Prices In App Stores Across The World
Gah. Apple has jacked App Store prices across Europe, rising around 11% at some levels. This is due to local VAT increases in some places, as well as the lower value of the Euro against the dollar in recent months. Specifically, the lowest non-zero price...
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ORIGIN STORY: Melanie Lynskey makes sexy splash in 'Hello I Must Be Going'
The girl of Hollywood’s dreams has been right in front of it for a long time. But like the clichéd end to some silly rom-com, she’s just been overlooked as “the best friend” all this time. Shy, sweet, and hilarious, Melanie Lynskey made her debut in 1994...