DARPA’s New GXV-T Military Vehicle Concept Resembles The Warthog From ‘Halo’

 

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Watch The Eerie New Teaser Trailer For 'The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies'

Business Insider - Warner Bros. just released the first teaser trailer for the final film in the "Hobbit" series, "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" and it is chilling.   Read More

New Magnet Implanted in the Skull Defeats Deafness

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industry tap - Research in the field of medical technology is providing new solutions for complex medical problems. A revolutionary magnetic implant has shown a ray of hope to people who cannot benefit from traditional hearing aids.

Actor Billy Coughlin went deaf in one ear at the age of 17. Now, at age 22, a magnetic implant has restore his hearing.

The device is the new version of a BAHA – bone anchored hearing aid (BAHA) Attract. Unlike the traditional implant in which a metal screw was embedded in the patient’s head, the BAHA Attract involve the insertion of small magnetic disc beneath the skin behind the ear. 

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E3 - Hands On With Splatoon, Nintendo's New Multiplayer Online Shooter

Forbes - I’m deep in enemy territory, surrounded by hostiles, and nearly out of ammo. But I still have a few tricks up my sleeve. Hefting my weapon, I squirt a tiny patch of green goo on the ground, and then dive into it; my squid form disappears into the murk.

When enemies come for me, I’ll be waiting. And when their backs are turned, I’ll drown them in my ink.

 

 

I’m playing a new Wii U game called Splatoon, which was announced this morning as part of Nintendo's E3 “digital event.” It’s a team-based first-person shooter, in the style of Team Fortress 2, but with a family-friendly Nintendo twist: The soldiers are cartoonish squidlike creatures, and you win by covering the ground of the arena in your team’s colored ink.

Each Splatoon match involves up to eight players in a four-on-four battle in an enclosed battlefield full of hallways, platforms, gates and ramps. Your soldier carries a weapon that looks like a big water gun, and it’s fed with brightly colored ink from a tank worn on your back; when you fire the gun, it squirts a solid stream of liquid that coats and colors anything it hits.

It feels like shooting propulsion gel from Portal 2, and has similar properties; when you’re on ground coated with your team’s color, you can dive and swim through it at high speed. You can climb up walls coated in your ink, or slip under obstacles via the colored ground underneath; you can even become effectively invisible to enemies if you stay still.     Read More

Could New 'Light Radar' Find Missing Jet?

Discovery News - The disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 has exposed some of the inadequacies of existing air traffic control systems and posed a compelling mystery of how an airplane can disappear from radar screens without a trace.

In the meantime, researchers are working on new kinds of radar that could provide clues to the next such mystery, radar that uses short bursts of light to produce a signal that can not only detect an airplane mid-flight, but also cover a wider territory and communicate with the plane at the same time.

In today's journal Nature, a team of engineers from Italy published a study about so-called photonics radar, which uses laser to produce the radar signal, which is then transmitted through a traditional antenna.   Read More

New Windows malware tries to infect Android devices connected to PCs

PCWorld - A new computer Trojan program attempts to install mobile banking malware on Android devices when they’re connected to infected PCs, according to researchers from Symantec. 

This method of targeting Android devices is unusual, since mobile attackers prefer social engineering and fake apps hosted on third-party app stores to distribute Android malware. 

“We’ve seen Android malware that attempts to infect Windows systems before,” Symantec researcher Flora Liu, said Thursday in a blog post. “Android.Claco, for instance, downloads a malicious PE [portable executable] file along with an autorun.inf file and places them in the root directory of the SD card. When the compromised mobile device is connected to a computer in USB mode, and if the AutoRun feature is enabled on the computer, Windows will automatically execute the malicious PE file.” 

“Interestingly, we recently came across something that works the other way round: a Windows threat that attempts to infect Android devices,” Liu said.    Read More

Dell outs new 24-inch and 32-inch UltraHD 4K monitors

PCWorld - After prematurely letting the cat out of the bag with some weekend website leaks, Dell announced two new Ultra HD "4K" UltraSharp monitors on Monday: A 31.5-inch model as well as a 24-inch version, with both running at full 3840-by-2160-pixel resolution. 

Dell's touting the 31.5-inch UltraSharp as the flagship model, but to be frank, 32-inch screens are, well, enormous when they're just a few feet away from your face, and 31.5-inch 4K monitors are nothing new. Witness the Asus PQ321 Ultra HD, which sports the same resolution and $3,500 price tag as Dell's new display.

Read: Three-minute tech: 4K resolution

The Dell UltraSharp 24 UltraHD appears more eye-catching, at least on its 183 pixels-per-inch surface. Besides being a more desk-friendly size, the monitor packs a $1,400 sticker price—still steep for a monitor, but far more budget-friendly than its 32-inch counterparts. The IPS display offers 178-degree viewing angles and an adjustable stand, along with 99 percent AdobeRGB and 100 percent sRGB color gamut reproduction augmented by a factory calibration and baked-in fine-tuning tools.   Read More

Trying to Break the Mold for Mercedes Cars - The New S Class Coupe Concept

The New Capsule That Could Transport Astronauts To Space

New Advanced ‘Seamless’ Incision Closure Technology - without stitches or staples

An Israeli company has come up with a way to close incisions without stitches or staples, leaving a seamless closure.

Arutz Sheva - An Israeli company has come up with a way to close incisions without stitches or staples, leaving a seamless closure.

The technology, IonMed Plasma Tissue Welding, uses a cold plasma biowelding device called the BioWeld1.  The system is designed and engineered to be reliable and easy to use. About the size of a shoebox, the device has a relatively small footprint. Intuitive; two different modes of operation. BioWeld1 has four main components: helium tank, main unit, hand-piece, disposable tip.

It is the first cold-plasma surgical system to reach advanced human clinical stages, and is expected to reach the market later this year.

Results from a clinical study led by Prof. Abrahamyan at the Republican Institute of Reproductive Health, Perinatology, Obstetrics and Gynecology in Yerevan, Armenia recently demonstrated the safety and effectiveness of the system.   More

New Batman Arkham game confirmed for 2013

GameSpot - Warner Bros. says its "strong games release" for 2013 includes next entry in Arkham series; source say Rocksteady not developing.

Warner Bros. has confirmed a third entry in the Batman Arkham series will launch in 2013. As part of parent company Time Warner's latest earnings report last week, CFO John Martin said the company's "strong" games release for the year includes a new entry in the series.

"And we also have a strong games release this year, which will include the next release in the Batman Arkham franchise," Martin said. "So all in all, we expect Warners to post another very strong year in 2013. And with a little luck, the year should be as good or maybe even a little bit better than 2012." 

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New 3D Mario announced for Wii U

Gamespot - The latest 3D Mario game will be playable at E3 2013, with new Mario Kart and Yoshi games also announced by Nintendo. 

Nintendo will unveil its successor to Super Mario Galaxy 2 at this year's E3.

Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata announced the Wii U game's existence today as part of Nintendo Direct, but did not go into any more specifics other than to say it would be playable at E3 2013, which will be held this year June 11-13.

Iwata did mention that it would be Nintendo EAD Tokyo--the team who made Mario Galaxy, Mario Galaxy 2 and Super Mario 3D Land--handling development of the new 3D Mario.

During the Nintendo Direct presentation Iwata confirmed that Nintendo would also be showing new Mario Kart and Smash Bros. titles at E3 2013, and that Nintendo was already hard at work on a new Wii U Zelda. 

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New Jackie Robinson Movie "42" - Trailer

42

Release Date: April 12, 2013
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Brian Helgeland
Screenwriter: Brian Helgeland
Starring: Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman, Christopher Meloni, Ryan Merriman, Brad Beyer, Toby Huss, T.R. Knight
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sports
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: 42movie.com | Facebook
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Plot Summary: “42” will star Academy Award® nominee Harrison Ford (“What Lies Beneath,” “Air Force One,” “Witness”) as the innovative Dodger's general manager Branch Rickey, the MLB executive who first signed baseball great Jackie Robinson to the minors and then helped to bring him up to the show, and Chadwick Boseman (“The Express”) as Robinson, the heroic African American who was the first man to break the color line in the big leagues. The film also stars Nicole Beharie (“Shame”) as Rachel Isum, who would become Robinson’s wife, as well as Christopher Meloni (upcoming “Man of Steel”) and T.R. Knight (TV’s “Grey’s Anatomy”).

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New Acer Chromebook costs just $199

 PCWorld - It was just a few weeks ago that a $249 Chromebook appeared courtesy of Google and Samsung, but on Monday that already-low price point dropped even further.

Google and Acer today announced the brand-new Acer C7, a Chromebook priced at just $199.

Powered by an Intel Celeron 847 processor and equipped with 2GB of DDR3 memory, the new device will be available to U.S. customers starting tomorrow on the Google Play store, at Best Buy stores, and on BestBuy.com.

In the United Kingdom, it's available on Google Play, Amazon UK, PC World, and Currys; “we’re working hard to bring it to more countries soon,” wrote Sundar Pichai, Google's senior vice president for Chrome and Apps, in a Monday blog post.

An 18-second boot time
 
The Acer C7 weighs just slightly over three pounds and measures a mere one inch thick, yet it features a full-size keyboard, a fully clickable trackpad, an “extra bright” 11.6-inch display, and a battery life of more than 3.5 hours.

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The Redemption of New Super Mario Bros. U

IGN - Five months ago, I felt optimistic about one of Nintendo’s two New Super Mario Bros. titles. The other seemed far less impressive, lacking truly original ideas or execution. But that’s always been the challenge of this particular retro-themed series – can it simultaneously balance old school platforming while adding something we haven’t seen before?

If you asked me around E3 2012, I would have said New Super Mario Bros. 2 for the Nintendo 3DS would accomplish that. New Super Mario Bros. U seemed to lack those qualities. True, it was the first HD Mario title, but its level design seemed uninspired, and allowing a fifth player to place blocks in the world through the GamePad was hardly something that seemed noteworthy.

Times have changed. Drastically.

Keep in mind New Super Mario Bros. 2 is not a bad game. But it’s fair to say it’s underwhelming and unremarkable. It squandered its ‘million coin’ gimmick, to the point where gamers had to effectively "grind for coins" to reach the lofty goal. That's a terrible thing to have to do in a platformer. The game simply wasn’t bold or brave enough with its unique angle. The entirety of the experience felt safe. And that’s not something this series can afford.

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Inside Twitter’s New San Francisco Headquarters [PICS]

 1355 Market Street

Mashable - Changes are afoot at Twitter. First, the company introduced a new logo, and now it’s moving in to new digs in the Mid-Market neighborhood of San Francisco.

Local photographer Troy Holden stopped in to snap some beautiful shots of the new office, which takes up three floors at 1355 Market Street. From what we can tell, Twitter may be big on offering employees common space, but very little about their new offices can be called common.

The space features a yoga studio, a rooftop garden and an arcade—essential elements in any productive workplace, really. And of course, in keeping with its avian motif, there are lots of images of birds.    More

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New Tweaks on: Facebook, Twitter, and Google

Mouse-hover behaviors on Twitter, status updates on Facebook Messenger, and a whole mess of tweaks over at Google Search.

Twitter added hover behavior to tweets.

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CNET - If you've noticed that things on your favorite big services feel a little different today, you're not imagining things. Facebook, Twitter, and Google have rolled out little changes to their main services.

Facebook added status details to its Mobile Messenger application. You can see if someone has read a message you've sent, if they're typing a reply, and what general region they are physically replying from (that one could be problematical). Apple iMessage and BlackBerry Messenger users are already accustomed to these features.

Twitter added a mouse-hover behavior to tweets on the Twitter.com site. Now when you hover over a tweet, interaction choices (Reply, Retweet, and Favorite) appear. They're not there otherwise, unless you click on the persistent "Expand" option that's on each tweet.         More

Hottest new and upcoming HDTVs

Cheap and cheerful, the ST30 was without a doubt the best bang-for-buck TV in 2011 and we’re expecting big things from the follow-up. The TV is shipping now, and you can look forward to seeing the full review very soon.

The good: The affordable Panasonic TC-PST50 series exhibited outstanding overall picture quality, characterized by exceedingly deep black levels with great shadow detail, accurate colors, and solid bright-room performance. Unlike LCDs, as a plasma it has superb off-angle and uniformity characteristics. The styling is attractive and the feature set well-chosen, including excellent onscreen help options.

The bad: The ST50 uses more power than competing LCD TVs, and doesn’t perform as well in bright rooms as those with matte screens. It doesn’t include 3D glasses, and 3D picture quality showed more crosstalk than many competitors’ models. The ST50 is only available in 50-inch and larger sizes. Three HDMI inputs is one fewer than most midrange TVs offer.

The bottom line: With flagship-level picture quality for a midlevel price, the Panasonic ST50 series sets the value standard among videophile-grade TVs.

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Speaking of “full review” and “bang for the buck,” this Sharp has both. It served to introduce our new “Value” score with an excellent score of 8. No, it’s not going to reach the picture quality or features scores seen on the other TVs we’re previewing, but we doubt most of them will hit its value.

The good: The relatively inexpensive Sharp LC-LE640U series delivers accurate color thanks to ample picture controls, as well as a matte screen that works well in bright rooms. Its feature set hits all of the right notes for the price, including excellent help and support options, built-in Wi-Fi, and a remote with three programmable keys to easily access favorite apps. I appreciated its understated styling, especially with such a large screen.

The bad: I noted lighter black levels and uneven lighting across the screen, both especially obvious in dark scenes under home theater lighting. The Sharp also failed to properly handle film-based (1080p/24) sources, causing slight stutter in certain scenes.

The bottom line: With decent picture quality and great pricing, the Sharp LC-LE640U series makes a strong case for mainstream TV shoppers who want to go bigger.

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The Samsung E8000 is the follow-up to last year’s excellent D8000 plasma, and Samsung promises that this model has even better picture quality. Look out for enhanced features such as Smart Interaction with built-in Skypeing and gesture control.

The good: The Samsung PNE8000 series exhibited outstanding overall picture quality, characterized by exceedingly deep black levels, accurate colors, superb video processing, and very good 3D. Unlike LCDs, as a plasma TV it has superb off-angle and uniformity characteristics. Its massive feature set includes a touch-pad remote, IR blaster, two pairs of 3D glasses, motion and voice command, and the industry’s most capable Smart TV platform. This Samsung is also one of the best plasma designs around.

The bad: Samsung charges too much for extra features that are largely unnecessary and poorly implemented. Its picture delivers slightly worse shadow detail and bright-room performance than some competitive plasmas, and its maximum light output is somewhat dim.

The bottom line: The expensive Samsung PNE8000 series comes through with stellar picture quality, but its main appeal is to people who crave the latest gadgetry in their plasma TV.

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CNET's summer gaming guide

Games like Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet are the key to avoiding 

the summer gaming drought.

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CNET - It's no secret that the summer months are markedly scarce in terms of worthy, must-play video game titles. But just because the weather is a bit nicer doesn't necessarily mean that gaming must take a back seat. Regardless of consoles owned, there's likely something for everyone this summer.

Xbox 360:

Xbox 360 owners have been lucky enough to be rewarded with what Microsoft now calls its Summer of Arcade. It's a group of download-only titles (averaging around $15) that get heavy promotion on the Xbox 360's dashboard, but have also proved themselves worthy of MS Points in the past. For instance, last year's Limbo not only won the hearts of gamers and critics alike, but took the 9 spot in our annual top 10 games of the year list.

This year's Summer of Arcade has already hit the ground running, starting off with last week's addictive action-RPG, Bastion. We demoed the game live on CNET TV's preGame show.

Bastion

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Microsoft's Summer of Arcade continues each week with a new title. The rest of the schedule plays out as follows: June 27, From Dust; August 3, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet; August 10, Fruit Ninja Kinect; and August 17, Toy Soldiers: Cold War.
PlayStation 3:

PS3 gamers have plenty to keep them busy until new exclusive titles like Uncharted 3 and Resistance 3 see the light of day. It may have gone under the radar since it was released during E3, but InFamous 2 is definitely worth the time of PS3 gamers. We love that the game picks right up where the first title left off, with our hero Cole already possessing the electricity powers he worked so hard to earn in the first go-round.

Even better news awaits fans of PlayStation Network titles. After an entire year, Limbo is now available on the PSN, making it a must-play for anyone who owns a PlayStation 3.    More