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Well, here's some news that's come out of left field. Rovio Entertainment, creators of the ultra-popular Angry Birds series, has acquired Futuremark Game Studios, the gaming side-arm of the popular benchmark tool creator Futuremark (not that self-explanatory, I know). In an e-mail sent to us...

When most people think of "online dating", it's with a dedicated website (like eHarmony), but with the ever-increasing use of various social networking services, more and more people are meeting future partners where they'd least expect it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17518013 It's...

ASUS is offering up a GeForce GTX 680, and entering to win it is super-easy. You just need to have a Twitter account and then respond to the tweet below in order to be entered. https://twitter.com/#!/ASUS/statuses/184686368146997248 "#GimmeGF_GTX680 @ASUS because ____" If I were to...

So there's this cartoon called Archer... and I know nothing about it. But what I do know is that the creators are awesome, because in this still, a running Gentoo install can be seen to the right: What gives it away is the "portage/sys-devel/gcc" line, something totally unique to Gentoo...

When I discovered Minecraft in its earlier stages of development, I was blown away by some of the things that people were building in the game. I hopped on and just messed around, but others were building some seriously complex buildings, landmarks, video game characters and so forth. And to...

As a big Android fan, an article posted earlier at TechCrunch called "Please Do Not Buy Cheap Android Phones" drew me in like few other articles could. I felt like I understood what was being discussed before I even looked at it; a bit of the "you get what you pay for" medicine. And as it turns...

Popular media center software XBMC has just seen the release of a major new version, 11.0 "Eden". There are a ton of added features and updates here, so I'm going to steal a paragraph from the official release which sums it up nice: "XBMC 11.0 Milestones include Addon Rollbacks, vast...

This past fall, the folks at GOG.com announced its future plans to help take things to the next level. At the forefront was a decision to introduce newer titles to the service, effectively ending the "Good Old Games" moniker the site first became known for. Today, we've effectively reached that...

I had this happen to a couple of different games in my list: Anyone ever experience that before?

I can't believe this is real: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/25/octegenarian-sues-apple-for-collision-related-injury/ Well, I guess I do. I just had no idea that elderly people could no longer see glass.

Lamptron has long been producing some of the most powerful and best-looking fan controllers on the market, and with its FC10 series, the company aims to take things just a bit further. For steampunk fans, Lamptron has implemented "nixie tube" displays that use bright orange cathodes. The result...

This past weekend, film director James Cameron became the third person ever to dive to the deepest accessible point on earth, the Mariana Trench. Located in the western portion of the Pacific Ocean (east of Philippines), the deepest recorded point of the Mariana Trench is 10,990 meters (6.83...

Have you ever wondered what a Visa payment processing center looks like? If not, it's likely because you wouldn't expect it to be one of the highest-security, well-protected buildings on the planet. With its "Operations Center East", it's being said that breaking into a prison would be easier...

If I had to compile a personal list of favorite technologies released in the past decade, the tech behind Google Earth would be near the top. I first discovered it prior to Google acquiring Keyhole, and fell in love. To be able to scour the earth in such a manner while sitting comfortably behind...

If you're a musician aiming to reach the top of the charts, you might not want to take the same route that UK-based DJ Denver White did. White, with the help of about 10 others, allegedly used stolen credit cards to purchase his music through iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby and Tunecore. This of course...

A lot of effort goes into choosing the right parts for your newest computer, but Senior Editor Brett Thomas thinks the focus can sometimes be a bit off. In this article, he outlines where the best bang for the buck can be spent on your high-performance rig... and believe it or not, it might not...

Hot on the heels of its Lightroom 4.0 launch, Adobe has released the first public beta of Photoshop CS6. As expected, there are many features coming to CS6, though only a few are documented by Adobe at this time. "Content-Aware Patch" seems to be the most talked-about, a major update to...

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 is here. Based on Kepler, it's an interesting beast. It features a reworked architecture, is produced on a 28nm process, introduces things like GPU Boost, Adaptive VSync and TXAA, has a redesigned cooler, and perhaps most important of all, aims to perform better than the...

Are you a World of Warcraft player? Are you a World of Warcraft player who spontaneously twitches when not in front of the game? If you answered "yes" to either of those, and especially the latter, good news: it seems hopeful that Blizzard will be bringing World of Warcraft to the iPhone. Well...

A couple of years ago, a company by the name of Eurocom caught my attention. It might have had something to do with the fact that the folks there threw 4x OCZ Vertex 480GB 2 SSDs into a notebook... I'm not sure. Nonetheless, the company is always at the ready to deliver the highest-performing...