Tuesday, October 1, 2013

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 10/2/2013

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Have YouTube’s copyright bots met their match?
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YouTube’s copyright violation scanner bots are notoriously militaristic, to the point of disregard for lawful fair use. Now one copyright law professor is fighting back. Minutes before AMD was set to begin the keynote at its #gpu14 tech day event in Honolulu, the YouTube live stream of the event was cut off. #gpu14 keynote is [...]
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Nexus 5 makes yet another appearance ahead of its rumored October launch
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A website focusing on Apple products isn’t where you’d expect to see Android devices being leaked, but Google’s upcoming Nexus 5 was kind enough to make an exception.  A member of MacRumors, under the name weespeed, posted the picture that you see above, claiming it to be of the new Nexus 5. According to the [...]
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Rockstar reveals official schedule and details for GTA Online
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In a recent news post, Rockstar Games delivers a ton of details on GTA Online including official launch schedules, content offerings, and more.
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Will Facebook’s inclusion of posts and status updates to Graph Search raise alarms?
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Facebook is making it easier for users to search posts and status updates through Graph Search, by using natural language cues in defining their search parameters. But will this result in yet another privacy issue for the social network? Facebook has recently announced an update to its Graph Search feature that will make it easier [...]
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‘Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag’ launching November 19 on PC
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Ubisoft announced that Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag will be available for Windows three weeks after it debuts on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The PC version of Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag is said to be ported from the Xbox One version, according to a tweet sent out last week by Ubisoft Montreal’s Gabriel [...]
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Xi3 piston gets a release date and official pricing
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Xi3’s PC console to be available in November at a sub-$1000 price point. The device that everyone thought was the Steam box has gotten a release date and a price. In a press release sent out Monday night, Xi3 announced that its PC gaming console will be available on November 29 at a price point [...]
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‘Killzone: Shadow Fall’ is going to make your internet connection cry
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The Playstation 4 version of Killzone: Shadow Fall is said to require a massive download that may top 50 GB, according to Sony UK boss Fergal Gara. For better or for worse, the next generation of consoles are making a noticeable push towards digital distribution. In the same vein, Sony will be offering up the [...]
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Microsoft offering ‘Halo 3′ for free to Xbox Live Gold users in October
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Bungie Studios’ Halo 3 is the latest game that is offered through the Games with Gold program for Xbox Live Gold members. Since June, Microsoft has been giving away two games a month through its Games with Gold initiative. The deal is similar to what Sony has been offering with PlayStation Plus, and makes two [...]
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‘Neverending Nightmares’ acheives Kickstarter funding goal in a last minute flurry of activity
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Neverending Nightmares — the indie project inspired by the developer’s own battle with mental illness — squeezed past its Kickstarter goal with just hours left before the deadline and will release next year on Ouya, Windows, Mac and Linux simultaneously. Well, that was a close one. Neverending Nightmares just barely crossed it’s Kickstarter target of [...]
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Watch all iPhone models go head to head in a test of speed
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A new video has been posted online in which all eight iPhone models go head to head against each other in a test of speed. It is interesting to see how the iPhone has evolved over the years. The first iPhone was launched back in 2007. Since then, Apple’s smartphone has continued to be a [...]
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Purported Boost Mobile promotional material hints at iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C launch
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Boost Mobile hasn’t officially carried the iPhone as yet. If the latest purported leaked promotional material is to be believed, the prepaid carrier might soon launch Apple’s latest iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C.  Sprint, which is one of the four largest nation carries in the U.S., wholly owns Boost Mobile, which is a prepaid carrier. [...]
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Leaked carrier doc confirms Sony Xperia Z1 mini will have flagship specs under a 4.3-inch screen
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The Sony Xperia Z1 mini has often been rumored to be that Android device that will turn around the trend of mini variants of flagship smartphones being mediocre in the specs department, and we now have the most concrete evidence to support that rumor.    XperiaBlog has gotten hold of what seems to be a [...]
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Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet visits FCC under RX-114 moniker, cellular bands galore
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We’ve been tracking hints, following leads and pursuing theories on Nokia’s first ever Lumia tablet for what feels like months now and, despite rumors of a last-minute cancelation, there’s a good chance one of the last pieces of the puzzle is today falling into place. A Nokia device going by the cryptic RX-114 codename has [...]
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to produce bulk of Apple A8 SoCs
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TSMC to handle 60-70 percent of A8 production, with Samsung handing the remainder. The Korea Economic Daily reports Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company will be handling the lion’s share of production for Apple’s A8 System on a Chip (SoC), with Samsung producing only 20 to 30 percent. Currently, Samsung is the sole supplier of iPad and [...]
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Are ads coming to Google’s Gmail Android email client?
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APK teardown of Google’s new Android email client shows that ads may be coming soon along with bookmarking option. Ads have been a staple for Gmail users on the web, but Google’s smartphone and tablet experience has been a refreshing ad-free one for mobile devices for quite some time. In a recent APK teardown by [...]
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Behold Sharp’s Mebius Pad, the Windows 8 tablet with the highest pixel count
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If you can’t beat them, join them, an old saying goes, and the inventors of that kooky talking refrigerator seem to be following exactly this particular tactic in trying to make their new Windows 8 tablet as popular as Android slates or Apple’s iPads. Mind you, I’m not accusing Sharp of copying anybody by putting [...]
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Screenshot of Nokia’s Storyteller app for Windows 8 and Windows Phone leaked
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Prolific leaker @evleaks has outed two screenshots that show off Nokia’s upcoming Storyteller app, which is expected to debut on Nokia’s Windows RT tablet and 6-inch Lumia phablet. According to evleaks, Storyteller will be supported on both Windows 8/RT and Windows Phone 8; in fact, the first public appearance of the app was in a [...]
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Lenovo goes for international gold with Vibe X, Vibe Z Android smartphones
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Aside from hunting down HP for the PC market crown by basically being the only major player in the business who’s seen its market share boosted in the past couple of years, Lenovo has bold plans for the mobile universe as well. Though virtually unknown to smartphone users on the Western hemisphere, Lenovo has spectacularly [...]
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We ask AMD: Why will Mantle be different?
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VR-Zone sat down with AMD’s Ritche Corpus, the company’s director of software alliances and developer relations, to talk about Mantle, TrueAudio, and the Steam Box. A semiconductor company wouldn’t be worth its weight in Si without a solid set of working relationships and alliances with the companies that make software for its chips. One of [...]
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Unreleased Acer Iconia W4 manhandled at Intel event, packing Bay Trail CPU and Windows 8.1
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Windows RT is (pretty much) dead, long live Windows 8.1. That seems to be the message Microsoft’s tablet manufacturing partners want carried out of late, as Asus, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, HP and Acer all look to have something in the pipeline in that department. Exactly as it was tipped a couple of weeks back, Acer [...]
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