IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Digital Trends) 06/02/2013

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Digital Trends) 06/02/2013

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Bowers & Wilkins AM-1 outdoor speaker: Rugged enough for your outdoor kitchen, refined enough for your library High-end audio company Bowers & Wilkins recently introduced its AM-1, an outdoor speaker with a blue collar exterior and white collar pedigree. While the speaker's exterior is made to resist the elements, it's been engineered to meet B&W's exacting standards.

Is your awesome new media room poisoning your family? Basements make ideal spots for home theaters, but the invisible, little-publicized threat known as radon can actually make spending time in your basement a health risk. Here's what it is, how to test for it, and what you can do about it.

Facebook reportedly developing a friend tracking app Sources with Bloomberg report that Facebook is developing an app that will rival Apple's Find My Friends app for its ability to track your location.

Fire Emblem Awakening review: A cruel, fair, and fine game of love and war Fire Emblem: Awakening is not as conservative as you might expect for the eleventh entry in a quarter-century-old series. In fact, the changes it brings makes for far more moving game of strategy.

Rockstar shoots down ‘conspiracy theories’ surrounding Grand Theft Auto V delay Grand Theft Auto V will debut in September, despite initially featuring a Spring release window. The culprit? Nothing more sinister than quality assurance, despite the wild ideas posited by fans.

Steam may offer an unexpected new home for the first three Halo games Though Halo games have never before appeared on any platform not strictly controlled by franchise publisher Microsoft, that streak may soon come to an end with the addition of the first three Halo titles to Valve's ubiquitous digital distribution service, Steam.

Electrique Slide: Citroën Berlingo Electrique is a green way to get the job done Citroën's electric van isn't very powerful, but its drawbacks should be minimized in its natural habitat: the city.

Tamron joins the Micro Four Thirds party with company’s first-ever lens Tamron is developing a 14-150mm zoom lens that's compatible for cameras utilizing the Micro Four Thirds camera system.

L.A. Noire gag reel demonstrates the horrors of motion capture technology L.A. Noire's characters are intensely detailed and strikingly lifelike, but if you dial back the game's polish a bit for a look at how the characters were created, you'll see that they came very close to being eerie and unsettling.

2013 Dodge Challenger R/T Redline adds more muscle for the money While other automakers are busting their humps trying to design exciting new cars, Dodge is satisfied simply adding stripes and shiny wheels to its performance models.

Tired of Google Play? Check out these alternative Android app stores If you are hunting for more sources to download Android apps and games then you’ll find a bumper batch in here. We take a look at the pros and cons of alternative Android app stores for users and developers, and then discuss a few of the best options.

Ever wonder how we review laptops? Here are all our dirty little secrets Laptop reviews involve a lot more than cruising YouTube at the coffee shop. Here’s an in-depth look at how we test laptops at Digital Trends.

The road to ‘The Avengers’ 3 may go through Planet Hulk The Planet Hulk and World War Hulk storylines are some of the most popular published by Marvel Comics in recent years, so it comes as little surprise to hear that the company's film wing might be working on a feature adaptation.

Can you shoot an entire TV series on a DSLR? Bradford Lipson paved the way with Wilfred The director of photography of "Wilfred," Bradford Lipson, talks about how the DSLR has changed filmmaking and why his show is shot entirely with one.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow—Mirror of Fate may jump from Nintendo 3DS to home consoles Resident Evil: Revelations may not be the only Nintendo 3DS game to move over to home consoles. Konami says that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow—Mirror of Fate could get an HD release in the future.

Statistically, these are the best and worst Super Bowl XLVII ads According to social media, these are the brand winners and losers of Super Bowl XLVII. If you were logged on during the game, then you may already know the general consensus.

Is this the BMW-powered Saab 900 that never was? If the recent demise of Saab has illustrated anything, it's that automakers are just as susceptible to an ever-changing and uncertain financial climate as anyone else. Rather than excite us, however, the latest pics of the Saab 900 provide a stark reminder that the company was fighting to rediscover its old self before going belly-up.

Newsweek is dead! Long live NewsBeast? Less than two months after its final print issue - and only three years after merging with online news portal The Daily Beast - Newsweek has changed its name, with the company responsible for the magazine being rebranded as NewsBeast.

Twitch Turbo elevates eSports broadcasting to the next level – for a price Twitch, the eSports broadcasting service, is entering a new phase: The premium subscription phase. Twitch Turbo lets people watch video game broadcasts ad-free for a monthly fee, but will audiences bite?

Bentley video hints at sleeker and chicer Flying Spur for 2014 No longer looking like just a big (and very expensive) luxury car, the next-generation 2014 Bentley Flying Spur finally seems to have developed a bit of a personality, too.

Hitman HD Trilogy review: A bloody look back at the history of Agent 47 Whether or not you're a fan, the Hitman HD Trilogy isn't an essential purchase, but it charts the series' evolution over the past decade.

Ubisoft says Assassin’s Creed was always supposed to have co-op The original Assassin's Creed was supposed to let people collaborate on taking down Templars, but the technology and story kept co-op out of the game. Now it looks like Ubisoft is re-approaching the idea of cooperative Assassin's Creed.

Best iPhone 5 Cases Keep your new Apple iPhone 5 pristine with one of the cases from our case roundup.

Neuromarketing, curated crowdsourcing, and more tech lingo you need to know Constant deluge of new tech buzzwords throwing you for a loop? Get up to speed with our quick and dirty guide to lingo you need to know.

Is Google’s latest patent another nail in the point-and-shoot camera coffin? A patent for a multiple LED smartphone camera flash system was recently awarded to Google. Could this new weapon signal the end of point-and-shoot cameras?

Want to know why we haven’t seen Psychonauts 2 yet? There are 18 million reasons Minecraft creator Markus Persson was a likely investor for Psychonauts 2 in 2012 but development costs were too high. How high? The developer shed light on the necessary budget to make a sequel for Double Fine's telepathic platformer.

From Saab savior to money saver: Spyker planning less expensive sports car debut at Geneva Motor Show The Dutch carmaker best known for making Steampunk supercars and trying to save Saab is back with a new model that will compete with the Porsche 911.

$25 Raspberry Pi now available in Europe; rest of the world to follow The even more affordable version of the Raspberry Pi has stripped-down specs compared to the first model released, but it has a lot of potential applications.

Sigma treats Micro Four Thirds and E-mount camera owners to new lenses In addition to three new lenses for Micro Four Thirds and Sony E-mount mirrorless cameras, Sigma unveils a lens for Sigma, Nikon, and Canon APS-C DSLRs.

U.S. government once again voices support for electric vehicles, but backs out of 2015 goal Unrealistic sales expectations have already sunk two American EV battery makers, and it is now clear that the industry overestimated the market appeal of the EV.

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