May
31
2011

Another Potential Villain for ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

OK, I’m not sure if some unknown actor is trying to get attention, but relatively unknown thespian Jeff Hammond,who according to a google search, may or may not have done porn,  tweeted that he is currently in talks with director Christopher ...
May
31
2011

Note To Cheaters: Next Time Hire the Brains

An anonymous reader writes "A man and his accomplice are accused of cheating on a Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) by using a wireless pinhole camera and cellphone to send realtime images of the exam questions to a team of ...
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May
31
2011

Ask Slashdot: Good Homeschool Curriculum For CS??

dingo_kinznerhook writes "I grew up in a homeschooling family, and was homeschooled through high school. ( I went on to get a B.S. and M.S. in computer science; my mom has programming experience and holds bachelor's degrees in physics and ...
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May
31
2011

Ask Slashdot: GoodHomeschool Curriculum For CS??

dingo_kinznerhook writes "I grew up in a homeschooling family, and was homeschooled through high school. ( I went on to get a B.S. and M.S. in computer science; my mom has programming experience and holds bachelor's degrees in physics and ...
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May
31
2011

How Much Can Kyro Syrup and Red Food Coloring Cost? Walking Dead Season Two Facing Budget Cuts

Season One of AMC’s The Walking Dead was a honest to goodness smash hit, filled with it’s blend of drama and gore for the masses. It perfectly captured the endearing spirit of humans in a post-apocalyptic world. It was a ...
May
31
2011

Get Ready For ACE THE ZOMBIE: The Motion Picture! Poster And Teaser Trailer Inside

You heard right people! ACE THE ZOMIBE: The Motion Picture is coming our way soon. The horror/comedy is directed by The Deville and stars Mark Drum, Sarah Simmons Turner, Toryah Pugh, Brandon S. N. Butler, Daniel Diaz, Jevocas Green, David Haddad, ...
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May
31
2011

Must Have: STAR WARS Sith And Jedi Bathrobes

Any STAR WARS freak should get one of these, right? These Star Wars Jedi and Sith Bathrobes are hooded robes  made from 100% cotton velour awesomeness, they come with large pockets, cotton belt and Jedi embroidered  logo on the chest.  Description: This sumptuous ...
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May
31
2011

Nokia Issues Profit Warning

jones_supa submitted an article in the Guardian. From the article "Shares in the Finnish phone maker Nokia plunged by 15% on Tuesday as the company warned that it may make no profit on phone sales in the quarter to the ...
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May
31
2011

This Year’s Sanya Weathers Stalking Update

All Sanya Weathers stalkers please update your Foursquare apps: she’s no longer a Tera forum moderator. (Did you know she was a Tera forum moderator? Neither did they!) Apparently she has something new coming up involving hardcore PvP show tunes. (which. ...
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May
31
2011

The First Images From PARANORMAL XPERIENCE 3D Have Surfaced

The first images for Sergi Vizcaino's psycho-horror thriller PARANORMAL XPERIENCE 3D have surfaced. This is the first ever 3D film coming out of Spain with Amaia Salamanca, Ursula Corbero, Alba Riba, Nasser Saleh, Luis Fernandez and Maxi Iglesias all starring. These images don't really ...
May
31
2011

Record-Breaking 332-Ft Jump In A Truck

And it wasn't off a cliff! Team Hot Wheels just set the world record for furthest jump in a car/truck during the opening festivities before the Indianapolis 500 over the weekend with a distance of 332-feet, easily clearing (!!!11) the previous ...
May
31
2011

INSIDIOUS DVD And Blu-ray Artwork Revealed

The movie with the biggest profit so far in 2011 is coming home on DVD and Blu-ray this July.James Wan's INSIDIOUS will hit store shelves on July 12th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.  The only extra material will be 3 featurettes ("Horror 101: ...
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May
31
2011

Video Game: DEAD ISLAND Artwork Revealed

DEAD ISLAND is one of the most anticipated video games coming this year and finally some artwork has dropped courtesy of the good people at Deep River/ Techland. Dead Island will be available for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.Game Features: First-person melee ...
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May
31
2011

Samsung tries to gain access to unannounced next-gen Apple devices

Samsung's latest maneuver in what appears will be a long, drawn-out legal battle with Apple over mobile device copying is a bold one. The ...
May
31
2011

Rapid Browser Development Challenges Web Developers

Esther Schindler writes "Feeling a little overwhelmed by changing web standards and new browser choices? You aren't the only one. Mozilla is launching development tracks for the next two editions of its Firefox Web browser immediately, with hopes to push ...
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May
31
2011

Video Game: F.E.A.R. 3 "Soul Survivor" Multi-Player Trailer

Here's the new "Soul Survivor" trailer for the multi-player game F.E.A.R. 3.  The game comes from Warner Brothers Interactive  and even has a cool treat for the horror/gamer fanatics out there adding legendary horror mastermind John Carpenter (Halloween) and critically ...
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May
31
2011

Call Of Booty: We’re So Money

"I just made $12 million while you were laughing at this picture." Modern Warfare 3 to ship with a subscription service called Call of Duty: Elite. Well, then. This is so industry-asploding money-printing what-were-movies-again big that some news sources you don’t expect ...
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May
31
2011

AT&T/T-Mobile merger on the hot seat as Sprint files to block it

Looks like the Federal Communications Commission wants a lot more data from AT&T before the agency will green light its ...
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May
31
2011

Toy Of The Day: Transformers Generations Legends Figures Wave 5 6-Pack Set

Transformers Generations Legends Figures Wave 5 6-Pack Set:Complete set of all 6 hard-to-find Reveal the Shield Classics/Generation 1-inspird Legends toys! Pocket-sized Transformers! From the legendary Transformers: Generation 1 series! Legends Figures of Autobot heroes and Decepticon villains in a smaller size. Have a "little" fun and ...
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May
31
2011

隐秘

Cryptic acquired by Chinese MMO developer Perfect World for $50m. Atari originally purchased Cryptic for $28m plus $48m in bonuses. In other news, I bet I just broke everyone’s RSS feed! Read more from the original source: 隐秘
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May
31
2011

Free Software Faces a Test With Qt

An anonymous reader writes with an article in TechRadar. From the article: "Thanks to Nokia's jump to Windows Phone 7, from the frying pan into the fire, its Free Software darling, the Qt toolkit, has been left living on vague ...
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May
31
2011

Art: HOBBIT HOLE

Todays art is by Gejda and is called HOBBIT HOLE.  Read the rest here: Art: HOBBIT HOLE
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May
31
2011

Tech: Dry-All Cellular Phone Emergency Kit

Has something like this ever happened to you? It has me too and left me without a cell phone for a few days and I was seriously cut off fro the world and almost went crazy! Wait, I already am ...
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May
31
2011

Check Out The First Clip From FRIGHT NIGHT

Here's the very first clip for director Craig Gillespie's  FRIGHT NIGHT remake which stars Farrell, Anton Yelchin, Toni Collette, David Tenant, Imogen Poots (below), Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Dave Franco, Emily Montague, Sandra Vergara and Will Denton.  Synopsis: The beginning of Charlie Brewster's senior ...
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May
31
2011

‘Outside Aperture’, Impressive Portal Fan Film (w/ Bonus Portal Performance Piece!)

'Outside Aperture' is a 8-minute Portal fan film. It's really good. Like the muffins my elderly neighbor used to bake and bring over before I found out she made them with kitty litter (I thought they were pistachio ...
May
31
2011

Donald Sutherland Joins The Cast Of THE HUNGER GAMES

The ever growing cast of THE HUNGER GAMES has added one more name to its list. Donald Sutherland has come aboard to play the president in the movie. Character description from Lionsgate is; President Snow has been the autocratic ruler of Panem ...
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May
31
2011

Apple Announces iCloud and iWork For iOS

iONiUM writes "Through a press release ahead of WWDC, Apple has revealed that it will be releasing its own cloud service to rival Google and Amazon's. In addition, they will unveil the new iOS, and the latest desktop OS." Apple also ...
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May
31
2011

Newest Character Poster For HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HOLLOWS Part 2 Features Severus Snape

And now for our HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HOLLOWS Part 2 character poster we present Severus Snape. It seems like we 're getting these very day now. The movie is directed by David Yates and stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie ...
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May
31
2011

Meet A few Of The New Characters From Season 2 Of THE WALKING DEAD

TV Line got a scoop on a few of the new characters that will show up in season two of THE WALKING DEAD. Our survivors will come across Hershel's farm, meeting up with Hershel  who is a veterinarian, Wiford Brimley type. His ...
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May
31
2011

Doom Ported To the Web

kripkenstein writes "Ever since Id Software released the Doom source code under the GPL, it's been ported to platform after platform. Now, you can play Doom compiled to JavaScript on the web, using standard web technologies like Canvas and without ...
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May
31
2011

World Health Organization: Cell Phone Radiation Can Probably Cause Cancer

Because everything causes cancer if you're exposed to enough of it (except my wiener! *flashing*), the World Health Organization (WHO -- but not the Doctor) has released a statement classifying cell phone radiation as "possibly carcinogenic to humans". ...
May
31
2011

WHO declares cellphones "possibly carcinogenic"

Those who are worried about the possible health risks of cellphones just received some backing from a significant source: the World Health Organization. ...
May
31
2011

AMD Betting Future On the GPGPU

arcticstoat writes with an interview in bit-tech "AMD's manager of Fusion software marketing Terry Makedon revealed that 'AMD as a company made a very, very big bet when it purchased ATI: that things like OpenCL will succeed. I mean, we're ...
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May
31
2011

What A Bunch Of Jedi Assholes

This isn’t the latest Star Wars parody porn to sweep the Empire like a plague of Jawa herpes but it’s damn close.Freddie Wong and Logan Olson are back with another “Jedi Are A-Holes” video. In’Jedi-Holes Strike Back’ (get it?) the duo ...
May
31
2011

New Green Lantern Footage

Green Lantern is easily one of the most anticipated movies in this summer that is just filled with sequels/prequels.The movie is based upon a DC comics character of a human that is chosen by an intergalactic police force, the Green ...
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