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  • Video: Castrol machine kicks soccer ball 200+ km/h, makes Cristiano Ronaldo jealous

    Video: Castrol machine kicks soccer ball 200+ km/h, makes Cristiano Ronaldo jealous

    It was established at some point that Crisitano Ronaldo, the Portuguese international who gets red cards for Real Madrid, can kick a soccer ball at around 130 km/h. People keep track of this for some reason. This here robot… thing can kick a soccer ball at more than 200 km/h. Somewhere, Mr. Ronaldo is quietly [...]

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  • Myst, Riven mad cheap on GoG this weekend

    Myst, Riven mad cheap on GoG this weekend

    This is just a friendly heads up for all the gamers in the audience. Good Old Games, a video game download service (think Steam, but less intrusive) created by the people who developed The Witcher, has a sale this weekend on games developed by Cyan, Inc. Oh, shiny~!

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  • OnLive shows off UI and iPhone use in marathon tech demo (video)

    OnLive shows off UI and iPhone use in marathon tech demo (video)

    Sure, OnLive has already done live demos of its "cloud gaming" service, but it never hurts to get another comprehensive 48-minute video on the subject. In a presentation at Columbia University, CEO Steve Perlman goes over the nitty gritty of how game streaming works, the OnLive user interface (11:53), an inevitable Crysis Wars demo (16:35), Brag Clips (17:49), and of course the iPhone app (19:31). Though cellphone integration is still limited to primarily spectating and social networking functions, PCs and Macs can get gaming via a 1MB browser plugin, or you can grab the microconsole streaming box for your TV, which Steve suggests might be given away for free with OnLive subscriptions. If you have any more unaswered questions, check out the audience Q&A at 33:14, and the full vid awaits after the break.

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    OnLive shows off UI and iPhone use in marathon tech demo (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Avatar online ticket sales taking over

    Avatar online ticket sales taking over

    So it's sounding like Avatar is going to be breaking some records (shocking, I know). What record is pending you ask? Online ticket sales. Ok, maybe it's not biggest movie ever, or most special effects, but it's still pretty damn impressive.

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  • Do video game publishers misrepresent their games in order to get lower ratings?

    Do video game publishers misrepresent their games in order to get lower ratings?

    There's some sort of video game developer conference going on in Motreal this week (titled, to use its full name, the Montreal International Game Summit), and an interesting charge was just levied there. The CEO of A2M (the company that developed Wet), Rémi Racine, said that some game publishers will go out of their way to deceive the ESRB in order to get a lower rating for their games. You know how Hollywood tries hard to make sure the summer blockbusters are rated no higher than PG-13 in order to ensure a large audience? Same thing with video games, apparently. Why release an M-rated game, and know that your limiting your potential audience, when you can eek out with a T rating?

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  • Airport Wi-Fi users tend to be well-off, rich folk

    Airport Wi-Fi users tend to be well-off, rich folk

    It's a good time to be an airport Wi-Fi advertiser. According to a study just released by JiWire, the folks behind a lot of airport Wi-Fi, most people that use airport W-iFi are loaded and spend a good amount of time online while waiting for their flight. This means, of course, that Mr. Money Bags has plenty of time to click on the flashing banner ads that airport Wi-Fi generally sports. But check out these stats, I'm in the wrong game. I should be selling airport Wi-Fi ads.

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  • Video: Wil Wheaton’s Star Trek cameo

    Video: Wil Wheaton’s Star Trek cameo

    Did you know that Will Wheaton was in JJ's Star Trek? He just went public with the secret cameo voice overs and details the entire experience on his personal blog. If you're even the slightest Star Trek fan, click over and read the whole thing. It's awesome to me that he was so honored and humbled to do just voice over work in the new movie even though he played such a major part in introducing Star Trek to a new audience. The clip after the jump is apparently the only one in the film that's his unaltered voice.e.

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  • Transformers 2 sells 7.5 million DVD & Blu-ray discs. Can’t you people find a better movie to buy?

    Transformers 2 sells 7.5 million DVD & Blu-ray discs. Can’t you people find a better movie to buy?

    This is just wrong. I'll admit, I didn't enjoy "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen". I thought the plot was weak and contrived, and I was slightly offended by the dumbing down of the film (robot urination and racial stereotypes? give me a break). I realize that the original "Transformers" wasn't exactly the height of cinematic art, but it was better then the sequel.

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  • From the 3G Industry Summit in Kunshan, China: 16 demos from Chinese mobile startups

    From the 3G Industry Summit in Kunshan, China: 16 demos from Chinese mobile startups

    Earlier this week, I was in Kunshan, China, to attend the 3G Industry Summit [CN], a four-day event that has attracted a few dozen speakers and an audience of over 200 people, making it one of the biggest of its kind in this country. The annual event is organized by the Kunshan government and Mobile 2.0 Forum, a communication platform with more than 1,500 members, almost single-handedly run by industry veteran Leo Wang. The summit reassured me of one thing: The Chinese market for mobile hardware, software and contents is big already and it's bound to become huge in the very near future. Information and stats on China's mobile web sector and profiles of 16 Chinese mobile startups after the jump.

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  • Open ye 27-inch iMacs while ye may

    Open ye 27-inch iMacs while ye may

    iFixit has torn up the new iMac to reveal the delicate inner workings of both the machine and its attendant Magic Mouse. Obviously the biggest issue here is removing the massive piece of glass on the front, a process that requires a spunger, suction cups, and a sense that life is futile and electronics [...]

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  • Motorola i856 Debut now available on Nextel

    Motorola i856 Debut now available on Nextel

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    Perhaps recognizing that the average Boost customer is more interested in the latest, greatest trendy handsets than the average Nextel customer (read: construction worker with a penchant for putting mil-spec certifications to the test), Sprint has launched a couple recent groundbreaking models -- the Clutch, Moto's first QWERTY iDEN device and the Debut, its first slider -- on Boost first before bringing them over to the big daddy. Don't fret, though, Nextel subscribers, because the i856 Debut is now available to you, bringing that crazy red / black color combo, integrated music player, and network-first slider form factor to a more grown-up audience. It's available now in all sales channels for $99.99 with a $50 rebate on contract.

    Motorola i856 Debut now available on Nextel originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • The HP DreamScreen: Not So Dreamy

    The HP DreamScreen: Not So Dreamy

    Last week I saw some coverage of this new HP device called the DreamScreen. And more than a couple of blogs were comparing it to the elusive Apple Tablet. Given my extreme interest in this space, I thought I should get this new DreamScreen in my hands as soon as possible and see if HP had indeed beaten Apple (and us) to the punch in delivering the first high quality tablet computing experience to consumers. The press: "Want a hint at how the much-anticipated Apple Tablet might be shaping up? Take a look at the HP DreamScreen," said one of those blogs, adding "this certainly looks like what we’re expecting from the Apple Tablet." Another site: "Hewlett Packard has beaten Apple to the punch in coming up with a beautiful tablet-like computer." Engadget called it "something special." The reality: I can't repeat here what I wrote on Twitter because of the sensitive nature of the TechCrunch audience, but I will say this. The HP DreamScreen is possibly the biggest piece of crap to ever grace my desk. Which is saying something.

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  • Nokia delays Comes With Music launch in the US

    Nokia delays Comes With Music launch in the US

    Nokia's Comes With Music service has always intrigued us. For 1 year after you purchase your device, you get an all-you-can-eat pass for Nokia's catalog of over 5 million tracks. Alas, we've yet to get the opportunity to check it out - and it looks like we won't for a while.

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  • Mozilla says people refusing to upgrade to Firefox 3.0 in order to hide their, well, sensitive bookmarks

    Mozilla says people refusing to upgrade to Firefox 3.0 in order to hide their, well, sensitive bookmarks

    Mozilla released Firefox 3.0 in June of 2008, but there's still a few of you out there who haven't upgraded, despite, if nothing else, the security improvements. So what gives? Mozilla asked the abstainers, essentially, “Why haven't you upgraded?” The answer, of course, has to do with Internet pornography. Doesn't it always?

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  • 1 to 10, how excited are you about The Beatles: Rock Band?

    1 to 10, how excited are you about The Beatles: Rock Band?

    How did we miss this, a nine-page article in the New York Times about The Beatles: Rock Band? Is it overkill? Perhaps. Rock Band isn't exactly new, and The Beatles aren't exactly some unsigned band, but you have to consider the Times' audience: older folks who probably saw The Beatles live at Shea Stadium, and who would be genuinely excited to see the band show up on iTunes one day (despite the fact that ripping their CDs is quite simple).

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