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  • Honoring fallen comrades. GeoCities goes down.

    Honoring fallen comrades. GeoCities goes down.

    Posted on October 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Today marks the death of an internet giant. One of the first, one of the best. Oh GeoCities. What would we have done without you? Where would we have put our brightly colored, constantly flashing backgrounds? Who else had rotating .gifs for links and neon green page hit counters? There is no substitute for your plethora of font colors and sizes, for your broken HTML codes and page badges, for your MIDI synth-horns. We will sorely miss your animated "Under Construction" signs we came to know and love.

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  • Tokyo’s Gundam statue is history, but you can now buy a 1/60 replica

    Tokyo’s Gundam statue is history, but you can now buy a 1/60 replica

    Posted on September 11, 2009 | No Comments
    The giant Gundam statue that has been protecting Tokyo for a couple of months is gone, but now you have the chance to bring back memories in the form of a smaller version you can put in your living room. The original 1/1 statue stood 20m tall, while the replika [JP] is 1/60th of that size (30cm) and weighs 4kg.

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  • WPA encryption cracked in under a minute

    WPA encryption cracked in under a minute

    Posted on August 27, 2009 | No Comments
    wifilogo.gifResearchers in Japan have developed an attack against WiFi Protected Access when using the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) that can successfully break the encryption in less than a minute. If you're using WPA with TKIP, switch to AES, or step up to WPA2.

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  • 45nm Cell microprocessor confirmed in PS3 Slim

    45nm Cell microprocessor confirmed in PS3 Slim

    Posted on August 20, 2009 | No Comments
    It’s not too hard to believe that Sony would have tinkered under the hood of the PS3 Slim and today we’ve learned that those assumptions are, in fact, true. The Slim now has a 45-nanometer Cell microprocessor, which was jointly developed by Sony, Toshiba and IBM. Benefits of the new fangled chip based on IBM’s [...]

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  • Leaked: T-Mobile Samsung T559 Comeback Specs

    Leaked: T-Mobile Samsung T559 Comeback Specs

    Posted on July 14, 2009 | No Comments
    Man, these leakers are cutting it close. The T559 Comeback is purportedly launching tomorrow, but it took up until yesterday for the information to really start pouring out - not that we’re complaining. Yesterday morning gave us product shots, but now we’ve got some specs to roll with. PhoneArena managed to dig up the goods in [...]

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  • Review: Gokivo flops as first turn-by-turn app for iPhone

    Review: Gokivo flops as first turn-by-turn app for iPhone

    Posted on June 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Ugh. Don’t you hate when you get yourself all psyched about a new product and then you use it and realize it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to? That was kind of my experience with Gokivo, the first turn-by-turn GPS app for the iPhone, released on the heels of the iPhone OS 3.0 launch. Unfortunately, [...]

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