Monthly Archives: October 2008

Apple’s all-new MacBook Pro packs new NVIDIA GPUs, glass trackpad

Oh, don’t act so surprised. A refresh of Apple’s long-in-the-tooth MacBook Pro line was pretty much the only sure thing slated for today’s event, and Apple certainly delivered. As for looks, you probably know the score by now: chiclet keyboard, Air-inspired aluminum stylings, and a glossy screen that’s flush with a new iMac-like black bezel. [...]

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Toshiba’s Super Charge Ion Battery gets 90% full in 10 minutes

Imagine this — you, sitting in a dingy airport terminal waiting on your flight with a lifeless laptop and just 10 minutes to spare. You’ve got oodles of spreadsheet work to do before 8:00AM tomorrow. Toshiba is looking to make said scenario seem like one that’s not so grim, as its prototype SCIB (Super Charge [...]

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Mercenaries 2: World in Flames Review

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames Platforms: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is a game that presents itself as being built on two simple concepts: Go anywhere, destroy anything. All well and good perhaps, but the reality is that the concept is actually much simpler and Mercenaries 2 is really just [...]

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Epic: No Gears of War 2 PC

Gear of War 2 has been creating a bit of a stir on the internets lately for a number of reasons, not least of which is the fact that the game is being definitely billed as an Xbox 360 exclusive. It won’t be coming to PC. In a discussion with TVG recently, Gears of War [...]

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MyKey turns your Ford Focus into your Mom

Ford has made parenting a little easier by introducing MyKey, a programmable ignition key for Ford automobiles that monitors teenage driving behavior. With MyKey in place, various driving habits that parents may consider unsafe, or merely obnoxious, can be curtailed. It covers all the common parental complaints: The car’s speed cannot exceed 80mph. Radio volume [...]

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First Deus Ex 3 details emerge

News has started to creep out about the massively anticipated sequel to one of the best PC games ever, with Deus Ex 3 now confirmed as a prequel to the first and monstrously significant game. Originally created by Warren Spector’s Ion Storm team, the widely acclaimed first game told the tale of technologically augmented secret [...]

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