“Nvidia has announced a huge increase in Linux gaming performance for their GeForce R310 drivers after almost a year of development alongside Valve and other game developer partners. Nvidia’s announcement also indicated the Steam beta for Linux should be out today. Quoting: ‘Available for download at www.geforce.com, the new R310 …
A woman who drove on a footpath to avoid a school bus that was dropping off children has been ordered to wear a sign warning about idiots. Court records show a Cleveland Municipal Court judge on Monday ordered 32-year-old Shena Hardin to stand at an intersection for two days next …
McDonald’s began offering customers any size fries for Y150 ($A1.80), a sharp markdown from traditional Japanese prices at the famous chain. The move sparked a frenzy, reported gaming blog Kotaku, with groups of friends ordering absurd amounts of fries and then photographing them for their social media mates. The phenomenon, …
Members of the loose hacking collective claimed credit for dumping 28,000 passwords online that they said belonged to PayPal customers. They said the attack was part of a much larger hacking campaign, involving PayPal, Symantec, several Australian government sites and more, that was timed to Guy Fawkes Day, the British …
10 or 15 years ago, when the world of comic books and video games was relegated to a small fraction of the population, being labeled a “nerd” was a social stigma like no other. These days, though, it is almost regarded as a compliment. Nerds are now considered smart …
Dear Front Page Readers, As you may have noticed we still have news from October on the front page, this makes me a sad Panda. Please submit news, I am bored. The End.
So it turns out that Me.ga is only part of Kim Dotcom’s resolution for 2013. Even though he’s still facing extradition to the US for alleged piracy, Dotcom has plans to resurrect Pacific Fibre’s failed project to construct a fiber optic cable across the Pacific to the US. The new …
A newly surfaced patent filing from Microsoft’s Xbox Incubation team details one of the new innovations they’ve been thinking about. This one could be very popular among major movie and television studios. But it probably wouldn’t generate much excitement among Xbox users. The patent application, filed under the heading “Content …
Online shoppers are angry they could be forced to pay tax on goods bought from overseas websites but retailers say it will help revive their struggling industry. Under recommendations in the Federal Government’s goods and services tax review, the suggested changes could result in Australian online shoppers being hit with …
You know that Disney just bought Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion and all the star wars that come with it. George Lucas was the sole owner of Lucasfilm, and so all 4.05 billion dollars go to him. Lucas has spent the last four decades minting money with the Star Wars franchise, and so thankfully can afford to …
Australia’s three biggest mobile contractors have slashed the amount of data offered in their plans, with some cutting their offerings by up to 40 per cent on what they provided last year. “This is really a sleight-of-hand price increase,” said Elise Davidson, a spokeswoman for the Australian Communications Consumer Action …
[video]http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/news/newsonlinesydney/video/201211/NOLs_Doom_1104_512k.mp4[/video] Science guru Dr Karl Kruszelnicki says there is no reason to think an ancient Mayan calendar correctly predicted the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012. Source
The automobile world is full of fancy acronyms, we have the MPV, the SUV and now STV is set to join the list. so what’s exactly is a STV? it simply means Super Terrain Vehicle but beyond its fancy namesake, is a vehicle that look more than like a pumped …
A dispute with an Israeli water company over unpaid bills has led to a Greek Orthodox threat to close Christianity’s holiest site, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Maariv newspaper reported on Friday that the Hagihon water company said it was owed nine million shekels ($A2.03 million) in …
The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) has told a parliamentary inquiry that consumers’ use of illegal download sites to access content is a backlash against suppliers. The ACCC said illegal downloading methods were well-known to many consumers in Australia and are having an impact on supplier strategies. According to …
Immigrants who tried to enter America by driving a car over the US-Mexico border fence on makeshift ramps failed when the vehicle got stuck on top.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sIRGapgV9kU[/video] Halloween reveller dressed in a Ghostbusters jumpsuit climbs onto the roof of a police car before executing a perfect backflip off it. The stunt took place during a raucous Saturday night in Moncton, Canada – right infront of two bemused Mounties, who were too slow to stop him showing …
With 100 million first-grade-aged children worldwide having no access to schooling, the One Laptop Per Child organization is trying something new in two remote Ethiopian villages—simply dropping off tablet computers with preloaded programs and seeing what happens. The goal: to see if illiterate kids with no previous exposure to written …
As if the prospect of being watched by security cameras wasn’t unsettling enough, they may not only be watching you. Computerised surveillance software currently under development will also let them predict what you’re about to do. The project, funded by the US government and being worked on by researchers at …
At last week’s iPad mini event, Apple announced that software developers have collectively made over $6.5 billion through its App Store, with more than 35 billion downloads of 700,000+ available apps. Less than a week later, Google has revealed that it’s nipping at its rival’s heels with 675,000 apps and …