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App Review: Kingsburg (née Kinsburg) rolls strategy and frustrating your opponents into one fun game

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In September, a board game app based on the 2007 game Kingsburg took the gaming community by surprise.

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Giganews’ Retention Now At 800 Days

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How did I miss this? Giganews, the biggest Usenet provider out there by some margin, now has 800 days of binary retention. A year and a half ago I wrote a similar story, but the number was 365 days of retention. Man, I remember the days when I had two days of retention!

Nokia N8 seeing no pent-up demand on home turf?

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Nokia's just-shipping N8 flagship may have had no real effect on sales, an analyst note from Pacific Crest's James Faucette said today. An investigation of interest in Western Europe has shown "little to no pent-up demand."

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X-RAY: Tokujin Yoshioka’s Transparent Cell Phone

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Tokujin Yoshioka (so prolific we can barely keep up) has designed the X-RAY phone for handset manufacturer KDDI's designer label iida.

Austrian Windows Phone 7 buyers get free Xbox 360

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Austrian residents are being offered a free Xbox 360 gaming console with every purchase of a new Windows Phone 7 device, according a print ad from the country. Buyers have to buy the handset through Austrian carrier A1, and on the platform's European launch day, October 21.

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T-Mobile takes on new CEO early

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T-Mobile USA on Tuesday surprised everyone by announcing a new CEO will join its ranks much earlier than expected. Previously, the company was expected to replace current CEO Robert Dotson in 2011, but Philipp Humm has already become the new president and CEO.

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Could Your Gaming Device Solve an Environmental Problem?

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This Thursday (Oct 21st) Kate Bellingham of the BBC hosts a live chat with Open Planet Idea program participants Dax Lovegrove (World Wildlife Fund) and Ben Moore (Sony) to discuss how you can get involved with the program's current phase of design collaboration.

AMD Radeon 6000 Series Specs Trickle Out

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I’m reasonably certain the first reviews of the new AMD Radeons will hit the Net on Friday, so until then we’ll have to make due with leaked slides and the like.

Western Digital Unveils 3TB Caviar Green Hard Drive

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If you're running a little low on space for all of your music, movies, and photos, or you're planning on building a NAS to keep all of your files backed up, Western Digital's new 3TB Caviar Green Hard Drive brings you storage space and energy efficiency all in the same package.

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Gets ‘Record Number of Preorders’ for Ubisoft

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Ubisoft isn't bragging, or anything. The French video game publisher just wanted to let you know that its upcoming title, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, has received more pre-orders than any game in the history of the company.

PlayStation 3 Owners Get Netflix Streaming Without the Disc

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Yesterday it was the Nintendo Wii, today PlayStation 3 owners are the ones who get to enjoy streaming video from Netflix without leaving their couches, and without having to keep the Netflix disc in their DVD trays.

Verizon Wireless Tiered Pricing Plans Coming This Month – Report

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Coming soon to a Verizon Wireless handset near you: tiered pricing. According to reports, the new pricing plan is coming in little over a week.

Japanese Vending Machine Update: They’ve Got Bananas and Hot Soup Now!

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If you take a look into the history of SlashGear, we’ve had our eyeballs stuck in vending machines for a while now. It’s a very abridged history, but one trend sticks out like a box full of assorted juices: the Japanese have the best vending machines in the world. Without a doubt.

Notion Ink Adam developer program opens

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Got an idea for a great Android tablet application, and want a free Notion Ink Adam tablet on which to test it?

Apple number 65 on Newsweek’s list of green companies

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Newsweek has published their list of the most environmentally-friendly companies, and Apple is ranked number 65 out of 500. While it didn't make the top 10 (Dell is number one), Apple improved significantly from last year when it placed 133rd.

Core77’s Hand-Eye Curiosity Club – Tonight in Portland, Ore.

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Tonight Core77 welcomes Blake Van Roekel of Keuken and Art+Palate Supper Club fame to our bi-weekly creative speaker series: The Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club.

Medal Of Honor Certainly Tries Very Hard

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We can safely say the Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (I’ve always considered Medal of Honor: Frontline to be a console remix of sorts of Allied Assault) remains the best of the Medal of Honor games.

Google Invests in West Virginia Geothermal Reserves

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Last week, Google announced a discovery of massive geothermal vents under West Virginia that could double that state's energy capacity. The discovery was made by Southern Methodist University who Google granted with a near half-million grant to look into potential geothermal activity.

Symbian CEO Lee Williams Leaves Company Due to Personal Reasons

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While Microsoft may be saddened to see one of their own heading out the door soon, it looks like Symbian is dealing with their own corporate restructuring.

Rumor: Apple field testing revised iPhone 4

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With all of the hoopla about the alleged Verizon iPhone now being stirred up by such illustrious sources as the Wall Street Journal, it's surprising that we haven't seen much physical proof of the device turning up.

Xbox.com Undergoing Massive Facelift, Adding More Integration to Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7

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While the Xbox 360 is still an integral part of Microsoft’s business strategy, there’s no doubt that with the upcoming launch of Windows Phone 7, the company is looking to make some of their already utilized features a bit better, offering more integration with what’s to come.

TweetDeck CEO: Developing for Android “not a nightmare”

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During yesterday's classic tirade by Apple CEO Steve Jobs during the 4Q Earnings Call, there was a rant about the fragmentation of the Android OS that included a reference to "TwitterDeck's" (actually TweetDeck's) recent chart showing how many hardware platforms they must contend with during...

Professor has 10 Years of Work on Laptop Stolen, Thief Returns it on USB Stick

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The general perception of a thief is that, once they get whatever it is they’re trying to get their hands on, you won’t see them, or your stuff, ever again. But, there are always exceptions to the rule. And, in Sweden, that exception is alive and well.

How they shot the Star Wars opening crawl

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For all these years I never really knew how they shot the text crawls that opened each Star Wars picture, but I never imagined it was something this low-tech: A camera hanging from a track, shooting a printout that's been gaffer-taped under some glass? Are you kidding me?

Sony ships PlayStation Move gun game attachment

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Sony has shipped its gun game attachment for the PlayStation Move, along with bringing out a new shooting game for the peripheral.

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Xbox.com gets overhaul with web WP7 games, avatar editor

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Microsoft's Major Nelson sent word that the company would push out a redesigned Xbox.com tomorrow both in the run-up to Kinect and to link it into Windows Phone 7. The refresh will let users play web games not just with other Xbox Live friends but also with Windows Phone 7 users.

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