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Wednesday, 9-October-2013 13:53:29 (GMT +10) - by Grec
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Classic gamers, rejoice: Amiga Games is going to be coming to iOS 7 later this year in time for the holiday season, according to an official release. Originally introduced in the late 1980s, the Commodore Amiga PC offered a variety of 16-bit games. ranging from Captain Planet and Lemmings to Shadow of the Beast
Two months before Edward Snowden blew the whistle on PRISM, The Attorney-General's Department prepared a secret briefing about PRISM in March and yet did nothing to reassure the public. Snowden's revelations showed that the US government had in place a global spying system which taps deep into millions of individuals' lives via social media platforms and email. It prompted questions about how widely the US government was sharing the information with its allies, including Australia.
Quick update regarding the Silk Road busts, police have now started targeting the dealers and users of the infamous website. Since alleged owner Ross Ulbricht's indictment last week, eight people in three different countries have been arrested in association with Silk Road. Authorities claim all these people were dealing drugs on the site.
There's been an apparent leak of images regarding the new Samsung Galaxy Round - And it's curved. The account, which has leaked images of devices in the past, posted an image that's believed to be the Samsung Galaxy Round. The device resembles the Galaxy S4, but it has slight dip in the middle that causes the phone to curve along a vertical axis (think of it curving sort of like a hot dog bun or curving a piece of paper that's situated in portrait mode).
Speaking of bendy phones, LG is releasing flexible phone batteries soon - And by flexible, it can be tied into a knot. LG is unveiling the first of its kind series of bendable or modifiable batteries. The company announced Tuesday that its LG Chem branch was successful in creating three new types of batteries -- curved, stepped, and cable.
Panasonic's pulling out of the Plasma TV market soon, planning an exit by March 2014. Panasonic had previously hinted that its retirement from the plasma business was nigh, telling CNET that its latest high-end plasma would likely be the last generation of plasma TV development the company would undertake.
CSIRAC, one of the worlds first computers, is now on display at the Melbourne museum after having been delivered via truck. Head here for a video on CSIRAC, and for a brief interview with Jurij Semkiw, a 60-year veteran of computing in Australia.
LG has also had it's new Nexus phone details leaked in a hefty 281-page service manual. The folks at Android Police have gotten their hands on a hefty, near-final draft of a 281-page service manual for the forthcoming device, which still technically bears the LG D821 model number. Really though, LG isn’t fooling anyone here. The document is chock full of diagrams and images (some of the device in various states of dis-assembly) that depict a very familiar-looking phone sporting some Nexus 7-like branding on its rear end.
Visit the forums to watch the conclusion of a certain bet between Asher and 007*.
And today's time waster is a amusing iPhone "Text in Progress" prank from Miscellaneous Mischief - Check it out here. They’ve built a little single serve website called “Infinite Text-In-Progress” that helps you trick your iPhone-toting friends into thinking they’re receiving a text. All it takes is a tiny animated gif that matches the text-in-progress symbol for the iPhone.
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