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Thursday Afternoon
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Thursday, 10-October-2013 13:57:50 (GMT +10) - by Grec
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Mark 'Chopper' Read has died at age 58 from liver cancer. Read's Twitter bio tells you nearly all you need to know about a man who was unashamed of the hard life he had led. "23 Years 9 Months Jail. Stabbed. Bashed. Shot. Run Over. 60 serves of shock treatment. Certified 3 times. Author. Artist. Actor."
Ocaholic have 11 nVidia graphics cards tested with latest 331.40 Beta drivers, bench marked on some of the latest games. Check out the stats here.
Executive Producer Joshua Howard of Crytek Studios has been interviewed on the upcoming online shooter WARFACE, check out the HD video on Youtube . Also, it seems the community at large wanted the women characters to be unrealistic, read more over on Eurogamer. They're that way because a male-dominated audience asked for them to be. And while Crytek recoiled at the "considerably more extreme" requests, applying an authenticity filter to rule out things such as high heels, impractical open-chested combat fatigues exposing plenty of cleavage were kept in.
For anyone that's never been to Melbourne, you can now go - from the comfort of your computer chair. Seems someone strapped some camera gear to two pedestrians, and there's now a live stream going of their journey. Check out Melbourne Remote Control Tourist!
Regarding the leaked Galaxy Round pictures from yesterday, the phone has now been officially released and confirmed. The phone will run Android 4.3 Jelly Bean on a 2.3GHz quad-core processor, complete with 32GB or 64GB of internal memory under the hood. The Round will also sport a 13-megapixel rear-facing shooter and a 2MP front-facing for video chat, as well as a 2,800 mAh battery.
Amazon is now taking on PayPal allowing their Amazon accounts to login and pay using their account's balance, dubbed the 'Login and Pay with Amazon'. For Amazon, that means a (unknown) cut in the sales margin by acting as middleman. For businesses, it means an easy implementation of a widely used system (a "set of widgets and APIs" are all that's needed to get the pay service running on your site). And for customers -- all 215 million active Amazon account holders -- it means their Amazon login will now work across the web
Googles lifted some details on it's new Chromebook11, with some impressive features for such a low price. Unlike Windows and Mac laptops, Chromebooks rely heavily on continuous internet connections to run Gmail, Google Drive and other online services. Many apps don't run directly on the device but over the internet. The devices also have relatively little storage, as documents, photos and other files are supposed to be stored online.
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