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Games.on.net have published their Game of the Year award winners. Well, we asked for your votes, and you gave them. Now that we've finally tallied up the winners, cried on each other's shoulders over the losers, and yawned uncaringly at the middling wannabes, it's time to share them with the world. They also have some official Crysis 2 requirements. 8800GT? I suspect "minimum" is an understatement.
The Mars500 simulated-mission-to-Mars crew have reached orbit around Mars, in terms of time duration. 245 days since "launch", so far. Though the flight to Mars is real in every way possible on Earth, the six-man crew is actually parked in a simulator at the Institute for Medical and Biological Problems in Moscow, Russia. At an orbit-dependent 36 million to more than 250 million miles (58-402 million km) from Earth, Mars is far enough distant that simulated missions are necessary to address concerns about stress, claustrophobia and fatigue.
Meanwhile one family has completely unplugged for 6 months. Susan Maushart lived out every parent's fantasy: She unplugged her teenagers. For six months, she took away the Internet, TV, iPods, cell phones and video games. The eerie glow of screens stopped lighting up the family room. Electronic devices no longer chirped through the night like "evil crickets." And she stopped carrying her iPhone into the bathroom.
TBreak have a Sandy Bridge heatsink roundup. Today I’ll take a look at four high-end CPU coolers from some of the most respectable names in the industry and pit them all against each other to see how they perform under pressure.
A recent PC speed-building competition set a new record of just over four minutes. Contestants had to pack identical components into computer cases and connect their machines to the organiser's network. Four minutes seems like a fairly long time fi you have all the bits laid out in front of you, hrm.
CNet have a video on the challenges of benchmarking. However, instead of off-the-shelf testing, we generally prefer to create our own benchmarks that incorporate mainstream applications representing real-world usage. In doing so, we hopefully give you a better idea of how well these systems perform with apps that are at least close to what the average consumer would use.
Some people involved with Anonymous may be tracked down, according to a security firm. Mr Barr said he penetrated Anonymous as part of a project to demonstrate the security risks to organisations from social media and networking.He is presenting his research later this month at a conference in San Francisco. Naturally this has annoyed Anonymous, who have responded by attacking the security firm. An hour ago, Anon seized control of the internet security firm's website, defaced its pages, acquired 60,000 company e-mails, deleted backup files, seized Barr's Twitter account, and took down the founder's website.
NASA and the European Space Agency have announced missions to search for life on Europa. Just as long as they don't attempt a landing there. Also, we now have the first full view of the Sun. STEREO has given us the first view of the entire sun on February 6, 2011 and when coupled with SDO, will give us complete views of the sun's entire surface and atmosphere for the next 8 years.
DigitalTrends compared four tablets. After dominating the tablet market since its inception, the iPad's one-year anniversary will bring major competition, including RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook, Motorola's Xoom, and Dell's Streak 7. We lined them all up to see whether any of them will ultimately manage to topple the reigning champ. HotHardware have a hands-on preview of the Dell Streak 7 as well.
Callan spotted this story of a retired Gurkha taking on 40 robbers on a train while armed with only his khukari (although I thought it was Khukri?) knife, and fighting them all off. While in the train, Maurya Express from Ranchi to Gorakhpur, on September 2, 2010, 35 year-old Bishnu saved a girl about to be raped by the train robbers in front of her helpless parents.
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