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Wednesday, 25-May-2011 12:53:30 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Today is apparently Geek Pride Day, thanks Rmack. It has been celebrated on May 25 since 2006, celebrating the premiere of the first Star Wars film in 1977. It shares the same day as three other science-fiction fan 'holidays' - Towel Day, for fans of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy by Douglas Adams, Star Wars Day, and the Glorious 25 May, for fans of Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold! This means the game is essentially finished (after more than a decade) and there now exists a gold master disk which is what all the retail disks will be copies of. Release early next month, if there's no more delays.
A 22yo Australian student has found the universe's missing mass, thanks Mick. I'm imagining it was behind some giant interstellar couch all along. The School of Physics put out a call for students interested in a six-week paid astrophysics research internship during a recent vacation period, and chose Ms Fraser-McKelvie from a large number of applicants. Dr Pimbblet, lecturer in the School of Physics put the magnitude of the discovery in context by explaining that scientists had been hunting for the Universe’s missing mass for decades.
Meanwhile NASA are officially no longer trying to contact the Spirit rover, which seems to have succumbed to the Martian winter. Spirit landed on Mars on Jan. 3, 2004, for a mission designed to last three months. After accomplishing its prime-mission goals, Spirit worked to accomplish additional objectives. Its twin, Opportunity, continues active exploration of Mars.
There's some new Mac malware, thanks SteveO. The trojan horse is called Mac Defender. It's a web pop-up containing a spoof message that tells customers their machines are infected by a virus and they must install anti-virus software. If customers agree to install the software, the program sporadically loads porn websites on their computer.
The "reveal trailer" for CoD:MW3 has been released, thanks Marty. Looks pretty impressive if you like your action explodey.
From John: Although there’s been lots of leaked photos and specs of the new 990 series amd motherboards, I noticed that Gigabyte seem to be the first out of the blocks with an official listing of a huge 990FX m/board, with six PCI Express slots and six SATA 6gig connectors, four USB3s etc. Discussion here.
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer is already pretty desireable, but now it seems to be overclockable, to an extent. Xda-developers forum member netarchy has already uploaded a custom kernel for the Eee Pad Transformer that allows you to overclock the chip to make it run at up to 1.4GHz – which is a 40% improvement over the stock 1GHz clock speed that it came with. Of course, at that speed, performance is not stable at all, but for those who want to achieve a balance can give it a go at 1.2GHz that ought to keep everyone happy.
Carsales are having a contest where you can win a Ford Focus car. Ford and Carsales.com.au invite you to put the all-new Ford Focus through its paces in a series of tests. 12 lucky entrants will receive an all-new Ford Focus for 6 weeks, a flip camera, and a license to entertain! Document the tests, get the most votes…and you get to keep the car! Discussion here.
Which reminds me, this Friday is your last chance to win an MSI motherboard, and later this month the BitFenix case contest closes too.
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