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Wednesday Afternoon (2 Comments) (link)
 Wednesday, 2-March-2011  15:25:48 (GMT +10) - by Agg

Congrats to IC3, Fallen Dragon and HairyMerkin who won our Armageddon Expo Superhero contest. IC3 posted some photos from the Expo, mostly of him scampering about in Black Spiderman mode. :) There's a heap of photos of people in costumes here on Facebook, too. Update: More here, thanks d00dz!

Another upcoming event is NRG Hardcore Gamer in Sydney. NRG™ Hardcore Gamer is THE main Australian gaming event, bringing you the true hardcore gaming experience. Go head to head with the best Australian gamers. Registration now open and lots of prizes etc, apparently.

Mpot spotted that the FAA has approved iPads as an alternative to paper charts for pilots. The authorization follows three months of rigorous testing and evaluation of the iPad and Mobile TC, a map app developed by aviation chartmaker Jeppesen. The latest decision applies only to Executive Jet Management, but it has implications for all of aviation. By allowing the company's pilots to use the Apple iPad as a primary source of information, the FAA is acknowledging the potential for consumer tablets to become avionics instruments.

HWHeaven walk us through building an XXX Eyefinity system. Today we will be looking at one of the first custom versions of the 6950 1GB, the XFX XXX and in the process we will take a detailed look at 1920x1080 performance as well as 5760x1080 (Eyefinity) and CrossFire. As always that will be combined with our GPU computing and HD media playback tests (including Blu-Ray 3D) but to spice things up a little we are adding in a detailed look at building an Eyefinity system for high end gaming, high end wheel and stick controllers... video of the system running... the works.

Vodafone UK are a little red-faced after a burgulary disconnected hundreds of thousands of customers. Vodafone confirmed that "specialist network equipment and IT hardware" was stolen from a technical facility in Basingstoke between 1am and 2am on Monday. Hampshire police are investigating. Vodafone insists "several hundred thousand customers may have been affected" but rumoured numbers in the millions are "grossly exaggerated".

HardCoreWare wondered if onboard graphics still suck for games. We take a look at the latest integrated graphics solutions from Intel and AMD, and see how they perform in today's hardcore games. Considering how much this console generation has held things back in terms of 3D graphics, we were wondering: Does either one have what it takes to play games with reasonable visual settings?

Warner Brothers will be appealing the Mortal Kombat ban in Australia. Regardless, perhaps we'll be able to see the live-action series in the works. Coming Spring to digital distributors; Mortal Kombat is an anthology of ten live-action episodes, expected to run approximately seven to ten minutes each. They are the genesis of director Kevin Tancharoen's efforts to reinvigorate the celluloid image of the MK franchise, famously established on screen by Paul Anderson, with his 1995 feature release of the same name.

Nick sends word that some dodgy Android apps are on the market. Someone just ripped off 21 popular free apps from the market, injected root exploits into them and republished. 50k-200k downloads combined in 4 days.



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