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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Jack White's 'Lazaretto' Ultra LP is the best-selling vinyl release in 20 years

BYBilly Steele @wmsteele2 hours ago

Since its release in early June, Jack White's Lazaretto Ultra LP has sold 238,000 copies -- making it the most popular vinyl release of the year. That tally also earns the artist's second solo album the best-selling record of any year since Pearl Jam's 1994 effort Vitalogy. Billboard also reports that number two on the vinyl sales chart for 2014 is Arctic Monkeys' AM with 29,000 units sold and Daft Punk's popular Random Access Memories sold the most in 2013 with 49,000. Of course, Mr. White adds this accolade to a trophy case that includes a Guinness World Record for the fastest release awarded back in April.

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Monday, July 7, 2014

Retired NASA probe brought back to life after 27 years drifting in space

BYSharif Sakr @shotsheriff17 hours ago

The last time ISEE-3 fired its engines, Madonna was moving up the charts, the stock market was booming and President Reagan was busily denying that he'd secretly sold weapons to Iran. After that final gasp from its thrusters, in February 1987, the International Sun-Earth Explorer probe would have drifted into permanent retirement -- if a $150,000 crowdfunded project hadn't come along to save it at the last minute. That project has just scored it first big success, by remotely reawakening the 36-year-old craft's engines and altering its course in order to make it easier to communicate with. Keith Cowing, who's co-leading the private group in charge of the resurrection, blogged that it was "all in all, a very good day." If the next steps go equally well, the idea is to reconfigure ISEE-3's onboard computers and sensors so that they can be used for a bit of citizen science during remaining two-month, four million-mile journey back to earth.

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Play at the same time the public to complete a remarkable reversal from two years (new)

Two years after it went in the Administration could video game retailers UK game a super comeback by floating-close on the London Stock Exchange for a second time. The company, which has forced to close 300 stores, leaving the European expansion and kill the Gamestation brand in 2012, has been increased, after last year to comfort, cutter and are happy to use, by selling a share of 35% for investors on the worst. OpCapita is led by the investment firm, the Group should be named in digital game and London financial markets in the next four weeks. 560 shops, with a share of 33% of the new market game and equipment in the United Kingdom and more than 16 million members, a combined map rewards, game should a 400 million valuation £-not bad for a company that was about to win, but he died there 26 months.

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Sunday, May 4, 2014

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is this year's entry, starring Kevin Spacey

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With Call of Duty being one of the most successful game franchises out there, you know there's always going to be a next one. Well, the first trailer for that game has dropped, revealing its full title of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, and Kevin Spacey. The House of Cards actor appears to be cast in the role of a powerful, politically driven antihero (how original), but what we're more interested in is the little hints of new and changing gameplay elements. Just as CoD 4: Modern Warfare brought the series out of the WWII era, Advanced Warfare will send us further into the future, as the presence of spider tanks, hover bikes, the 'copters from Avatar and weaponized exoskeletons suggests.

The trailer shows super jumping too many times for it not to be one of the new mechanics, which we assume will be joined by cloaking and a perk that lets you see through walls -- it looks something like the Active Radar Pulse from Titanfall in the fleeting clip, if you've been playing any of that recently. There's also soldiers shown scaling walls with special gloves and unravelling a section of plantable cover, but as the whole trailer is shot cut-scene style, there's no telling what gameplay elements you will actually be able to use, and whether they'll be single-player or multiplayer only.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is being developed by Activision and Sledgehammer Games, a lesser-known studio that had a hand in creating Modern Warfare 3. This trailer footage comes from an Xbox One, but you can bet Advanced Warfare will also come to the PS4 and PCs, at the very least. With the hype train now rolling, you can bet we'll be hearing a lot more about the game before its release date of November 4th this year. Trailer below the fold.

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Monday, April 28, 2014

50 years ago today, the public got its first taste of video calls

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