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    Mysterious planet-sized object spotted near Mercury 

    Published on 12-10-11 01:34 PM
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    A mysterious object is seen following in Mercury's path.

    Is a giant, cloaked spaceship orbiting around Mercury? That's been the speculation from some corners aftera camera onboard NASA's STEREO spacecraft caught a wave of electronically charged material shooting out from the sun and hitting Mercury.

    Theorists have seized on the images captured from the "coronal mass ejection" (CME) last week as suggestive of alien life hanging out in our own cosmic backyard. Specifically, the solar flare washing over Mercury appears to hit another object of comparable ...
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    Jigsaw Puzzlers Summoned to Defend the Nation 

    Published on 12-09-11 08:54 AM
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    In DARPA's Shredder Challenge, 9,000 teams competed to reassemble and reconstruct shredded documents and solve assocated puzzles. Have the best jigsaw puzzlers in the U.S. equipped soldiers with a huge advantage in war zones?

    DARPA’s Shredder Challenge -- which was won three days before the contest was set to end this week -- wasn’t a gnarly skirmish between top American snowboarders and surfers. Instead it was a call to arms for America’s greatest jigsaw puzzlers to step up and support their nation’s defense.

    DARPA, or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is ...
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    Diablo III interview—What diehard Diablo II fans can expect from D3 

    Published on 12-09-11 05:44 AM
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    Change can be hard. When Diablo III’s aesthetic direction was first revealed, parts of the Diablo II community erupted with complaints, claiming that the graphics weren’t in the true spirit of the Diablo series. But what about the gameplay itself? As a hardcore D2 player, with plenty of alts, gear, and Stone of Jordans stashed away in the bank, I wanted to know what Diablo III would offer to players who consider themselves intimately familiar with D2′s mechanics. We asked D3′s senior technical game designer Wyatt Cheng and senior game designer Andrew Chambers about what parallels we could expect from the next installment. We were surprised by what’s actually making it into the game, and it’s great getting insight into ...
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    Opportunity Finds Veins of Water-Deposited Minerals on Mars, Suggesting a Wet Past 

    Published on 12-08-11 04:35 PM
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    Opportunity Rolls On     Maas Digital LLC for Cornell University and NASA/JPL via Wikimedia

    We hear about evidence for water on Mars more regularly these days, but we're pretty sure this is the first time a discovery has been described as "slam-dunk" evidence of a wet past on the Red Planet. The rover Opportunity has found bright veins of what is probably gypsum in the rim of Mars' Endeavour Crater that were almost certainly deposited there by water running through underground fractures in the rock, researchers say, and that points to a past Mars where liquid water was present. ...
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    Star Wars: The Old Republic testers play for nine million hours in one weekend 

    Published on 12-08-11 04:16 PM
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    Bioware recently threw open the gates of The Old Republic to anyone who wanted to try it out. The stress test initially put tremendous strain on the servers, but testers still managed to put in 12 hours of play each on average across the weekend. 725,000 testers logged in over Thanksgiving weekend, clocking up more than nine million hours between them.

    The stats were announced by Bioware at the annual Global Media and Communications Conference, attended by Gamespot. There EA chief financial officer Eric ...
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    EA registers Command & Conquer Alliances domain names 

    Published on 12-08-11 04:09 PM
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    EA have registered 15 domain names related to Command & Conquer Alliances, as spotted by Fusible. They’re made up of almost anything Command & Conquer related with the word “Alliances” attached to it, including Red Alert Alliances, Tiberian Alliances, Generals Alliances. This suggests that EA are publishing a game about allying, perhaps set in the Command and Conquer universe. HMM.

    Bioware. They’re owned by EA. They also happen to be on the verge of revealing a new project from a new studio. A recent video teaser showed ...
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    SWTOR early access starting December 13, pre-loading available now 

    Published on 12-08-11 04:05 PM
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    December 20 isn’t exactly a long time from now – let alone in a galaxy far, far away – but if you can’t stand to wait another second… well, too bad. But if the dam on your patience can hold out for the precise number of seconds until December 13, you may just be in luck. If you’ve got your pre-orders in order, you’ll gain early access to Star Wars: The Old Republic starting Tuesday of next week. BioWare will be letting groups of players in steadily between the 13th and 20th. Gee, that’s soon. Well, I should ...
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