Thoughts on HUD Design

July 31, 2010 No comments yet

Heads-up displays are, to me, a far more contentious issue than some of the other more bandied-around topics in modern game design. Everyone cries about regenerating health and how many weapons a player can feasibly carry, but HUDs seem a lot closer to…

Razer Abyssus Mirror Review

July 31, 2010 No comments yet

Can Razer’s new cut back Abyssus mouse still hack it despite its budget DNA?

Google sets off false alarm on China searches

July 31, 2010 No comments yet

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 31 July 2010 at 02:56:00 Company cops to “overestimating” outages Google is backtracking on reports of a block on its services in China. The company said that the outages, reported Thursday evening on …

Black Hat: Cyber space is the new military domain

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Iain Thomson at Black Hat 2010 in las Vegas, V3.co.uk, Friday 30 July 2010 at 00:51:00 Former National Security Agency boss warns of cyber war dangers Retired US general Michael Hayden, the longest serving head of the National Security Agency, and a fo…

Wolfram Alpha rolls out widget platform

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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 30 July 2010 at 23:32:00 Engine opens up with embedded tools Wolfram Alpha has launched a Widget platform. The company said that the platform will allow users and developers to create custom tools based …

Black Hat: Organiser’s video stream hacked by Mozilla security boss

July 30, 2010 No comments yet

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 30 July 2010 at 19:48:00 Red faces all round at world’s biggest hacker conference The supplier of video streaming for the Black Hat 2010 conference has been caught out by Michael Coates, Mozilla’s hea…

Tests confirm iPhone 4 worst affected by ‘death grip’

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Dan Worth, V3.co.uk, Friday 30 July 2010 at 16:22:00 HTC HD2 and BlackBerry 9700 also affected, says PA Consulting Independent tests carried out by PA Consulting Group have confirmed that Apple’s iPhone 4 is more affected by the ‘death grip’ antenna pr…

T-Mobile begins stocking the iPhone 4

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Khidr Suleman, V3.co.uk, Friday 30 July 2010 at 15:04:00 Last major UK network makes Apple device available to customers T-Mobile has finally started selling the iPhone 4 a month after its launch, meaning that all major UK networks are now stocking the…

Microsoft updates Linux virtual machine support

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Lawrence Latif, V3.co.uk, Friday 30 July 2010 at 14:41:00 Linux Integration Services 2.1 emerges from beta Microsoft has updated Linux support in its Hyper-V virtualisation software for Windows Server 2008 R2. Linux Integration Services 2.1 had been in…

Top 10 articles: Facebook pros and cons, and IPv4 warnings

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V3.co.uk staff, V3.co.uk, Friday 30 July 2010 at 14:28:00 V3.co.uk readers’ most popular stories this week The big hit with V3.co.uk readers this week was our run down of the top 10 best and worst things about Facebook, one of which has to be the fact…