More and more frequently, analysts and other people pontificate on the gaming industry’s future to say is that brick-and-mortar retail locations are going to become a thing of the past. Like movies, music and even books, they say, video games are probably going to leave physical media behind. More »
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Bing already claimed its title as the world’s second favorite search engine, but in the US it has continued to lag in third place behind Yahoo!. The gap is closing rapidly, however, with ComScore’s latest stats revealing a 15.0 percent share for Redmond versus Yahoo!’s 15.1 percent. What’s more, those figures don’t reflect mobile search, which must surely be a growth area for Bing as Windows Phone gathers American followers. Meanwhile, Ask Network remains static in fourth place and AOL (Engadget‘s parent company) comes a distant fifth — although it did show a little growth spurt between October and November, taking 1.6 percent of the 17.8 billion recorded searches and pretending not to notice Google way up there on top. Full ranking after the break.
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We won’t be seeing the finished version of Ubuntu’s next release for a few months, but the folks at Canonical are hard at work making Precise Pangolin the very best it can be. Version 12.04 is an LTS release, meaning only refinements are in store for the OS, but apparently one of the areas targeted for improvement is power consumption.
In a post on his blog, Ubuntu kernel engineer Colin King explained that the plan is to provide power savings in a variety of ways, including PCI Express Active State Power Management (ASPM). Furthermore, testing of Aggressive Link Power Management (ALPM) that puts the SATA link to your disk drive into a low power mode during periods of inactivity is in the works, as is placing USB and PCI controllers of peripherals and wireless connections into lower power states. The folks at Canonical are putting Precise Penguin through it’s power-saving paces, but are also calling upon members of the Ubuntu community to help out with the QA to see which methods will work best. So, if you’re into doing a good deed for the next Ubuntu distro, head on down to the source to learn how to lend a hand.
Ubuntu’s Precise Pangolin to pull less power than predecessors originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Many New Yorkers oft forget Roosevelt Island—the little strip of land sitting between Manhattan and Queens. But after accepting a bid from Cornell university, who will build a new, state-of-the-art engineering campus there, Roosevelt Island could get a whole lot more popular. More »
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Thanks to Cornell, Manhattan Is Getting Its Own Science Island [Architecture]
Western Digital on the other hand, will be hacking a year off the Caviar Blue, Green and Scorpio Blue drives that ship after January 1st, each coming with just two years warranty. On the upside, you’ll be given the chance to extend the package for a modest fee — nothing like the odd nickel-and-dime to hasten the post-holiday slump, eh?
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PSA: Western Digital and Seagate commence bonfire of the warranties originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Poor RIM. Nothing’s going right for it: the PlayBook is killing it, its next generation of mobile phones is severely delayed, and now, someone’s run off with $1.7 million of its stock. More »
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Some Poor Bastards Stole $1.7 Million Worth Of PlayBooks a Truck Stop [Rim]
Since its launch, Siri has met with some hefty criticism — not least from us. But recent rumours about future Apple products suggest it may just be start of something very, very big. More »
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Siri Is Just The Warm-Up Act For What Apple Has Coming To Your TV [Rumors]
A weeping TV presenter has officially announced the death of long-time Gizmodo friend and dreadful nutcase Kim Jong Il. The cause: “fatigue caused by train ride.” What the hell is “fatigue caused by train ride”? More »
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As reported by numerous sources, Kim Jong Il has died at the age of 70 (69 by some tallies), after 17 years as the brutal head of North Korea. While the cause of death is uncertain, Bloomberg News says “Kim probably had a stroke in August 2008 and may have also contracted pancreatic cancer, according to South Korean news reports.”