Message date: 2010-02-23

Twitter users send 50 million tweets per day

Almost 600 tweets are sent every second through the microblogging site, according to its own metrics
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Gore blimey! It's all monsters and nudity in Dante's video hell

We're all too familiar with videogames based on the latest blockbuster books and movies but Dante's Inferno must set some sort of record, riffing on the 14th-century Italian poem about a literal descent into hell.
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Digital Life: From camera to Facebook, no wires required

Packing more gizmos per square inch than a NASA mission to Mars, the Samsung ST1000 camera seems like a miracle of miniaturisation.
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Square Enix release Just Cause 2 stunt trailers

It’s been a long wait for the follow-up game and sandbox gameplay of Just Cause. Four years since the original, and Just Cause 2 is looking like it may be a worthy sequal and a lot of fun to play. Over the weekend Square Enix released two new trailers focusing on some of the stunts and [...]
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Kinetic artist creates world record stick bomb chain reaction

Got too much time on your hands? Then why not spend that time doing something useful breaking a world record like my man Tim Fort here. Tim, who is a known as a kinetic artist, created a large xyloexplosive device fashioned from 2,250 tongue depressors woven into 562 stick bombs. If you are like me and never heard [...]
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More ITC investigations launched against RIM and Nokia

The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) is on a roll with investigations regarding patent infringement by mobile handheld devices. We reported last week that the USITC was looking into RIM and Apple handsets over their use of a Kodak patent. Now two more patent related investigations have been launched which gives RIM a double whammy [...]
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Flyfire: a free-form display created with micro helicopters

The hot topics in new display technology at the moment include 3D, OLED, and e-ink. But experiments are being done in other areas of display technology too, one of which relies on the flight of synchronized micro helicopters. It sounds unbelievable, but this is an actual project being undertaken at the SENSEable City Laboratory in collaboration [...]
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Review: BioShock 2 for Xbox 360

1997’s BioShock was a truly great game. It’s mixture of story, environment, and great fundamentals left gamers little doubt that they were experiencing something special. It wasn’t perfect–the moral choices had little actual consequence and the hacking puzzles quickly grew tiresome–but these were apparent mainly in hindsight. BioShock 2 is not a great game, but [...]
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49 workers poisoned at Apple

It is being reported by Chinese news services that a number of workers at manufacturer Wintek are suffering from n-hexane poisoning. Wintek produces touchscreen displays for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch devices. As part of that process the screens need to be cleaned, which usually involves alcohol as the cleaning agent. But the chemical n-hexane is [...]
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First Bioshock 2 DLC announced

Although it certainly has its share of bugs, Bioshock 2’s multiplayer is a surprisingly solid effort, I think. It’s pretty standard stuff in many ways, but I think what really helps is that it all takes place in a game world that I am invested in, and that 2K Marin actually took enough care [...]
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Chinese coder involved in Google GMail attacks identified

A couple of months ago, Google announced their intention to pull out of China after the GMail accounts of political dissidents within the country were hit by a massive and sophisticated attack which Google believed was linked to the Chinese government. China, of course, denied the whole thing… but it appears that the United States [...]
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Google Earth now available for Android 2.1 handsets

Although there’s lots of great iPhone apps, Google Earth is the one guaranteed to ‘wow’ everyone from your tech savvy buddy to your Ludditical grandmother. One of the weird things about Google, though, is how they oftentimes prioritize their products for platforms (like the iPhone) they aren’t invested in, at the expense of ones they [...]
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Broken stair from Apple store yours for only $2500

The maddening of the Apple crowd never ceases to amaze me. Up for sale on eBay? A shard of glass that may have come from the Fifth Avenue Apple Store. It can be yours for a mere $2,500.00, According to the seller, the item is a 250 pound glass step that comes from the 5th Avenue [...]
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Be careful what you say to XBL mods

Even if you game a lot on the Xbox 360 you might not have run into a moderator. They are out there though, making the virtual streets safe for gamers, at least the gamers that don’t glitch or grief. That said, if you get on the wrong side of a moderator they can kick you [...]
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Origin

Boutique gaming laptop manufacturers certainly can’t pass up the opportunity to slap flame decals and garish LEDs on their latest machines, and Origin’s latest, the EON18, is no exception: not only is it fully blinged out, but it packs Intel’s Core i7-920XM Extreme processor along with up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, dual NVIDIA GeForce [...]
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