| Breaking News | Sunday, 08 July 2012 | Tech Universe: Monday 9 July
NZ Herald
ISLAND MOVES: Orsos Island may be hard to find, because it's not only a 1000 square metre island but also a yacht. The yacht is 20 metres wide, 37 metres long and covered in 160 square metres of solar panels. It has six double bedrooms plus crew...
| Slender Has Gamers Asking Who Is The Slender Man?
Cinema Blend
An indie game has been making its way around the underground gaming scene, scaring the living brownies out of people and causing some gamers to scream out like their gonads were pinched in a box of zero degree vice grips. The name of the game?...
| Facebook and Yahoo settle patent dispute
NZ Herald
Facebook and Yahoo have agreed to settle a patent dispute, averting a potentially long battle over the technology running two of the internet's most popular destinations. In dropping the lawsuits, the companies agreed to license their patents to each...
| Stiq Flicks: Quantum Conundrum and Cube
Joystiq
Much like a fine wine and some sort of stinky cheese, Stiq Flicks takes a look at a recent video game release and pairs it with a film. Quantum Conundrum has already been confounding people on PC for a couple of weeks, and soon you'll also be able to...
| TV picks for July 8-12
Star Tribune
Sunday Jane Fonda hasn't exactly been setting the big screen on fire lately, but she still has chops, as she reminds us with a small but unforgettable appearance as a cable-news owner in a terrific new episode of "The Newsroom" (9 p.m.,...
| Zombies succumb to girl power
Star Tribune
Female characterization in video games is a touchy subject. My wife and female friends will sometimes decry the oversexualization of women in games, the "buxom damsel in distress" scenario that permeates so many adventure titles. In the few...
| Young actors work to turn into a stage family
STL Today
The actors, seated in a row of chairs in front of the piano, kept their eyes on the music director as she explained the way to handle a difficult passage. “Breathe here,” she said, striking a key, “and not here,” striking another. Some of the actors,...
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