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Angry Birds Magic Introduced for Nokia C7

For Angry Birds aficionados, there’s some good and some bad news.

The good: You’ll soon have a new opportunity to fling our feathered friends at piles of smirking pigs courtesy a new edition of the game dubbed “Angry Birds Magic.”

And the bad: It’s only available for Nokia’s C7 Smartphone, which employs near field

Soar Through Cities With Nokia’s 3D Ovi Maps

Have you seen these new 3D city maps from Nokia’s Ovi Maps service? They’re pretty amazing.

20 global cities have been recreated in astonishing photorealistic 3D. These are not satellite images, nor are they traditional maps. They’re something different.

Nokia didn’t do all the work in-house. They bought the technology from Swedish …

Study: iOS Has ‘Twice The Reach’ of Android

Oh look, another study pitting Apple against Android like digital pugilists boxing for market share. The verdict this time? iOS has “twice the reach of Android.”

That’s according to comScore, which claims in its breaking study that Apple’s iOS devices (comprising iPhones, iPad, and iPad Touches) total some 37.9 million devices among …

Your New Phone: Facebook

Not content with playing home to gazillions of your family barbecue photos or a megatrillion updates about cats, Facebook is branching out and taking on yet another aspect of social networking: old-fashioned voice calls.

The hitherto humble little Facebook chat window, which lurks unobtrusively at the bottom of your Facebook wall, now …

Google Maps Now Open for Editing in U.S.

Got a problem with the placement of your favorite pizza place on Google Maps? Fix it yourself.

Google Map Maker, an editing tool for Google Maps and Google Earth, is now available for the United States. Google’s pitching this as a way to add local landmarks and businesses, map college campuses and mark bike lanes, but you can also add …

Portal 2 Review: Our First Perfect 10

Easily the most anticipated release this year, Portal 2 follows publisher Valve’s physics-puzzler Portal, the 2007 game that instantly leapt onto Game of the Year lists and into the Best Games Ever pantheon. You played as Chell, a hapless human female made to test a teleportation gun in the Aperture Science research facility, hounded by …

NASA Ponies Up Megabucks For Commercial Space Rides

You’re in love, bored with five star eats, and filthy stinking rich. Why not grab your date and hop a space bus to the International Space Station?

Hold that thought, but NASA just made it a smidge less improbable, tossing some $269 million in funding to commercial companies like Boeing and SpaceX, all of them hoping to someday …

Want To Be On TED? Now’s Your Chance!

If you think you have an “idea worth spreading,” then listen up–you could well be the next TED star!

No, I don’t mean “listen up Bill Gates” or “Al Gore,” but you, as in “reading this post” you. The TED organization – dedicated to global conferences – has launched its first-ever open audition for a spot in its TED2012 conference …

Wanna Know UK Nuclear Sub Secrets? Just Ask For The Redacted Version

Military officials in the British Ministry of Defense released a highly sensitive document about nuclear submarine security with key sections redacted simply by changing the background color from white to black.

The document was given an official release following a Freedom of Information request by anti-nuclear campaigners. Under …

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