Vietnam sure is becoming a hotbed for leaked Apple products.
From the fine folks at Tinhte, we have a clear view of an unreleased 64GB (unless 64G means something else) iPod Touch with a 2-megapixel camera. Everything appears to be up to snuff, but until Apple officially unveils it things could always change. The parts list …
Where were you when AT&T first promised that tethering would be available on the iPhone? It seems like eons ago now. Take heart, though, because a tethering option has been spotted in the beta version of the new iPhone operating system that’s set to reach consumers sometime next month.
Now before you get too excited, a similar …
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the Web:
Is Nathan Fillion Ant-Man? Not yet, but it looks like it could happen. Marvel Studios has an Ant-Man film in the works, likely to debut sometime after The Avengers hits screens sometime in 2012. With Joss Whedon set to direct The Avegners, where some …
This isn’t the proper venue to talk about the horrific oil spill in the Gulf, but Kevin Costner (yes, that one) has a machine that he claims will extract 97% of the oil polluting the water down South.
Costner has been funding the project, which is spearheaded by his brother, for the last 15 years. During a demo in New Orleans last …
Welcome to ‘Zombie of the Week,’ folks, where each week we’ll present you with a different brain-eating member of the undead that has captured our fancy. There is no methodology to our Zombie Awesomeness meter, just our own piqued interests. Got a zombie we should see? Comment below. No zombie is too small, too short-lived, or too …
In the latest news to demonstrate the troubles of the manga market, DC Comics today announced that their manga imprint, CMX Manga, will close on July 1st. In a statement from co-publishers Dan Didio and Jim Lee, the closure was blamed on “the challenges that manga is facing in the American marketplace,” presumably referring not only to …
April 1958: Adventure Comics #258. Otto Binder and Al Plastino create the Legion of Super-Heroes, a club of teenage superheroes a thousand years in the future, who bring Superboy to their time and tell him that he was their inspiration. The group catches on, appearing a handful of times over the next few years.
September 1962: …
I live in Boston. Charlestown, if you’re familiar with the area. The other night I was over in the North End for dinner, which is about a mile or so from my place. The North End is Boston’s preeminent Italian neighborhood and most weekend nights are jam-packed with tourists and locals looking for dinner. Getting there by cab, even …
The first trailer for new NBC superhero series The Cape suddenly makes the network’s reason for canceling Heroes clear: They wanted you to feel that things used to be better in the old days before characters used stretchy magic capes to fight crime and win back the love of their children. Remember those halcyon days when saving a …
Today, Microsoft unveiled its big Hotmail upgrade, followed by a resounding, “About time.” Among its new features, the revamped Hotmail will use cloud-based data storage, enable you to edit Microsoft docs directly within the email and will filter messages into four different “buckets:” mail from your contacts, mail from social networks, …
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Available on: PS3, Xbox 360, PC, PSP Nintendo DS
ESRB rating: T for Teen
System reviewed on: PS3
By my count, the Prince of Persia has had three lives. First, the always-nameless hero debuted in 1992 in the ground-breaking adventures …
I picked this up via io9. Look! French people can do bad acting too! Only it doesn’t sound that bad in French.
If you’re pressed for time — and even if you’re not — you might want to start at 2:00. All you missed was a French guy eating a sandwich and ogling a French lady. There’s nothing in there that would make the plot make …