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Hands-on With the PSP Go 73

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @12:52PM from the not-suitable-for-feet dept.

ANkleStrong writes "Sony Corp unveiled on Tuesday a smaller, lighter PlayStation handheld game device called the PSP Go, in a race to catch rival Nintendo in an intensely competitive mobile games arena." E3 attendees were able to take the new Sony handheld for a test drive, and more pictures and videos are now available. It's set to be released on October 1st, and will retail for $249. A new Resident Evil game is being designed specifically for the updated hardware, and Metal Gear Peace Walker is coming as well.

Gamer Claims Identifying As a Lesbian Led To Xbox Live Ban 1182

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @05:24PM from the you-have-crossed-the-line-ma'am dept.

Goatbert writes "I just read on the Consumerist about an XBOX Live user being banned for identifying herself as a lesbian. Despite appeals, Microsoft has stood by its position that merely mentioning that you are gay or lesbian is grounds for terminating your XBOX Live membership."

Comment As a user, OpenID sucks (Score 1) 333

by CanSpice on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @07:31PM (#26365417) Attached to: OpenID Fan Club Is Shrinking

So I went to sign up for Toodledo the other day. On the suggestion of my boss, I went to sign in via OpenID. Well I didn't have an OpenID, so I signed up for one of those through the OpenID provider that Toodledo linked from their very page - myopenid.com. Fair enough. Went back to sign in with Toodledo and my shiny new OpenID and I get an error message back saying "There was an error connecting to your OpenID server."

Well what the hell. I sign up using the very provider that they link to and I still can't get in. I have an OpenID success rate of 0%. Why would I want to keep using it?

Astronomers Dissect a Supermassive Black Hole 77

Posted by kdawson on Friday December 12, 2008 @05:55PM from the telescopes-are-where-you-find-them dept.

Matt_dk sends along a piece from the European Southern Observatory, which reports on observations of the so-called "Einstein Cross," a fortuitous conjunction of a nearby galaxy and a distant black hole. A team of researchers from Europe and the US combined the effects of macrolensing (from the intervening galaxy) and microlensing (from stars in that galaxy), captured by an earth-bound telescope. "Combining a double natural 'magnifying glass' with the power of ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have scrutinized the inner parts of the disc around a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away. They were able to study the disc with a level of detail a thousand times better than that of the best telescopes in the world, providing the first observational confirmation of the prevalent theoretical models of such discs."

Submission + - Amazon to Open DRM-Free MP3 Music Download Store

Submitted by mtnlion1 on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @07:07PM

mtnlion1 writes: Amazon.com announced it will launch a digital music store later this year offering millions of songs in the DRM-free MP3 format from more than 12,000 record labels. EMI Music's digital catalog is the latest addition to the store. Every song and album in the Amazon.com digital music store will be available exclusively in the MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM) software. Amazon's DRM-free MP3s will free customers to play their music on virtually any of their personal devices — including PCs, Macs(TM), iPods(TM), Zunes(TM), Zens(TM) — and to burn songs to CDs for personal use.

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060 &p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1003003&highlight=

Submission + - How FairPlay Works: Apple's iTunes DRM Dilemma

Submitted by on Monday February 26, 2007 @07:44PM

An anonymous reader writes: Understanding how Apple's FairPlay DRM works helps to answer a lot of questions: why it hasn't been replaced with an open, interoperable DRM that anyone can use, why Apple isn't broadly licensing FairPlay, and why the company hasn't jumped to add DRM-free content from indie artists to iTunes.

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