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Graphics are something that always get discussed when talking about shooters. Remember how everyone tried to get their PC to run Crysis? Hell, for at least a year, that was the first question you asked about a new PC: Will it run Crysis?

Now that you have a machine that will run Crysis well, it’s time for the next leap forward in FPS graphics.

YouTube sensation Freddie Wong has become extremely well-known in recent months. He’s made videos of what a real-life aimbot would look like, a special effects laden interpretation of Time Crisis, and now he’s showing us the future of the FPS genre.

Check this out, and realize this: whoever his friend is, letting someone teabag you on YouTube is pretty dedicated.

A Melville couple is facing charges after police found drugs and cash in a local home.

The iPad started shipping in April, and since then it has basically had the tablet market to itself. Literally, in the six months after the iPad’s release, it didn’t have a single direct competitor. Dell launched the Streak shortly after the iPad, but the Streak was a 5” unit that was significantly smaller than the iPad. In the 7-11” tablet market, Apple has been the only real player.

But that all changed when Samsung launched its 7” Galaxy Tab last month. On paper, the Galaxy Tab is essentially a jumbo-sized implementation of the Galaxy S smartphone platform. You’re looking at the same A8-based 1 GHz Hummingbird processor and PowerVR SGX 540 graphics chip, the same 512MB RAM, the same lightweight plastic build, and pretty similar industrial design. The screen has been upsized, from the 4” WVGA unit in the Galaxy S to a 7” WSVGA panel. As the first Android-based slate to come from a major manufacturer, it’s a very important device, and not just to test Android’s viability as a tablet platform.

So in the first of our Android tablet reviews, we have Samsung’s Galaxy Tab. Read on to find out how it stacks up against the iPad and whether it can put a dent into Apple’s current domination of the tablet market.

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The only official timeframe we have for an Android 3.0 Honeycomb release is sometime “next year.” A little too vague for our liking and for a seemingly infinite list of manufacturers chomping at the bit to release their fully sanctioned Android tablets onto the world. Now DigiTimes narrows things down a bit with an off-the-cuff comment about MSI preparing to sell its Tegra 2-based tablets in April or May “after Google releases Android 3.0 in March.” Of course, a March release seems almost definite what with Acer hoping to ship its tablets with Honeycomb in April as well. Hopefully we’ll get this confirmed at CES in early January.

Google’s Honeycomb Android tablet release slated for March? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Lisa Bettany shot an amazing photo of a rainbow going end to end over the Bay Bridge in San Francisco.

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The province of Saskatchewan continues to post growing population numbers, according to the latest statistics.

In an effort to gain a foothold in the exploding mobile market, Windows is unveiling a new low-power version of Windows next month—but not available for a while longer. From the Wall Street Journal. More »

Windows/Mac/Linux: Firefox 4 is out with another beta, and this one has mostly bug fixes—more than 1,000 of them, actually. But Mozilla has simplified and improved the process for setting up syncing between desktop and mobile browsers. More »

The Chrome community responded with staggering enthusiasm and, acting together, raised 60,599,541 tabs for charity.

Each Chrome user chose the causes their tabs would support, which determined how we allocated our one million dollar donation. Accordingly, we’re excited to make the following donations on behalf of the Chrome community:

• $245,278 toward planting trees in the Atlantic Forest, one of the world’s endangered tropical forests.
• $232,791 toward providing clean water, by building freshwater wells for communities in developing nations.
• $112,078 toward building shelter, to be constructed by volunteers for impoverished families in Latin America.
• $267,336 toward administering vaccinations against meningitis to combat outbreaks in Africa.
• $142,518 toward publishing books by local writers and illustrators, which will be created and donated to schools and libraries across Asia and Africa.

We’ll be making the donations at year-end, and our partner charities are already looking towards applying the funds from Chrome for a Cause in 2011. Read more about how your donation will be applied specifically by visiting our partners’ websites:

• The Nature Conservancy
• charity: water
• Un Techo para mi País
• Doctors Without Borders
• Room to Read

We’re glad to connect Chrome users with these important causes all around the world — so much so that we’re already thinking of more Chrome for a Cause projects for the future!

Feel free to keep your extension installed if you’d like to hear about future opportunities to work together with the Chrome community for a good cause. We’ll post all the details about how to participate on the Chrome blog, so make sure you check in when you hear about new opportunities.

Thanks for joining us in this endeavor. Happy Holidays!

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It’s only been out a few weeks but is already one of the best-selling video games of all time. The latest Call of Duty release has now apparently climbed into the eight-figure territory when it comes to sales revenue.

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It never fails. Now that Fringe has become the best television show in two universes, it’s getting moved to the Friday-night slot that claimed Firefly and Terminator. How can we save Fringe from Fox’s Friday-night curse? A few ideas below. More »

YouTube’s introduced a new feature into their embed code, allowing viewers to save embedded videos to watch later on youtube.com. More »

It’s not offering any indication that Windows Genuine Advantage will follow suit, but Microsoft has just made the rather surprising move of shutting down its longstanding Office Genuine Advantage program. As with Windows Genuine Advantage, that program was designed to combat piracy and, as any Office user can no doubt attest, it wasn’t shy to make its presence known — warnings like the one above popped up when downloading templates from Office.com, for instance. Why the change? Microsoft isn’t exactly offering too many details, with a spokesperson only going as far to say that the program has “served its purpose,” and that Microsoft is “making several new investments that will allow us to engage with customers and help victims of fraud.” In the meantime, however, it looks like you can now simply go about your business without a warning to be found.

Microsoft axes Office Genuine Advantage, says program has ‘served its purpose’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Toyota Motor Corp. has agreed to pay the U.S. government a record $32.4 million US in additional fines to settle an investigation into its handling of two recalls at the heart of its safety crisis.