A team of researchers from an Australian university has developed a new DVD technology that could someday boost disc capacity by 10,000 times beyond today's standard 4.7GB DVDs, according to a study published in the Nature journal.

To quote: Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology, in Melbourne, said the technology, dubbed Multiplexed optical recording, can create a "fifth...

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Today we received confirmation of sorts that at least one big surprise is due for this year’s E3 conference.

Microsoft’s E3 strategy for media involves a run of four behind-closed-doors demos which you need to opt-in to blindly prior to the event.

The nature of what is behind these doors is kept secret you see, although in some cases you don’t have to be...

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It is one of the most memorable lines in movie history. As the air around him is rent by explosions and the whiz of bullets, Colonel Kilgore stands nonchalantly with hands on hips, sniffs the acrid breeze and declares: ‘I love the smell of napalm in the morning.’

Now actor Robert Duvall’s famous scene from the Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now could be re-enacted in millions of...

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A sunny Friday is upon us, and with that comes PlayStation Store Senior Manager Grace Chen along with this weekend's PlayStation Network Video Content Update as follows:

The weekend’s almost here, and that means it’s time for this week’s updates to the Video Store.

This week we’ve added the following new HD movies:

HD Movies

• Eternal...

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PlayStation and Xbox games help children become the scientists and engineers of the future, a professor claims.

To quote: Children who spend hours every day on their Playstation or Xbox video consoles are improving their brains, according to new research.

A study of 12 year-olds found they boosted crucial visual-spatial skills in which a child learns by...

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The PS3 has been doing miraculous things. Wait, what? You thought that innocent looking black box sitting under televisions across the world was just a game console?

Most gamers take it for granted that Sony’s console allows us to play great games, movies, music, and surf the Web. Sony has made it abundantly clear this generation that the PS3 is the most useful “gaming...

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Another year has passed and in 2009 promises an amazing round of games from each platform and we are likely to see mobile phone gaming finally crack the North American market (whether it is through a Symbian, RIM, Windows Mobile, Apple, or Andriod powered phone), but before we can look to 2009 we have to evaluate 2008 and see how it matches up to the so-called Best Year of Gaming;...

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Scientists at the University of Massachusetts and Alabama have solved a mystery about the speed at which black holes stop vibrating. What's interesting about this discovery is that it was solved exclusively on a 16-strong PS3 cluster.

To quote: Using only the computing power of 16 Sony PlayStation 3 gaming consoles, scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and...

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According to Canwest News Service's Vito Pilieci, the Nintendo Wii is no longer a fad. He notes that the Wii is now firmly established as a pop culture fixture.

He even draws a comparison to the iPod and says while the iPod changed the way people listen to music, the Wii changed the way people view family gaming.

To quote: When the Nintendo's Wii debuted in late 2006,...

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Professor license, the man who built a supercomputer out of eight PlayStation 3 consoles tied together has detailed how exactly he accomplished the task.

To quote: Our community %1# allows you to set up your own MPI (Message Passing Interface) based supercomputer cluster with the PlayStation 3.

This guide was co-written by Gaurav Khanna, based on his previous work...

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