Next Xbox to be Six Times More Powerful?

No one is sure just what Microsoft will call the next generation Xbox, but the folks over at IGN claim to know a bit about the console’s  insides.

The website claims the console will pack a GPU based on AMD’s 6000 series of chips and will be six times as powerful as the current Xbox 360 with 20 percent greater performance than Nintendo’s forthcoming Wii U console.

IGN also claims the chip will go into production by the end of the year, with developer kits handed out shortly after.

Microsoft is expected to talk about the console at this year’s E3 in June.

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Apple Posts Highest Quarterly Revenue and Earnings Ever

This really should come as no surprise however the numbers truly are staggering. Apple has just announced its first quarter earnings for 2012, reporting $46.33 billion in total sales with $13.06 billion earnings.

In the last 14 weeks of 2011 (first quarter of the 2012 fiscal year) Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 128 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. iPads were just as popular as ever with 15.43 million sold during the quarter, a 111 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. And Mac computers are certainly gaining more market share as 5.2 million were sold, a 26 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter.

The only disappointing news for Apple related to the iPod. While Apple sold 15.4 units that represented a 21 percent decline from the same quarter one year ago.

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You’ve Got A Week Before Facebook Timeline Is Manditory

It’s time to start dredging up the past because the FB Timeline feature isn’t just a feature anymore; it’s going to become your new profile page as of January 31.I say ‘dredging up the past’, because any of those old breakups, unfortunate ‘party excusions’ (a.k.a. vomit in the hair) and otherwise awkward social situations (“Sean just checked in at Don’s Dildo-rama”) could be splashed across your profile page for anyone out there to see. So it’s time to do some editing now before you regret it further down the road.

For anyone out there who hasn’t been exposed to it, Facebook Timeline is an online chronology of your Facebook experience. So going back to the day that you first signed up to the social network platform, FB Timeline gives you a snapshot of your posts, updates, pictures shared and pretty much any activity you’ve had with the site on a daily, monthly or yearly basis. You’ve probably seen some friends who switched over right away, but now everybody is going to be in the same boat at the end of the month.

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McDonald’s Tracking Thieves with DNA Spray

I never would have pegged McDonald’s as being a popular target for thieves but apparently it’s a big deal in Australia. So much in fact the fast food chain is turning to a high tech solution to help catch criminals.

Mickey D’s down under are installing DNA spray devices above the door in all of their restaurants, covering thieves in invisible DNA solution which glows under black light. Each restaurant has its own unique identifying liquid which lasts up to 6 months on clothes and two weeks on skin.

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Get Ready For Amazing Northern Lights, No Signal

According to astronomers, a massive solar flare triggered on Jan 22nd is sending electromagnetic particles towards Earth… right about now. In fact, it’s the largest solar storm to hit our rock since 2005 and will smash into the planet around 9 a.m. EST.

Solar eruptions or Coronal Mass Ejections, as they’re called, affect everything from the aurora borealis to communications infrastructures and satellites. This particular geomagnetic storm that we’re about to experience is being rated as an M9-class disturbance, which put it on the medium-high scale for solar storms, just below an X-class flare. And you know by the ominous title… you don’t wanna be around no X-class sun storm.

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RIM’s Co-CEO’s Step Down

Longtime Co-CEO’s of Research in Motion Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis say it’s time to pass the baton, ushering a new face into the spotlight. Thorsten Heins, the company’s COO, has officially taken the reigns of the struggling company.

The change in leadership is effective immediately.

Thorsten told investors his first priority is to assign a new head to the company’s marketing unit, but he maintains drastic change isn’t needed for the company to revive itself.

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Untethered Jailbreak Arrives for iPhone 4S and iPad 2

The wait is finally over! After months of teasing we have now seen the first release of an untethered Jailbreak for not only the iPhone 4S but for the iPad 2 as well.

GreenPosion claims its team of hackers have been working on the exploit every since Apple’s A5 chip was unveiled last March. In fact, the website claims “thousands of hours” of behind the scenes work went into the release.

“I don’t know if any iOS hacker anticipated how much the A5 chip would completely change the game & up the stakes. The endless war we fight to jailbreak has become more & more difficult with each new device released, and our recent battle against A5 only proved this further.”

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Google Shutting Down Picnik

The Picnik is over! Google has announced it is shutting down the online photo editing site for good.

The site’s homepage explains Google plans to integrate the photo editing service into Google+, leaving those who aren’t part of the Google+ club out in the cold.

Google is trying to sugar-coat the news by giving everyone access to Picnik Premium for free. Of course that will come to an end once the site closes its doors for good on April 19th.

What do you think of the move?

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US Cellular Network Launches Exclusively for Canadians

Canadians have always had to bite the bullet when it comes to roaming rates in the US. While Canadian carriers advertise great deals on roaming, anyone who has traveled south of the border knows you pay a pretty penny when it comes to using data in the US. Now a Canadian company aims to solve the problem by launching a US network designed exclusively for Canadians.

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Resident Evil 6 Decapitating Consoles November 20

Word ran around the web pretty quickly today about the unannounced reveal that the latest in Capcom’s long-running Resident Evil franchise is dropping on Xbox 360 and PS3 just in time for holiday impalement this year with the PC version to follow.

Many outlets are reporting that the story will follow not just Leon Kennedy and Chris Redfield, both of whom have partners to team up with, but a third unnamed playable character (not Ada Wong, but she’ll be in there playable later) and will be a globe-trotting experience not simply situated in one locale like many (many) of the games before it. All three player characters will be available from the outset and players can switch between storylines whenever they feel like it. Eventually, they all get together for a group hug, presumably.

Jump past the break for the official trailer featuring President Zombie!

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