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Tribes 1 Returns In-Browser At GDC Next Week 55

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 20, 2009 @03:34AM from the a-fad-has-begun dept.

An anonymous reader writes "GarageGames purchased the IP rights to the entire Starsiege Tribes universe, and next week at GDC they'll be showing off their updated version of Tribes 1 running in a browser, using all the original artwork. Afterwards, it will be available to play standalone or via the Instant Action website. While you wait, you can play Fallen Empire Legions in your browser, which is based on the Tribes 2 engine. Their blog entry about the Tribes 1 preview at GDC has further details."

White House Ditches YouTube 204

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 02, 2009 @06:33PM from the but-i-thought-google-bought-and-paid-for-the-US-already dept.

An anonymous reader writes to tell us that in an apparent response to privacy complaints, the White House has quietly moved off of YouTube as a method for serving the President's weekly video address. Choosing instead to use a Flash-based solution and Akamai's content delivery network, this comes just days after YouTube began to roll out their own new policies regarding privacy of visitors.

Submission + - Trolltech GPLs Qtopia Phone Edition

Submitted by Provataki on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @02:24AM

Provataki writes: Trolltech announced that they are releasing the new version of Qtopia Phone Edition under the GPL along a port on the FIC Neo1973 smartphone. Trolltech also continues to support Greenphone as a reference platform for mobile development within the company and through its partners. Benoit Schillings, CTO of Trolltech (also of BeOS fame as one of the original Be, Inc. engineers) commented on the news.

Submission + - Robotic submarine maps worlds deepest sinkhole

Submitted by holy_calamity on Monday May 21, 2007 @05:34AM

holy_calamity writes: The world's deepest water-filled sinkhole has finally been mapped — by a robotic submarine who's descendants may swim on one of Jupiter's moons. The last attempt to find the bottom yielded the SCUBA diving depth record and the death of a diving legend. The sub's SONAR found that the divers were about 10m from the floor, and that the sinkhole which is over 300m deep could be connected to even deeper caves.

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