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Comment Mets investment (Score 1) 410

by alexz3877 on Friday May 27, 2011 @01:23PM (#36264984) Attached to: Steve Ballmer's Head On the Block?

This guy Einhorn just invested over $200 million (yes, that's with an M) in the NY Mets whose biggest claim to fame is jeering the Yankees while having won only 2 pennants as compared to the Yanks 27. Should Ballmer really listen to him?

Epic Games Predicts Console, Mobile Convergence 104

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @03:24AM from the sounds-like-a-job-for-ben-heck dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After taking the stage at the Apple iPhone event in September, game developer Epic Games has finally revealed more about its plan to release Unreal Engine for the iOS devices. UE3 is incredibly popular on consoles, and its free UDK has been really great for us modders. In this new interview, engine boss Mark Rein says the developer envisions a future where all game devices are handhelds, with high-end processors inside: 'It feels like there's a great opportunity for game consoles to cease to be something you plug into the wall and rather become something you take with you. Of course it will be more than just your game console; you can have your productivity apps, your documents, and your media collections on it as well.'"

Paleontologists Discover World's Horniest Dinosaur 109

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @07:32PM from the overcompensatesaurus dept.

Ponca City, We love you writes "The Guardian reports that paleontologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient beast called Kosmoceratops richardsoni that stood 16 feet tall with a 6-foot skull equipped with 15 horns and lived 76 million years ago in the warm, wet swamps of what is now southern Utah. 'These animals are basically over-sized rhinos with a whole lot more horns on their heads. They had huge heads relative to their body size,' says Scott Sampson, a researcher at the Utah Museum of Natural History."

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