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• Kotaku 'Shop Contest: Lighten Up, Dark Souls

  

  I know that fans of From Software’s brutal action role-playing games love their darkness, but with the third game hitting shelves last week I am getting sick and tired of dreary screenshots. Let’s brighten ‘em up a bit, shall we? In this installment of our increasingly bi-weekly image manipulation contest, we bring color and light and softness to a world of rusted armor, darkness and death. Grab a Dark Souls screenshot. Something official from the website or something snapped by a fan, doesn’t..

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• Apple Leak Reveals 'All Glass' New iPhone

  

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• Homeland Security warns Windows PC users to uninstall Quicktime

  

  The Department of Homeland Security and a top cybersecurity firm have advised Windows PC users to uninstall Apple's Quicktime video player immediately after two new bugs were found in the software.  In a blog post published Thursday, the Trend Micro security firm said that Apple was no longer issuing security updates for Quicktime for Windows, despite the presence of the bugs. Trend Micro said the bugs could be used to launch attacks on PCs if users visit a compromised web page or open a tained..

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• Intel Announces Next-Gen 'Apollo Lake' Platform For Affordable 'Cloudbook' PCs

  

  Intel formally announced its new Apollo Lake platform for affordable PCs at the 2016 edition of the annual Intel Developers Forum in Shenzhen, China. CPUs based on this design cane be used for a variety of device types, but the company is specifically targeting the new netbook-like "cloudbook" category of affordable clamshell devices.Apollo Lake is based on the 14nm Goldmont microarchitecture refresh, and will succeed Braswell. The final products may be branded Atom, Celeron or Pentium. ..

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• GoPro Omni, New Virtual Reality Camera, Unveiled

  

  As tech giants like Samsung, Huawei and Facebook continue to ramp up their virtual reality efforts, GoPro is entering the fray as a new contender for the hearts of VR enthusiasts and fans. At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) event in Las Vegas this week, the company will be unveiling its new VR camera. Dubbed the GoPro Omni, the device is essentially a cube-shaped rig that holds six Hero4 cameras. The rig, explains Engadget, has specific hardware “that makes all six cameras operat..

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• Mount Paektu is quite active, confirm researchers

  

  Mount Paektu volcano has been one of the most violent volcanoes in the ancient times. The volcanic region comprising of large part of Mount Paektu on the border between China and North Korea is considered quite mysterious. A joint team of seismologists from China, North Korea and United Kingdom have evaluated the volcanic region. No one knows when the 9,000-foot-tall peak might erupt again. A millennium back, the volcano exploded and its impact was seen as far as Japan. The volcanic eruption ri..

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• CRISPR-edited mushroom cleared

  

  White button mushrooms used in the study. Photo: K. K. Mustafah A species of genetically engineered mushroom has been freed of regulation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). This means that it can be cultivated and sold without being overseen by the USDA, according to a news report published online in Nature recently. Though about 30 genetically modified organisms have been similarly freed by the USDA, the special thing about this mushroom species is that this is the first organ..

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• Meet Jiajia, the realistic 'robot goddess' built by Chinese researchers

  

  Researchers in Beijing have created what internet users in China have dubbed a “robot goddess”. Developers at the University of Science and Technology who made the robot said one of their aims was to ensure it was “attractive”, The Beijing News reported. Researchers created the machine, Jiajia, after using the features of five women from the university as “image models”, the report said. Developers said at a press briefing that the robot was able to chat, display emotion through facial expressi..

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