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By Charlie Jane Anders from io9:

A new character joins
Men In Black III. The
Let The Right One In remake revamps vampires. There's a "red-band"
Hot Tub Time Machine clip. Millar talks
Kick-Ass 2! Jewel Staite's
Warehouse 13 role will freak you out. And more...
Men In Black III:Yes, this "threequel" is still going forward. Rumor has it Josh Brolin will star, and there's a new character named Yaz (who might be a new agent.) Contenders to play Yaz include Sacha Baren Cohen and
Flight Of The Conchords' Jemaine Clement. The screenplay was written by Etan Cohen (
Tropic Thunder, Igor, Idiocracy). [
Bloody Disgusting]
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By kdawson from Slashdot's read-my-lips deptartment:
Pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that professors have banned laptops from their classrooms at George Washington University, American University, the College of William and Mary, and the University of Virginia, among many others, compelling students to take notes the way their parents did: on paper. A generation ago, academia embraced the laptop as the most welcome classroom innovation since the ballpoint pen, but during the past decade it has evolved into a powerful distraction as wireless Internet connections tempt students away from note-typing to e-mail, blogs, YouTube videos, sports scores, even online gaming. Even when used as glorified typewriters, laptops can turn students into witless stenographers, typing a lecture verbatim without listening or understanding. 'The breaking point for me was when I asked a student to comment on an issue, and he said, "Wait a minute, I want to open my computer,"' says David Goldfrank, a Georgetown history professor. 'And I told him, "I don't want to know what's in your computer. I want to know what's in your head."' Some students don't agree with the ban. A student wrote in the University of Denver's newspaper: 'The fact that some students misuse technology is no reason to ban it. After all, how many professors ban pens and notebooks after noticing students doodling in the margins?'"
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From MMO-Champion:
Patch 3.3.3 - Jepetto's new toys!
<a href="http://db.mmo-champion.com/c/29478/jepetto-joybuzz/" >Jepettoy Joybuzz</a> in Dalaran will sell 3 more items in 3.3.3! Your favorite toymaker added the following to his inventory:
<a href="http://db.mmo-champion.com/i/54436/blue-clockwork-rocket-bot/" >Blue Clockwork Rocket Bot</a> 50

(Companion Pet)
<a href="http://db.mmo-champion.com/i/54343/blue-crashin-thrashin-racer-controller/" >Blue Crashin' Trashin' Racer Controller</a> 40

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From StarCraft: Legacy:
VG247 has recently had the chance to interview Dustin Browder, lead designer of StarCraft II:
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What level of concurrency to you want to get to before the end of the beta?
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Dustin Browder: I think we want to maintain about 10,000. It’s sort of our goal, and we’ve just about hit that at this point. I can see we’re at 9,000-something right now, and 10,000 is the goal. That makes our match-maker really happy, makes it really sing when we’re about at those numbers. If we get much higher than that we’ll just leave it, and if we see concurrency fall off we’ll add more keys until we get back to those numbers.
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By Charlie Jane Anders from io9:

People talk about science fiction as the literature of humanism. But actually, science fiction's explorations put it into conflict with humanism's tenets. The best science fiction questions the nature of humanity, and whether the universe will let us stay human.
It's easy to think of science fiction and humanism as going hand in hand: Science fiction is about, or else informed by, science, which is empirical and rejects "a priori" beliefs and superstitions. Both Isaac Asimov and Kurt Vonnegut
served as honorary presidents of the American Humanist Association.
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By Meredith Woerner from io9:
<!-- videoId: 7c99dfb51715eaccf4 --><!-- /videoId: 7c99dfb51715eaccf4 --> Check out this exclusive clip from Geoff Marslett and Mark Duplass' strange-looking space romantic comedy
Mars. We're still not sure what to make of this indy film — the graphics alone freak us out a bit.
The picture, which is premiering at SXSW, is part comic book, part love story and part comedy. You may remember Mark Duplass from his Sundance directing days or his role on
The League.Here's the official synopsis:
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In 2014, the discovery of life on the Red Planet leads to a space race between a robotic expedition and a manned mission. Over the course of this interplanetary animated feature, a lonesome robot and a motley space crew discover that love can flourish anywhere - even on Mars. Told in the playful style of a graphic novel, MARS explores why we explore.
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By Annalee Newitz from io9:

In a universe of supermassive stars and galactic cannibalism, what makes astronomers call a star system "extreme"? Megaspeed. A group at University of Warwick found two white dwarf stars revolving around each other in a blinding 5.4 minutes.
You know what that means, don't you? For these two collapsed stars, a year is about five and a half minutes long. I have no idea what that does to the 5-hour workweek, but I think it might be bad.
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By kdawson from Slashdot's throwing-silicon-at-it deptartment:
gollum123 sends an excerpt from the NY Times on how Google has taken a lead in language translation, in one of the company's few unqualified successes as it attempts to broaden is offerings beyond search. "...Google's quick rise to the top echelons of the translation business is a reminder of what can happen when Google unleashes its brute-force computing power on complex problems. The network of data centers that it built for Web searches may now be, when lashed together, the world's largest computer. Google is using that machine to push the limits on translation technology. Last month, for example, it said it was working to combine its translation tool with image analysis, allowing a person to, say, take a cellphone photo of a menu in German and get an instant English translation. ...in the mid-1990s, researchers began favoring a so-called statistical approach. They found that if they fed the computer thousands or millions of passages and their human-generated translations, it could learn to make accurate guesses about how to translate new texts. It turns out that this technique, which requires huge amounts of data and lots of computing horsepower, is right up Google's alley. ...Google's service is good enough to convey the essence of a news article, and it has become a quick source for translations for millions of people."
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By Cyriaque Lamar from io9:

Some days Hollywood casting news just reads like drunken chimpanzees playing Mad Libs. Dane Cook confirmed that he tried out for
Captain America via Twitter, and two of the Jonas Brothers are (groundlessly) rumored to be in the running.
Last week
we confirmed that Scott Porter of
Friday Night Lights didn't nab the role of Steve Rogers. Since then, casting news for Cap has gotten exponentially weirder, as the world's most successful jokeless stand-up artiste reported that he was in the running for the shield-slinger:
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By Meredith Woerner from io9:

Jude Law told us about his small, but
pivotal, role in Steven Soderbergh's epic pandemic film
Contagion. Law's playing a "fear-mongering blogger." One of us! One of us!
At the press conference today for his next film,
Repo Men, Law revealed to us a few details about his next Soderbergh project,
Contagion, which sounds a lot like,
Traffic, but instead of cocaine, the plot is centered around an infectious disease.
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By Meredith Woerner from io9:

We've got an exclusive image from what people are calling the "The Latin
District 9," or Gareth Edwards'
Monsters. Is this street art a representation of the possible octopus aliens that have been quarantined in Mexico? Plus a new clip.
The film, which is screening at
SXSW's SX Fantastic and Fantastic Fest, tells the story of what happens to the world when a group of aliens crash-land in Mexico. The only details we have about this film, which is keeping its big alien reveal secret, are the above exclusive above image, and the basic premise. Six years after the crash, Mexico is quarantined, and the film follows a journalist who helps an American tourist through the alien-filled country, trying to get safely home.
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By Cyriaque Lamar from io9:

The Arecibo Message isn't some new Spanish sportswear label - it's the binary message that SETI researchers transmitted into space in 1974 to converse with extraterrestrials. Nonetheless, you can rock the Arecibo Message sartorially, with this retro-chic SETI scarf.
When you're cruising with this scarf, everyone will know that your DNA is double-helixed, you come from the third planet from the Sun, and your DNA is made of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus. You're basically broadcasting to potential mates, "Hey babe, I'm 100% terrestrial. Let's do a little something extra."
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By Hena Mohayya from io9:

Every week, we round up the best tips that you post in io9's tips forum. This week, we've got Lady GaGa in Wonderland, an Xbox 360 Robot Sculpture, Elijah Wood and the Universe, and much more!
If you want to post a tip, just click on the
#tips link on our navigation bar, or include the word
#tips in any comment, on any post, that you think is a good tip for the people who read and write io9.
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By Charlie Jane Anders from io9:

Last week,
Doctor Who's most fearsome cybernetic enemies invaded the DVD shelves in greater strength than ever before. The "Dalek War" DVD box set and a new edition of "Remembrance Of The Daleks" both appeared. But are they worth it?
Those of us who survived the Dalek War don't like to talk about it. It's one of those things that you either know about, or you don't. You'll see us huddling under our blankets and twitching slightly whenever a rolly bin goes by or a Roomba starts vacuuming near us. Some of us are so traumatized, we can't even stand to hear about exfoliation because it sounds too much like exterminaton — and thus, we have terrible skin. And the worst thing? Nobody even knows the Dalek War even happened, because it's been erased from the history books.
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By Brian Crecente from Kotaku:
Remember that painfully adorable Voltron cosplayer Ash posted about a few days ago? Well, that was nothing.
Turns out that the little girl sporting that robot armor is Belldandy, a professional cosplayer backed by a dad with some serious crafting skills.
How serious, check out their full site, and these amazing samples.


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By Cyriaque Lamar from io9:
Looking for the right bundt for The Rapture? The perfect pie for global pandemics? You just might find your recipe at Apocalypse Cakes, quite possibly the internet's only doomsday-themed pastry blog.
The final word for end time epicures, Apocalypse Cakes seeks to tickle your tastebuds as humanity goes extinct. Its founder(s) have a simple philosophy - sweets before ruin:
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A variety of cataclysmic punishments from God continue to rain down upon us. Obviously, this is the time to eat several entire cakes. Use this blog to help you celebrate your time on this earth, for when you look up from your cake-smeared cakehole, the sky will fade ablack, the lakes will blaze aflame and the locusts will buzz aswarming. Eat now, little heathens; there are no cakes in the apocalypse.
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By kdawson from Slashdot's one-loc-per-second deptartment:
CWmike writes "Today Cisco Systems introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform. 'The Internet will scale faster than any of us anticipate,' Cisco's John Chambers said while announcing the product. At full scale, the CRS-3 has a capacity of 322Tbit/sec., roughly three times that of the CRS-1, introduced in 2004. It also has more than 12 times the capacity of its nearest competitor, Chambers said. The CRS-3 will help the Internet evolve from a messaging to an entertainment and media platform, with video emerging as the 'killer app,' Chambers said. Using a CRS-3, every person in China, which has a population just over 1.3 billion, could participate in a video phone call at the same time. (Or you could pump nearly one Library of Congress per second through the device, or give everyone in San Fransisco a 1Gbps internet connection.) AT&T said it has been using the CRS-3 to test 100Gbit/sec. data links in tests on a commercial fiber route in Florida and Louisiana."
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By Cyriaque Lamar from io9:

At a
Repo Man press conference today, Liev Schreiber confirmed that he and Hugh Jackman have read the
Wolverine 2 screenplay. Even though he's unsure whether Sabretooth will appear, he's optimistic about Victor Creed's return for Logan's Samurai saga.
At a press conference for
Repo Man in New York, Schreiber had the following to say about Wolverine's Japan odyssey.
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I just had dinner with [Hugh Jackman] last night and read the first draft of the script and I was really excited about it. It's still not clear whether or not Victor will be present in the Japan storyline. In the Japan storyline as I remember it from the Wolverine comics, Victor wasn't there. So I don't know, of course I've got my fingers crossed because I love the character so much, to have the chance to do it again would be a lot of fun, but I'm not sure.
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By Mike Fahey from Kotaku:

Viacom President and CEO Philippe Dauman officially outed Rock Band 3, due for release this holiday season, when it will "will innovate and revolutionize the music genre" all over again.
Dauman revealed the game while speaking at the Credit Suisse Group Global Media and Communications Conference this morning, quickly followed
by Tweets from several members of the Harmonix staff, relieved to finally be able to discuss what they've been working on, as well as this new entry on the Rock Band Facebook page:
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By Graeme McMillan from io9:

Last night's
Chuck finally gave us something we'd been wanting since day one - and made it seem worth the wait. Also, the Ring showed that maybe they're not completely inept before reassuring us that, yeah, they actually are. Spoilers!
First off:
Thank God Morgan finally knows. After his suspicions were raised earlier this season - even though, let's face it, they probably should've been raised way before that - this probably should've seemed like more of an obvious conclusion, but I was worried that the Hannah reveal was going to be a successful diversionary tactic (Hannah, by the way? Entirely gone; Morgan tells us that she quit the BuyMore between episodes, so I guess Kristin Kreuk's guest-spots are done).
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By Luke Plunkett from Kotaku:

For years - no,
decades - games on the Mac have been a running joke, a constant source of derision from the dominant PC gaming community. But in a single move earlier this week, the Mac made a comeback.
In unveiling
not only the release of its line-up of first-party titles - classic games like Portal, Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead - but of the company's Steam digital download service on the Mac, Valve has shown how antiquated and out of place its retail competitors on the PC (and even on consoles) have become in the digital age.
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By Brian Crecente from Kotaku:

Windows Phone 7 games will include the ability to unlock achievements on a phone as well as pulling in a user's gamertag, 2D avatar and even let gamer's know when it's their turn to play.
This will all come thanks to an update to XNA Game Studio 4.0 being unveiled at the Game Developers Conference today, Microsoft's Michael Klucher writes on his blog.
The lead program manager at microsoft, Klucher said he will be in San Francisco this week to talk about the things that the latest build of XNA can do for developers and their games.
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By Meredith Woerner from io9:

American McGee's
Alice PC game is best known for it's warped take on the fairy tale, by making
Alice suicidal orphan. His next fairy tale victim is Little Red Riding Hood, and here's a glimpse at the gory concept art.


We seriously hope Catherine Harwicke pulls inspiration from this art for her
Red Riding Hood feature starring Amanda Seyfried.
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By Mike Fahey from Kotaku:
<!-- videoId: iuycRCDD90w --><!-- /videoId: iuycRCDD90w --> Did you know that rapper Random, AKA Mega Ran, crafted a single dedicated to Capcom's recently released Mega Man 10? Well you do now, and you've got the new music video to prove it.
I've always been slightly fond of rap, but I've traditionally found myself liking it more when mixed with other genres, especially chiptune. There's just something about the power of the spoken word mixed with primitive video game noises that just gets me all riled up and ready to kick some ass, from the comfort of my own couch, of course.
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