Diablo III lead designer talks about art
For all eager Blizzard fans looking forward to Diablo III, some more nice tidbits have been revealed by Jay Wilson, lead designer for the game. In a recent interview, he talked a lot about the new art style used in the game and how it impacted the design. He talks about criticisms, primarily how many were worried it would resemble World of Warcraft too much, thus ruining the dark and creepy atmosp…
VMware releases VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 2
The VMWare team has just released the second beta for VMWare Fusion 2, pushing ahead in the virtualization software race against its Parallels counterpart. The new release focuses on several key areas to improve the user experience, including improved video support and automatic snapshots to protect your virtual machine from unexpected bumps in the road.
NYPD Wants Your Videos to Help Fight Crime
It was only a month ago that we reported how various police departments are setting up systems for receiving anonymous tips via text messaging to help solve crimes. Now the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) Commissioner, Ray Kelly, is embracing another social media technology to help police solve crimes: asking people upload “video or photo evidence directly to the New York Police Department.” “It’s a fact of life,” Kelly said. “Everybody has a camera in their telephones. When people can record an event
Mozilla releases first alpha of Firefox 3.1
For those of you who enjoy staying on the cutting edge, Mozilla has released the first alpha of Firefox 3.1. This latest version, code-named Shiretoko, is built on top of Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.1 rendering engine which is also in development and promises better support of web standards.
Opera warns users of fake Opera spam
In another false-claims spam story this week, Opera has published an advisory that is warning people about a wave of fake e-mail that disguises itself as coming from Opera. The company mentioned today that the emails use fake signatures , including one that would make it appear as if the email is being sent from an Opera mail client.
Lydia Hearst: Myla’s New Face
Myla has a new spokesmodel lined up: Lydia Hearst! Lydia is the great-granddaughter of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and the daughter of Patty Hearst, who was snatched by the Symbionese Liberation Arms in 1974.
Lydia was crowned supermodel of the year at the 2007 “fashion Oscars,” the Michael awards, and has has been photographed by [...]






