HERE IT COMES! Activision promises ‘a new era’ for Call of Duty on May 4th
Call of Duty: Ghosts didn’t receive the fanfare that has become typical for a Call of Duty release, but now that the new generation of consoles has begun, Activision and the rotating development teams that keep the series chugging along year after year have a chance to bring something new to the table. On Thursday, Activision started the inevitable marketing onslaught for the next Call of Duty with a countdown on a page telling fans to “get ready for a new era of Call of Duty.”
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Kroyer Racing Engines is 2013 Performance Engine Builder of the Year
The staff of Engine Builder and a panel of industry professionals, including presenting sponsor Driven Racing Oil have selected Kroyer Racing Engines of Las Vegas as their choice for the “Performance Engine Builder of the Year” award for 2013.
Kroyer Racing Engines’ partner, Kevin Kroyer has been involved in racing since he was a kid. He got his start building engines after he answered an ad in a local off-road trade magazine for Walker Evans Racing.
He became a Walker Evans mechanic in 1989 and spent 10 years at Walker building various forms of small block and big block Dodges, doing V10 development for Chrysler, building V6 engines for the Dodge-Chrysler brand for off-road and helped Walker bring back one of the first Dodges to the NASCAR Super Truck Series.
Walker Evans actively retired from racing in 1999 and at that point Kroyer had the opportunity to move to Las Vegas and form a business building race engines for Brendan Gaughan. Brendan’s dad, Michael Gaughan, owns the South Point Hotel and Casino and was moving his NASCAR operation out of Walker’s shop into a facility in Las Vegas to start Brendan’s NASCAR
Here’s what the Apple-Samsung jury really wants to know after its first day of deliberations
The eight-person jury in the second Apple vs. Samsung patent case in the U.S. is already working on deciding who copied whom now that lawyers delivered their closing arguments. But the case is far from clear to them, The Verge reports, as the jury has sent several questions to Judge Lucy Koh asking for more details. Questions given to the judge covered Steve Jobs’s influence on the lawsuits that lead to this patent battle in the first place, as well as more information on how the specific patents in question were developed and/or acquired.
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Your next MacBook Air may have a touchscreen, but not where you think
A newly published patent application reveals that Apple is researching ways to improve user input on its MacBook laptops, by including a keyboard capable of offering more advanced keys ready to perform more than one task, AppleInsider reports. Individual keys on the keyboard would perform their normal tasks, but it would also include a touch-friendly display that might support additional gestures.
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Download this app right now: Gorgeous calendar app Calendate for iPhone is now free
As much as people seem to dislike Apple’s redesigned calendar app in iOS 7, it’s really not that hard to find third-party alternatives that are better than Apple’s preinstalled app. It’s significantly harder, however, to find one as well-designed as Calendate.
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EXCLUSIVE: The first clear images of Amazon’s smartphone that the world has ever seen!
Following a series of exclusive reports, BGR has now obtained the first unobscured image of Amazon’s debut smartphone
Amazon is still more than a month away from unveiling its first own-brand smartphone, but there isn’t much mystery that remains. BGR gave the world its first look at the unannounced handset in mid-April, and we followed up with exclusive details surrounding the phone’s unique 3D interface and gesture-based controls. Then, we revealed that “Prime Data” will be one of the device’s key weapons in the crowded U.S. smartphone market.
Now, BGR has exclusively obtained a new image of Amazon’s smartphone that reveals the handset’s design for the first time ever.
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Deal alert: Verizon is selling the iPhone 5s, Galaxy S5 and HTC One (M8) for $99 on contract
If you’re looking for a sweet Mother’s Day gift or if you just want to get some of the hottest smartphones released in the last year on the cheap, then Verizon has a proposition for you. Droid Life notices that between now and May 12th, you’ll be able to buy an iPhone 5s, a Samsung Galaxy S5 or an HTC One (M8) for only $99 with a two-year contract, or half off the regular price. You’ll also be able to pick up a Galaxy Note 3 for $199 on contract, which is down from its regular price of $299. All things told, this is a pretty sweet deal for four of the best smartphones in the world, even if it does mean being tied down to a two-year contract on Verizon.
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Haas Automation Produce’s 150,000th CNC Machine
The 150,000th Haas CNC machine, a DS-30SSY, is handed over to its new owners, Claesson Engineering, at the Manufacturing & Automation Expo (MAX) in Stockholm, Sweden, March 19, 2014. Pictured from left to right: Henrik Olsson, Sales Director, Haas Factory Outlet, Edströms Maskin AB; Alain Reynvoet, Managing Director, Haas Automation Europe; Fredrik Claesson, Managing Director, Claesson Engineering AB; Kristin Alexandersson, Haas Factory Outlet, a Division of Edströms Maskin AB.
Haas Automation, Inc., has announce another major milestone in the company’s history as one of the world’s leading machine tool builders – the production and installation of the 150,000th Haas CNC machine.
It was a mere seven years ago that Haas Automation celebrated the installation of its 75,000th CNC machine – a VF-3SS purchased by a family-owned machining business in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. The 150,000th machine – a DS-30SSY dual-spindle turning center with Y axis – rolled off the Haas production line January 19, 2014, and was installed at Swedish company Claesson Engineering in March, following a special handing-over ceremony at the Manufacturing & Automation Expo (MAX) in Stockholm, Sweden.
“Installation of the 150,000th machine is a very special occasion for Haas Automation,” said Alain Reynvoet, Managing Director, Haas Automation Europe. “The fact that it has been bought by a European company – in the relatively high-cost region of Scandinavia – is further proof that the Haas combination of value, performance, reliability, and support is the right one for any market.”
The DS-30SSY combines dual-spindle turning with Y axis, C axis, and live tooling to create a powerful “done-in-one” machining solution. The opposed spindles support fully synchronized turning and allow on-the-fly part pass-off to reduce cycle times. The machine provides 4″ of Y-axis travel (
UH OH… Some key iOS 8 features have reportedly been delayed
Apple plans to unveil its next major iOS release during its upcoming WWDC conference in June, as it does each year. With the June 2nd keynote fast approaching, details have been trickling out over the past few weeks, giving us a good idea of what to expect when Apple unveils iOS 8. As it turns out, however, Apple may focus more on its upcoming Mac operating system update OS X 10.10, which is expected to be a major revision, and less on iOS. What’s more, a very reliable source now claims that several key features that were initially intended for release in iOS 8 have now been delayed.
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BIGGEST IPHONE 6 LEAK YET: iPhone 6 mock-up based on leaked schematics captured on video
Following the numerous leaks that offered plenty of pictures detailing the new iPhone 6 design, including photos of alleged iPhone 6 mock-ups, Nowherelese found a short hands-on video with a dummy iPhone 6 unit from China, showing a mock-up of the device from all angles. The dummy model is supposedly based on real iPhone 6 schematics that leaked some time ago.
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