Microsoft is bringing back one of the best OS deals around, the Windows 7 family pack! The three-packs will go back on sale October 3rd for $149.99. Microsoft offered such a bundle when Windows 7 launched, but billed it as a limited-time offer. In less than two months, supplies had largely run out. The Windows 7 Family pack will go back on sale on Oct. 3 for a suggested price of $149.99. As before, the licenses are upgrade copies, meaning each computer already needs to be properly licensed for Windows XP or Windows Vista. Comments

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Epic Games has just announced the world’s first Unreal Engine 3 powered iOS app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. There is a demo available on iTunes called Epic Citadel. Epic Games, Inc. today announced its “Epic Citadel” App is now available from the App Store. The app showcases the technical capabilities of Epic’s award-winning Unreal Engine 3 on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. In “Epic Citadel,” players navigate a fictional castle realm using simple controls and the innovative Multi-Touch user interface. “Epic Citadel” also features stunning visuals and special effects, with an environment inspired by “Project Sword,” Epic’s newest game. Comments

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Epic Brings Unreal Engine 3 to iOS Devices

You guys seriously have to read this blog post by AT&T vice president Hank Hultquist. You might have to skip all the talk of dogma, pagans, hegemons, faith-based initiatives and other stuff…and even then you’ll probably have to read it twice to figure out what the hell this guy is talking about. The CoENN creed against quality of service states that paid prioritization of Internet traffic: (1) has never been contemplated by standards organizations like the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF); (2) does not exist on the Internet today and, to the extent it exists anywhere, is probably being used nefariously by the pagans; and (3) if it did exist on the Internet, it would be available to and affordable for only a small number of deep-pocketed hegemons. Comments

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AT&T On Net Neutrality

This is definitely not one of the things I’d want to broadcast to the world. Are they going to give out pass / fail badges? This is just a stupid idea all the way around. You can “check in” to restaurants and bars, so how about health clinics while you get tested for sexually transmitted diseases? Foursquare, the phone application for telling friends and strangers where you are, is offering a special virtual “badge” in September to people who do just that. Comments

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Foursquare, MTV to Reward STD Checkups With Badge

Today’s GPU evaluation focuses on the newly-redesigned ASUS EAH5870 V2 STALKER Edition video card that, as the name implies, comes with a newly redesigned cooler and a copy of the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat. ASUS is back making another play for your hard-earned upgrade money. This time, ASUS have brought out the EAH5870 V2 STALKER Edition, a Radeon HD 5870 with an improved cooling device. Does a bundled game and improved cooling device make up for its $100 price premium? Comments

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ASUS EAH5870 V2 STALKER Edition Video Card

Even though a huge part of me wants to call B.S. on this article, I can’t help but think there just might be something to what is being said here. Is tech distracting in the classroom? Banishing the gear improved the course, he argues. “The students seemed more involved in the discussion than when I allowed them to go online,” he told me as the summer term wound down. “They were more attentive, and we were able to go into a little more depth.” Comments

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Technology-Free Classrooms Improve Courses?

Google has begun implementing GPU acceleration into the latest Chromium builds to “speed up its entire drawing model, including many common 2D operations such as compositing and image scaling.” The foundation of the GPU acceleration in Chrome is a new (modified) sandbox process called the GPU process. Via this process, Chrome can take graphics commands from the renderer process and send them to OpenGL or Direct3D. This approach enabled Google to separate the rendering of a web page into different independent layers, such as CSS, images, videos, and WebGL or 2D canvases. Comments

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Google Confirms Chrome 7 GPU Acceleration

Phil Plait, the man behind the Bad Astronomy blog, has a new show on Discovery. The first episode involves imitating an asteroid impact using explosives. Who doesn’t love blowing stuff up in the name of science? Comments

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New TV Show: Bad Universe

I could have sworn the MPAA said the economic downturn and piracy were killing the movie industry. Ticket prices are at an all-time high and the industry is set to shatter revenue records again…someone explain to me how this is possible? At least so far, theater owners have gotten away with the biggest year-to-year increases in ticket prices ever — with average admission costs spiraling upward more than 40 cents in 2010, or over 5 percent. Meanwhile, attendance has stayed largely flat, dropping less than 1 percent, according to the National Association of Theater Owners. Comments

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MPAA Rakes in Record Amounts of Cash

I could have sworn the MPAA said the economic downturn and piracy were killing the movie industry. Ticket prices are at an all-time high and the industry is set to shatter revenue records again…someone explain to me how this is possible? At least so far, theater owners have gotten away with the biggest year-to-year increases in ticket prices ever — with average admission costs spiraling upward more than 40 cents in 2010, or over 5 percent. Meanwhile, attendance has stayed largely flat, dropping less than 1 percent, according to the National Association of Theater Owners. Comments

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MPAA Rakes in Record Amounts of Cash