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Review: ‘UFC Undisputed 3′ a big brawler
For all the tweaks to grappling and submissions, there is still nothing that beats a great knockout.
The first two titles in THQ’s mixed martial arts franchise showed signs of a contender in the making, but UFC Undisputed 3 solidifies its standing as the best MMA series available.
The game is a simulation of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, starring dozens of fighters across several weight classes, including Brock Lesnar, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Georges St. Pierre.
When players boot up UFC Undisputed 3, they’ll choose how to tackle grappling, one of several key changes for the series. In previous releases, players had to perform half-circle gestures with the right thumbstick to change position or block opponents. Now, they can choose a simpler layout requiring flicks to the left or right.
After choosing their grappling style, they can opt to revisit the game’s robust tutorial, which carefully
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Microsoft lodges EU complaint against Motorola
Frederic J. Brown, AFP/Getty Images Micrsoft says Google’s Motorola Mobility is trying to block the sales of Windows PCs, Xbox game consoles and other products.
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Google celebrates scientist Hertz’s birthday
Happy birthday Heinrich Hertz!
Google is celebrating Hertz, who proved that electricity travels in waves, with an animated doodle for his 155th birthday.
Hertz used a rudimentary transmitter and receiver to prove physicist James Maxwell’s theory that electricity, light and magnetism were all connected and traveled in waves, according to an account of his experiment by the Christian Science Monitor. Radio, television and countless other modern technologies are based on Hertz’s experiment.
At the time, however, Hertz thought his experiment useless.
“It’s of no use whatsoever,” he said. “This is just an experiment that proves Maestro Maxwell was right, we just have these mysterious electromagnetic waves that we cannot see with the naked eye. But they are there.”
PHOTOS: Google doodles through the years
The doodle itself is an animated .gif that (if you squint
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Report: Google working on smart glasses
Google is preparing to market a pair of glasses that will stream real-time information right to its lenses, according to a story in the New York Times.
The “smart glasses” will cost between $250 and $600 and be available to the public by the end of the year, according to unnamed Google employees quoted in the article.
A blogger for 9 to 5 Google, who has previously written about Google’s smart glasses, says the frames will look similar to a pair of Oakley Thumps.
Other cool facts, according to reports
- The smart glasses will be Android-based and will have a built-in camera that will help the glasses overlay information about surrounding locations.
- The project is being worked on in the Google X offices, a secretive Google lab working on futuristic projects.
- Google isn’t worrying about making money with the
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Apple defends ‘iPad’ name in Chinese court
Shenzhen Proview Technology’s lawyer Xie Xianghui argued that the sale of the iPad trademark to an Apple subsidiary by Proview’s Taiwan affiliate in 2009 was invalid. Apple countered that Proview violated the sale contract by failing to transfer the trademark rights in mainland China.
It also contends that the Chinese LCD maker has not marketed or sold its own “IPAD,” or Internet Personal Access Device for years, thus possibly invalidating its claim to the trademark.
The hearing adjourned after a fractious four-hour session which saw the judge repeatedly admonishing both sides to observe proper court protocol as they argued across the courtroom. No date was announced for a judgment or further hearings.
“Apple has no right to sell iPads under that name,” Xie said. “The agreement to sell the trademark is not valid under Chinese law.”
Proview is suing to have Apple stop selling the iPad in China under
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