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In a refreshingly to the point Internet Explorer 8 promotional stunt, Microsoft has buried $10,000 somewhere on the internet.  Be the first to find it and you keep it.
How?
Visit the IE8 $10,000 competition website and follow tengrand_ie8 on Twitter.
But you will never find it using old Firefox. (So get rid of it, or get lost)

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A picture is worth a thousand words, especially when WOW is involved!

If you thought Blu-Ray and Holographic DVD’s were impressive then read on as this new Melbourne developed process uses the same technology and hardware as our existing DVD standard.  This is not a new optical medium.
A team of researchers at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, have used nanotechnology to boost the [...]

Duke Nukem Forever publisher Take-Two has confirmed to Shacknews that it is no longer funding development of the 3D Realms project.

“We can confirm that our relationship with 3D Realms for Duke Nukem Forever was a publishing arrangement, which did not include ongoing funds for development of the title,” said Take-Two VP of communications Alan Lewis [...]

Winners have been announced for The Game Artist Scene From A Movie competition.  Thanks Dread for the link.

Entrants were asked to choose a scene from a movie and create a 3D environment based on itin Realtime -  either using a game engine or a 3D app.
For this competition, you must choose a scene from a [...]

You may remember that fantastic fan video posted on youtube a few weeks back and that cryptic viral type of website that went along with it.   The original Youtube page now bears the description “The Box is Open” and the website has had a rather sinister update:
If you want to avoid some spoilers and piece [...]

The Open Source XBMC fork; Boxee, has been going from strength to strength adding some new “most requested” features and also managing to get Hulu into the front end thanks to a unique legal workaround.  The new version is currently only for Mac platforms at this stage with Windows and Linux soon to follow.
Download boxee [...]