BioWare a division of Electronic Arts announces three editions of Star Wars: The Old Republic. Which are called The Star Wars: The Old Republic Collector’s Edition, Digital Deluxe Edition and Standard Edition each are custom designed for RPG and Star Wars fans worldwide and each title is available for pre order today via retailers and Origin. When you pre order one of these edition you will obtain a redemption code t hat gives you early access to the game. The Old Republic beta test weekends will begin in September giving players a peek of the epic stories, worlds, quest, battles, and different characters in the game. The Collector’s Edition will include a variety of virtual in game and physical items. Thi
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The Brompton Dock lets you grab a folding bike and take it on the train
The Brompton Dock is a clever take on Park and Ride schemes. Instead of parking your car on the edge of town and taking the bus to the center, you rock up at a railway station, check out a Brompton folding bike and hop on the train. Then, when you reach your stop, you unfold the bike and go on your way.
The scheme is being tested by South West trains in England. 40 Bromptons are stored in a block of lockers on the platform. You swipe your membership card and take a bike. From there you get to keep it for the whole day before returning it on your way home.
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Technology in vehicles have surely come a long way from its early days until now, and we even have some sort of Heads Up Display in BMWs operating for some time already to help the driver keep his or her eyes on the road all the time, while gaining access to vital information at all times without missing a beat. Well, MicroVision might just be in on the next big thing with their PicoP head-up display technology known as PicoHUD, being implemented in test vehicles already.
This move, if it gains traction, might just end up with the commercialization of its PicoHUD technology within a mass production car model perhaps targeted for introduction three years from now?
Now that Apple has endowed the Mac operating system with state-of-the-art security protections, a researcher has devised new attacks that target the machine’s battery.
Charlie Miller, well known for his numerous attacks on iPhones and Macs, may not have achieved his ultimate objective of making a Mac spontaneously combust, but he has figured out how to permanently disable the battery. And in time, he said, it also may be possible to remotely hijack a machine by manipulating the firmware on one of the stored power supply’s chips.
“What I found was you can make any change you want to the software that runs on the battery,” Miller, who is principal research consultant at security firm Accuvant and the other coauthor of The Mac Hacker’s Handbook, told The Reg.