Computers-Plus

By Emily Steel

The new iPad is a hit.

The biggest names in the tech review world unveiled their takes on Apples latest iPad last night.

And they liked it, raving about its upgrades to display screen and speed.

Heres your one-stop guide to a review of the reviews:

Screen Resolution

Walter S. Mossberg, All Things D “Using the new display is like getting a new eyeglasses prescription—you suddenly realize what you thought looked sharp before wasnt nearly as sharp as it could be.”

David Pogue, The New York Times “In principle, that avalanche of pixels (and their increased color saturation) means that photos, videos, maps and text should look jaw-droppingly good — and, in apps that have been rewritten for the new screen, they do.”

MG Siegler, TechCrunch “I guess it’s just like a pre-glasses world — you never realize how blurry things are because that’s just how you’ve always seen everything. And then you put the

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All the rumors and speculation ends today. Blizzard has confirmed that Diablo III will launch on May 15 around the world.

May 15 will be the day you can head to a store, and most likely queue to purchase your copy. However, Blizzard is allowing you to bypass the hassle of doing that by offering a pre-purchase option via Battle.net. That will translate into a digital download on release day.

Alternatively, Diablo III is currently free if you sign up for the World of Warcraft Annual Pass, which commits you to a year of subscription for the MMO, but still allows you to pay monthly. Read more…

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While we’ve been telling jaded partners and family members for ages, it looks like there’s some — slightly obscure — proof. The researchers reconstructed their own levels, forcing gamers to choose between one of two paths, with a mix of power-ups, health items and enemies that created a “logical statement”. If you can complete the level with that particular combination, then it would resolve the Boolean satisfiability problem — a logic puzzle that squares variables against whether a statement is true, and whether the same can be said of all similarly composed statements.

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