A Russian Soyuz capsule brought two space station crew members back to Earth Thursday after a 169-day stay in space. They landed in blizzard-like conditions in Kazakhstan.
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Electronic Arts’ Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has sold through 2.3 million units globally since its March 2 debut, developer DICE said today. The game’s seen 230,000 concurrent users at peak, and players have spent a collective 2.9 million hours online in the last 24 hours alone, says the company. In fact, Battlefield franchise EP Karl [...]

A paper published in Nature this week details how researchers have taken a common antenna design and replicated it on the the nanoscale level. When a regular TV aerial that handles radio frequencies is scaled down to nanometer sizes and slightly modified, the result was a tiny antenna that could direct light of nanometer wavelengths. [...]

Although some publishers have used downloadable content and unlockables to discourage used game sales, retailer GameStop sees itself as a publisher partner in the DLC biz. CEO Dan DeMatteo doesn’t believe DLC opportunities are much of a deterrent to used game buyers, anyway: “Through our years in the used business, we have learned that the [...]

The soon-to-be-launched portable game device, its maker says, will help you play well with others.
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Windows 7 users will no longer need their PC’s processor to support hardware virtualization to run the new and old operating systems together.
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