You might want to take a look at the Ghost Recon: Future Soldier trailer where it has launched today, and the game does look pretty slick, sporting plenty of zoomed in killing action for the sniper in you. Of course, you can always place a pre-order for the game, and there are already some limited edition bundles out there as well – case in point, the Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and GUNNAR Optiks limited edition bundle, that will be made available at Best Buy from May 22nd to June 5th, giving you a $40 discount in the process as you enjoy a pair of GUNNAR Optiks MLG Phantom Onyx, Vayper Onyx, or RPG Gunmetal styles alongside the game. Ideal for those who spend plenty of time in front of the screen gaming, as your eyes should experience far less strain and fatigue. Well, what are you waiting for? Hit the play button for the Ghost Recon: Future Soldier trailer above and drool, it is time to start hunting down grunts!

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Every single person I know likes the idea of a rocket being launched into space. And for some time now, Dragon which is name given to Space Exploration Technologies Corporation or SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has been delayed from launching due to various circumstances. The rocket which is intended to travel to the International Space Station (ISS) is the first-ever commercial space capsule. Once the unmanned Dragon Space capsule reaches the ISS, it will be received by astronauts using a robotic arm. It will be carrying supplies meant for the ISS after which it will head back to earth with cargo in it.
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Many websites collect information about visitors through cookies. Some of them include prominent sites such as Facebook. The collected data can be used for advertising and can even be sold to other companies looking to fill up their database with potential consumers. Now however, it seems that micro-blogging site Twitter, is looking to make a difference in that area. On Thursday, the company made an announcement it was working with Mozilla to enable Twitter users on the Firefox web-browser to opt out of being tracked by enabling the “Do Not Track” feature incorporated in Mozilla’s Firefox browser.
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Many websites collect information about visitors through cookies. Some of them include prominent sites such as Facebook. The collected data can be used for advertising and can even be sold to other companies looking to fill up their database with potential consumers. Now however, it seems that micro-blogging site Twitter, is looking to make a difference in that area. On Thursday, the company made an announcement it was working with Mozilla to enable Twitter users on the Firefox web-browser to opt out of being tracked by enabling the “Do Not Track” feature incorporated in Mozilla’s Firefox browser.
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Instead of pressing the button to just ring the bell that would start Facebook’s NASDAQ trading, Mark Zuckerberg had something else up his sleeve. To spice up his ‘bell ringing’ endeavor, he apparently worked closely with Facebook engineers that rigged the button which NASDAQ brought to Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters on Wednesday to a cell phone that was connected to the internet and signed into Facebook. The button and the phone were apparently connected via the smartphone’s headphone jack and after some intricate work to get the timing absolutely right; they managed to get it to work.
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Instead of pressing the button to just ring the bell that would start Facebook’s NASDAQ trading, Mark Zuckerberg had something else up his sleeve. To spice up his ‘bell ringing’ endeavor, he apparently worked closely with Facebook engineers that rigged the button which NASDAQ brought to Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters on Wednesday to a cell phone that was connected to the internet and signed into Facebook. The button and the phone were apparently connected via the smartphone’s headphone jack and after some intricate work to get the timing absolutely right; they managed to get it to work.
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It’s a momentous day for Mark Zuckerberg and the Facebook team as the founder rang the NASDAQ’s opening bell at 9:30am this morning on the East Coast of the United States.

To celebrate the moment, Zuckerberg updated his status to read: “Mark Zuckerberg listed a company on NASDAQ. — with Chris Cox and 4 others.”

the status update went live just as Zuckerberg was ringing the bell, which means that it was configured by engineers to appear just as he was in action.

According to Venture Beat, engineers actually “hacked” the NASDAQ button to post the update according to David Garcia, a senior software engineer at Facebook:

“We hooked up our hack to run at exactly the same time as Mark pushed the button to turn on the light and ring the bell. Then we attached a wire that hooks to the hack and into the headset jack of a cell phone,” Garcia said. “When the button was pressed, it sent a signal through the hack, and the phone got the signal that triggered the custom action through our Open Graph API, posting a story onto Mark’s Timeline. It worked.”

Facebook shares will begin trading at a price of $38 each, at around 11am Eastern time in the U.S. on Friday morning. Since boosting its IPO by 25 percent on 16 May, Facebook’s valuation sits at about $104 billion.

The HP TouchPad has once been offered by stores at $99 but this time around, Woot has come up with a one-day sale for the 32GB variant of the device for $195. The sale which will only be in effect today, includes a refurbished 32GB TouchPad but reports online indicate that eBay searches for a refurbished 16GB HP TouchPad have spat out prices of nearly as high as $275 while for the 32GB variants the prices have been close to $500. Perhaps that has put things into perspective a little.
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For quite some time now, bits and snippets of the late Steve Jobs’ life has been trickling down the grapevine. Now it seems there was another one and this is the concept of what could have been an automobile designed by Apple. Apparently, Jobs dreamed of designing what he called an iCar before he died. In an interview with Fast Company recently, Mickey Drexler who is a board member of Apple as well as the CEO of J.Crew revealed the closet-dream that Jobs once had to build an Apple branded automobile.
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Rumors of a new Amazon Kindle Fire arriving this year have been running rampant. Granted it’s not out of the question for Amazon to refresh the Kindle Fire’s hardware for 2012, but so far based on the rumors, it seems that Amazon could have either two Kindle Fires planned, or they might only release one. Back in March we reported that Amazon was rumored to launch a 7” and a 10” version of the Kindle Fire, but not too long ago there were reports of an 8.9” Kindle Fire, making us wonder just which piece of rumor made the most sense to us.

Unfortunately we were unable to answer that and thanks to the folks over at DigiTimes, the rumored 8.9” Kindle Fire has been suspended in favor of a 10.1” model. Given that nothing has been confirmed, it’s hard to feel bummed out about a device that may or may not exist. Either way the publication has also stated that the 10.1” model will be shipping alongside a 7” model and will most likely be launching in the third quarter of 2012. With models swapping in and out, it’s hard to say who’s right but given DigiTimes’ track record, taking all of this with a grain of salt for now is probably a good idea.

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