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The Pirate Bay has taken another bold step by introducing its own browser called PirateBrowser. The browser is expected to bypass restrictions imposed on users from accessing The Pirate Bay Web site. Currently, The Pirate Bay Web site is inaccessible in the following countries - Iran, North Korea, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Italy and Ireland.

Motorola will be announcing more products in the coming months aimed at the price sensitive consumers. The price range can be expected to be bellow US$200 because the CEO Dennis Woodside highlighted the fact that there are many consumers who are looking for a smartphone priced at below $200 but often have to forsake key features and performance as a compromise to the lower cost. Motorola is set to address this issue, according to reports from CNET.

The Sci-Fi action movie "Elysium" leads the box office collection beating the movie “Planes” from Disney, which made 22.53 million dollars. The movie could be well on its way to hit the 100 million dollar club, provided the overseas response is just as great as the domestic. So far the international collection from 17 countries has been just over 10 million dollars.

Renew, a London based marketing firm has brought about a new innovation to bring targeted advertisements to people using smartphones on the go. The company has placed several trashcans with built in hardware that can track and record information about any smartphone which has its Wi-Fi on.

The war of words continue between President Barack Obama and actor/activist Matt Damon. Matt, in an interview to Black Entertainment Television took a dig at the president and jokingly said that the President “broke up” with him describing their souring relationship over the past few years.

Quoting anonymous sources, AllThingsD reported that the next iPhone could be launched on Sept 10 in an Apple event. Apple is expected to launch the iPhone 5S along with the much-anticipated low-cost version iPhone 5C, which is aimed at checking the rivals from taking away more of the smartphone market especially in emerging markets.

Consider this- according to a report by the United States Census Bureau, there were more than 10.8 million accidents in the U.S in the year 2009, up from 10.2 million in 2008, resulting in the deaths of over 35,000 people.

The world’s first Google Glass application for religious Jews has been launched, reports JPost. Developed by RustyBrick, a web development company established in the year 1994. The company is based in New York.

China has allocated about US$32 million to create artificial rain reports Xinhua News Agency. The step has been taken to ease the drought situation in the drought hit south western part of China. The region has experienced severe heat wave, which has spread, in July. This has caused water shortages and power supply problems which may adversely impact the agriculture in the region.

Two British teenagers who had gone to Zanzibar as volunteers were attacked with acid on Thursday by two assailants on a motorcycle. The girls, Katie Gee and Kirstie Trup who are both 18, were part of the Art in Tanzania charity which supports local artists to develop their talents. The girls were working as volunteer teachers for the organization.

The family of Henrietta Lacks, who are currently living in Baltimore, Maryland, have finally got a say in how the cancer cells extracted from Ms. Lacks way back in 1951 after her death, get used.

Everyone knows Emma Watson for her role as a nerdy scholar in the "Harry Potter" movies. But for someone who is keen on a career in acting, it will be detrimental to her career if she is branded that way. Perhaps that is why she chose to play the bad girl in her new movie “The Bling Ring.” Emma Watson plays a thief in the movie who tracks celebrities on the Internet to rob them.

A jet plane belonging to Lion Air crashed into three cows which had wandered onto the runway at the Jalaluddin airport in Gorontalo, Sulawesi Island. None of the passengers were hurt but the same cannot be said about one of the three cows that faced the full power of the Boeing 737-800 plane that was coming in for landing. The plane skidded off the runway and into the fields. The airport has since been closed.

The generation X grew up playing games like Mario, Contra and later with the advent of pc computers Pac Man. But such games are in short supply these days because it is difficult to compete with the action/adventure games of today which have stunning graphics and elaborate storyline and a thrilling gameplay experience. Spelunky is going to change that.

In what could have huge political and legal ramifications more and more people are trying to “print” guns in the comfort of their homes with the help of the latest 3 D printing technology using plastic? Although several attempts made in the past have resulted in failure a man from Canada claims to have made the world’s first plastic rifle from his 3D printing machine. The video of the test to check the durability of the rifle has been posted on Youtube.

Motorola recently launched Moto x to take on the Apple’s iPhones, which have dominated the smartphone market. This is the first launch by the beleaguered company since its takeover by Google. The following is a comparison of the hard hitting differences that matter.

"Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons" is an upcoming action/adventure game developed by Starbreeze Studios and published by 505 Games. The Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 versions ship to the U.S. by August 13 and to Europe by August 16.

For those who don’t know what Google TV is - it’s a product from Google which connects with the cable/satellite box and allows the user to watch content from multiple sources such as Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, HBO GO, VOD, regular cable, etc.

Mars: War logs is a science fiction, third person action role playing game where the player assumes the role of “Roy Temperance” living in post modern mars where water scarce resource that the big corporations are fighting over. The game salls under the “cyberpunk” category which means a world where there is a bit of breakdown of social order, artificial Intelligence and cybernetics et al.

The Samsung Ativ One 7 is an all in one touch screen desktop which also comes with a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Games of thrones fans have seen the beautiful Margaery Tyrell, played by Natalie Dormer; it is time to meet her father – Mace Tyrell. Roger Ashton-Griffiths has been cast as the lord of the High Garden. The British actor is known for his roles in movies like “Gangs of Newyork”, “A Knight’s Tale” and “The Brothers Grimm.” He has also been casted in shows based in the medieval period like “The Tudors” and “Henry VIII.”

The ambitious Australian project of providing high speed broadband to the nation by replacing the copper cables with the fiber optic cables is on schedule said Deputy PM and Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese.

Early Tuesday morning the twitter account of the Australian election commission was hacked and users started to get messages from the hacked account. The hacker launched a phishing attack from the hacked account aimed at getting the login details of the users

An Australian lady was conned into buying two apple fruits in a box for 1200 dollars, believing them to be Apple smart phones, reported NDTV. Buying from people online can be very tricky, a 21 year old Australian lady learnt firsthand. The lady who was not named, posted an ad online in the Gumtree Web site. She wanted to buy two Apple smart phones. She was contacted by another lady who said she had “two apples” for sale.

When Robert 'Hope' aka Kirobo goes to the space station to reunite with astronaut Koichi Wakata, it will be able to recognize the astronaut's face and also give an emotional response and greet him in Japanese.

There have been news reports of governments using cell phones to spy on its citizens, but what is even more dangerous is a proficient hacker can turn a smartphone into a virtually remote controlled spy device. A hacked smartphone can send user’s location and text messages to the hacker who can remotely also activate the camera in the smartphone.

After coming under heavy attack by the media, Twitter finally decided to take steps to check online abuse especially towards women. The Twitter Web site will now have a “report abuse” button, which is currently available in the Twitter app in iPhones, allowing users to stem the tide of the growing “trolls” online, reported Reuters.

“Bang with friends” is a casual sex app which allows users to connect with people on their friends list in facebook for casual sex. In a three step process the users are asked to get the bang with friends app and choose the friends they are interested in, if the friend is also interested, an email is sent to both parties indicating a positive interest and the rest is up to the users as to when and where to meet.

Cyber espionage has become a hot subject for debate these days. All the countries deny spying yet at the same time accuse others of doing it. One man wants to put an end to this hypocrisy and wants honest international discussion on cyber espionage. According to itnews.com.au, the shadow communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull made these comments at a community forum on electronic privacy in Paddington last night.