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Lamborghini is debuting the new Aventador J roadster at the Geneva Motor Show this week. The vehicle features a radically open design that’s made with pure speed in mind. In fact, the car is so open, it doesn’t include a roof nor a front windshield, meaning drivers will have to wear a helmet in order to ride the two seater, which has been likened to a “sportsbike made for two.” The Aventador J features the same 700hp 6.5 liter 12 cylinder engine as the Aventador LP700-4 coupe, but has eliminated almost everything unnecessary for boosting speed, such as climate control and a navigation system. The company has also decreased the weight of the vehicle through the use of a new carbon fiber fabric called “Carbonskin.” The supercar can reach speeds over 300kph or 186mph. Lamborghini is haling the vehicle as the most radically designed open super sportscar in the company’s history and says the model is a one-off, meaning it’s a one-of-a-kind art piece. However, it will be available for sale f

Ubisoft finally released the official launch trailer for Assassin’s Creed 3 along with the first details on this new game, following numerous leaks last week. This third installment in the popular franchise continues the long-standing feud between the Assassins and Templars, but is set against the backdrop of the American Revolution. Our new hero is an assassin of Native American and English heritage by the name of Ratohnhaké:ton. Luckily, he also goes by the more easily pronounceable name of Connor. And although the new colonial setting offers more forests than scalable structures as we’ve seen in the Mediterranean cities of previous games, there’s still plenty of sneaking around in the woods along with more offensive combat. The game will be launching worldwide on October 31 and will be heading to the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC. Ubisoft revealed today that the game will also be heading to the Wii U, although details on how the game would integrate with the Wii U’s unique gamepla

There’s a brand new type of device being carried exclusively by AT&T starting on the 11th of March, a boombox from the same folks that bring you Dr Dre’s Beats! This “high performance wireless audio system” will be coming in either white or black only from AT&T company-owned stores and from att.com for $399.00 with no data contract (because it’s not connected to mobile data in the first place.) This device is meant to connect your smartphone devices, in particular the massively awesome HTC One hero device HTC One X, announced this past week, to quality sound explosiveness. This unit will be featured by Beats by Dr Dre co-founder Jimmy Iovine uses it in his coaching sessions on American Idol on the 14th of March, so you know you’ll want one because he’s such a radical dude. This unit has portable inputs including a built-in dock connector for all smartphones and portable music players as well as Bluetooth integration for wireless connections to your Bluetooth-enabled devices too

In a report which comes from a company presenting a mobile gaming engine supporting vector graphics, it seems that HTML5 gaming performance has been rated 3X faster than Android on the whole. In addition to this, the report from this group, Spaceport, found at http://spaceport.io/, shows that the iPad 2 is the top device in the industry rated on its ability to work with HTML5-based games. Browsers coming with each of the selected entrants into this test were displayed in Spaceport’s “PerfMarks report” and rated one by one, iOS devices out-performing Android competitors in essentially all cases. This report is what the group calls the “first-ever report of the technology’s performance on top smartphone and tablet platforms,” and we’re inclined to agree that it must be. Though it seemed that the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-based device Samsung Galaxy Nexus was able to rock out by showing quite a few moving objects on the screen at once, ranking in at about 100 images in fact, the iPho

While we were having a blast in Barcelona, Spain during Mobile World Congress last week we had the opportunity to check out a few awesome new technologies. One that stood out is Scalado’s camera and imaging technology. We’ve mentioned Scalado Remove in the past, but today have a first hand look at their Sweep Panorama 360 for smartphones. Scalado is a leading camera and imaging technology group that has been focusing on bringing enhanced capabilities to smartphones. While they don’t currently offer their awesome Remove feature, or the Panorama you’re about to see below as stand alone apps yet — they might in the future. Below is a demonstration of Scalado’s Panorama 360. This isn’t your average panoramic shot, instead you can shoot in any direction you’d like, as many times as you’d like, and there is no lining up or room for error. It just works! Not just left to right either, but up or down. Every direction works and it’s all handled in-app. The hands-on video you’ll see how quick an

The Halo series of shooter games has been and continues to be one of the most awesomely epic success stories in video game history, and with its introduction to Microsoft Studios 343 Industries as a development team, it’s all set to get a ground-up revamp. In the “First Look” video floating around today, you’ll find that 343 have gathered all of their strength to take this opportunity they’ve been given to take Halo to a new level of realism, player involvement, and depth in both the human aspects of the game as well as your ability to experience the game as not just an entertainment device, but as a work of art. What we’re seeing here is a set of statistics that’s just baffling already, still months away from any kind of playable release for this game. There’s been an entirely new soundtrack recorded with over 100 tracks already in production for Halo 4. New sound-effects have been recorded for every element of the game. The aesthetics have been pumped up to a new level never before s

This week we’ve got our hands on the newest Samsung smartphone, and it’s not a dual-core device, a quad-core device, or even a massively impressive in-between device with the ability to take amazing photos – it’s a rugged mid-range device called the Samsung Rugby Smart. This device is a solid and relatively inexpensive smartphone being carried by AT&T at $99.99 on contract with the ability to defend against water, dust, shock, and inclement temperatures. It’s also got at 3.7-inch WVGA Super AMOLED touchscreen display up front and a 5 megapixel camera on the back. Hardware While this device certainly is no match for the rest of the Samsung line of top-tier devices such as the Samsung Galaxy S II, and oddly enough, you can currently purchase the Galaxy S II for the same price on contract from the same carrier. You can either purchase this much less impressive smartphone for $99.99 with its single-core processor or the manufacturer’s hero device for the same price: twice the power in

The Smartphones are pouring from the sky like rain here in the first quarter of 2012, and they won’t be stopping with brand new model names – in a tip today coming from a source close with Verizon, we’re hearing news of a new Galaxy Nexus model as well as a next generation HTC DROID Incredible model as well. These smartphones are set to have improvements over their previous generation models in the following ways: less storage for a cheaper price on contract for the Galaxy Nexus, and 4G LTE for the Incredible 3! This tip comes from leaked documents held exclusively by Droid Life and passed through the Android world to us. This new version of the Galaxy Nexus is still going to be made by Samsung, will likely also have the new backing color of White as an option, and will have 16GB of internal storage instead of 32. This storage decrease will take off something like $100 from the normal $300 USD on-contract pricing, this mirroring the deal Verizon has with its newest model DROID RAZR whi

Apple’s iPad 3 launch later this week has dragged the “PC killer” speculation back out into the open, with the third-gen iOS tablet expected to further trounce traditional computing as shoppers vote for fingers not mice. It arrives to an increasingly crowded market, however, with not only Android tablets mustering for a second wave, but Windows 8 waiting in the wings. Both platforms will bring potent hardware to take on the iPad, too. As PC manufacturers – especially those of Windows-based tablets – have discovered, though, there’s more to challenging the iPad than throwing specs at it. There’s a lot of argument over what, exactly, a PC is. Some have a relatively defined explanation: a Windows-based desktop, laptop or netbook, definitely not a Mac or a tablet. Others are more open: a Mac desktop could be a PC – a “personal computer” – even though it runs OS X, though an iPad wouldn’t be considered a PC. The distinction is variously based on form-factor and software and processors, thou

Blizzard have always been coy with release dates, simply stating that things will be done when they’re done, and released only when they’re ready. Their next anticipated game, Diablo III, was first announced back in 2008, and gamers have been waiting with bated breath ever since. Have Italian gaming retailers finally tipped the world to the release date? Supposedly, yes. According to mmorpgitalia, Italian retailers have begun putting up pre-order boxes on shelves after being tipped by Activision Italy on the April 17th release date. The price for the standard edition of the game is said to be €54.90, while the Collector’s Edition will go for €89.90. Adding fuel to the fire, Jay Wilson, Games Director at Blizzard Entertainment declined to comment on the rumoured release date, although he did hint that the announcement was imminent when asked on Twitter. Blizzard have previously said that the game would miss a Q1 launch, which means April would be the very earliest the game would ship. T

This week a couple of names in information security and the hacking of said information have popped up in relation to one another once again, Symantec accusing certain downloads of Anonymous web tools of containing malware in and of themselves. It is with the tools in question that the utterly massive hacker collective known as Anonymous is able to carry out DoS attacks with the help of users all around the world. What Symantec is saying today is that these tools, or at least some versions of the downloads of these tools, also contain malware that infects the user’s own machine at the same time as they attack others. There are two things going on here, one of them being what appears to be Symantec reporting on a case dealing with security, as they often do, attempting to keep the public safe and promote their security software at the same time. The second thing you’ve got to consider is that the software they’re warning about is the same that Anonymous, the hacker collective who had so

Nokia has confirmed that it has no North American launch plans for the Nokia 808 PureView 41-megapixel smartphone announced at MWC 2012 last week, leaving the US and Canada out of its otherwise global release. News of the omission was quietly snuck into the 808 PureView’s Nokia Developers listing, though it’s worth noting that unofficial imports will likely work thanks to the pentaband WCDMA radio. That means AT&T and T-Mobile USA users should be able to drop in a SIM and get online at 3G speeds, though it seems neither carrier is going to get the opportunity to offer the smartphone officially. Nokia has offered unlocked, SIM-free devices in the US for some time now, though without the traditional subsidies they’ve been a tough sell. Nokia 808 PureView hands-on: The limited availability is a mixed blessing, in a way. The five year development time of PureView – which uses a super-dense CMOS sensor and custom processing algorithms for better clarity of shots – meant the Nokia imagin