Death toll in Iran quake raised to at least 250

Medics treat an injured man after an earthquake in the city of Varzaqan in northwestern Iran, on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012. A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the towns of Ahar, Haris and Varzaqan in East Azerbaijan province in northwestern Iran on Saturday, state TV said. Iran is located on seismic fault lines and is prone to earthquakes. It experiences at least one earthquake every day on average, although the vast majority are so small they go unnoticed. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Ali Hamed Haghdoust)

Medics treat an injured man after an earthquake in the city of Varzaqan in northwestern Iran, on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012. A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the towns of Ahar, Haris and Varzaqan in East Azerbaijan province in northwestern Iran on Saturday, state TV said. Iran is located on seismic fault lines and is prone to earthquakes. It experiences at least one earthquake every day on average, although the vast majority are so small they go unnoticed. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Ali Hamed Haghdoust)

A woman talks as she tends her injured loved one after an earthquake in the city of Varzaqan in northwestern Iran, on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012. A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the towns of Ahar, Haris and Varzaqan in East Azerbaijan province in northwestern Iran on Saturday, state TV said. Iran is located on seismic fault lines and is prone to earthquakes. It experiences at least one earthquake every day on average, although the vast majority are so small they go unnoticed. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Ali Hamed Haghdoust)

A woman lies injured on a stretcher in a street after an earthquake in the city of Varzaqan in northwestern Iran, on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012. A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the towns of Ahar, Haris and Varzaqan in East Azerbaijan province in northwestern Iran on Saturday, state TV said. Iran is located on seismic fault lines and is prone to earthquakes. It experiences at least one earthquake every day on average, although the vast majority are so small they go unnoticed. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Hamed Nazari)

Victims of an earthquake sit over the bodies of their loved ones who were killed in the city of Varzaqan in northwestern Iran, on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012. A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the towns of Ahar, Haris and Varzaqan in East Azerbaijan province in northwestern Iran on Saturday, state TV said. Iran is located on seismic fault lines and is prone to earthquakes. It experiences at least one earthquake every day on average, although the vast majority are so small they go unnoticed. (AP Photo / Mehr News Agency, Hamed Nazari)

Medics tend a woman who was injured in an earthquake in the city of Varzaqan in northwestern Iran, on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012. A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the towns of Ahar, Haris and Varzaqan in East Azerbaijan province in northwestern Iran on Saturday, state TV said. Iran is located on seismic fault lines and is prone to earthquakes. It experiences at least one earthquake every day on average, although the vast majority are so small they go unnoticed. (AP Photo/IRNA, Kazem Yousefi)

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Twin earthquakes in Iran have killed at least 250 people and injured over 2,000, Iranian state television said on Sunday, after thousands spent the night outdoors after their villages were leveled and homes damaged in the country's northwest.

Images broadcast on the main news channel showed dozens of families sleeping on blankets laid out on the ground in parks. Some were crying, others shivering from chilly weather in the mountainous region hit by the quake, near neighboring Azerbaijan.

Over a thousand rescuers worked through the night to free people trapped under rubble and to reach some of the more remote villages affected. Television also showed people being evacuated on stretchers, while others underwent treatment for broken limbs and concussions on hospital beds.

By early afternoon on Sunday, state television was reporting that search operations had ceased. Hundreds of tents had been set up to house the homeless, it added.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported that Saturday's first quake at 4:53 p.m. (1223 GMT) had a magnitude of 6.4 and struck 37 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of the city of Tabriz at a depth of 9.9 kilometers (6.2 miles). State TV quoted local Crisis Committee chief Khalil Saei as saying the epicenter was a region between the towns of Ahar and Haris, about 200 miles (500 kilometers) northwest of the capital Tehran.

The second quake with a magnitude of 6.3 struck 11 minutes later, the U.S.G.S. reported. Its epicenter was 29 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Tabriz at a depth of 6.1 miles (9.8 kilometers).

The quakes hit the towns of Ahar, Haris and Varzaqan in East Azerbaijan province, Iranian television reported. At least six villages were totally leveled, and 133 others sustained damage ranging from 50 to 80 percent, it said.

Some 36 aftershocks jolted the same area and were felt in a wide region near the Caspian Sea, causing panic among the population.

Iran is located on seismic fault lines and is prone to earthquakes. It experiences at least one earthquake every day on average, although the vast majority are so small they go unnoticed.

In 2003, some 26,000 people were killed by a magnitude 6.6 quake that flattened the historic southeastern city of Bam.

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Gaming Roundup: The Ramifications of Windows 8 on PC Gaming ...

Windows 8, in all its mobile-revolution promotin?, touch-screen totin? glory, is due to hit PCs everywhere in late October, and represents a major departure from previous Windows iterations in several respects, including interface and, in what promises to be a hot-button issue for game developers everywhere, a closed platform designed to promote the use of Windows apps. Valve and Blizzard execs took the past week as an opportunity to chime in and explain the potentially hazardous landscape Windows 8 could present for gamers, as well as the possibility of the rise of Linux.

Valve head Gabe Newell didn?t pull any punches, calling Windows 8 ?kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC space.? Newell considers Microsoft?s movement toward a closed platform a direct threat to game development, due in no small part to the temptation for Microsoft to take complete control of any and all applications that can run on Windows via their own Apps store, which could restrict game industry options in terms of direct distribution. It is speculated that Microsoft could take as much as a whopping 30% cut of any and all software sold through their own Apps store.

Blizzard exec Rob Pardo also chimed in, tweeting his solidarity with Newell earlier this week. It?s easy to foresee other gaming developers jumping aboard in the coming months.

So where does Linux fit into the picture? The direction of Windows 8 is reportedly a major reason why Valve has taken significant steps in bringing mainstream gaming to the Linux platform, which allows gaming to remain on an open, accessible platform for developers and players alike.

Newell elaborates: ?We have to start finding ways that we can continue to make sure there are open platforms. So that involves a couple of different things. One, we?re trying to make sure that Linux thrives.?Our perception is that one of the big problems holding Linux back is the absence of games. I think that a lot of people?in their thinking about platforms?don?t realize how critical games are as a consumer driver of purchases and usage . . . so we?re going to continue working with the Linux distribution guys, shipping Steam, shipping our games, and making it as easy as possible for anybody who?s engaged with us?putting their games on Steam and getting those running on Linux, as well.?

Could this be Linux?s big break? Several iterations of Linux operating systems (Red Hat, Ubuntu, among others) have been on the cusp of mainstream use for some time now. The emergence of Linux as a legitimate option for gamers (along with the unbeatable price of FREE for Linux-driven operating systems) could very well give open-source OSes the final boost they?ve been missing for quite some time. We welcome your thoughts below, dear reader.

In other gaming news this week, steampunk Xbox controllers, GTA V?goes viral, Diablo III receives a story critique, and Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford accuses the gaming industry of fostering rampant plagiarism. Read on!

• Like steampunk? Of course you like steampunk. How much would you pay for your very own steampunk Xbox 360 controller? Have to admit, this is pretty badass ? beautiful worksmanship.

• Has Bethesda acquired the rights to the STALKER franchise? Nothing official yet, but rumor has it...
• Rockstar has begun their viral marketing campagin for GTA V in the form of a new religion: the Epsilon program, which should be familiar to longtime series fans.
• A Hollywood writer examines the flaws in Diablo III?s story, raising some valid points and ignoring some others. Stay tuned to Tor.com for a comprehensive critique of the game in the near future.
• Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford recently talked to IGN about rampant plagiarism in the gaming industry. We suppose that?s eventually inevitable in an industry where a specific handful of genres are targeted.
• Finally, Hitman: Absolution debuted 17 minutes of footage at Comic-Con. Gameplay seems tight, intense, and in-line with prior series offerings, which isn?t necessarily a bad thing.

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If there are games you?d like us to cover or blogs you think we should be following for more news, please let us know?@tdelucci?or?@pritpaulbains.

Source: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/08/gaming-roundup-the-ramifications-of-windows-8-on-pc-gaming-and-linux

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TouchPad gets an early taste of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean courtesy of CyanogenMod 10 (video)

Want the latest version of Android on your device? Sure, we all do, and despite HP having put the TouchPad out to pasture long ago, the modder community isn't giving up hope. One brave soul over at Xda Developers who goes by the handle Jscullins can (and should) be thanked for bringing bargain tablet lovers a dose of CyanogenMod 10. It's still a preview build lacking, among other things, sound and video acceleration, but if you absolutely have to get a buttery smooth UI on your tablet right now hit up the source link for the download. Or, you could just check out the video of it in action after the break courtesy of Liliputing. It's probably safer.

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Honeywell next up to get a patent license from Microsoft, goes the Android handheld route

Stop us if you've heard this one before: a company that wants to start using (or keep using) a Google OS strikes a patent licensing deal with Microsoft to avoid the legal barrage that will invariably follow if it says no. It's Honeywell singing the tune this time, and the company has reached an agreement that will let it use Android or Chrome OS on devices like a new edition of the Dolphin 7800 rugged handheld (shown here) without perpetually looking over its shoulder. Neither side is going into the specifics, although Microsoft has steered Honeywell into using its boilerplate copy about royalties trading hands. The truce won't help the prices of Honeywell devices; even so, it's good news for developers and customers who've been part of the company's official Android feedback program. We're still yearning for the day when we can get root access on a Honeywell thermostat.

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Is Microsoft Hiring for Production of the New Xbox?

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by Miranda Quillen Jul 29th 2012 3:18PM

Now before you start thinking?correctly?that Microsoft doesn?t build the Xboxes themselves, they do have to manage production and the supply chain. That sort of thing is exactly what Microsoft is now hiring for. Though the listing is now closed, it did include that???The Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Information and Services (MSCIS) Finance team is growing rapidly?.

While an estimated 10,000 dev kits have already been produced and distributed, once they commit to construction details quickly become set in stone. We?re not likely to see a full reveal until next year?s E3 but there?s plenty of time before that for some juicy leads, so keep your fingers crossed.

Source: http://www.dualshockers.com/2012/07/29/is-microsoft-hiring-for-production-of-the-new-xbox/

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