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Good luck to @MattParryRacing, starting the Pau Trophy final from pole after winning yesterday

this Daft Punk medley by Pigeon is really impressive:

The Samsung Galaxy S4 has an awesome built-in feature called Adapt Sound. Simply put, it fine tunes the sound output of the smartphone in accordance to the user's hearing and to what headphones are being used with the device. Allow us to tell you how to use the feature...Photos:

The Nokia Lumia 925 smartphone that had been previously dubbed the Catwalk was officially announced last week. This Windows Phone handset is due to release in June and specs included 16GB of internal storage, sadly non-expandable. However we have just heard of a 32GB storage model, which was originally thought to be a Vodafone exclusive but that now seems as though it will be available on further carriers. The Lumia 925 will be released first in regions such as the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain and China and will then arrive in other regions including the US and news of a larger internal storage model is likely to please many potential customers. Initially a 32GB variant was said to be an exclusive for Vodafone but it now looks as though that only applies to the UK bearing in mind a screenshot that has now come to light. The screenshot is claimed to be from the inventory system of T-Mobile in Germany and among the listings the Lumia 925 is detailed as having 32GB of internal storage, along with the fact this is not expandable via microSD. Of course this could be an error on the system but it does give hope that the 32GB variant will be available in more regions than the UK. Also we had informed that the phone would be released in some regions in June but a particular date had not been given by Nokia. However this inventory system shows the Lumia 925 as arriving in the week beginning June 9. We already told readers that in the US one definite carrier of the Lumia 925 had been confirmed as T-Mobile and it will certainly be interesting to find out if the 32GB model will be offered stateside. Are you waiting for the Nokia Lumia 925 to release in your region? Maybe you’ll only purchase this phone if the 32GB option is available to you? Let us know with your comments. Source: WPArea.de (Google Translated)

Quite often with new big movie releases we see games to accompany them released onto the various platforms, and now Fast & Furious 6 is released for iOS users while Android users are left waiting. It is not unusual for big name app releases to favour the iOS platform first but there is a version promised to be coming soon to Android users via Google Play, and now not long after Iron Man 3 was released the official Fast & Furious game has been made available on the Apple App Store as a free download. As it can be seen from the demo video below the graphics for the game are visually stunning and continues the growing trend of standout titles being released for mobile operating systems. The game is based in the streets of London as you have to test your driving skills to the limit, and features classic American muscle cars from the 1970s to more modern machinery. Players have to join the Fast & Furious crew taking on a series of new jobs as you have to gain their respect drifting and drag racing around the city’s streets, and as you progress you can collect new vehicles and customize and upgrade the ones you already own. Users can also join tournaments or join a crew to take on the world competing in the global leaderboards, but there seems to be some issues with the game for certain users though. The apps listing states the game is compatible with the iPhone 4 or later, iPod Touch 4G or later, and the iPad 2 or later, but there are some users saying the game doesn’t work on their fourth generation iPod Touch. Have you managed to get the game working on your iPod Touch 4G?

The Pan-Arab Web Awards Academy has awarded the HIPA Website a Gold accolade.

Valve’s secret augmented reality project, or at least one of them, has finally surfaced. At the weekend’s Maker Faire, ex-Valvesters Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson, demonstrated CastAR, a pair of glasses with a mini-projector that ‘casts’ games onto a reflective surface. The game appears in 3D in front of the player, who can interact with the insubstantial environments. It was a project that died during Valve’s “great cleansing” at the start of the year, but it’s not a cloak-and-dagger tech theft: Gabe waved his magic wand and gave his ex-employees the rights to the new technology. (more…)

(Reuters) - Pop stars Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift won the big prizes on Sunday at the Billboard Music Awards, which also honored legendary performers Madonna and Prince. Bieber, who was named top male artist, also performed at the show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. He also...

Sales tracker claims less sales than predecessor - didn't count PC. [Posted 20 May 2013 by Svend Joscelyne] Deep Silver has scored the double in this week's UK Video Game Chart, as Metro: Last Light debuts in the #1 spot alongside previous top seller Dead Island: Riptide. While it's a great win for 4A Games and the work it has put into the post-apocalyptic title, number-cruncher Chart-Track has revealed that despite its top ... click to read full item

There is a big problem in the RavenDB build process. To be rather more exact, there is a… long problem in the RavenDB build process. As you can imagine, when the build process run for that long, it doesn’t' get run too often. We already had several runs of “let us optimize the build”. But… the actual reason for the tests taking this long is a bit sneaky. To save you from having to do the math, this means an average of 1.15 seconds per test. In most tests, we actually have to create a RavenDB instance. That doesn’t take too long, but it does take some time. And we have a lot of tests that uses the network, because we need to test how RavenDB works on the wire. From that perspective, it means that we don’t seem to have any real options. Even if we cut the average cost of running the tests by half, it would still be a 30 minutes build process. Instead, we are going to create a layered approach. We are going to freeze all of our existing tests, move them to an Integration Tests project. We will create a small suite of tests that cover just core stuff with RavenDB, and use that. Over time, we will be adding tests to the new test project. When that becomes too slow, we will have another migration. What about the integration tests? Well, those will be run solely by our build server, and we will setup things so we can automatically test when running from our own forks, not the main code line.