'Predators' Reboot Gets an Official Trailer, Papercraft Gameboys
There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
- Proving Hollywood's inability to stop rebooting '80s films, the 'Predators' movie has gotten its first official trailer, dropping the original's Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura for Adrian Brody and Laurence Fishburne. [From: Geekosystem]
- We've seen video game characters made from paper before, but these latest papercraft GameBoys take detail to an insane level with intricate 3-D recreations of the classic portable game console. [From: Behance]
- TUAW found footage of a super geeky alphabet, composed of 540 iPhone apps, and spread across 25 home screens. ('W' is conspicuous in its absence.) It's probably not the most useful typeface, but it's a wonderful waste of time. [From: TUAW]
- In Gizmodo's interview with Bill Nye about tech and the human brain, the Science Guy confirms that smartphones aren't making you dumb. [From: Gizmodo]
As if phishing scams and identity thefts didn't already make the Internet unappetizing, hackers are apparently getting still more industrious in ways that leave us feeling queasy. 
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Back in January, Amazon tried to strong arm Macmillan into abiding by its e-book pricing rules. When the publisher demanded the ability to set its own prices in the Kindle store, Amazon simply yanked its books off the virtual shelves. Macmillan held fast to its demands, however, and, in the face of an impending challenge from the iPad, Amazon relented.
Now, other publishers have begun ...
After a 33-year-old U.K. man brutally raped and murdered a 17-year-old girl he met on Facebook, many demanded that the social networking site do more to protect its younger membership by installing a 'panic' button, which kids could click to instantly report danger. After lengthy consultations with child protection agencies, Facebook has indeed decided to take action, but has opted against ...
The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless.
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Since 2008, Facebook has been embroiled in a legal dispute over its Beacon advertising program, and a judge has finally put an official end to the case. A District Court judge in San Jose, California has approved a class action settlement that will force Facebook to pay $9.5 million. [From: The Washington Post]
Two senators have ...
