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The Maverick Flying Car is another and comparatively more practical entry into the “Aero-Car” Fly/Drive vehicles. Using lightweight dune buggy like design with a parasail ultralight creates quite an impressive combination. I think I might like to have one of these myself.

It is supposedly going to be ready to go into commercial production by Oshkosh 2011.

Maverick LSA

Preview of The Secret World, an MMORPG from Funcom.

During the last GDC (Games Developer Conference) Funcom’s ‘The Secret World’ Team did live in game demos for games journalists like GameReactor.eu and let them video it for their sites. They did have them garble a couple of spots to cover clues that would be in the final game. Begnt Lemne talks about the clue “Town Hall”. I don’t think this was a purposeful leak but a slip since Funcom had the clues covered up in post. Thanks to our friends over at D/A/R/E for pointing this out to me… whomever you are…

Buzz Out Loud 1470: Amazon is bringing a quad-core tablet?…We hope.

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• California pushes for privacy and Facebook pushes back
• US Bill proposes to make unsanctioned streaming a Federal Crime!
• Netflix is North America’s largest single user of bandwidth!
• Dual and Quad Core Processor based tablets coming from Amazon.
• After 6 months of waiting Samsung is finally upgrading their Android Phones.
• Israeli Child is named after Facebook ‘Like’ button… lawsuit to ensew in 18 years…

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• Amazon tablets could rock dual core, quad-core NVIDIA processors
• Amazon Quad-Core Tablet Rumored for 2011
• Bing, Facebook Deepen Ties, Threaten Google +1
• Amazon’s Secret Android Tablets Are Codenamed “Coyote” And “Hollywood” (AMZN)

The VanHemlock News Show for 15th May 2011

• The Playstation Network and Sony Station MMO network have started back up
• Mike from Killed in a Smiling Accident sits in to discus the news

For more audio, video, and blogs from Jon and Tim go to Consoling Gamers.

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Buzz Out Loud 1469: PlayStation Network: safe enough for America!

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• PSN starts up but not everywhere.
• Japan won’t let their PSN up until they are convinced its secure.
• RIAA get fine from LimeWire… artists not so much…
• Untraceable BitCoin alternative Peer to Peer currency.
• Will the next iPhone have an Edge to Edge screen?
• Harper Collins ads allot of new tech jargon to their dictionaries
• Man tracks stolen laptop with free software Prey to hundreds of kilometres away.

Uncle Jay explains May 16, 2011

Buzz Out Loud 1468: Bad Facebook! No biscuit for you!

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• Facebook exposed paying for news campaign to smear Google
• 35% of surveyed users use mobile apps BEFORE getting out of bed.