In Fracture, “players are equipped with an arsenal of futuristic weaponry to strategically reshape their surroundings on the fly.” Continue reading for the trailer. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Each action they perform dynamically reshapes the earth in ways no videogame has ever seen. When Briggs throws a tectonic grenade on a level battlefield, the ground blasts upward to provide access to an otherwise unreachable area.

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Breaking away from life-sized Cylon replicas, Brickmodder Labs decided to build a mini light-up version with LEGO parts. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

However, when someone goes out of their way to mod a Lego figure, giving it an oscillating LED so it looks just like an classic Cylon… well, the wow factor reaches a whole new level.

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The Chess vehicle concept features a cabin that rests atop a platform which “can move around in the event of a crash, keeping the passengers out of the deformation zone.” Click here for first picture in gallery.

In theory, the passengers would experience a lot less of the force, or at least the cabin wouldn’t be smashed in, so injuries are a lot less likely.

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Ok, so it’s not exactly a Star Wars hologram, but Cisco recently demonstrated their new On-Stage TelePresence system which mimics tech holographic technology found in the movies. Video after the break.

The video is pretty boring except for the fact that it’s a guy on stage speaking to two holograms of people who are in other countries. In fact, they look so realistic that it took me a while to figure out that they were holograms.

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The Chess vehicle concept features a cabin that rests atop a platform which “can move around in the event of a crash, keeping the passengers out of the deformation zone.” Click here for first picture in gallery.

In theory, the passengers would experience a lot less of the force, or at least the cabin wouldn’t be smashed in, so injuries are a lot less likely.

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The Chess automobile concept features a cabin that rests atop a platform which “can move around in the event of a crash, keeping the passengers out of the deformation zone.” Click here for first picture in gallery.

In theory, the passengers would experience a lot less of the force, or at least the cabin wouldn’t be smashed in, so injuries are a lot less likely.

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Rufus is a new character in Capcom’s upcoming Street Fighter 4, with special moves like the “Spectacle Romance”, “Space Opera Symphony” and “Messiah Kick”. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Some leaked footage from a location test is no proper way to state hi to a “new” Street Fighter IV character, so make sure you give a large warm hello to Rufus and his nice, clean, in-game screenshots.

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Apple’s latest iTunes ad features “the band Coldplay and lead singer and pianist Chris Martin,” highlighting “the upcoming release their new album, Viva la Vida.” Video after the break.

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These fanmade towers aren’t the first to be constructed, but they certainly are the tallest. From LEGO to filing cabinets, you’ll find them after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

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The FASTRA supercomputer boasts four NVIDIA 9800 X2 graphics cards for “a total of eight GPUs with 1,024 stream processors” that “perform as fast as 350 modern CPU cores.” Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Looking at new computational methods for tomography - a technique used by medical scanners to create 3D images - University of Antwerp researchers have built a budget supercomputer

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