What shown here is the trailer for Guild Wars 2, and this latest footage shows off the extraordinarily beautiful city of Lion’s Arch. I have to say that Guild Wars’ artists are responsible for some of the most spectacular concept art in the online gaming world. Hopefully ArenaNet will be able to work out some magic and make this game great.

Looks like Facebook has their own privacy issues to deal with right now, after admitted to hire a PR firm to spread bad conspiracy about Google’s privacy issues. Cyber security firm and antivirus pioneer Symantec has recently discovered that third parties, in particular advertisers, have accidently had access to Facebook users’ accounts including profiles, photographs, chat, and also had the ability to post messages and mine personal information.

Thankfully, this is only an accident and most of these third-parties may not even have realized their ability to access the information. Symantec has then reported the issue to Facebook who has since then taken corrective action to help solve the issue, but how sure are you that there’s no 3^rd party that has already exploited this loophole?

It seemed that any applications within the social networking site have access to this, once they are integrated into the Facebook platform. According to Facebook, 20 million Facebook applications are installed every day. Now that’s quite alarming, as who knows how many among those 20 million are spam applications?

Symantec discovered that in certain cases, Facebook IFRAME applications inadvertently leaked access token to third-parties like advertisers or analytic platforms. The company estimated that as of April 2011, close to 100,000 applications were enabling such leakage. Symantec also estimate that over the years, hundreds of thousands of applications may also have accidently allowed this to happen.

As access tokens works like a spare key granted by users to the Facebook application, it can then be used to perform certain actions on behalf of the user or to access the user’s profile. Each token is associated with a selected set of permissions, like reading your wall, accessing your friend’s profile, posting on your wall, etc.

The place is slightly too small for me, would prefer if it’s bigger. But many said that they can put up with this no problem. But what if you really stay in such a place for over a year, or more? I don’t think this will be a good place to stay when you’re sick. Also, can’t really cook nice foods in there, the smell will get stuck to the shirts.

Google has officially announced movie rentals in the Android Market at its I/O conference yesterday. Yes, now you can rent movies from your Android device through the Android Market with a single click.

“Pinning” mirrors the experience with apps and books, you can select it on your PC and download to the device in the background for offline viewing. Movies are live in the market right now, support on all Android 2.2 or higher devices is expected “in a couple of weeks” and tablets will get support bundled with their upgrade to Android 3.1.

On the PC, it ties back to the recently expanded YouTube rental service with the same restrictions (30 days to watch, 24 hour window once you start watching) and pricing. HD movies are priced at about $4.99, which seemed more reasonable than previously though.

SOURCE via Android Movie Market

We’ve seen people fitting massive and bloody cross-drilled brake discs and pads made from exotic carbon and steel compounds, and they’re very effective in stopping a supercar that’s speeding at a break-neck speed. But how about a jumbo jet that’s landing from a super high speed on a very-limited runway?

To demonstrate the effectiveness of the brakes of its massive aircraft, Boeing ground away every last bit of the carbon surfaces that normally handle braking duties. In other words, these brakes were ready for replacement and would never even have sniffed a runway in real life.

In order to pass the test, the 747-8 needs to stop from 200 miles per hour to simulate an aborted takeoff, and it must do so using only its brakes – no reverse thrusters allowed. But that’s not all; the plane is also full-loaded in at more than 975,000 pounds. That’s almost a million pound of weight dude!

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This concept was designed by Daniel Chinchilla Ochoa and Alberto Fernandez Albilares, created as part of a design program sponsored by Lamborghini. Now, however, this conceptual vision is going to become a reality, but there’s a catch. It’s not going to be developed by Lamborghini.

A company called 215 Racing has acquired the rights to the Indomable design, and it plans to turn out a production version of the design team’s rendering. Based in Abington, PA, 215 Racing will produce the car, which will be called the SF22, through its sub-company Mostro Di-Potenza. That name means “Monster Power” in Italian, so I’m sure it fits the concept car nicely.

According to the company, power for the SF22 will be provided a mid-mounted twin-turbocharged 9.4-liter V8 engine, which would probably be the biggest V8 engine ever. It’ll be sourced from the General Motors 572, which will be paired with a six-speed sequential gearbox. 215 Racing expects this beast to produce 2,000-horsepower and 2,000 pound-feet of torque. Sounds something like what Top Gear talked about, the 1,000hp supercar joke that ‘someone’ wanted to build.

Of course, any company can claim such dramatic power numbers. So, we can only wait to see just how capable the finished Mostro Di-Potenza SF22 turns out. The company plans to build 50 examples total, at a rate of two per month over the course of two years, and says it’s now taking orders for mid-2012 deliveries. What brave team they have. The initial deposit will only cost you $1,000, but the fully built vehicle will run you close to $950,000, which is steal a lot cheaper than the ‘weaker’ Lamborghini Sesto Elemento that we talked about today.

Speedy RAMs are on the way for smartphones, as Samsung’s toggle Double Data Rate 2.0 MLC NAND chips are now in production. This is essentially the first in the industry. The 64 gigabit flash chips manufactured using 20nm processes boast an impressive 400Mbps transfer rate. That makes these toggle DDR 2.0 chips about three times faster than toggle DDR 1.0 (a 133Mbps interface) or ten times faster than the 40Mbps SDR NAND flash in widespread use today.

SOURCE via Samsung Tomorrow