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Xbox One: Quantum Break trailer
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Xbox One: Quantum Break trailer

Master time to survive the present... and save the future. From the creators of Alan Wake and Max Payne comes Quantum Break, a revolutionary entertainment experience that blurs the line between gameplay and television. With Quantum Break, the world will see a new generation of immersive entertainment, only possible on Xbox One. Courtesy: xbox

Xbox One Anthem: 'Celebrating the Xbox community'
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Xbox One Anthem: 'Celebrating the Xbox community'

The Xbox One Anthem is a celebration video of the Xbox community. It features users, creators and innovators who make Xbox what it is and guide where it is going. Their collective voice tells Xbox's story and hint toward its future. Courtesy: xbox.com

Why it's awesome to be a nerd
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Why it's awesome to be a nerd

Wil Wheaton gives a message to a nerd's daughter on why it is awesome to be a nerd. Filmed at Calgary Comic Expo, April 27th 2013. courtesy Jennifer Black-Moir/YouTube

Raw: First solar X-flare of 2013
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Raw: First solar X-flare of 2013

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an X-1.7-class flare on May 13th, 2013 and STEREO-B recorded the ensuing coronal mass ejection. -- As an added bonus, a massive prominence erupted from near the southwestern limb of the Sun. Credit: NASA / SDO / STEREO

Chris Hadfield's Mission reflections
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Chris Hadfield's Mission reflections

With a breathtaking view of our planet around him, CSA Astronaut Chris Hadfield reflects upon his mission, his upcoming return to Earth and his connection with the public. Canada's first Commander of the International Space Station thanks everyone who followed and made this mission a shared experience. (Credit: CSA/NASA)

Watch an actual 160 Gbps DDoS attack
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Watch an actual 160 Gbps DDoS attack

See the Prolexic DDoS attack mitigation process in action during a real, massive 160 Gbps 120 Mpps attack against one of their clients in April 2013. Video supplied by ProlexicTechnologies.

 Sony's New Phone:  Xperia Z
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Sony's New Phone: Xperia Z

Feel like you're there with a razor sharp & super bright display. Mobile BRAVIA Engine 2, a 13 megapixel camera with Exmor RS™ for mobile - the world's first image sensor with HDR video for smartphones and a sleek design that resists both water and dust, Xperia Z combines the best of Sony in a smartphone. Courtesy: Sony

Auckland museum explores Three Kings underwater
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Auckland museum explores Three Kings underwater

Three days into a two-week expedition to the Three Kings Islands, New Zealand scientists have found several previously undescribed seaweed species and anticipate more discoveries in the waters around these islands 55km off the northern-most tip of New Zealand. The expedition findings are being shared in near real-time through the blog site http://threekings.aucklandmuseum.com/

 Cavalli Islands shakedown dive
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Cavalli Islands shakedown dive

Nine scientists are three days in to a two-week marine expedition to the Three Kings Islands and they've already discovered their first new (or previously undescribed) species - seaweeds. This video footage is from their first dive at the Cavalli Islands on the way to the Three Kings. You can follow more of the expedition through their blog http://threekings.aucklandmuseum.com/

Auckland Museum explores Three Kings Islands
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Auckland Museum explores Three Kings Islands

Auckland Museum is leading a team of New Zealand and Australian scientists on a two-week expedition to the Three Kings Islands to explore the marine life and search for previously undiscovered species Expedition leader Dr Tom Trsnki explains what people can expect on this scientific expedition.

Face of the future rears its head
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Face of the future rears its head

Meet Zoe: a digital talking head which can express human emotions on demand with "unprecedented realism" and could herald a new era of human-computer interaction. Courtesy: YouTube/CambridgeUniversity

God of War: Ascension trailer
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God of War: Ascension trailer

Before he was a God, he was a man. Six months have passed since Kratos stood over the bodies of his wife and child after being tricked by Ares, and vengeance is born in the fires of betrayal in this prequel to the best-selling God of War franchise. Courtesy: Sony

Sony's new Xperia Z smartphone
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Sony's new Xperia Z smartphone

Sony which sold a hundred of million phones just a few years ago has struggled to in the era of smart devices, facing withering competition from US and Korean vendors which have all but captured the market. Courtesy YouTube/SonyXperia

Robotic lamp 'aware of its environment'
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Robotic lamp 'aware of its environment'

Pinokio is an exploration into the expressive and behavioural potentials of robotic computing. Customized computer code and electronic circuit design imbues Lamp with the ability to be aware of its environment, especially people, and to expresses a dynamic range of behaviour.

Amazing space time-lapse
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Amazing space time-lapse

Giacomo Sardelli wanted to use pictures taken from the International Space Station to tell a story and share the message sent by the astronauts who worked on the station in the last 11 years. They are working to open a Gateway to Space for all humankind, the astronauts are leaving our planet which they see spinning faster and faster, merging earth, oceans and people together, ready to follow them, Further Up Yonder. Images courtesy of Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Music: Synthetic Truth, by digitalR3public - licensed under a Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 License Audio messages courtesy of NASA

New superjet technology
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New superjet technology

The SABRE (Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) is a variable-cycle engine which can use air taken in through intakes like a turbojet when operating in the atmosphere before converting to pure rocket mode as it enters space. Courtesy: YouTube/SpaceRenaissance

Students win $20,000 for broadband plans
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Students win $20,000 for broadband plans

A competition designed to get young people thinking about the benefits of ultra-fast broadband has netted ten students $2000 each. A $1.35 billion government initiative will see 75 per cent of New Zealanders connected to ultra-fast broadband (UFB) by 2020. In light of this, Telecom has just run its first 'Amazing Ideas Search', asking school students to suggest ways that UFB will improve their lives.

Kiwi firm at cutting edge of crime fighting
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Kiwi firm at cutting edge of crime fighting

A New Zealand software company is at the cutting edge of intelligence-led crime fighting around the globe. Software created by the Wynyard Group, a subsidiary of Jade based in Christchurch, is used by more than 60 of the largest law enforcement agencies in the world. Watch the Wynyard Intelligence Platform being applied the the seized Enron email set.

Gibbs Quadski test run
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Gibbs Quadski test run

Millionaire industrialist Alan Gibbs has launched his latest creation, the amphibious Quadski which can navigate water or land. Here's a look at a test run.

Jump from Space: Fearless Felix makes successful freefall
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Jump from Space: Fearless Felix makes successful freefall

Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner broke the sound barrier during his jump from the edge of space this morning, but he did not set a new record for the longest freefall. The 43-year-old Austrian achieved the fastest ever freefall speed at 1,137 kilometres per hour during the 4 minutes and 19 seconds of freefall from an altitude of 128,097 feet

Space jump aborted due to gusty winds
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Space jump aborted due to gusty winds

Felix Baumgartner's attempt to jump out a space capsule from the edge of space had to be aborted at the last minute due to wind gusts that made it impossible to safely inflate the 30 million cubic feet / 834,497 cubic meters balloon for the launch. Baumgartner and the Red Bull Stratos team had waited for five hours in vain for the winds to calm down. New target launch: 6AM MDT/12PM GMT Sunday October 14th

 Full length trailer: Halo 4
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Full length trailer: Halo 4

It's finally here! The first full-length, official, live action Halo series is here on Machinima Prime! "Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn" is a live-action digital series that takes fans back to the terrifying beginning of the Human/Covenant war, when the Master Chief inspired a young cadet who would eventually become a leader aboard the UNSC's greatest vessel: the UNSC Infinity.

New App for Auckland Civil Defence
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New App for Auckland Civil Defence

Philip Duncan from WeatherWatch interviews Clive Manley who is the Auckland Civil Defence controller about the new smartphone/iphone app made for the Auckland region to help and inform during an emergency.