http://news.brokencontrollers.com How many controllers have you broken? Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:33:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Source: Yahoo! Yahoo! - HANOI, Vietnam – Diarrhea doesn't make headlines. Nor does pneumonia. AIDS and malaria tend to get most of the attention. Yet even though cheap tools could prevent and cure both diseases, they kill an estimated 3.5 million kids under 5 each a year globally — more than HIV ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/aids-malaria-eclipse-the-biggest-child-killers/ Source: Yahoo! "Unfriend" has been named the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary, chosen from a list of finalists with a tech-savvy bent. Unfriend was defined as a verb that means to remove someone as a "friend" on a social networking site such as Facebook. "It has both currency ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/unfriend-named-word-of-2009/ Source: WIRED On one of the Galapagos islands whose finches shaped the theories of a young Charles Darwin, biologists have witnessed that elusive moment when a single species splits in two. In many ways, the split followed predictable patterns, requiring a hybrid newcomer who’d already taken baby steps down a new evolutionary ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/birth-of-new-finch-species/ Source: Mashable About a month ago, Verizon started running ads that mocked AT&T’s 3G coverage and, needless to say, AT&T didn’t take it well, responding with a lawsuit and a request to have the ads pulled immediately. Last week, they publicly called the ads “blatantly false and misleading.” Now, Verizon’s responded, basically ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/verizon-fires-back-at-att-%e2%80%9cthe-truth-hurts%e2%80%9d/ Source: Space.com Since man first touched the moon and brought pieces of it back to Earth, scientists have thought that the lunar surface was bone dry. But new observations from three different spacecraft have put this notion to rest with what has been called "unambiguous evidence" of water across the surface ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/water-found-on-the-moon/ Source: WIRED Google is set to become your new phone company, perhaps reducing your phone bill to zilch in the process. Seriously. Google has bought Gizmo5, an online phone company that is akin to Skype — but based on open protocols and with a lot fewer users. TechCrunch, which broke the news on ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/google-poised-to-become-your-phone-company/ Source: CNN Tech CNET- Dell said Friday that it's ready to enter the smartphone business with the Android-based Mini 3. Long rumored to have such a device in the works, Dell said that the first two carriers to sell the Mini 3 will be China Mobile and Brazil's Claro. The Mini 3 ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/dell-unveils-android-based-mini-3-smartphone/ Source: Yahoo! Games According to internal figures released by Activision, opening day sales for its heavily-anticipated game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 smashed records, generating $310 million in 24 hours in North America and the U.K. to become the "the biggest launch in history across all forms of entertainment." The game ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/modern-warfare-2-breaks-day-one-entertainment-sales-record/ Source: Yahoo! Sports Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco is on pace to have a banner season, much like he did in 2007, but he already has his eye on the offseason. He spent Wednesday asking, nay, begging, Dana White over Twitter to sign him to the UFC for a fight ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/nfl-star-wants-ufc-fight/ Source: Yahoo! As many as 600,000 Xbox 360s were banned from the Xbox Live service this week in the latest in a series of crackdowns by Microsoft on illegally modified consoles. The banned machines -- a "small percentage" of the millions of Xbox 360s around the world -- are alleged to have ... http://news.brokencontrollers.com/wave-of-bans-hits-xbox-live/