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Our brooding hero – a bit craggier, a little greyer, and slightly broader around the waste than you might remember him – leaves his old life behind to start anew as a bodyguard in São Paulo, Brazil in Max Payne 3.

Review

New ‘Max Payne’ a bullet-time bender in balmy Brazil

Birgitta Jonsdottir, formerly of WikiLeaks, and an Icelandic MP, has had her Twitter account subpoenaed by U.S. government. She is photographed at The Globe and Mail during and following an editorial board meeting on Jan. 11, 2011.

Dwayne Winseck

Twitter-WikiLeaks case a test of press and privacy rights online

Internet pioneer Len Kleinrock poses for a portrait next to an Interface Message Processor, which was used to develop the Internet. Mr. Kleinrock, arguably the world's first Internet user, says Facebook is fine for his grandchildren, but it's not for him. File photo taken Aug. 25, 2009.

Social Web

Meet the Facebook refuseniks: Millions say 'no like'

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announces the Conservative government's decision to shut down two prisons at an Ottawa news conference on April 19, 2012.

John Ibbitson

How Toews's Internet surveillance bill quietly died

Tech News »

In this Feb. 5, 2007 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg smiles in this office in Palo Alto, Calif.

Facebook investors gamble on a company where user loyalty means everything

Digital Culture »

The App Center will, for the first time, allow software developers to sell apps to consumers directly on Facebook. Consumers will need to use Facebook Credits, the company’s payment system, to purchase the apps and Facebook will take a 30 per cent cut of the revenue as it does with in-app purchases, said Facebook spokeswoman Malorie Lucich.

Facebook joins the app store game with a showcase of its own

Social gaming has become a wasteland of pointless exercises and money grabs, unentertaining entertainment for the listless ... and Zynga is largely responsible for it.

Drawing conclusions from a social gaming fad

Blog Draw Something gets players to sketch their own ads

Mobile and Telecom »

Apple’s decision to equip the next iPhone with a larger screen represents part of its competitive response to Samsung Electronics. Samsung unveiled its top-of-the line Galaxy smartphone with a 4.8-inch touch screen and a faster processor earlier this month.

Next iPhone will boast larger 4-inch screen: sources

Related Is Samsung’s polarizing phablet the shape of things to come?

Gaming News »

'BioShock Infinite' delayed, will miss 2012 holiday season

Game Reviews »

The most haunting situations in Walking Dead are those that force a hurried decision you know, even as you make it, will have lasting consequences. What does your choice say about you?

Walking Dead a zombie game that tests your ethical limits

Science »

This computer-generated image provided by Planetary Resources shows a conceptual rendering of satellites prospecting a water-rich, near-Earth asteroid. The group's mega-million dollar plan is to use commercially built robotic ships to mine rocket fuel and valuable minerals out of these rocks.

James Cameron's next venture: mining asteroids

Gallery In pictures: High-tech tycoons want to mine nearby asteroids

Small Business Technology »

One huge bottleneck is moving the data from where it’s stored on a hard disk into the computer’s memory, where computations happen.

Could this be the end of the hard disk?

Going to China? Leave your laptop at home

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Quebec Premier Jean Charest speaks to delegates at the end of a Quebec Liberal Party meeting Sunday, May 6, 2012 in Victoriaville, Que.

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