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  1. Both the Xbox One and PS4 will celebrate their first birthday this month: Has Sony already won this console generation?

    by , 11-02-2014 at 06:50 AM


    Both the Xbox One and PS4 will celebrate their first birthday this month, and as they head into their second holiday season and first full fourth-quarter availability, it’s interesting to take a look at how the two consoles have performed so far. All evidence suggests a significant advantage for the PlayStation 4, with a sales gap of at least 40% between the two systems, and ...
  2. Just How Close Are We to Figuring Out What Happened to Amelia Earhart?

    by , 11-02-2014 at 02:26 AM
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    She's been dead for decades now, but Amelia Earhart in still on our mind. In fact, it was just a few days ago that her name once again made headlines.

    This time, it was because folks with The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR, for short) announced to the world that they had come one step closer to finding and recovering the wreckage of her plane.

    It all sounds very exciting and fascinating, but one ...
  3. Technical Analysis: S&P 500 Clears a Path Above 2000 After Chart Resistance Break, Crude Oil Range-Bound and Gold Prices Approaching Monthly Low

    by , 11-01-2014 at 11:28 PM
    US DOLLAR TECHNICAL ANALYSIS – Prices appear to be on track to resume its longer-term rising trend after completing a Flag continuation pattern last week. A daily close above the 11102-43 area marked by the 23.6% Fibonacci expansion and the October 3 high exposes the 38.2% level at 11216. The appearance of a Shooting Star candle warns a near-term pullback may be in the cards however. A turn below the 10959-78 zone (rising trend line, 23.6% Fib retracement) clears the way for a test of the 38.2% ...
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  4. Stock Market Halloween

    by , 11-01-2014 at 07:59 PM
    There is a saying about the stock market to ‘Sell in May and Go Away’ which I believe was first documented in a 2002 academic paper by Sven Bouman and Ben Jacobson. They analyzed 37 countries going back to the 17th century and found that this occurred in 36 of them. Besides potentially using this for investing purposes it would seem to refute the efficient market thesis if it is accurate.

    According to the Stock Trader’s Almanac since 1950 the Dow Jones Industrial Average has ...
  5. Ubisoft has announced the minimum requirements for the PC version of Assassin’s Creed Unity and it is crazy minimum PC specs: $500 GPU, $200 CPU, 50GB storage

    by , 11-01-2014 at 03:40 AM


    Ubisoft has announced the minimum requirements for the PC version of Assassin’s Creed Unity — and, well, they’re a little bit puzzling to say the least. At a bare minimum, the new Assassin’s Creed game will require an Nvidia GTX 680 or AMD Radeon HD 7970, 6GB of RAM, and a Core i5-2500K or Phenom II X4 940 CPU. The recommended specs take that up to a Core i7-3770 CPU, 8GB of ...