Grand Theft Auto 5 Breaks Seven World Records.

Grand Theft Auto 5 has smashed seven Guinness
World Records, it has been confirmed today.
The records, which include "best-selling video
game in 24 hours" and "most viewed trailer for
an action- adventure video game", confirm the
phenomenal
success of Rockstar Games' premier title.
GTA 5, which has already outsold its predecessor
raced to $815m in sales within 24 hours of its
release, and surpassed the $1bn-mark just two
days
later. As a result, the game shattered seven
different world records from across the
entertainment industry.
"GTA totally deserves to be recognized as an
icon of modern British culture," said Craig
Glenday, the Guinness World Records Editor-in-
Chief. "How exciting that it's taken on the might
of Hollywood and won! I'm also doubly proud
as a Dundonian to welcome this home-grown
series back into the Guinness World Records
book."
The online portion of the game has experienced
some teething problems since it was launched
last week, but it doesn't seem to have halted the
continuing success of the open-world crime
epic.
A full list of the records broken by GTA 5 can be
found below:
1) Best-selling action-adventure videogame in
24 hours.
2) Best-selling videogame in 24 hours.
3) Fastest entertainment property to gross$1
billion.
4) Fastest videogame to gross $1 billion.
5) Highest grossing videogame in 24 hours.
6) Highest revenue generated by an
entertainment product in 24 hours.
7) Most viewed trailer for an action-adventure
videogame.
Via UseluCentral.

Apple shows off thinner iPad Airand retina iPad Mini

Apple has unveiled a top-of-the-range
tablet called the iPad Air that is 20% thinner
than the previous version.
The 9.7in (24.6cm) computer is 7.5mm (0.3in)
thick and weighs 1lb (469g), which the firm
claims is the lightest full-sized tablet on the
market.
It is powered by the same A7 chip found in the
company's iPhone 5S.
The launch comes at a time when some analysts
have suggested that Google's Android is about
to overtake Apple's iOS as the bestselling tablet
platform.
Apple also announced a new version of its iPad
Mini.

LG announces curved screen phones to launch in 2014

LG has announced it is to start mass- production of what it calls the "world's first flexible OLED [organic light- emitting diode] panel for smartphones". The South Korean firm said it hoped to start selling the first handsets to feature the tech next year The news comes weeks after Samsung made a similar announcement Samsung said it intended to launch its first product - a special edition of the Galaxy Note 3 - later this month Both companies already use the technology to offer curved OLED television sets. Although the displays used in the TVs are in theory "flexible", they are mounted in fixed shells so they cannot be bent or otherwise re-shaped by the owner A press release from LG's display division indicated its handset screen would curve from top-to-bottom rather than side-to-side, the design Samsung described in a recent patent It said the advantage of using the tech was that the panel was "bendable and unbreakable"."The new display is vertically concave from top to bottom with a radius of 700mm [28in], opening up a world of design innovations in the smartphone market," LG added."What's more, it is also the world's lightest, weighing a mere 7.2g [0.25oz] even with a 6in screen, the largest among current smartphone OLED displays." One industry watcher was not convinced the product, as described, would have much appeal."I think LG is doing this to show it is innovative, to do something different and to stand out from the rest of the bar-style screen devices that we have at the moment," said David McQueen, a mobile device expert at tech consultants Informa"But I don't think consumers are going to be that interested by a slightly curved design."However, we do think there will be interest if flexible screens are used to offer different form factors."For example a device that you snap round your wrist or a traditional shaped smartphone whose screen wraps around the sides onto a bit of the back so that the edges become touchscreen rather than hard buttons."

World Solar Challenge: Crash ends Cambridge University race hopes

Just days before the start of the race,
Resolution crashed during testing
Stewards scrutinised the damage to
Resolution at the roadside
The only British team to qualify for a
solar car race in Australia has been
forced to pull out after its vehicle
crashed just days before the start.
The Cambridge University Eco Racing
car, Resolution, was expected to take
part in the Bridgestone World Solar
Challenge, but crashed on Tuesday.
The team hoped to fix it before the
start, but withdrew on Saturday.
In a statement, the team said: "We have
not been able to reassure ourselves of
the safety of our solar drivers."
Resolution was one of 28 vehicles
entered in the Challenger category of
the 1,860-mile (3,000km), seven-day
race from Darwin to Adelaide which
started earlier.
'Rolled and skidded'
Built by a 60-strong team of students at
the university's engineering
department, the car weighs 265lb
(120kg) and is designed to run at an
average speed of 50mph (80km/h).
During testing prior to the race, the
team wrote on their blog: "The first
three hours of testing went exactly as
planned.
"Unfortunately, we also did one
unplanned test, of the structural
integrity of the chassis. We had an
accident."
The vehicle rolled on its side, skidded
along the road and slipped down an
embankment.
The driver walked away unhurt as the
roll cage and chassis stood up to the
impact.
However, the team said: "[The] solar
cells on the side of the door... do not
take kindly to being sanded by 50m of
rough tarmac.
"Large portions of the side panel cells
are now scattered in a thin, very
expensive layer over the surface of [the
road]."
The team added the car was "only
designed to withstand one such impact
- and as such needs to be repaired to
be fit for purpose".
Members were unable to make the
repairs in time for the start of the race.
A message on their website said: "The
team is very disappointed but we are
confident that we have made the right
decision."

Source : http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-24419452