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It's not surprising that something like this would pop up, considering the motion capture abilities of Microsoft's new Kinect add-on for the Xbox 360. Porn is big business, and thus, this is the first (announced) game to utilize the Kinect as a sex game controller.

The software comes, or at least, will come from adult gaming company ThriXXX. There were two different YouTube "demos" by the company, but both were removed by YouTube.

The videos showed an image of a hand groping a girl in ...

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Since the Kinect simply wasn't expensive enough, the folks at DS Styles have taken one and festooned it with 5,500 Swarovski crystals. The price is a mere $625.

Swarovski is a brand name; it refers to a line of precision-cut crystal and related luxury products produced by Swarovski AG of Wattens, Austria.

It's true that some want their gaming with bling. And $149 is simply too cheap for the Kinect, which folks are turning into just about everything now that open source drivers are available....

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In the wake of the layoffs that hit the company earlier in the week, Yahoo! is cutting a number or products. Among them are the social bookmarking service del.icio.us, MyBlogLog, AltaVista, and Yahoo! Bookmarks.

In fact, the slide above has been confirmed to have come directly from an employee meeting Webcast. It was first posted to Twitter by MyBlogLog founder Eric Marcoullier (who is no longer with Yahoo!).

In response, Yahoo!'s Chief Product Officer Blake Irving ...

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Those who checked their Android device to see if their Android Market apps need an update were pleasantly surprised on Thursday. Google has released Google Maps 5.0 for Android, including 3D support (sans glasses) and greater offline reliability.

Here's how the 3D portion is explained (although, only some 100+ cities currently have the 3D imagery set up).

Until now, Google Maps has always downloaded the map as a set of small, square images that we stitch together to form the map you see. (You’ve probably seen ...

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