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Wireless charging - the future for electric cars

It's electric, and like all battery-operated automobiles needs regular charging. "The charging is done wirelessly, you park up, turn off the key and voila... charging starts automatically," says Anthony Thomson, CEO of HaloIPT, a UK company that has installed the technology. The process uses electromagnetic induction to transfer power from a pad built into the ground to another installed in the bottom of the car. The system could be installed in a supermarket parking place, garage floor or the ground at a special charging station. When a driver parks the vehicle, the two pads line up and with a flick of a switch, the charging starts.

Katy Perry leads MTV nominations

US pop star Katy Perry leads the way at this year's MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) with nine nominations. The singer's nods include video of the year for Firework, best pop video and best special effects. British singer Adele and Kanye West picked up seven nominations apiece. Other multiple nominees included Lady Gaga, Beyonce, and Bruno Mars. The VMAs are scheduled to take place on 28 August in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live in the US. Perry, who married comedian Russell Brand last year, was also nominated for best female video, best collaboration, best art direction and best cinematography.

Texas executes 9/11 'revenge' killer

A man who embarked on a shooting spree in what he claimed was retaliation for 9/11 has been executed at a prison in Texas. The lone survivor of Mark Stroman's attack on convenience store workers in late 2001, Rais Bhuiyan, originally from Bangladesh, unsuccessfully sued to stop the execution, saying his religious beliefs as a Muslim required him to forgive the man. Stroman claimed the shooting spree that killed two men and injured a third targeted people from the Middle East, though all three victims were from south Asia. It was the death of 49-year-old Vasudev Patel, from India, that put Stroman on death row. Stroman's execution was the eighth this year in Texas.

Mac OS X Lion pounces

As promised, Apple let Mac OS X Lion out of its cage this morning. Version 10.7 of the operating system has more than 250 new features, Apple said, but an installation disc isn't one of them: it's available today for $29.99 as a 3.49GB download only. Apple enjoys pushing the computing industry into the future by dropping technology it deems to be from the past-for example floppy drives missing from the first iMac-and those who want a real-world copy of the OS will have to wait until Apple releases it on a USB thumb drive next month for $69. The Mac OS X download, available through the Mac App Store, dovetails with Apple's new MacBook Air and Mac Mini Lion-based computers. These new models are updated with Intel's modern Sandy Bridge processors and a high-speed Thunderbolt data transfer port-and none has a DVD drive for the next OS upgrade.

Google+ For iPhone Now The Top Free App In iTunes

Google+ for iPhone hit Apple's App Store a mere 24 hours ago but it's being downloaded like wildfire as it currently sitting atop the heap as the most popular free app available from iTunes. This is big news considering Google+ is still invitation-only and only has 18 million users so far, compared to Facebook's 750 million. That said, Google+ users can now upload contacts from Outlook and Mac address books (not Facebook, though), which may result in even bigger Google+ adoption numbers.

Steve Jobs dismisses rumors of his successor

Apple CEO and cancer survivor Steve Jobs is not keen on discussing speculation about who will replace him when the inevitable happens. This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company's board of directors have been discussing plans about who will take over the position that has been held by Jobs since the late 1990s, and perhaps the title that some will always bestow upon Jobs and Jobs alone, once the man is no longer able to hold the position himself. The Journal said it had credible information that the board has already been meeting with headhunters and "at least one head of a high-profile technology company."

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New Super Mario Bros 2 new Mario game for 3DS in August

Well, seeing as we explained that not too confusing. Super Mario Bros 2 is not actually Super Mario Bros 2. The true sequel to Mario's first adventure horizontal scroll was considered a game too difficult for the Western market and did not leave the borders of Japan, which appeared years later as The Lost Levels. The Super Mario Bros 2 Western gamers experiencing is actually a re-adapted version of Doki Doki Panic quirky. There are a very interesting story behind this game, but for now let's leave it at that brief summary. Once placed on record, we announced that Nintendo has confirmed the arrival of the game called New Super Mario Bros 2 for the handheld in three dimensions, 3DS.

Little or no need to see this new version compared to that of 8-bit 20 years ago. Nothing in terms of graphics but in terms of gameplay, and also maintain a classic essence is working so well in recent Mario games. This New Super Mario Bros 2 is a sequel to that New Super Mario Bros which was released 6 years ago for the Nintendo DS and enjoyed considerable success. The game recovers the two-dimensional perspective but still have the depth necessary to maintain the 3D effect on the DS. Then we leave with a video presentation of New Super Mario Bros has been shown in Japan.

The launch of this new New Super Mario Bros 2 is scheduled for next August. Although Nintendo has not revealed the game's plot, we know that Mario, Luigi and many other characters from the Mario universe will be present in it. It seems that the game system will be based on the first seen in New Super Mario Bros Nintendo DS, with a classic side-scrolling and the ability to control both Mario and his fellow sufferer Luigi. The raccoon costume Super Mario Bros 3 is also present in this adventure, allowing Mario to fly through the air thanks to a sympathetic and powerful tail.

There is no doubt that the next E3 2012, the important fair in the world of video games to be held next June in Los Angeles, will be the perfect setting for Nintendo to know more about this game, to which they bind also expected Luigi's Mansion 2 and those for the new Wii U, the next console from Nintendo, which will also, how could it be otherwise with a good helping of titles devoted to most famous plumber the world. We leave you without the brief video presentation of this New Super Mario Bros 2

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