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Viz Media, the anime localization super-giant responsible for bringing both Bleach and Naruto to North America, will continue its cultural conquest of the western continent by releasing Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva in North American markets. The film takes place between the events of Professor Layton and the Last Specter (due out this fall) and Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box , and should be available at your local otaku shelter “later this year.” The 2009 animated film featuring everyone’s favorite top-hat professor had previously undergone westernization for its 2010 release in the UK, however Viz Media’s adaptation will be the first version available in the US and Canada for those weary of importing. The film has been such a success in Japan and abroad that Layton developer Level 5 has already commissioned a sequel, however there has been no mention of localization for that adventure so far.

A team of researchers from the University of Illinois has figured out how to make a pen that lays down functioning electrical circuits as it draws.

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Ah-hah! There we go. Just days ago we were pointing out how strange it was that Foursquare still didn’t have a proper Windows Phone 7 application (especially as Microsoft had touted Foursquare around as a partner since the very beginning), and now they’ve gone and made things right. Following Gowalla into the Windows Phone fray by less than a week, Foursquare has just pushed their official WP7 application into Microsoft’s Marketplace. It looks like that extra time in the oven really did it some good. It is, perhaps, the best looking WP7 application we’ve seen on the platform to date. If you’ve got Zune installed or you’re on a WP7 handset, you can find Foursquare for WP7 right here . If you’re neither of those things, you’ll just have to poke your finger at the screenshot up above and pretend.

Tablets are so popular that just about every hardware manufacturer in the game no matter how big or small has come forth with their own offering. As we’ve told you countless times the current undisputed king is none other than the Apple iPad which has managed to secure a hefty portion of the market. However, Apple is not the only company seeing success in tablet land as Samsung is another company with several tablets on the market falling into their Galaxy Tab line up. While the Galaxy Tab 7 saw varying degrees of success the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is expected to help Samsung secure a larger portion of the market. This device has been made available through various retailers including eBay but has yet to be made available from wireless carriers. Today that comes to an end as it was just made known that Verizon Wireless is now allowing consumers to pre-order a 4G enabled Galaxy Tab 10.1 with shipping estimates of 4-6 weeks. Related posts: Samsung Galaxy Tab

If you’re excited about getting your hands on the next version of the Mac OS X operating system, Lion, you’ll be glad to know that it’s not too far away. Apple has been reported to have started seeding the Golden Master version of the operating system to its developers today. The Golden Master version of an app, in case you didn’t know, is pretty much the version of the app that will be shipped out to the general public, assuming no more bugs are found during this phase of testing. If all goes well, Mac users will get to user OS X Lion on their computers soon enough. The speculated release date for OS X Lion has been said to be on July 14 th – barely two weeks away from today. Mac users should get ready for the big day and prepare to receive the update. (It would be a good time to start backing up all your files now so you don’t have to do it on the day itself – you never know what could go wrong during the update). Mac OS X Lion: now Golden Master status , By Ubergizmo . Top Stories : Xperia Play Review , Samsung Infuse 4…

The Scion iQ, Toyota’s tiny EV car that could, got an official 2012 launch yesterday at the automaker’s annual dealer meeting in Vegas. The quiet, though far from specific launch announcement frees this 65 mile-per-charge roadster from its pre-production limbo. Shown off last March at the Geneva Motor Show, the Scion iQ had been put on indefinite hold while factory production in the carmaker’s disaster-stricken homeland ramped back up to speed. With all signs now set to go, the only red-light still lingering is the micro-subcompact’s undisclosed MSRP. Considering the recent bankruptcy of Norwegian Think’s EV offering , we’re glad to see Toyota looking out for its little guy. Show full PR text Toyota Confirms Highlights of Annual National Dealer Meeting LAS VEGAS, NV (June 29, 2011) — Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. confirmed that its annual national dealer meeting took place here today. The private meeting was attended by representatives from Toyota’s 1,233 U.S. dealers. Speakers included Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) President Akio Toyoda, Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (TMA) President and …

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Although the world is currently enamored of flash memory, today’s standard for solid-state storage, companies like IBM need to think a few years ahead. One of the technologies they’re looking at is called phase-change memory, in which a memory cell changes from a crystalline to amorphous phase, changing its resistance. Put a bunch of those together, and you’ve got yourself a binary storage system. The trouble was that they couldn’t store more than one bit per cell, which means the tech couldn’t really scale. They’ve just figured that out, though: they assigned four discrete resistance levels (i.e. phase states) to represent “00,” “01,” “10,” and “11.” A clever and elegant solution that circumvents the problem completely. They also came up with a way of controlling for the fact that the resistance level tends to drift over time. Interested? There’s much more to read over at IBM Zurich’s Research blog. You’re not going to be seeing this type of memory for a while, though; IBM puts