It won't get pulled out this time. I hope. Life With PlayStation is now live (again) and ready for downloading.

So what's all the hype about? Isn't it just a Google Earth kinda thing? You bet your Life with PlayStation it's not (yeah, sorry for that pun, but I had to do it). Anyway, watch a feature summary vid of the new service after the link.

A big thanks to Stallyon84 for the tip!

The Life with PlayStation system update has finally gone live! ...or not. Well, it was available for a brief bit of time, but now, it's already been pulled out by Sony. Aww.

This one's for everyone who misses the Science blog. So that includes me? *Grin*. Anyway, In case you didn't know, the Large Hadron Collider's atom smasher will start today.

So how would you feel about contributing to the research of the Large Hadron Collider? You know, help destroy the world and everything. I kid. But someday you might be able to contribute to the LHC's research. That part's true. Following in the footsteps of Folding@Home is LHC@Home. Dun dun dunnn.

And a big load of thanks goes to trigger for the tip!

Life with PlayStation is meant to be good, and it's coming your way soon. What's getting in the way of its launch and what's gonna be in store for us when it comes out? Find out after the jump.

The latest firmware update for the PlayStation 3 has just hit without warning. We've confirmed this by checking out our own unit and firmware 2.42 is right there for the taking. We've got more details after the jump.

Thanks to eaferrari24, canadianbacon, Jeff Blind, D-0-A, Hydro150, hazirvan, peza16, and James Herold for the tip!

Using a naming convention that will keep fans swapping "GTX" side to side, NVIDIA's newest generation of video cards has just been announced over press waves. The GeForce GTX 280 and the GTX 260 are the initial models pushed out by the graphics manufacturing company for the new line known officially as the GTX 200 (note how the GTX prefixes the model numbers). This new family is an old idea improved - it's based on similar G80 architecture, but significantly improved in computing power. More details can be had at the full story.

People who pay their own electricity bills want to know which of their electronics use the most amount of electricity. And as gamers who uses consoles, you should to. Choice, an Australian consumer group, came out with a study that checks out the average power consumption of the oft-used electronic household gadgets, including consoles. Check out the results in the full article.

As consoles get more powerful, they break the boundaries of what they were originally designed for. While they were only limited to games before, they are now lending their power for use in the sciences, from medicine to computing the physics of two black holes colliding. Read more on the role of consoles in the fields of science by going to the full article.

Thanks to a tip from reader yoti93, we're letting the PlayStation 3 owners know that the Stanford University's Folding@Home service has been updated to version 1.31.

Those interested in reading this update improvements will want to visit the full article. All you have to do is click the "read more" link below.

Here's some big news for the guys who've signed up for Standford's  and Sony's Folding@Home project. The company is sending word that registered PS3 units for this shared computing project have exceeded the one million mark.

Details regarding this matter are in the full article.