Rumor: Gran Turismo 6 for PS3 this holiday

Gran Turismo 6 will reportedly launch this holiday season for PlayStation 3, according to iafrica, which allegedly obtained a leaked press release.

There is currently a Gran Turismo event going on at the Silverstone Circuit in the UK, where attendees are learning more about the series and are being treated to “exciting announcements about its future.” Yesterday, the Sony-managed gran-turismo.com website featured a product listing for the unannounced simulation.

Gran Turismo 6 has been in development since 2010 and a Sony executive stated in February the game would be out this year for PS3. As this is Gran Turismo we’re talking about, release windows may mirror dates that are closer than they actually appear.

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Samsung testing 5G wireless technology that can download entire movies in seconds

South Korean tech giant Samsung says it has developed a wireless transmission standard hundreds of times faster than today’s 4G LTE, one that could see users downloading entire movies in seconds.

Samsung on Sunday announced that it had developed a core component of its 5G network by solving a problem that has stymied the wireless industry, Yonhap News reported. Using the 28GHz waveband, Samsung says it has achieved download and upload speeds of tens of gigabits per second (Gbps). Current 4G LTE networks top out at around 75 megabits (Mbps).

In practice, that speed would allow wireless users to download a full HD movie in seconds. Samsung executives see the technology enabling a wide range of rich applications.

Samsung used 64 antenna elements in order to accomplish the high-speed data transfer, and said the company expects that it can commercialize the technology by 2020.

That deadline conforms well to a European Commission goal to have 5G wireless technology in place by the same year. China, too, has been pouring funding into next-generation wireless technology, with hopes to roll out such technology around the same time.

Samsung for years has regularly pioneered in the area of wireless transmission technologies. Some of its wireless advances the company has been able to patent, and some of those patents have been used against Apple in the two companies’ ongoing litigation struggles. Samsung’s wireless patents, though, are typically standard essential, meaning the company must grant licenses in a fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory fashion.

Samsung is not alone in developing next generation wireless technology, nor is its recently announced demonstration the fastest of its kind. NTT DoCoMo in February announced that it had successfully conducted a 10Gbps wireless test in Japan last year using the 11GHz band.

High data transmission rates are a constant goal for wireless carriers as well as mobile device makers. Higher transmission speeds were a major selling point for a number of Android handsets in the years before Apple added 4G connectivity to its iPhone. Upon moving to 4G, customers tend to like the extra speed, but a survey last year found that nearly half of American consumers felt they don’t need 4G LTE. Most carriers are still transitioning to 4G technology, and even those with established 4G networks typically must wait until their customers upgrade their devices in order to get them online with the standard.

GOG adds 10 games for OSX: Guilty Gear, Rise of the Triad and more

GOG has added 10 more jams to its ever-growing list of OSX-compatible games, almost all of which have never been available on an Apple platform previously.

Mac folk running OSX 10.6.8 or newer can now partake in Syndicate Wars, Rise of the Triad: Dark War, Blade Stone: Planet Strike, Strike Commander, Slipstream 5000, Darklands and Litil Divil. Anyone with OSX 10.7 or newer can also pick up Evil Genius, the phenomenal Guilty Gear X2 #Reload and the experimental (for better or worse) Guilty Gear Isuka. As is typically the case at GOG, most of these games also include bonus goodies, ranging from digital manuals, to wallpapers and complete soundtracks.

SSC Tuatara Coming This Winter

The small but exclusive club of hypercars will soon be joined by yet another world record-setting contender: the SSC Tuatara. GT Spirit claims that the car will carry a price tag of $1.3 million when customer deliveries officially begin this December or January. The goal for the Tuatara, obviously, is to unseat the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport as being the fastest car in the world. The Hennessey Venom GT came very close recently, but the people at Guinness World Records ultimately decided in favor of the Bugatti, which was another story entirely.

But the Tuatara will still be quite the threat. It’ll be powered by a twin-turbo 6.9-liter V8 that produces 1,350 horsepower and 1,280 lb-ft of torque. In order to win the world’s fastest production car title, it’ll need to go faster than the Veyron’s 267.8 mph.

The Tuatara has already been tested at going from 0-62 mph in only 2.3 seconds and its top speed is estimated to be around 276 mph. We won’t know its final performance outcome until sometime after the final production version is officially unveiled, which is likely to happen sometime this summer.

Capcom encases 3DS, 3DS XL in vintage Mega Man look

Capcom has taken part in an ongoing observation of Mega Man’s 25th anniversary with statues, soundtrack releases, USB drives, and even an officially promoted fan game. As we stretch into year two of the 25th anniversary celebration, Capcom is producing a Mega Man-themed case for 3DS and 3DS XL.

At first blush, outfitting a 3DS in Mega Man garb seems like a cruel tease, after the death of Mega Man Legends 3. But Capcom is releasing all of the NES Mega Mans on the handheld’s Virtual Console (it’s up to 4 now), making an NES-style Mega Man motif appropriate.

The case will be on sale at Comic-Con, as well as at Capcom’s online store.

Could the Police Get a Breathalyzer for Marijuana and Cocaine?

The police already have fairly sophisticated ways to tell if you’re driving while drunk – witness this alcohol-sniffing flashlight that a cop can aim inside your car. But will they someday be able to tell if you’re high as well, with a breathalyzer-type device that senses the recent use of cannabis, cocaine and other drugs?

The technology certainly seems to be heading that way, to believe new research out of Sweden. On Thursday, scientists at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute announced that they’d successfully detected drugs by analyzing the groovy vapors wafting from people’s gullets. Their technique picked out not just classic stuff like weed, cocaine and amphetamine, but also prescription drugs such as diazepam and the painkiller buprenorphine, raising the possibility that Future Cops could bust drivers for raiding their medicine cabinets to the point of impairment.

So how’d the researchers manage this feat? By using a cheapish, commercially available monitor called the SensAbues, it turns out. They gathered a group of drug users from an addiction emergency clinic and took blood and urine samples for a baseline. They then had them blow into the SensAbues to collect the contents of their lungs, which they parsed using chromatography and mass-spectrometry techniques.

Drugs ingested into the body tend to infiltrate a delicious-sounding substance called the “airway lining fluid.” When drug users exhale, they spew out tiny particles from this fluid – and this is where the researchers found a motherload of 12 brain-twisting compounds:

Alprazolam and benzoylecgonine were detected in exhaled breath for the first time, whereas for methadone, amphetamine, methamphetamine, cocaine, morphine, 6-acetylmorphine, tetrahydrocannabinol, buprenorphine, diazepam and oxazepam, the results confirmed previous observations.

“Considering the samples were taken 24 hours after the intake of drugs, we were surprised to find that there was still high detectability for most drugs,” said lead author of the study Professor Olof Beck.

Should the world welcome what the Swedes herald as a “new matrix in clinical toxicology”? They seem to think so, noting that obtaining samples of mouth air is easy in a roadside setting and less intrusive than getting blood and urine. Yet it could be a pain in the butt and justified grounds for a lawsuit for somebody who smoked a joint or took a pill a day ago and is fine to drive. (The full study in the Journal of Breath Research is here, although it requires an account to access.)