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Sharon Osbourne didn’t cry when her father died. The reality TV star was devastated when her dad, rock ‘n’ roll manager Don Arden, passed away three years ago following his battle with Alzheimer’s Disease but says she couldn’t shed any tears because she had none left.

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Mark Ronson wants to work with Cheryl Cole. Although the producer – who has previously teamed up with Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen and Daniel Merriweather – is yet to hear any of the stunning singer’s songs, but said he would definitely consider a collaboration based on what he has seen of her.

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Forest Whitaker would rather starve than play a dull character. The Oscar-winning actor – who has played ruthless Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in ‘The Last King of Scotland’ and Captain Ed Ramey in cliffhanger movie ‘Phone Booth – admits his “secret” is to only select the very best roles offered to him by casting directors.

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Sure, the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition is the latest and greatest in desktop multi-monitor solutions, but if you happen to be hexaphobic (or financially challenged, perhaps) you’ll need something a wee bit smaller. To that end, PowerColor just introduced the Radeon HD 5770 Eyefinity 5. With a whole one less mini- DisplayPort than its heftier cousin, the Eyefinity 5 has all the mid-range muscle of a regular Radeon 5770 — down to the megahertz, we checked — but has five independent display controllers for that wrap-around HD monitor matrix you’ve always dreamed of. Whether the 5770 can actually run games across five monitors is another question, but we expect that reviews of just that functionality will surface (along with pricing, availability, dongles, and everything else that wasn’t in the press release) well before you count to seven. PowerColor jumps on the Eyefinity bandwagon, breaks off a wheel originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

Ok, that was fast. We just told you about the audio recording issue with the version 2.0.3 EOS 5D Mark II firmware yesterday and already we have a 2.0.4 release in Japan. Expect this fix of a fix for a fix to go global on the quick and give you that 29.97 FPS and 23.976 FPS 1080p recording you so specifically crave. Canon EOS 5D Mark II 2.0.4 firmware said to fix audio, reputation originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

You know who makes the E-Ink displays on the Kindle? PVI. The Taiwanese company is also the EPD provider for several other tier-1 eReader device makers including Sony. So take a good look at that color E-Ink prototype display currently sitting in a PVI booth at a Shenzhen tradeshow ’cause that’s what you’ll see packed in color eReaders near the end of the year and into 2011. PVI is showing off both 6- and 9.7-inch color prototypes set to hit the manufacturing lines in Q4 (and sampling now), just right for the Kindle 2 and Kindle DX should Amazon choose to keep things simple and just swap out the display (and a minimum of componentry) within its existing device lineup. It’s worth noting that the extra layer of color filtering glass will impact battery life a bit, but certainly not enough to lose its edge on LCDs. And while PVI was demonstrating a color animation running on its new displays, they can’t do video worth a damn due to the slow frame refresh. And don’t expect to see the color EPDs sporting a contrast or color vibrancy anywhere close to what you’ll get from a traditional LCD either. Regardless, people seem smitten by the USA Today’s use of color so we’re sure these color E-Ink displays will find their niche as well. PVI’s color E-Ink displays are a perfect match for Kindles originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

We’re only a week away from their grand unveiling, but already we’ve got word of the specs for NVIDIA’s high end GTX 480 and GTX 470 cards . Priced at $499, the 480 will offer 480 shader processors, a 384-bit interface to 1.5GB of onboard GDDR5 RAM, and clock speeds of 700MHz, 1,401MHz, and 1,848MHz for the core, shaders and memory, respectively. The 470 makes do with 446 SPs, slower clocks, and a 320-bit memory interface, but it’s also priced at a more sensible $349. The TDPs of these cards are pretty spectacular too, with 225W for the junior model and 295W for the full-fat card. Sourced by VR Zone , these numbers are still unofficial, but they do look to mesh well with what we already know of the hardware, including a purported 5-10 percent benchmarking advantage for the GTX 480 over ATI’s HD 5870 . Whether the price and power premium is worth it will be up to you and the inevitable slew of reviews to decide. [Thanks, Sean] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and 470 specs and pricing emerge originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

Cut out the laptop bag middleman with a laptop that transforms into a briefcase. Ok, so there’s no room to stash the power cord, but this concept is like a grown-up Fisher Price laptop I had as a kid. More

We’ve already explored some of the repercussions that could come if Google exits China, but that’s looking all the more likely now that an actual date has been pointed at by one of their Chinese employees. More

Plotting their latest spread of watches this spring, Casio executives decided it was time to “go green.” Some poor schmuck in R&D took them at their word. Thankfully for mother nature, the Casio Pathfinder PRG110C-3 is more than meets the eye; the watch — suited for argonauts needing an altimeter, barometer, thermometer and digital compass — also has a miniature solar cell built into its face to automatically recharge the battery . Though Casio’s claim that this last will cut down on the three billion batteries Americans trash each year seems a little reaching — watch batteries last a lot longer than a AA — the timepiece does help the planet some merely by being packaged in recyclables. The $250 device will be available exclusively from Amazon, and yeah, the color you see here is the color you’ll get. Casio’s solar-powered Pathfinder watch plays the green card twice originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

We don’t know how seriously you take yourself as a photographer. But painting a face on your lens cap and dangling a hand-made,