It was just last week that Sky announced the some of its channels will be available on the Xbox 360, but the move has prompted talk of other content providers joining in.

The latest is Hulu. The US video-streaming website owned by some of the biggest broadcasters in America – NBC Universal, Fox and Disney – is rumoured to be heading to the Xbox after US presenter Olivia Munn put on her Twitter account this following revealing tweet: "Just finished promos for hulu/microsoft event I'm doing on june 8!"

Bigging up a Bingathon

With this, the internet was ablaze with much rumour and speculation about whether the US was going to get its version of the Sky deal on the Xbox 360.

Turns out, however, all that was revealed within Munn's tweet was her lack of technology nous.

She was actually referring to a Microsoft/Bing event happening 8 June to celebrate the arrival of the search engine.

The event is going to be called 'Bingathon' and will celebrate all things Bing. What Munn did announce was that the all-day event would be transmitted on Hulu.

This isn't the first time that Hulu has been mooted for the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3. And it does point to a lack of TV streaming on the console in the US.

If Hulu does become available for the console then it will be interesting to see if a UK version will happen – given that the service should be available in Blighty before the year is up.

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You might not have noticed, but there’s a new safety center on YouTube, available via a link at the bottom of every page on the video-sharing site. It offers advice on advice on bullying and links to support groups. But as it was launched, YouTube was already considering more, depending on how popular the new safety features prove to be. "One of the things we're looking at is whether it is possible to create a separate YouTube site, an opt-in 'SafeTube' site for families," said policy head Victoria Grand. SafeTube would be an opt-in that didn’t include age-restricted videos and would delete expletives. "If they are selecting to be

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The iPhone 2009 isn't very far away now, but we're still jumping at the bit to get as much info about the new smartphone as we can. This week, our burning need for Apple leaks has been sated by a Chinese blog called UMPC fever. They posted some behind-the-...

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The GW520 and GT505 are the latest social networking devices from LG that come equipped with features like push notification of updates from various social networking sites, push email and Microsoft Exchange support. As for the specs itself, the GW520 is packed with a 2.8-inch full touchscreen display, a 3-magapixel camera, a full slide-out QWERTY keypad, a 7.2 Mbps HSPDA connectivity, 3G and a WAP 2.0 browser. Meanwhile, the GT505 comes with a bigger 3-inch full touchscreen, a 5-megapixel camera, a 3.6 Mbps HSDPA connectivity, Wifi, GPS, 3G and a 30-day free trial of WisePilot for LG. Both handsets are expected to be launched sometime in June 2009. [MobileWhack via Upcoming Cell Phones]

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Time sure does fly. It’s been a whole year since Devin and I popped our E3 cherries and we find ourselves back in LA for what is expected to be a return to glory for the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Not much going on today except for a few parties, but I did pass the convention center on my way to the hotel and noticed that Ubisoft and Sony dropped crazy money on signage.

Draping one section of the CC was a rather large Assassin’s Creed 2 banner, but I’m not entirely sure what Sony’s banner was all about. It was a shot of someone’s arm from the elbow down holding up a Sixaxis controller. There was one other banner going up but I couldn’t make out what it was from the van.

Anyway, Microsoft, EA and Ubisoft will hold press conferences tomorrow at 10:25AM PT, 2PM PT and 5PM PT, respectively. The Xbox 360 press conference was originally scheduled for 10:30AM, but an e-mail went out a couple hours ago with the following statement:

Please be advised that due to a very special addition to our Media Briefing tomorrow, we will be starting 5 minutes early at 10:25am.

Whatever you say, Microsoft.

Nintendo’s press conference is on Tuesday at 9AM PT with Sony going on at 11AM PT. Konami’s press conference is scheduled for 3PM PT on Wednesday and we’ll be at everything getting the lowdown for you guys. In between all of those shenanigans the CG team will be playing tons of video games that you guys won’t get to play for months. Heh.

And how cool is my hotel keycard? It was the Bats or Mr. J mouthing off about being exclusive on the PlayStation 3.

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Could a new Roomba be hitting the streets? Tipster Kason Jinkaid writes:

Not sure if this excites you, but I heard from a Costco salesperson
that they’re getting new Roombas “soon”, though that could mean
months. They aren’t stocking the ones they’ve been carrying (model
550). Also Woot just sold off a bunch for 535s for ~$100 less than
what they usually sell for, so are probably clearing out inventory.

If anything, you can get yourself a cheap 550 or 535?

I doubt sincerely this means the arrival of the square Roomba we talked about last week but it could mean a refreshed model going out to big box stores. We’ll investigate a bit.

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Derrick Pitts, lead astronomer at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute, talks about the telescope used in the Bloom Observatory. The 10-inch refractor telescope has been around since 1934, and was built by Carl Zeiss Jena and shipped over from Germany.

Here’s more from the Franklin Institute’s web site:

The original observatory, opened in 1934, had two telescopes. The 10-inch, f/15 refractor, built by Carl Zeiss Jena, employed the latest optical and engineering techniques available in pre-World War II Germany. The 24-inch reflector telescope, manufactured by J.W. Fecker of Pittsburgh, was a convertible Newtonian/Cassegrain instrument with focal ratios of 14.4 and 7, respectively. The reflector was used for deep-sky observations, including the first recovery sighting of Comet Halley in the fall of 1985. City light pollution eventually rendered it ineffective, and the scope was moved to the Institute’s Space Command exhibit.
Bloom Observatory was renovated in 2006. Nationally-recognized telescope mechanic, Christopher Ray, of Ray Museum Studios and a professor of Mechanical Engineering from Swarthmore College, completely rebuilt the Zeiss refractor, upgrading it with modern PC-controlled DC-servo drives to achieve GO-TO pointing accuracy of better than 0.2 arc-seconds on both axes. The upgrade enables visitors to see not only the only the usual, but also thousands of faint objects (down to about magnitude 13)–despite high levels of ambient light pollution.

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Our review partner Digital Trends tested the Olympus E-620 camera and published this review. Quote from the review: "Yes, there are DSLRs available from companies other than Canon and Nikon. But give the devils their due, since they account for ove...

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