It’s no secret that certain countries have different views over freedom of expression on the internet, but this hasn’t stopped Twitter’s attempt to keep its service running in as many places as possible. In its latest blog post, the microblogging service announced that it’ll begin “to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country” when required, in order to keep said content available to all users elsewhere (as opposed to blocking it globally).

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Twitter to begin ‘reactively’ censoring tweets in specific countries, still no love for China

About a week after suffering a legal setback in Germany, Samsung received another bit of bad news this morning, when the Mannheim Regional Court rejected the second of its patent infringement claims against Apple. As with last week’s ruling, today’s decision addresses one of Samsung’s arguments that Apple’s 3G / UMTS technology infringes upon its patents

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German court rejects Samsung’s second 3G patent complaint against Apple

Our friends at Joystiq are members of a privileged club of which we are not. We’ve both downloaded and installed the mobile version of Steam — now available as a free beta download for Android and iOS — but where they found Mac and PC games for sale, along with the ability to chat with friends, browse profiles and read gaming news, we were greeted with red text that states our accounts are not part of the beta. Damn our luck! For those interested to give Valve’s handiwork a spin, it seems that downloading and installing the app puts you in the queue for a future invite

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Steam beta journeys to Android and iOS, for select invitees

All those long, long drives to Florida in the family station wagon seemed worth it at the time, but now that we’ve found out that those lucky South Koreans have another crazy theme-park, we might just change our minds .

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South Korea’s Live Park uses RFID and Kinect to bring your Holodeck fantasies one step nearer

Forget poking: from February 14th, show you love someone by flinging a mis-tempered avian toward them. It’s Valentines Day that Angry Birds will finally arrive on the ubiquitous social network — just in time to ensure half the coupled population of the world misses its dinner reservation, in order to get past one more level

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February 14th is Valen… Angry Birds day

Aching for more details on Nintendo’s elusive Wii U console? Let Satoru Iwata scratch your itch — quarterly reports aren’t just for reporting losses and announcing new networks, after all

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Wii U controller to pack NFC, says Iwata, create new gameplay options

Nintendo’s third quarter financial briefing just spilled the beans on the recently spied Nintendo Network , causing Nintendo fans everywhere to collectively sigh, “It’s about time.” Company head honcho Satoru Iwata says the network will offer “competitions and communication among users, as well as the sales of digital content,” and in the case of the Wii U, will introduce personal user accounts. Iwata stopped just short of confirming that the Nintendo Network will end the company’s policy of tying downloaded titles to Nintendo hardware, rather than individual users, but mentioned that it packed an infrastructure that supports not only add-on content, but fully downloadable retail games as well. “This concept was built into the design of the Nintendo 3DS, and we already have the necessary infrastructure,” Iwata said, “We will prepare the same infrastructure for the Wii U

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Nintendo officially announces Nintendo Network, promises personal accounts for Wii U

The Transformers: Dark of the Moon Blu-ray doesn’t hit the streets officially until next week, but you can get a look at one of the special features early right here. In this video clip director Michael Bay and other members of the production team explain some of the special challenges that came with shooting the special-effects heavy movie in 3D. It required changes to his usual frenetic cutting style with fewer pans and longer shots, as well as extra work by the editors on each element of animation overlaid on each frame

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Transformers: Dark of the Moon clip breaks down shooting movies, special effects in 3D (video)

No, it’s not another Fast & Furious sequel, it’s something much quicker — 800 billion times quicker, to be precise.

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German scientists shoot world’s fastest movie: gone in 50 femtoseconds

Wouldn’t it be absolutely splendid if you could hand your phone over to a friend (or complete stranger) without fear of them mucking up your system or digging into your personal bits? Yes, we’d absolutely love to see guest accounts become standard issue on all handsets, but until that day arrives, a new application called SwitchMe will work in a pinch

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SwitchMe brings makeshift guest account to Android root users