GameStop publishes Battlefield 3 PC requirements early

While the Electronic Arts studio DICE has yet to release requirements for the PC version of Battlefield 3, a game retailer has posted them a bit early. Battlefield 3 is going to require quite a rig to play, according to the game's listing on GameStop (via GamerZines).

Before you take a look to see how your computer compares, we need to stress that these may not be final. We'll follow up when the official requirements are confirmed, not to mention our full performance review once the game ships this October.

Minimum Specifications

  • Hard Drive Space: 15GB for disc version or 10GB for digital version
  • Operating System: Windows Vista or Windows 7
  • Processor: Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz
  • RAM: 2GB
  • Video Card: DirectX 10 or 11 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card

Recommended Specifications

  • Hard Drive Space: 15GB for disc version or 10GB for digital version
  • Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
  • Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
  • RAM: 4GB
  • Video Card: DirectX 11 Nvidia or AMD ATI card, GeForce GTX 460, Radeon Radeon HD 6850

The Battlefield 3 multiplatform beta is expected sometime in September 2011, while the full game will be released for the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360, and Windows (the PC version is receiving the most attention) on October 25, 2011 in North America and October 28, 2011 in Europe. DICE is working closely with highly decorated ex-SAS operator and acclaimed author, Andy McNab, to ensure the authenticity and grittiness of today's war is captured in both the single player and multiplayer campaigns.

Powered by the Frostbite 2 game engine, Battlefield 3 reportedly features co-op gameplay, four classes, non-superficial character customizations, more unlockables than Battlefield: Bad Company 2, as well as improved level destruction, character animations and war sounds. Oh, and the popular Battlefield multiplayer mode Rush is back.

You can preorder the game at eastore.ea.com/battlefield3. If you preorder the Battlefield 3 Limited Edition, you'll receive the Back to Karkand digital expansion pack (four highly celebrated maps from Battlefield 2 remastered using Frostbite 2), for no extra charge. If you're having trouble waiting, go check out the gameplay trailer that was released four months ago.

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Obama Leans on G.O.P. for a Deal on Debt Ceiling

Mr. Obama, meeting with leaders from both parties at the White House, bluntly challenged Republicans a day after Speaker John A. Boehner pulled back from a far-reaching agreement aimed at saving as much as $4 trillion over 10 years, officials briefed on the negotiations said. The meeting ended after an hour and 15 minutes with little progress, but the two sides agreed to resume talking Monday, and every day after that, until a deal is done.

White House officials said Mr. Obama was still determined to pursue the boldest package possible ? one that would require new tax revenue as well as cuts in Medicare and other entitlement programs ? but he faces steadfast opposition from Republicans and growing qualms among Democrats.

?Congress has to act,? Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said on the CBS News program ?Face the Nation.? ?If they don?t act, then we face catastrophic damage to the American economy, and the leadership, to their credit, and I mean Republicans and Democrats, fully understand that.?

Mr. Geithner, noting that the Treasury issues 80 million checks a month, including Social Security payments to 55 million Americans, warned that failure to reach an agreement within the next two weeks could be calamitous. Delivering a version of the lecture he gave to the lawmakers at the White House last week, Mr. Geithner said a default would unhinge financial markets, drive up interest rates, and derail the economic recovery.

Mr. Obama, who arrived from Camp David shortly before the Sunday evening session, appeared to have made headway in at least one regard: lawmakers from both parties pledged not to let the United States default on its debt. That is what the Treasury said would happen after Aug. 2, when the government would lose its authority to borrow.

?Nobody is talking about not raising the debt ceiling; I haven?t heard that discussed by anybody,? the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said on ?Fox News Sunday,? adding that he had an unspecified ?contingency plan? to raise the ceiling if the talks fell apart.

Just as Mr. Obama was sitting down with Mr. McConnell and other leaders shortly after 6 p.m. on Sunday, with the men wearing open-collar shirts and blazers, he was asked whether he could get a deal done in 10 days, leaving enough time to draft and pass legislation before Aug. 2.

?We need to,? he replied.

The problem for Mr. Obama is that Republicans are not budging on their demand that any deal include no tax increases. The administration also needs Democratic lawmakers, but for many of them, it will be impossible to vote for a package composed entirely of spending cuts, especially to popular programs.

In a statement after the meeting, Mr. McConnell?s spokesman, Don Stewart, said, ?It?s baffling that the president and his party continue to insist on massive tax hikes in the middle of a jobs crisis.?

The House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, said she favored a large deal but that it ?must do no harm to the middle class or to economic growth. It must also protect Medicare and Social Security beneficiaries.?

It was not clear that the president would be able to reconcile these positions, especially after Mr. Boehner set a lower bar for a deal that both parties might find more palatable. In a statement issued after the meeting, Mr. Boehner said the leaders should aim for a midrange deal that would build on spending cuts identified in talks led by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Such a deal might produce savings of $2 trillion to $3 trillion over a decade.

Mr. Boehner appeared subdued at the meeting, officials said, letting the House majority leader, Eric Cantor of Virginia, do most of the talking. Mr. Cantor reiterated his opposition to a bigger deal.

Privately, some in Congress expressed regret at Mr. Boehner?s decision on Saturday to walk away from an agreement that they said would have been a rare opportunity for Republicans and Democrats to radically restructure the government?s finances, rewrite the tax code and fix longstanding problems with Medicare and Medicaid.

In the end, officials briefed on the talks said, ideological differences over a tax overhaul bogged down the bigger agreement. Mr. Boehner, they said, was open to letting Bush-era tax cuts for wealthy people expire, while maintaining the cuts for middle-income wage-earners. But Democrats briefed on the talks said he made that contingent on rewriting the tax code by the end of this year, so that the loss of the cuts would be offset by lower overall tax rates.

The White House, officials said, was willing to put a deadline on a tax overhaul. But it rejected Mr. Boehner?s formula, arguing that it would place too much of a burden on the middle class while protecting the rich.

Carl Hulse and Gardiner Harris contributed reporting.

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Weekend tech reading: MSI Master Overclocking Arena 2011 Final

MSI Master Overclocking Arena 2011 Asia Pacific Final - Ten Page Special Evaporating liquid nitrogen in a humid equatorial country like Indonesia is a spectacular sight. The gargle and spit of liquid nitrogen stirring vehemently in an evaporator is the very sign of life in a healthy benchmarking setup. The coordination necessary for sub-zero overclocking is difficult to fathom for those who have never attempted so. For the rest - such as the participants of the MSI Master Overclocking Arena 2011 Asia Pacific Final - it is likely an irreplaceable addiction. VR-Zone

Can computers predict crimes of the future? It?s great when cops catch criminals after they?ve done their dirty work. But what if police could stop a crime before it was even committed? Though that may sound like a fantasy straight from a Philip K. Dick novel, it?s a goal police departments from Los Angeles to Memphis are actively pursuing with help from the Department of Justice and a handful of cutting-edge academics. Miller-McCune

Mass Effect 3 Deluxe Edition exclusive to Origin, adds guns, outfits and a robot dog If you?re interested in buying the deluxe edition of Mass Effect 3, you?ll have to get hold of it through EA?s new digital download service, Origin. The N7 Deluxe Edition comes with a series of digital perks, including the N7 arsenal pack, which adds a selection of N7 weapons into the game, including a sniper rifle, a shotgun, an SMG and a special pistol. PC Gamer

Five disturbing things about the Interpol filter This month, Australia gets its first mandatory Internet filtering scheme, courtesy of a project which is seeing the nation?s largest ISPs Telstra and Optus block their users from visiting a ?worst of the worst? list of child pornography sites defined by international agency Interpol. But the project hasn?t exactly come up smelling like roses. Here?s five things we find disturbing about the whole thing. Delimiter

RIAA accounting: How to sell 1 million albums and still owe $500,000 Last year, we had a post on RIAA accounting, detailing how labels screw over many musicians, even some of the best selling ones, such that they never actually make a dime in royalties. Bas points us to an excellent 14 minute video from lawyer Martin Frascogna, entitled How To Sell 1 Million Albums and Owe $500,000... TechDirt

Playable Diablo 3 Demo confirmed for Gamescom 2011 In great news for the European Diablo community, we?ve got official word that Diablo III will be present, with a playable demo, at this year?s Gamescom convention. News comes from Blizzard?s Polish Battle.net portal, and thanks to Mycota and Naibchris for the tip and translation. IncGamers

Kevin Mitnick shows how easy it is to hack a phone British tabloid News of the World said today it is closing down over a phone hacking scandal in which workers for the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper allegedly snooped on voice mail left on the mobile phones of murder victims, as well as celebrities, politicians, and the British royal family. CNET

Battlefield 3 PC minimum and recommended specs released GameStop has published the minimum and recommended specs required to run the PC version of Battlefield 3, with a quad-core processor and 64-bit version of Windows 7 recommended to get the most out of DICE's upcoming shooter. GamerZines

Rare snowfall falls in dry desert One of the driest places on the planet got a wintry blast this week. The Atacama Desert region in Chile was coated with its heaviest snow cover in nearly two decades, the BBC reported. An estimated 31.5 inches (80 centimeters) piled up in the normally arid region. OurAmazingPlanet

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Weekend tech reading: MSI Master Overclocking Arena 2011 Final

MSI Master Overclocking Arena 2011 Asia Pacific Final - Ten Page Special Evaporating liquid nitrogen in a humid equatorial country like Indonesia is a spectacular sight. The gargle and spit of liquid nitrogen stirring vehemently in an evaporator is the very sign of life in a healthy benchmarking setup. The coordination necessary for sub-zero overclocking is difficult to fathom for those who have never attempted so. For the rest - such as the participants of the MSI Master Overclocking Arena 2011 Asia Pacific Final - it is likely an irreplaceable addiction. VR-Zone

Can computers predict crimes of the future? It?s great when cops catch criminals after they?ve done their dirty work. But what if police could stop a crime before it was even committed? Though that may sound like a fantasy straight from a Philip K. Dick novel, it?s a goal police departments from Los Angeles to Memphis are actively pursuing with help from the Department of Justice and a handful of cutting-edge academics. Miller-McCune

Mass Effect 3 Deluxe Edition exclusive to Origin, adds guns, outfits and a robot dog If you?re interested in buying the deluxe edition of Mass Effect 3, you?ll have to get hold of it through EA?s new digital download service, Origin. The N7 Deluxe Edition comes with a series of digital perks, including the N7 arsenal pack, which adds a selection of N7 weapons into the game, including a sniper rifle, a shotgun, an SMG and a special pistol. PC Gamer

Five disturbing things about the Interpol filter This month, Australia gets its first mandatory Internet filtering scheme, courtesy of a project which is seeing the nation?s largest ISPs Telstra and Optus block their users from visiting a ?worst of the worst? list of child pornography sites defined by international agency Interpol. But the project hasn?t exactly come up smelling like roses. Here?s five things we find disturbing about the whole thing. Delimiter

RIAA accounting: How to sell 1 million albums and still owe $500,000 Last year, we had a post on RIAA accounting, detailing how labels screw over many musicians, even some of the best selling ones, such that they never actually make a dime in royalties. Bas points us to an excellent 14 minute video from lawyer Martin Frascogna, entitled How To Sell 1 Million Albums and Owe $500,000... TechDirt

Playable Diablo 3 Demo confirmed for Gamescom 2011 In great news for the European Diablo community, we?ve got official word that Diablo III will be present, with a playable demo, at this year?s Gamescom convention. News comes from Blizzard?s Polish Battle.net portal, and thanks to Mycota and Naibchris for the tip and translation. IncGamers

Kevin Mitnick shows how easy it is to hack a phone British tabloid News of the World said today it is closing down over a phone hacking scandal in which workers for the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper allegedly snooped on voice mail left on the mobile phones of murder victims, as well as celebrities, politicians, and the British royal family. CNET

Battlefield 3 PC minimum and recommended specs released GameStop has published the minimum and recommended specs required to run the PC version of Battlefield 3, with a quad-core processor and 64-bit version of Windows 7 recommended to get the most out of DICE's upcoming shooter. GamerZines

Rare snowfall falls in dry desert One of the driest places on the planet got a wintry blast this week. The Atacama Desert region in Chile was coated with its heaviest snow cover in nearly two decades, the BBC reported. An estimated 31.5 inches (80 centimeters) piled up in the normally arid region. OurAmazingPlanet

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Hard Lines iPhone Review

Hard Lines iPhone Review

Posted on 26th Jun 2011 at 10:44 by David Hing with 9 comments

Back when mobile phones were still thought of as a new idea, Nokia's 3210 was highly sought after in many circles for its built in version of the highly addictive game Snake. Fast forward a decade, and Hard Lines is attempting to be a worthy successor to that classic title.

The mechanics of Hard Lines are simple. With simple directional strokes of your finger, you steer a line around the screen towards randomly spawning markers, accruing points while avoiding other lines that enter from the sides of the screen.

Slick and neatly designed, Hard Lines is clearly influenced by the Light Cycles from Tron, yet it doesn't limit itself to that one style of play; there are several variations. In some modes, you gain points by getting opposing lines to crash into you or the walls; in others you race against the clock, or just try to last for as long as possible. There are also some good bonuses, such as the occasional power up that enables you to crash through any other competing lines without killing yourself.


The gameplay is occasionally made overly complicated, however, via the addition of dialogue that bikes may utter in the middle of a match. This appears as a single line of text and, while it's often funny, it's usually just a distraction that obscures your view.

Aside from this, though, the balancing is beautiful and the game manages to be both punishing and forgiving at once. Each line is only a single pixel wide, for example, but you only need to pass near an item on the screen to collect it, avoiding any frustrating situations where you might end up circling it forever. Not only this, but the very narrow nature of your line means the game can afford to throw a lot of competing lines at you at any one time. In particular, the Gauntlet mode continually spawns large numbers of other lines rapidly, resulting in an intense session that's highly satisfying when it goes your way.

Verdict: Hard Lines is a well designed, easily controlled, multifaceted version of Snake with enough new material and creativity behind it to stop it being called a straightforward clone.

Hard Lines is available from the AppStore for 59p / 99c.

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Obama Leans on G.O.P. for a Deal on Debt Ceiling

Mr. Obama, meeting with leaders from both parties at the White House, bluntly challenged Republicans a day after Speaker John A. Boehner pulled back from a far-reaching agreement aimed at saving as much as $4 trillion over 10 years, officials briefed on the negotiations said. The meeting ended after an hour and 15 minutes with little progress, but the two sides agreed to resume talking Monday, and every day after that, until a deal is done.

White House officials said Mr. Obama was still determined to pursue the boldest package possible ? one that would require new tax revenue as well as cuts in Medicare and other entitlement programs ? but he faces steadfast opposition from Republicans and growing qualms among Democrats.

?Congress has to act,? Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said on the CBS News program ?Face the Nation.? ?If they don?t act, then we face catastrophic damage to the American economy, and the leadership, to their credit, and I mean Republicans and Democrats, fully understand that.?

Mr. Geithner, noting that the Treasury issues 80 million checks a month, including Social Security payments to 55 million Americans, warned that failure to reach an agreement within the next two weeks could be calamitous. Delivering a version of the lecture he gave to the lawmakers at the White House last week, Mr. Geithner said a default would unhinge financial markets, drive up interest rates, and derail the economic recovery.

Mr. Obama, who arrived from Camp David shortly before the Sunday evening session, appeared to have made headway in at least one regard: lawmakers from both parties pledged not to let the United States default on its debt. That is what the Treasury said would happen after Aug. 2, when the government would lose its authority to borrow.

?Nobody is talking about not raising the debt ceiling; I haven?t heard that discussed by anybody,? the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said on ?Fox News Sunday,? adding that he had an unspecified ?contingency plan? to raise the ceiling if the talks fell apart.

Just as Mr. Obama was sitting down with Mr. McConnell and other leaders shortly after 6 p.m. on Sunday, with the men wearing open-collar shirts and blazers, he was asked whether he could get a deal done in 10 days, leaving enough time to draft and pass legislation before Aug. 2.

?We need to,? he replied.

The problem for Mr. Obama is that Republicans are not budging on their demand that any deal include no tax increases. The administration also needs Democratic lawmakers, but for many of them, it will be impossible to vote for a package composed entirely of spending cuts, especially to popular programs.

In a statement after the meeting, Mr. McConnell?s spokesman, Don Stewart, said, ?It?s baffling that the president and his party continue to insist on massive tax hikes in the middle of a jobs crisis.?

The House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, said she favored a large deal but that it ?must do no harm to the middle class or to economic growth. It must also protect Medicare and Social Security beneficiaries.?

It was not clear that the president would be able to reconcile these positions, especially after Mr. Boehner set a lower bar for a deal that both parties might find more palatable. In a statement issued after the meeting, Mr. Boehner said the leaders should aim for a midrange deal that would build on spending cuts identified in talks led by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Such a deal might produce savings of $2 trillion to $3 trillion over a decade.

Mr. Boehner appeared subdued at the meeting, officials said, letting the House majority leader, Eric Cantor of Virginia, do most of the talking. Mr. Cantor reiterated his opposition to a bigger deal.

Privately, some in Congress expressed regret at Mr. Boehner?s decision on Saturday to walk away from an agreement that they said would have been a rare opportunity for Republicans and Democrats to radically restructure the government?s finances, rewrite the tax code and fix longstanding problems with Medicare and Medicaid.

In the end, officials briefed on the talks said, ideological differences over a tax overhaul bogged down the bigger agreement. Mr. Boehner, they said, was open to letting Bush-era tax cuts for wealthy people expire, while maintaining the cuts for middle-income wage-earners. But Democrats briefed on the talks said he made that contingent on rewriting the tax code by the end of this year, so that the loss of the cuts would be offset by lower overall tax rates.

The White House, officials said, was willing to put a deadline on a tax overhaul. But it rejected Mr. Boehner?s formula, arguing that it would place too much of a burden on the middle class while protecting the rich.

Carl Hulse and Gardiner Harris contributed reporting.

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Weekend Open Forum: Is spam still a big problem for you?

Have you noticed any less spam in your inbox lately? You should, according to Symantec Intelligence, which claims the volume of junk mail sent worldwide has dropped around 80% over the past year. A large part of this came from the demise of affiliate networks paying for spam campaigns, such as Spamit, and coordinated efforts between the tech industry and law enforcement to kill major spam networks such as Rustock.

To be honest, Gmail's spam filter does a highly effective job of filtering out the garbage from my personal email account, so spam hasn't been a huge problem for me in a while -- though my TechSpot inbox still lets a few shady messages slip by. 

But we want to hear your experience: is spam a big issue for you? If so, how much of your daily email comes from unsolicited sources? Do you use custom filters or special software to keep your inbox free of junk?

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Weekend tech reading: MSI Master Overclocking Arena 2011 Final

MSI Master Overclocking Arena 2011 Asia Pacific Final - Ten Page Special Evaporating liquid nitrogen in a humid equatorial country like Indonesia is a spectacular sight. The gargle and spit of liquid nitrogen stirring vehemently in an evaporator is the very sign of life in a healthy benchmarking setup. The coordination necessary for sub-zero overclocking is difficult to fathom for those who have never attempted so. For the rest - such as the participants of the MSI Master Overclocking Arena 2011 Asia Pacific Final - it is likely an irreplaceable addiction. VR-Zone

Can computers predict crimes of the future? It?s great when cops catch criminals after they?ve done their dirty work. But what if police could stop a crime before it was even committed? Though that may sound like a fantasy straight from a Philip K. Dick novel, it?s a goal police departments from Los Angeles to Memphis are actively pursuing with help from the Department of Justice and a handful of cutting-edge academics. Miller-McCune

Mass Effect 3 Deluxe Edition exclusive to Origin, adds guns, outfits and a robot dog If you?re interested in buying the deluxe edition of Mass Effect 3, you?ll have to get hold of it through EA?s new digital download service, Origin. The N7 Deluxe Edition comes with a series of digital perks, including the N7 arsenal pack, which adds a selection of N7 weapons into the game, including a sniper rifle, a shotgun, an SMG and a special pistol. PC Gamer

Five disturbing things about the Interpol filter This month, Australia gets its first mandatory Internet filtering scheme, courtesy of a project which is seeing the nation?s largest ISPs Telstra and Optus block their users from visiting a ?worst of the worst? list of child pornography sites defined by international agency Interpol. But the project hasn?t exactly come up smelling like roses. Here?s five things we find disturbing about the whole thing. Delimiter

RIAA accounting: How to sell 1 million albums and still owe $500,000 Last year, we had a post on RIAA accounting, detailing how labels screw over many musicians, even some of the best selling ones, such that they never actually make a dime in royalties. Bas points us to an excellent 14 minute video from lawyer Martin Frascogna, entitled How To Sell 1 Million Albums and Owe $500,000... TechDirt

Playable Diablo 3 Demo confirmed for Gamescom 2011 In great news for the European Diablo community, we?ve got official word that Diablo III will be present, with a playable demo, at this year?s Gamescom convention. News comes from Blizzard?s Polish Battle.net portal, and thanks to Mycota and Naibchris for the tip and translation. IncGamers

Kevin Mitnick shows how easy it is to hack a phone British tabloid News of the World said today it is closing down over a phone hacking scandal in which workers for the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper allegedly snooped on voice mail left on the mobile phones of murder victims, as well as celebrities, politicians, and the British royal family. CNET

Battlefield 3 PC minimum and recommended specs released GameStop has published the minimum and recommended specs required to run the PC version of Battlefield 3, with a quad-core processor and 64-bit version of Windows 7 recommended to get the most out of DICE's upcoming shooter. GamerZines

Rare snowfall falls in dry desert One of the driest places on the planet got a wintry blast this week. The Atacama Desert region in Chile was coated with its heaviest snow cover in nearly two decades, the BBC reported. An estimated 31.5 inches (80 centimeters) piled up in the normally arid region. OurAmazingPlanet

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WordPress: Now Powering 50 Million Blogs

Matt Mullenweg, creator of the WordPress blogging platform and founder of Automattic, will have big reason to celebrate this Sunday after the number of self-hosted and WordPress.com blogs passed the 50 million mark.

WordPress keeps a counter on its WordPress.com site, counting the number of WordPress installations on their own servers but also self-hosted blogs, where developers, designers and other users have decided to take control of their own installations of the open-source software.

Today, WordPress has helped 350,2225 WordPress.com bloggers post 302,882 posts and over 270,000 comments. Roughly calculated, it means that 210 posts and 188 comments are submitted each minute. The stats page counts a total of nearly 77 million words written, almost double the size of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

That?s just WordPress.com users?.in one day.

The milestone was confirmed by WordPress? Andrew Nacin, who posted:

Total WordPress sites just passed *50 million* today! http://t.co/PoXxrF5 #wcmtl

Each month, there are around 287 million people accounting for 2.5 billion pageviews on WordPress.com blogs, reading posts that are written in over 120 languages. English accounts for the two-thirds of all written posts, with Spanish and Portuguese in second and third respectively.

WordPress is reported to power 14% of the world?s websites, damn impressive.

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WordPress: Now Powering 50 Million Blogs

Matt Mullenweg, creator of the WordPress blogging platform and founder of Automattic, will have big reason to celebrate this Sunday after the number of self-hosted and WordPress.com blogs passed the 50 million mark.

WordPress keeps a counter on its WordPress.com site, counting the number of WordPress installations on their own servers but also self-hosted blogs, where developers, designers and other users have decided to take control of their own installations of the open-source software.

Today, WordPress has helped 350,2225 WordPress.com bloggers post 302,882 posts and over 270,000 comments. Roughly calculated, it means that 210 posts and 188 comments are submitted each minute. The stats page counts a total of nearly 77 million words written, almost double the size of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

That?s just WordPress.com users?.in one day.

The milestone was confirmed by WordPress? Andrew Nacin, who posted:

Total WordPress sites just passed *50 million* today! http://t.co/PoXxrF5 #wcmtl

Each month, there are around 287 million people accounting for 2.5 billion pageviews on WordPress.com blogs, reading posts that are written in over 120 languages. English accounts for the two-thirds of all written posts, with Spanish and Portuguese in second and third respectively.

WordPress is reported to power 14% of the world?s websites, damn impressive.

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