He also says that Apple (AAPL) has set the stage for mainstream adoption of Flash in SSD applications, a reference to the lack of a hard drive in both the iPad tablet and the new versions of the MacBook Air notebooks.

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Experimenters at the Phoronix forums have found that Chrome 21 has support for the Stage 3D hardware acceleration needed to drive Epic Games' Flash conversion of UE3.

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Among the more noticeable changes from past years' flash, Heroes was the only cast trotted out on stage.

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Requests to stage more mobs flooded in, says Staci Lawrence, co-founder of Flash Mob America.

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Unless you're super close to the lip of the stage (in which case you're blinding the poor theremin player with your insistent flash), those shots you keep pumping out can't be that good.

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