Sony has unveiled a special edition White PS3 soon to be available at Game and Gamestation stores.

The console will cost £249, and come with two Dual Shock controllers (also White).

It launches this Friday. Check it out.

The Natural History Museum has unveiled a new app which aims to bring 650 million years of natural history to life.

With the 'Evolution' app, priced £9.99 for iPad, users can explore 800 species, more than 100 fossil sites and examine fossils with 360-degree imagery.

"We are delighted to have been able to contribute to such a fantastic resource," said Colin Ziegler, the Natural History Museum’s Head of Publishing. "The touch-screen functionality of the iPad is a really fun, interactive way in which people can learn more about Earth’s past and examine the fossil evidence for themselves."

It features:

• a timeband featuring 100 major archaeological sites and 800 creatures and plants that lived there.
• a dynamic timeglobe based on a unique data set, showing how Earth’s tectonic plates have reconfigured through time
• a complete timeline, with text and audio commentaries for every eon, era and period
• a spellbinding exhibition of 34 iconic fossils
• 17 individual multi-media treatments explaining the great events of Earth’s evolutionary past, including snowball glaciations and mass extinctions
• many pinch and expand 360-degree rotations of significant fossils
• pinch and expand full-frame, hi-res views for all 570 images
• 10 tutorial videos from some of the Museum’s leading experts
• a library of reference material, including 38 biographies of the pioneers of evolutionary theory

Luca Christophersen is a 14-year-old aspiring writer who recently came to the HuffPost UK offices for work experience.

To ease him in to the world of tech writing - and because he's 14 - we gave him some games to review.

First up: Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, which we covered recently.

Being the first “hardcore game” on Kinect this has a lot of pressure. And with a combined gamepad-Kinect control scheme, the idea showed potential.

It seems to do an okay job at justifying the hype: It has good graphics; developed AI and a fair balance between Kinect and controller usage. But this game isn’t all good. Without the rough Kinect implementation this game would have been an above average game. But as a consequence of the (realistically) crowded screen and fast pace gaming, you can never really control your player the way you want - every flick of the wrist closes the shutter; clicks a random button and puts you into hyper speed.

The idea of a hardcore Kinect game shows promise. But they haven’t quite polished the game - and it shows.

Cheers Luca!

BoingBoing points us to this fantastic-looking open source underwater robot, the OpenROV, which has more than doubled its Kickstarter goal.

in 2011.

Margo Georgiadis, VP, Americas Sales said:

"It’s a fact that the Internet is creating jobs and helping the American economy grow. And we’re proud to be a part of that process."

According to StatCounter, Windows 7 is now powering a majority of PCs.

It's now on 50.2% of computers worldwide.

Ubisoft has released a new trailer for Assassin's Creed 3 timed to coincide with 4 July, aka Independence Day. (AC3 comes out on 30 October 30th, 2012.)

Hackney Borough Council has officially opened a pop-up venue designed to be "a state of the art networking venue for businesses, investors and media" during the Olympic games.

Hackney House is "designed to showcase the already vibrant start-up and entrepreneur scene which exists in locations in the borough such as UK Tech City/Silicon Roundabout to international investors, journalists, and visitors to the Games".

Mayor of Hackney Jules Pipe said:

“Ever since the Olympic Games were awarded to London we have wanted to ensure that local Hackney residents and businesses get to experience the full benefits. Whether that be through improvements in infrastructure, increased sporting participation or new opportunities for our thriving start-up business community, a sustainable, long term legacy has always been our ambition.

Hackney House is just one of the ways in which we are showcasing to the world the entrepreneurs, companies and industries that are already making Hackney the fastest growing and most exciting place in London to do business.”, commented Jules Pipe, Mayor of Hackney.”

The headphones/audio company Beats has purchased the MOG music service, USA Today says.

"Beats was created as a response to the complete erosion of the music experience," says Beats' president and chief operating officer Luke Wood. "Our whole reason for starting Beats was to try to bring emotion back into that experience. We believe music services is a vital part of that ecosystem."

A pretty funny, quite irritating and ultimately chin-stroking sketch about YouTube comments (see also Adam Buxton).

Samsung has announced that S Health, a "personal wellness application for the Samsung Galaxy S III", is now available.

The App, demoed in May, collects health data to help maintain a healthier lifestyle.

The application is compatible with a number of healthcare sensors such as blood glucose meters, blood pressure monitors and body composition scales, and enables the sensors to transfer a wide variety of health measurements automatically to the Galaxy S III via Bluetooth or USB.

Simon Stanford, Vice President, Telecommunications and Networks, Samsung UK and Ireland said:

“S Health can provide real benefits in terms of tracking and monitoring health and wellness for our customers. We’re delighted to bring this innovative application to the Galaxy S III’s portfolio of diverse content and applications to suit different needs.”