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Rock Band is breaking up

Links from Friday's episode of Loaded:

Facebook plans an announcement for Monday in which it may announce a "Gmail killer"

Viacom is selling off Harmonix, maker of Rock Band

Apple teams up with Twitter to promote its music social network, Ping

YouTube claims to have 35 hours of video uploaded to the site every minute

Walmart.com will ship for free this holiday season with no minimum purchase

Microsoft receives a patent for foot computing

Hustler releases an app for Android

And on keys...

Links from Thursday morning's episode of Loaded:

Rock Band 3 will feature keyboards when it launches this holiday season so brush up on your 80s tunes! Logitech launches a new line of HD Webcams with Logitech Vid HD, the company's own video calling program.AT&T has suffered a security breach and 114,000 iPad 3G users' email addresses have been exposed.Panasonic shows off a 152-inch 3DTV.

World's largest 3D TV

Links from Wednesday morning's episode of Loaded:

LG shows off an 84-inch 3D TV

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says no color touchscreen Kindle is on the horizon

The next version of Rock Band may have keyboards

TiVo comes to Best Buy Insignia TVs

Tune in to Wednesday afternoon's episode of Loaded for an update on the new Facebook privacy settings

KOR-fx, like music to my...chest

Although Rock Band comes pretty close to the "real thing," there's something missing: the vibrations that hit your heart when playing a real drum set.

Immerz, which until recently was a one-man company, created a device that lets you feel real-life sensations of a game, movie, or music. KOR-fx is made up of two plastic devices that lay on your chest and synchronize vibrations with received audio signals.

President and physicist Shahriar S. Afshar, calls it acousto-haptic technology, something he turned to after three years participating in privately funded research. The result of Afshar's experiment contradicted … Read more