Apple loves making its buzzy tech announcements on Tuesday, and the latest round of rumors has it that this coming Tuesday is going to be a biggie for the desktop computing set: a new, revamped Mac Pro “hexacore” with six cores and a 3.33 GHz processor that can TurboBoost to 3.6 GHz.

The current Mac Pro is a beastly powerful computer, and the rumored specs for the rumored new Mac Pro, which may or may not be announced on Tuesday, March 16, are more of the same.

After a kinda useless ten-second trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse came out yesterday, the folks at Twilight, Inc. (read: Summit Entertainment) released the full trailer for Twilight: Eclipse this morning.

Twilight has a strange power to inspire nerd-rage because it is not Lord of the Rings, or even Harry Potter, and yet it presumes to come up with its own mythology, involving vampires and werewolves. How dare it! Also, Twilight is for girls, and girls are gross.

In truth, we can’t pretend to be huge Twilight fans, but neither is Twilight the scourge of the earth:

Final Fantasy XIII just came out, and it’s already one of the biggest gaming events of the year: Square Enix has already shipped more than 5 million units.

In FFXIII’s honor, we’re celebrating the XIII 13 coolest summons throughout the Final Fantasy series, from the status-exploding killer train Doomtrain to formidable shackled dark Aeon Anima:

If you — like me — are human, then you probably have noticed that Zoe Saldana is stunningly beautiful.  You might also be interested to know that in this month’s Essence and Glamour, the 31-year-old star of Star Trek and Avatar mentioned that she loooooooves sex and can’t wait to have more of it.  But watch out: Saldana also thinks that violence and video games are ruining sex education in America.  Come again?

Fresh on the heels of Alice in Wonderland’s box office success, rumors are flying about not one, but two feature film remakes of The Wizard of Oz.  Now, there’s more than one way to retell a story, and there are a few ways to redo Wizard that would probably work.  The odds of Hollywood actually finding those particular ways is unlikely.

More and more often these days, I find myself shouting at movie trailers and announcements: “WHY would you remake that?” Clash of the Titans?  The Karate Kid? My Fair Lady?

I’d like to take some time and explain when a remake generally isn’t a good idea, and when it generally is, and whether or not this means that The Wizard of Oz is something we should revisit. 

The world’s oldest flying car — or at least the oldest one that we know about — is being auctioned off by an Atlanta, GA antiques outlet, Red Baron’s Antiques. It doesn’t actually fly, but you can still drive it:

19-year-old Sarah Killen has become America’s most beloved celebrity-for-no-reason since Levi Johnston and this time, the love isn’t ironic.

Killen, whose life changed dramatically when a bored, unemployed Conan O’Brien decided to follow her on Twitter at random, has been making the internet media rounds since last Friday, answering questions about her wedding, her newfound fame, and all the freebies that came with it. Today she made the jump from the web to national television.

Video after the jump:

For hard-core Rock Band players, the world is about to get much brighter: Starting this fall, Inspired Instruments will release the ‘You Rock Guitar’ and will consequently bring an end to all your digital guitar woes.

A hybrid digital guitar and gaming platform with three modes—Music, Game, and ‘You Rock’— The You Rock Guitar can be connected to an amplifier and used as a real instrument, or plugged into your game console to play Rock Band. And by console, we don’t just mean your Playstation or Wii. We mean all consoles. By virtue of a removable cartridge, you’ll be able to wirelessly communicate with any system you, or your friends, may have. Let the competition truly begin:

Because the first Alvin and the Chipmunks movie and Alvin and the Chipmunks: the Squeakquel apparently did not do a good enough job of destroying the good will and nostalgia engendered by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.’s classic cartoon series — or maybe because they made a combined $791 million worldwide — 20th Century Fox has announced that production has started on Alvin and the Chipmunks 3D, which is set to hit theaters on December 16th, 2011.

Those of you looking forward to picking up Pokémon HeartGold or SoulSilver next week might be surprised to find a small hokey-looking plastic device included with your purchase. Do not be alarmed. It is Nintendo’s new Pokémon-themed peripheral for the DS, the Pokéwalker.

It allows you to store one pokémon within its confines (much like a pokéball), where it will gain experience with every step you take.

Oh, did we mention that it’s a pedometer?