 Computer game's high score could earn the Nobel Prize in medicine May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Gamers have devoted countless years of collective brainpower to rescuing princesses or protecting the planet against alien invasions. This week researchers at the University of Washington will try to harness ... | |
 Grand Theft Auto IV video game tops $500M in 1st-week sales May 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- "Grand Theft Auto IV" raked in more than $500 million in its first week in stores, selling more than 6 million units worldwide, the video game's publisher said Wednesday. | |
Microsoft signs software deal with Hyundai and Kia May 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. has signed a worldwide deal with automakers Hyundai and Kia to use its in-car software that allows people to use voice commands to control personal music players and telephones. | |
Bringing down the language barrier... automatically May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Progress being made by European researchers on automatic speech-to-speech translation technology could help the EU tackle one of the biggest remaining boundaries to internal trade, mobility and the free exchange of information ... | |
 Review: Google Earth powerful, though tricky to use, share May 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Online photo albums I had prepared for family and friends weren't capturing the essence of my travels to the southern reaches of the world. Then a light bulb clicked as I was exploring Google Earth: ... | |
Adobe plans to give away Flash for mobile devices May 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Adobe Systems Inc. says it will license its video-enabling Flash software for free for mobile devices to help developers make mobile Internet experiences more closely resemble the experience on computers. | |
 'GTA IV' expected to sell 9 million copies at launch April 28, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- There's no Burger King tie-in or special flavor of Mountain Dew. No commercial directed by Peter Jackson, or even an action figure. | |
 Cheers and fears as Grand Theft Auto IV revs at starting line April 27, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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"Grand Theft Auto IV" hits streets on Tuesday and is expected to race into record books as the fastest-selling video game ever despite being tailed by critics condemning its violent themes. | |
 Microsoft not ruling out Windows XP extension April 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer offered a glimmer of hope on Thursday to fans of the company's Windows XP operating system, saying the company may reconsider its decision to stop selling it soon. | |
 'Sims' creator lets people play god in new computer game April 20, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Computer buff Will Wright created a multi-billion-dollar franchise with "The Sims" video games that let people play at real life affairs such as dating, working and raising children. | |
 Microsoft sues over brand in Dutch programme curbing kids on Internet April 21, 2008 | User rating: 2.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Software company Microsoft said Monday it is suing a company run by a Dutch mother because it had started using a Microsoft domain title in computer programmes aimed at curbing children's use of the Internet. ... | |
 Simulating surgery to reduce implant complications April 23, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
A computer simulation breakthrough could mean fewer medical complications and better surgical outcomes for patients undergoing hip, knee or spinal implant surgery. | |
Music file compressed 1,000 times smaller than mp3 April 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 56 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file. The music, a 20-second clarinet solo, is encoded in less than a single kilobyte, and ... | |
 Jump into the screen with 360-degree immersive video February 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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As you watch a video, have you ever wondered what's happening beyond the camera frame? If you could jump inside the video and look around, you would have a 360-degree view of the world in your TV screen or ... | |
 Searching for the soul in the machine May 18, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 78 vote(s)
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If computers could create a society, what kind of world would they make? Thanks to the work of an ambitious project that adds a whole new meaning to the phrase, ‘computer society’, in which millions of software ... | |
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