 Sims creator's long-awaited 'playing god' game hits stores September 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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"Spore", the eagerly-awaited computer game five years in the making allowing people to play God by re-creating the universe, hits stores worldwide this week. | |
Microsoft releases beta version of Internet Explorer 8 September 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Microsoft last week released a broadly available test version of its latest Web browser, Internet Explorer 8, including a tool to cover one's tracks across the Web. | |
New Quantum Strategy Keeps Web Searches Private June 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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When an Internet user types a word or phrase into a search engine, the Web server has the ability to find out that inquiry. As more people and businesses are becoming concerned about privacy, researchers are developing new ... | |
Keep Mac screen from dimming September 24, 2008 | User rating: 2.1 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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The Internet is full of great TV shows and movies that you can watch for free online, but sometimes, Mac computers will often dim the screen slightly while you are watching the video. | |
Metallica fans say 'Guitar Hero' versions of 'Death Magnetic' songs beat those of the CD September 23, 2008 | User rating: 2.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Fans of heavy metal band Metallica have been complaining that the group's new album, "Death Magnetic," suffers from heavy-handed distortion effects. Too bad, right? Well, apparently not, at least if you're a Guitar Hero fan. | |
Test-drive the hot new games targeted for Christmas season September 16, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Gaming retailer GameStop held its annual managers conference in Las Vegas last week, and I was lucky enough to attend some of the festivities. | |
Teaching experience August 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Business veterans claim you cannot teach ‘experience’, but European researchers say you can. The team developed software that helps players acquire real-life skills and realistic experiences through game playing. But this ... | |
Sign language over a mobile phone August 22, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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A group at the University of Washington has developed software that for the first time enables deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile phone. UW engineers got the phones working together this ... | |
 NVIDIA And Opera Team To Accelerate The Full Web On Mobile Devices September 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Browsing the Internet on a mobile device will take a leap forward with today's announcement that NVIDIA and Opera are collaborating to bring the full desktop Web-browsing experience, including support for ... | |
 Research puts finger on virtual iPhone button July 22, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A virtual tactile keyboard could hold the key to making the iPhone easier to use. | |
 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 ... | |
Gearbox readies two new games: 'Borderlands' and 'Aliens' September 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
I got to visit Gearbox Softwarelast week, and the game developer clearly has some cool stuff up its sleeve. (I use that term deliberately: Gearbox president Randy Pitchford was once a professional magician.) | |
Computer Poker Program Knows When to Hold 'Em August 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Texas Hold'em poker has exploded in popularity over the past few years. Its popularity has extended to academic researchers, who are intrigued by the challenges of probabilities and decision-making in the ... | |
 Jump into the screen with 360-degree immersive video February 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 43 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 ... | |
 Cracking the secret codes of Europe's Galileo satellite July 08, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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Members of Cornell's Global Positioning System (GPS) Laboratory have cracked the so-called pseudo random number (PRN) codes of Europe's first global navigation satellite, despite efforts to keep the codes secret. ... | |
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