 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: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
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. | |
 Microsoft's newest browser may block ads August 27, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The next version of Microsoft Corp.'s Web browser makes it easier for people to surf the Internet without leaving a trace. Companies that sell advertisements online - including Microsoft - can electronically ... | |
Printer maker offers to help people print less August 27, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- A leading printer maker wants to help you do less printing. Printing an article off the Web often produces several pages of waste, including ads, links and boxes for entering text. So the latest version of a Web ... | |
Teaching experience August 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 15 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 ... | |
 All hail to 'Space Invaders' at Europe's biggest games show August 20, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Europe's biggest games convention marks 30 years since "Space Invaders" this week with a homage to the alien 'shoot-em-up' as well as 500 exhibitors showing how far the industry has come since then. | |
 Shapeways lets Internet users manufacture goods August 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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In a step toward the type of future pictured in the hit film "Iron Man," a firm in the Netherlands is letting people fabricate items designed in three-dimensions on the Internet. | |
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 ... | |
Gearbox readies two new games: 'Borderlands' and 'Aliens' September 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 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.) | |
 Google takes aim at Microsoft with new Web browser September 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is releasing its own Web browser in a long-anticipated move aimed at countering the dominance of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and ensuring easy access to its market-leading search ... | |
IBM Research Unleashes Powerful Speech Software August 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM today announced the availability of state-of-the-art speech recognition software to clients and partners exploring the development of real-world consumer and business solutions. | |
'Grand Theft Auto IV' to hit Japanese streets October 30 August 16, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Take-Two Interactive announced Friday that a localized version of controversial videogame "Grand Theft Auto IV" will hit Japan on October 30. | |
 Oracle's Ellison grabs top spot on best-paid list August 22, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison, a longtime fixture on the list of the world's richest people, is now ensconced atop The Associated Press' rankings of the top-paid chief executives in the United ... | |
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