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If the data devoured in the United States last year were converted to text there would be enough books to bury the country under a pile seven feet (two meters) deep, according to a study released Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news179607429.html Technology Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:10:02 EST news179607429 Technology designed to blast aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU (Graphics Processing Units) computer cluster that will process CSIRO research data thousands of times faster and more efficiently than a desktop PC. http://www.physorg.com/news178349922.html Technology Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:39:27 EST news178349922 A court in Norway on Friday rejected calls from the entertainment industry to force communications giant Telenor to block its customers from accessing popular file sharing website The Pirate Bay. http://www.physorg.com/news176749751.html Technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:09:54 EST news176749751 (AP) -- With the launch of Windows 7 this week, PC makers are trying some new things, including laptops with touch screens. Acer Inc. is going further - introducing a laptop with a 3-D screen. http://www.physorg.com/news175370805.html Electronics Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:07:22 EST news175370805 Beatlemania is set to break out again on Wednesday when The Beatles' digitally remastered albums and a new computer game are released as the world's most famous pop group finally embraces the digital age. http://www.physorg.com/news171700102.html Technology Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:40:02 EST news171700102 Rewards go further than punishment in building human cooperation and benefiting the common good, according to research published this week in the journal Science by researchers at Harvard University and the Stockholm School of Economics. While previous studies have focused almost exclusively on punishment for promoting public cooperation, here rewards are shown to be much more successful. http://www.physorg.com/news171206724.html Medicine & Health Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:25:58 EST news171206724 Brain imaging shows playing Tetris leads to a thicker cortex and may also increase brain efficiency, according to research published in the open access journal BMC Research Notes. A research team based in New Mexico is one of the first to investigate the effects of practice in the brain using two image techniques. http://www.physorg.com/news171008209.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:17:19 EST news171008209 Swedish financial regulators want Pirate Bay suitor Global Gaming Factory to reveal how it will fund its takeover of the popular download site despite GGF chief executive Hans Pandeya insisting Thursday that a deal could be completed "within eight days". http://www.physorg.com/news170603900.html Technology Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:58:48 EST news170603900 (AP) -- A civil court on Wednesday ordered Dutch Web site Mininova to remove within three months all files on its servers that point to copyrighted works or face a fine of up to euro5 million ($7.16 million). http://www.physorg.com/news170503815.html Technology Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:20:03 EST news170503815 The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular filesharing websites, is off the Internet after a Swedish court threatened its bandwith supplier with a hefty fine, news reports said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news170397923.html Technology Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:00:01 EST news170397923 Global Gaming Factory (GGF), the Swedish online games firm set to acquire illegal download site The Pirate Bay, said on Wednesday it was close to signing a record deal with a major record company. http://www.physorg.com/news168697845.html Technology Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:10:03 EST news168697845 (AP) -- One of the world's largest filesharing Web sites, The Pirate Bay, is going legal through a series of give-and-take payment models that in some cases may even earn its users a bundle of cash, the new owners said Saturday. http://www.physorg.com/news167162771.html Technology Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:10:02 EST news167162771 It was spring in what was then the Soviet Union when a mathematician in Moscow with a penchant for puzzles created a "Tetris" computer game still going strong 25 years later. http://www.physorg.com/news163141585.html Technology Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:06:55 EST news163141585 US videogame giant Electronic Arts launches this week episode three in the life of multi-billion-dollar franchise "The Sims", this time adding a psychological dimension to the computer game. http://www.physorg.com/news163057212.html Technology Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:41:10 EST news163057212 (PhysOrg.com) -- Brain Computer Interfaces measure electrical signals from the brain and convert them into data that can be used by a computer. You can move a cursor on your screen, for example, simply by thinking about it. Now, researchers at the University of Twente have succeeded in measuring a person`s frame of mind in order to create a game environment. In World of Warcraft, a friendly elf can change into an aggressive bear without any physical action being necessary. http://www.physorg.com/news162746885.html Technology Thu, 28 May 2009 16:28:57 EST news162746885 Have you ever gotten sick of pizza, playing the same computer game, or had a song stuck in your head for so long you never wanted to hear it again? If you have, you may suffer from variety amnesia. In new research, Joseph Redden, professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, may have found a cure for your satiation blues. http://www.physorg.com/news161953375.html Other Sciences Tue, 19 May 2009 12:03:29 EST news161953375 (AP) -- Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. posted a smaller net loss Tuesday for its fiscal fourth quarter as it further slashed costs in a quarter that had fewer hit game launches. http://www.physorg.com/news160765948.html Technology Tue, 05 May 2009 18:12:52 EST news160765948 For parents who have found themselves repeating the same warnings or directions to their toddler over and over to no avail, new research from the University of Colorado at Boulder offers them an answer as to why their toddlers don't listen to their advice: they're just storing it away for later. http://www.physorg.com/news157123504.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:26:48 EST news157123504 Terrorist organizations sometimes have an advantage in the media. A new study by Dr. Yaniv Levyatan of the University of Haifa, published in the journal of Israel's National Security College, describes how our side can regain the advantage in this arena too. http://www.physorg.com/news156618582.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:10:20 EST news156618582 A Swedish prosecutor on Monday called for one year jail terms for four men charged with running The Pirate Bay, one of the world's top websites for illegal downloading. http://www.physorg.com/news155223178.html Technology Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:33:29 EST news155223178 Scientists have developed a computer game called `Gorge` - designed to help children understand artificial intelligence through play, and even to change it. It can also improve the children`s social interaction skills. http://www.physorg.com/news152813886.html Technology Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:18:38 EST news152813886