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Will Wright, creator of computer game hits such as SimCity and The Sims

'The Sims' are back -- with more personality

Technology / Software

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.





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Electrical engineers go head to head with Genius on music playlists

Engineers use song-annotating algorithms to study music playlists (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Electrical engineers recently pitted Genius - the music recommendation system in Apple's iTunes - against two experimental music recommender systems. Genius appears to capture acoustic similarities among songs ...


Gadgets: Card reader helps you shop safer online

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NetSecure Technologies SmartSwipe credit card reader is a new device to help Internet shoppers or small business owners.


Computer game taps creativity of scientists to solve energy problems

Technology / Other

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The American Chemical Society's (ACS) 238th National Meeting will be the site of a rare "thought experiment" intended to focus the creative genius of hundreds of scientists on solutions to one of the 21st Century's most ...


British computer scientist and internet founder Tim Berners-Leepictured in 2008

www.20yearsold -- World Wide Web feels its growing pains

Technology / Internet

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The World Wide Web (WWW) on Friday marked its 20th anniversary and its founders admitted there were bits of the phenomenon they do not like: advertising and "snooping."


The WWW technology was first made more widely available in 1991

World Wide Web conference opens, 20 years after its invention

Technology / Internet

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A global conference on the World Wide Web got under way in Spain Monday, 20 years after the invention of the global information medium that has changed the daily lives of people around the world.


Physicist wins Packard Fellowship

Physicist wins Packard Fellowship

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT physicist Pablo Jarillo-Herrero has won a 2009 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, an award he will use to study a new class of materials that could have applications in the semiconductor ...


Video games activate reward regions of brain in men more than women

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 04, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 1

Allan Reiss, MD, and his colleagues have a pretty good idea why your husband or boyfriend can't put down the Halo 3. In a first-of-its-kind imaging study, the Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have shown ...


Accused credit card hacker lived large in Miami

Technology / Internet

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Nestled near a row of sultry, silvery-green palm trees and a 205-foot-long infinity pool, room 1508 at the National Hotel on South Beach is a portrait of Art Deco luxury. It is also where, on May 7, 2008, federal ...


American space tourist buys return ticket to orbit (AP)

American space tourist buys return ticket to orbit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Recession or no, billionaire Charles Simonyi couldn't pass up another shot at space, even if it meant shelling out $35 million more.


Caltech scientists control complex nucleation processes using DNA origami seeds

Scientists control complex nucleation processes using DNA origami seeds

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The construction of complex man-made objects--a car, for example, or even a pizza--almost invariably entails what are known as "top-down" processes, in which the structure and order of the thing being built ...



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