In response to a patent infringement complaint that Uniloc filed against Minecraft developer Mojang, creator Markus Persson (“Notch”) has been issuing statements on his blog: A common argument for patents is that inventors won’t invent unless they can protect their ideas. The problem with this argum
Gamers Against Bigotry, which we posted about just last week, has been the repeated target of hackers since the project was inaugurated. With the first 200 pledges, came a half dozen hackers finding different ways of exploiting the pledge. For the past few weeks, this has continued, and the number
We often attribute the hard work of a hundred people to the vision of a single director, so it’s easy to forget the person on the other side of the camera—the cinematographer. Ultimately, it is his or her eye through which we view our favorite films. Christopher Nolan’s cinematographer, Wally Pfiste
This real-time simulation of a satellite revolving around a simple sphere may be the first computer-generated film. This film was a specific project to define how a particular type of satellite would move through space. Edward E. Zajac made, and narrated, the film, which is considered to be possibl
In order to study our inner motivations for punishing one another, researchers used a series of games that allowed players to cheat. Each version of the game differed slightly in the amount of money that players could steal from each other. What they found wasn’t unpredictable by any means but inter
