Over at Rhizome, Joanne McNeil points to an interesting post on nature of Google Street View with some fun insights on screens. (We’re really into screens for obvious reasons.): Lee Friedlander took a series of photographs in the 1960’s that included screens (that were in a 1995 exhibit and subsequ
Enjoy some easy, instant mainstream videogame news! –Deadly Premonition creator is one publisher short of a new game. –Become Nancy Botwin in this new Facebook game based on Showtime’s Weeds. -Capcom plans to make replay ability a thing of the past. -Digital gamers are closing the playtime gap wi
Of the many wonderful uses of games, teaching people how to make pasta was not on our radar as a high priority need. Nonetheless, for researchers at the University of Bologna, the highly dextrous task rolling tortellini was a must. “We chose tortellini for two reasons,” explained professor of compu
Ryan Challinor, an engineer at Harmonix who worked on Dance Central, sent us a note about his new project Synapse that he was working on for Burning Man. He wrote: It’s easy to install on anyone’s computer, it’s open source, and it gives you a user-friendly interface to control music and visuals in
In case you were curious about how Watson, the Jeopardy-winning supercomputer, works up close, PC Mag took a deep dive. Keep your friends close and enemies closer, as they say: Is Watson considered artificial intelligence? Chu-Carroll said it depends on your definition of AI. If you define AI as mim
Inspired by watching her little brother struggle to make a tic-tac-toe program, Hannah Wyman, 10, decided to start making games of her own using Microsoft’s Kodu programming language. “He was programming tic-tac-toe, and for something as simple as tic-tac-toe he was up there for hours just trying
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