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Why Do Cheaters Cheat?

We’ve all dealt with cheaters at various stages of gameplay — on the playground, at the kitchen table board game, on Xbox Live.  Their ways seem inscrutable. Why would you deliberately defraud someone if you’re ostensibly playing the same game?  The New York Times this past weekend approached the na

New Tech Can Read Your Gender In Just 25×25 Pixels

8-bit crimes will be a thing of the past! The device is a video camera that allows a face detector to capture a 25×25 pixel cropped face image. A mask is then applied to remove the background and the image is then passed on to a classifier which outputs the gender of the person. It is interesting to

Does Screen-Free Week Mean No Videogames?

So this week, mindful parents around the country will be shutting down down their televisions for Screen Free Week, a national effort to curb television watching for kids. This seems all well and good — too much of anything is a bad thing. But over at Slate, lawyer KJ Della’Antonia points out that t

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