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Surprise, surprise. Our brains work a lot like Whack-A-Mole.
What is the best analogy for the way our brains work? Perhaps it is videogames. In an interview on the topic of free will, Michael S. Gazzaniga, author of Who’s in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain, describes consciousness, or the state of being aware of one thing or another, as a well
NYT explores the human cost of the iPad in China. Prepare to feel guilty.
Apple is under fire again, this time at the hands of the NY Times who published their second report on work conditions in Apple’s China factories. Read the piece for the entire breakdown of FoxConn’s conditions, sloganeering like “”Work hard on the job today or work hard to find a job tomorrow,” and
Spotify CEO’s first videogame predicted his future as an entrepreneur.
Forbes has a wonderful profile of Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek. Aside from outlining Spotify’s rise to greatness and more than 2.5 million members, the piece outlines a telling tidbit from Ek’s adolescence: At 14 Ek latched onto the late-1990s dot-com mania, making commercial websites in his school’s com
Russia plans a North Pole version of Rapture.
Russia is planning to build a large domed city not far from the North Pole. ‘We aim to have scientific laboratories, houses, but also parks with attractions, an Aqua complex, hotels and a cathedral. Naturally there will be schools, kindergartens, recreation zones, a hospital, and sport facilities ar
The Global Gam Jam is this weekend!
Every year, NYU hosts New York’s Global Game Jam site. It’s a place where designers, coders, sound engineers and artists all come together to make games in 72 hours. No experience is necessary and all are welcome. Last year’s theme was “extinction” and heralded games from text adventures to platform
"Silent Lights" installation is Rainbow Road IRL.
Several artists have pooled their talents to light up the path beneath a busy expressway in Brooklyn. Silent Lights is an architectural series of gates that frames a pedestrian pathway by day showing constant movement through shadows. It transforms sound into patterns of light at night as it mimics
How the Kinect is being used to revolutionize home living.
Consoles previously deemed suitable for “hardcore gamers” alone have been going through lots of rebranding strategies as of late to become more family-friendly “entertainment centers.” But here’s one you probably haven’t heard of before, courtesy of the “Compact, Hyper-Insulated Prot House otype Sol
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