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And the award for "Angry Birds-related Correction of the Year" goes to…
The New York Times! With the following note in their review of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the premise of “Angry Birds,” a popular iPhone game. In the game, slingshots are used to launch birds to destroy pigs and their fortresses, not to shoot
Want change education? Capture a child’s imagination, Murdoch says.
Recently, Rupert Murdoch gave a speech at the Foundation for Excellence in Education Summit in San Francisco, and made some pretty great points. Let him tell you about math: Say I was trying to teach a 10-year-old about Bernoulli’s principle. According to this principle, when speed is high, pressure
British TV confuses game footage with real life
File this one under “British People!” Anyways, the makers of a recent documentary on the Northern Ireland conflict confused videogame footage for actual war footage, and slipped it into an ITV (the British TV channel that isn’t the BBC) documentary. The game comes from Arma 2, an almost painfully re
Com Truise’s "Brokendate" video puts you *inside* the matrix
As far as musician names go, you could do a whole lot worse than Com Truise. Here’s the new video from the New Jersey-based retro synth wizard, featuring a shady Blade Runner-esque future world, segueing into a Tron-referencing light matrix that also kind of resembles that thing they would play at m
Thanks to a new Microsoft invention, we are all touch screens
At the UIST 2012 symposium in Santa Barbara, CA, Microsoft Research unveiled something they call OmniTouch, a device that uses a laser-based pico projector and a camera with depth-sensing capabilities to turn any surface-even the human body-into a touch screen. Hrvoje Benko of the Natural Interacti
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