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Flashback: The culinary insanity of a BurgerTime commercial

Can a game teach you the fine art of pasta rolling?

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

For those interested in "dubstep theremin," peek at Harmonix engineer’s Kinect visualization hack

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

So what exactly is Jeopardy-winning computer Watson made of?

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

10-Year Mass. girl takes Microsoft’s first kid’s game programming contest

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

PAUSE: Carrie Schneider builds houses just to burn them down

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Salesforce’s chief scientist on not putting the "lipstick of gamification on the pig of work"

Area/Code co-founder Kevin Slavin posted observations on a video of Salesforce.com’s chief scientist on the problem of “gamification.” JP Rangaswami says: “I have neither the intent or wish to put the lipstick of gamification on the pig of work because the solution is not to make work a pig and the