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Today on KS: Learning to Get Away With Murder
As part of our ongoing series on the life of a videogame intern, Joseph Bernstein deals with the discomfort of playing excessively violent videogames: My adult enjoyment of violent videogames was always girded by two assumptions. The first is that eliminating or surpassing an obstacle is the basic u
How One Texas Man Plays Super Street Fighter – Without Full Use of Hands
This is amazing. A videogame player in Texas has been competing in recent Super Street Fighter IV tourney — without the use of his hands: At first, she was baffled by the condition, but after she sought the help of several geneticists and specialists, Begum was diagnosed with arthrogryposis. “It was
The Military’s Biggest Tech Challenge? Smartphones.
The military, understandably, is obsessed with adding the newest technology, but to date, smartphones haven’t been added to the mix. That’s been a big challenge and one the military is trying to tackle, according to Danger Room “Every kid’s going down to whatever local store they want and they’re b
April 20, 2011, 9:50 am
PAUSE: Traffic Light.
April 19, 2011, 3:41 pm
Old school commercial for Nintendo’s Game & Watch is adorable, quaint
Boston to Turn in Digital Wonderland For a Weekend
This weekend, Beantown plays host to the Boston Cyberarts Festival which will turn the entire town into an augmented reality paradise. We just hope they stay away from Lansdowne Street. That gets real ugly at night. Daily Serving has the rundown: The disembodied art on display include (in collabora
Did You Know There’s a FIFA for Robots?
The RoboCup Japan Open is a tournament for robots where they play soccer and apparently show each other photos of their WAGs. Above is Hajime Robot 31, a humanoid creation from the Chiba Institute of Technology 1m tall weighs just 5kg and comes with 17 joints. I look forward to the day when American
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