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How NBC is gaming your experience of the Olympics.
The Olympics are rigged—not the games themselves, but the presentation, at least for those of us watching TV in the U.S.A. Over at The A.V. Club, Ryan McGee’s coverage of NBC’s coverage isn’t redundant—it’s warrented criticism of how NBC’s monopoly on broadcast narrates the Olympics in a very litera
How to forget all the times you’ve died.
A new research study looks at the possibility of deliberately forgetting a story from one’s past. Researchers had participants remember a short instance inspired by a keyword, pair another word with it, and then repeat this procedure for 23 more word pairs (read word, remember something associated w
Introducing Kamcord, an Instagram for videogames?
Because games are always better when you can brag about how good you are at them, Kamcord lets you record gameplay and immediately share to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and email. A large part of what made Instagram so successful was its ability to capitalize on memory-making. You saw something you l
Will Oculus Rift be the first mass-market VR headset?
Backed Endorsed by id Software’s John Carmack, the Oculus Rift is a new VR headset that made its debut at E3. It’s also the technology powering USC’s Holodeck Project that we reported on a couple weeks ago. But today, the company launched a Kickstarter campaign that revealed a new design for the hea
Badminton players "cheated" to win. Do poor rules undermine the spirit of the Olympics?
Four Badminton teams, two from South Korea and one each from China and Indonesia were disqualified from the Olympic badminton event because—according to sections 4.5 and 4.6 of the Badminton World Federation’s (BWF) Player Code of Conduct—the players “did not use the best efforts to win,” the New Yo
There’s a way to get around computers cheating with quantum data.
Interactive proofs are when humans or some theoretical questioner ask a computer questions, and they can’t trust the computer to really understand what they’re getting at. Asking multiple computers different questions makes this style of proofing more efficient. But because quantum physics is weird,
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