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Want to play as the Portal 2 robots on the streets of Grand Theft Auto IV? Yeah, you do.
YouTube modder Taltigolt has done the world a service by unleashing the comic stylings of P-body and Atlas on the world of Liberty City. This is the Grey Album of GTA mods.
Of course, Wikipedia is policed and half-written by unpaid bots.
Because no human would ever stoop so low as to write voiceless, rote information and expect to get paid for it, Wikipedia has largely relied on bots since its launch. The BBC reports that the bots have only increased in number and gotten better, becoming better aggregators than even your most humble
New "Superhuman" exhibit flits between historic sex show and cybernetic world’s fair.
Superhuman, a new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, catalogues the history of synthetic human empowerment. From ivory dildos to telekinetic microchips, the show seems to jostle between historic sex show and cybernetic world’s fair. One piece in particular, the embedded chip of Kevin W
One Brazilian’s experience with Max Payne 3
Videogames in exotic locations like India, Japan, and Brazil have the thrill of tourism along with their other game portions. But how do locals feel? For one Brazilian, playing Max Payne felt like a way to get revenge on his muggers. Instead of feeling like a tourist, Nightmare Mode’s Fernando Corde
Telepresent kissing machine sadder than actual long-distance relationships.
To cope with long-distance relationships, partners often train memory like a muscle, flexing in times of desire a truly sensational remembrance of compassion, in order to rejoin lost love with the present. But if you would rather let this extraordinary part of the brain atrophy in lieu of a cheap te
Notch gets served and says, "Software patents are plain evil."
In response to a patent infringement complaint that Uniloc filed against Minecraft developer Mojang, creator Markus Persson (“Notch”) has been issuing statements on his blog: A common argument for patents is that inventors won’t invent unless they can protect their ideas. The problem with this argum
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