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Your face is the new key to your phone.
It’s no retina scan, but with the new Android OS, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich, all you need is a good look to unlock your data-treasure chest of a phone. The New York Times reports: This comes under the general heading of “biometrics,” a highfalutin way of saying the phone has the ability to recogn
Developing: Next Batman game a Silver Age Arkham Asylum prequel.
Variety is reporting that the next Batman from Rocksteady, makers of the Arkham series, is going back to the chromatic ’50s. New, highly stylized title is being developed as a prequel that revolves around Batman’s first meeting with the Joker. It’s based on the Silver Age of DC’s comicbooks from th
PhD blues? Contest challenges you to gamify your research.
The ideal scientist is addicted to research. But when time is of the essence, crowdsourcing with games of pattern-finding in a real world context has proved an efficient way to get the world to do research for you. Following suit, Britain’s Wellcome Trust, a global charity for the advancement of bi
Trent Reznor to cast brooding shadow over Call of Duty: Black Ops II
It’s been confirmed that Trent Reznor has composed the theme song for Call of Duty: Black Ops II, a game set in the future where the U.S. is in a cold war with China, which will surely heat up, considering fans would probably be disappointed with a game of ceasefire. Whether Reznor was inspired by d
Kill Screen Dialogues at Lincoln Center continue with artist Zach Gage.
Next Tuesday, July 17 at 7:00 p.m, we’ll be at Lincoln Center with Zach Gage! The Kill Screen Dialogues will roll on the NYT-acclaimed game designer, programmer, educator, and conceptual artist from New York City. His work explores the increasingly blurring line between the physical and the digital.
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