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Apple Has Rules Now, Bans 5000 Too-Sexy Apps
You may have already heard: Apple is cleaning out their apps store. They’ve decided “to remove any overtly sexual content from the App Store.” It’s definitely not a first for Apple… banning a particular genre of apps. According to PC World, Apple also banned GPS apps that feed the user location-aware ads and Apple-brand competing [...]
Learn a New Language With Lingt
Lingt, a new startup, just launched in public beta today. And not only is it fun and addictive, but it’s also educational! Lingt helps people learn the massive number of vocabulary terms required for basic competency in a foreign language. We think the biggest problem with learning a new language is simply giving up, so [...]
Eat Your Words! Americans Consume Over 100,000 Words a Day.
In a recently released study from the University of California, San Diego, Americans were found to consume about 1.3 trillion hours of information. in 2008 Eating up 3.6 zettabytes of information and 10,845 trillion words, that equals out to 34 gigabytes and 100,500 words each day, per person! Uh, Zettabyte?!? A zettabyte = a 1 [...]
Duke Nukem is No More
For over 12 years, fans of the insanely popular PC game Duke Nukem have been waiting for the next installment in the franchise. Yesterday it was confirmed that the software company developing Duke Nukem Forever, 3D Realms, is shutting its doors, effectively ending what may be the longest running software development cycle in gaming history. [...]
Myst Comes to the iPhone
Myst was once the best selling computer game software of all time, and it has found new life on the iPhone. The iTunes store now features a 727MB download of the popular adventure game for a mere $5.99. The original version of Myst was released in 1993 for the Macintosh. The game turned out to [...]
Watson Computer by IBM to Compete on Jeopardy
IBM has officially unveiled its plans for a new supercomputer codenamed “Watson”. This new artificial intelligence and reasoning computer is set to compete against human contestants on the quiz show Jeopardy!. For over two years, IBM has been developing the technology behind Watson in a research project called DeepQA. This project is the follow-up to [...]
Tough Times for Video Game Makers
The New York Times recently ran an article outlining the health of the video game software development industry. This article states that despite a 19% growth in sales this year, video game makers are still losing money. Sales increases of this magnitude should be excellent news, but the costs of developing games for today’s systems [...]
OnLive – The New Era in Gaming
Yesterday, a San Francisco start-up called OnLive revealed its new video game streaming service that has been 7 years in the making. According to a CNET article, OnLive is trying to do for video games what iTunes has done for music: remove the content from the restrictions of physical media. Basically OnLive will be harnessing [...]
Will Georgia Tech Software Predict NCAA Basketball Champ?
Three professors at Georgia Tech have developed a college basketball ranking system called LRMC that is designed to predict the outcome of the NCAA Division I basketball tournament. This software has been in use for a few years now, and it has been surprisingly accurate in predicting the winner of past tournaments. This year, the [...]
Flight Simulator Glides into the Sunset
Amid Microsoft’s recent round of layoffs, one smaller group of programmers responsible for the Microsoft Flight Simulator series was let go. ACES Studio, which consisted of around 100 people, has been completely eliminated from Microsoft. This ends one of the longest-running (if not the longest) video game franchises in history. Microsoft Flight Simulator was first [...]
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