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Computers That Listen And Learn Better Than You Do
From suggesting restaurants to diagnosing patients, computers seem to be getting smarter each passing day. The New York Times looks at some of the powerful technology coming to light, as computers begin listening and reacting to our problems. The New York Times piece begins with a mother and son entering a room, where a medical…
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NBA 2K vs. NBA Elite: It’s Still Fargin’ War
A video of NBA Elite shown at the NBA draft last week did plenty to rile fans of both sides in sports gaming’s last real competition. One sent a link to NBA 2K‘s community manager, who tweet-replied “That looks awful.” “And you were worried,” Ronnie Singh, the NBA 2K community manager, said to the fan…
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Meet Portal 2’s Wheatley, The Eye Who’s A Guy
Today Valve releases the first in a series of videos covering the E3 demo for Portal 2. In the first portion we meet Wheatley, the personality sphere that’s cuddlier than a companion cube, if that’s even possible. While Crecente briefly touched on Wheatley’s first appearance during his Portal 2 preview during E3, I had no…
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Followars Makes Turn-Based Battles Out Of Twitter
Japanese Harvest Moon publishers Marvelous Entertainment has unleashed Followars onto the iPad, a two-player game that turns your Twitter followers into combatants in turn-based role-playing battles to the death. In Followars, now available for $2.99 in the iTunes App Store, two players face off in the iPad arena, using their Twitter followers as lackeys in…
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The Bosses Of Lost Planet 2 All At Once, All For You
Capcom is delivering more downloadable content to Lost Planet 2 next month, with a special Rush Arena mode featuring you and three friends against every boss in the game. It’s really only a small chunk of downloadable content, but the price seems right. Coming at the end of July and running $2.99 or 240 Microsoft…
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Joule iPad Stand Review: At What Cost Stability?
In a world where iPads constantly topple over at the merest touch, ElementCASE releases a top-of-the-line solution that will have iPad owners standing at attention, but at what cost? Sure, the iPad is comfortable enough to sit in your hands for extended periods of time, but doesn’t it look lovely upright? And wouldn’t it be…
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Six Flags Facebook Game Is Fun Until Someone Loses An Arm
With countless folk horror tales of theme park rides decapitating or removing the limbs of riders, you’d think Six Flags would have shied away from promoting over-the-top, blood-spurting violence in their new Facebook game, Six Flags Mascot Park. As you can see from the picture of my mascot Cowtaku above, this is not the case.…
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UncategorizedOne Man Army Conquers The Pokémon Theme Song
Danny Fong applies his amazing vocal talents to the Pokémon television show theme song, performing not only all the voices, but vocalizing the music as well in a stunning display of a capella coordination and shirt variety. Single-person a capella songs are big on YouTube lately, and it’s easy to see why. The degree of…
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Retail-Exclusive Enslaved Goodies Include Ninja Monkey And Sexy Robot
Ninja Monkey and Sexy Robot? Those two word combinations alone are enough to get many onboard for Namco Bandai’s Enslaved: Odyssey to the West when it ships this September, but which power-granting outfits you get depends on where you preorder. Not only are Enslaved’s three premium preorder costumes stunning to look at, they’ll also enhance…
By Mike Fahey