News tagged with computer game
Swedish regulator to Pirate Bay suitor: where's the money?
Swedish financial regulators want Pirate Bay suitor Global Gaming Factory to reveal how it will fund its takeover of the popular download site despite GGF chief executive Hans Pandeya insisting Thursday that ...
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Dutch court: Web site must remove copyright works
(AP) -- A civil court on Wednesday ordered Dutch Web site Mininova to remove within three months all files on its servers that point to copyrighted works or face a fine of up to euro5 million ($7.16 million).
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Fine threat puts The Pirate Bay off the Intenet
The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular filesharing websites, is off the Internet after a Swedish court threatened its bandwith supplier with a hefty fine, news reports said Tuesday.
Aug 25, 2009 |
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PlayStation 3 price cut by $100; slimmer model to come
(AP) -- After months of rumors and anticipation, Sony Corp. is slashing the price of the PlayStation 3 by $100 in hopes of boosting sales of the console ahead of the important holiday season.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Pirate Bay suitor GGF set for deal with record label
Global Gaming Factory (GGF), the Swedish online games firm set to acquire illegal download site The Pirate Bay, said on Wednesday it was close to signing a record deal with a major record company.
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Cheat-Resistant 3D iPhone Game Relies on Score-Checking Replays (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Aliens are stealing your beloved sheep and you’ve got to stop them. That’s the premise for TowerMadness, a new 3D iPhone game that is one of the most cheat-resistant iPhone games available, ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 27, 2009 |
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New Pirate Bay to be based on give-and-take models
(AP) -- One of the world's largest filesharing Web sites, The Pirate Bay, is going legal through a series of give-and-take payment models that in some cases may even earn its users a bundle of cash, the new ...
Jul 18, 2009 |
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Touch typists could help stop spammers in their tracks
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists at Newcastle University are about to give office workers a perfect excuse to play games: it's all in the name of research. Dr Jeff Yan, together with his PhD student Su-Yang ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 15, 2009 |
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New 3-D sensors coming soon to computers, cameras, other gadgets
In the science fiction movie "Minority Report," set 50 years in the future, Tom Cruise's character interacts with a computer display by moving his hands in front of it.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Digital Entertainer brings PC content to big screen
So there you are with all those videos, photos and MP3 music files, and the only place you can play all that digital entertainment is on your computer. It's probably sequestered away somewhere in the room you've designated ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 02, 2009 |
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'Tetris' still a videogame star at age 25
It was spring in what was then the Soviet Union when a mathematician in Moscow with a penchant for puzzles created a "Tetris" computer game still going strong 25 years later.
Jun 02, 2009 |
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'The Sims' are back -- with more personality
US videogame giant Electronic Arts launches this week episode three in the life of multi-billion-dollar franchise "The Sims", this time adding a psychological dimension to the computer game.
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Using your mood to operate a computer game
(PhysOrg.com) -- Brain Computer Interfaces measure electrical signals from the brain and convert them into data that can be used by a computer. You can move a cursor on your screen, for example, simply by ...
May 28, 2009 |
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Sick of the same old thing? Researchers finds satiation solution
Have you ever gotten sick of pizza, playing the same computer game, or had a song stuck in your head for so long you never wanted to hear it again? If you have, you may suffer from variety amnesia. In new research, Joseph ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 19, 2009 |
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Game theory and machine learning offer better bidding strategies
(PhysOrg.com) -- By combining techniques from game theory and artificial intelligence, computer scientists at the University of Michigan have developed a better way to find the best bidding strategy in a simulated auction ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 13, 2009 |
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