'Journey' leads Spike Video Game Awards nominees
(AP)—The artsy downloadable game "Journey" leads the pack of nominees for this year's Spike Video Game Awards.
Nov 16, 2012
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Nov 16, 2012
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NOAA, National Archives team up with citizen-scientists to reconstruct historical climate of the Arctic
Before there were satellites, weather data transmitters, or computer databases, there were the ship's logs of Arctic sea voyages, where sailors dutifully recording weather observations. Now, a new crowdsourcing ...
Oct 25, 2012
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Cyber war targets Middle East oil companies
Middle Eastern oil and gas companies have been targeted in massive attacks on their computer networks in an increasingly open cyber war where a new virus was discovered just this past week.
Oct 22, 2012
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Austria probes gruesome fate of Nazi-era disabled
(AP)—Forensic crews scraping away dirt from the remains of the Nazi-era psychiatric patients were puzzled: The skeletal fingers were entwined in rosary beads. Why, the experts wondered, would the Nazis—who ...
Oct 19, 2012
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Review: Clever 'XCOM' is chess with plasma rifles
Video-game aliens have gotten bigger, uglier and meaner over the years. Think of the Covenant warriors in "Halo" or the Locust Horde in "Gears of War": huge, dumb, slobbering brutes who can soak up plenty ...
Oct 18, 2012
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Britain seeking 'Xbox generation' spies (Update)
Britain launched a new spy recruitment drive on Thursday aimed at "Xbox generation" youngsters without a university education but with social media and computer game skills to counter the threat of cyber attack.
Oct 18, 2012
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Huawei's global ambitions come under a cloud (Update)
Chinese telecom firm Huawei's ambitions to become a global brand rivalling Apple and Samsung have been hit by a US report claiming that the company, founded by a former Chinese soldier, posed an espionage ...
Oct 09, 2012
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Physicist, former Caltech provost Christy dies
(AP)—California Institute of Technology officials say Robert F. Christy, a former professor and administrator who helped design the trigger mechanism for the atomic bombs used in World War II, has died. He was 96.
Oct 05, 2012
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Amazonian tribal warfare sheds light on modern violence, anthropologist says
(Phys.org)—In the tribal societies of the Amazon forest, violent conflict accounted for 30 percent of all deaths before contact with Europeans, according to a recent study by University of Missouri anthropologist ...
Oct 02, 2012
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Foreign policy takes stage, yet most voters indifferent, professor says
(Phys.org)—Foreign policy has taken center stage in the presidential campaign as Barack Obama and Mitt Romney tout their differing plans – and take aim at one another's vision for international security.
Oct 01, 2012
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Republican strength in congress aids super-rich, president's affiliation has no effect
Republican strength in Congress increases the share of income held by the top 1 percent, but the president's political affiliation has no effect, suggests a new study in the October issue of the American Sociological Review that l ...
Oct 01, 2012
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17th-century treasures being recovered in Poland
(AP)—Capitalizing on low water levels in Warsaw's Vistula River, police are teaming up with archaeologists to recover gigantic marble and alabaster treasures that apparently were stolen from royals in Poland ...
Sep 21, 2012
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Team GB only likely to clock up 46 medals in Olympic Games in Rio 2016—Mathematical formula predicts medal haul
Team GB is only likely to clock up 46 medals in the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016, say researchers who used a mathematical formula three years ago to predict performance for London 2012, and came up with a medal haul of 63.
Sep 19, 2012
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Roman military camp dating back to conquest of Gaul throws light on part of world history
In the vicinity of Hermeskeil, a small town some 30 kilometers southeast of the city of Trier in the Hunsrueck region in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, archaeologists from Johannes Gutenberg University ...
Sep 14, 2012
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Alan Turing at 100
It is hard to overstate the importance of Alan Turing, the British mathematician who died in 1954. He was a hero in science, for one. Turing invented the concepts that underlie modern computers and artificial ...
Sep 14, 2012
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