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Astronomy Jan 29, 2016

Is our Milky Way galaxy a zombie, already dead and we don't know it?

Like a zombie, the Milky Way galaxy may already be dead but it still keeps going. Our galactic neighbor Andromeda almost certainly expired a few billion years ago, but only recently started showing outward signs of its demise.

Computer Sciences Jan 7, 2016

What does it mean to think and could a machine ever do it?

The idea of a thinking machine is an amazing one. It would be like humans creating artificial life, only more impressive because we would be creating consciousness. Or would we?

Business Dec 23, 2015

Roaring good times for small video-game studios

Jesse Rapczak left his job helping design the HoloLens headset, one of the most ambitious Microsoft projects in decades, to chase a simple premise: Nobody has made a great dinosaur video game.

Software Dec 16, 2015

There's a new crop of coding toys for techie tykes

Want even your younger kids to join the tech revolution by learning to code? Maybe you should get them a robot—or at least a video game.

Consumer & Gadgets Dec 15, 2015

HTC gives Taiwan first look at virtual reality headset

Smartphone maker HTC unveiled Tuesday to Taiwanese gamers its virtual reality headset for the first time, as the company pins its hopes on the new product to help revive struggling sales.

Energy & Green Tech Nov 26, 2015

The problem with our electricity industry

For decades now the electricity industry has relentlessly gouged monopoly profits and functionless rents out of hapless residential consumers, while government ministers, officials, inquiries and "regulatory" agencies have ...

Software Nov 12, 2015

'Call of Duty' video game blitzes on debut

The latest "Call of Duty" video game boasted an opening weekend that blew away any other game, film, book or music debut this year, the company behind it said Wednesday.

Software Nov 5, 2015

Futuristic Black Ops 3 on mission to boost 'Call of Duty' franchise

"Call of Duty" fans get to go on their latest mission in the first-person shooter franchise on Friday when Black Ops 3 sends them out into a "dark and twisted future" of souped-up multiplayer thrills.

Software Oct 29, 2015

How Minecraft could help teach chemistry's building blocks of life

Children should be playing more computer games in school. That idea might enrage you if you think kids today already spend too much time staring at screens or if you are already sick of your offspring's incessant prattling ...

Social Sciences Oct 29, 2015

Expert on monster theory says the fiends that bewitch us can provide commentary on the way we live

A skeleton dangles from Jeffrey Cohen's front door. Corpses claw their way from under gravestones in his yard. Like many Americans, the George Washington University professor decorates his home for Halloween.

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