SimCity rebuilt for modern life
A 10-year wait ends Tuesday with the arrival of 'SimCity,' a computer game that challenges players to build thriving cities in the face of conditions such as limited funds and climate change.
Software
Mar 5, 2013
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News tagged with computer graphics
Creating your own animated 3-D characters and scenes for the web
To show spatial animations on websites, developers so far have had only two options: to use special software or to implement it from scratch. Computer scientists at Saarland University have developed a declarative markup ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 28, 2013
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Tech innovators honored at Oscars dinner
(AP)—A room full of engineers, computer whizzes and technicians has brought the crew of the Starship Enterprise down to Earth for a night.
Other
Feb 10, 2013
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Videogames coming to a cloud near you
Videogames are moving further into the Internet cloud with new devices and services unveiled at the big Consumer Electronics Show this week.
Software
Jan 7, 2013
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Explained: Graphs
When most people hear the word "graph," an image springs to mind: a pair of perpendicular lines overlaid with a line, a curve, or bars of different heights.
Computer Sciences
Dec 17, 2012
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Password-cracking feats at blistering speed shown in Oslo
(Phys.org)—Remember when the running advice for password setup was to avoid using your name backwards? My how we have smelled the coffee. A new rig-and-burn presentation for an audience of academics and security professionals ...
How NASA uses GPUs to build more vivid flight simulators
Nearly everyone is familiar with terms like 20/20 vision – but what does that mean when it comes to developing a flight simulator?
Engineering
Dec 10, 2012
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Research takes next generation augmented reality apps 'anywhere'
Augmented reality applications for mobile devices could become smarter and more sophisticated, thanks to two recent grants awarded to UC Santa Barbara computer science professors Matthew Turk and Tobias Höllerer.
Software
Dec 6, 2012
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Startup merges comic books, digital journalism
Do comics, serious journalism and tablet computers mix?
Internet
Dec 4, 2012
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Improving software for asteroid detection
(Phys.org)—Alon Efrat and Jonathan Myers of the UA computer science department are working under a new grant to help improve methods for discovering asteroids on paths toward Earth.
Space Exploration
Dec 4, 2012
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