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Left 4 Dead 2 Update Brings Infected Bots and Auto-Spawning Tweaks

Valve's support for it games continues, and with Team Fortress 2 being the last one to get some update news, it's now time for Left 4 Dead 2 fans to have something to cheer about. While it's still a few weeks away, Valve has announced the main features of the coming update, and it's a heavily game...

25 January 2010
04:37 GMT

Team Fortress 2 Gets Beta Bots

Valve is known for taking on side projects, its very own quirky science projects that it decided to work on even if they might turn out to me something only it really appreciates. Its unique ideas reach farther than just that, as we've seen in the developer commentary that it released for some of its games, ever...

22 December 2009
04:26 GMT

Constructing Machines That Act like Humans

The second edition of the BotPrize contest, which aims at producing an artificial intelligence (AI) that cannot be distinguished from a live person in a virtual environment, has its roots deep in history, all the way to the 1950s. At the time, Alan Turing developed a test that held that a real AI was only achieved wh...

14 October 2009
09:45 GMT

Blizzard Sues Warcraft Bot Creator

Usually, big companies are the ones getting sued for various (and generally stupid) reasons, but this time things are different: World of Warcraft creators, Blizzard, are suing Michael Donnely, a guy that created the so-called MMO Glider program that automatically performs different in-game tasks (fighting, for examp...

27 March 2008
18:06 GMT

Toyota's Robot: A Man's Best Friend, By 2010!

People's everyday life is about to change for good as Toyota has decided to take its robots to another level. The giant company recently announced the addition of two new robots to its Toyota Partner Robots series. The same line was developed to assist people in domestic duties, nursing, medical care and more.Th...

7 December 2007
08:26 GMT

Fear Not, Users! Symantec Will Save the Day!

The Symantec Corporation is famous for the Norton Utilities and mostly for the Norton AntiVirus, but their security solutions are not limited to that. In any case, they have announced that their Managed Security Service customers are protected against bots too. By means of bots or drones (an infection on your compute...

4 October 2007
06:15 GMT

New Cyber-Security Measure - Invisibility!

Some time ago, there was some news about CAPTCHA code being easy to decrypt by bots and such and that not even this security measure can stop them. Well, here comes something new - the invisible CAPTCHA, which I think is going to make a difference.Now, for those of you that went: "What the heck is CAPTCHA?", let me e...

18 September 2007
06:36 GMT


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