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More details about Assassin’s Creed III have appeared from Ubisoft, as the developer now highlights the benefits of having a new historical setting, that of the American Revolution, which allows the writers to share more information with players.The Assassin’s Creed games have delighted fans with lots of ... |
2 April 2012
15:31 GMT |
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The Mass Effect series from BioWare might just be the first complete trilogy in the history of video games that knows how to use its own history and make sure that the past is always involved for those gamers who are enjoying its present.
Ever since the first game in the franchise was launched, the development team ... |
17 March 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft Research announced the beta release of ChronoZoom, a place that brings together various pieces of information on the history of the universe.
Released in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley; Moscow State University; and the Outercurve Foundation, ChronoZoom arrives as a new to... |
14 March 2012
12:04 GMT |
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A Senator in the United States has singled out video game preservation as one of the wasteful projects that the United States government is spending money on, as part of a bigger report criticizing the Democratic administration.The video game related grant that Tom Coburn, who is the junior Republican Senator from th... |
23 December 2011
15:11 GMT |
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The most popular image editor in the world turns twenty years old at the start of February 2010. First released under Adobe in 1990, Photoshop has obtained cultural status in numerous domains. From web design to digital photography, from the print industry to art schools, its adoption was complete and without any reg... |
10 February 2010
03:31 GMT |
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English scientists from the University of Manchester, led by Dr. Matthias vom Hau, have recently announced that the conclusion of their latest study is ominous – nearly all textbooks the team analyzed over the course of the investigation had political messages, most of them nationalistic. Hundreds of textbooks ... |
11 November 2009
03:20 GMT |
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While in a previous article we spoke of some of the most popular killer fashion trends throughout time, this is just the moment to bring to the table the three deadliest such trends, statistically speaking. Last time, we spoke about the crinoline, the corset and footbinding as having been popular dangerous styles &nd... |
3 February 2009
15:41 GMT |
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We all know that women would do virtually anything to keep up with the trends, from getting on almost impossibly high heels and running to catch a cab to work, to breaking their back by carrying huge bags in which they stuff almost everything they find around the house, just in case they might need it under a special... |
3 February 2009
03:36 GMT |
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A group of amoeba-shaped creatures called Placozoans has recently “dethroned” sea sponges from their position as the closest living creatures to Earth's original animals, the base of the evolutionary tree line, the point of origin for every other animal species that came after it. A new analysis show... |
27 January 2009
06:59 GMT |
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While medicine and our understanding of the human body have evolved constantly for the past centuries, there are still the occasional medical conditions that leave even the most trained professional speechless. Here are a few of them, in a top 7 put together by New Scientist.Water allergy – medically known as a... |
16 December 2008
09:57 GMT |
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A crucial element is responsible for the many achievements, social structuring or other factors of historical importance related to humankind's evolution, although it is constantly and unfairly neglected. It is the same element that also helped life emerge – water. Scientists all over the world and from a ... |
27 November 2008
05:52 GMT |
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The history and evolution of warfare has been linked to humans throughout our existence, ever since the chief of some tribe decided he wanted the territory and possessions of another tribe. Since then, records have been peppered with accounts of violent, large-scaled conflicts, involving tribesmen, mercenaries, and, ... |
13 November 2008
13:21 GMT |
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After last week's update with satellite imagery from the affected areas in Myanmar (Burma), Google Earth has just received a new update. This time, it is something that deals more with the past, but is of equal significance. The new layer has increased the number of available maps in Rumsey Historical Maps to a ... |
13 May 2008
04:13 GMT |
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Yahoo!'s photo sharing service has had this one in the brewing for a while now and the magnitude of the whole thing is yet to be seen. With the launch of the two sets of photos, we've been given a small taste of what is yet to come in "The Commons" pilot project, which brings together Flickr and the Library... |
17 January 2008
19:26 GMT |
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As stunning as it might sound, Google is only the second name given to the Stanford students' project. Philipp Lenssen, of blogoscoped.com, discovered that its precursor back in 1996 was called "BackRub" and that it was a search engine research project that was headed by who else than Larry Page, the last Page t... |
28 December 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Well, puzzles are back in fashion... because there are not too many casual games that have nice graphics... well, at least not the graphics that I like.This week's game is called Heroes of Hellas and for some reason, the majority of puzzles I see have at their base Greek Mythology. I know that it's a very n... |
20 October 2007
03:40 GMT |
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Hackers attack websites everyday, even if it's not in the news. As studies show it, hackers are after financial profits most of the time. You rarely see a "good old fashioned hack" when the site is down and a message pops up, so that's why I decided to write about this hacker's deeds. Now, this guy was... |
20 September 2007
09:16 GMT |
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Once in a while, Google reveals new functions able to improve the search technology by allowing users to customize their search query. Today, the company debuts Recommendations, a new function distributed by two other products developed by the search giant: Toolbar and Personalized Homepage. This latest feature is ba... |
19 April 2007
03:19 GMT |
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Time goes by slowly for those who wait, say the lyrics of some Madonna song. Today is Monday and I'm not exactly among those who wait, but for me, time today goes by kind of slowly, as I'm reviewing this Mac OS application that should "create nice timelines to convince and educate other people", as the prod... |
2 April 2007
10:52 GMT |
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I will try to map out the evolution of Windows from when it was an operating environment to the Wow operating system that is Windows Vista. Microsoft has come a long way and the history of the ubiquitous Windows stretches from the 1980 to 2007. However, Windows 3.x was the first Microsoft product to combine a graphic... |
19 March 2007
11:27 GMT |
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