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One of the most recurring aspects of science-fiction movies is the fact that they all feature a future in which human kind is either living in an Utopian dream, or has to live at least in a world that has learned to completely renounce war. As an example, the Star Trek series, both the original and the spin-offs, dep... |
12 May 2009
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The gaming industry has been on high alert in the last few days, ever since Konami announced that it would release a game based on the battles in Iraq, more specifically on the Operation Phantom Fury, which was the second battle the US Marines fought in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. The game, entitled Six Days in Fall... |
14 April 2009
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Celebrities have long ceased to be just entertainers, having become involved in almost every aspect of our lives, from fighting pollution and protecting animal rights, to supporting world peace and bringing down the poverty rate. This is precisely the topic of Marina Hyde’s latest book, “Celebrity: How En... |
3 April 2009
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Cornered Rat Software is encouraging Mac and PC users to download the free, 14-day trial version of its massively multiplayer PC game WWII Online: Battleground Europe for the chance to have their face added to an in-game character.According to Cornered Rat Software, anyone who creates a free trial account between Mar... |
23 March 2009
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The US Army is currently engaged in a research process aimed at providing it with accurate predictions on the future behavior of various cultural and political groups in the world that are now in the data base. For the successful completion of this initiative, Jerzy Rozenblit, a professor at the University of Arizona... |
5 March 2009
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The online gaming scene is starting to become bigger and bigger in these very tough times, when game developers are beginning to feel the negative influence of the recession on their retail sales. People are starting to move away from games that can only be played once, and are heading towards titles that can be play... |
30 January 2009
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The US Department of Defense (DOD) is advocating the creation of a new computer software that would replace the familiar faces of parents in the eyes of children left at home while they are serving their country. Although the department admits that such a substitution is not exactly the best option for everyone invol... |
19 January 2009
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More and more money is spent on military purposes, while science and health are far from doing well, let alone benefit from similar budgets. While it's hard to argue that national security and defense are crucial tasks, it is also important to know that only the missile defense program that's been going on ... |
8 December 2008
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Instead of relaxing, under the common threat of the global financial crisis and in the light of new treaties against arms proliferation, the centuries-old tensions between the US and Russia have become even higher. As a result, or perhaps as a cause – who knows anymore? – the Russian military officials ha... |
5 December 2008
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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
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Warhammer Online is one of the most exciting and successful gaming stories out there. Although nobody believed in the project, saying that Warhammer was best left alone in the RPG (Role Playing Game) format, the team at Mythic Entertainment decided to go online and create this very popular MMORPG (Massively Multiplay... |
24 October 2008
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The MMORPG, or Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, market is definitely a tough one, with World of Warcraft being the dominant title (having over 11 million subscribers) that all the other games are trying to beat. There have been titles announced as the ones that would dethrone WoW but none of them manag... |
20 October 2008
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The last patch for World of Warcraft 3.02 before the launch of Wrath of the Lich King is finally out and the game servers are now stable and active following the patching process. The official name for the patch is Echoes of Doom and there are some pretty interesting and significant changes.There are new skill sets a... |
16 October 2008
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The US Army plans to invest massively in developing improved technology for waging the wars of the future. Simultaneously, their recruitment approaches become more aggressive.Thomas Killion, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology, believes that developing nanobots will be a great asset... |
15 October 2008
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The guys at Mythic Entertainment are really happy these days. After releasing their first MMORPG (Massively Multyplayer Online Role Playing Game) that was based in the Warhammer universe, the sales are extremely good. So good, that in just a week since launch, over 500,000 players have created accounts for the game.H... |
29 September 2008
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The night is as pitch black as it can be without you being actually blind. You feel the brick wall before your hands, dark and cold to the touch. There are some clear bullet holes in it, through which you let your fingers run without thinking of anything in particular. As you sit crouched behind the wall, you plan yo... |
23 May 2008
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The recent conflict between Intel and Nvidia moved from the market to the personal arena, where the two competitors are throwing offenses at will. The latest hit comes from one of Nvidia's vice-presidents, in a private e-mail message claiming that the CPU is dead and has long since run out of steam.The private m... |
26 April 2008
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Landmines are banned from use in more than 150 countries around the world, however the Landmine Action believes that autonomous robots capable of killing people should also be banned because they fall under the same treaty that had outlawed the landmines. The US Army is currently the proud owner of a few thousand mil... |
28 March 2008
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Assyrians were one of the most warlike people in history, lovers of the violence of the war and hunt. Amongst the people of the ancient Middle East, they were famous for their cruelty. At the peak of its power, Assyria stretched from Egypt to Persian Gulf. Their aggressiveness was partially attributed to their locati... |
26 January 2008
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Boy, are the French pissed off or what? Danger Room reports the incredible case of a French businessman whose company is currently working on installing TASER stun guns on a high tech flying saucer. The pimped UFO is going to be used to put down all sorts of riots, to take action to protect the official missions, as... |
29 November 2007
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Probably the Americans were looking for these biological weapons in Iraq: 3,300 years old tularemia. A new research suggests that ancient texts coming from the Middle East could describe a biological warfare which happened more than three millennia ago. The Hittites, whose empire dominated Asia Minor (current Turkey)... |
27 November 2007
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So, this is how Britain's most sophisticated unmanned surveillance system looks like. The mighty Reaper UAV has been deployed into active service in Afghanistan. So, what initially was designed for surveillance now is being used exclusively for military reconnaissance and ground-attack missions, working even on ... |
12 November 2007
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"The enormous market swarmed of people; some buying, some selling...Amongst us were soldiers which had traveled in many parts of the world, from Constantinople to Italy and Rome, yet they said they had never seen a market of such proportions so harmonious and balanced, harboring so much people", wrote Bernal Diaz del... |
3 November 2007
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Korea is an ancient nation, a unification of the limits of the peninsula bearing the same name during the 7th century and inhabited by an ethnic group that linguists tend to say is Tungus (thus is somehow related to Mongols). As an unified kingdom, it always had to face the Chinese domination, but developed a rich cu... |
6 October 2007
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The Israelis have bombed the Syrians, but that's not something out of the ordinary, as these countries have been at war since 1967. Now, what is somewhat weird is that they managed to bypass every defense system, reaching their target, just south of the Turkish border.They used F-15 and F-16 planes to get there ... |
5 October 2007
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After finding Livingstone in 1871, Henry Morton Stanley continued his exploration of the Congo basin and tried to convince the British government to turn Congo into a British colony. This, however, proved not interested, and Belgian king was eventually faster. Leopold II turned the river's banks into a huge grav... |
15 September 2007
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"Theater of a continuous war". This is how an English historian described the Caucasus region two hundred years ago. In 1832, the Russian poet wrote about the Chechens: "Their most priced right is their freedom; their law and the war". The will of breaking off any yoke and the readiness for combat helped the Chechens... |
6 September 2007
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The war between Intel and AMD is taking a new turn as the European Commission pressed formal charges against the chip maker Intel for using illegal tactics in an attempt to gain more market shares and consolidate is position as market leader. Ton Van Lierop, a spokesman for the European Commission - cited by the news... |
27 July 2007
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AMD is going to support and encourage the extensive use of virtualization technologies on the small businesses servers and as the company declared, they hope to gain access in the SMBs space in the next 18 months. Barcelona will arrive on the market in the same general period, so AMD's declarations may indicate ... |
26 July 2007
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AMD tries hard to keep its remaining market shares intact and this job is much harder than you may think because Intel is going for an "all out" price and products war. On one side, there is AMD, desperate to keep from falling too much behind Intel in terms of market share, which has no processor directly comparable ... |
26 July 2007
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The less time until the much anticipated and waited for arrival of AMD Barcelona quad core processors in the following months, the more pressure Intel applies on the market and on AMD. After a price cut not even weeks old, a new one is coming up, together with some new processors from the Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad ... |
24 July 2007
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The world's largest chip maker, Intel, is expected to post a new list of price cuts in a few days that will mainly be aimed at the low and middle end desktop PC market. An Intel spokesman cited by the news Web site InfoWorld said that his company regularly updates processor prices, but doesn't disclose when... |
19 July 2007
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Intel and AMD, the two major players on the processor market, have been rivals for what seems like forever. Because of this "war", we, customers, saw a number of things quickly change. First of all, prices dropped like crazy all over the globe (long gone are the days when you had to spend all your paycheck for a low-... |
13 July 2007
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Have you ever experienced a persistent headache? Yours was nothing compared to that of a 77-year-old Chinese grandmother, which shocked the doctors when they found why: a bullet located in her brain!Jin Guangying, a 77-year-old Chinese woman, living in Shuyang town, Jiangsu province, received the bullet when she was ... |
4 July 2007
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Cars that can drive themselves have been a dream for motorists around the world since the 1950s, when the idea became popular. Such cars could save the driver from the effort of cruising through crowded cities, congested highways, impossible parking spots, being able to react much faster than a human.The latest rob... |
29 June 2007
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Robots have been part of human imagination for longer than you think. Though the modern science-fiction literary genre has made them so famous that they've become universal brands, like "Robocop", "Terminator", "Data", "R2-D2" or "iRobot", they have been present in mythology long before.You have probably seen, ... |
20 June 2007
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Matrix Games and Strategic Studies Group have just released new screenshots for their highly anticipated real time naval warfare title, Carriers at War. The new AAR is being written by Gregor Whiley. Check out the pictures below to experience a new understanding of naval combat and strategy set in the Pacific Theatre... |
22 May 2007
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Gulf War Syndrome characterizes a complex of physical and mental symptoms affecting150,000 Gulf War veterans. The syndrome was largely dismissed by doctors but now it appears increasingly evident that it could have been provoked by low-level exposure to the poisonous gas sarin, famous due to its employment by the Aum... |
19 May 2007
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The basic idea behind body armor hasn't changed very much for the past few thousands years.The main purpose of the armor is to stop weapons or projectiles from penetrating a person's body and to diffuse the weapon's impulse energy, so that the final impact causes little or no damage at all.Although not... |
16 March 2007
11:12 GMT |
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The developing team at Digital Reality stood out over the last ten years in the world of RTS games with titles such as Imperium Galactica, Haegemonia, Platoon or Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps. They have always kept the traditional style that we're all familiar with from Warcraft and Command & Conquer (that has co... |
5 March 2007
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