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Video game developer and publisher Valve has announced that it will be holding a programming oriented talk at the upcoming Games Developers Conference 2012, which will take place from March 5 to 9 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.The conference from Valve will be headlined by Elan Ruskin and will be... |
30 December 2011
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Speaking at the GDC Online event in Austin, Texas Chris Metzen, who is the senior vice president of creative development at video game developer Blizzard, has talked about how important writers are to the company and to the success of the MMO World of Warcraft.He spoke about what writing means for Blizzard, saying, &... |
11 October 2011
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BioWare has been one of the most innovative developers in the world of video gaming in the last few years, creating two full new franchises with Dragon Age and Mass Effect, and one of the leading developers working there has said that the teams are aiming for a more diverse video game market.Manveer Heir, who is a se... |
8 August 2011
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Experts at the University of Haifa, in Israel, have recently developed a new method of detecting if a person is telling the truth, based entirely on the way that person writes. Eye-movement analysis, body-language assessments and other such techniques are no longer necessary, the developers of the new method write. T... |
21 September 2009
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Several reports outline the changes occurring with Snow Leopard lately, including a new interface for QuickTime X, new text capabilities, an updated CoreLocation framework and more. The seed notes for Mac OS X 10.6 Build 10A286 have also revealed that members of Apple's Developer Connection still have to do a lo... |
9 March 2009
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The Grand Theft Auto video game franchise has always pushed the envelope in terms of gameplay and controversy, but if you had to blame its massive popularity on one single thing, it would be the intricate stories that unfold in the game, which places the player as the main character. While some critics believe the s... |
24 February 2009
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Despite the fact that the earliest cave paintings were estimated to be just 16,000 years old, anthropologists and evolutionary psychologists say that the origins of crafts such as music, painting, and writing may be found in the Pleistocene epoch, a period that started more than 1.6 million years ago. Philosophy of a... |
31 January 2009
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Following the recent association of an ancient copper mine with King Solomon, another such example comes in the form of the discovery of a pottery shard containing what appears to be possibly the oldest Hebrew inscription ever found. The Israeli archaeologist who made the discovery associates the three-millennia-old ... |
3 November 2008
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For humans, writing meant a huge technological and cultural revolution. Information was at last to be recorded in a more secure way than via human memory. Writing and reading seem natural for us, but they had to be invented and perfected. In 1996, on the left bank of the Euphrates River, 100 km (60 mi) of Aleppo (Syr... |
5 April 2008
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On the left bank of the Euphrates River, 100 km (60 mi) of Aleppo (Syria), in the archaeological site of Jerf el-Ahmar (in Arabian "Red Bank"), a Syrian-French team discovered, in 1996, some very odd stone slates bearing engraved graphics. The plates were considered to date from the Neolithic (New Stone Age), being 9... |
8 February 2008
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Alicia Keys's new album "As I Am" is set to hit the stores today. And I think you'd all agree (if you had a chance to listen to her first single release, 'No One") that there are some interesting (and noticeable) changes in there, starting with the way her voice sounds. The experts would call her new s... |
15 November 2007
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Chinese writing is thought to have resisted for 4,500 years. And the greatest danger for it was the attempt of replacing it with the Latin script. But this did not work due to ethno-political reasons: while those from the Han ethnic group regard themselves as Chinese proper, they speak 13 different languages (not di... |
21 May 2007
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