8 Dec, 2007
There’s been no shortage of stories lately alleging that Wikipedia moderators have fascist tendencies, but a new case goes one step further. A German politician has filed charges against Wikipedia alleging that the worlds most famous UGC site promotes Nazism.
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8 Dec, 2007
It’s like a James Bond film come to life. A company based on a tiny island in the British archipelago parachuted to become the first private team to enter a race to reach the moon by 2014 and thereby pocket most of a $30 mil prize offered by Google. Entrants must fly a craft to the moon, operate a robotic rover and transmit data to Earth to win.
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8 Dec, 2007
You, have the opportunity to reshape the distribution and development of user created content and game making. In a generation where making a game for a console is becoming restricted almost exclusively for larger companies due to cost, this is your opportunity to bring your idea to Sony’s platform via UnrealEngine3’s tool set.
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8 Dec, 2007
Following the huge pressure it successfully put on LeaseWeb to shut BitTorrent sites, anti-piracy outfit BREIN smells blood as it casts a wider net to force other ISPs to shut down other huge sites, including the likes of Mininova, TorrentSpy and BTJunkie.
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8 Dec, 2007
Simon Greenwold from MIT Media Lab aesthetics and computation group developed a concept for creating an easy to use combination of real and virtual environments. Using what he calls a “window” (a large portable touch sensitive screen) equipped with a high res digital camera in the back, he created a device which captures a real environment and…
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8 Dec, 2007
Back in the early days of disc-based gaming, companies weren’t afraid of sticking a “Now Loading” screen in your face every two minutes. Now, companies employ stupid tricks to avoid them. Here’s the worst ones
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8 Dec, 2007
Soon, you’ll be able to exaggerate fish sizes with your Nintendo controllers. “It was THIS BIG”
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8 Dec, 2007
Verizon becomes the latest company to be tripped up by the GPL. The Software Freedom Law Center has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit over an application used in some of the telecom’s FiOS hardware.
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8 Dec, 2007
So, what do you guys think? I personally think Tom Jane looked the part better than Ray Stevenson.
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8 Dec, 2007
A trusted source has told Destructoid that the patch has indeed been submitted to Sony for approval, and (as promised) should have been available yesterday. What’s the hold up? Activision has actively attempted to block the release of the patch, even bringing their lawyers into the fray. If true, way to screw the customers.
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8 Dec, 2007
This guy built a GIANT 360 and it holds all his games and gaming gear!! It would suck to see this one get the RRoD.
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8 Dec, 2007
Speaking at a media industry conference in New York today, Comcast’s co-CFO Michael Angelakis talked about how the “increasingly challenging economic and competitive environment” put a crimp in the company’s growth plans. 2007 will still be “a year of record RGU additions and solid financial performance.”
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