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The Internet and Video Gamers Could Unlock the Next Breakthrough in Science
They could, we just need to figure out how. I recently watched an amazing TEDx talk by Luis von Ahn about massive-scale online collaboration through systems such as how reCAPTCHA uses a common Internet method of determining humanity to digitize books. This sort of crowdsourcing has elements of expectation that could be brought to bear ...
Chilly Storms Brewing in the Cloud Over Megaupload Takedown
Last week saw what felt like a surprise move by the US government against the Hong Kong-based file sharing site, Megaupload. Swooping in from afar the company and several of its executives found themselves embroiled in a legal battle. The takedown and its proximity to the SOPA protests even triggered one of the largest DDoS ...
Valve Delivers with Smartphone Steam App Beta
The digital-distribution gaming company Valve has started a closed beta for a smartphone app that will allow access to their social-gaming and delivery Steam service on both Android and iOS. While the app will not allow people to play games, it will permit customers the ability to access their social profiles and purchase games from ...
Microsoft Rumors: Microsoft Points Going Away and the Xbox 720’s Massive Video Card
As the year advances, so do rumors about the next-gen gaming consoles that might be leaping forth from the major players in that arena such as when we’ll see the Wii-U—and now it’s also about what will be in the Xbox 720. However, before all that speculation comes to fruition there’s the matter of the ...
Nintendo Announces a Darker Financial Forecast as Wii-U Appears on the Horizon
Japanese gaming behemoth Nintendo has reported a gigantic financial loss of 48.4 billion yen for the last three quarters of 2011 making this their first annual loss in 30 years. PCMag has furnished an article about Nintendo’s Thursday announcement that they took a loss of almost $627.9 million for the nine-month period that ended in ...
Online World Virtual Learning for Kids Delivered to Schools by Fantage
The massively-multiplayer online gaming ecology currently is dominated with games directed at teenagers and adults, just like most video games; however, this doesn’t mean that games—which have traditionally had a stereotype as being for children—cannot be marketed towards elementary school aged children. We’ve seen games such as Wizards 101, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and even ...
The Impact of Megaupload’s “Mega-Downfall” on Sharing in the Cloud
With the fall of Megaupload.com to the United States government in an action that has taken them entirely offline—in a move yet unprecedented by the US against a foreign site—it brings to mind what sort of effect this might have on other file sharing sites such as Box.net, Dropbox, YouSendIt, and others. How will cloud ...
3D Printers are Only the Vanguard for the Era of the Physible
As we adventure into our new-found future and legislation struggles to keep up with technology with Big Media companies fighting tooth and nail against digital copying what happens when we invent an era where physical copying is possible. This is the world of futurism and it’s also the domain of science fiction authors—but it’s also nearly today. ...
Digital Sales Continue to Bloom but Big Music is Stuck in the Past
Digital distribution and sales continue to move forward and have found themselves a bright niche in our Internet-connected world. As a result of having almost instant access to downloadable music and music services have caused people to flock to them and it’s obvious that people are extremely happy to spend their money on licensed music. ...
Anonymous Deletes CBS.com and Downs Universal in #OpMegaupload
Sunday brought some strange events to the Internet and one of them happens to be that hackers believed aligned with Anonymous made it look as if hackers broke into CBS.com and deleted the contents. This isn’t the usual DDoS attack washing a site away with so much traffic that it cannot respond—visitors were greeted instead ...