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Academic Study Says Violent Video Games Reduces Stress
By admin on July 14, 2010 | No Comments
Texas A&M International University recently conducted a study in which volunteers were subjected to stress, with some subjects being allowed to play video games afterward. According to the results, the game-playing group reported less stress and depression afterward.
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Hollywood Doesn’t Get Games, Avatar Producer SaysBy admin on April 27, 2010 | No Comments
Avatar producer Jon Landau says getting game developers to work directly with forward-thinking filmmakers is the solution to Hollywood’s long-standing videogame problem. “3-D is the cheddar on the ice cream sundae,” he said. “Down the road everybody’s going to expect it for every game.”
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Iraq War Vet Says Troops Were Ordered to “Just Shoot People”By admin on April 8, 2010 | No Comments
As disturbing as the WilkiLeaks video is of US soldiers killing an unarmed Reuters reporter and Iraqi civilians, this type of behavior by US soldiers in Iraq is not uncommon. Truthout has spoken with several soldiers who shared equally horrific stories of the slaughtering of innocent Iraqis by US occupation forces.
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Multicore Requires OS Rework, Windows Expert SaysBy admin on March 21, 2010 | No Comments
alphadogg writes “With chip makers continuing to increase the number of cores they include on each new generation of their processors, perhaps it’s time to rethink the basic architecture of today’s operating systems, suggested Dave Probert, a kernel architect within the Windows core operating systems division at Microsoft. The current approach to harnessing the power of multicore processors is complicated and not entirely successful, he argued. The (more…)
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Jury Buys Story of Thief Who Says He Was Just Good SamaritanBy admin on March 14, 2010 | No Comments
Men and women are doubtless acquitted of auto burglary in cities across the U.S. every day. But we’re guessing that few do so based on such marvelous exculpatory stories as 28-year-old San Francisco resident Weston Reynolds.
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Scientist Says He Figured Out Baseball’s Winning FormulaBy admin on March 7, 2010 | No Comments
An Iowa State physicist has come up with a new formula that predicts which baseball teams will be winners.
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Graham says GOP should stop demonizing climate changeBy admin on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
“I have been to enough college campuses to know if you are 30 or younger this climate issue is not a debate”.
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Give Space a Chance, Says Phil PlaitBy admin on January 30, 2010 | No Comments
The Bad Astronomer writes “A lot of pundits, scientists, and people who should know better are decrying the demise of NASA, saying that the President’s budget cutting the Constellation program and the Ares rockets will sound the death knell of manned space exploration. This simply is not true.The budget will call for a new rocket design, and a lot of money will go toward private space companies, who may be able to launch people into orbit years ahead (more…)
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Forrester Says Tech Downturn Is “Unofficially Over”By admin on January 12, 2010 | No Comments
alphadogg writes “The US IT market will grow by 6.6% as high-tech spending rebounds in 2010, according to Forrester Research’s latest estimates. The research firm based its projections on data reported for 2009, though its fourth quarter numbers are incomplete. Forrester says hints of a recovery surfaced in the third quarter, and now the company expects the global IT market to grow by 8.1% in 2010. Forrester’s US and Global IT Market Outlook: Q4 2009 (more…)
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A billion could lose clean water to ice melt, says Al GoreBy admin on December 15, 2009 | No Comments
Cclimate guru Al Gore warned UN climate talks today that record melting of Polar and Himalayan ice could deprive more than a billion people of access to clean water.
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