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Eve Online goes free to play (World Specific Developments)
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Eve Online is making the biggest change in its 13-year history, by going free-to-play.
posted: 16/11/2016
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YouTuber Nepenthez charged over video game gambling site (World Specific Developments)
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In the UK, two men have appeared in court charged with offences under the Gambling Act in what is believed to be the first prosecution involving betting on video games.
posted: 20/09/2016
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Google Maps adds Great Britain public transport data (World Specific Developments)
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Google has added coast-to-coast public transport information for the whole of Great Britain to its Maps app.
posted: 14/05/2014
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Nintendo Appoligises for Not Including Same-Sex Relationships in a Social Gameworld (World Specific Developments)
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Nintendo has said sorry for not recognising same-sex relationships in a simulation of life. The company claims it is too late to change the latest version.
posted: 13/05/2014
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Minecraft: All of Denmark virtually recreated (World Specific Developments)
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The whole of Denmark has been recreated, to scale, within the virtual world of Minecraft.
posted: 29/04/2014
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NASA Releases First Interactive Mosaic of Lunar North Pole (World Specific Developments)
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Scientists, using cameras aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), have created the largest high resolution mosaic of our moon’s north polar region. The six-and-a-half feet (two-meters)-per-pixel images cover an area equal to more than one-quarter of the United States.
posted: 18/03/2014
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Researchers propose a new system for quantum simulation (World Specific Developments)
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Researchers from the universities in Mainz, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Ulm have proposed a new platform for quantum simulation. In a theoretical paper recently published in Physical Review Letters, they show that a combined system of ultracold trapped ions and fermionic atoms could be used to emulate solid state physics. This system may outperform possibilities of existing platforms as a number of phenomena found in solid state systems are naturally included, such as the fermionic statistics of the electrons and the electron-sound wave interactions.
posted: 04/09/2013
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Playing video games can boost brain power (World Specific Developments)
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Certain types of video games can help to train the brain to become more agile and improve strategic thinking, according to scientists from Queen Mary University of London and University College London.
posted: 25/08/2013
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Research Shows Precisely Which Strategies Help Players Win Team-oriented Video Games (World Specific Developments)
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Computer science researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a technique to determine which strategies give players an edge at winning in multi-player (action) real-time strategy (ARTS) games, such as Defense of the Ancients (DotA), Warcraft III and Starcraft II. The technique offers extremely precise information about how a player’s actions affect a team’s chances of winning, and could be used to develop technology for use by players and developers to improve gameplay experiences.
posted: 20/08/2013
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Novel 3-D Simulation Technology Helps Surgical Residents Train More Effectively (World Specific Developments)
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A novel interactive 3-dimensional (3-D) simulation platform offers surgical residents a unique opportunity to hone their diagnostic and patient management skills, and then have those skills accurately evaluated according to a new study appearing in the August issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. The findings may help establish a new tool for assessing and training surgical residents.
posted: 02/08/2013
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