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TakeFlight revs up simulator-based flight training
The makers of software such as Microsoft Flight Simulator usually say their programs are meant for entertainment, not actual flight training — but there’s a venture called TakeFlight Interactive that’s using enhanced simulations to get future pilots up to speed more quickly. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aviation, Games, Simulations, TakeFlight Interactive, Technology
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Microsoft Flight Simulator is back … for real!
RENTON, Wash. — Thanks to Microsoft’s hyper-realistic new version of Flight Simulator, I now know what it’s like to fly a Cessna 72SP Skyhawk airplane over my neighborhood … then crash it into the next street over. And in connection … Continue reading
Minecraft helps revive lost monuments virtually
Can a video game reclaim centuries’ worth of lost cultural heritage in the Middle East? Microsoft’s Minecraft Education Edition is being used to do just that, in league with UNESCO and schools around the world. History Blocks takes advantage of the educationally oriented … Continue reading
5 tech twists from ‘Ready Player One’
“Ready Player One,” the Steven Spielberg movie that blends memes from the 1980s with a virtual-reality vision of 2045, is getting mostly positive reviews from film critics and filmgoers, and from box-office trackers as well. Some see the film as a metaphor for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Games, Movies, Ready Player One, Science, Science Fiction, Technology, Virtual Reality
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How an AI program bested the pros in poker
You got to know when to hold ’em, and know when to fold ’em — and when it comes to betting on human superiority in the game of poker, it may be time to fold ’em. Carnegie Mellon University researchers laid … Continue reading
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Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Bot or Not, Games, Poker, Technology
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Elon Musk hails AI bot’s video game victory
The Dota 2 esports tournament in Seattle, known as The International, demonstrates how video games have become hugely popular team sports — and today alpha geek Elon Musk took the occasion to tout a different kind of team effort. Musk, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Dota, Elon Musk, Games, Technology
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