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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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Mozak turns brain mapping into video game
A game called Mozak is turning thousands of Internet users into “tracers” who help neuroscientists map out the tangled circuitry of brain cells. The citizen-science project was created by the University of Washington’s Center for Game Science in partnership with the Allen … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Institute, Brain, Games, Mozak, Neuroscience, Science, Technology
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Video arcades are back, with virtual reality
Remember the days when arcades were the places where kids could play the coolest video games? No? Well, now you can get in on that experience, this time with immersive virtual reality adventures instead of Frogger and Pac-Man. Portal, at … Continue reading
