Descent creator closes down. I was talking to someone about the Descent games and was wondering if they had anything new.

Parallax Software which created Descent later became Outrage Games closed in 2003.

There is a article about it
Why The Game Industry Kicked Me Out: Recent & Future Trends in Game Development
http://www.igda.org/smichigan/Aug03/report.htm

Amit C

posted by Amit at 11:49 AM Comment (0)

Octopuses occasionally stroll around on two arms, UC Berkeley biologists report: "When walking, these octopuses use the outer halves of their two back arms like tank treads, alternately laying down a sucker edge and rolling it along the ground. In Indonesia, for example, the coconut octopus looks like a coconut tiptoeing along the ocean bottom, six of its arms wrapped tightly around its body."

Ok, this just looks freaky!

posted by Farookh at 7:47 PM Comment (1)

Craigslist gets beamed into space: "On March 11, a company called Deep Space Communications Network beamed the first commercial transmission of a Web site into space."

posted by Farookh at 3:08 PM Comment (0)

New Scientist: 13 things that do not make sense - Features: Thirteen scientific observations that defy explanation.

posted by Kaushik at 12:23 AM Comment (0)

HIT Lab NZ has brought virtual and augmented reality to books. One can see the story literally come to life!

posted by Amit at 5:44 AM Comment (0)

Bike Tree: Secure bike sharing and storage system. Simply swipe your smart card and watch your bicycle park up into the canopy.

posted by Amit at 5:42 AM Comment (0)

India wins landmark patent battle: "India has won a 10-year-long battle at the European Patent Office (EPO) against a patent granted on an anti-fungal product, derived from neem."

posted by Farookh at 10:41 AM Comment (0)

The Seattle Times: Dot-Con job Infospace-Naveen Jain & SJ Mercury News 5 year aniv series

A series on article on Infospace and it's founder, Naveen Jain.

I like the realistic look at the other aspects of entrepreneurship. I
would also recommend BroadBandits to anyone who likes this topic.


Silicon valley's newspaper SJ Mercury News on the 5 year anniversary of
the Dotcom\Telecom euphoria is carrying a series.

Amit


posted by Amit at 11:26 AM Comment (0)

NTT DoCoMo USA ::: VISION 2010 NTT DoCoMo's vision of the future. Video ~10 minutes. Worth a watch.

-K


posted by Kaushik at 6:38 PM Comment (0)

Sony offers pizza feature for hungry gamers: "Type the command '/pizza' while playing Everquest II, a fantasy game with 330,000 active players, and get the Pizza Hut Web site, where you can place orders for delivery."

This is brilliant! Everquest needs a little shopping center which is a DMZ where players can go and buy real stuff and then get back into the game.

posted by Farookh at 2:13 PM Comment (0)

Sony offers pizza feature for hungry gamers: "Type the command '/pizza' while playing Everquest II, a fantasy game with 330,000 active players, and get the Pizza Hut Web site, where you can place orders for delivery."

This is brilliant! Everquest needs a little shopping center which is a DMZ where players can go and buy real stuff and then get back into the game.

posted by Farookh at 2:10 PM Comment (0)

Nobel winner Hans Bethe, `The Battleship' of Los Alamos, dies at 98: "At his zenith, there seemed to be few well-defined conundrums of the cosmos that Bethe couldn't master. He could not program the simplest computer, but had no trouble digesting reams of supercomputer readouts. For help, he reached into his briefcase for a slide rule he had carried around for 70 years.

He also had a habit of taking a 30-minute bath each morning.

'You sleep and things get somewhat unscrambled in your mind,' he said in 1996. 'Then in the bath, I can become conscious of that.' "

posted by Farookh at 11:46 AM Comment (1)

Towards a truly clever Artificial Intelligence: A pioneering new way of creating computer programs could be used in the future to design and build robots with minds that function like that of a human being, according to a leading researcher at The University of Reading.

Dr James Anderson, of the University’s Department of Computer Science, has developed for the first time the ‘perspective simplex’, or Perspex, which is a way of writing a computer program as a geometrical structure, rather than as a series of instructions.

-K

posted by Kaushik at 3:06 AM Comment (0)

Scientist at Work: Origami as the Shape of Things to Come: "Dr. Demaine, an assistant professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the leading theoretician in the emerging field of origami mathematics, the formal study of what can be done with a folded sheet of paper. "

-K


posted by Kaushik at 12:00 AM Comment (0)

Sensitive Object: Extending the sensitivity beyond touch-screens.

posted by Amit at 6:22 AM Comment (1)