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Botany vs. Zombies Part One: Sunflowers
I come to praise the makers of Plants vs. Zombies, not to bury them under well-tilled soil turned with manure and dusted with nasturtium seeds: they got the science right. Given that the game’s
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Project Durango Announced as Xbox One [UPDATED]
How long have we been speculating about the new Xbox? A year? It feels like FOREVER. But in the wake of the PS4′s announcement back in February, Microsoft has finally revealed their next generation
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Google Announces a Plethora of Changes
Most people who use the internet use at least one service that was made and is maintained by tech super giant Google. If not the Google search engine, then Gmail, or YouTube, or Google
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Science & Tech News: Saturn Moon Made of Fluff, Nanotechnology for Diabetics, and Baby Horror in Among The Sleep
Technology Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston Children’s Hospital are hoping to create a nanogel that makes it easier for diabetics to regulate their insulin levels. Instead of having to monitor
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Game Review: Tomb Raider is Very Annoying
Ah, Tomb Raider. You stirred up so much controversy after last year’s E3. As to whether or not the game is sexist: well, maybe, though not in the ways the developer intended. It’s definitely
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Jennie Lamere Was The Only Girl to Finish TVnext Hack 2013 and She Won
17-year-old coder Jennie Lamere was the only female participant at 2013′s TVnext Hack event, a hackathon event held on April 27 in Boston, and she won the whole damn thing. A hackathon is an
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Science & Tech News: Sushi Cats, New ‘Killer is Dead’ trailer, and A Cure For Grey Hair
I haven’t had time to do one of these for a couple of weeks, but science and tech news is BACK! Here’s what you need to know about what happened this week in the
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Women in Games: An Interview with Emma Westecott
Emma Westecott has had a long history in the game industry, with 15 years of experience working on all kinds of different projects, from experimental to mainstream games. She is currently an assistant professor
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Neonicotinoids: Finally a Ban for the Bees
Neonicotinoids — quite a tongue-twister for the news reporters over the last week — are an important puzzle piece in the scary decline in bee population over the last decade. After a lengthy period of scientific
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Minority Media Announces New Title ‘Silent Enemy’
Papo & Yo‘s (last year’s hit indie title about alcoholism, which has just recently been released for PC on Steam) developer Minority Media announced their new game this week, along with the issue it’s
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