How amazing is this: Gamers playing a protein-folding game called Foldit have helped unlock the structure of an AIDS-related enzyme that the scientific community had been unable to unlock for a decade.
Since I can’t turn on my laptop with the power of my mind, I guess I’ll have to live with waiting for it to boot up. You know, for eight seconds. It might be seven-and-a-half seconds too long, but since I can’t expect my phone to also cook, wash my clothes and let me travel [...]
First there was a minor kerfuffle, dubbed #Boobstorm, that started on this very site as a result of an interview I did with producer Tanya Jessen, where she talked about the internal debate over female character Trishka’s breast size. Following that, sensationalistic reporting from Fox News went crazytown with inventing dangers around Epic Games’ newest [...]
Sony introduced their Move motion controller last year to a fair amount of buzz. While the device arguably had a better launch slate than Kinect, with more than 8 million Kinect sensors sold since its November launch, there’s no question that Microsoft’s revolutionary peripheral trounced the Move at retail. But the device’s chief architect wants [...]
I, probably like most people who identify as nerds, created my own superhero characters when I was growing up. The notebooks with the story outlines for Nightwolf, Starpulse and the rest of my fictional do-gooders are lost to history and that’s probably for the best. Still, even though only a small slice of people possess [...]
In this week’s Technologizer column at TIME.com, I take a stab at answering technology’s longest-running question: “PC or Mac?” My answer won’t please everybody–it’s a topic that instantly sends some people into prickly, combative mode–but it’s the only one that makes sense: “It depends on what you’re trying to do, and how much money you [...]
If you’re looking for a nostalgia fix, the 1980s made up the golden age of computer games.
We’re going to start taking video games and breaking down those hidden tips, Easter eggs and other random tricks that you didn’t know you wanted to know. This week our featured game is Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. We’re assuming that some of you have gone out and bought the game and are utterly addicted to it, [...]
Activision had a lot of expectations to live up to due to their previous Call of Duty release, Modern Warfare 2. The first person shooter received a 94 percent on Metacritic and has sold over 20 million copies to date. Now that the next installment, Call of Duty: Black Ops, is upon us, the wait is [...]
Demons beware, the demon hunter is here.
Sony Online Entertainment’s Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures is tentatively scheduled to launch on September 15 for the PC with a public beta sometime before that. That’s two days ahead of the premiere of Season 3 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars on the Cartoon Network.
