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Obama, McCain Campaigns Both Hacked, Files Compromised

Nov 5th, 2008 · As the election ends news is coming out from both campaigns on what happened behind closed doors. During the summer the Obama campaign had their systems hacked, but so did McCain — and not by each other but a third party. '... both the FBI and the …
see also: computer · organization · evolution · campaign · Policy · agents · doors

Rock Band Licenses The Beatles

Oct 30th, 2008 · The Wall Street Journal is reporting that MTV's Rock Band has gained the licenses to an undetermined number of songs. Details are scant, but it would be nice to see a whole game based on just the evolution of The Beatles' music. According to Reuters, …
see also: Music · Wall Street Journal · licensing · evolution · songs · privacy · Beatles

Researcher Warns of "Digital Dark Age"

Oct 28th, 2008 · A assistant professor from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is sounding a warning that companies, the government and researchers need to come up with a plan for preserving our increasingly digitized data in light of shifting document management …
see also: ca · software · photos · alive · digital · research · platform

Untangling Web Information

Oct 27th, 2008 · The next big stage in the evolution of the Internet, according to many experts and luminaries, will be the advent of the Semantic Web-- that is, technologies that let computers process the meaning of Web pages instead of simply downloading or serving …
see also: Microsoft · computer · engineering · download · Internet · technology · Public

The Effects of the Cloud On Business, Education

Oct 24th, 2008 · g8orade points out two recent articles in The Economist about the rise of cloud computing. The first discusses how software-as-a-service has come to pervade online interactions. "Irving Wladawsky-Berger, a technology visionary at IBM, compares cloud computing …
see also: software · IBM · Partners · service · Online · business · computer

Generic VMs Key To Future of Coding

Oct 18th, 2008 · Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister calls for generic VMs divorced from the syntactic details of specific languages in order to provide developers with some much-needed flexibility in the years ahead: 'Imagine being able to program in the language of your …
see also: Microsoft · engineering · Machine · evolution · Language · Python · executive

10 Forces Guiding the Future of Scripting

Oct 14th, 2008 · InfoWorld examines the platforms and passions underlying today's popular dynamic languages, and though JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Groovy, and other scripting tools are fast achieving the critical mass necessary to flourish into the future, 10 …
see also: framework · platform · evolution · Language · Python · Evolving · domain

10 Forces Guiding the Future of Scripting

Oct 13th, 2008 · InfoWorld examines the platforms and passions underlying today's popular dynamic languages, and though JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Groovy, and other scripting tools are fast achieving the critical mass necessary to flourish into the future, 10 …
see also: framework · platform · evolution · Language · Python · Evolving · domain

Geneticist Claims Human Evolution Is Over

Oct 9th, 2008 · UK geneticist Steve Jones gave a presentation entitled Human Evolution Is Over. He asserts that human beings have stopped evolving because modern social customs have lowered the age at which human males have offspring, which results in fewer of the mutations …
see also: welcome · UK · customers · social · evolution · Evolving · Humans

The Blending of Music and Games

Oct 7th, 2008 · Gamasutra has an opinion piece by the 'father of music games,' Masaya Matsuura, who questions the evolution of video game music (or the lack thereof) as the industry's technological advancements give rise to the capability for greater complexity. "Most …
see also: video · Music · industry · technologies · evolution · advancements · imagination

Review of Discovery Institute's Evolution Textbook

Sep 26th, 2008 · Intelligent Design is still a hot topic, as evidenced by recent legislation mandating that it be taught in school. Pro-ID group Discovery Institute has released an evolution textbook for use in schools, but a review shows it to be chock full of bad science …
see also: Science · creation · IDs · legislation · evolution · Discovery · institutes

Is There a Linux Client Solution for Exchange 2007?

Sep 23rd, 2008 · I have been working at my state job for about 7 months now, using the Exchange plugin for Evolution to check my email. Very recently the higher-ups decided to migrate to Exchange 2007, which effectively destroyed my ability to check my email through any …
see also: Linux · solution · Windows · evolution · 2007 · migrate · webmail

Inside the DARPA-esque Singapore Military Bot Contest

Sep 20th, 2008 · Earlier this summer we followed a war robot contest in England. But now, after the Russian onslaught in Georgia, this weekend's TechX Challenge in Singapore takes on a bigger meaning: can small countries keep up with military superpowers by upmodding …
see also: intelligent · robots · research · Machine · countries · Russia · evolution

Royal Society "Creationist" Resigns

Sep 16th, 2008 · Chris_Keene writes in to let us know that the Prof. Michael Reiss, who recently caused a storm with comments about teaching creationism in schools, has resigned from his post as director of education at the Royal Society in the UK. This news coincides …
see also: theory · UK · defense · creation · Darwin · evolution · nature

NASA Announces Next Mars Mission

Sep 16th, 2008 · Today, NASA announced their final selection for the Mars Scout 2013 mission: Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN. MAVEN will provide the first direct measurements ever taken to address key scientific questions about Mars's evolution by measuring characteristics …
see also: NASA · evolution · Solar · Missions · 2013 · measurements · scientific

NASA Announces Next Mars Mission

Sep 16th, 2008 · Today, NASA announced their final selection for the Mars Scout 2013 mission: Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN. MAVEN will provide the first direct measurements ever taken to address key scientific questions about Mars's evolution by measuring characteristics …
see also: NASA · evolution · Solar · Missions · 2013 · measurements · scientific

Review: <em>Spore</em>

Sep 9th, 2008 · The hype leading up to Spore was excessive. But then, so is the scope of the game; following the growth of a species from the cellular level to galactic domination was an ambitious goal, to say the least. Bringing evolution into the realm of entertainment …
see also: cellular · player · creation · community · evolution · entertainment · Gambling

Opposable Thumbs and Upright Walking Caused By "Junk DNA"

Sep 7th, 2008 · A group of research scientists at Yale discovered that the evolution of opposable thumbs and upright walking in humans is due to changes in the genome in the areas still classified as "junk DNA." Quoting: 'Results from a comparative analysis of the human, …
see also: Science · scientists · research · evolution · Humans · ancestors · animals

Scientists Solve Mystery of Star Formation Near Black Holes

Aug 23rd, 2008 · A new paper has been published on the formation of stars in close proximity to a supermassive black hole. Their formation has not been well understood until now, but with the help of a year of supercomputer time, scientists have been able to model the …
see also: Science · scientists · research · Mystery · evolution · subscription · eccentric

The Evolution of Sega

Aug 14th, 2008 · Gamasutra is running an interview with Simon Jeffrey, Sega of America's CEO, discussing the gradual change of the company from a hardware manufacturer to a game publisher. Among other things, he talks about how the transition was intended to help keep …
see also: Hardware · products · interview · company · publishing · evolution · transition







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