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POPSYou're in Good Hands... with computer games Allstate insurance has contracted Posit Science to deliver its InSight software to older drivers to help them improve their cognitive abilities. So tell the kids they have to get off the joystick so granddad can do his homework.
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POPSGames and reality, Which affects which? on the other hand, "some biologists think the game could have educational value just by making users think about science, like an entertaining hook into evolutionary biology." "Ultimately, games are made to engage the people who play them. Provoking wonderment or debate is a good thing. Wright abstracts grandiose topics, and he does it well. Not enough game designers have the stones or the vision to try the same, which is why we get battered with endless versions of Madden NFL (also put out by Electronic Arts). In the end, that's also why Spore leaves such an impression. It's more than just fun. It's worth arguing about."
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POPSFlash Games onto your PSP The Flash functionality of the PSP can provide hours of entertainment for gamers who've made the jump into greater firmware revisions.
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POPSUS Army invests in 'thought helmet' Strange future tech. The Army 'assures' us that they don't have plans for reading minds, but it would not take much to realize that is the direction they are going with this.
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POPS'Muslim Massacre' video game (you couldn't make it up) article continues: But Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of The Ramadhan Foundation, Britain’s leading Muslim youth organisation, said that the game glamorised violence against Muslims whether or not it was satirical. “Encouraging children and young people in a game to kill Muslims is unacceptable, tasteless and deeply offensive,” he said. “There is an increase in violence in this country and some of it comes from video games. When kids spend six hours a day on violent games they are more likely to go outside and commit violence. “If it was the other way around, with a game featuring Muslims killing Israelis or Americans, there would be uproar and rightly so. “We would urge ISPs to take action against sites like this.” The game was first released in January this year, but has become more popular in recent days after being linked to by several prominent blogs.
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POPSWill Digital Distribution Kill Game Stores? There are plenty of gamers in the world who would delight at the failure of stores like GameStop -- they're frequently criticized and disliked. But it's important to keep in mind that digital distribution also indicates that the game may well come loaded down with DRM -- and that it's harder, if not impossible, to resell it or install it on another computer.
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POPSDownload Movies Online Movies are big business. Gettting them online without having to leave the home is also big business. Join the millions of people worldwide who are downloading and burning movies to DVD with the push of a button.
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POPSShameless Online Obama Support & Information
You donate a mere ten bucks and you get a blog site, plus on the Obama campaign’s web site. There’s an “Activist Dashboard,” Email network, subgroups, etc. Like in many computer games you can “build up resources,” gain points for Events hosted, Events attended, calls made, doors knocked, number of blog posted, groups joined, and other bare bones campaigning activities. It looks as good as a Sims Expansion pack, many RTS games, and less prone to financial risk as online gambling or stock trading. =:o)) As political junkies know, the elections are no longer have anything to do with delegates. Victory or Defeat is now in state-by-state, winner-take-all voting. National polls are almost meaningless. A nice map and update for this is at: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/10/electoral.map/index.html Ohio, Michigan, Virginia and Florida are key battleground states and there is a so-called “Southwestern shootout.” In Arizona where I live, I’d do more good hel
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POPSThe Latest Social Network Sounds like it has a decent chance. Gamers spend a lot of time online and Raptr's co-founder has a solid track record. He sold XFire--sort of like a gaming instant messenger--for $102 million in 2006.
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POPSComputer Virus Infects Space Station This piece of malware sounds mostly harmless, designed to steal video game passwords. But I'm imagining a hacker causing a satellite to plummet from space onto a US city. It's possible I've been reading too much science fiction.
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POPSLifelike Animation Breakthrough AMD last week released a new chip with a billion transistors that will be able to show off creations such as Emily by allowing a much greater number of computations per second. "If you're trying to process the graphics in a photo-realistic animation, in real-time, there's a lot of computation involved," said Mr Koduri. He said that AMD's new chip - the Radeon HD 4870 X2 - was able to process 2.4 teraflops of information per second, meaning it had a capability similar to a computer that - only 12 years ago - would have filled a room. AMD's chip fits inside a standard PC. But he said that the line between what was real and what was rendered would not be blurred completely until 2020.
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POPSCOMPUTER ADDICTION-hmm... what and where are you now? Ah-just messing with you. Read the full article; http://computer.howstuffworks.com/computer-addiction.htm
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