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Posted on October 2, 2013 1 Comment
http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_the_game_that_can_give_you_10_extra_years_of_life.html When game designer Jane McGonigal found herself bedridden and suicidal following a severe concussion, she had a fascinating idea for how to get better. She dove into the scientific research and created the healing game, SuperBetter. In this moving talk, McGonigal explains how a game can boost resilience — and promises to add 7.5 […]
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Mayor Bloomberg Tells Stanford Graduates To Go To NYC For Tech Billy Gallagher, techcrunch.com “No other university in the world has so profoundly shaped our modern age,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said today in his commencement speech at Stanford University. Bloomberg’s speech was relevant to both the tech and…
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No Longer Vaporware: The Internet of Things Is Finally Talking The rise of the machines has begun: Steve Sande’s household fan is now self-aware. Sande, a Colorado-based tech writer, had noticed that his cat, Ruby, was suffering on hot summer days. His house doesn’t have air-conditioning, and he wasn’t always around to turn on the […]
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Lucas And Spielberg Predict “Massive Implosion” Of Hollywood Caused By Tech Industry Greg Barto, techcrunch.com George Lucas and Steven Spielberg aren’t so bullish on the future of the film industry. At a talk at USC, the pair agreed that it’s on track to have a “massive implosion”. At the core of their argument: there just […]
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webcommdesigns: VIDEO: Gaming Conference Welcomes Women With Hilaaaarious Rape Joke Yesterday at Microsoft’s Xbox One E3 press conference, a man and a woman demonstrated a new fighting game, Killer Instinct. The man, a producer on the game and so therefore winning easily, tells the woman at the :27 mark to “Just let it happen, it’ll […]
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New Internet of Things SIG report: the challenges and the opportunities Interoperability and people-centred design are at the heart of the opportunities and challenges inherent in the Internet of Things (IoT), according to a new report published this week by the UK Technology Strategy Board’s Internet of Things Special Interest Group (IoT SIG).
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Zynga’s Wake: Does The Venture Model Make Sense For Gaming Anymore? Kim-Mai Cutler, techcrunch.com Just about eight weeks ago or so, I was on a call with Zynga’s COO David Ko following the company’s first quarter earnings report. Zynga was trying to manage expectations for the coming two quarters by saying it had paused its […]
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http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/07/whos-telling-the-truth-about-nsa-prism-computer-security-expert-gene-spafford-weighs-in-tctv/ Who’s Telling The Truth About PRISM? Computer Security Expert Gene Spafford Weighs In [TCTV] Colleen Taylor, techcrunch.com Between the reports this week about that the U.S. National Security Agency has been mining personal user data from some of the world’s biggest Internet players through a project called ‘PRISM’, to the government’s defense of wide […]
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alyssakorea: Tumbling over the past year and a half has made me see the problems of gender roles that exist in media, but sometimes it gets to the point where I over analyze every single piece of television or film that I come across. (However this in no way means that I think feminist media […]
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