Category: Science & Geeks
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Tiberium: An FPS in the universe of Command-and-Conquer
GameInformer revealed in a world exclusive coverage that Electronic Arts really started the development of an FPS video game in the universe of Command-and-Conquer (a very successful real-time strategy game). Will it work? Will it produce a good game? Or simply a C&C-ploitation?
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Robots have optical illusions, too
It was not trivial, but artificial networks trained to recognize surfaces have the same difficulties to recognize them in 3D optical illusions (as humans have). Source: CNN International, “robots tricked by optical illusion“.
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System monitoring with great looks for the control freak
We don’t always have all the information we want about what is happenning inside the computer. Sometimes, we get too much of it. But these technical details don’t always appear in a way pleasant to the eye. However, this is what CoolMon has to offer. Free utility for Windows.
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Pentax K20D and Pentax K200D for PMA?
During the recent weeks, several web sites reported a rumour coming from a Chinese site about a possible announcement by Pentax in their line of Digital Single Lens Reflex (D-SLR) cameras. Currently, the K10D is one of the most impressive nearly-pro cameras on the market despite its low price. The K100D is also an impressively…
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An 8-feet long scorpion
There was only a claw. It was dead for nearly 390 millions d’années. But this little creepie-crawlie was probably much more than 2-meter long. Anyway, it was only one of the most impressive guys arthropods of this era reaching these gigantic proportions only explainable by the fact that the harsh competition for survival did not…
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Global warming
Some people still think that there may be some uncertainty about global warming. Maybe it’s not really there. Apart from the scientists consensus, some people would have you believe that a temporary warming happened recently, but stopped even more recently. Just let them look at the global air temperatures over the last century and a…
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Amazing: Duke Nukem Forever comes back again, and again
After years of multiple announcements but a launch always pushed far into the future, the oldest PC First Person Shooter on the planet comes back again with a video trailer supposed to thrill us with anticipation. However, it’s been years that we’ve been thrilling and the vibration is now dampened. Link to GT
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New Canon products on 24th of January 2008
According to PhotoBlog, Canon is about to announce new photo products on the 24th of January just before the PMA fair in Las Vegas. Obviously, they do not have more information than anybody else on what will be announced really. But they speculate on a replacement for the EOS 400D/Rebel Xti (Canon EOS 450D, maybe)…
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Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason – Review
This PC First Person Shooter (FPS) game was already presented on Roumazeilles.net some time ago. Here is a preview by HookedGamers. As they say: “Ghosts and zombies and rust, oh my!”