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Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs: A Noir Cyberpunk Dystopia for the Era of Big Data and Cyberwarfare
Video game publisher Ubisoft recently unveiled their newest work of art Watch Dogs at E3 2012 and from the footage it looks like a beautiful masterpiece of contemporary-set science fiction mixed with technology people interact with every day. In it, the would-be antihero protagonist, Aiden Pierce, wanders a noir city controlled by a master supercomputer ...
Xbox’s Explosive New Streaming Lineup Makes Debut at E3: Music, ESPN, More TV Entertainment
It looks like Microsoft has used its massive PR vehicle at E3 to continue to ratchet up the pedestal for Xbox’s all-in-one entertainment box for the living room. The software giant has just announced the addition of over 30 million songs, numerous sports-related streaming venues, alongside connectivity with the Kinect for voice-control and search. Included in the ...
Vodafone Xone Hackathon Brings Expertmaker AI Insights to Mobile
The information ecology is a wild one, a jungle mired with millions of information sources bombarding people from every direction, each one vying for their attention. Storage and networking are no longer the bottlenecks to getting the information now we’ve even got a term for it: “information overload.” News sites, blogs, social media—Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, ...
E3: Sony’s SOEmote Will Add Emotions to Social Gaming
Sony’s upcoming SOEmote will use webcams to track the facial expressions and voice of players and translate them onto gaming avatars in order to convey a further sense of emotion into online gaming. Currently, massively multiplayer online gamming is crammed into its own box of animations and body language from in game characters that are ...
Stuxnet Origins Revealed: US, Israel Involved in the Viral Development and Rampage
We have finally confirmed that the world has moved into the era of state-sponsored cyberwarfare. It’s been confirmed, the Internet-worm Stuxnet caught infected Iranian nuclear material processing centrifuges was produced jointly by the United States and Israel in an attempt to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program. An article published in The New York Times lays out ...
Amazon Instant Video Streaming Arrives on Xbox 360
In it’s continuing gambit to insert itself into the living room as the center of entertainment, Microsoft has brought Amazon’s instant video to its Xbox 360 video game console. This is part of an ongoing trend of bringing the already nearly-ubiquitous video game console into the Internet-streaming market. We’ve seen a lot of shifting going ...
University of Nebraska Student Records Breach Exposes 650,000 Individuals
The University of Nebraska is investigating a breach of their student information database discovered late Wednesday night last week. The security intrusion affected the Nebraska Student Information System, the University said in a statement late last week, it was caught by an IT administrator at the facility and the attempt was quashed by immediate and ...
Mind-Controlled Video Game Technology Not Yet Awesome but Still Cool
Every now and then a gimmick mind-control gesture is made from a technology company that tells people we’re a step closer to controlling computers with our minds. The Wall Street Journal has published an article on several such companies who are using a chip developed by San Jose-based NeuroSky Inc. that enables the manufacture of ...
Diablo III Hacked Account Rumors Abound After Launch
Activision-Blizzard has a penchant and reputation for making excellent, blockbuster games and Diablo 3 has been no exception. As of it’s launch, it came with some expected caveats including an always-connected element that forces players to connect to an Internet account in order to play the game on Blizzard’s servers. This has been explained by ...
NASA Denies Breach Claim by “The Cyber Warriors Team” Iranian Hacker Group
As a high profile agency within the US government, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is a likely target for hackers looking to make their bones in the hacker scene. As a result, when last week it was announced that a new Iranian crew claimed they’d breached NASA’s servers by exploiting SSL certificates and ...