“The Video Game Museum of Berin is undergoing a beautiful, video game history renaissance. Opened in the late 1990′s, it went through a rough patch and had to be closed by by 2000. Lucky for you, for us, and especially for everyone in Berlin, the museum reopened in a new location early this year and is doing better than ever.

Its exhibits, which include a wide breadth of video game related topics, include the world’s veryfirst home video game console, 50 portable and handheld consoles as well as exhibits devoted to the social aspects … Read More → "Check out Computerspielemuseum: Berlin’s computer game museum"

The Large Hadron Collider has analyzed enough data to eliminate the Higgs Boson with 95% confidence.

“A few years ago, celebrated British physicist Stephen Hawking was widely reported in the press to have placed a provocative public bet that the LHC (along with all particle accelerators that preceded it) would never find the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle” believed responsible for having imbued massive particles with their mass when the universe was very young.” via Scientific American</ … Read More → "Someone owes Stephen Hawking a beer now, don’t they?"

The Inkling is a new creative tool that digitally captures what you draw as you draw it in real ink on real paper. The kit that comes with a receiver and a pen, and the receiver is attached to the edge of any paper you plan to draw on and detects the pen via an ultrasonic and infrared link. The receiver records your strokes as you draw and can record up to 1024 levels of pressure.

Cool!

via SlashGear

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Space Oddity, the classic song about fictional astronaut Major Tom by David Bowie, inspired illustrator Andrew Kolb to create a children’s book by the same name. Richly drawn and decidedly dark, Kolb’s Space Oddity is a real treasure worth checking out in its entirety in pdf.

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“Two of the general purpose detectors at the LHC, ATLAS and CMS, tend to keep a high profile, as they’re designed to be able to spot anything that comes out of the collisions—the Higgs, dark matter, or something even more exotic. LHCb is quite a bit more specialized, as it is designed specifically to track those collisions that include a particle that contains a bottom quark (generically, these particles are called B mesons). In doing so, it’s meant to provide the most precise test of a number of predictions made by the Standard Model; should … Read More → "LHCb detector causes trouble for supersymmetry theory"

“Need more proof that renewable energy products boost the US economy and create jobs? This past year saw an incredible surge in the export of solar products from the United States. While we previously relied on importing photovoltaic cells from China, the rise in popularity of renewable solar energy has more than doubled the U.S.’s production and sale of solar panels and related goods since 2010!” via Inhabitat

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“Most first person shooters ask kids to run around and kill enemy soldiers, demons, or prostitutes. Code Hero just wants you to kill your ignorance. An action packed video game, Code Hero is also a lesson on how to program computers. Players run around using a special ‘gun’ that lets them copy and past code in the virtual environment. They must use this code to build structures, manipulate the world around them, and ultimately defeat Null, the evil artificial intelligence that is threatening to conquer humanity.”

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Cornell Creative Machines Lab connected two chatbots to each other to see what would happen. I know couples whose communication sounds just like this. via Neatorama

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“In our cloudy times, VMware is a barometer for IT, and the annual VMworld conference is the equivalent of CES for the consumer electronics industry.” via GigaOM

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There’s a new exploit to run unsigned code on the XBOX360. via Dangerous Prototypes

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