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NASA Takes Video Games to the Moon
"Moonbase Alpha" allows users to interact with a futuristic settlement on the moon.
Supercomputer plays 'Jeopardy'
Back in 1997, IBM made history by fielding a supercomputer that beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov at his own game. For the past three years, the company has been working on a super-duper-computer to follow up on Deep Blue's triumph of the machine. Now the computer touted as the world's best question-answering machine, dubbed Watson, is almost ready for prime time. Or at least syndicated TV.
SpaceGeek Weight & Real-Age Test
Take this totally cool Spacegeek test and find out how much you weigh on Venus or Mars and find out how much the Universe has expanded since your birth on Planet Earth. Spacegeek Test Link. Here's the cosmic expansion since...
Yeah, There's an App for That
University of Washington physicist Dave Bacon, known to the blogosphere as The Quantum Pontiff (and often dubbed "His Holiness" as a result), has a bit of a fetish for random numbers. In fact, he's even created his own iPhone App, MakeRandom, giving the user access to "custom random lists, dice random numbers and random words." It's a cute app: as Bacon describes it, you simply set up your list of choice, shake your iPhone and voila! A random result ensues!
Scariest. Video. Ever.
Ever wonder what effects spending way too much of your time on World of Warcraft could have on your life in the far future? Well, here’s a little sneak peek, courtesy of Dr. Ian O’Neill.
Just something to think about before you long on for a few hours that end up being all night and a healthy chunk of the morning…
