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Researchers find a French recording made in 1860 of a piece of the song “Au Clair de la Lune”. It was made utlizing a machine called a phonautograph, which scribbles audio waves onto a paper covered with soot, a phonautogram. The man that made the phonautograph, and recorded the song fragment, was [...]

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Creative makes sound cards.  Sure they make alot of other things now, but they built their business on sound cards.  They succeeded a thrived in the very early PC market to make soundout of PCs better and better.  This is where the good part ends.
There are many constants in PC hardware, and one of those [...]

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Apple fanatics have one less tic mark to their list of all that is good.
Linux fanbois can continue their chest pumping, however.
Apple users tend to be a fanatical lot, often expressing their choice in pre-fabricated computing platforms as if it were a religious experience. There is no sense running down comparisons or arguing any [...]

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New footage (below) leaked from Sega’s own ftp site shows the recently announced Sonic Unleashed game in action. There is still very little known about this game other than:

it has a generous budget and development team
it will most likely come out on the Wii and XBOX360
it’s release date is in November, 2008
there will [...]

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First-Person Shooter Turns Political » artist Wafaa Bilal is forcing people to confront the boundaries between wars and games, with one art installation that allows people to shoot [...]

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A little fictional Wiki-esque discussion page of a time travelers group:
Wikihistory
11/15/2104
At 14:52:28, FreedomFighter69 wrote:
Reporting my first temporal excursion since joining IATT: have just returned from 1936 Berlin, having taken the place of one of Leni Riefenstahl’s cameramen and assassinated Adolf Hitler during the opening of the Olympic Games. Let a free world rejoice!

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One of the fathers of science fiction has passed away. He was one of the very few science fiction authors to have actually written about things that eventually came into existence, surprisingly within his lifetime. After all, he was also a scientist, himself. The most notable of these is probably geostationary orbiting [...]

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Phone Power » Voip service
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Stinas resa: Uganda » blog of the Claptree in Africa
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AI researchers think ‘Rascals’ can pass Turing test »
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After more than 10 years, the first major venture to turn gaming into a profession has shut its doors.
Effective immediately, the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) will cease operations. Therefore, all CPL events currently scheduled for 2008 are hereby canceled.
The CPL was launched in June 1997 with the pioneering mission of promoting and sanctioning video game [...]

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AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water » A vast array of pharmaceuticals _ including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones _ have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, [...]

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The father of roleplaying has left the building. I spent much of my formative years with the games he designed, and I thank him.  And for you youngins, every roleplaying based computer game stemmed from this guy.

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I just read a long, but very to-the-point, thread by Michael Fitch on the Quarter to Three forums. The latest blow in a seeming barrage against the state of PC gaming. Michael is the Director of Creative Management at THQ, the publisher for Iron Lore Entertainment’s PC game: Titan Quest. ILE, just [...]

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Rejected! A long, long time ago » Star Wars toys that didn’t quite make the cut
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BookletCreator » is a free online tool that allows to create a booklet from a PDF [...]

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