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UK video game degrees under fire

News According to a Daily Mail article published this weekend, at least a pair of British game industry executives question whether the established game developer curricula in UK universities are really preparing students for life in the gaming industry.

Tags: university, paper, gaming, degree

26 August 2008, 8:24

Students try texting to combat knife crime

News The pair said the system could also be used as a more general anti-crime tool, to enable citizens to report less serious criminal activity such as vandalism. A plan to use SMS to combat youth knife crime is being trialled in schools in east London.

Tags: details, children, anti, london

4 June 2008, 9:13

Photos: Jet-powered wing propels solo flight

News On Wednesday, the Swiss aerial adventurer stepped out of this small propeller-driven aircraft at an altitude of 8,000 feet and launched himself with a pair of jet-powered wings strapped to his body. A veteran pilot of fighter jets and commercial...

Tags: structure, press, engines, body

21 May 2008, 11:01

UK crime spree at GTA IV midnight launch

News BBC News is reporting on a pair of incidents, with news of a stabbing outside a Gamestation in Croydon and a mugging near another game store in Lancashire. Midnight launches aren't always the gaming industry's proudest moments.

Tags: store, line, industry, man

1 May 2008, 9:54

Photos: 'Mobots' race for accuracy

News This is the Mike-and-Jeff team, a pair of Carnegie Mellon staff engineers, walking back from the first of three trials. Robotic contestants had to be small enough to squeeze through 14 gates that were 18 inches high by 18 inches wide.

Tags: kit, motion, students, race

22 April 2008, 9:20

Photos: A satellite spy in the skies

News Agena spacecraft sent aloft by a Thor booster rocket -- included a pair of panorama cameras and something called a stellar-terrain camera. But then, those Defence Department types aren't in the habit of giving away details about classified projects.

Tags: field, earth, air, spy

28 February 2008, 9:32

Photos: Tech and art combine at Sundance

News Stephanie Rothenberg and Jeffery Crouse's "Invisible Threads" installation promises to let audiences buy a pair of designer blue jeans online and walk away with them on the spot. A sort of media center 2.0, New Frontier on Main is geared toward...

Tags: artist, gallery, led, wall

22 January 2008, 9:16

Photos: Breaking open R2-D2

News The two legs house a pair of sturdy wheels, while the third leg features a large trackball. Hasbro's interactive R2-D2 stands about 16 inches tall. Shiny and sharp, this R2 replica could easily be mistaken for the real thing if he were photographed...

Tags: module, navigation, recognition, body

2 January 2008, 9:33

Photos: Fighting crime with 'nonlethal' tech

News With newer technology, stakeouts don't have to mean sitting in car with a pair of binoculars. Charles 'Sid' Heal heads the technology exploration program in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. The program's goal is to identify and help develop...

Tags: law, station, wave, ground

31 October 2007, 9:51

Photos: California's wildfires rage on

News Among the numerous planes and helicopters being used to combat the blazes are a pair of C-130 Wildfires raging in Southern California over the last several days have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate.

Tags: air, response, tech, earth

25 October 2007, 9:02

iPhones plentiful, queuing pointless

News Within a few minutes of the doors' reopening in Arlington, a silver-haired man named Stephen Easley -- who did, in fact, set up camp outside the store at around 10pm on Thursday to be the first in line -- emerged to cheers with a pair of iPhones...

30 June 2007, 16:43

Live Wii ads to hit UK cinemas

News As the advert runs on the big screen, his mother Elsa will enter the auditorium in search of her son, the lights will go up as she searches for him, and then the pair will face off by playing a Wii Sports match live on the screen.

30 May 2007, 9:02

Vodafone announces handsets for developing world

News Vodafone has unveiled a pair of low-cost handsets for the developing world, which it hopes will help millions access mobile technology for the first time. The Vodafone 125 and 225 models -- identical except for the fact that the former has a black...

22 May 2007, 8:54

Apple and Amazon key to DRM-free music

News While the pair do buy some music from iTunes, they don't tolerate Apple's copy-protection software. Apple's iTunes and e-tailer Amazon are in a position to test this hypothesis in the coming months. On Wednesday, Amazon announced that it plans to...

18 May 2007, 10:23

Photoshop could bust image cheats

News The tool can't ascertain with absolute certainty whether two items, say a pair of clouds or other images, have been cloned, but it will say that the two images are "improbably similar". In the near future, it could be a lot easier to see if those...

9 March 2007, 10:03