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/ 26 October 2007

Game guru Will Wright wants to plug it in

”Education was always known as the kiss of death in the software industry. But I think you want to focus on getting the player interested and emotionally involved.” Game designer Will Wright is responsible for some of the world’s most famous titles — but he’s really excited the prospect of plugging them directly into his brain, he tells Bobbie Johnson.

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/ 15 October 2007

Return of the business brat pack

When British dotcom entrepreneur Calum Brannan had his first meeting with potential investors last year, he immediately encountered a problem. My uncle had driven me down to Cambridge from Coventry for the meeting, and came to sit in on it with me," he said. "But they thought he ran the website and started talking to him instead of me."

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/ 17 August 2007

Caught out on Wikipedia

Editing your own entry on Wikipedia is usually the province of vain celebrities, but a new website has uncovered dozens of companies that have been editing the site in order to improve their public image. The Wikipedia Scanner has unearthed a catalogue of organisations massaging entries, including the CIA and the British Labour party.

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/ 14 August 2006

Get ready to crawl the walls

Spider-Man may have wowed movie-goers and wooed comic fans for decades, but the idea of a wall-crawling human has always been a work of fiction. Now, however, British researchers say they have created a material that could turn cartoon fiction into scientific fact.

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/ 14 February 2006

Of worms and woodpeckers

Inside a gloomy tower block on the northwestern outskirts of Moscow a team of young computer programmers is deep in concentration. In a former life it was a nuclear research facility at the heart of the Cold War. Now this dark skyscraper is home to a different kind of power struggle.

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/ 13 January 2006

Two tribes go to war

Bill Gates doesn’t like to lose. When the Microsoft chairperson and his chief executive, Steve Ballmer, played a game onstage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week recreating the classic fight of Muhammad Ali against George Foreman, it was Gates (as Ali) who won, and Ballmer who threw his controller to the floor.

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/ 25 October 2005

Casting from the broad to the pod

In the heyday of radio, the wireless was the centre of people’s lives. The image of families gathered around their radio set is a familiar one — listening to a broadcast was a group activity. "When they say ‘the radio’, they don’t mean … a man in a studio," wrote EB White, author of children’s classic <i>Charlotte’s Web</i>, in the 1940s.

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/ 13 October 2005

Where does the broadcasting revolution go from here?

In the heyday of radio, the wireless was the centre of people’s lives. The image of families gathered around their radio set is a familiar one — listening to a broadcast was a group activity. ”When they say The Radio, they don’t mean … a man in a studio,” wrote EB White, author of children’s classic Charlotte’s Web, in the 1940s. ”They refer to a pervading and somewhat godlike presence which has come into their lives and homes. It is a mighty attractive idol.”

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