Google Cube game brings fun to learning

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A very neat idea from Google – a game to raise awareness of, and educate you about, Google Maps. Cube runs in your browser (ideally Google Chrome). You play it by completing levels that set you navigational challenges in various cities around the world. I just completed the first level, navigating to a bowling venue [...]

The 2012 Olympics: tech on a huge scale

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When you’re sitting in front of your widescreen HD television in July 2012 to enjoy two weeks of the 2012 Olympic Games, spare a thought for the huge technology infrastructure that will enable you to get images and sound as well as up-to-the-minute instant results, rankings and other metrics about each and every event, the [...]

The army’s first-person shooter recruiter

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With its mixture of live-action video featuring real soldiers in combat and a first-person shooter games interface, Start Thinking Soldier is a powerful indicator of what it might be like as a soldier in a combat situation, presented in a way likely to appeal to an age group the British Army is targeting: mid teens [...]

Social media and the 2008 Olympic Games

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The opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing gets underway at midday GMT today, an event that will be broadcast live on television across the world. During the next two weeks, you’ll be hard pressed to avoid seeing and hearing about the Olympic Games whenever you turn on the TV or radio or [...]

Help the geek get the glory

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If you yearn for the simpler geeky days when MS-DOS and 640K of RAM ruled, along with pixelated images on VGA monitors, you’ll likely appreciate the Server Quest game. Although geared towards the IT crowd, this web-based game to promote Microsoft TechNet will have appeal for anyone with a nostalgic look over the shoulder to [...]

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