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“I feel so excited,” she said. “I really like this school, because, last year we weren’t interacting, and here I’m interacting and learning and not slouching in my seat.” ChicagoQuest, one of 16 charters run by Chicago International Charter Schools, draws its entering class from 55 neighborhoods and 100 elementary schools, officials said. The 234…
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While finding out that a rival company has plagiarised your hard work may sting, there is little legal recourse for developers who believe their game idea has been appropriated. The issue is that video games are creative in both visual and aural terms, but also in purely functional terms, and the laws that govern these…
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A response to Jussi Parikka: or why materialism ‘encounter’ has lost its efficacy
A response to Jussi Parikka: or why materialism ‘encounter’ has lost its efficacy dropouthangoutspaceout: So what does OOO offer for my field (the computational arts) which I find helpful and genuinely new? Well it returns to that question which has been removed from the arts which deals with the autonomy of the artwork itself. This…
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Stowe Boyd: Graph Rank: Just Another Proof That Facebook Should Be Boycotted
Stowe Boyd: Graph Rank: Just Another Proof That Facebook Should Be Boycotted stoweboyd: A former CTO was briefed on ‘Facebook’s advertising strategy’ (although it’s not clear by who) and suggest that they are up to no good: Anonymous via Betabeat If you logged onto Facebook yesterday, perhaps you caught a link at the top of…
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thisistheverge: Exclusive: a look at Kinect Fusion and Lightspace from Microsoft labs | The Verge As you might have seen in our second episode of On The Verge, our own Joshua Topolsky recently toured Microsoft’s Building 99, where the company conducts a variety of wild research. Today we’re pleased to share a look at Kinect…