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Ordnance Survey recreate Great Britain in “largest Minecraft world ever built based on real-world data” Ordnance Survey, the body responsible for mapping Great Britain from top to toe, have recreated 86,000 square miles of it in Minecraft. The map was built in two weeks by intern Joseph Braybrook and OS’s Innovation Labs team using the…
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thisistheverge: Facebook redesigns the Like button for the first time When you’re redesigning the Like button, which appears on over 7.5 million websites, the details count. Every pixel you change, color you swap, and drop-shadow you alter will get seen 22 billion times per day, Facebook says. So, the company hasn’t bothered much with rethinking…
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killscreen: The game uses player focus and brain activity to operate. As players focus, their spaceship speeds up to increase their score. Players can also direct their ship to collect Star Boxes for a boost and powerups, which are activated by blinking. Ryan Gerhardt of PSFX explains how Neuronauts operates via brain activity Relevant for…
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new-aesthetic: “Another mother who has put spyware on her sons’ computers tells me that she and her husband are “early adapters”. The argument is that soon we will be living in a universe where everyone puts spyware on their children’s computers, and those of us who resist are fruitlessly clinging to the old world, not…
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disrupteneurs: emergentfutures: The 13 Most Insidious, Pervasive Lies of the Modern Music Industry… Lie #1: Great music will naturally find its audience. The Lie: The greatest music and artists will eventually connect with their audiences, naturally, thanks to a perfectly-lubricated, social, and borderless internet. “Our kids are going to watch exactly what they want to…
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killscreen: “When you talk to game designers about this, they’ll often be in denial…. Its obvious to anyone who actually looks that the form of what you’re making dictates what you can actually make,” he said. “The shape of a container determines what can be contained.” Jason Johnson reports Jonathan Blow’s talk about manipulation in…
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0x4e71: After having read the previously quoted No-one Ever Cried At A Website by Matt Pearson/@zenbullets, I bought his work in progress (second but first self published) book, in electronic form this time, Novelty Waves. Of course Rutterford did not set out to deceive anyone. He never claimed his piece was an algorithmic audio visualisation,…
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Study: Playing video games can increase brain size
Study: Playing video games can increase brain size azspot: Playing video games can increase brain volume in regions of the brain responsible for spatial navigation, strategic planning, memory and motor skills, according to a new study from research centers in Berlin. teehee, twitch thumbs to enbiggen