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Storm brewing over Byron's plans for UK games ratings system
Games publishing giant Electronic Arts has hit out against plans to introduce mandatory cinema-style ratings on UK video games.
Look, no hands! Eye-tracking World of Warcraft interface lets you grind mobs on sight
Researchers at the De Montford University, UK are developing a pioneering new eye-tracking system to enable users to control computers with out touching a keyboard or mouse.
The Eye-Gaze system works by reflecting infrared light from LEDs below the screen to track movement using infrared cameras. Kind of like reversed Wii Remote, in a way. Essentially this can track where you're looking at the screen to within 5mm.
Digg begins beta testing of Recommendation Engine this week
World renowned social bookmarking website Digg is getting new technological update this week, in the form of the Recommendation Engine.
Adobe ushers search in for Flash sites
From this week, Flash-based sites will be accessible to search engines including Yahoo! and Google.
Sony shows PlayStation 3's Xbox Live-a-like firmware in action
Sony has released the following video to demonstrate all the things that the upcoming Firmware 2.40 update is going to enable. It’s everything that PS3 owners have spent the last year clamouring for, but Xbox 360 players will no doubt notice there’s a few distinct similarities between Sony’s ‘new’ features and all the stuff the Xbox 360 did the whole damn time.
Aussie man sells life on eBay for £200,000
An Australian man has successfully sold his entire life on ebay, including his house, his car, his motorbike, his sofa, his good china, his nectar points, his job, his friends: everything. His unique auction won him a little short of £200,000.
The honeymoon is over: Intel snubs Microsoft's Windows Vista as XP sales are officially ended
Although chip-maker Intel has been totally BFF with Microsoft for like years and years, their relationship now seems to be on very rocky ground. An anonymous insider from Intel revealed last week that the company has decided not to upgrade the computers for its 80,000 strong work force to Windows Vista. Not ever.
ZOMG, STOP TEH INTERNETZ!!!!!!11! Diablo 3 announced!
There are big games announcements and there are huge game announcements, and there is a rare breed of game announcement that its sheer hugeness renders you utterly unable to write a decent opening paragraph. Diablo 3 is one of those games.
NASA "flabbergasted" by Martian soil – it could support life!
The Phoenix Mars Lander has almost completed its first set of ‘wet chemistry’ experiments on the red planet’s soil and scientists very excited with what they’ve found. A preliminary analysis of soil samples have found it to be a lot more alkaline than expected, meaning that it could support life.
Tons of new domain names to hit the web – a .disaster waiting to .happen?
The internet regulator, ICANN, has given the thumbs up to a massive overhaul of domain names, a move that may dramatically change the way people surf the internet. The agency voted unanimously to relax its stance on top-level domain names, throwing the floodgates open for a near infinite number of new addresses, many likely to be centred around your favourite internet activities: .news, .shopping, .email or .copyrightinfringement
