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Absent an outlier situation, casinos have a mathematical edge over their customers. Almost everyone that enters a casino understands this. The law accepts the fact that customers cannot win over the long run. To increase the house edge, casinos entice customers with a steady flow of cocktail waitresses who hand out complimentary drinks—this is smart business [...]
Continue Reading →The era of console gaming is probably coming to an end. At least it seems Microsoft thinks so. Yesterday, the company announced the acquisition of a little-known game publisher called Mojang. It should not be very surprising if you haven’t heard of them, as they have not published many hit games. The one [...]
Continue Reading →Recently, the journal Nature published an article for which players of the online game Foldit solved the protein structure of a retrovirus similar to HIV. This particular protein structure, an understanding of which will help in the treatment of AIDS, eluded researchers for over ten years before [...]
Continue Reading →In the news . . .
Ukrainian law prohibiting unmarried couples from adopting children bars Elton John and longtime partner David Furnish from adopting 14-month-old, HIV-stricken child.
PCs and iPhones with text-to-speech applications for speech-impaired denied coverage by Medicare and private health insurers due to other non-medical uses.
Continue Reading →It was well over ten years ago when now-defunct video game maker 3D Realms (makers of the Duke Nukem series and the recently well-received video game Prey) announced the proper, and what was to be the final, installment of the Duke Nukem franchise–Duke Nukem Forever. Since that announcement, the game’s title took [...]
Continue Reading →A battle has long been underway in the virtual world; rights holders such as video game producer Electronic Arts (EA) want to protect their proprietary software to the greatest extent possible while end-users playing the games often find the means of protection, commonly known as Digital Rights Management (DRM) to be overly restrictive. DRM [...]
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