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4-Player is a new, weekly video game column examining gaming culture on campus and online, documenting a previously unrepresented segment of BU’s culture. 4-Player is co-written by Jon Christianson, Ashley …
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Roblog is a weekly column dedicated to understanding the world of robotics. If science fiction comes true and an impending robot apocalypse is real, it can’t hurt to be prepared. …
Read More Roblog is a weekly column dedicated to understanding the world of robotics. If science fiction comes true and an impending robot apocalypse is real, it can’t hurt to be prepared. …
Read More Wednesday marked the release of Google Glass, the augmented reality headset in development at Google. The slim-profiled glasses, currently only in limited release for testing and trials, give users hands …
Read More The 2010 Flash Crash is aptly named for the speed with which it happened. Within several minutes, the stock market took one of the biggest dives in its history, with …
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In July 2011, Aaron Swartz was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly downloading millions of documents from JSTOR. On September 24, 2012, he pleaded not guilty to these …
Read More Roblog is a weekly column dedicated to understanding the world of robotics. If science fiction comes true and an impending robot apocalypse is real, it can’t hurt to be prepared. …
Read More Roblog is a weekly column dedicated to understanding the world of robotics. If science fiction comes true and an impending robot apocalypse is real, it can’t hurt to be prepared. …
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Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have reached an unexpected peak in popularity this year. With universities like Stanford and MIT offering free versions of their courses online and for-profit companies like …
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October 24 marked the official start of the DARPA Robotics Challenge. A two-year-long venture, DARPA hopes the competition will develop robots that can work in dangerous, human-made environments during disaster …
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The MacArthur Foundation was founded in 1970 by John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur, who started the foundation to “support people and organizations working for change on a variety of …
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On Sunday night, SpaceX launched its Dragon spacecraft, destined for the International Space Station (ISS), to dramatic effect. The spacecraft was launched using the company’s Falcon 9 rocket powered launch …
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