Tag: video games
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode110 – DHS Hacks Xbox, Sibel Ungagged, Knockout Gas
Story #1: DHS/Navy Award Contract to Hack Gaming Systems // Story #2: FBI Efforts Keep Whistleblower’s Book Unpublished // Story #3: Future Riots ‘May Be’ Controlled With Chemicals
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#DataDump: Macs, Hacks, Sachs and more
Spam Invades a Last Refuge, the Cellphone: Text Message Spam, Difficult to Stop, Is a Growing Menace // Widespread Virus Proves Macs No Longer Safe From Hackers // FAA Grounds $75,000 Surveillance Drone Due to Crowded Skies // Bomb Sniffing Dog Humps Bomb Defusing Robot
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#DataDump: Glass, Kinect, Shady, Energy
Google Glasses Will Disappoint, AR Experts Warn // Whole Foods wants you to use Kinect-enabled shopping carts // James Bamford: Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap US for NSA // LHC reaches highest energy level ye // Just One More Game: Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’
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Corbett Report: Episode216 – Who’s Gaming Who
Science-fiction fantasy is becoming mundane reality and video games are increasingly merging with 21st century combat. The DoD recruits youth through traveling arcade exhibitions and new recruits are just as likely to end up behind a keyboard as behind enemy lines.
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kinect for windows to offer ‘minority report’ computer control
from telegraph: A new generation of PCs controlled by gestures is on its way, after Microsoft revealed it is specially adapting its Xbox Kinect technology for Windows computers. The system will allow Windows users to control software with the wave of a hand, as envisaged in the Steven Spielberg film Minority Report. “Building on the…
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teen murderer undone by ‘world of warcraft’ confession
from threat level: When Kruse Wellwood, a 16-year-old in British Columbia, raped and murdered a classmate who jilted him, he attempted to set up a digital alibi by sending an instant message to the missing girl asking why she never showed up to meet him. But the disturbed teen, ironically the son of a convicted…
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pepsico wants to ‘scare the crap’ out of your kids
from civil eats: PepsiCo has long been my poster child for food corporations whose actions speak louder than words when to comes to responsible marketing. CEO Indra Nooyi loves to tout the company’s “Performance with Purpose” and show off the company’s “good-for-you” foods that it gets to define. Most don’t realize that PepsiCo is the…
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9/22 defcon: secure boot & game transfer phenomena
onstar tracks your car even when you cancel service* windows 8 secure boot would ‘exclude’ linux* comcast’s $9.99 internet for low-income families goes nationwide* what will video games be like in a few decades?* video games intruding on reality: ‘game transfer phenomena’*
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netflix separates dvd business as ‘qwikster’, adds video games
@NavigateNetflix now more than ever… from businessweek: Netflix Inc. plans to separate its mail-order DVD business from movie streaming, a move the company said will give both businesses a better chance to grow. Netflix, based in Los Gatos, California, will create a wholly owned DVD-by-mail subsidiary called Qwikster “in coming weeks,” Chief Executive Officer Reed…
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9/9 newspurge: some kind of confusion, more like a disaster
9/11 updates: National Archive keeps bulk of 9/11 Commission report sealed* FBI, DHS Warn Of Small Plane Terror Threats* state dept issues 9/11 Anniversary Travel Alert* Twilight Language: Small Planes Into Buildings?* video: anniversary security heightened across US* Obama, Bush, Bloomberg to Bar 9/11 First Responders From Ground Zero On the 10th Anniversary* video: 9/11…
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7/14 Newspurge: Rearrange Your Synapses
9/11 Updates: Amateur aviators who became super-pilots on 9/11* 9/11 families demand to reopen case* victims families want 2007 deutsche bank fire case reopened* Deception dollar & the new perception dollar* 9/11 memorial reservations swamp online ticket system* panetta ties war in iraq to 9/11 attack* cia organised fake vaccination drive to get osama bin…
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catholic ‘farmville’-style facebook game unveiled
from ncregister: SGR Games, LLC has created ‘Vatican Wars’ (formerly ‘Priestville’), a new online Facebook game. Think of it as ‘Mafia Wars’ meets the Church. The game divides players into either Templars (socially conservative) or Crusaders (socially liberal), and then allows them to “serve as Catholic priests,” take positions on social issues, and elect a…
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One In Four US hackers ‘Is An FBI Informer’
The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established.
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9/11 updates, Geopolitiks, Obamessiah & the Warwhores
AP, NPR & Judicial Watch FOIA for Osama death photos
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Assange: Internet Greatest Spying Machine
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange warned Cambridge students, who waited hours to hear him speak, internet is “greatest spying machine the world has ever seen,” in article at guardian.co.uk.