Have you ever wondered who creates online multi-player computer games? Who invents these interactive sensations? We traveled to Iceland to meet a computer game designer. Willie D. Jones tells us about the engineer of the world’s most popular science-fiction online game.
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A new book argues for the environmental advantages of urban density
Canadian start-up ePACT’s dedicated system keeps organizations connected in emergencies
Manufacturers are still not putting security first when designing implantable medical devices
When advanced telecommunications is the only way to get you to the church on time
The U.S. Army knows more about countering IEDs than any other organization
The U.S. BRAIN initiative will build the tools needed to model the human brain
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In a timely new memoir, a geologist chronicles his journey from shooting model rockets to becoming one of Curiosity’s lead scientists
A Georgia Tech professor of robotics argues automation is still creating more jobs than it destroys
Aereo takes broadcast TV signals and puts them on your computer, tablet, and smartphone—for a fee
Researchers hope to one day be able to print out an entire human liver
A look at the top tech cars of 2013 with car critic Lawrence Ulrich
There will be 10 000 commercial drones by 2018. They’ll need pilots
A systems biologist looks at basketball games through the prism of graph theory
The successful paywall for Andrew Sullivan’s blog may have everyone rethinking free content
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