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Game review: XCOM 2 is as tense as it is addictive - South China Morning Post (subscription)
South China Morning Post (subscription)
South China Morning Post (subscription)
It's kind of like setting up a classic chess defence, where you move the pawns up and flank them with the knights and bishops. The real fun starts when those plans get shredded by alien ambushes that leaves everyone scrambling to stay alive. ... In ...
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Why kids are key to unlocking the potential of 3D printing - Phys.Org
Phys.Org
Phys.Org
For more than a year, my research group at the University of Texas at Austin has been running the Innovation Station, a 3D printing vending machine that we designed and built to provide open access to 3D printing on the university campus. After ...
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Why kids are key to unlocking the potential of 3D printing - The Conversation US
The Conversation US
The Conversation US
For more than a year, my research group at the University of Texas at Austin has been running the Innovation Station, a 3D printing vending machine that we designed and built to provide open access to 3D printing on the university campus. After ...
WHAT'S HAPPENING for March (Updated March 1) - The Sun Herald
The Sun Herald
... 9 a.m., Fort Maurepas State Park, Ocean Springs. Proceeds benefit Mississippi research and other services. ... Game master Mike Redmond offer role-playing games, trading games such as Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, chess, video and computer games and board ...
Exercise Is Really, Really Good For Your Brain - Co.Exist
Co.Exist
Co.Exist
New research has discovered just what the brain does with all that extra energy. "From a metabolic standpoint, vigorous exercise is the most demanding activity the brain encounters, much more intense than calculus or chess, but nobody knows what ...
Sex and Sociopathy: Why Elektra Will Dominate Daredevil Season 2 - moviepilot.com
moviepilot.com
moviepilot.com
Yung's research lead her to conclude that Elektra is "someone who basically can't have any emotional bond with anyone and everything is like a chess game ... I think Elektra is searching for who she is. And in this search for herself, I could relate ...
Seymour school's mentoring program enters second year - New Haven Register
New Haven Register
I've been teaching him chess and he introduced me to his favorite board game. The connection ... Research shows that students who have the benefit of a mentor in later years the students are more likely to volunteer their time ... and more likely to be ...
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Zugzwang: Chinese Policy Makers Playing Chess With Few Good Moves Available - ValueWalk
ValueWalk
“China could tolerate the current pace of FX reserve declines for several more months,” the Feb 22 Barclays research from Ajay Rajadhyaksha and Jian Chang stated. “But at some point this year, the People's Bank of China (PboC) will probably have take ...
New UT-Dallas president wants to keep university soaring - Dallas Morning News (blog)
Dallas Morning News (blog)
Dallas Morning News (blog)
Along with UT-Arlington, the University of North Texas and several other state schools, UT-Dallas has been trying to become a research powerhouse in the mold of UT-Austin and Texas A&M. UT-Dallas spent a record $100 million on research in 2014, on par ...
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PM UPDATE: Woodall sixth-grader places in chess tournament - Muskogee Daily Phoenix
Muskogee Daily Phoenix
Muskogee Daily Phoenix
Woodall School chess team member Payton Smith, right, receives a trophy after competing Saturday in the Oklahoma Scholastic Chess Organization's 20th Annual Oklahoma State Scholastic Chess Championship at Del City High School. prev. next. 0. Share.
What counts as artificially intelligent? AI and deep learning, explained - The Verge
The Verge
The Verge
"As you go up these layers the things that are detected are more and more global," Yann LeCun, the head of Facebook's artificial intelligence research team, tells The Verge. "More and more abstract. And then, at the very top layer you .... In fact, it ...
Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 1RollingStone.com
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Britain's Trident Nuclear “Deterrent”: How the Banks Have their Fingers on the Button - Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
Multinational corporate banks are playing one big chess game – except it's all make-believe and there will never be a checkmate, because that would be unprofitable. Governments willingly participate – those in charge are invariably shareholders in ...
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Getting to gender equity: From the Oscars to science competitions - Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science Monitor
Chess grandmaster Susan Polgar, who founded the first all-girl national chess tournament in the US – the Susan Polgar Foundation Girls' Invitational 13 years ago, says in an interview that sticking with the all-girl format would have been more ...
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How One Woman Miraculously Saved Her Husband After Lightning Struck Him - Charisma News
Charisma News
Charisma News
Cooper is the director of the Lightning Injury Research Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "Their friends don't come around anymore. The (lightning victims) don't understand jokes, they're socially inappropriate. All of those filters are ...
Grandmaster David Bronstein Selected to World Chess Hall of Fame - Tablet Magazine
Tablet Magazine
In April, David Bronstein, whose world-class chess career spanned nearly three decades, will be inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame in a ceremony that will co-inside with U.S. Chess Championships in St. Louis. Bronstein, a Ukrainian-born Jew who ...
WHAT'S HAPPENING for March (Updated Feb. 29) - The Sun Herald
The Sun Herald
Proceeds benefit Mississippi research and other services. Presented by National MS ... Game master Mike Redmond offer role-playing games, trading games such as Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, chess, video and computer games and board games. Refreshments.
How one man changed how British politicians felt about Europe - forever - New Statesman
New Statesman
New Statesman
A diagnosis of autism often comes alongside very specific specialist interests – chess, mathematics and fine art are among the clichéd assumptions. What about Jane Austen novels, or a fascination with the scientific ... Last month's survey, conducted ...
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Nakamura's time? - BusinessWorld Online Edition
BusinessWorld Online Edition
The Candidates Tournament will take place in Moscow's digital hub, the DI Telegraph space in the historic Central Telegraph building from March 11 to 29. Eight of the world's top grandmasters will compete for a chance to face the reigning World ...
The Man Who's Building a Computer Made of Brains - Motherboard
Motherboard
Motherboard
Go, a strategy game played on a 19x19 grid, is exponentially more difficult for a computer to master than chess—there are 20 possible moves to choose from at the start of a chess game compared to 361 moves in Go—and the announcement was lauded as ...
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The Man Who's Building a Computer Made of Brains - Motherboard
Motherboard
Motherboard
Go, a strategy game played on a 19x19 grid, is exponentially more difficult for a computer to master than chess—there are 20 possible moves to choose from at the start of a chess game compared to 361 moves in Go—and the announcement was lauded as ...