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  CoD: Modern Warfare 3 screenshot. Despite a slew of high quality games, 2011 had a feeling of deja vu with the same consoles and franchises dominating. by Keza MacDonald This year has seen more extremely high-quality games released in a shor...

  What led to you inventing the mirror? As part of my PhD research in the division of health sciences and technology at MIT, I’d been working on technologies that enable more comfortable and convenient measurement of a person’s physiological...

  By Rich Jaroslovsky It’s a few weeks since Christmas, and the novelty of that new iPad or Android tablet may be wearing off. You’ve already watched a Netflix movie, played “Angry Birds” and maybe even downloaded an e-book or two from A...

  When Jerry Yang’s (pictured) family moved from Taipei to San Jose, the billionaire Yahoo founder was 10 years old. Yang, fatherless by the time he was two, has said he knew one word of English: “Shoe”. Sixteen years later, while studying...

By Jon Ronson For human-computer conversations, 2012 is going to be a great year. We might actually start having proper, fluent exchanges with robots, chatting away as if we’re the same species. All this is very fitting, as it’s the centenary of...