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Submission + - Egypt protests against President Hosni Mubarak (aljazeera.net) 1

Submitted by pinkushun
pinkushun writes: On January 25, a national holiday to commemorate the police forces, Egyptians gathered to protest against grinding poverty, government oppression and police brutality. Using Twitter and Facebook, the people instigated a series of fast-moving, rapidly shifting demos across half a dozen or more Egyptian cities. The police could not keep up – and predictably, resorted to violence. Sadly this has led to three known deaths thus far.
Microsoft

Microsoft Research Takes On Go 175

Posted by Soulskill from the narrowing-the-possibilities dept.
mikejuk writes "Microsoft Research has used F# and AI to implement a consumer-quality game of Go — arguably the most difficult two-person game to implement. They have used an interesting approach to the problem of playing the game, which is a pragmatic cross between tree search with pruning and machine learning to spot moves with a 'good shape.' The whole lot has been packaged into an XNA-based game with a story."
Games

Submission + - A Legal History of Schwarzenegger v. EMA - Part I (vgchartz.com)

Submitted by SSDNINJA
SSDNINJA writes: Part I of a series of articles focusing on the history of Schwarzenegger v. EMA and related cases. Any gamer interested in the background surrounding the case and game regulation in general should take a look and learn more about the curious circumstances regarding proposed gaming regulations by California and other state governments.

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