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Submission + - BattleBots Delayed, Will Go Brains Over Babes (popularmechanics.com)

Submitted by on Thursday March 13, 2008 @02:37PM

An anonymous reader writes: We got all excited earlier this week about robo-combat returning to TV with ESPN, but now PopMech super geek Erik Sofge talks to the folks at BattleBots and finds out that because of so many early entries, the competition will be delayed until at least November. The reason? Gone are the babes and predictable wedge fights, in are eager engineering students, a crazy ramp arena and lots of new rules. Worth the wait, or do we miss the Comedy Central version?

Comment Re:Cue the 3AM jokes... (Score 5, Funny) 329

by KirkH on Monday March 03, 2008 @09:15AM (#22622482) Attached to: One in Ten Americans Are Chronically Sleep Deprived

Hans? Is that you?

Feed Engadget: Netflix picks Blu-ray, good luck renting an HD DVD soon (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Monday February 11, 2008 @09:52AM

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

In what can only be classified as yet another crushing blow to the embattled HD DVD camp, rent-by-mail giant Netflix has just announced its intention to only stock Blu-ray titles in the future. Netflix justified its decision by pointing out the fact that most Hollywood studios seem to be converging solely around the Sony-backed format -- a fact that's all too familiar to Toshiba and friends. With both Blockbuster and now the 'Flix having eschewed HD DVD for BD, it's gonna get harder and harder to even find a place to rent those former discs in the first place, let alone one that has a decent selection.

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Feed Schneier: Improvements in Face Recognition (schneier.com)

From feed by bsfeed on Monday February 11, 2008 @09:52AM

Ignore the laughable "100% accurate" claim; this is an interesting idea: Mike Burton, Professor of Psychology at Glasgow, and lecturer Rob Jenkins say they achieved their hugely-improved results by eliminating the variable effects of age, hairstyle, expression, lighting, different camera...

GTAIV Dated to April 29th 61

Posted by Zonk on Thursday January 24, 2008 @11:11AM from the grand-theft-awesome dept.

Joystiq is reporting that Take-Two has nailed down a final release date for Grand Theft Auto IV . When they delayed the game last year, they said they were aiming for a February to April target, and they're making it ... barely. "If you've checked out the multitude of previews that dropped this week, you'd know that game is looking really, really awesome, so we're counting on Rockstar to hit its date this time around. What more is there to say, really? GTA IV. April 29."

THQ Acquires Big Huge Games 8

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 15, 2008 @11:21AM from the big-for-them dept.

Gamasutra reports that Rise of Nations (and Catan) developer Big Huge Games has been purchased by publisher THQ. Last May we discussed their RPG alliance, and the Gamastura article notes that this 'getting to know you' period was instrumental in the purchase. "We asked THQ's [executive vice president of worldwide studios Jack Sorensen] if, when working with developers to publish a title, they regularly consider bringing those developers in-house. 'We're not unique there," he conceded, "but yeah, every external group that we work with, it's always in the back of our minds. Rather than it being purely financially driven -- although that's a big component -- it's more about [finding] the next group of game developers that can really add a unique take on the studio system, either from a genre or platform perspective, but also fit in well so that we can continue the culture that we built.'" Additional commentary from RPS.

Journal Journal: TD Ameritrade found unauthorized code in its database

Journal by WanaBeGeek on Friday September 14, 2007 @10:10AM

TD Ameritrade is releasing some interesting findings going back to complaints over the past year of selling customer info to pump and dump spammers. The article goes on to state that: UserIDs, personal identification numbers and passwords were not stored in that particular database, and so client assets remain secure, it added. Information that was taken from the database includes email addresses, names, addresses and phone numbers of both retail and institutional clients.

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