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  • Amazon fighting with publishers over pricing

    Amazon fighting with publishers over pricing

    Posted on January 31, 2010 | No Comments
    Apparently all is not well in e-book land. In an unusual move, publisher Macmillan took out an ad in the Publishers Marketplace magazine protesting the tactics being used by Amazon regarding pricing. The issue is Macmillan is trying to price at $9.99, and Amazon is trying to lock the lowest price at $15 per title.

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  • Bari Bari: New exploration and rescue robot (video)

    Bari Bari: New exploration and rescue robot (video)

    Posted on December 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Japan is prone to large-scale earthquakes, so the fact that researchers in this country are constantly working on the development of highly specialized rescue robots. And the so-called Bari Bari IV is a particularly clever model, as it can help people who are in danger, for example after a building has been destroyed, by being more cautious than other robots. It's one of the robots developed at the Kitagawa-Tsugoshi Lab at Tokyo Institute of Technology. The Bari Bari solves the problem rescue teams encounter at the scenes after an explosion, accident or natural disaster took place: People buried under rubble.

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  • Medal of Honor reboot marks the end of an era

    Medal of Honor reboot marks the end of an era

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Look at that beard. That beard screams freedom. It also screams “we're in Afghanistan with zero idea of how to win or how to get out.” The beard is the star of Medal of Honor, EA's rebooting (please consider “rebooting” to be a noun here) of a franchise that fell off the cliff, oh, after Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. It's due next year for the usual platforms; more info will be revealed at the Spike TV Video Game Awards, which I wouldn't watch if my life were on the line. The game, to be set in Afghanistan, is said to be inspired by “real events,” i.e., the sales of Modern Warfare.

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