Less than a year ago I wrote an article about pro war propaganda in video games which was sadly one of my most controversial articles for that whole month, despite the fact that I covered some very important topics during that time. Even if you doubted that the popular wartime first person shooters were propaganda before, you are going to have a hard time not being suspicious after hearing that the... 

The translated phrases are not grammatically correct, but the speed and accuracy of the app is good enough to make sense of simple texts. The new application software for Android and iPhone, Word Lens, can act as an instant interpreter, translating words with the help of a camera lens. The app can use the mobile phone’s inbuilt camera to recognize any text that is viewed through the lens, and... 

A lot has been said about Carrier IQ in the past few days. For those who are not aware, Carrier IQ is a company based in Mountain View, California and provides mobile analytic services for smartphones to the wireless industry. So why is it the news suddenly? A few days ago, Android security researcher Trevor Eckhart discovered Carrier IQ software in one of the HTC devices he was using. He discovered... 

A screen shot shows how the Foldit program posed the monkey-virus molecular puzzle. Video-game players have solved a molecular puzzle that stumped scientists for years, and those scientists say the accomplishment could point the way to crowdsourced cures for AIDS and other diseases. “This is one small piece of the puzzle in being able to help with AIDS,” Firas Khatib, a biochemist at the... 

Gamers at the Tokyo Game Show use Xbox 360's motion sensor to 'dance' in a game - but a spokesman said new titles could 'project' game worlds into the living room. The latest 3D televisions let images ‘leap out’ of the screen – provided you’re wearing a pair of geeky glasses. But new ‘holographic’ technology might project images right into your... 

Youth Services Removes 6 Children Living In Filth and Animal Waste. Six children were removed from their Uniontown home after investigators found them living in filth and animal waste. Police said their mother was addicted to online computer games, so she neglected her children and didn’t clean the house for years. The children’s stepfather, James Boord, spoke with Channel 11 outside the Mifflin... 

A WSJ Investigation finds that iPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users. Check this list of iPhone and Android apps which are watching you. Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the owner’s real name—even a unique ID number that can never be changed or turned off. These... 

Hide Yourself, become Invisible! Ok this may take some time but it’s 100% worth reading! Would you like to become an active Nationalist but you’re too scared because your government is spying on its citizens? Well why don’t you become stealth, invisible, anonymous, a ghost online? You didn’t know you can do that? But of course you didn’t, why would you know? Your TV stations... 

It doesn’t come as much of a surprise after the virulent reaction it was seen on July 2006, Sony’s pulled the plug on their “PSP White is coming” ad campaign in the Netherlands, which depicted, well, you know… a threatening empowered white woman dressed in white, holding a scared black woman dressed in black by her jaw. We’re not gonna call it an admission of guilt... 

Deleted files can be recovered easily!! So if you need to make sure that your private files and data cannot be recovered (maybe you’re selling your old computer), follow these steps and the data will be gone forever. First of all, know that when deleting a file, you are not actually deleting the it; you are merely erasing a reference to the file in the Master File Table (MFT). This means that... 

Having a top rank in Google is the holy grail for anyone who has a website. Organic Google traffic is free advertising and how most bloggers (especially those just starting out) achieve visitors and traffic to their site. It all comes down to a simple numbers game. Essentially, more traffic = more money-making opportunities from your blog. The question is, how do you get ranked higher for my blog... 

The ongoing Technorati favorites exchanges do nothing to improve your Technorati rank. They’ll improve your popularity, but that is all. To improve your Technorati rank, you have to have multiple blogs linking to your blog at least once. If they link more than once, it will increase your rank, but not your authority. Pingbacks on other blogs count too. Look at this image, for example: The “Authority”... 

Alexa.com is a subsidiary of Amazon.com and is a website which provides information on traffic levels for websites. The Alexa rank is measured according to the amount of users who’ve visited a website with the Alexa toolbar installed. In this article, I’ll examine the importance of the Alexa Rank as it relates to site monetization while briefly discussing some of the weaknesses involved in using... 

A scene from Muslim Massacre: The game involves wiping out all Arabs, including Osama Bin Laden. A computer game designed by a Brisbane man has caused Muslim anger around the world because it invites players to wipe out the followers of Islam. Queensland police have launched an investigation into the game Muslim Massacre, which can be downloaded for free online. Players take control of an American... 

Is Resident Evil 5 racist? A video game about zombies seems like an unlikely catalyst for a discussion of race, but Capcom’s upcoming horror title kicked off just such a firestorm in the gaming community this week and could eventually spark a much larger conflagration. Resident Evil 5 was unveiled last year at the Electronic Entertainment Expo and created a bit of stir with its portrayal of...