Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Maxis Insider Tells RPS: SimCity Servers Not Necessary

Maxis Insider Tells RPS: SimCity Servers Not Necessary:

In all the fuss and mess of the disastrous SimCity launch, one refrain has been repeated again and again. While legions may be begging for an offline mode, EA representatives have been abundantly clear that this simply isn’t possible. Maxis’ studio head, Lucy Bradshaw, has told both Polygon and Kotaku that they “offload a significant amount of the calculations to our servers”, and that it would take “a significant amount of engineering work from our team to rewrite the game” for single player.
A SimCity developer has got in touch with RPS to tell us that at least the first of these statements is not true. He claimed that the server is not handling calculations for non-social aspects of running the game, and that engineering a single-player mode would require minimal effort.
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

M.I.T. Computer Program Reveals Invisible Motion in Video

M.I.T. Computer Program Reveals Invisible Motion in Video:














A team of scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed an image-enhancing software program that can reveal subtle fluctuations in colors and motions once thought to be invisible to the naked eye. Head over to the New York Times for more details on this story.

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