Chinese cartoons working through adolescent stage

Source: Shanghai Daily

WITH cinemas set to offer a range of domestic and imported animated films for summer, Xu Wei takes a look at how Chinese studios are working to restore faith in local cartoons. China's animation industry needs ...
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Battleship (Xbox 360)

Source: CNET

The good: Interesting blend of strategy and FPS shooting The bad: Clumsy shooting mechanics Boring sea battles Missions lack variety Nondescript environments The bottom line: Bland presentation and sloppy mechanics sink Battleship more eff ...
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Word of Mouth 05.26.2012

Source: New Hampshire Public Radio | NHPR

In those gin-soaked days of yesteryear, a beautiful woman on the arm was an executive’s secret weapon for landing the deal. A young knock-out by your side signaled power, style, and proof that you had it all. Just ask al ...
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Robots lose $20 million on Facebook IPO

Source: CNN/Money

All markets and investing news all the time Citigroup's Automated Trading Desk had trading loses of $20 million on Facebook's (FB) initial public offering, according to Reuters. ATD, which Citi (C) bought in 2007, is a firm that deals in computer-dri ...
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Inversion Game Review

Source: Trusted Reviews

Inversion. It’s a fascinating name for a game, suggesting all kinds of alluring reversals to the fertile imagination. Is it our concept of gaming that will be inverted? Our expectations from a genre? Well no, Inv ...
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The Future is NAO

Source: GovLoop

NAO: A humanoid programmable robot with a mind of its own. This little robot (57 cm) may have big plans to walk into the life of every human being. Created by Aldebaran Robotics with the launch of Project NAO in 2004, this rob ...
Full article at: GovLoop  More like this  1 day ago, 1:35pm CDT

Movie Review: Chernobyl Diaries Radiates Suspense

Source: E! Online

Review in A Hurry: Paranormal Activity creator Oren Peli puts down the shaky cam and heads to the Ukraine. A group of young, attractive, and seriously naive "extreme tourists" pay a local to visit the abandoned streets of nuclear Chernobyl. The setting ...
Full article at: E! Online  More like this  1 day ago, 1:24pm CDT

Scientists Want To Test Bigfoot DNA

Source: UFO Digest

Can science unravel one of life’s enduring mysteries? Rumors of the hairy humanoid known variously as the yeti, bigfoot and sasquatch have persisted for decades, despite little hard evidence beyond grainy photographs and plaster casts of giant footprints ...
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Prometheus: space secrets to be revealed at last

Source: The Telegraph UK

Thirty-three years ago, a science-fiction thriller with the memorable tag-line, “In space, no one can hear you scream” was released with little advance publicity and few expectations. Alien, which was only directo ...
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