When we think of the future of technology, we often imagine gadgets that will make us go faster. But some of the truly exciting developments will be around gadgets that help us with the tricky aspects of our emotional lives. If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/
The fact that some people remember the past as a series of episodes full of details (episodic memory), while others store in their brains the meaning of events (semantic memory), has a lot to do with the configuration of the connections in the brain, according to a recent study published in the journal Cortex. Neuroscience is deciphering the sophisticated mechanisms of human memory to explain how we file and remember information.
– Memory’s unreliable.
– Oh please!
– No, no, really! Memory’s not perfect. (…) Memory can change the shape of a room. It can change the color of a car and memories can be distorted. Memories are just an interpretation. They’re not a record. They’re irrelevant if you have the facts.
This is the conversation between Leonard and Teddy in the key scene of the movie Memento, one of the movies that best reflects the neuroscientific knowledge about memory. Its main character suffers from anterograde amnesia, which though it allows him to remember new words, he is unable to remember the recent past.
The unholy, skinless, bloody creatures shambled toward me on all sides. My pistol was pitifully inadequate. For the first time ever, I pulled a VR rig off my head in the middle of a demo.
Not even extreme nausea had caused me to do so before Thursday, when I demoed the HTC Vive game The Brookhaven Experiment at Valve Software’s booth at the 2016 Game Developers Conference. I’d always choked down the bile and forced myself to finish the demo rather than bail, even though this is almost always a bad decision. Call it stupid gamer pride.
The Brookhaven Experiment is what happens when Resident Evil is ported into VR. I had known in advance that I was about to play a survival horror game. I had not known that this would result in my actually fearing for my life, because it was the first survival horror game I’d played on the Vive.
Is this another strategy to fight terrorism by seeing from techies and others the various ways terrorists can take every day items to create weapons?
Do you want to be a MacGyver and turn everyday household items into Decepticons? Then DARPA’s new Improv program wants you.
This sounds like a Transformers movie. Or a MacGyver episode. Heck, this could even be a precursor to Skynet and future Terminators. OK, that last one may not apply, but a new DARPA program wants people who can weaponize a toaster.
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a program called Improv and is soliciting creative minds to submit proposals on how common off-the-shelf, internet-connected items can be used as weapons.
A master player of the game Go has won his first match against a Google computer program, after losing three in a row in a best-of-five competition.
Lee Se-dol, one of the world’s top players, said his win against AlphaGo was “invaluable”.
The Chinese board game is considered to be a much more complex challenge for a computer than chess, and AlphaGo’s wins were seen as a landmark moment for artificial intelligence.
This is all the best games from every year 1952–2015. Here is the list:
1952: Nimrod Computer Game 1958: Tennis For Two 1971: Computer Space 1972: Pong 1973: Space Race 1974: Clean Sweep 1975: Anti-Ai 1976: Blockade 1977: Indy 500 1978: Sea Wolf 2 1979: Crash 1980: Pac-Man 1981: Ms. Pacman 1982: Paratrooper 1983: Super Gridder 1983: Hunchback 1984: Sokoban 1985: Super Mario Bros 1986: Outrun 1987: Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards. 1988: Super Mario Bros 3 1989: Xenon 2 1990: Prince Of Persia 1991: Prehistorik 1992: Wolfenstein 3D 1993: Day of the Tentacle 1994: The Lion King 1995: Command & Conquer 1996: Tomb Raider 1997: Gta 1998: Half Life 1999: Quake 3 2000: Max Payne 2001: Gta 3 2002: Serious Sam: The First Encounter 2003: Medal Of Honor Allied Assault 2004: Half Life 2 2005: World Of Warcraft 2006: Need For Speed Most Wanted 2007: Crysis 2008: Assassin’s Creed 2009: Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 2010: Red Dead Redemption 2011: World Of Tanks 2012: Battlefield 3 2013: Gta 5 2014: Wolfenstein The New Order 2015: Tom Clancy’s The Division