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Indie Game Developers Visit NYTimes
By Brad Stenger, The New York Times, June 8th, 2012
For the past few weeks The New York Times has hosted visits by New York City independent game developers. Game development in New York is a thriving community that features triple-A title makers like SOHO-based Rockstar Games. Dozens of independents and small studios create titles for Apple iOS and...
MakerBotting Lunabotics Team From NYU Poly Takes Home Awards!
By Andrew, Market Bot, June 8th, 2012
MakerBot wants to congratulate the NYU Poly Team Atlas 2012 on their success at NASA’s Third Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition! These MakerBotters are an awesome group of students using their Thing-O-Matic to make all kinds of things, related and unrelated to the goal of building a lunar...
Sam Pitroda Honored by New York Polytechnic
Indian Journal, June 8th, 2012
NEW YORK, NY – Telecom wizard Sam Pitroda has been conferred with an honorary degree by New York University’s Polytechnic Institute. Pitroda, who currently serves as Advisor to the Prime Minister on Public Information and Infrastructure, gave the commencement address to the graduating...
Ask Asa: Breaking Down The ‘LinkedIn’ Security-Breach Situation
By CBS, CBS New York, June 8th, 2012
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Millions of subscribers to the popular website “LinkedIn” are finding that their private information is in danger of being leaked to strangers. CBS 2′s Asa Aarons breaks down the latest on what many are calling a huge security breach. (Watch...
ScienceShot: Robot Fish Fools Its Companions
By Sid Perkins, sciencemag.org, June 7th, 2012
Zebrafish aren't picky when it comes to making friends. A new study reveals that the 3-centimeter-long swimmers—the "lab rats" of aquatic science—will hang around a robotic fish, even a crudely designed one. The robot has features previously shown to attract both male and...
Engineered robot interacts with live fish
Phys.org, June 7th, 2012
Results published today, 8 June, in IOP Publishing's journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, provide a stepping stone on the path to using autonomous robots in an open environment to monitor and control fish behaviour. In the future, water-based robots could potentially contribute to the...
Pinoy students top intl cybersecurity tilt
By TJD, GMA News, June 7th, 2012
Filipinos again showed their high potential in information and communications technology after topping a security vendor's annual international conference. Kaspersky Lab said the Filipino students were named the overall winners in the global cup, under the banner "IT Security for the...
Science Weekend Puts Downtown on Tech Map
By Mary Frost, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 5th, 2012
BROOKLYN — The World Science Festival came to Brooklyn on Saturday, and Brooklyn embraced it with both extendable, robotic arms. Thousands of technology fans filled Downtown Brooklyn’s MetroTech commons, while explorers of the natural sciences took in events at Brooklyn Bridge Park. The...
Connect a Million Minds
June 4th, 2012
In February, we invited kids to dream up AWESOME ideas to make their lives, communities, or even the world more awesome and submit them to our Wouldn't It Be Cool If... competition. Meet the four finalists whose ideas brought them to the crowning event of the competition -- the Wouldn't It...
NYC Plays Host To World Science Festival
By Ruschell Boone, NY1, June 2nd, 2012
Science can be fun and exciting, right? Well, when you explain it like experts at the World Science Festival do, children say it can be amazing. “In my science classes, we didn’t work with robots, so this is my first time ever seeing one of these," said one child. "I think it...
