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And vice versa?

Answer (1 of 43): It’s a big problem. Not only VR has a difficult quest to adopt into the people’s routines, it will turn away first time viewers of VR, if they experience and connect nausea or sickness with VR. It’s hard to make yourself go back in there and play/watch a VR content because your ...

Make Something. Don’t Just Talk About It.

Time to take a close look at one of gaming’s classic elements: the explosion. Using completely subjective facts and examples from their post-apocalyptic rogue-like-like Nuclear Throne, Vlambeer’s Jan Willem Nijman will discuss all the tiny details that go into making explosions feel great.

Killing the web to save it.

Where does technology exploit our minds’ weaknesses?

RT @IQuantNY: So Impressed w/ @nypdnews fast reaction to my OpenData findings. Best response I have ever seen from an agency.

For years Donald Heathfield, Tracey Foley and their two children lived the American dream. Then an FBI raid revealed the truth: they were agents of Putin’s Russia. Their sons tell their story

One of the most over looked parts of a character's body when animated are the hands. Our "phalanges" can convey just as m...

Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian

Everyone wants some place to retreat, to collapse, to be at home—but you can’t always go home again.

Pryaniki are a popular Russian cookie, often served with tea. These honey spice cookies have vanilla, nutmeg, allspice and anise flavors, as well as the unique addition of coffee.

Physical activity may have less to do with weight loss than we think.

how agency principals manage their entrepreneurial defense systems and listen to just the right number of advisors

In 2012, network scientist and data theorist Samuel Arbesman published a disturbing thesis: What we think of as established knowledge decays over time. Accordin…

My dad used to say, “Slow down, son. You’ll get the job done faster.” I’ve worked in many high-tech startup companies in the San Francisco Bay area. I am now 52, and I progr…

The meeting begins without fanfare. They thought I was an amazing worker at first, working late every night, last out of the office, but now they wonder if the work was just too hard for me to begin with. They need to know: Am I down for the cause? Because if I’m not down for the cause, it’s time. They will do this amicably. Of course I’m down, I say, trying not to swivel in my ergonomic chair. I care deeply about the company. I am here for it.

A writer returns to his hometown — once isolated, now connected — to conduct an experiment and answer the unanswerable

Thoughts on managing complexity

For those who were asking…

Gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders.