About 100,000 people, or half the on-demand workforce at CrowdFlower, have taken pay in virtual rather than real dollars, says Chief Executive Officer Lukas Biewald, “We have to stop differentiating between the virtual world and the real world. The virtual world is very real.”

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Activision’s latest Hero, DJ Hero, is not living up to its name according to new demand expectations data from analyst Doug Creutz of Cowan and Company. Cruetz believes the lack in music game sales are because gamers are being turned away by high priced music games during the recession and that the Guitar Hero fad has perhaps run its course.

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KentuckyFC writes “Having created quantum superpositions of photons, atoms, and even molecules, scientists are currently preparing to do the same for larger objects — namely viruses. The technique will involve storing a virus in a vacuum and then cooling it to its quantum-mechanical ground state in a microcavity. Zapping the virus with a laser then leaves it in a superposition of its ground state and an excited one. That’s no easy task, however. (more…)