Nine times out of ten, what makes a book richer, deeper, and more satisfying than a movie is the same thing that makes a creaky door scarier than an axe-wielding figure in a horror flick: the imagination is much more powerful than the eye. Every once in a blue moon, however, a movie adaptation comes along that’s better than the original…..

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hightechchick writes “Staples’ business-to-business sales of backup tape for storage are experiencing a bit of a revival. What’s next, a return to dumb terminals and mainframes (a la cloud computing)?”

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With a huff and a puff, mother nature grounded the global economy—and pointed up the need to fix our fragile system.

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Ah, Boss battles! It feels so good when you defeat a monster in the dungeons or take down some giant robot. Nevertheless there are some bosses which literally make you throw the controller on your TV! Here we check out the top 15 boss battles this generation of gaming which made you go nuts!

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magacious writes “Gtec has showcased a computer that can read your mind over at the CeBIT trade show in Germany. Designed primarily to help those who can’t write or speak, the system makes use of a skull cap and wireless technology to transform brain waves into letters. It’s the first patient-ready computer-brain interface, according to its Austrian makers. It takes around 30 seconds per letter for the computer to recognise what you’re saying the (more…)

Good idea or no, EA is going ahead with plans to push out a third-person action-adventure inspired by Dante’s Inferno. But Alighieri isn’t the only literati who penned great game fodder. Read on for a list of classic tales that could just as easily be bastardized as games.

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Injured American ski medal hope Lindsey Vonn is likely to be ready for the Vancouver Games.

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While a wearisome and troubling lack of creativity is a plague within the music, movie, and television industries, there is one medium that would actually benefit from an awakening, and reinvention, of forgotten and slumbering classics: the video game.

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Some of your favorite video game titles almost didn’t make it to the shelves – here are the back-stories you never heard.

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Gamer girls have not only been shown to identify more closely with their men, but have even been found to have more sex on average, too.

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