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Image copyright Carlo Ratti Asociati Image caption Aerial view of the village An abandoned military village in Germany could get a new lease of life as a hippy commune fit for the 21st Century. Patrick Henry Village, near the German city of Heidelberg, was not born to hippy ideals. In …

“Hanjin is like a family,” says the first officer, slowly choosing his words. “But now,” he hesitates, “it looks like we’ve lost our family.” We are standing on board one of Hanjin’s vessels. It’s a huge ship, and the officer is second-in-command. He stares past me, for a moment lost …

The new Nintendo Switch is an interesting platform. Though it can be played at home, the device is highly portable and appears to be seamless when accessing your games on the go. Obviously with such a big platform on the way, one has to wonder where the Wii U and …

The one thing that you can say about Mario is that he truly is the spokesperson for gaming- he has been at the forefront of every major advancement and evolution that video games have had, very often leading the charge himself. From Mario on the NES to Super Mario 64 on the N64, …

If you weren’t anywhere near Shenzhen today, you likely missed some of the stories coming out of Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Engineering Community event (WinHEC). The company used the opportunity to highlight a number of partnerships and plans designed to hasten the next step in Windows evolution. At the top of …

We have been using the computer mouse for decades to interact with our technology. Touchscreens brought us a new way to input commands to our gadgets, but they rely on the same fundamental idea of the click. Even the new 3D touch on the iPhone 7 is just an incredibly …

With advances in information technology, robotics, and artificial intelligence developing at a rapid rate, workforce dislocations are happening now and are here to stay. As existing trends accelerate and irreversibly change the workforce as we know it, the question to be answered is–what will we do to broadly share the gains …

After years of HD remakes, Square Enix announced their next instalment to the Kingdom Hearts series, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue a few months ago; and we were fortunate to have the chance to try one of the games in the collection at PAX Australia: Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by …

Future Publishing has today launched a new magazine specifically for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts and anyone else that would like to learn more about the awesome mini PC and building projects and programming using it. The new magazine named PiUser is now available to purchase for £7.99 and is a little …

Back in 2011, the climate was charged- both Nintendo and Sony had announced their upcoming portable systems, and they both looked incredible. Nintendo’s 3DS handheld seemed to be a more core gamer focused evolution of their DS line, featuring high end graphics, more traditional controls, advanced networking features, and the …