Imagine police drones patrolling at treetop level down city streets, their cameras scanning crowds for weapons or suspicious activity. “Newsbots” might follow in their wake, streaming live video of the goings-on. Drones belonging to protest groups hover over both, watching the watchers. In nearby…

Sat, Jul 7, 2012, 01:00 BEFORE GETTING TO the question of why we need to stop calling the Higgs boson the God particle, let’s cut to a depressing example of how, in a great week for science, some peop

Let's not get completely carried away by what today's news represents, because Sony's decision to acquire Gaikai does not mean the end of console gaming as we know it. PlayStation 4 is still going to

Has any game been more inescapable over the past 12 months than Battlefield 3? EA's biggest ever shooter has drowned the industry in a tsunami of orange and teal, dominating the headlines pre, during

I t's pointless to deny that there's something going on here: EL James has now sold 4 million copies of her Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy via her UK publisher, Random House, to add to the 15 million (i

After decades of misguided hysteria, the War on Drugs may have an epidemic worth freaking out about, and it’s spreading across state and demographic lines at the speed of the Internet.

Oh man, you all, I've been playing a lot of Diablo III lately (click click click click click...). I'm sure that many of you who have played have been through the same scenario I have time after time.

Last year when I wrote about the new MacBook Airs I offered two forward looking paragraphs: What happens from here on out is what's really interesting. Intel has already committed to moving the TDP of

The knowledge-gathering repertoire of the modern casino has shifted from telephone surveys, focus groups, and rudimentary datasets to complex feats of reconnaissance and analysis enabled by player tracking systems, data visualization tools, and behavioral intelligence software suites. Many…

On the Café’s forums were men looking for men, men looking for women (the ideal: short, buxom, thin redheads) and women looking for men—very few posts, if any, were for women looking for women. There were people who wanted to be eaten and people who wanted to do the eating. There were stories,…

Amos Guiora knows all about the pitfalls of targeted assassinations, both in terms of legal process and the risk of killing the wrong people or causing civilian casualties. The University of Utah law

Published 10 June 2012 Share page About sharing All parents are destined to be ridiculous, embarrassing or annoying, warns Adam Gopnik. Recently in America, nothing has been argued about more, or more

This week, Apple delivered the highly anticipated MacBook Pro with Retina Display -- and the tech world is buzzing. I took one apart yesterday because I run iFixit, a team responsible for high-resolut

That's Microsoft and Sony out of the way, then, and in immediate hindsight it's tempting to say that they opted for the same approach overall. Both conferences were relatively conservative affairs com

Dire delivery and a flat finish did nothing to help Wii U's cause. But when the games were allowed to speak for themselves we saw the first glimpses, if not guarantees, of something special, says John

After alternately watching live feeds of the press conferences last night, and watching colleagues' reactions to them on Twitter, I awake with a heavy cynicism for the entire industry. While a couple

24 hours on and both media and fans have had plenty of time to chew over Microsoft's 2012 E3 press conference, and it's fair to say that not all of the commentary has been entirely positive. With that

Victoria Pendleton will not be able to tweet about tucking into her Weetabix on the morning of race day, or post a video message to fans from her room in the athletes' village. Pub landlords will be b

An Atlas missile is launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in October 1964. Cape Canaveral has been the site of numerous launch failures as the United States developed missile and rocket technology. Fox

Wed, Apr 18, 2012, 01:00 FROM THE BLINDSIDE: Professional rugby players get well paid but anyone on the outside thinking players are made for life off the back of it is fooling themselves Money is tig

The story of Free Radical Design begins with one of gaming's milestones, and after almost nine years it ended with the studio's blood on several publisher's hands. Founded in April 1999, the Nottingha

The path to internet riches begins with an introductory product, such as a book or DVD. This is often a loss leader: the real value for the Internet Marketer is that it allows him to capture your contact information. Once you’re in the system, your inbox will be flooded with offers for software, DVD…

Microsoft revealed a subscription Xbox 360 yesterday, a move that has enormous implications for the HD console business. Monthly payments for hardware and services could change everything, says Patric

Mon, May 7, 2012, 01:00 OPINION: Ruairí Quinn’s observation that religion accounts for a disproportionate amount of class time was seized upon as an attack on religion, writes DAVID ROBERT GRIMES . Re

Sat, May 12, 2012, 01:00 Kathy Sheridan To some families it’s a holy sacrament, to others it’s an excuse for a party, and to many it’s an exercise in hypocrisy and mass delusion. So why is First Holy

Is Sarah Phillips for real? Thirteen months ago, she was an unknown message-board participant at Covers.com, a gambling website. Then Covers plucked her from the boards and gave her a weekly column, sight unseen. Five months after that, she was tapped by Lynn Hoppes, an editor for ESPN.com, to write…

So, Nintendo may not be particularly keen to admit it, but Super Mario is now an annual franchise. New Super Mario Bros. 2 will arrive on 3DS in August, less than a year after Super Mario 3D Land appe

People who are interested in and paying close attention to each other begin to speak more alike, a psychologist says. iStockphoto.com On a recent Friday night, 30 men and 30 women gathered at a hotel

The Obama campaign chose to release its controversial attack “ad” about the killing of Osama bin Laden last Friday—a day when the news cycle would otherwise have been dominated by negative economic ti

Sat, Apr 28, 2012, 01:00 ANALYSIS: Most of the financial dealings that Ahern failed to explain adequately came at political crisis points, writes GERALDINE KENNEDY BERTIE AHERN, former taoiseach, was

The hacker’s eyes widened as the image filled his screen. There, without her makeup, stood Scarlett Johansson, her famous face unmistakable in the foreground, her naked backside reflected in the bathroom mirror behind her, a cell phone poised in her hand snapping the shot. Holy shit, he thought.…

Photo illustration by Nathan Mattise The successor to the PlayStation 3, apparently codenamed "Orbis," will use an AMD x86 processor with an AMD "Southern Islands" GPU, according to rumors emerging la

Just One More Game ... Credit... Illustrations by Aled Lewis See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. In 1989, as communism was beginning to crumble across Easter

Gamers will complain loudly about virtually anything on the internet. In fact, the stereotype of the persnickety nerd is bigger than games and older than the internet, frequently reflected in popular

Driven by romantic, spiritual, and medicinal imperatives, the author goes in search of something everyone tells him no longer exists: an opium den. From Hong Kong to Bangkok to the Golden Triangle, he is offered every decadence known to the East—and learns the truth about a legendarily perfect drug.