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| Music's Dr. Dre, Iovine give $70 million to USC academic program |
 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rapper Dr. Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine have donated $70 million to establish an entrepreneurial undergraduate program at the University of Southern California, the Los Angeles school said on Wednesday. The gift will create a new degree pulling faculty members from the university's business, fine arts, music and engineering departments. The Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation will begin in the fall of 2014 and enroll a first class of 25 students, USC said. Dr. ...
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| Music's Dr. Dre, Iovine give $70 million to USC academic program |
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rapper Dr. Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine have donated $70 million to establish an entrepreneurial undergraduate program at the University of Southern California, the Los Angeles school said on Wednesday. The gift will create a new degree pulling faculty members from the university's business, fine arts, music and engineering departments. The Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation will begin in the fall of 2014 and enroll a first class of 25 students, USC said. Dr. ...
Created: 05/19/2013
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| Postmortem: 5 lessons learned making Diamond Dash mobile |
 Christopher Parschat is Head of Studio at Wooga, one of the biggest social game developers in the world. He was the company's first employee back in 2009 and has worked on social arcade hits such as Bubble Island and Diamond Dash. Here he talks about the transition Diamond Dash made from Facebook to mobile and the five steps developers can take to ensure that transition as smooth and successful as possible. It all started in ...   
Created: 10/27/2012
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| Penitent Romanian hacker aims to protect world's ATMs |
 By Radu Marinas VASLUI, Romania (Reuters) - Valentin Boanta, sitting in his jail cell, proudly explains the device he has invented which, he says, could make the world's ATMs impregnable even to tech-savvy criminals like himself. Boanta, 33, is six months into a five-year sentence for supplying gadgets an organized crime gang used to conceal ATM skimmers, which can copy data from an unsuspecting ATM user's card so a clone can be created. He said he had started to make the devices for the sheer excitement of it and denies ever planning to use them himself, saying he only sold them to others. ...
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| Penitent Romanian hacker aims to protect world's ATMs |
By Radu Marinas VASLUI, Romania (Reuters) - Valentin Boanta, sitting in his jail cell, proudly explains the device he has invented which, he says, could make the world's ATMs impregnable even to tech-savvy criminals like himself. Boanta, 33, is six months into a five-year sentence for supplying gadgets an organized crime gang used to conceal ATM skimmers, which can copy data from an unsuspecting ATM user's card so a clone can be created. He said he had started to make the devices for the sheer excitement of it and denies ever planning to use them himself, saying he only sold them to others. ...
Created: 05/21/2013
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| Behind Binding of Isaac's blasphemous success |
 Edmund McMillen's The Binding of Isaac is an unlikely indie best-seller, and he knows it. "I knew Isaac was special, but if you asked me to bet on whether Isaac would sell over one million copies in less than a year, I would have bet against it," McMillen writes in the postmortem for the November 2012 issue of Game Developer magazine, "It was designed to be a niche hit at best." He adds, "I had ... 
Created: 10/30/2012
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| CCP Online's three design pillars for sandbox MMOs |
 For CCP Online senior game designer Matthew Woodward, building MMOs solely around hand-crafted content is a losing strategy. "Trying to be the next World of Warcraft doesn't work," Woodward said during at GDC Online, "Content is expensive." Woodward's talk, "The Other White Meat: Design Architecture for Sandbox Games", explained the three pillars that CCP relied on to make EVE Online into a compelling sandbox MMO -- and thereby keep players coming back to play for ... 
Created: 10/11/2012
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| Captain Foraxian highlights this week's Best of Indie Games |
 This week on "Best Of Indie Games," we take a look at some of the top independent PC Flash/downloadable titles released over this last week. The goodies in this edition include a full-scale tribute to everyone's favorite classic Pac-Man, a physics-based puzzle game by Fantastic Contraption developer Northway Games, a Galaga-inspired bullet hell shoot-'em-up, plus the new collaborative project from Jonatan "cactus" S& ouml;derstr& ouml;m and Dennis Wedin. Here's some recent highlights from IndieGames.com: Game ... 
Created: 11/05/2012
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| China formally approves Boeing's Dreamliner for use |
 BEIJING (Reuters) - China's civil aviation regulator on Thursday formally approved Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner for use in the country, clearing the way for Chinese airlines to start operating the aircraft, which has been plagued with problems. The regulator made the announcement in a short statement on its website (www.caac.gov.cn), without giving further details. China Southern Airlines Co Ltd and smaller rival Hainan Airlines are among the global carriers which have ordered the aircraft. ...
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| China formally approves Boeing's Dreamliner for use |
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's civil aviation regulator on Thursday formally approved Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner for use in the country, clearing the way for Chinese airlines to start operating the aircraft, which has been plagued with problems. The regulator made the announcement in a short statement on its website (www.caac.gov.cn), without giving further details. China Southern Airlines Co Ltd and smaller rival Hainan Airlines are among the global carriers which have ordered the aircraft. ...
Created: 05/23/2013
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| TV psychologist Joyce Brothers dies at age 85: publicist |
(Reuters) - U.S. psychologist Joyce Brothers, who parlayed winning the "The $64,000 Question" TV game show in 1955 into a nearly six-decade career as a television personality and columnist, died on Monday, her publicist said. She was 85. Brothers died of natural causes in New York, said Sanford Brokaw, her Los Angeles-based spokesman. She began dispensing advice on television in 1958 and penned columns on topics such as sex and relationships until early 2013. She also had a prodigious knowledge of boxing and is thought to be the sport's first female commentator. ...
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(Reuters) - U.S. psychologist Joyce Brothers, who parlayed winning the "The $64,000 Question" TV game show in 1955 into a nearly six-decade career as a television personality and columnist, died on Monday, her publicist said. She was 85. Brothers died of natural causes in New York, said Sanford Brokaw, her Los Angeles-based spokesman. She began dispensing advice on television in 1958 and penned columns on topics such as sex and relationships until early 2013. She also had a prodigious knowledge of boxing and is thought to be the sport's first female commentator. ...
Created: 05/14/2013
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