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You’ve probably wandered through a graveyard and noticed that some older inscriptions are so worn that they’re illegible. Perhaps you’ve even wondered about the stories behind them,whose bones are lying there.   Thanks to a new project you might be able to find out one day. Scientists at the Ambient Intelligence Lab atCarnegie Mellon Cylab have developed a way to take hi-res scans of the tombstones that can reveal the… Read More

A new study from Parks Associates finds that folks who are active on social networking sites like MySpace also like to dip into online video, with some 55 percent streaming video and 21 percent downloading long-form videos at least once a month. According to the findings, folks who visit a social networking site a least once a week are about six times more likely to download long-form videos, and one and a half times more likely to view… Read More

A new survey from Parks Associates finds that video game developers and publishers may be ignoring major portions of the U.S. gamer market by focussing on two gaming audiences—casual gamers and so-called hardcore gamers. Instead, the survey finds the U.S. gamer market consists of some six segments, each with different gaming behaviors, motivations, and (ch-ching!) spending patterns. The survey of 2,000 U.S. online gamers found gamers… Read More

Two owners of a Los Angeles game store and a third man have been charged with felony violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for modifying original Xbox gaming consoles to copy pirated games onto the machines for future play. If convicted, the trio face up to five years in prison. The three men are being accused of “conspiring to traffic in a technology used to circumvent a copyright protection system and conspiring to… Read More