F1's Panasonic Toyota Racing Montreal Reality Check :: The EDJE

""Seven point rig" control room where the Panasonic Toyota Racing’s TF108 is put through its simulation paces. Image Credit: Toyota MotorsportF1's Panasonic Toyota Racing Montreal Reality CheckIn the most...

Video Games as Military Intelligence Training

As the US military seeks to up its intelligence game, it has turned to, well, games in order to better train its operatives. Splinter Cell is not among the titles, however, as these are custom games, focusing not on...

Scientists deliver tsunami warning software for Indonesia

"The software was developed by Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Ocean Research in the port city Bremerhaven. Buoys which measure seabed movements and pulses in the water have already been placed along the Sumatran coast and the Jakarta lab has already issued...

Ancient Rome 2.0: Antiquity Brought to Virtual Life

Sort of like Second Past Life... A cross-disciplinary team from around the globe has recreated a navigable virtual model of ancient Rome... now THAT'S nation-building!"Not only was Rome not built in a day, but a...

The Sims Coming to the Big Screen

No, not The Simpsons. The Sims. When I think "video game-based movie", I think Resident Evil, or maybe even Doom. Or the still-in-preproduction Splinter Cell. I do not think of The Sims, in which the player controls...

Transpo officials issue earthquake wake-up call with YouTube videos

Here's the scenario: you're a Washington state bureaucrat, and you want to warn folks that an important bridge needs upgrading to prevent an earthquake catastrophe.The Traditional Approach: make a boring PowerPoint...

Ancient MysteryFinally Solved?

A French architect said on Friday he had cracked a 4,500-year-old mystery surrounding Egypt's Great Pyramid, saying it was built from the inside out.Previous theories have suggested Pharaoh Khufu's tomb, the last surviving example of the seven great wonders of antiquity,...

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)

"On Tuesday, March 6, French theorist Jean Baudrillard passed away. Trained as a sociologist, Baudrillard put his knack for observing society and its engagement with mass media to work as a philosopher. His writings on television, video, and electronic mediation placed him...

Sports fans "sick and tired" of unpunished, blatant cheating!

A site put up by a lover of football on the 14th of February against blatant cheating in sport going unpunished got a lot more attention than expected. Without any publicity as such the site almost immediately started getting contributions to it's pages and signatories on...

CIA exercise reveals consequences of defeat

"The CIA this month conducted a simulation of how the Iraq war affects the global jihadist movement, and one conclusion was that a U.S. loss would embolden al Qaeda to expand its ranks of terrorists as well as pick new strategic targets, according to sources familiar with the...

On 9/11, CIA Was Running Simulation of a Plane Crashing into a Building

John Fulton - Intelligence Networking & Analysis - On the morning of September 11th 2001, Mr. Fulton and his team at the CIA were running a pre-planned simulation to explore the emergency ...

The hunt for other Earths

"Astronomers have speculated for decades about the possibilities of searching for life in other star systems. Now they're preparing to do it. To help them know what to look for, two astrobiologists have made a...

Volunteers line up for mock mission to Mars

"More than 70 people have volunteered to be confined in a mock mission to Mars – for 520 days. It would be the longest simulation of its kind. The Institute of Medical and Biological Problems (IMBP) in Russia is...

Mars Institute HMP EVA Medical Evacuation Simulation Update 1 ... - Mars Toda...

" Monday's EVA Med Evac Simulation was a success, having met all of the intended objectives. In summary, the 2006 HMP Lunar Medical Contingency Simulation demonstrated that an injured suited crewmember could be safely extracted from difficult terrain, similar to what might be...

FEMA: Hurricane Pam Exercise Concludes

Hurricane Pam Exercise Concludes Release Date: July 23, 2004 Release number: R6-04-093 Printer friendly version icon BATON ROUGE, La. -- Hurricane Pam brought sustained winds of 120 mph, up to 20 inches of rain...

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