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AI Learns How to Play Minecraft (And It’s Probably Already Better than Me!)
With it being over 10 years now since it was originally released, Minecraft still remains an incredibly popular gaming title. And one, incidentally, that I’m pretty rubbish at. It’s not for the want of trying, but I invariably just end up either getting lost while exploring or becoming the King…
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Happy Hacking Keyboards – By Programmers, for Programmers!
If you spend all day typing out code, then you know that having a really good keyboard is massively helpful. Well, in announcing their new range of “Happy Hacking Keyboards” Fujitsu is looking to provide the market with some of the highest-performing models seen to date! Happy Hacking Keyboards Now,…
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Programmer Recreates Civilization Using Microsoft Excel
If Sid Meier’s Civilization has taught me anything, it’s that the game has a very deep level of complexity. One that is easy to learn, but very difficult to master. Oh, and that Mahatma Gandhi is a warmongering lunatic who rather than pushing the big red nuclear button, prefers instead…
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Amazon AWS DeepRacer Revealed With Plans For AI Races
Amazon Reveal 1/8th-scale AWS DeepRacer Amazon is certain no slouch when it comes to releases in the tech world. In fact, you could argue that in terms of innovative products, they are, perhaps, one of the worlds biggest companies. Their most recent revelation, however, has certainly grabbed my attention and…
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Intel To Release Updated Version Of USB AI
Intel To Release Updated Version Of USB AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is perhaps one of the biggest research areas in technology at the moment. With its vast use in the world today, all companies are attempting to create or improve on their developments to push it even further. Some…
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Russia Has ‘Lost’ A $33m Satelite Due To A Programming Error
Russia Loses Satellite We all occasionally lose things. Car keys, remote controls or even occasionally (and far worse) a game progress save. I daresay though that most of us have not lost a satellite. That is, however, exactly what Russia has done. In a report via Sky News, Russia has…
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Mario Kart Successfully Played by a Neural Network
Mariflow Neural Network Plays Mario Kart As a kid, Mario Kart was one of my favourite games. I literally must have spent hundreds of hours playing it. As such, I got to be rather good at it. It was a simpler time, without the perils of the blue shells of…
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Coding by Spacebar Earns Significantly More than Tabbing
If you have ever tried program coding, you will almost certainly have come across the space bar or tab preference. Would you believe however that a recent study has found that programmers who prefer the space bar technique on average earn significantly more? What is space bar and tab coding?…
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BBC Micro Bit Opens Preorders to the Public
If you’re one of the million lucky year 7 students, you’ll already be very familiar with the BBC Micro Bit, but for the rest of us, the tiny computer has so far remained out of reach and restricted to educational purposes. While there are many other tiny computers out there…
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The 42 Team Looks to Create Free Coding Schools
We are often told that we have to learn to program, in a world where everything is running on 1’s and 2’s knowing how software works by making even the simplest of programs can often open your eyes to everything from the cyber security issues you read about every week…
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Minecraft Command Blocks Coming to Mobile and Windows 10
Minecraft is a popular block-based game, featuring everything from building a little house to designing a giant industry. With the desktop version featuring a variety of features beyond what Minecraft for mobile and Windows 10 offer, people are often left waiting for more. Some of those additional features will soon be…
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Computer Science Now a Core Subject in Chicago Schools
Chicago has a history of making large moves with the latest technology. From installing cables to help avoid power cuts to trains with no drivers, Chicago doesn’t want to stop there and has now become the first state that recognises Computer Science as a core subject. Computer science is a debated subject,…
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Apple Turn Stores into Classroom for a Day
Apple is known for a wide variety of things, from their phones and tablets to their business practices with other companies and their own employees. Craig Federighi, one of Apple’s executives, wants them to be known for something else, something that he hopes will be the start of something amazing. Stating that…
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Afghanistan To Open Coding School For Girls
Neil deGrasse Tyson is known for a lot of things. He has advertised science and technology to thousands and even found Krypton (okay he found a planet roughly where Krypton would be and got it named after Supermans home planet). This week though he presented a session at the Clinton…
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Australia To Teach Coding From Primary School
Every day we use computers if we use them at our fingers or just by buying something from a store or driving down the road. Technology is a big part of everyone’s lives these days, and this has been recognised by many countries pushing for STEM subjects (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics)…
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