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The lost Halo Reach maps

There have been two DLC packs for Halo Reach to date, Noble and Defiant. Together they included six new maps, which are were super rad. Problem is, they’ve kinda….disappeared. The one I miss the most is probably Breakpoint, because it was one of only three original Invasion game-type maps Reach had to offer. Also it

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Where should Mobile Phone Ports be placed?

Until recent years the location of ports on mobile phones hasn’t been as important. I wasn’t using my phone to play music because of limited storage capacity, battery drain and the clunkyness of early smartphone media players. I also wasn’t often using my phone while it was charging, because phones weren’t much good at anything

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How do radio waves work?

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I started writing a quick primer on radio waves within an article on how to get into Amateur Radio (upcoming), but it quickly expanded to the point where I decided it deserved its own article. So, want a little refresher on the basics of radio waves? Read on! The Electromagnetic Spectrum Electromagnetic (EM) radiation is

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An open source Artificial Intelligence Evolution Simulator

Creating Artificial Intelligence is seen by many as the holy grail of computer science, and many devote their careers to that goal. One of the methods being explored is Evolutionary Computation, and we’re going to take a quick look at an exciting piece of open source software called Evolve 4.0 that uses that method! “Evolutionary

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Scientist designs real Tricorder for the masses!

Hand-held scanners are a sci-fi staple, and no scanner does more than the famous Star Trek Tricorder! Unfortunately, technology is slow to catch up with Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the future (see The Physics Of Star Trek), but with advancements like portable flip-communicators (mobile phones!) and transparent aluminium (aluminum oxynitride), it seems there is hope

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