Tag: engine
microsoft-viral-search

Using a plethora of data and an equally impressive amount of generated charts from that data, Microsoft Research explains in the video below how content on the web goes viral. I wish Microsoft would release their ViralSearch engine to the masses. I’d love to tinker around with this and see what sorts of graphs and [...]

simcity-glassbox

BGR reports on a rising issue being noticed by SimCity players (those that can play at least). It seems that beyond the server issues plaguing the game, an even bigger issue has surfaced, one that claims the game’s GlassBox engine is flawed. The GlassBox engine was supposed to be the brains behind the game, controlling all sims and services [...]

Utah plane crash landing caught on camera by passenger

Earlier this month, Jonathan Fielding, his wife, their son, and his mother in law went on a birthday flight piloted by a friend. The plane they were in experienced some engine trouble and Jonathan ended up catching the entire crash landing on video. Nobody was hurt but the plane did end up being scrap metal. [...]

I know it’s important to know history, but why in the world are NASA scientists looking at technology this old to learn new things? Wouldn’t the entire agency have been building upon the research done on this engine since the 60s instead of building it and then forgetting it? Backwards thinking…??