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Microsoft has announced Project Acoustics 2.0, its wave-based simulation engine to introduce immersive acoustics in 3D environments such as those offered by a game or a mixed reality experience.
One of Google's top engineers has hinted that the search engine may begin to favor encrypted sites over others in its search algorithm, in an attempt to improve web security.
Google has introduced a new feature into their search engine that displays full restaurant menus, which some say could compete with sites like Yelp and Urbanspoon.
Google have added a nifty feature that allows users to save their search settings and tie it to their Google accounts, regardless of which device or browser you're using.
Mann vs Machine, the long-rumored update for Team Fortress 2, has been confirmed to release in just over a day by an official Valve trailer.
Microsoft's Bing search engine is to team up with Wolfram Alpha, the search engine that attempts to answer questions directly rather than providing links. The move will see Wolfram Alpha provide answers on Bing, which...
When Microsoft launched their new Bing decision engine not long ago, it brought in a lot of hype. It began with a surge of users, like most new launches do, but some expected it to...
Everybody knows about Microsoft's recent re-branding and re-engineering of Live Search, Bing, and how it has recently become available for the public to use. There was certainly a big fuss kicked up over this; there...
Yesterday, Neowin reported that Microsoft had posted the first advertisement for Bing, despite the website only having been available for a very short time. Well, it appears that there isn't just one video to show...
Microsoft's new Bing search (or rather, decision) engine is still in beta, but that doesn't mean that the Redmond company can't begin to advertise it. To show that they mean business, they have already released...
Everybody has been talking about Microsoft's Live Search overhaul, named Bing, recently, and whether or not it would stand out in the search engine market. We here at Neowin have published an article, checking out...
A new search engine, known as Wolfram|Alpha has launched. It may be improper to refer to it as a search engine, as it refers to itself as a "computational knowledge engine". The engine differs from...
Academic research at Durham University in the UK has suggested that video games such as Far Cry, Doom and Counter Strike, make better fire drill simulators than traditional virtual reality toolkits. Using the Source engine,...
Yesterday Havok announced that the famous physics engine is finally free(with some limitations obviously). The No-Charge Havok PC download is a binary-only bundle that includes all of the standard features and functionality of both the...
Far Cry 2 is an upcoming first person shooter published by Ubisoft and is the sequel to Far Cry. The game will be released for PC on March 25, 2008, with PlayStation 3 and Xbox...
The Yahoo! Widget Engine (formerly known as Konfabulator) is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want...
Microsoft Corporation has launched Tafiti (which means "do research" in Swahili), a test search engine powered by the software giant's Live Search and Silverlight technologies. The whole "search experience" is animated and although more intuitive,...
Epic Games has agreed to incorporate GameSpy's suite of online technology into Unreal Engine 3, under the terms that the technology will be immediately available to any publishers or developers that license the engine. PlayStation...
At Apple's worldwide developer conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, California, John Carmack, the chief technology officer of id Software, a well-known game developer, has demonstrated the company's new game engine, which, it claims already works...
Backed by a group of investors with impressive track records, Jason Calacanis has launched Mahalo into alpha stage – a search engine that does not rely on computers to scan the Web and does not...
Does the world need open-source search tools? The people at Wikipedia think so. The folks behind the public encyclopedia have launched Wikia, a project to develop a search engine, crawlers and other...
Yahoo Incorporated is quietly testing a search engine which users can customize by adding, removing and rearranging components. Yahoo Alpha, which is hosted on an Australian domain, offers a default results page with a list...
Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated has revealed the details of the reduced backwards compatibility of the PAL region PlayStation 3 game console. Apparently, the "European version" of the console will have lower production costs due to...
A new search engine, Cranky.com, was launched earlier this week and plans to profit from age-specific ads by targeting the 50-year-old-plus baby boomer. The man behind the site is Jeff Taylor, known for founding the...
Open-source database maker MySQL AB will soon release the alpha version of its Falcon storage engine, designed for high-volume Web server environments, a company executive said Wednesday. News of the release slipped out early, but...
Valve Software announced today that a version of the Half-Life 2 engine dubbed "Source" was to be made available as a middleware solution for developers on the Xbox 360. Currently the gaming world is in...
Voodoo Extreme has word that Roboblitz which is an Xbox Live Arcade and Unreal Engine 3 powered title, will now debut on Valve's Steam platform within the next few weeks. Developed by Naked Sky Entertainment...
I'll just post this straight from the Seriouszone forums. Apparently the CroTeam has been showing their Serious Engine 3 to people behind closed doors lately, and this beta tester was one of those lucky few...
Windows Live Search, currently in distant third place, is going final this week. Microsoft is anxious to take on Google and Yahoo mainly because search engine-based advertising is a very lucrative business. So far, to...
Electronic Arts and Epic Games have confirmed that the Redwood company has licensed Unreal Engine 3 for use in a selection of next-generation titles. EA becomes the latest licensee of Unreal Engine 3, which has...
In what has to be one of the biggest new stories to hit the online gaming scene in quite awhile, Sony Online Entertainment announced yesterday that they had licensed Epic's Unreal Engine 3 technology for...
If you log into Steam, you will download the newest patch for the Source Engine, which fixes quite a few nagging buggies, and adds a couple new things to the underlying engine itself. Not much...
A remote code execution security issue has been identified in the Graphics Rendering Engine that could allow an attacker to remotely compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your...
Gearbox Software announced yesterday that they had entered into a long-term agreement with Epic Games to use the Unreal Engine 3 technology in thier future next-generation Console and PC games. Previously, Gearbox has used the...
Not content with ruling the next gen with its all conquering Unreal 3 engine - which has been licensed by Microsoft for the 360, Sony for the PS3 and just about every serious next gen...
Vivendi Universal Games announced on Wednesday that they had gained licensing for the next Unreal engine accross all next generation consoles and of course, the PC. The deal, made between VU and...
For the second time in less than a month, users of ZoneLabs product ZoneAlarm Pro are experiencing severe difficulties with the programs' TrueVector Engine. Since Friday, June 24, reports of the same issues have been...
Keeping up in the heated race to build the best video search engine, America Online has signed 10 new content partners, including parent-company property CNN. AOL's audio and video search engine Singingfish...
Wired News is reporting that whiz kid inventor Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the...
