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3D space-ships of EVE online

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http://www.eveonline.com/universe/spaceships/magnate/
with WebGL.

Never played this game, but starships are simply beautiful.

obfuscat

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What will this return in JavaScript?
+!([] * []) + '' + ( - [])
Answer: 10 (select with mouse to see)

if your reaction to this is normal, ie: 'wtf ?' refer to article which will give you some insights.
http://www.2ality.com/2012/01/object-plus-object.html

p.s: yes this is useless, and you should not write code like this, but who cares wink

PointerLock API is finally available

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yes Chrome Canary, yes buggy, but you can already test it now:
http://beautifulpixels.blogspot.com/2012/01/javascript-pointer-lock-mouse-lock-in.html

3D maps of big cities in WebGL, by Nokia

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http://maps3d.svc.nokia.com/webgl/

*does not work in opera* works fine in Opera 12. Just make sure you have HW Acceleration enabled.

Gamers help scientists design better proteins

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.. as a cheap source of computational power:
"I worked for two years to make these enzymes better and I couldn't do it," says Justin Siegel, a post-doctoral researcher working in biophysics in Baker's group. "Foldit players were able to make a large jump in structural space and I still don't fully understand how they did it."

http://thibaudguymard.visibli.com/share/jXJtgJ

"Sharing" is a swear-word nowadays

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Black wednesday

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Lets wish our northern american comrades stamina and luck in this hard fight.

Workers threaten Foxconn with mass suicide

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http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/01/foxconn-still-hard-place-work/47193/

300 workers think they are like 300 spartans, but, my guess, - a predictable reaction from a company notorious for its dehumanizing work conditions, would be - speed up robot plant construction devil

Cut the Rope game ported to HTML5

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http://www.cuttherope.ie/
(looks) Sponsored by Microsoft, works in all modern browsers and even in IE9, very smooth framerate.

Quoting my friend: "when i see it.. i am scared. I can never do anything like this with all my knowledge of CSS and HTML".
Good time to start learning new stuff, if you want to stay in the biz wink

There is a small postmortem - http://www.cuttherope.ie/dev/ - but it has more marketing, than tech stuff.

p.s.: game is awesome, if you have never heard of it (for some reason)

Opera TV store commercial

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feasibility and market future are unknown, but who cares wink
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