Author: Nick

Oh noes! Dots high scores disappear

A screenshot showing that CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman’s Dots high score list has disappeared. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET) If you know anything about the new hit iOS game Dots, which has already logged 3 million players and more than 250 million total plays, you know that for any serious player, it’s all about high scores

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Finding faces in Google Maps terrain

Something our human eyes seem to do, without any prompting, is to pick out shapes and structures that resemble other shapes and structures. Called pareidolia, it’s a form of pattern recognition — and a good example is the way we often see a human face where only a random collection of shapes or shadows exists. This, it is now known, is the reason for the infamous face on Mars

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