Jason Ocampo writes “Enterprise is dead, and as a Star Trek fan, I know I should feel sad. But I don’t. You know things are pretty bad for the franchise when someone like me doesn’t care that UPN is canceling its low-rated Star Trek prequel at the end of this season. I grew up with Star Trek. I’m the editor at GameSpot who has the cutaway poster of the Enterprise-D at my desk. But let’s be honest: Trek has been going downhill since the end of Deep Space Nine. The same can be said of the gaming franchise, which has never really had a golden moment. Sure, there have been occasional gems, but the vast majority of Star Trek games have been mediocre and forgettable. So how do we turn things around for Star Trek games? It may seem difficult now that there don’t appear to be any new Star Trek television series for the foreseeable future, but it’s not impossible.”

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According to slashdot.org; heptapod writes “New Scientist is reporting that UK researchers have created a computer that can learn rock, paper, scissors by observing humans. CogVis uses visual information to recognize events and objects in addition to learning by observing.”

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Wow, I gotta check this one out. A flight simulator, which is said to be very realistic.
The Carter-Copter was built using X-Plane as simulation platform.

It is availble for many platforms, I might post more about this little wonder when I get around to flying with it

X-Plane v7 @ Laminar Research