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Jagex has launched what might be its biggest game release since its flagship title Runescape.

A first person shooter video game compared by several of the beta version reviewers as Minecraft with guns, Ace of Spades pits two teams against each other in a ‘capture the flag’ battle while employing the typical Jagex sandbox element where players can build up or take down much of the world around them as they attempt to defeat the opposing team.

The Cambridge company said 500,000 people pre-registered for the game, which is now on sale at £6.99 and will go some way to paying Lemmy’s royalties and whatever the cost of that URL was.

 

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Using no more power than what is required of a hairdryer, a team from Cambridge University aims to overtturn the odds and win the World Solar Challenge with a daring new design called Daphne. Here's a window into how.

 

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TWI's expertise in welding is second to none. They're the crew that the Americans and Scandinavians have turned to provide welds on canisters that can hold high grade nuclear waste for thousands of years underground without leaking, so it's great to see them get a bottle of hot water and some Milky Bars to show children some engineering and welding basics. Yum.

 

Culture Hack East 2012 16th - 17th June 2012 from Creative Front on Vimeo.

Culture Hack East took place on 16-17 June at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Produced by Creative Front, the event brought together the arts and tech.

Eighteen arts organisations, 25 developers and datasets from the cultural sector in Cambridgeshire and the East of England all came together in this aesthetically pleasing mash up.

Raspberry Pi co-founder, Dr Robert Mullins, was there, as was Dr Rob Toulson, who discussed the relationship between Academia and Industry Cross-Disciplinary Research in the Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute.

This video from Creative Front provides a concise highlight of the event.

 

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Plastic Logic opened its doors to the press for the first time since it announced it had finally buried any ambitions to become a fully integrated producer of e-readers and what we saw was the world’s first colour video on e-paper – the bendy lightweight kind of course.

This video (voices are not my own) was taken using a phone and shows a 4 inch display running monochrome video at 14 frames per second, before panning to a 14 inch display with colour video at 12 frames per second. More frames means less contrast, but it’s early days for the technology, which could conceivably handle Flash video from web sites.

 

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Like any startup, when you’re one of the country’s newest universities looking to make a mark in a crowded marketplace you need to have a unique proposition and you need to innovate.

In the case of University Campus Suffolk, not even five year’s old, it has spotted an opportunity in the ancient form of the university prospectus by making theirs what it believes is the first in the UK to have a self-branded augmented reality app using the Aurasma technology.

This means that out of all the prospectuses that will thud onto the doormat over the coming months, UCS’s will be the only one that springs to life with video when using one of the many mobile devices that support the UCS Connect app, based on Aurasma, the Autonomy subsidiary.

Martina King, Aurasma’s managing director, says education now accounts for 13 per cent of Aurasma usage and is increasing daily.

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Ten thousand Raspberry Pi computers went on sale yesterday and instantly crippled the web sites of the two leading UK electronics suppliers tasked with selling the £22 computer.

The little credit card sized device running an open source operating system has generated huge global interest because of its low price, size and ultimate aim of picking up the baton dropped by our education system to breed a new generation of computer scientists.

While the first 10,000 devices are really targeted for the developer and hacker market, people Raspberry Pi hopes will be able to finesse the device even further and provide some useful tools to bring to draw in young people, it won't necessarily go to them, it has been an open sale afterall.

So on behalf of the uninitiated, please step up Robert Mullins, co-founder and trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and show us how to get started. Preferably in the form of a video from those nice people at Element 14 who can supply the Pi.

 

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There appears to be very little sign of disruption to the momentous wave of enthusiasm building behind new wonder material graphene, a wave started by two University of Manchester scientists some five years ago when they first isolated this unique material.

Just one atom thick, super strong and super conducting, graphene is being touted as a potential material for all manner of manufacturing and electronics processes.

There's a lot of research to be done first though, including a €1 billion European project. Helping figure out how that should be spent is Cambridge University alongside the universities of Manchester and Lancaster.

This week bringing the material closer to the public consciousness began with an exhibition in Warsaw, with a couple of videos including this introduction to the stuff, courtesy of Cambridge University.

 

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It could prove to be the most significant breakthrough yet in the long-running battle to eradicate one of the world's largest killers, malaria.

Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have discovered that the most deadly malaria parasite uses a single molecule on the surface of human red blood cells to invade the body, providing researchers with a new focus and hope that they can finally develop an effective vaccine capable of wiping out malaria.

 

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Red Gate Software is sending a database adminstrator (DBA) into space. Yes, Space. That's right, SPACE!

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