Google is doing some housekeeping, which means they're planning on shutting down several of their existing services.

A leaked memo from a Gamestop Field Manager instructs employees to open new copies of Deus Ex, and throw away a code for a free game that's packaged inside.

Scientists have devised a new system to keep track of zebras, cheetahs, giraffes and other animals with identifying marks.

Much like any other game console, Atari cartridges contained executable code along with corresponding data. Much of Atari game code is in the language of mathematics – if x is true, go to y. In this visualization of the custom Halo 2600, a adaptation of Halo for the Atari 2600 we’ve posted about in the past, each time there is ...

Cornell University’s James Cutting has a theory about Hollywood blockbusters. To be a really engaging potential classic, a movie needs to follow the 1/f�fluctuation, a mathematical theory that attempts to solve the mystery of attention spans. In his research, Cutting measured the shot length of the 150 highest-grossing movies between 1935 and 2005. He then graphed the varying shot lengths ...

I told you that this would be the last time you’d ever do something like this to me. I told you if I ever caught you with that damn Macbook again that’d be the last straw. Our last option, if we want to save this relationship, is the�Codependency�Suit. That’s right, 24/7 surveillance and communication. It’ll be great! We’ll finally get ...

Dante’s Inferno ASCII art has popped up in the source code of some of the most popular websites on the web, including Digg, IGN and Kotaku. All of the art links to the same Dante’s Inferno website, so the source of the coding is definitly not a secret. Appearing in the source code of these popular sites are apparent attempts ...

Measuring only three millimeters in diameter, detectable by mobile phone cameras as far as 12 feet away and capable of holding hundreds of times the information of traditional barcodes, the new MIT-developed bokode system could revolutionize the way we shop. As an example, imagine standing in front of a bookshelf holding thousands of books. The bokode system would allow users ...

Apparently, a lot of people got pissed off about Sony’s little pay-to-play scheme that involved pre-ordering Killzone 2 in order to receive a code for the demo. Yes, the very same codes we gave out the other week. Sony is now trying to save face by offering up a “limited number of downloads” of the demo. The catch is, you’ll ...

See these? These are official Killzone 2 beta invite codes for the Playstation 3. So if you love first-person shooters and own a PS3, the game you’ve been waiting years to play is finally available to you, our loyal Gearfuse reader. We have two invite codes to give away. All you need to do to get one is just leave ...