Week in gaming: Microsoft's legal moves with the 360, Serious Sam 3, indie game marketing
This was an interesting week, with Microsoft updating the Xbox 360 with a new look and some new ways to search for, and consume, media content. The big story is the clause that prevents you from suing the company that Microsoft inserted into the terms of service. Of course, you can't opt out of this particular bit of the agreement, so there's that issue.
We also reviewed Serious Sam 3, we talked to the people behind two great iOS games, and I gave a lecture on how to market your indie game. The good news is that incoming pitches have already improved, which was my secret mission all along: to get you people to make my job easier. Thanks, guys!
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Week on the Web: super skyscrapers, medical patents, and magical phishing
Ars Technica's 2011 holiday gift guide extravaganza: Our annual guide to buying gifts for photography buffs, music geeks, foodies, knowledge junkies, and computer nerds alike—plus some extra toys and fun stuff.
The Shard's bleeding edge: anatomy of a 21st century skyscraper: As the tallest skyscraper in the EU goes up in London, we talk to the engineers behind it about the technology that makes the Shard possible.
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Week in IT: supermarket hackers, factory of the future, new NAND flash
World's first 128Gb 20nm NAND flash could pack 2TB into a 2.5" SSD: Intel and Micron have announced the creation of a 128 gigabit flash die. An SSD built from such parts could pack 2TB into a 2.5" drive. They probably won't hit the market until 2013, though, as the new dies also sport a new interface and internal structure.
Hackers hit supermarket self-checkout lanes, steal money from shoppers: Criminals have tampered with the credit and debit card readers at self-checkout lanes in more than 20 supermarkets operated by a California chain, allowing them to steal money from shoppers who used the compromised machines.
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Week in science, big, bulging bug eyes edition
This week's science news came from a broad range of topics, with news of a newly confirmed planet 600 light years away to a better understanding of the climate here on Earth. But biology seemed to rule the roost: rats showed empathy, bees made collective decisions, and a 500 million year old fossil revealed more about the largest predator of its era.
It's got 16,000 eyes on you—the vision of a Cambrian-era predator: Spectacular fossils show that a strange beast from the Cambrian had two large compound eyes, each with about 16,000 lenses.
Bees reach consensus by headbutting dissenters: Swarms of bees seeking new nests make decisions using a system that's very similar to the neurons in the human brain, with a key difference: instead of sending chemical inhibitors to their peers, the bees give them a good headbutting.
Rats show empathy, will come to the aid of other rats: Rats will deliberately free trapped companions and may even share food with them, indicating that these rodents are capable of empathy.
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