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While studying at the Soviet Union's Academy of Science in 1984, the 29-year-old Pajitnov designed a bare-bones version of the game in his free time for the Elektronika 60, a Soviet terminal computer. The original version, launched on June 6, 1984, was only 10 levels long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 25 Years of Tetris: From Russia With Fun! | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

The Super-Fresh Web The basic mechanics of Twitter are remarkably simple. Users publish tweets - those 140-character messages - from a computer or mobile device. (The character limit allows tweets to be created and circulated via the SMS platform used by most mobile phones.) As a social network, Twitter revolves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

How does Acxiom figure who is a "likely spender"? First, it asks. Monthly surveys by BIG Research, a separate company, inquire about how people's shopping habits have shifted and how changes - like gas-price increases - might alter habits. Then Acxiom digs into it own database, one of the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Surprising Look at Who Spends and Who Saves | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

On a typical day in his Kirkland suite, Michael “Mikey” J. Friedman ’11 could be found singing “Hakuna Matata,” playing with the protein modeling computer program Pymol, or coming up with some harebrained scheme to entertain...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Michael J. Friedman '11 | 6/4/2009 | See Source »

Aviation authorities around the world have ordered inspections and procedures to try to eliminate the problem. "In these fly-by-wire systems, one never really knows if one has checked out all possible combinations of events to make sure that the computer properly reacts," Weber says of modern flight control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Past Flight May Offer Clues to Air France 447 | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

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