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The narrative director at indie developer Inkle, Jon Ingold, has said that pricing its recently-released title TR-49 at $7 was a means of encouraging players to buy the game as an "impulse" purchase ...

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A competition calling for research projects involving so-called AI scientists shows just how fast this technology is moving.

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