Euro Parliament Wants “Red Button” For Shutting Down Games

According to reports, the European Parliament has apparently requested concerned authorities to provide a red button to be set up so that parents can shut the game down if and when inappropriate content crops up. This panic-style button is to be used by parents of those children who play online games. This button will enable parents to close the game immediately if the content is unsuitable for their wards. But many people wonder whether the use of the old-school shut down button would not work as well? On the other hand, the report has some sense in it because games can also be use for educational purposes.

UK University Making Universal Game Emulator

According to reports coming in from the University of Portsmouth, England, researchers from the aforementioned University are in efforts to develop a universal game emulator. This game emulator will be able to play all game technologies from the 1970s until the present day. The primary aim of this software is to preserve software from the early days of computers. The thought behind this is aptly summarized by David Anderson of the Humanities Computing Group when he says that there is no point in preserving games if people do not know how they were played. The prior technology will be wasted and thus, instead of doing this, it should be made transparent to people.

New Tool Promises to Passively Identify BitTorrent Files

The entertainment is very pleased with reports of developments of software that can apparently detect illegal transferring of files over the Internet. This technology can detect the downloading of files using the peer-to-peer method of downloading movies, music and other forms of electronic media by using BitTorrent. The creators said that this technique can detect the downloading without creating an interruption in the flow of data and can monitor the networks. The technique basically provides the authorities with hard proof of such transfers without changing the status of any data transfers. There is no change in the flow of data either outward or inward.

MIT Team Creates Shock That Recharges Your Car

A team of students has invented a shock absorber that apparently converts the shocks from going over bumps on the road into energy which can act as fuel for the car. The product titled the GenShock cultivates the energy from potholes on the road to convert it into fuel which can be used as fuel. The energy which is harnessed in this manner is converted into electricity which helps in recharging the car. The team has reportedly said that this mechanism can provide an improvement of around 10% on normal fuel consumption with the use of regenerative shock absorbers.

A Quantitative Study of How Memes Spread

Reports have come in which say that memes spreads in the same way through the use of social networking sites in a similar way as diseases do. This was found out after a survey was conducted on Facebook concerning 3000 people who were tagged in an online survey. The survey included all those people who had participated in a “25 Random Things About Me” poll on the social networking site. But contrary to diseases which spread even more faster once it has been initiated, the number in this case dies down quickly when the number of persons who took the poll started depleting.