Will Wright, the designer behind successful video game simulations including "SimCity", "The Sims" and "Spore", is at it again. Only this time, rather than controlling virtual people or creating space creatures, the protagonist of "HiveMind" is the actual player. "HiveMind," a group of cross-platform, cross-media online applications, is designed to turn a gamer's everyday life
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Asian stocks rose on Tuesday as the first trading day of 2012 in most markets brought renewed appetite for riskier assets, while U.S. crude jumped more than 1.5 percent to above $100 a barrel on escalating tensions between Iran and the West. Stronger-than-expected manufacturing data from China boosted sentiment in Asia, but Europe's drawn-out debt
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At least five people were injured and two arrested during a protest against the presence of British military bases in Cyprus late on Monday, witnesses said. Fighting broke out between Cypriot demonstrators and police guarding RAF Akrotiri, a sprawling compound on the southern tip of the eastern Mediterranean island. According to a spokesperson for the
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British police have found evidence that private investigators working for newspapers hacked into the email account of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown while he was finance minister, The Independent newspaper reported on Monday. Hundreds of other people may have also had their emails intercepted, perhaps as many as were caught up in the phone hacking
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Global manufacturing activity was subdued going into 2012, with the euro zone's industrial sector suffering its fifth straight month of declines in December and Asian factories mostly stuck in a rut. Monday's purchasing managers indexes (PMIs) provided further evidence that Europe is unlikely to avoid a recession. The rate of decline of activity in euro
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President Demetris Christofias has said that 2012 will be an optimistic year but at the same time very difficult. He also said that talks for a Cyprus settlement are not going well, Turkey continues its threats against Cyprus, and the Republic will be holding the EU presidency during the second half of the year. Addressing
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The Chinese government is working with domestic Internet search engines like Baidu Inc and Sohu.com and financial institutions to prevent phishing attacks on unsuspecting Chinese web users. The Ministry of Public Security said on Friday it would work with 10 Chinese search engines to protect the website rankings of financial institutions to lessen the chances
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The turnover value Index of wholesale trade except motor vehicles and motorcycles decreased by 1.4% to 130.3 in July-September 2011, compared with the previous April-June period. For the period January-September 2011, the Index recorded an increase of 4.4% compared with the corresponding period of 2010. Meanwhile, the turnover value index including motor vehicles and cycles
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The trade deficit shrank by 13% to EUR 369,491 from EUR 424,931 in October 2010 according to preliminary estimates for October 2011. Total imports/ arrivals in October reached a preliminary EUR 486.4 mln, of which EUR 353.1 mln were arrivals from other member states of the EU and EUR 133.3 mln imports from third countries.
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The sector of “Other Social and Personal Service Activities” was worth EUR 602.6 mln measured as value added at current prices in 2009. This was 1.8% higher than the EUR 591.7 mln recorded in 2008. It contribution to gross value added increased to 4.0% in 2009 from 3.9% in 2008. Gross output increased by 1.1%
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