The Computer Guys & Gal
Let the games begin! Olympic athletes embrace social media. Fans perfect the art of ignoring Twitter spoilers in advance of evening rebroadcasts. Meanwhile, the video game industry confronts an ongoing problem in competitive gaming: sexist language and harassment. The Computer Guys and Gal are back to explore the latest news from the technology world.
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Some people are calling the 2012 London games the "social media Olympics." The Computer Guys And Gal share suggestions for celebrating the Olympics from the office cubicle or living room couch. Plus, what the online gaming industry can and should do about sexist behavior.
Allison Druin
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Has social media ruined the Olympics, or is it NBC and its time delay?
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Thank the wrong person or group and your Olympic dreams are over! An update on Rule 40, which severely limits athletes' rights to market themselves during the Olympic Games.
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Free is not so free when it comes to Olympics live-streaming.
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Olympics sponsor BMW develops technology to help U.S. athletes improve their training and performance.
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Olympic technology: The winners and losers.
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Ever wonder how the score boards know when someone has won a race within 1 100th of a second? Pressure sensors in the pool! Technology that's hiding in plain sight at the Olympics.
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Simulated Olympic training, such as Australian cyclists who watch a screen that looks like a video game but actually is a "mile for mile, hill for hill recreation of the London Olympic road cycling course."
Bill Harlow
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In virtual play, sex harassment is all too real.
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The ugly side of fighting games: Sexual harassment in competitive gaming.
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The fighting game community rallied to include a gamer with cerebral palsy.
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Power Pwn, the world's most sinister power strip.
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As security researcher Cody Brocious put it, "My Arduino can beat up your hotel room lock."
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What happens when David Pogue loses his iPhone? The world watches (and helps).
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Forum trolling against terrorism. Internet "flame wars" may have higher stakes here.
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Getting the Reuters app has at least given me great pictures in real time and I get notices on qualification rounds, as well as medal results.
My gripe is that even if you get MSNBC, NBC, Bravo, you still can't see full coverage of Track and Field...., but you can see basketball on two channels, soccer on two channels, and boxing. But, if you want to see shot put, triple jump, or someone who is not a medal winner outside of the USA team, you are out of luck--no matter how much you pay for TV "service." Argh!!
On the topic of gaming and in-game chat
As a rather avid gamer (first person shooter/military type games) and having spent a great deal of time and effort on language enforcement, I have found it absolutely amazing that the manufacturers of these games provide no mechanism to actually CONTROL the game language (so what YOU hear in game from the game) that groups that host a game can manage the gaming experience. We can EASILY enforce rules on what the players can write in their chat, but there's no way to eliminate the language from the game itself (so simply use some alternate in-game feedback)