Gearbox Software and 2K Games have released a new trailer for their upcoming Borderlands 2 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. While the claim that the sequel offers “870 gajillion” more guns than the already-stocked original may be a slight exaggeration done for entertainment, the trailer does offer one solid piece of info: a Sept. 18 release date. The original game, which combined the ...

If you’re been splurging and throwing money around lately, perhaps you didn’t get the memo: February 19 to 26 is officially dubbed “America Saves Week.” Feel free to go back to your freespending ways starting February 27. Just kidding, of course. The point of America Saves Week, coordinated by the American Savings Education Council and the [...]

Everyone sees a different Turing. A molecular biologist might surprise you by saying that Turing's most important paper is his 1936 work on the 'Turing machine' because of its relevance to DNA-based cellular operations ( see page 461 ). A biophysicist could instead point to his 1952 work on the formation of biological patterns — the first simulation of nonlinear dynamics ever to be published ...