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PARIS — With its Lego-like avatars and easy-to-learn coding for budding programmers, the online gaming app Roblox has cornered the market in younger gamers, with 80 million monthly users, many of them under 16.
Now the platform, which has already taken the United States by storm, is setting its sights on Europe and Asia to become a global giant.
Kids log on to the mobile app after school to guide their avatars through obstacle courses full of pitfalls, escape from jail, dive into a treasure hunt or even to build their own adventure park.
None of it is very original, content-wise, and its simplistic, blocky style cannot compete with the lush aesthetics of the big studios' games, but its 3D user-generated games are aimed at younger players, and at teaching them coding skills for the...
February 15, 2019
Roblox, the game platform teaching young kids to code
February 13, 2019
Turn down the volume: WHO takes aim at harmful smartphone use
SANT CUGAT, Spain — David Aguilar has built himself a robotic prosthetic arm using Lego pieces after being born without a right forearm due to a rare genetic condition.
Aguilar, 19, who studies bioengineering at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in Spain, is already using his fourth model of the colorful prosthetic and his dream is to design affordable robotic limbs for those who need them.
Once his favorite toys, the plastic bricks became the building material for Aguilar's first, still very rudimentary, artificial arm at the age of nine, and each new version had more movement capability than the one before.
"As a child I was very nervous to be in front of other guys, because I was different, but that didn't stop me believing in my dreams," Aguilar, who is...
February 07, 2019
Brick by Lego brick, teen builds his own prosthetic arm
January 31, 2019
'Quantum leap' in AI-related patent filings: UN
January 29, 2019
iPhone FaceTime bug lets callers eavesdrop
January 25, 2019
India launches pint-sized satellite designed by students
January 21, 2019
WhatsApp limits text forwards to 5 recipients to curb rumors
January 16, 2019
Mega tube under Geneva enters race to succeed CERN collider
BEIJING — China will seek to establish an international lunar base one day, possibly using 3D printing technology to build facilities, the Chinese space agency said on Monday, weeks after landing a rover on the moon’s far side.The agency said four more lunar missions are planned, confirming the launch of a probe by the end of the year to bring back samples from the moon.The future launches will culminate with a mission to test equipment for an international moon research base, Wu Yanhua, deputy chief commander of China’s Lunar Exploration Program, said at a press briefing.“China, the United States, Russia and Europe are all discussing whether to build a research base or a research station on the moon,” Wu said.Scientists are looking into “whether we can use 3D printing...
January 14, 2019
China envisions moon base after far-side success
January 10, 2019
Facial recognition: Coming to a gadget near you
