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Feng Wu—The Tech File PhotoInstitute Professor Peter A. Diamond PhD ‘63 won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Economics yesterday, for his work on modeling the friction in markets. Diamond shares the prize with two co-winners, Dale T. Mortensen and

MANY GAME DEVELOPERS SHOWED OFF THEIR HIGHLY ANTICIPATED GAMES AT NEW YORK COMIC CON 2010. GAMERS WERE EAGER TO PLAY TITLES SUCH AS FINAL FANTASY XIV, BLOOD STONE 007, AND MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3.

FOR MANY COSPLAYERS, IT’S THE LITTLE TOUCHES, LIKE AN INCOMING ACT OF SLIMING, THAT COMPLETE A SUCCESSFUL COSTUME.

NEW YORK COMIC CON 2010 GOERS WATCH COUNTER-STRIKE TEAM “EVIL GENIUSES” COMPETE IN THE INTEL EXTREME MASTERS AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS ON SATURDAY. GAMES ARE BROADCAST BOTH ONLINE AND ON LARGE HIGH-DEFINITION SCREE...

A TEAMLIQUID.NET STAFF MEMBER INTERVIEWS “THEGUNRUN” FOR HFGL.TV’S STARCRAFT 2 ONLINE STREAM. THEGUNRUN IS ONE OF THE TWO CO-CASTERS FOR THE INTEL EXTREME MASTERS STARCRAFT 2 AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS TOURNAMENT HE...

SARA CANNING AND KEVIN WILLIAMSON, CAST MEMBERS OF THE UPCOMING CW SHOW VAMPIRE DIARIES, ANSWER QUESTIONS FROM EXCITED FANS AT NEW YORK COMIC CON 2010.

Until recently, Nightline’s web site presented a random image to users. Here’s a selection of some of their previous images.

Source: http://web.mit.edu/nightline; photoillustration by Jessica Liu

A screen shot of a motorcycle from Mundie’s talk. Mundie used his arms to manipulate the motorcycle image, viewed in 3-D, expanding it to show its internal parts.

Source: Microsoft Research

Vicky Chow performs at a concert in Killian Hall Monday, in which she played pieces by Ryan Anthony Francis, John Cage, Daniel Wohl, Evan Ziporyn, Andy Akiho, David Lang, and Jakub Ciupinski.

Sarang Kulkarni—The Tech