Even their roommate, just visible in the background playing computer games, gets celebrity treatment.
Neither the Jeopardy-playing computer nor the chess-playing one has any sense of how a soccer ball bounces.
Many children prefer to spend their spare time watching television, playing computer games or using the internet.
The study doesn't prove that watching TV or playing computer games is inherently unhealthy, says the lead researcher, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Ph.
It was Davies' first time on a bike on the circuit, although he prepared for his bow by playing computer games.
He established his first studio Adventures Unlimited Software, Inc. in 1983, where he acted as the lead designer and programmer of several fantasy role-playing computer games.
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She and her son, who was busy playing computer games in his seat, were with a tourist group that had toured eight U.S. cities in twelve days.
The court heard that Mr Dewani has a "withdrawn" attitude and spends his time in a disused camper van outside Fromeside Clinic in Bristol playing computer games.
Time spent playing computer games bore no such relationship.
With more females playing games online, the typical stereotype of an average online gamer being an introverted, overweight teenage boy who spends most of their time indoors playing computer or console games, has been blown out of the water.
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to exporting e-sports to the West is a lingering belief that playing computer games is not a proper job an idea that would no doubt sound familiar to pioneers of professional sports from tennis to snooker.
And the indications here are not especially encouraging: the average 15-year-old boy spends four times as long playing computer games as reading, and almost half of fathers have ever read to their children, according to a survey published on Wednesday by Waterstone's.
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"It may be easy for you, but for me it's the most terrifying thing in the world, " says Joe, who is currently spending his days playing computer games with friends and occasionally practicing rugby with his father in the scorching 48 degree Celsius August heat.
There are times where they would rather be watching TV or playing a computer game than hitting the books.
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One is that playing violent computer games can have beneficial effects.
Robert Coben, a neuropsychologist on Long Island, has recently published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Neurotherapy a study of autistic children who, by playing special computer games, have improved connections among neurons in the frontal and temporal lobes, resulting in fewer repetitive behaviors, better socialization and improved language skills.
Working at IRCAM, he wrote a piece that utilized orchestra musicians and a computer playing off each other.
Most days my grandfather sits at his computer, playing chess online with old friends.
The horsepuckey camp looked pretty smart in 1985, too, when its skepticism about the personal computer was playing out in the stock market.
It looks like a TV but acts as more like a computer, playing CDs, slide shows of digital photos, and video on demand.
Often the only reason that someone can tell that a computer is playing is because the synthesizer that produces the actual notes is not that good.
"'Ultima IV' is the game that all modern (role-playing games) flow from, but it's also kind of the impossible platonic ideal of a (computer role-playing game), " said retro-gamer Ben Lesnick, 31, of Washington.
Playing on your television or computer monitor is a very different experience than on smaller iPhone or iPad screens.
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It actually comes pre-programmed with a game controller script, so you can plug it into your computer and start playing as soon as you open the box (requires the free Super Tux Cart videogame).
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Europe's computer industry is usually playing catch up with its faster- moving U.S. counterpart.
The new girl sat at the computer in the corner playing Ziggurat, Panic!
Often, childhood obesity is attributed to a " toxic environment, " filled with endless hours of computer use and video game playing.
On January 11, 2011, Hotz was playing Age of Empires II on his computer in New Jersey when he received an e-mail from Sony announcing a lawsuit against him.
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