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For the last few years, Activision's "Call of Duty" series has dominated video-game warfare. The latest chapter, "Modern Warfare 2," was the best-selling game of 2009, and it still leads the list of Xbox Live's most-played titles, joined in the top five by two earlier "CoD" releases.

But Activision did not exactly invent the war game, and almost every major publisher in the industry is competing in the genre. Electronic Arts may be the most aggressive, with three franchises -- "Army of Two," "Battlefield" and the rebooted "Medal of Honor" -- taking on the champ this year.

by Richard Eskow

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by Richard Eskow

Chatter about ensuing plans permeates any graduation, though it's not common for the talk to surround which class projects will receive venture capital funding.

This was a hot topic at the first commencement at Singularity University, a school that is backed by Google, operates on NASA's Silicon Valley campus and gets its name from futurist and co-founder Ray Kurzweil's favorite term for our technologically enhanced future.

Fahad Rafique Dogar in Pakistan's The News (via Five Rupees, via Yes and No):

Fahad Rafique Dogar in Pakistan's The News (via Five Rupees, via Yes and No):

By Namit Arora

By Namit Arora