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Paris-based startup Immortal Game uses blockchain technology to add a new dimension to the most played board game in the world. Chess is a game that has been played since the 15th century, and with around 800 million players worldwide today, it shows no signs of losing popularity. The digitisation of chess has been progressing for years, allowing more and more people to play against an AI or ot...
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Learning maths can actually be fun - thanks to this edtech startup, that helps kids learn and compete! Ask anyone what their least favourite subject in school was, and the most likely answer will be maths. For a lot of people maths is a subject that, despite the fact that sums and equations aren’t up for interpretation, the degree to which we are able to learn it depends very much on the wa...
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The lowdown on the gaming app, eQuoo that helps users build their emotional fitness and thereby help fight their mental illness... With the tried and tested method of gamification, sub-clinical, award-winning emotional fitness game eQuoo is PsycApps’ way of finding a way to get people suffering from depression, anxiety and other mental illnesses intrinsically motivated to stick to ther...
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The London based startup, Erase All Kittens, that's created a game that inspires children to code and teaches professional programming skills. Yes, we know you want to rush through the opening to see if the titular kittens are okay, so we’ll make it short. Our world is ever more reliant on technology. Our own articles have detailed how even things like farming, house building, and gett...
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Augmented reality gaming and physical exercise combined, thanks to Run An Empire, the location-based strategy game for runners and walkers. One popular genre of video game is strategy, in which the player takes command of an entire civilisation and builds them up from cave-dwellers to all-conquering world powers. Or builds a pretty garden and maintains it. Usually, players sit behind a keybo...
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Humans have been on the planet for six million years. In the past 40 years alone, we have have been responsible for the destruction of a massive 50% of Earth’s wildlife. If that figure isn’t terrible enough, try 93% of big cats lost in the past 50 years, or 85,000 elephants killed in the past 5 years just in Tanzania. With our every means of environmental destruction - intentional and ...
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