Rochester Institute of Technology students can sure play — and create — a mean pinball. As part of an interactive games and media course, 12 RIT students made cardboard and digital pinball machines ...
Early pinball tables had no flippers, barely any control and just enough chaos to distract a nation deep in the Great Depression. But when times are tight, creativity gets loud - Jazz was booming, Art ...
Linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer analyzes the origins of words in the news. Read previous columns here. Just over 50 years ago, Atari, then an enterprising Silicon Valley startup, released an ...