Playhaventoday announced the release of a platform for iOS game developers that makes releasing updates as simple as writing a blog post. While push notifications for games are a common way that developers notify players of changes, Playhaven hopes to cut through the noise by utilizing a dynamic overlay powered by HMTL5, allowing game makers to engage users along multiple fronts, and to do so without having to get code updates from the App Store....

Aleakby Chinese gadget site M.I.C. Gadget has sparked further rumors relating to the size of the next generation iPhone’s screen. It looks like they’ve gotten their hands on images of a prototype iPhone that has a larger 4″ screen instead of the standard 3.5″. The casing of the phone is identical to a white iPhone 4, indicating that this may be an early prototype of the iPhone 5. M.I.C. still isn’t sure if the images are real but if this is a real device, it could very well contain the A5 processor....

New radio signal excited alien hunters – but scientists are still skeptical Ways forward One way forward would be to abandon the traditional approach of using large single dishes for SETI. While a parabolic dish has the useful property of being sensitive to a fairly large area of sky, if a candidate signal is detected, there is no way of knowing exactly where it came from. So, while the Parkes telescope was nominally pointing at Proxima Centauri, literally hundreds of thousands of other galactic stars were also present in the field of view....

I’ve written before about how new media isn’tdestroyingjournalism. There will always be a need for qualified fact-checkers and reliable news sources – social networking platforms such as Twitter are just tools, and journalists have to move with the times and use all the tools at their disposal. A key theme within this area is how news sites are letting the end-user choose what news they receive. Some have argued that tailored news dissemination will lead many people to miss out on key global events, which is why journalists and publications should decide what news people consume....

One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s,long before winningthe 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his prediction of black holes, physicist Roger Penrose teamed up with anaesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff to propose an ambitious answer. They claimedthat the brain’s neuronal system forms an intricate network and that the consciousness this produces should obey the rules ofquantum mechanics– the theory that determines how tiny particles like electrons move around....