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March 26, 2023

Game Jam Winner Spotlight: The Pigeon Wager (Techdirt)

Techdirt: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: The Pigeon Wager. “Jason Morningstar seems to have a knack for Deep Cut games: last year he handily snagged the prize with The Obstruction Method, and this year’s entry has once again demonstrated why the category is one of our favorites. The Pigeon Wager takes its inspiration from ‘The Military Use Of The Homing Pigeon’, an article published in a 1927 issue of an ornithology quarterly. On this humble foundation, the game builds a live-action roleplaying exercise full of drama and creativity.”

March 23, 2023

University of Kentucky: UK’s Brent Seales launches global competition to decipher Herculaneum scrolls

University of Kentucky: UK’s Brent Seales launches global competition to decipher Herculaneum scrolls. “Brent Seales, a computer science professor at the University of Kentucky, is leading a global competition to read the charred scrolls after demonstrating that an artificial intelligence program (AI) can successfully extract letters and symbols from X-ray images of the unrolled papyri (EduceLab-scrolls).”

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March 18, 2023

Game Jam Winner Spotlight: To And Again (Techdirt)

Techdirt: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: To And Again. “So far in our series of posts on showcasing the winners in all six categories of the fifth annual public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1927, we’ve featured Best Remix winner Lucia and Best Visuals winner Urbanity. Today, we’re taking a closer look at the winner of the Best Adaptation category: To And Again by Perrin Ellis.”

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March 15, 2023

Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Urbanity (Techdirt)

Techdirt: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Urbanity. “Last week, we had the first of our series of posts showcasing the winners in all six categories of the fifth annual public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1927, and the spotlight was on Best Remix winner Lucia. This week, we’re taking a look at the winner of the Best Visuals category: Urbanity by Government Name.”

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March 2, 2023

Techdirt: Announcing The Winners Of The 5th Annual Public Domain Game Jam!

Techdirt; Announcing The Winners Of The 5th Annual Public Domain Game Jam!. “In January, we asked designers to create games based on works that entered the public domain this year for our fifth annual public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1927! It took us a little while to get through all the entries, but now it’s time to announce the winners, and it was not an easy decision.”

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January 21, 2023

Internet Archive: Public Domain Day Film Contest Highlights Works of 1927

Internet Archive: Public Domain Day Film Contest Highlights Works of 1927. “At Internet Archive we love to see how creative people can get with the material we make available online. As part of this year’s Public Domain Day celebration we asked the greater community to submit short films highlighting anything that was going to be made available in the Public Domain in 2023. For the contest, vintage images and sounds were woven into creative films of 2-3 minutes. Many of the films were abstract while others educational, they all showcased the possibility when public domain materials are made openly available and accessible for download.”

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January 20, 2023

CNET: Google’s 2023 Doodle Contest Asks Schoolkids What They Are Grateful For

CNET: Google’s 2023 Doodle Contest Asks Schoolkids What They Are Grateful For. “Google has revealed that the theme of the 2023 Doodle for Google contest will be ‘I am grateful for …’ The annual contest challenges schoolkids from kindergarten through the 12th grade to design their own variation of the company’s famous logo in a way that reflects what they are grateful for in their personal lives.”

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January 14, 2023

This is Colossal: Hapless Hangups and Silly Spoofs Abound in the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

This is Colossal: Hapless Hangups and Silly Spoofs Abound in the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. “In this year’s juried contest, 5,000 entries from 85 countries amounted to fierce competition, showcasing ‘seriously funny’ images in an effort to highlight the diversity of the world’s wildlife and raise awareness of the need for conservation. In partnership with the Whitley Fund for Nature, the contest contributes 10% of revenue toward conservation efforts in countries across the Global South.”

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December 25, 2022

Gaming Like It’s 1927: Get Ready For Our Next Public Domain Game Jam (Techdirt)

Techdirt: Gaming Like It’s 1927: Get Ready For Our Next Public Domain Game Jam. “It’s that time of year! Ever since works in the US finally started entering the public domain again, we’ve been hosting an annual game jam for designers to create games based on the year’s newly copyright-free works. This year, it’s Gaming Like It’s 1927!”

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December 14, 2022

9to5 Google: Google kicks off ARCore Geospatial API Challenge with $50,000 in prizes for AR apps

9to5 Google: Google kicks off ARCore Geospatial API Challenge with $50,000 in prizes for AR apps. “ARCore gained a Geospatial API at Google I/O 2022 to let developers more easily place virtual content in the real world. To encourage adoption, Google is starting the ARCore Geospatial API Challenge. This addition to ARCore lets third-party apps use the same global localization technology powering Google Maps Live View to add virtual content to real world coordinates and elevations in over 100 countries.”

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December 13, 2022

The Register: Pwn2Own contest concludes with nearly $1m paid out to ethical hackers

The Register: Pwn2Own contest concludes with nearly $1m paid out to ethical hackers . “Pwn2Own paid out almost $1 million to bug hunters at last week’s consumer product hacking event in Toronto, but the prize money wasn’t big enough attract attempts at cracking the iPhone or Google Pixel because miscreants can score far more from less wholesome sources.”

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December 5, 2022

Public Domain Day 2023 Remix Contest: The Internet Archive is Looking For Creative Short Films Made By You! (Internet Archive)

Internet Archive Blog: Public Domain Day 2023 Remix Contest: The Internet Archive is Looking For Creative Short Films Made By You!. “Public Domain Day is a celebration of all the rich materials that will be newly available to the public free of copyright restrictions. On January 1, 2023, most works published in 1927 will ascend into the Public Domain in the United States. We want artists to use this newly available content to create short films using resources from the Internet Archive’s collections from 1927.”

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September 20, 2022

CNET: Astronomy Photographer of the Year Captures Rare, Dazzling Comet Photo

CNET: Astronomy Photographer of the Year Captures Rare, Dazzling Comet Photo. “Gerald Rhemann of Austria has won the 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, for his astonishing and rare photograph of a piece of Comet Leonard’s gas tail being disconnected and carried away by the solar wind.”

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September 7, 2022

Android Developers Blog: Google Play announces the winners of the Indie Games Festival and the Accelerator class of 2022

Android Developers Blog: Google Play announces the winners of the Indie Games Festival and the Accelerator class of 2022 . “Today, at the finals of our Indie Games Festival, thousands of people came together to celebrate the passion, creativity and innovation of small games studios. Players, jury members, and industry experts attended the event – hosted in a custom virtual world – where they discovered the finalist games and met the people who made them.”

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September 1, 2022

Motherboard: An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed

Motherboard: An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed. “A man came in first at the Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition using an AI generated artwork on Monday. ‘I won first place,’ a user going by Sincarnate said in a Discord post above photos of the AI-generated canvases hanging at the fair.”

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University of Kentucky: UK’s Brent Seales launches global competition to decipher Herculaneum scrolls

Techdirt: Announcing The Winners Of The 5th Annual Public Domain Game Jam!

Internet Archive: Public Domain Day Film Contest Highlights Works of 1927

CNET: Google’s 2023 Doodle Contest Asks Schoolkids What They Are Grateful For

This is Colossal: Hapless Hangups and Silly Spoofs Abound in the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

Gaming Like It’s 1927: Get Ready For Our Next Public Domain Game Jam (Techdirt)

9to5 Google: Google kicks off ARCore Geospatial API Challenge with $50,000 in prizes for AR apps

The Register: Pwn2Own contest concludes with nearly $1m paid out to ethical hackers

CNET: Astronomy Photographer of the Year Captures Rare, Dazzling Comet Photo

Android Developers Blog: Google Play announces the winners of the Indie Games Festival and the Accelerator class of 2022

Motherboard: An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed

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