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By Stephen Strauss of Nature magazine The hope that swarms of gamers can help to solve difficult biological problems has been given another boost by a report in the journal PLoS One, showing that data gleaned from the online game Phylo are helping to untangle a major problem in comparative genomics. The game was created to address the 'multiple sequence alignment (MSA) problem', which refers to the difficulty of aligning roughly similar sequences of DNA in genes common to many species.

Most would-be parents prefer boys, not girls.

Inside the movement to make the coder community more female friendly.

When video gamers armed with the world's most powerful supercomputers take on science and its most vexing riddles, who wins?

By tapping the collective power of human problem solving, this online gaming platform isn't just fun, it's making real steps in the fight against disease. The latest: An AIDS breakthrough.

For years, the Android smartphone operating system stood as Google's neglected stepsister aside Apple's radiant iPhones and beloved iOS. That's all changing now. For years, the Android smartphone operating system stood as the neglected stepsister aside the iPhone’s radiant, beloved iOS.

Sony has scored an exclusive lead on other e-readers in selling copies of Harry Potter as e-texts, industry sources tell The Register . It's all a part of Pottermore, the upcoming online Potter portal.

Team builders to the smartest companies in tech, the founders of the Go Game are letting everyone play their coveted "textured scavenger hunt." HR managers rejoice. You might say that the Go Game , an iPhone game launching this week at SXSW , is the best-researched project in the history of location games. Founders Ian Fraser and Finnegan Kelly have spent the last 10 years running a hacked-together version of the game at corporate team-building events for Google , Apple , EA Games, Zynga , Facebook , Microsoft , and Intuit .