Wilde’s original argument is less to do with our minds grasping for systems to help make sense of social horrors and more to do with beauty. “To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing,” he wrote. “One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it come into existence.” His idea is that we look at the trees and hedgerows of the countryside, but we don’t see the beauty of the countryside until Constable paints it. Do games have a similar relationship to beauty? Do we only see the English countryside after playing The Chinese Room’s Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture?


Whatever the case, whether we’re talking about beauty or horror, games are maps we use to both pinpoint and distance ourselves from unconscious experiences. The world is a beautiful, terrifying place, and games help us organise these impulses at a comfortable distance. What happens in the gaps between those structures is another matter entirely, when games turn less to John Constable and more to Kazimir Malevich's Black Square. For the representative artist, however, reality is a source of inspiration and now it’s reality’s turn to play the game.CES 2016 is set to be the biggest technology show of the year. Taking place in Las Vegas from 6 to 9 January, it’s traditionally been the best place to see pretty much the whole range of consumer electronics, from smartphones to cameras and a lot more.

However, for the past couple of years, there’s been another category that’s gradually been growing: cars and automotive technology. This year, cars are set to be even bigger – despite the fact that CES is the week prior to the Detroit Motor Show – and there will be a big presence from car makers and third parties.Why is it such a big deal? In short, almost everyone will be there, which means there’s a lot of pressure on companies to have a presence (if you’re LG, and Samsung is attending, you have to be there too – and vice versa). So what’s going to happen? Here’s what we know and what we think will happen ahead of the official announcements.

It hasn’t been a straightforward year for Elon Musk’s vision of privatised space exploration, with a SpaceX rocket exploding moments after launch in June, but in the past week there was a massive breakthrough: the return of a launch rocket, potentially cutting mission costs in half. With a fresh wave of enthusiasm for space exploration, helped in the UK at least by Tim Peake’s six-month visit to the International Space Station, 2015 could be a landmark year for space.Anyone who’s tried to stick a cable into a USB slot the wrong way up will appreciate the joy of USB-C, which hit the mainstream in 2015. For a start, it works either way up. Genius! Not only that, but it’s fast – up to 10Gbits/sec – and has a much higher power output than previous USB standards. Apple’s 12in MacBook uses its USB-C socket as its sole means of charging, for instance. That points to a bright future too: super-fast USB-C external hard disks with just one cable for charging and connections. No more proprietary power adapters. In short, one connector to rule them all.

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