Enlarge / First microscope by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. Tetra Images/Getty reader comments 44 with 39 posters participating Share this story In the late 17th century, a Dutch draper and self-taught scientist named Antonie van Leeuwenhoek earned renown for building some of the best microscopes available at a time when the instrument was just beginning to revolutionize ..
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reader comments 64 with 49 posters participating Share this story After the California Gold Rush, in 1870, two Kentucky swindlers whipped up a scheme to prey on thirsty financiers’ FOMO. They invented a diamond field out West. Investors sunk millions in today’s money into the scheme. All of it, of course, was for naught—a cautionary ..
Bloomberg | Getty Images reader comments 35 with 31 posters participating Share this story Televisions, laptops, and tablets have been in high demand during the Covid-19 pandemic, as people worked and learned via Zoom, socialized over Skype, and binged on Netflix to alleviate the lockdown blues. But all that extra screen time also helped set ..
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reader comments 72 with 37 posters participating, including story author Share this story Itch.io, a digital download storefront that largely sells indie video games, launched its first-ever “Creator Day” on Friday. This one-day-only price promotion is aimed more at developers than consumers, as it comes with a twist: Itch.io will claim precisely zero dollars in service ..
reader comments 33 with 26 posters participating Share this story Epic vs. Apple/Google View more stories Monopoly control is a hot topic in the games industry these days. Lawsuits against Apple, Valve, and Sony all take slightly different tacks in arguing that these companies exercise unfair monopoly control over their platforms’ market for downloadable games. ..
reader comments 68 with 48 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Dev Patel stars as Sir Gawain in the forthcoming epic medieval fantasy film, The Green Knight. An ambitious young knight of King Arthur’s Round Table makes an ill-advised bargain and embarks on a personal quest in the new trailer for The Green Knight, a ..
reader comments 37 with 29 posters participating Share this story Shots from the reverse-engineered version of Grand Theft Auto III showing off the graphical improvements over the 2002 original. The recompiled versions haven’t done anything about the ever-present fog shrouding far-off objects, unfortunately. RockStar Games Shiny roads. RockStar Games Cool guys walking away from sunrises. ..
reader comments 22 with 19 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Omar Sy is back as Assane Diop, a modern-day gentleman thief who models himself on the classic French fictional character Arsène Lupin, in part 2 of Lupin, coming to Netflix on June 11. The Netflix French original series Lupin proved to be an ..
reader comments 58 with 42 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Tom Hardy returns to the big screen as the lethal protector Venom, taking on Woody Harrelson’s villainous Cletus Kasady/Carnage, in Sony’s forthcoming film Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road) returns as intrepid reporter Eddie Brock, infected with a ..
