Enlarge / Would you pay $95,000 for these jeans? They were salvaged from the wreck of the SS Central America, which sank in 1857. Holabird Western Americana Collections reader comments 24 with 0 posters participating Share this story A pair of men’s jeans recovered from the wreckage of a 19th-century steamer ship fetched an eye-popping ..
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Enlarge / Not pictured: the things that are far more dangerous to fortress-dwelling dwarves, like poor site planning, miasma, and a lack of drink. reader comments 60 with 0 posters participating Share this story After a long night of playing Dwarf Fortress, I had a concerned look on my face when I finally went to ..
Enlarge / Nvidia’s 12VHPWR power cable adapter, as shipped with an RTX 4080. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 86 with 0 posters participating Share this story Nvidia’s new RTX 4090 and 4080 GPUs both use a new connector called 12VHPWR to deliver power as a way to satisfy ever-more power-hungry graphics cards without needing to set ..
Enlarge / Hello, gorgeous. reader comments 54 with 0 posters participating Share this story In the survival-horror genre, building tension and ramping up a sense of dread is the backbone of the experience. As a new sci-fi horror IP coming from the creators of Dead Space, The Callisto Protocol homes in on that creeping sense ..
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Enlarge / An example of Disney’s FRAN age-changing AI that shows the original image on the left and re-aged rows of older (top, at age 65) and younger (lower, at age 18) examples of the same person. reader comments 89 with 0 posters participating Share this story Disney researchers have created a new neural network ..
Enlarge / Intel’s new “Raptor Canyon” NUC Extreme (rear) is a lot larger but also a lot more capable than previous NUC Extreme boxes (front). Andrew Cunningham reader comments 8 with 0 posters participating Share this story Intel’s NUC (Next Unit of Computing) desktops rose to prominence about a decade ago by being small; they ..
Enlarge / Wahoo! reader comments 92 with 0 posters participating Share this story It’s only been a few weeks since the first official trailer for the long-awaited Super Mario Bros. animated movie introduced Chris Pratt’s somewhat distracting voice for Mario. The movie’s second trailer, released today during a Nintendo Direct presentation Tuesday evening, focuses more ..
Enlarge / Researchers have finally cracked the secret code of this 1547 letter from Holy Roman Emperor Charles V to his ambassador. Bibliotheque Stanislas de Nancy reader comments 43 with 0 posters participating Share this story In 1547, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V penned a letter to his ambassador, Jean de Saint-Mauris, part of which ..
reader comments 101 with 0 posters participating Share this story Low-polygon models, blurry textures, and low-resolution effects are replaced with shiny new upgrade in Portal with RTX. The same shot in the original unmodified game. Valve’s first-person puzzle-platformer Portal was a genuine phenomenon when it was released back in 2007, and its core gameplay mechanics—solving puzzles ..
