reader comments 42 with Share this story [embedded content] Second Life mobile preview. Remember Second Life? The virtual world launched on the desktop web back in 2003 with 3D avatars and spaces for various social activities. Believe it or not, it has been running continually this entire time—and now it’s coming to mobile for the ..
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Enlarge / Presumed self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1510) at the Royal Library of Turin, Italy. Public domain reader comments 46 with Share this story Could Leonardo da Vinci’s mother, Caterina, have been a slave kidnapped from the mountainous Caucasus region of Central Asia? That’s the latest hypothesis re-igniting a long-running debate about the ..
Enlarge / The end is coming for two of Nintendo’s digital storefronts. reader comments 74 with Share this story In just a few weeks, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U owners will finally completely lose the ability to purchase new digital games on those aging platforms. The move will cut off consumer access to hundreds of ..
reader comments 274 with Share this story Sales of vinyl records have been on the rise for years, but according to the RIAA’s 2022 year-end revenue report for the music industry (PDF), record sales hit a new high last year. For the first time since 1987, unit sales of vinyl albums outpaced those of CDs, ..
Enlarge / Cross-platform voice chat has arrived on the PlayStation 5. Samuel Axon reader comments 20 with Share this story This week, Sony rolled out Discord voice chat support for PlayStation 5 consoles, marking the first time a third-party OS-wide game voice call option has been available on Sony’s consoles. Previously, PlayStation 5 users could ..
Enlarge / The Apple Music Classical logo and app icon. reader comments 91 with Share this story Apple is launching a version of Apple Music specifically for classical music later this month, the company announced today. The Apple Music Classical app, currently available for preorder in the App Store, will be separate from the main ..
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Enlarge / Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4080. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 61 with Share this story Nvidia released a new driver update for its GeForce graphics cards that, among other things, introduced a new Video Super Resolution upscaling technology that could make low-resolution videos look better on high-resolution screens. But the driver (version 531.18) also apparently ..
Enlarge / Calendar Man is marking the many, many days until a more powerful Steam Deck shows up. reader comments 79 with Share this story If you’re waiting for a more powerful version of the Steam Deck before diving in on Valve’s Linux-based portable hardware, you may find yourself waiting a little while longer. In ..
Enlarge / This phallus-shaped object went viral last month, but it might not be an ancient Roman dildo after all. Vindolanda Trust reader comments 78 with Share this story Odds are good you read at least one of the umpteen media stories last month about a possible 2,000-year-old “dildo” unearthed near the remains of a ..
