reader comments 52 with 46 posters participating Share this story A catastrophic solar “event” has wiped out most of humanity. YouTube/Apple TV+ Finch (Tom Hanks) is a robotics engineer who has been living underground for a decade with his trusty doggo, Goodyear. YouTube/Apple TV+ Even after an apocalypse, diner manners still matter: no paws on ..
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reader comments 15 with 12 posters participating Share this story Valve announced this week that its prestigious Dota 2 tournament The International will require all attendees to be fully masked and vaccinated for entry. As noted on the Dota 2 site, anyone attending the October competition at the National Arena in Bucharest, Romania, must be ..
Enlarge / Sir Clive Sinclair holding the world’s smallest television screen when it was created by Sinclair Radionics in 1977. Getty Images reader comments 87 with 67 posters participating, including story author Share this story Sir Clive Sinclair, the namesake of a British electronics manufacturer who helped pioneer Europe’s microcomputing boom, is dead at the ..
Enlarge / A 1729 Stradivari known as the “Solomon, Ex-Lambert” on display at Christie’s in New York in March 2007. reader comments 86 with 54 posters participating Share this story Along with Andrea Amati and Andrea Guarneri, Antonio Stradivari dominated the so-called Golden Age of Violins (roughly 1660 to 1750), and the instruments they crafted ..
Enlarge / Today’s very brief hint of the gaming future comes wrapped in a Nintendo bow. Aurich Lawson reader comments 98 with 77 posters participating, including story author Share this story SEATTLE—It’s not every day I hear about unannounced Nintendo products over guac. Thanks to a chance encounter last month, I’ve been sitting on one ..
Enlarge / This looks fun. reader comments 14 with 8 posters participating Share this story Battlefield 2042 has been delayed from its initial October 22 release date, though it will still launch this year, EA announced today. The multiplayer-only shooter will now hit stores on November 19, the publisher said in a statement. Citing the ..
reader comments 14 with 14 posters participating, including story author Share this story Lost Judgment‘s action detective, Takayuki Yagami. You’ll be seeing this stance a lot. Another day on the job… …Collecting photo evidence of a shady customer. Could be the Yagami Detective Agency’s motto. Yagami’s special EX moves are pretty brutal. More evidence collecting. ..
Enlarge / A major new update to the PS5 firmware lets players upgrade the console’s internal storage via an M.2 SSD. reader comments 44 with 27 posters participating Share this story Players will be able to add specific M.2 SSDs to the PS5 with a new system update rolling out tomorrow, two months after a ..
Enlarge / The Vinland Map purports to be a 15th-century map with a pre-Columbian depiction of the North American Coast. A new analysis has confirmed that the map is, in fact, a modern-day forgery. reader comments 64 with 40 posters participating Share this story Scholars have questioned the authenticity of a purported 15th-century map housed ..
Enlarge / Almost every LittleBigPlanet release just lost its online hub. reader comments 38 with 30 posters participating Share this story After a year marked by targeted hacks and unexplained downtime, the online service for four of Sony’s LittleBigPlanet games—and arguably the heart of their “play.create.share” mantra—is no more. Announced in a tweet on its ..
