Dragos Sas, a software developer based in the historic Romanian city of Cluj, recalls childhood days of hauling PCs and hefty CRT monitors to and from friends’ homes for gaming sessions. Back then, dialup was the only way to get online. But when cable internet came to Romania, Sas and his friends didn’t need to…
DetailsIt took six weeks, several long, frustrating phone calls, and a consultation with Apple Care before Laurie Jacobs got her 89-year-old father up and running on FaceTime. Jacobs, who is a geriatrician by training and is now the chair of the Department of Medicine at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, was worried about…
DetailsPublished on May 14, 2020On May 20, four more games will be added to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System™ – Nintendo Switch Online and Nintendo Entertainment System™ – Nintendo Switch Online collections.Super NESWild Guns – The Kid gang and their army of robots have taken over! Blast your way through villainous outlaws, diabolical robots and…
DetailsUbisoft is offering free downloads of its educational tours of ancient Greece and ancient Egypt, which are based on the studio’s recreations of those worlds in Assassin’s Creed Origins and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, the studio announced today. The tours will be free to claim until May 21st. You can download Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece and…
DetailsApple Inc. has acquired virtual-reality streaming company NextVR Inc., a signal of the tech giant’s continued ambitions in virtual- and augmented-reality technologies. Apple confirmed the deal Thursday but didn’t disclose the terms of the transaction. In a statement, a company spokesman said, “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do…
DetailsMonday morning, 8 am. Neal Browning walked into the waiting room. He took in the reception desk, the play area for kids, the table full of magazines that he was too cautious to touch. There was another patient waiting, a woman in her forties with brown, chin-length hair. Browning wasn’t sure whether she was here…
DetailsOne day in October 2015, a forest surveyor working in an area of dense woodland near Mount Redington in Maine came across a collapsed tent hidden in the undergrowth. He noticed a backpack, some clothes, a sleeping bag, and inside the sleeping bag what he assumed was a human skull. He took a photograph, then…
DetailsIn the spring of 1665, an Englishman named Samuel Pepys noted in his diary that he’d been “to the coffee-house, where all the news is of … the plague growing upon us in this town; and some of the remedies against it: some saying one thing and some another.” The plague had swept through much…
DetailsMy coffee grinder is one of my steadiest, most faithful kitchen companions. After studying up on reviews, I put a Baratza Encore on our wedding registry, and after eight years of heavy daily usage it’s still chugging away. At most, I’m starting to wonder if it’s time to send it in for a well-deserved refurb.My…
DetailsAre you the kind of person who finds catharsis through singing poorly in front of friends and strangers? Do you bottle up all of the emotions of your stressful days, unleashing them in an over-the-top and off-tune performance? Do you really wish you could sing right now, shouting into a microphone as the world around…
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