MAME , the arcade-game emulating software under constant development since its creation by Nicola Salmoria in 1997, is “going open-source.” Read the rest
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Could this beautiful game signal the end of our dystopia fetish?
Over the past decade or so, gritty, apocalyptic worlds were the favored setting of popular video games, and machinelike cyber-dystopias were a reliable aesthetic before that. But No Man’s Sky , a highly-anticipated upcoming world, is infinite and hopeful. Read the rest
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Photos: Mark Hamill’s family visits Luke Skywalker at work (1982)
In 1982, Mark Hamill’s wife Marilou and young son Nathan visited the set of Return of the Jedi. Here are a few of their personal photos. (more…)
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Photos: Mark Hamill’s family visits Luke Skywalker at work (1982)
$17 radio amp lets thieves steal Priuses
If your car has a proximity-based ignition fob that lets you start the engine without inserting a key, thieves on the street in front of your house can use an amp to detect its signal from your house and relay it to the car, getting away clean. Read the rest
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Blocked Italian toilet leads to thousands of years of buried history
A restaurateur in Lecce, Italy dug up the plumbing for his perennially blocked toilets and discovered thousands of years’ worth of tunnels beneath the building, including a Messapian tomb. Read the rest
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Deeply strange black swallower fish and other odd animals
The black swallower ( Chiasmodon niger ), capable of eating 10 times its weight, is only one of the curious animals introduced to visitors at the American Museum of Natural History’s new Life At The Limits exhibition. Read the rest
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Undulating jellyfish-like chandeliers
Design studio Studio Drift created “Shylights” that unfurl as they lower from the ceiling, looking more like glowing jellyfish than chandeliers (more…)
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Inject this substance in your eyes for night vision
A group of biohackers is injecting a substance called Chlorin e6 into their eyes to give them temporary night vision . Read the rest
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Sandwars: the mafias whose illegal sand mines make whole islands vanish
Singapore’s insatiable appetite for sand to use to expand its island’s territory has led to a worldwide boom in illegal sand-mining, run by criminal gangs who are responsible for the destruction of entire islands in the Pacific rim. Read the rest
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Bankrupt Radio Shack will sell the customer data they promised to keep private
They were the first company to dabble in a laughably crude version of the surveillance business-model, aggressively collecting your address every time you bought batteries so they could get into the direct-mail racket. Read the rest
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Bankrupt Radio Shack will sell the customer data they promised to keep private