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Sierra On-Line spent most of the 1990s shipping adventure games with names like King's Quest and Space Quest, then spent one Christmas trying to sell the board those games would run on. Screamin' 3D reached stores in November 1996 at a suggested ...

Spending a full day inside a virtual world sounds simple until the hardware starts pressing on your face. Associate Professor Shogo Fukushima at Kyushu University heard that complaint from a student who wanted longer sessions and kept running into .. ...

Four brick-shaped lithium iron phosphate cells, each rated 3.2 volts and 15 amp-hours, sit in a row and form the whole energy store of a homemade power station small enough to close a hand around. Wired end to end, they make a 12.8-volt pack that ...

Across the room from a Linux PC, a Nintendo DSi is drawing Minecraft Java Edition on a pair of 256 by 192 screens that first shipped in 2008. Counter-Strike 2 shows up the same way. Video decoding happens on the handheld. A server on the computer ...

Google's Pixel 11 Pro in the 256GB version, priced at $834 for Prime Day (was $1,100), pairs that storage with 12GB of memory and a Tensor G6 chip built on a 3-nanometer process, inside a glass and aluminum body that measures about 152.7 by 71.9 by 8 ...

Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo can now walk Onett on a desktop, and the program that takes them there shares a name with the time machine Dr. Andonuts built for the end of the game. Phase Distorter, written by a developer going by TheRunaway5, is an ...

Microsoft revealed a laptop back in May that still lacked a price and a ship date. On October 7, the missing numbers showed up. Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599, pre-orders are open now, and the first units ship on October 16. Buyers at that ...

Avery Flies spent roughly 200 hours sewing a nylon bag the size of a small bus, hung a barbecue burner under it, and flew the result around a park. The ship is called Pandora. Inflated, it runs 27 feet long and 11.5 feet wide, holds about 2,100 cubic ...

Photo credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Rodriguez Eight separate records from Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic observers place a new star in Cassiopeia between August 4-6, 1181. It stayed visible for 185 days, long enough for ...

Evan Monsma spent a few days in Indianapolis turning a broken iPhone 13 into something he calls CMOUNTIPHONE2, a phone that can take Canon EF lenses meant for a full-size DSLR. His earlier attempt had already put cinema glass on a wrecked iPhone. ...