tech
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Here’s What We Know About Apple’s 2021 MacBook Pro
All signs point to Apple releasing a new and improved MacBook Pro in 2021. Here’s what we know about the next Apple laptop so far.
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Depixelising Video Game Characters Creates Monsters
4A new digital tool built to depixelise photos sounds scary and bad. Another way to remove privacy from the world. But this tool is also being used for a sillier and not terrible purpose: Depixelising old game characters. The results are… nevermind, this is also a terrible use of this tool.
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Video Game Preservationist Finds Rare Prototype N64 Controller And The Joystick That Should Have Been
Before the public even gets a glimpse at a new console, it’s made available to developers in prototype form so they can have new games ready for its launch. Thanks to strict NDAs and contracts those prototypes are rarely revealed, but Shane Battye, a retro gaming preservationist, managed to get his hands on an early…
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Thirty Years Later, This Handheld Version Of The Original Carmen Sandiego Is Still Better Than School Work
Thirty years ago if you offered a kid the choice between playing Super Mario Bros. and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, the plumber would always win. But if asked to choose between studying fractions and playing an educational video game in the school computer lab, who wouldn’t go the Carmen route? It was…