Forward-looking: The Austrian Space Forum has embarked on a month-long experiment that will simulate the conditions of a colony on Mars. The AMADEE-20 Mars simulation is being carried out in Ramon Crater, a massive erosion cirque in Israel. The program was originally planned for 2020 but was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This leg…
Why it matters: Nintendo UK’s official Twitter account confirmed today that when Switch owners in Europe play the classic Nintendo 64 games being adding to Switch Online, they’ll be in 60Hz and in English. This assuages the worries of many who have bad memories of 50Hz games in the days of PAL CRTs. In the…
Time for a Pixel 6 leak roundup! There are so many leaks. Over the weekend, UK retailer Carphone Warehouse posted an official-looking teaser site (which has since been taken down) for the Pixel 6. The site was full of info, most notably claiming that the Pixel 6 will come with “five years of updates.” The…
try not to crash it leaving Cars and Coffee — With better tires and shocks, the $64,900 Performance Edition is the one to get. Jonathan M. Gitlin – Oct 11, 2021 10:00 am UTC Enlarge / Cyber Orange Metallic paint is one of the colors exclusive to the Mustang Mach-E GT. You’ll also notice new…
BEV[ery careful] — More than 2,000 American automakers have come and gone in this chaotic industry. Larry Printz – Oct 10, 2021 9:00 pm UTC The Lucid Air may look the same as the early electric prototype we saw in 2017, but a lot has changed. On the left, Byton’s M-Byte SUV; on the right,…
Slack is an incredible communication tool for teams of all shapes and sizes. In order to provide a comprehensive chat and sharing solution, Slack has tons of capabilities beyond just the basic chat functionality. And much of these capabilities can be implemented with easy keyboard shortcuts. Here are some of the best Slack keyboard shortcuts…
City News There are a lot of factors at play in the current shortage of graphics cards: higher demand for PC upgrades, a manufacturing crunch, scalpers inflating secondary markets. But perhaps none are more reviled by gamers than cryptocurrency miners, who repurpose devices previously used for entertainment to try and spin electricity into speculative cryptographic…
Even a generous 24-inch monitor can feel cramped when you’ve got multiple windows open on your desktop (and who doesn’t?). It’s much worse if you’re confined to a laptop screen. Fortunately, it’s simple enough to add a second monitor to your PC setup and spread out. Note: While the monitors we discuss below are 1080p,…
In context: There is still plenty we don’t know about Alchemist, the first of Intel’s upcoming Arc graphics cards. One of the many questions gamers have been asking is will the company follow Nvidia’s lead and include some form of mining limiter, thereby making the GPUs less attractive to crypto miners. And now we know…
In brief: Windows 11 comes with some rather strict system requirements and most notably calls for the presence of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 in your PC. However, there’s an easy way to go around these requirements, and it only takes a few minutes to do it yourself. Microsoft has done an abysmal job…