Month: February 2024
Baldur’s Gate 3 player beats the game’s toughest mode by using only its worst spell
Baldur’s Gate 3 has been out for a while now, but, thanks to the playful and open-ended design found in Larian’s hit fantasy role-playing game, players are still finding new ways of approaching its sprawling campaign. Fracture, a YouTuber with a celebrated history of completing Baldur’s Gate 3 in impressively…
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Constellation adds a dark and creepy tone to Apple’s growing sci-fi lineup
Slowly but surely, Apple TV Plus has morphed itself into arguably the premier destination for streaming science fiction. (Or at least streaming sci-fi not named Star Wars or Star Trek.) There are adaptations like Silo and Foundation; original stories like Invasion, For All Mankind, and Severance; and even a franchise…
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A cheap turntable with Audio Technica parts and Bluetooth for the price of a record? It’s real
Fancy a turntable with Audio Technica components and a price tag that’s much cheaper than you’d expect to pay for even a budget vinyl player? Then Majority may have just the thing for you. The UK firm’s new Moto turntable offers an impressive specification for an impressively low price. One…
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Sony A9 III review: The future of cameras is fast
After letting rival camera companies catch up for the last few years, Sony laid down a gauntlet with the 24.6-megapixel A9 III. It’s the world’s first mirrorless camera with a global shutter, a much-awaited holy grail feature. It completely eliminates rolling shutter distortion found on CMOS cameras by reading the…
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The Morning After: Want to live in NASA’s Mars simulation for a year?
NASA wants volunteers for its second year-long simulated Mars mission, the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA 2). For the mission’s duration, starting spring 2025, the four selected crew members will live in a 1,700-square-foot 3D-printed habitat in Houston. It’s paid, but we don’t know how much. At least…
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Watch out, Netflix: Paramount Plus and Peacock are considering merging
Paramount Plus must be feeling pretty popular right now. Following reports that Warner Bros. Discovery was considering some kind of merger with the streamer, and then reports that media entrepreneur Byron Allen was considering purchasing it, it now seems that the latest suitor to come a-wooing the service is Comcast,…
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