Masayuki Uemura, Creator Of The NES And SNES, Dies At 78
Masayuki Uemura was the lead architect for the Famicom (aka the Nintendo Entertainment System) and the Super Famicon (aka the SNES). The mark he left on the gaming industry and popular culture is indelible. According to Oricon News, Uemura passed awa.....»»
YouTuber Won $10,000 Bet With a Physicist Over Wind-Powered Vehicle
Derek Muller, creator of the science-themed YouTube channel Veritasium, won a $10,000 bet with UCLA physics professor Alexander Kusenko, who claimed that Muller's wind-driven land yacht couldn't travel faster than the wind without any additional powe.....»»
YouTube Channel "Tech Support Scams" Taken Offline By Tech Support Scam
The Tech Support Scams YouTube channel, operated by host and creator Jim Browning, was deleted after a tech support scam convinced Browning that the only way to secure his account was to delete it. The Register reports: "So to prove that anyone can b.....»»
Pinterest rolls out new features that let creators make money from Pins
Pinterest today is increasing its investment in the creator community by introducing new tools that will allow creators to make money from their content. Now, creators will be able to tag products in their Idea Pins — a video-first feature the.....»»
Norby raises $3.8M for an all-in-one creator marketing platform
Early in the pandemic, Nick Gerard, Steven Layne, and Samantha Safer Valentine had a hit on their hands. In the era before Zoom fatigue set in, the trio launched Mainstream Live, a website and newsletter that curated live virtual events across platfo.....»»
Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg dies at 88
Physicist Steven Weinberg, who won the Nobel prize in 1979 with two other scientists for their separate contributions unlocking mysteries of tiny particles and their electromagnetic interaction, has died at 88, the University of Texas at Austin said.....»»
Baby orca dies in New Zealand after fruitless search for mother
Toa, the baby orca who captured hearts after he was found stranded in New Zealand waters, has lost his fight for survival, conservationists confirmed Saturday......»»
Both Dogecoin Creators are Now Criticizing Cryptocurrencies
This week Dogecoin co-creator Jackson Palmer addressed the question of whether he'd return to cryptocurrency. "My answer is a wholehearted 'no'," he confirmed, before launching into a scathing Tweet storm. "To avoid repeating myself I figure it mig.....»»
The creator of Dogecoin says all crypto is a scam
Software engineer Palmer, who created the payment system with Billy Markus in 2013 as a joke based on the "doge" meme, has been absent from Twitter since making his account private in 2019. He returned with a bang yesterday, slamming cryptocurrency a.....»»
We can’t believe how cheap this MSI Creator Series laptop is today
We cannot believe how cheap the MSI Creator Series 15 Laptop is at B&H Photo today, and it's the perfect laptop for photographers and content creators......»»
Nas Academy raises $11 million to help creators build their own MasterClass-like courses
Investors are buying into a creator-led future, and Nas Academy wants to turn that creator influence into a broad network of “virtual universities.” The Singapore startup is building out a platform for creators to monetize their knowledge.....»»
DayZ creator pulls a 180 with Icarus, a new survival-crafting title
Icarus offers a challenging survival-crafting experience where nothing can be taken for granted, and everything can be lost......»»
HP 930 Creator Wireless Mouse review: Made for creators
The HP 930 Creator Wireless Mouse is highly customizable and ergonomic......»»
AMD"s next compute GPU could have two dies and 128 GB of memory
Aldebaran, the computer part, has appeared a few times in Linux patch notes. Its two-die design was half-implied in February and confirmed last month: "on Aldebaran, only primary die fetches valid power data. Show power/energy values as 0 on secondar.....»»
Bitcoin.org Loses in Court, Owes $48,600 to Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright
"A U.K. high court told Bitcoin.org it can no longer share the 2008 white paper that outlines what bitcoin is on its website," reports Business Insider, "delivering a victory to Craig Wright, a computer scientist who claimed he wrote the original doc.....»»
The Tim Berners-Lee NFT that sold for $5.4M might have an HTML error
Animation is fixed, but is evidence of the typo still in the blockchain? Enlarge / Berners-Lee reflecting on the creation of the World Wide Web. (credit: Courtesy Sotheby's) Two weeks ago, World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee sent an NFT of.....»»
The Tim Berners-Lee NFT that sold for $5.4M might have an HTML error
An anonymous reader shares a report: Two weeks ago, World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee sent an NFT of the web's original source code to the auction block with a starting bid of just $1,000. Yesterday, Sotheby's announced that the crypto asset sol.....»»
A bank for the creator economy, Karat Financial raises $26M in Series A funding
The creator economy is changing the way that people earn a living, whether you’re an Instagram influencer or a freelance graphic designer. But traditional banks haven’t caught up. Take Alexandra Botez for example. The Stanford graduate ea.....»»
Pietra raises $15M from Founders Fund to help creators launch their own product lines
In the white-hot creator economy space, startups are increasingly looking to build paint-by-numbers platforms to help budding creators more easily execute on what were once seemingly insurmountable business challenges. The ex-Uber team at Pietra is c.....»»
Near, Creator of the Higan and Bsnes Emulators, Has Died
Hmmmmmm shares a report from PC Gamer: Near, also known by their username Byuu, the creator of several groundbreaking videogame emulators and a recent celebrated translation of JRPG Bahamut Lagoon, has died by suicide. Near posted a thread on Twitter.....»»
How SNES emulators got a few pixels from complete perfection
From the archives: Revisit the work of a classic gaming emulation titan who died this week. Enlarge / We're so close to having an emulator that can perfectly recreate every single function of real SNES hardware and software. (credit: Aurich Laws.....»»