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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.....»»

Category: topSource:  slashdotDec 9th, 2021

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.....»»

Category: topSource:  slashdotRelated NewsJul 30th, 2021

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.....»»

Category: topSource:  slashdotRelated NewsJul 28th, 2021

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.....»»

Category: gadgetSource:  techcrunchRelated NewsJul 27th, 2021

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.....»»

Category: gadgetSource:  techcrunchRelated NewsJul 27th, 2021

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.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJul 25th, 2021

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......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJul 24th, 2021

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.....»»

Category: topSource:  slashdotRelated NewsJul 19th, 2021

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.....»»

Category: topSource:  techspotRelated NewsJul 15th, 2021

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......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsJul 14th, 2021

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.....»»

Category: gadgetSource:  techcrunchRelated NewsJul 13th, 2021

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......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsJul 10th, 2021

HP 930 Creator Wireless Mouse review: Made for creators

The HP 930 Creator Wireless Mouse is highly customizable and ergonomic......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsJul 6th, 2021

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.....»»

Category: topSource:  techspotRelated NewsJul 4th, 2021

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.....»»

Category: topSource:  slashdotRelated NewsJul 4th, 2021

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.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsJul 1st, 2021

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.....»»

Category: topSource:  slashdotRelated NewsJul 1st, 2021

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.....»»

Category: gadgetSource:  techcrunchRelated NewsJul 1st, 2021

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.....»»

Category: gadgetSource:  techcrunchRelated NewsJun 30th, 2021

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.....»»

Category: topSource:  slashdotRelated NewsJun 29th, 2021

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.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsJun 28th, 2021