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The year of peak might and magic

news.ycombinator.com Jimmy Maher 2025-07-22 06:21:49

This article tells part of the story of New World Computing. Some passions are lifelong, but many others fade away over the course of a life, to be replaced by others. Not long after Jon Van Caneghem, the founder of New World Computing, sold his company to 3DO, it started to become obvious to everyone who worked for him that the torch he carried for computer games no longer burned as brightly as it once had. A younger version of Van Caneghem had spent almost three years designing and programm

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The Year of Peak Might and Magic

news.ycombinator.com Jimmy Maher 2025-07-22 11:21:49

This article tells part of the story of New World Computing. Some passions are lifelong, but many others fade away over the course of a life, to be replaced by others. Not long after Jon Van Caneghem, the founder of New World Computing, sold his company to 3DO, it started to become obvious to everyone who worked for him that the torch he carried for computer games no longer burned as brightly as it once had. A younger version of Van Caneghem had spent almost three years designing and programm

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The First Trailer for ‘Mortal Kombat II’ Is a Johnny Cage-Filled Extravaganza

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-07-25 14:00:01

Warner Bros. has finally unveiled the new trailer for Mortal Kombat II, the sequel to its 2021 video game adaptation. It stars Karl Urban as B-movie star Johnny Cage, and the character is front and center in this new clip. The sequel film, whose title is likely to cause further confusion among fighting game fans, on top of the damage already caused by game developer NetherRealm Studios, was first announced in 2022. The trailer aims to put viewers right back in the middle of the gory action. In

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Sony is still stubborn about the size of its cameras

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-07-26 02:30:00

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Sony’s new RX1R III camera looks awesome. Hardcore photo enthusiasts have wanted an updated version of its full-frame compact camera, the RX1, for nearly a decade. I’m not surprised it costs a whopping $5,100 (cameras and lenses have been trending more expensive), but what I do find surprising, and quite egregious, is that the RX1R III

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Here’s what’s wrong with the Xperia 1 VII, and how you can get a free replacement

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-28 14:46:52

The Sony Xperia 1 VII has been in the spotlight recently after it emerged that some owners were suffering from a major defect. Fortunately, Sony has identified the problem and will offer a free replacement program. Sony UK confirmed on its website (spotted by GSMArena) that the motherboard in some Xperia 1 VII units was defective: Our investigation has concluded that the manufacturing process may cause a failure of the circuit board in a small number of Xperia 1 VII smartphones, which could po

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Sony’s pocket-sized RX1R camera returns with its first update in 10 years

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-07-30 02:57:19

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. After nearly a decade, Sony has announced a new version of its fixed-lens compact RX1R camera that was last updated in 2015. The new third generation RX1R III arrives with the same 35mm full-frame Exmor R sensor as its predecessor, but with a bump from 42.4 to 61 megapixels. It also benefits from Sony’s latest Bionz XR and AI image processors to

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This tiny Bluetooth speaker delivers loud, distortion-free sound

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-07-30 14:36:18

The Marshall Emberton III Bluetooth speaker sounds as good as it looks. Jack Wallen/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways The Marshall Emberton III This tiny speaker can produce much louder sound than you might expect (without distortion), and the sound is quite detailed and accurate. The Marshall app doesn't include a custom EQ, which would greatly benefit the Emberton III. Ah, the Marshall sound. I cannot tell you how many concerts I've attended where a stack of Marshall amps stood sentinel behind

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Canon R50 V review: An affordable vlogging camera that lags behind its rivals

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-01 10:30:28

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Canon has released 20 cameras since launching the RF mount in 2018, but it had one gaping hole in a key market: vlogging. Now, the company has patched that with the launch of the $700 R50 V that’s aimed at creators on a budget and designed to take on Sony’s ZV-E10 II. The R50 V has th

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Prime Day pick: Save 40% on the Bose SoundLink Revolve Plus II

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-03 22:27:37

The Bose SoundLink Revolve Plus Series II offers a tempting discount in the final stretch of Prime Day, making it a great choice for anyone after a portable Bluetooth speaker with impressive features. It’s listed at $179 on Amazon, which is a record drop from its usual price of $299. It could be the high-performing audio companion your summer has been longing for. Bose SoundLink Revolve Plus Series II for $179 (40% off) The standout feature of the Bose SoundLink Revolve Plus Series II is its ab

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Snag this tiny Bluetooth speaker that delivers loud, distortion-free sound as a Prime Day discount

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-08-03 22:21:00

The Marshall Emberton III Bluetooth speaker sounds as good as it looks. Jack Wallen/ZDNET On Amazon, the Marshall Emberton III has dropped down $150, a 17% discount. Act fast because this is a limited-time deal. Also: The best Prime Day deals you can shop now ZDNET's key takeaways The Marshall Emberton III This tiny speaker can produce much louder sound than you might expect (without distortion), and the sound is quite detailed and accurate. The Marshall app doesn't include a custom EQ, wh

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Sony Xperia 1 VII units in more regions are dying, but there’s a temporary solution

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-06 10:25:27

Sony TL;DR Sony has acknowledged that the random reboot and shutdown issues with its flagship Xperia 1 VII smartphone also impacts users in Europe and the UK. It is currently investigating the issue but has yet to identify the root cause. It recommends that the owners of these handsets update their phones to the latest firmware and keep their data backed up. Unless you’re a millennial or someone older, you probably don’t associate Sony with the business of making phones. Despite its negligib

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ChatGPT made up a product feature out of thin air, so this company created it

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-07 10:59:25

On Monday, sheet music platform Soundslice says it developed a new feature after discovering that ChatGPT was incorrectly telling users the service could import ASCII tablature—a text-based guitar notation format the company had never supported. The incident reportedly marks what might be the first case of a business building functionality in direct response to an AI model's confabulation. Typically, Soundslice digitizes sheet music from photos or PDFs and syncs the notation with audio or video

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SVGs that feel like GIFs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-09 00:23:05

The moving image below is only 49Kb and has an incredibly high resolution. It's similar to a GIF but instead of showing moving images, it shows moving SVGs! The best part: Github supports these in their README.md files! Getting these to work involves asciinema and svg-term-cli. After uploading the asciinema you can use the tool to download a file that you can immediately click and drag into a README. It's something that I'm using extensively on bespoken. How it works? I was surpised to learn

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‘The Last of Us Part II’ Can Now Rob You of Its Most Brutal Moment

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-08-10 06:15:01

Season two of The Last of Us ended on “the” moment. The moment when a story you thought was one thing actually becomes another. It’s a moment lifted directly from the video game The Last of Us Part II, but now the game is letting players get rid of it, and we’re very curious about the timing. Tuesday, Naughty Dog announced that it’s releasing a new update to the remastered edition of The Last of Us Part II. The update will allow fans to play the game chronologically, which drastically shifts th

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I can't believe they found another way to make me replay The Last of Us Part II

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-10 14:45:13

Somehow, Naughty Dog has found yet another way to get me to play The Last of Us Part II again. The developer just released a rather unexpected update to the remastered version of the game for PS5 and PC: you can now play the game in chronological order. Part II was infamous for the its big perspective shift from Ellie to Abby, but now players can go through their adventures side-by-side as they progress. Naturally, Naughty Dog notes that the non-linear structure is crucial to the way it envisio

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TIL you can make "GIFs" with SVGs for GitHub README.md files

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-10 06:23:05

The moving image below is only 49Kb and has an incredibly high resolution. It's similar to a GIF but instead of showing moving images, it shows moving SVGs! The best part: Github supports these in their README.md files! Getting these to work involves asciinema and svg-term-cli. After uploading the asciinema you can use the tool to download a file that you can immediately click and drag into a README. It's something that I'm using extensively on bespoken. How it works? I was surpised to learn

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Amazon offers four more free games for Prime Day, including Marvel’s Midnight Suns

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-11 13:37:08

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . The 2025 edition of Prime Day is upon us and, as expected, Amazon is offering Prime members an extra batch of games at no additional cost. Four more PC titles are now available to Prime Gaming subscribers, namely Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Marvel’

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Best Internet Providers in Hawaii

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-11 08:09:00

What is the best internet provider in Hawaii? CNET's pick for the best internet provider in Hawaii is Spectrum. The provider offers gig speeds and is available throughout much of Hawaii, from the Big Island to Kauai. Spectrum offers multiple speed options for a variety of budgets, unlimited data and a free modem, allowing those already owning a router to skip equipment fees altogether. While Spectrum technically has fiber available in Hawaii, it's practically impossible to find. Your better be

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Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-13 01:58:09

Written by Adrian Holovaty on July 7, 2025 Well, here’s a weird one. At Soundslice, our sheet music scanner digitizes music from photographs, so you can listen, edit and practice. We continually improve the system, and I keep an eye on the error logs to see which images are getting poor results. In the last few months, I started noticing an odd type of upload in our error logs. Instead of images like this... ...we were starting to see images like this: Um, that’s just a screenshot of a Chat

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You’ve Never Seen the Legendary Marshall Speaker This Cheap, Amazon Is Clearing Stock for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-13 10:10:08

Amazon is looking to break all of its sales records during this Prime Day, and to achieve this, it’s cutting prices on its best-selling items. To take advantage of these deals, you’ll either have to be a Prime member or sign up for the 30-day free trial to be able to take advantage of the offers. If a good-sounding Bluetooth home speaker is what you’re looking for, Marshall has made a name for itself as a great place to get terrific sound along with iconic design. The Marshall Acton III Bluetoo

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Sony’s got an Xperia 1 VII problem so bad, it had to temporarily halt sales

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-14 06:59:33

TL;DR Sony has halted sales and shipments of the Xperia 1 VII in its native Japan. Affected phones spontaneously reset, and may refuse to turn back on. Right now we have no confirmation that there’s any problem with the Xperia 1 VII outside of Japan. For a major electronics company, there’s probably no brand whose smartphones are more of niche product than Sony’s. While we’ve had Xperia phones going back to the early days of Android, Xperia handsets have never really taken off in the US. But

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I Loved Using This Keyboard, but There Was One Thing I Just Couldn't Get Used To

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-15 23:00:07

Gaming keyboards are everywhere these days, and with a plethora of options available it's not hard to find a good one. They can also be expensive, so it can be difficult to know if the investment is worth the money. It's with that in mind I got in the new the new Vulcan II Mini Air from Turtle Beach. I have some thoughts. Turtle Beach bought the company behind these keyboards, Roccat, several years ago, but it only started phasing out that branding in May of 2024. So you might still find the Ro

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Neil Druckmann Is Stepping Away From HBO’s ‘Last of Us’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-08-19 06:16:31

In the wake of the controversially received second season of HBO’s Last of Us TV series, series co-creator and executive producer Neill Druckmann has announced that he is stepping away ahead of production on season three. In a statement posted to Naughty Dog’s social media accounts today, Druckmann said his move comes “before any meaningful work” had begun on a third season of The Last of Us, set to continue adapting the remaining events of The Last of Us Part II. Druckmann will return his focu

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The EU's border security software is reportedly full of holes

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-19 14:20:33

The software used by EU border security forces to prevent undocumented immigrants and suspected criminals from travelling in the region is allegedly riddled with holes and vulnerable to cyber attacks. The Second Generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) is an IT system and database shared between most EU states for law enforcement and public security purposes. And according to a new collaborative report between Bloomberg and investigative non-profit Lighthouse Reports, SIS II — which has b

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Asus Rog Delta II Review: Lots To Offer, but Not Worth the Price

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-20 05:01:52

As a more casual gamer, I used to just play games with my computer speakers or sound bar, never bothering with gaming headsets. I would grab a cheap Microsoft or similar knockoff when I played with friends, but that was about it. That all changed when I got my first real gaming headset a couple of years ago. Now, my eyes (or ears, technically) have been opened. The better sound, and being able to hear everything around you including footsteps, really is a game-changer. Asus recently released two

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Marshall’s new Middleton II Bluetooth speaker lasts 30 hours between charges

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-21 22:43:54

Marshall has launched its latest compact Bluetooth speaker, the Middleton II. A direct replacement for the first-generation Middleton from 2023, the new speaker promises room-filling 360-degree sound from a device that sits comfortably in the palm of your hand and won’t demand too much space in your backpack for trips. The original Middleton offered bright clear sound that belied its diminutive proportions, and with its successor Marshall says it has engineered deeper bass and "more refined per

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Behold, a Script for ‘The Batman Part II’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-08-25 18:31:19

It feels like the only thing we’ve heard about The Batman Part II for years now is that various people are waiting on a script to be delivered. Now, with all the energy of a schoolboy rushing to file homework that was due earlier in the week, Reeves has provided evidence: some words that will potentially be in The Batman Part II exist. Reeves took to social media this afternoon to seemingly confirm that the latest version of his sequel to the 2022 DC film was finally ready to be sent off to Jam

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Hawaiian Airlines discloses cyberattack, flights not affected

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-27 06:37:04

Hawaiian Airlines, the tenth-largest commercial airline in the United States, is investigating a cyberattack that has disrupted access to some of its systems. With over 7,000 employees, 235 average daily flights, and a fleet of over 60 airplanes, Hawaiian Airlines connects Hawai'i with 15 U.S. mainland cities and 10 other destinations across Asia and the Pacific. The airline stated in a statement issued on Thursday morning that the incident didn't affect flight safety and has already contacted

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Panasonic S1 II review: A near-perfect creator's camera if money is no object

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-28 10:45:09

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . After a six-year wait, Panasonic's S1 II is finally here and there's a lot to unpack. As you’d expect from this company, it’s creator-centric with up to 5.8K ProRes RAW internal video recording. At the same time, it’s Panasonic’s fastest full-frame photo camera ever with 70 fps burst s

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Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel to The Social Network

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-08-30 06:53:13

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. The Social Network is finally getting a sequel courtesy of Sony. Deadline reports that Sony is moving forward with The Social Network Part II, a “follow-up” to David Fincher’s 2010 feature about how TheFacebook went on to become one of the most singularly influential websites in internet history and made Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire

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The year of peak might and magic

The Year of Peak Might and Magic

The First Trailer for ‘Mortal Kombat II’ Is a Johnny Cage-Filled Extravaganza

Sony is still stubborn about the size of its cameras

Here’s what’s wrong with the Xperia 1 VII, and how you can get a free replacement

Sony’s pocket-sized RX1R camera returns with its first update in 10 years

This tiny Bluetooth speaker delivers loud, distortion-free sound

Canon R50 V review: An affordable vlogging camera that lags behind its rivals

Prime Day pick: Save 40% on the Bose SoundLink Revolve Plus II

Snag this tiny Bluetooth speaker that delivers loud, distortion-free sound as a Prime Day discount

Sony Xperia 1 VII units in more regions are dying, but there’s a temporary solution

ChatGPT made up a product feature out of thin air, so this company created it

SVGs that feel like GIFs

‘The Last of Us Part II’ Can Now Rob You of Its Most Brutal Moment

I can't believe they found another way to make me replay The Last of Us Part II

TIL you can make "GIFs" with SVGs for GitHub README.md files

Amazon offers four more free games for Prime Day, including Marvel’s Midnight Suns

Best Internet Providers in Hawaii

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists

You’ve Never Seen the Legendary Marshall Speaker This Cheap, Amazon Is Clearing Stock for Prime Day

Sony’s got an Xperia 1 VII problem so bad, it had to temporarily halt sales

I Loved Using This Keyboard, but There Was One Thing I Just Couldn't Get Used To

Neil Druckmann Is Stepping Away From HBO’s ‘Last of Us’

The EU's border security software is reportedly full of holes

Asus Rog Delta II Review: Lots To Offer, but Not Worth the Price

Marshall’s new Middleton II Bluetooth speaker lasts 30 hours between charges

Behold, a Script for ‘The Batman Part II’

Hawaiian Airlines discloses cyberattack, flights not affected

Panasonic S1 II review: A near-perfect creator's camera if money is no object

Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel to The Social Network

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