Cosmic rays reveal hidden ancient burial chamber underneath Naples
Enlarge / Archaeologists used cosmic rays to detect a secret underground burial chamber from the Hellenistic period in Naples, circa late fourth century/early third century BCE. This is a laser-scanned 3D view of the underground part of the siteV. Tioukov et al., 2023 The ruins of the ancient necropolis of Neapolis lie some 10 meters…
Microsoft’s purchase of Activision gets the OK from the EU
Enlarge / Just a few of the Activision franchises that will become Microsoft properties if and when the acquisition is finalized.Microsoft / Activision The European Commission (EC) has officially approved Microsoft's long-proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision, concluding a long-running "in-depth investigation" that has long been expected to go Microsoft's way. But the decision is…
Disney+ and Hulu to unite in a single app this year
Disney+ plus Hulu equals Disnulu? Someone may or may not come up with a better name than that, but by the end of 2023, there will be a new streaming app combining the libraries of Disney+ and Hulu, Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed during an earnings call last night. Iger clarified that customers will still…
Rumors and retail listings point to the return of actual mid-range...
Enlarge / Nvidia's RTX 4080 and 4070 could finally be getting some more reasonably priced relatives.Andrew Cunningham There are two kinds of GPUs you can buy right now if you want to build or upgrade a gaming PC: affordable but old ones and new but expensive ones. Both Nvidia and AMD have been leaning on…
The uprising against the Empire begins in first teaser for Foundation...
Apple TV+ has dropped a teaser for the second season of its epic sci-fi series, Foundation. It has been too long since we binged all 10 episodes of Apple TV's 2021 epic sci-fi series Foundation, loosely adapted from Isaac Asimov's hugely influential Foundation series of novels. We're finally getting a second season this summer, announced…
The Asus ROG Ally beats the Steam Deck at all but...
Enlarge / With the advent of the Asus ROG Ally, you can take Windows gaming anywhere! Should you? That is a good question.Kevin Purdy Geralt of Rivia looked good, moved smoothly, and responded swiftly to commands. There was just one problem: He was constantly sucker-punching the villagers of White Orchard. Over and over again, he…
“Smoke archaeology” reveals early humans were visiting Nerja Caves 41,000 years...
Enlarge / María Medina of the University of Cordoba working in the Navarro Cave, Malaga, Spain.University of Cordoba For over a decade, Maria Medina, an archaeologist affiliated with the University of Cordoba, has been conducting research on what she terms "smoke archaeology": trying to reconstruct Europe's prehistoric past by analyzing the remnants of torches, fire,…
Amazon will stop hogging all its original series and movies
Enlarge / Coming 2 America may be coming to a platform besides Prime Video.Amazon Studios Following its acquisition of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM) film studio, Amazon is launching the Amazon MGM Studios Distribution unit, which will be responsible for distributing Amazon original movies and TV shows, including the massive library it got through MGM. In…
Doom II RPG is what it says on the label, and...
Enlarge / Doom II RPG isn't exactly like Doom, but you can't accuse it of lacking chainsaws. id Software "Mobile games" were something else entirely in 2005, a time in which Windows Mobile was a viable platform, the only Apple phone was a Motorola ROKR, and none of them had a shot at running Doom,…
Trinity Test is front and center in trailer for Christopher Nolan’s...
Cillian Murphy plays the "father of the atomic bomb" in Christopher Nolan's new film Oppenheimer. Universal Studios has released another trailer for Christopher Nolan's forthcoming film Oppenheimer, which is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. Cillian Murphy stars as physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, marking the…
