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    New restoration reveals painted-over original version of Van Eyck Lamb of God

    Do we have images before the 1950 restoration, when the original ears and gilded rays where hidden under the overpaint?
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    Nintendo “Gigaleak” reveals classic Nintendo prototypes, source code

    While completely illegal, it's a treasure trove for a gaming historian. For example on the Zelda data some rooms of Majora's Mask started out as part of the canceled Master Quest expansion of Zelda OoT exclusive to 64DD. Also textures that shown when Majora's Mask was going to be 7 days long...
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    Sega’s next retro hardware is a 1/6th-scale multi-game arcade cabinet

    There's at least two games that have never been ported before for home systems: Revenge of Death Adder and Dark Edge, so there's definitely some unique appeal in this system. I'm hoping they contract AM2 again for this one.
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    The Snapdragon Wear 4100 is Qualcomm’s first smartwatch upgrade in six years

    So instead of a chip from 2014. we're now in 2017? No surprise that WearOS is on death watch, since the couple of chipmakers that still make CPUs for them are either Samsung or Qualcomm, and both are cheaping out on them. That, combined with the lack of big updates for WearOS, ends up on a...
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    Boston Dynamics’ robot dog can be yours for the low, low price of $74,500

    Boston: Become Dog This will become incredibly useful for dangerous enviroments where drones can't reach due to being indoors. Fires, gas leaks...just load an arm, the lidar pack to see through smoke and off you go.
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    Ring 0 of fire: Does Riot Games’ new anti-cheat measure go too far?

    Can we just flag cheaters like we've done always? Guess Tencent wants to skip having people on paycheck to review footage, but human eyes are still the best way to detect a cheater.
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    Google wants to dump Qualcomm, launch smartphone SoC as early as next year

    thatsthejoke.jpg Not surprising since Qualcomm is basically abusing their position as the dominant player, and Apple vertical integration for their devices has worked wonders for them. Wonder if this means we will get a decent soc for WearOS, finally.
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    War Stories: How Homeworld brought the third dimension to real-time strategy

    I remember a guy i knew bought a very very pricey monitor just to play Homeworld. A massive 32" CRT with 2048x1536 res. I don't remember the GPU, but it wouldn't be cheap either. It looked amazing.
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    War Stories: How Prince of Persia slayed the Apple II’s memory limitations

    When i was a kid, i played Prince of Persia fearing for my own skin, the animations where so realistic for the time i got seriously startled when the character dies. I never got very far.
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    Mass grave reveals how Black Death impacted rural England

    In these times, this is a sobering reminder. So yeah, wash your hands and keep your mucous membranes to yourself.
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    Why write your own Mac malware when you can rip off a competitor’s? A how-to

    Just COBOL? All developers reuse code.
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    Petnet goes offline for a week, can’t answer customers at all

    The Internet of Shit strikes again. If i ever get one of these things, it will be something i keep complete control. Sadly, right now you have to build it yourself if you want that much.
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    New Sony Xperia 1 II smartphone looks handsome, costs a ridiculous $1,300

    Both Sony and Apple have got a 1300$ flagship, and Sony probably thought "why not? we're losing money anyway"
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    Sonic the Hedgehog film review: You can slow your roll, Sega fans

    It's curious the dichotomy between critics and public. The movie has been bashed quite hard at 49 on metacritic, but user votes are much higher at 8.5 average and it just nabbed the record for best weekend for a video game adaptation, getting around 57m$. For the record Detective Pikachu was 54m$.
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    Meet the community still obsessing over Mass Effect 2 10 years later

    Well, ME2 is arguably the most rounded game in the trilogy. ME1 had good ideas, but the heat mechanic never felt right and almost everybody hated the Mako, and you had to use it a lot. ME3 had the best gameplay, but the ending was divisive and felt unfinished at launch. Plus you become the Mary...
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    Pricing for parts may make PS5 cost more than $450, report finds

    Specs leaked suggest we're getting some beefy hardware for the PS5 and the xbox SX, so price will likely be pretty high at launch. The question will be, how fast the bill of materials will drop. Historically, the highest priced console has sold less in the longer run. I don't think Sony wants...
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    Why is the healthcare industry still so bad at cybersecurity?

    Because security practices don't make them money. If anything, its an expense. And if they can save money by skimping anything non-critical, they will.
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    BlackBerry Android phones will cease sales in August 2020

    But BES still lives on, which is kinda funny. Still, it was the best part of the blackberry package, and the integration with their phones for corporate use is still unmatched by anything modern. Nowadays you need to rely on third party tools like vmware airwatch.
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    WarCraft III Reforged: Not the flavor of chaos we were hoping for

    Its just so sad that one of my favourite companies, one of the last companies from the 90's that put so much work and care in everything they did... Has been reduced to this.
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    Guidemaster: Smartwatches worthy of replacing your favorite timepiece

    Both by Google and SoC manufacturers. Only one left is Qualcomm, which treats the Wear line as its redheaded stepchild. I don't think Wear OS has much left. Google has essentially stopped working on it (and will likely unceremoniously kill it soon in its usual style), and while there's a couple...