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Alienware is celebrating its 30th anniversary with three new monitors
Three new Alienware monitors announced at Computex have landed in line with the brand’s 30th anniversary.
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Mastodon Pay Loving Tribute to Late Guitarist Brent Hinds in Emotional 35-Minute Video: ‘He Was a Wild Man, Our Wild Man’
The Mastodon in the Room finds the group talking about their love, and frustrations, with the rocker who died at 51 last year in a motorcycle accident.
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Say hello to Claude Wrapped
Anthropic has launched a “reflect” feature, dubbed a “reflection dashboard,” for its Claude chatbot, joining a wave of Spotify Wrapped-style lookback tools that have spread across apps from YouTube to Uber. Announced on Thursday, the feature lets users see an analysis of their Claude usage over the past month, three months, six months or year,…
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Viral squeaky frog now at risk of extinction
The desert rain frog (Breviceps macrops), an internet star known for its high-pitched squeaky defensive call, has been added to a global list of species at high risk of extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Found only in a narrow, roughly 10km-wide strip of coastal sand dunes in Namibia and South…
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This Massively Underrated Smiths Song Still Brings Tears to My Eyes
This American Songwriter opinion piece champions “Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me” as the most underrated song in The Smiths’ catalogue, arguing that it deserves the same recognition as celebrated hits such as “How Soon Is Now?” and “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”. The writer describes the track as emotionally…
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Alienware 34 QD-OLED review: An ultrawide showcase for Samsung’s latest display tech
Engadget’s Devindra Hardawar has reviewed Alienware’s new 34-inch ultrawide QD-OLED gaming monitor (model AW3426DW), awarding it 8.5 out of 10. The headline draw is that it is among the first displays to use Samsung’s latest 5-layer RGB Stripe panel, which arranges red, green and blue subpixels to deliver crisper text and brighter colours. This finally…
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Digimon Story Time Stranger 60fps Patch Out Now on PS5, Adds Photo Mode and More
Bandai Namco has released the previously promised performance patch for Digimon Story Time Stranger on PS5, more than eight months after the creature-taming RPG launched. Update 01.000.012 is available to download now and, most notably, adds a graphics mode offering “full HD, up to 60fps”, addressing complaints that the game had been locked to 30…
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YouTuber gets Minecraft running on an original Game Boy Color, and it even looks kinda playable
A YouTuber has managed to get a version of Minecraft running on an original Nintendo Game Boy Color, the handheld console first released in 1998, and the results are reportedly more playable than one might expect. The feat is notable because it squeezes a modern, resource-intensive sandbox game onto extremely limited vintage hardware, joining a…
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Model bears a viking resemblance… Beauty goes viral after mother points out she looks like Erling Haaland
A Russian model, 24-year-old Anastasia Kostromitina from Moscow, has gone viral after her influencer mother posted a video highlighting her striking resemblance to Norway and Manchester City footballer Erling Haaland. The clip, in which Anastasia mimics the striker’s gestures and poses, amassed more than four million views and drew wide attention ahead of a World…
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Real-life ‘Three Musketeers’ mystery deepens after excavation blunder destroys key evidence
Officials in Maastricht, the Netherlands, have reported a major setback in efforts to identify skeletal remains that may belong to Charles de Batz de Castelmore d’Artagnan, the French musketeer who inspired Alexandre Dumas’ “The Three Musketeers”. The remains were found near the altar of St Peter and Paul Church in February, and their location was…