The Analogue Pocket. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge OS v1.1 for Analogue’s Pocket retro handheld will available in beta on Friday, and it adds features like a new reference tool to learn more about your games and save states so that you can more easily pick up a game where you left…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Fina Strazza, Riley Lai Nelet, and Camryn Jones in Paper Girls. | Image: Anjali Pinto/Prime Video The live-action adaptation plays things a little too safe Continue reading… Read More
Image: Analogue The world’s first video game is coming to an Analogue Pocket near you. Today, Analogue announced that it’s launching Spacewar!, a game originally designed for the PDP-1 minicomputer that predates Pong by a full decade, on the Pocket as a part of its larger strategy to bring pioneering video games into the modern…
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge In early May, the Meta executive in charge of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, shared some news: the social media app’s main feed would start looking dramatically different to some users. For those in a small test group, the feed they’d been using for a decade would be replaced with…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Bad news for the (presumably few) people out there who have relied on Amazon Drive for storing their important files in the cloud: Amazon is shutting down the service. On the plus side, you’ve got well over a year to figure out an alternative and get everything moved…
Enlarge / Every Analogue Pocket system will function as a “dev kit,” but this special developer version of the portable system will be sent to interested FPGA “core” developers starting this week as a freebie to encourage their contributions to Analogue’s new, not-quite-open OpenFPGA standard. (credit: Analogue) Upon its launch in December, the portable Analogue…
Humans have lived aboard the International Space Station for more than two decades. (credit: NASA) Earlier this week, Russia indicated that it was not extending the current cooperation agreement for the International Space Station, which expires in 2024, and would be departing the project after that. Nearly everyone noticed that there was no actual departure…
The Fluance Ai41 bookshelf speakers offer the convenient of Bluetooth with the quality of true stereo. Mike Levine With portable Bluetooth party speakers so common nowadays, it’s easy to forget what real left-and-right separation sounds like. We often sacrifice a wide stereo image for convenience. It’s understandable to want a battery-operated, one-driver unit for your…
“Robots suck.” It’s a bold declaration for a startup founder aiming to work with robots — or more accurately, the software that helps turn a tractor, tiller or forklift into an automated vehicle. But Stefan Seltz-Axmacher, who previously founded and led the now shuttered autonomous vehicle startup Starsky Robotics, is trying to make a point….
Masten Space Systems began the process of filing for bankruptcy on Thursday, telling a Delaware court that it owed millions in liabilities to companies including SpaceX, Astrobotic, NuSpace and others. Masten Space, a startup founded in 2004, had ambitions to send a lander to the Moon as early as next year. The company was selected…