Enlarge / It’s back, “soon.” (credit: Danjaq / MGM) One of retro gaming’s worst-kept secrets has finally been confirmed by a tangled web of game publishers and license holders. GoldenEye 007, the legendary 1997 first-person shooter that changed the genre on home consoles, is coming back. This Nintendo 64 game’s revival is a case of…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
While details about the next Zelda game provided Nintendo’s big kicker this morning, the company’s latest 45-minute “Direct” presentation was packed full of first-party Nintendo creations, Japanese RPGs, and a lot of remakes and ports from other platforms. Here’s a quick roundup of everything we managed to jot down: First-party Nintendo releases Fire Emblem Engage…
Enlarge (credit: Mao et. al.) Scientists at Johannes Kepler University (JKU) have created steerable soft robots that are capable of running, swimming, and jumping at high speeds. During testing, the robots achieved a speed of 70 BL/s (body lengths per second). These results are striking because even a cheetah (the fastest land animal on Earth)…
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Bright, young stars surrounded by billowing clouds of dust and gas inside the Lobster Nebula. . CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA At 8,000 light years away from Earth, nebula NGC 6357 (aka the Lobster Nebula) is pretty safe from being drenched with drawn butter and service with a a side of corn on the cob and coleslaw at a New…
We said we’re coming back big for the first IRL TechCrunch Disrupt since 2019, and we’re not kidding. When the doors open October 18-20, you’ll find more than 100 interviews, panel discussions, roundtables, how-tos, breakouts and a plethora of other startup goodness waiting for you. Hurry and save: Don’t miss the Friday, September 16 deadline…
When Fortune reported that Dorm Room Fund, a student-powered investing group, had spun out from First Round Capital with $12.5 million in capital for its newest fund, it was almost an easy feel-good story. Here was a venture capital vehicle bent on providing experience to the next generation of would-be VCs, now flush with more…
Elon Musk might have cold feet about his offer to buy Twitter, but the company’s shareholders are still here for it. The acquisition cleared one remaining hurdle Tuesday, with most shareholders voting to accept the $44 billion deal that Musk himself is now trying to get out of. The shareholder vote comes the same day…
Honda plans to launch at least 10 all-electric motorcycles by 2025, including one for children, as demand for business-use bikes rises worldwide. The world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer said Tuesday that it’s targeting annual sales of 1 million electric motorcycles within the next five years. It announced a number of changes to its motorcycle lineup, including…
There’s a ghost in the machine. Machine learning, that is. We are all regularly amazed by AI’s capabilities in writing and creation, but who knew it had such a capacity for instilling horror? A chilling discovery by an AI researcher finds that the “latent space” comprising a deep learning model’s memory is haunted by least…