Monthly Archives: November 2022

Musk emails remaining Twitter staff to find “anyone who actually writes software”

Enlarge After laying off half of Twitter’s employees and issuing a stay-or-leave ultimatum to the rest, Elon Musk sent an email to the remaining staff today seeking responses from “anyone who actually writes software.” “Anyone who actually writes software, please report to the 10th floor at 2 pm today. Before doing so, please email a…

Sony’s Miles Morales was at least as good as Spider-Man, and now it’s on PC, too

The spinoff game has a Christmas, winter setting. [credit: Sony ] Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, the spinoff to the popular and critically acclaimed 2018 PlayStation game Marvel’s Spider-Man, launched on Windows PCs today, just three months after the original game did, too. The game was developed by Insomniac Games (previously best known for the Ratchet &…

This new floating solar farm follows the sun like a flower

Just soaking up the rays. SolarisFloat A new solar power farm prototype bobbing atop the waters of a large lake in the southwest Netherlands is stalking the sun’s movements to make the most out of its energy capabilities. As BBC News explained yesterday, a company called SolarisFloat‘s artificial island—dubbed Proteus after the Greek sea god—is…

Creatives will benefit from this top graphics card, if they can find one

With the release of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080, content creators are wondering whether it’s worth investing in the powerful graphics card.  Now, Puget Systems has performed a series of benchmark tests to see how well the GPU performs across a range of content creation software, including Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and After Effects. …