At its core, Mario Kart is a game about trolling your friends. So what better way to ratchet up the hijinks than by allowing players to decide what power-ups spawn during races? Nintendo has released a free update for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe that adds custom item selection for offline VS races and select online modes….
Monthly Archives: December 2022
Blue Origin has made another attempt to secure a contract to build a lunar lander for NASA’s future Artemis missions. It teamed up with several other companies for the proposal, including Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Draper. Astrobotic and Honeybee Robotics are also involved. In 2021, NASA gave SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to use a…
Campfire Audio is an esteemed manufacturer of audiophile-grade IEMs, with some models carrying a price tag north of $3,000. Now, in an unexpected turn of events, the brand has set its sights on the true-wireless earbud market. The new buds are called Orbit, and at a $249 / £249 price point, they’re still premium, but…
We’ve had plenty of weird, wonderful and forward-thinking phone designs over the years. Some even make that slab of glass in your pocket look positively boring. There are those that were plain old weird, while others were as ugly as the residue from an offal truck. The one thing they had in common though is…
Campfire Audio are best known as purveyors of high-end wired earphones, but they’ve taken their first step into the true wireless realm with the Orbit. The Orbit has been in the makings for years with Campfire claiming the results are a true wireless that is “like no other”. Its a completely new design for a…
Performance management is a term usually used to refer to the process of making sure that employees, activities, and/or outputs in an organization meet their goals. It involves things like evaluating employee performance and targets, as well as supporting employee growth and improving employee experience. Good performance management should focus on both company goals and…
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After an eight-year effort to recover DNA from Greenland’s frozen interior, researchers say they’ve managed to sequence gene fragments from ancient fish, plants, and even a mastodon that lived 2 million years ago. It’s the oldest DNA ever recovered, beating the mark set only last year when a different team recovered genetic material from a…
Enlarge / Stop, drop, and roll! It’s not a stretch to say that the Diablo series is one of the most influential role-playing game franchises of all time. As one of the early action-focused loot games, it offered a deeply compelling and satisfying take on the classic concept of the dungeon crawl. Its many sequels…
Enlarge / Eugene Cernan is seen inside the Lunar Module after a long day’s work on the lunar surface. (credit: Andy Saunders/Apollo Remastered) Shortly after midnight, 50 years ago this morning, the Apollo 17 mission lifted off from Florida. With Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Ron Evans on board, this was NASA’s sixth and final…