Amazing Images from a Small World. The winning images from Nikon’s photomicrography competition

Camera manufacturer Nikon has been running the International Small World Competition since 1975. Now over 40 years old, the competition celebrates the very best in photomicrography. A photomicrograph is a digital image taken through a microscope to magnify an object several times to show close up features at a scale visible for us to see. Anyone,…

Xbox surveying Insiders on new energy consumption features

Xbox is surveying Insiders on new energy consumption features. A questionnaire on the Xbox Insider app, spotted by Windows Central, is gauging the potential popularity of new energy efficiency features on PC and console. That includes the possibility of in-game features that can optimise settings (resolution, frame rate, etc) to save energy, and games automatically…

What is Mastodon? All you need to know about the decentralised Twitter alternative

Elon Musk hasn’t been running Twitter for long but he’s already revealed some changes that have users hunting for a new social network to call home.  Between firing thousands of employees in a single blunt memo and offering the verification tick to anyone willing to pay $8 a month for Twitter Blue, Musk’s decisions so…