SimCity on the Super Nintendo was groundbreaking — it managed to combine the joy of simulated city building that Mac and Amiga gamers enjoyed into a family-friendly console title that anyone could play. But did you know Maxis and Nintendo also had an NES version in the works, too? Last year, two prototype cartridges of […]
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Home Alone 2: Kevin McAllister ‘should get THIS jail sentence' for Lost In New York crimes
The Secret Barrister went viral over the weekend for totting up all the crimes Kevin commits in the sequel, Lost In New York. It seems he could have been looking at several years behind bars if he was contending with English and Welsh law. The anonymous tweeter also pointed out offences carried out by other […]
Headphone jack fans lost out to fullscreen smartphones in 2018
Throughout 2016 and 2017, it was hard to fathom why Apple, Motorola and other smartphone makers were so eager to drop headphone jacks. There weren’t any huge leaps in battery life or other features to make it worth losing the most widely supported port ever made. When Google removed it from the Pixel 2 last […]
Tesla’s SolarCity lost ground to Sunrun in 2018
Enlarge (credit: Jon Callas / Flickr) The first three quarters of 2018 show that Sunrun’s residential solar panel sales have outpaced SolarCity’s residential solar panel sales, according to data from analysis firm Wood Mackenzie. Though Tesla, the owner of SolarCity, has been losing ground in the solar panel market-share game for years now, Sunrun’s new […]
Evidence lost in space: WATCH Russian cosmonauts whip out GoPros & forceps for zero-G investigation
One doesn’t simply poke inside a hole in a spacecraft during a spacewalk. The orbital operation required a lot of knife-work and struggle with a medical tool, but one piece of evidence was still lost beyond the stars. On Tuesday, Sergey Prokopyev and Oleg Kononenko performed an extraordinary mission outside the Soyuz MS-09, currently docked […]
Cool Stuff: Gallery 1988’s ‘Lost Days’ Art Show Honors ‘Wayne’s World’, ‘Dumb & Dumber’, & More
Gallery 1988 debuted a new art show over the weekend featuring works from Jeff Boyes and Dan Mumford, each of them honoring some beloved films from decades past. Jeff Boyes focuses on films like Wayne’s World, Gleaming the Cube, and Dumb & Dumber. Meanwhile, Dan Mumford tackled the likes of The Crow, Terminator and First […]
Who Lost the Internet Wars?
Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs are considered the Rockefellers, Fords and Carnegies of the Information Age. But once upon a time, there was another vision of the Internet — a radical one from a little-known contender who lost the Internet wars. Even if you tweet, snap and poke, you’ve probably never heard of […]
‘The Walking Dead’ star says another actor almost lost their arm on the show years ago
Gene Page/AMC Ross Marquand’s Aaron had his arm amputated on “The Walking Dead” early on season nine. At a panel during New Jersey’s Walker Stalker Con on Saturday, Marquand said it was almost another character which received that fate back on season seven. He didn’t name anyone, but it’s likely it could have been Carl […]
Bitcoin has lost most of its value this year
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People hadn’t set foot in this ancient ‘lost city’ in the Honduran jungle for 500 years. Now the government is fighting to save it.
National Geographic/David Yoder The Honduras government is fighting to save land threatened by illegal cattle ranching, which contributes to deforestation. The land is home to the treasured Moskitia rainforest, the second-largest rainforest in Central America and a key player in the fight against climate change. It’s also home to the vaunted “White City,” a lost […]