How Graphics Worked On The Apple II And Atari 2600
This is part 2 of The iBookGuy’s fascinating explanation of how early computers made things look as best as they could. Hit the jump below for part 1.
August 31, 2015 at 01:13PM
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Google’s Android Wear Watches are Coming to the iPhone
With today’s announcement, Android Wear watches will now be compatible with Apple’s iPhone 5, 5c, 5s, 6, and 6 Plus running iOS 8.2 and later. (They’ll also presumably be compatible with whatever new phones Apple introduces next week.)
August 31, 2015 at 01:13PM
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These X-ray pills will map the inside of your body
Colon cancer is a societal scourge, killing roughly 700,000 people each year. The problem with regular screenings for it, though, is that they aren’t exactly a pleasant experience — as you might imagine for a cancer that occurs in that part of the body. A new x-ray pill could change that.
August 31, 2015 at 12:10PM
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It’s Really, Really Hard to Turn Speech Into GIFs
The perfect GIF is a difficult thing to find. In an Internet rife with search options, there are a seemingly infinite number of options. But choosing a GIF that animates exactly what you want it to? More difficult.
August 31, 2015 at 11:07AM
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Zora’s Domain From ‘Ocarina Of Time’ Recreated In Unreal Engine
Until we get a new Zelda game, this will have to do.
August 31, 2015 at 11:01AM
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Google OnHub review-Google’s smart home Trojan horse is a $200 leap of faith
OnHub is a tiny bundle of potential and no one really knows what it will turn into.
August 31, 2015 at 09:56AM
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It’s Not A Drone Anymore If Someone’s Inside It
They already have a word for that, and it’s “airplane.”
August 31, 2015 at 08:54AM
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The Solar Sunflower: Harnessing the power of 5,000 suns
The two constituent technologies of the Solar Sunflower are both very well known and understood at this point, and not at all exciting. What’s special about the Sunflower, however, is that it combines both of the technologies together in a novel fashion to attain much higher total efficiency.
August 31, 2015 at 07:34AM
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A Look at the Painstaking, Intricate Art of Globemaking
There are only a few dedicated artisanal globemakers left in the world — and there’s good reason for that.
August 31, 2015 at 01:42AM
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Inside the NFL’s virtual reality arms race
VR simulations are changing the way football is practiced at every level of the game.
August 30, 2015 at 03:20PM
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