Sega is delisting 60 classic games from Steam, so now’s the time to grab them
Sega has put dozens of its Master System, Genesis, Saturn, and other console titles onto modern game stores over the years. But, like that Dreamcast controller stashed in your childhood garage, they’re about to disappear—and getting them back will cost…
Man sick of crashes sues Intel for allegedly hiding CPU defects
“Had Intel disclosed the defect, including through advertising, press releases, the Product packaging, or the initial setup process, Plaintiff and class members would not have purchased a Product, or would have paid substantially less for it,” Vanvalkenburgh’s complaint said. According…
Secondhand EVs will flood the market in 2026, JD Power says
In 2023, 46 percent of all franchise (i.e. not Tesla, Rivian, Vinfast, or Lucid) EV sales were leases, a trend that JD Power says it has seen through the first three quarters of 2024 as well. Once Tesla is included,…
What makes baseball’s “magic mud” so special?
“Magic mud” composition and microstructure: (top right) a clean baseball surface; (bottom right) a mudded baseball. Credit: S. Pradeep et al., 2024 “Magic mud” composition and microstructure: (top right) a clean baseball surface; (bottom right) a mudded baseball. Credit: S….
Mercedes-Benz previews next CLA, breaks EV distance record in testing
Before the powertrain was ready for the CLA, it needed testing, which Mercedes did with an elegant concept called the EQXX. It’s capable of almost 750 miles on a single charge. We tested this silver arrow in 2022, learning quite…
ChatGPT has a new vanity domain name, and it may have cost $15 million
On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman merely tweeted “chat.com,” announcing that the company had acquired the short domain name, which now points to the company’s ChatGPT AI assistant when visited in a web browser. As of Thursday morning, “chatgpt.com” still…
Airborne microplastics aid in cloud formation
Clouds form when water vapor—an invisible gas in the atmosphere—sticks to tiny floating particles, such as dust, and turns into liquid water droplets or ice crystals. In a newly published study, we show that microplastic particles can have the same…
Review: M4 and M4 Pro Mac minis are probably Apple’s best Mac minis ever
In our tests on the Mac mini, any performance gain from using High Power mode was essentially negligible, so small that we haven’t bothered to make charts showing the difference—there are signs of a very small upward nudge in a…
Thoughts on the M4 iMac, and making peace with the death of the 27-inch model
Remembrances of a former iMac person The 27-inch iMac, back in the days when it was Apple’s mainstream power-user desktop. Credit: Andrew Cunningham Apple never stopped selling an entry-level iMac to cover the niche filled by the original Bondi Blue…
Nearly three years since launch, Webb is a hit among astronomers
From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human eyes have ever seen. In May, astronomers announced that Webb detected the most distant galaxy found so far, a fuzzy…