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Super Doom: How id Software’s Opus Made the Jump to Super NES

GamingMarch 19, 2020

ON DECEMBER 10, 1993, ID Software's developers uploaded Doom to a high-speed file-sharing server maintained by an IT administrator who oversaw University of...

Privacy-Focused + Privacy Centric Blockchains

BlockchainMarch 18, 2020

By David Freuden | Monsterplay While encryption is the best protection in regards to privacy, protecting your personal data must begin with an action taken by...

Balbix appoints Shelly Morales as Vice President of People

Cyber SecurityMarch 18, 2020

Balbix, provider of the industry’s first system for cybersecurity posture transformation, announced the addition of Shelly Morales as the company’s new Vice President...

Apollo 11 Situations: John Romero on Porting Doom and Wolfenstein 3D

GamingMarch 18, 2020

id Software's co-founder recounts converting Wolfenstein 3D to Super NES in three weeks, how the studio viewed ports of...

PS5 Backwards Compatibility Will Support PS4’s Most Popular Games At Launch

GamingMarch 18, 2020

During The Road to PS5 livestream, PlayStation 5 lead system architect Mark Cerny went into detail about the inner-workings, features, and specs of...

Apple’s LiDAR Scanner on New iPad Pro Provides Possible Peek at How Its Smartglasses Will See the World

AR/VRMarch 18, 2020

Just as predicted (but perhaps with less fanfare than usual), Apple has made the move of adding a depth sensor to the...

Using “organs-on-a-chip” to model complicated diseases

BiotechnologyMarch 18, 2020

MIT biological engineers have created a multitissue model that lets them study the relationships between different organs and the immune...

Knee-Deep in the Ports: Ranking the Best (and Worst) Versions of Doom

GamingMarch 18, 2020

As of 2008, Tetris holds the achievement of the most ported video game in history. Which makes sense. Virtually any electronic device can...

Banks respond to coronavirus crisis

PaymentsMarch 17, 2020

As the World Health Organization declares an official pandemic for COVID-19, UK banks announced plans to mitigate the virus’s economic impacts following a...

Microsoft finally reveals Xbox Series X specs

GamingMarch 16, 2020

We finally got a good look at what players can expect from the Xbox Series X when Microsoft...

Researchers sniff out AI breakthroughs in mammal brains

AIMarch 16, 2020

When you smell an orange, the scent is most likely combined with several others: car exhaust, garbage, flowers, soap. Those smells bind simultaneously...