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Seamus Byrne

Founder and Head of Content at Byteside. Brings two decades of experience covering tech, digital culture, and their impacts on society.

Games

Streaming retro arcade games with Steve Cottam, CEO of Antstream

We chat to the CEO of Antstream about creating a retro game streaming service and how it fits into the future of gaming.

Streaming retro arcade games with Steve Cottam, CEO of Antstream
Networks

How 'The Million Dollar Homepage' has aged, and what it means for digital history

Researchers look back on the seminal marketing website and check the active links – and debate how to improve digital archives in future.

How 'The Million Dollar Homepage' has aged, and what it means for digital history

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Where we're going next
Crypto

Dogecoin's co-creator really, really hates all things crypto these days

"Built primarily to amplify wealth [through] tax avoidance, diminished regulatory oversight and artificially enforced scarcity." Ouch.

Dogecoin's co-creator really, really hates all things crypto these days
Art & Culture

Tokyo Olympics opening blasts classic videogame themes across the world

Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger and many more all had orchestral music featured in the Tokyo 2020(+1) opening ceremony.

Tokyo Olympics opening blasts classic videogame themes across the world
Games

Today's Google Doodle is a gloriously unlicensed Olympics tribute

A cool anime intro and an expansive 16-bit game with team leaderboards? Just don't mention the specific event in Japan this is about.

Today's Google Doodle is a gloriously unlicensed Olympics tribute
Games

Inside the making of the new Dungeons & Dragon's Magic The Gathering set

We speak to James Wyatt and Meris Mullaley from Wizards of the Coast about the art and science of bringing the Forgotten Realms to Magic.

Inside the making of the new Dungeons & Dragon's Magic The Gathering set
Technology

Watch the Forza Horizon 5 audio team capture awesome zoom vroom sounds

Seven minutes of behind the scenes as the Forza Horizon sound crew capture a bunch of cars hooning up and down an old track.

Watch the Forza Horizon 5 audio team capture awesome zoom vroom sounds
Technology

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin's motley crew lifts off in just hours: here's how to watch

The most phallic rocket yet is scheduled for launch. Here's when and how to watch. Whatever you think of Bezos, Wally Funk is the real deal!

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin's motley crew lifts off in just hours: here's how to watch
Politics

Italian museums now use cameras to see which art you look at most

Visitor's eyeballs will decide how these galleries redesign their layout and which artworks are put on prime display.

Italian museums now use cameras to see which art you look at most
Games

Wild Beyond The Witchlight: Everything we know about the new D&D campaign

All the details from announcements and interviews to share the story hints, races and features we will find in 2021's new D&D campaign book.

Wild Beyond The Witchlight: Everything we know about the new D&D campaign
Games

D&D puts dragons where they belong with Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons finally gives dragons the sourcebook they deserve, with the very nature of reality now tied to their heritage.

D&D puts dragons where they belong with Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Media

D&D Live 2021! All the schedule details and how to watch online

This weekend watch comedy greats like Patton Oswalt, Kevin Smith, and Jack Black, wrestlers, actors and more play D&D live online!

D&D Live 2021! All the schedule details and how to watch online
Politics

Lawyers go after Sega's "rigged" skill-based arcade machines

Key Master machines are off to court for being marketed as skill-based when manuals show how their settings really work.

Lawyers go after Sega's "rigged" skill-based arcade machines
Games

Destiny lore nerds, Bungie wants you for its new 'Destiny Historian' role

In a new job listing, Bungie is seeking one lucky lore pedant to catalogue the narrative threads of Destiny and keep them straight in future.

Destiny lore nerds, Bungie wants you for its new 'Destiny Historian' role
Ideas

Watch almost 200 Georges Méliès classic films for free online

Collected from across a wide range of YouTube sources, here's a playlist of 194 Georges Méliès classics in chronological order.

Watch almost 200 Georges Méliès classic films for free online
Technology

Diving in the world's deepest pool looks like my kind of dystopia

Sit in a waterlogged Bentley 60 metres deep in a mega pool in Dubai? Is this a theme park or social commentary?

Diving in the world's deepest pool looks like my kind of dystopia
Crypto

A movie just launched 91,000 NFTs to pro– nope, I'm not doing this...

Digital artists getting paid thanks to NFTs is great. Movies and companies creating NFTs to score some free promotional value suck.

A movie just launched 91,000 NFTs to pro– nope, I'm not doing this...
Computers

Dell takes DSLR inspiration for its 4K UltraSharp Webcam

There's a few 4K webcams under $400 already, but this UltraSharp Webcam puts a big lens on a long barrel for to chase great performance.

Dell takes DSLR inspiration for its 4K UltraSharp Webcam
Ideas

Branson, Bezos, and the Kármán line: how everybody wins this month's space race

Billionaires posturing over commercial spaceflight is the ultimate cockfight, but with Virgin below 100km up everyone gets to say 'First!'

Branson, Bezos, and the Kármán line: how everybody wins this month's space race