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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!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!'
Two new Lego sets let you chill with buds like Thor and Seinfeld
New Lego sets are coming with the apartment set from Seinfeld as well as Thor's bachelor pad in New Asgard. The cleverness is in the details.
A Sega R360 dead in an Irish field is one of the saddest things I've ever seen
One of the classic circa 1990 free moving flight sim arcade cabinet, only 200 ever made, was found in lying in a field in Northern Ireland.
Study shows free divers can drop heart rates as low as 11 beats per minute
New research shows elite free divers incredible control puts them in the same oxygen management league as dolphins, seals and whales.
Valve confirms Bucharest will host Dota 2's The International 10 in October
After Sweden failed to affirm competitors could receive elite athlete visas, Valve had to move fast to find an alternate host for TI10.
D&D arrives in Magic Arena today as the Forgotten Realms set goes live
Drizzt, Tiamat, Mordenkainen and more D&D friends are now live in Magic The Gathering Arena, with the new Mastery season also now underway.
NASA's Martian helicopter just keeps crushing its targets
Now nine flights deep into its extended mission, Ingenuity keeps pushing its limits – and keeps proving it has what it takes.
LEGO is prototyping bricks made from recycled bottle plastics
The company is investing $400M into sustainability projects, including turning recycled PET plastics into LEGO. And research is going well.
Sotheby's will accept Bitcoin and Ether for a 101-carat diamond auction
For the lucky billionaires who are afraid to turn their crypto back into fiat currency, Sotheby's is ready to take your coin. HODL or buy?
Telstra and TPG just defragged the airwaves to make your 4G faster
Without being forced to, Telstra and TPG just restacked their wireless spectrum allocations to make things smoother for users in many cities.
Fortress Melbourne's House Cup gaming event kicks off this weekend
Cash and prizes both in the Melbourne bar and online, across a bunch of games including FGC and FPS titles, with famous faces joining the fun.
The '80s Dungeons & Dragons cartoon is on Twitch this weekend!
The official D&D Twitch channel is screening the whole 1980s cartoon as a promo for a special Secret Lair Magic set based on the show.
The Nintendo Switch OLED is not the Switch Pro you were dreaming of
OLED is great, but a nicer screen and speakers, more storage plus a better kickstand and Ethernet? This is not what anyone was waiting for.
