Art & Culture
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.
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.
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.
Get on the games: we chat with Mashd N Kutcher about their gaming-themed new track
From "Get on the Beers" to a Turtle Beach mashup, Mashd N Kutcher share their love of games and details about their new videogame-inspired track.
How the iPad Pro brings play back to art
After a few months using the iPad Pro for art, it’s clear to see why so many pros choose the device and its software.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Even Katy Perry is getting in on NFTs. Can anything stop this?
Peer-to-peer video streaming slash blockchain company Theta is set to host Katy Perry NFTs as part of a new wave of "OMG who has an NFT now?"
Want more Aliens? Like Legion? Boy is there a show on its way for you...
How do you make an Alien show that has nothing to do with Ripley but everything to do with what made the first films great? Noah Hawley knows.
Disney owning everything finally delivers us a Simpsons MCU crossover
Friends, are you ready for The Good, The Bart and The Loki? Now that Disney owns Marvel AND Fox it was only a matter of time.
Twitter launched the thing we've all been waiting for... some NFTs???
Yes, what we really needed Twitter to do was to make some NFT artworks – and not even make them tradeable for whoever gets them...
We have never seen atomic imagery in this kind of detail before
Using advanced ptychography, Cornell University researchers have captured a picoscale image 3x better than the best electron microscopy.
Good Omens will bless us with a surprise second season!
BBC and Amazon will deliver more Crowley and Aziraphale, with the Gaiman-led sequel built on a brainstorm he and Pratchett had planned.
Instagram is finally letting you post via the web from your desktop
All the better to upload that pristinely edited photo (or meme, or ad), Instagram has quietly opened the door to posts from your PC.
Strange Planet coming to Apple TV+ with Dan Harmon's helping hands
Nathan Pyle and Dan Harmon will executive produce an animated series based on Pyle's wonderful Strange Planet comic strips.
Canva teams up with Snap (the other one) for direct print services
Australian DIY design unicorn Canva is teaming up with Snap Print and Design to offer direct access to printing services from its tools.
Xena 20 years on: how the warrior princess changed television
20 years on, we revisit this great show and how it was loved by ancient history buffs to sci-fi fans and the LGBTQ community.
