James Hoffmann: The $20,000 Espresso Machine, The Manument: The Swiss Watch Of Lever Espresso Machines - (www.youtube.com)
Hope you all find this interesting, delighted I got the chance to have a play with the machine!
The Fugitive‘s 30th anniversary: ‘I Didn’t Kill My Wife!’ — An Oral History of ‘The Fugitive’ (www.rollingstone.com)
There was no finished script or even an ending and a key cast member became fatally ill during the production. Three decades after the release of the landmark Hollywood thriller, the cast and crew look back at the film's chaotic creation and reflect on the legacy of the instant classic that almost fell apart
LGR: SideWinder Force Feedback Pro – 26 Years Later (www.youtube.com)
Revisiting the 1997 Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Pro joystick for PC! This started off as simple FFB stick nostalgia, showing off a few Windows 95 games, annnd ended up going down rabbit holes on gameport adapters, DirectX, patent trolls, and the quiet demise/resurrection of force feedback flight sticks.
Video review of Michael Flatley's Blackbird: Millionaire Tries To Make A Bond Film - Its Unintentionally Hilarious! (www.youtube.com)
"When you order James Bond from Wish"
Is This $2 Billion Orb the Future of Live Music? (www.rollingstone.com)
Designers say the high-tech Sphere in Las Vegas will redefine the concert-going experience. Others say it’s an expensive boondoggle
Real Engineering: The Questionable Engineering of Oceangate - an in depth analysis of the Oceangate disaster by an expert in composite materials engineering (www.youtube.com)
"This is profiteering, not innovation."
INSERT DISK 22 - The joke that STUMPED Monkey Island players (www.youtube.com)
Stumped? #monkeyisland #dosgames #lucasarts
Saturn’s rings steal the show in new image from Webb telescope (arstechnica.com)
Webb turned its gold-coated mirror toward Saturn this week.
Developer claims Steam is rejecting games with AI-generated artwork (arstechnica.com)
Valve cites unclear legal status, copyrighted training data in rejection message.
Person who made the Windows 3.1 port of Wordle is back with a ChatGPT client (arstechnica.com)
Developer has ported modern SSL/TLS libraries to Windows 3.1 to get it working.
AVClub: What went wrong with Elemental—and where does Pixar go from here? (www.avclub.com)
Pixar just had its worst opening ever, so what happened? We have some ideas.
Official Poster for Greta Gerwig's 'Barbie' (media.kbin.social)
“Stunning”—Midjourney update wows AI artists with camera-like feature (arstechnica.com)
Midjourney v5.2 features camera-like zoom control over framing, more realism.
Android’s emergency call shortcut is flooding dispatchers with false calls (arstechnica.com)
Google says it's working on a fix, but as usual, manufacturers will need to update.
Ford CEO says Tesla's Cybertruck is only for 'Silicon Valley people' and he's not threatened by it: 'I make trucks for real people who do real work' (www.businessinsider.com)
Ford's CEO said Tesla's Cybertruck is for "Silicon Valley people" not "real people who do real work."...
Marvel Secret Invasion’s AI Credits Are A Soulless Insult To Artists (www.thegamer.com)
Secret Invasion uses AI for its opening credits, as Marvel sinks deeper into the pit of devaluing art and VFX
