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io9TelevisionCastlevania‘s Final Season Gets There, in the End
There’s a moment roughly halfway through Castlevania’s final season when, at the height of an arduous, suitably bloody, and rather fantastic fight sequence, one character yells at another “This is about Dracula, isn’t it!?” And… that’s it. That’s the show, for better and worse, as Netflix’s Castlevania cracks its whips for one last time. For … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Computer Scientist Responsible for Cut, Copy, and Paste, Has Passed Away
The advent of the personal computer wasn’t just about making these powerful machines available to everyone, it was also about making them accessible and usable, even for those lacking a computer science degree. Larry Tesler, who passed away on Monday, might not be a household name like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, but his contributions … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightThis Amazing White Dwarf Discovery Could Be a ‘Gold Mine’ for Physicists
Scientists have discovered a pair of white dwarfs that might one day produce a major gravitational wave discovery, according to a new paper. Certain chaotic events, like black holes slamming together, produce waves of warping spacetime that physicists have spotted here on Earth. But other events, like dense objects quickly orbiting each other, can produce … Continued
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Tech NewsApple’s Legendary Lisa Operating System Is Coming to Your Desktop for Free
Apple’s Lisa project might be the most loaded chapter in the company’s lore, and thanks to the Computer History Museum, you’ll soon be able to play around with one of the first graphical user interfaces in history right there on your shiny state of the art screen. And you won’t have to pay $10,000 that … Continued
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SciencePhysics & ChemistryThe Hunt for Gravitational Waves Is Officially Headed to Space
It took around a hundred years between Albert Einstein crafting his theory of general relativity and the confirmation of one of its wildest predictions, gravitational waves. So naturally, folks have been especially skeptical about funding expensive projects to look harder for them. But now that experiments are actually finding gravitational waves, scientists are ready to … Continued
