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Maingear’s Retro95 PC blends ’90s workstation nostalgia with modern horsepower

Maingear’s Retro95 PC blends ’90s workstation nostalgia with modern horsepower

Maingear’s latest, the (appropriately named) Retro95, is a deceptive love letter to old-school “pizza box” PCs. It’s Wolfenstein 3D and Sierra adventure games on the outside; Cyberpunk 2077 in ray-traced 4K on the inside. That’s because you can fit this sucker with up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 graphics. It supports Intel and AMD processors, up to the Ryzen 7 …

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Maingear’s Retro95 combines ’90s-era PC design with modern specs

Maingear’s Retro95 combines ’90s-era PC design with modern specs

Maingear is launching a ’90s-era horizontal desktop with modern components inside. The Retro95 is a beige sleeper build and is for anyone who is nostalgic for the days of Windows 95, floppy discs, dial-up internet, and LAN parties. The Retro95 is a prebuilt, customized iteration of the SilverStone FLP01, a case that originated as an April Fools’ joke before becoming …

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‘Eddington’ Captures the Chaos of the COVID Era—and Modern Existence

‘Eddington’ Captures the Chaos of the COVID Era—and Modern Existence

MoviesMoviesIn Ari Aster’s most direct social commentary yet, Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal go to battle over a small town while the world around it implodes A24/Ringer illustration By Adam NaymanJuly 17, 11:58 am UTC • 9 min “Your Being Manipulated!” a partisan bumper sticker reads in Eddington. The hapless misuse of a possessive adjective suggests that the candidate being …

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Spidercam technology brings golf’s oldest major into the modern world

Spidercam technology brings golf’s oldest major into the modern world

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) — The oldest major championship has taken a step into the modern world by using a technological feature that British Open organizers hope will bring to life one of the most storied walks in golf. Spidercam — that’s a camera, not a super hero — was used in golf for the first time at Royal Portrush …

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Evolution isn’t a straight line: Modern humans come from 2 ancient lineages

Evolution isn’t a straight line: Modern humans come from 2 ancient lineages

Sign up for Big Think on Substack The most surprising and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every week, for free. “Two souls, alas, dwell in my breast.” Like Goethe’s Doctor Faust, we all have an inner duality. Recent discoveries about the deep past of human evolution reveal that for more than a million years, humanity was divided into …

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Brain Abnormality in Modern Humans Linked to Ancient Neanderthal DNA

Brain Abnormality in Modern Humans Linked to Ancient Neanderthal DNA

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, according to a new study, causing a mismatch between brain shape and skull shape. The study focuses on Chiari malformation type I (CM-I), where the lower part of the brain extends too far into the spinal cord – typically linked to …

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