Sony debuted the PlayStation 5 roughly five years ago, but the Slim Disc Edition, priced at $449 (was $499) continues to draw crowds whenever the holiday season rolls around. The original console’s size was reduced by more than 30% to make place for this slimmer successor. It conveniently fits on a narrower shelf or next to a TV without taking up too much space.
For years, GTA Online users have been making money, avoiding cops, and living in Los Santos. Rockstar Games’ latest update, A Safehouse in the Hills, finally gives players access to those huge hilltop houses. These assets will be available on December 10 for almost all of your platforms, including the PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC, transforming your crew into the ultimate icons of extravagance.
Encor Design unveiled its first creation last week, a car that took the Lotus Esprit from the realm of nostalgia and dropped it solidly in the present. Meet the Series I, a restomod that combines the crisp lines of the ’75 original with the power of a late-model V8 – all encased in a carbon-fiber shell so light you’d assume it was being towed by a helium balloon. Fifty years after Giorgetto Giugiaro’s wedge first drew attention at the Paris Motor Show, a small team of ex-Lotus engineers has managed to design a car that honors every curve of its predecessor while also resolving every significant problem.
Markarian 178 lingers quietly in the constellation Ursa Major, a mere 13 million light years from our own home planet earth. As a blue compact dwarf galaxy, it’s around 5,700 light-years wide, small in comparison to the Milky Way’s vast expanse. Astronomers first noticed it in the 1960s and 1970s for its extremely bright ultraviolet glow, which Benjamin Markarian “collected” in his catalog. There are actually over 1,500 Markarian galaxies, each of which shines in ultraviolet due to the high energy processes that occur within them.
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Leaks have a habit of catching you off guard when CES is right around the corner. This time, we’re looking at Lenovo’s Legion Pro Rollable, a gaming laptop that aims to broaden your vision in ways that regular laptops cannot. Official promotional images and internal conversation reveal that it is a device with a screen that rolls out sideways, transforming what would otherwise be a tiny laptop into something much larger.
Marques Brownlee, popularly known as MKBHD, put his hands around the Xiaomi SU7 Max’s leather steering wheel and eased onto the pavement just outside a nondescript office building. In China, this 4-door costs $42000 and has 673 horsepower from dual motors, a 101kwh battery that claims 320 miles of range, and can accelerate like a real supercar.
NASA and Japan’s JAXA have collaborated to investigate Cassiopeia A, also known as Cas A, a large debris field located 11,000 light years away and around 340 years old. The XRISM satellite was expressly created to examine star graveyards in greater detail than ever before, and it has just passed over some extremely interesting data revealing evidence of chlorine and potassium in the blazing wisps of Cas A.
Pokémon has always been about using your imagination rather than becoming entirely immersed. Those old-school Game Boy sprites, with their blocky graphics, didn’t require fancy ray-traced reflections to make you feel like the 10 year old ruler of the Pokémon universe, catching them all. Then there’s NIONX, a French YouTuber who has no prior expertise with 3D modeling or Unreal Engine 5, but has now released an amazing HD-2D reconstruction of the Kanto area that looks exactly like the remake we’ve all been waiting for.
F1’s engines are gearing up for a significant shift in the United States next year. Apple recently signed a five-year deal to become the series’ sole broadcaster, and they are making all session footage available on their Apple TV platform. That means everyone with the basic $12.99 monthly membership will be able to watch all 24 races, practice runs, qualifying heats, sprint events, and the works for free. And the best part? There are no additional payments, and no advertisements to disturb the action.
Viwoods debuted the AiPaper Reader C to slip neatly into a pocket right alongside your regular phone, but with a screen designed for long reading sessions without all the usual glare or battery drain. They brought out this device as a follow up to their earlier black and white model, and this time they’ve swapped in a color display which makes a big difference when handling comics, mags and illustrated guides. At $349, its placement really is where e-readers meet basic mobile tech, and the end result feels like a nice companion for everyone who’s just had it up to here with scrolling through endless feeds.