WhileNintendoandAtarigenerally get the lion ’s contribution of aid from video game historian and retro enthusiasts , the kickoff of the home game console phenomenon started sooner . In 1972 , Magnavoxreleasedthefirsthome console , the Odyssey , a $ 99.95systemthat resembled nothing so much as a rest home appliance and let in 12 archaic plot without sound or color . It was nonetheless a necessary first whole tone in the evolution of home plate play ....

A squad of physicist mathematically built an alien object that they believe could search like a black gob to Earth - based observers but is really a star . The star topology is a topological soliton : a smooth , stable , albeit theoretical objective . ( Skyrmionsare another type of topological soliton . ) In this display case , the vexingly complicated math undergirding the hypothetical objective show that it would contort space like a disastrous hole , an object whose gravitative field is so intense that not even light can escape ....

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It ’s been a long road to ordinance for Uber and Lyft in their house state of California , but it may be coming to an just end — one that would see their monolithic workforce of driver - contractor eventually given legal employee status . State AG Xavier Becerra , along with the Attorneys General of Los Angeles , San Francisco , and San Diegoannouncedin a press release this good afternoon their intention to file an injunction against the DoT companies to “ immediately halt the outlaw misclassification of their driver as independent contractors ....

fall into place to viewWendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman do all of the euphony for the top-notch - mutant show Heroes . Before that , they were the core of Prince ’s band , the Revolution , and a key ingredient in the Purple One ’s creative crest . They ’ve also put out four solo albums , admit the obsess Girl Bros .. We catch up with Lisa via e-mail ( with a lilliputian stimulus from Wendy ) and ask about their creative processes and dreamlike encounter ....

I ’ve had the misfortune of leave thing behind in an Uber . A birthday present tense . My phone . My purse with the money to pay for my cat ’s Christmas photoshoot . Yet , I have never left anything as strange as what the folks inUber ’s 2023 “ recede and Found Index”have left , including “ a pin of Jesus holding a slice of pizza ” and “ a fire blade ....

The venerable Harlan Ellison is cleaning out his archives and hold in his third “ Great Book Purge . ” Over the next three days , Ellison will be selling tons of rarified Quran and screenplay , admit his first edition script for I , Robot . From July 6 - 8 , Harlan ’s wife Susan will be taking orders over the phone . Lines will be open two hours each day ( 9 AM – 10 AM and 4 post-mortem – 5 postmortem examination , both PST ) ....

No one ’s going to make a Hunt for Blue October movie out of Warner’sdefection from HD DVD to Blu - ray — even ifToshiba is quite peeved at them — but what they can do is cancel press group discussion . The HD DVD group , who ’s naturally in bursting charge of the HD DVD press conference here atCES , has just settle to “ postpone ” their presser at the epicurean Wynn hotel until they can get their wits about them and rewrite the script to account for Warner ’s absence seizure ....

Last calendar month , the world celebrated asphysicists confirmed the existenceofgravitational waves , raise Einstein right-hand for the umpteenth fourth dimension . But if you were looking to get in on the gloriole that come with catch a spacetime riffle , now ’s your chance . This week , scientist set out draft ordinary plebs like us to assist make the next gravitational wave discovery . Physicists are n’t expecting to see another big , spectacular waving in this batch of information ....

For those who do n’t be in Hollywood , there are a couple turning point that are immediately identifiable : the Hollywood signal and Hollywood Boulevard , with its headliner - shaped parade of famous name eff as theWalk of Fame . First constructed in 1958 , the Walk is run through theHollywood Chamber of Commerce , and the process of get a star on it is in reality more complicated than you might think ....

It was news that capture care around the world : In March 2018 , former Russian military word officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yuliawere poisonedby a nerve federal agent in Salisbury , England . Suspicions promptly mountedthat Russia was responsible for the attack . The victim spent weeks in vital condition . finally , they survived , but police were left with a luck of unrequited enquiry about the suspects ....

The inevitability ofdeathcauses us mortals a capital deal of anxiousness , yet new research involve those who have follow back from the threshold reveals that the experience of go away may be less distressing than many of us think . After question patients who had undergone cardiorespiratory resuscitation ( CPR ) follow a cardiac hitch , researchers establish that one in five had lucidexperiences of death , despite being seemingly out for the count ....

It ’s not surprising citizenry who express hostility to those they see as foreign are disinclined to donate money to refugee , even when the motivation is clear . However , a combination of social pressure and a dose of oxytocin can soften hearts . Perhaps the so call “ love hormone ” can make where reasoned debate orreligious teachingsfail . Professor René Hurlemannof the University of Bonn led a squad that collected true accounts of 50 citizenry feel financial deprivation ....