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According to most reports, Sony have had a new mid-gen upgrade, codenamed "Trinity" (as spotted in code samples) or more popularly the "PS5 Pro". It's meant to be a console featuring the same CPU (An eight-core AMD Zen 2 processor) but an upgrade in GPU to something that's roughly around the AMD...

This article popped up in my inbox today: And it got me thinking: most of the gaming I do nowadays is indeed emulated retro gaming. For instance, my dear departed PS3 (overheated due to sand building up over time in the innards, died) left me with a huge selection of blu-ray games that were...

I've been thinking of getting a soundbar for my flat (where I live when I work most of the week) as space is at a bit of a premium... and I think the stereo speakers on my TV are a bit rubbish. Flat, lifeless sound which ruins most films when compared with the surround sound system I've got back...

I've been keeping an eye on Google since it acquired the On2 Corporation - I've been wondering if it would do what I think it would do. It turns out I was right. It's announced the WebM project - an attempt to develop a free, open source web video codec that can be used by all browser makers...

This is great news: an artificial alcohol with none of the downsides of the real thing! No addiction or mood swings: And if you need to drive home, just take the antidote and you're fit to drive: Ain't modern science grand?

The Herschel satellite, one of two satellites recently launched by the ESA, has taken some preliminary images which have just been put up on the web. Here's one of the M51 galaxy: I just love stuff like this. Herschel is designed to take first light images from early galaxies to study galaxy...

I love Cosmic Variance - probably one of the best (if not the best) physics blogs on the net. It always manages to post something interesting and relevant, and today they came up with something brilliant. Leonard Susskind is one of the most brilliant scientists in the world today. Aside from...

I preordered the novel from Amazon UK, but yet they haven't been able to deliver it on time due to the fact that it sold out. This is quite annoying, really, as I was hoping to see if they included any of the deleted stuff from the film in the book. So has anyone here managed to get a hold of...

I found myself thinking about this - the (rather chubby) cadet Kirk calls Cupcake and fights is assigned to the Enterprise three years later, and calls him Cupcake in return when he apprehends Kirk and Scotty when they beam back aboard the Enterprise. Isn't that a bit long to hold a grudge just...

Anyone played Ninja Blade for the Xbox 360? I've read some reviews of it that call it average, but on the other hand the gameplay videos of it look pretty good. But then, how does watching a ninja kill a mutant giant by leaping into its mouth not make you think something is cool? So, if you've...

A discussion of US adaptions of UK TV ideas inspired me to go back and find the US version of Red Dwarf, and boy, was I sorry I did. It's basically reduced the show to a set of bad one liners and the wholesale transportation of jokes from British Red Dwarf without any adaption means it falls...

Have you ever gone and dug out some of your old games and played them through to see how they match up to today's ones? I did this recently... well, I played some old ROMs to see if they actually had any entertainment value left. Unsurprisingly, Super Mario World and the Sonic series still were...

This just got me thinking: why do they have separate tricorders and communicators? Back in the days of TOS, and even TNG and the other 24th century series the technology wasn't around, but think about it now - with the rate of integration real world technology is going through, don't you think...

I noticed an interesting discussion occurring in the "If you could visit any decade in the 20th Century" thread in Misc, and I felt that perhaps it might be good to start up a discussion here. And it's a current hot topic in the world of Trek too, for obvious reasons. I've always been...

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/thermodynamino.html Apparently by studying thermal vents on the ocean floor, meteorite remains and simulations of the early Earth, they've found 20 types of amino acid that might be common to Earth and other places in the universe. Certainly food for...