“Billy Mitchell always has a plan,” said Billy Mitchell in the 2007 documentary about Donkey Kong high scores, The King of Kong. And he tweeted the phrase again Wednesday. GameSpot explains why. “Billy Mitchell, the professional gamer and hot sauce purveyor who rose to fame for setting several retro video game high scores, is preparing…

DC Fandome shared a peek at the upcoming Suicide Squad game, set for release in 2022 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X. …read more Source:: CNet

The DC Comics TV series from James Gunn and John Cena makes peace with HBO Max on Jan. 13. …read more Source:: CNet

Microsoft has fixed part of a problem affecting performance of apps on Windows 11 on AMD Ryzen processors and is testing that fix with Insiders in the Beta and Release Preview channels. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Bloomberg reports: Even as the Covid-19 pandemic forced companies around the world to reimagine the workplace, researchers in Iceland were already conducting two trials of a shorter work week that involved about 2,500 workers — more than 1% of the country’s working population. They found that the experiment was an “overwhelming success” — workers were…

The asteroids are 4.6-billion-year-old relics from the solar system’s earliest days. …read more Source:: CNet

PineTime is the open smartwatch from our friends at Pine64. [TT-392] wanted to prove the hardware can play a full-motion music video, and they are correct, to a point. When you watch the video below, you should notice the monochrome display maintaining a healthy framerate, and there lies all the hard work. Without any modifications,…

“One of Python’s long-standing weaknesses, its inability to scale well in multithreaded environments, is the target of a new proposal among the core developers of the popular programming language,” reports InfoWorld: Developer Sam Gross has proposed a major change to the Global Interpreter Lock, or GIL — a key component in CPython, the reference implementation…

This is Land Rover’s fanciest Discovery. …read more Source:: CNet

The asteroids are 4.6-billion-year-old relics from the solar system’s earliest days. …read more Source:: CNet