This year’s edition r/place is over. Reddit’s huge communal internet mural project has now been completed. Started on April 1, 2022, it brought together internet strangers with a common goal — filling a massively blank canvas, pixel by pixel. The usual ensued: lots of fighting over real estate for making memes, logos, and fan art. But one Redditor decided to track the project by recreating it in Minecraft, in a feat of code and engineering. The result is stunning and disorienting.
Norco, from developer Geography of Robots, is born out of an experimental, multimedia project that started around 2015 — a series of oral history interviews, archival deep-dives, and video projects, all related to Louisiana’s geography following Hurricane Katrina. Among the videos and recordings was a little side-scrolling game about a robot breaking into an oil refinery in Norco, Louisiana.
At the 140th Manga Fan Convention, Commitia announced the release of a comic book dedicated to the Ghost of Kyiv - the legendary (in all senses, his identity has not been confirmed, there is reason to believe that this is a collective image, but we may be wrong) pilot, howling in the sky above Ukrainian capital.
Stepan was nominated for the most prestigious award among influencers and bloggers - World Influencers and Bloggers Awards 2022. This was told by his owner on Instagram. The event will take place in Cannes on May 18-19. It will be attended by about 100 bloggers.
iQOO unveiled the Z6 last month, and the company will follow it up with a Pro variant soon, dubbed iQOO Z6 Pro 5G.
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Samsung released the Android 12-based One UI 4. 1 update for the Galaxy A52 5G last month, which is now rolled out for its 4G model that received One UI 4 in January.
See a new phone and think you’ve seen something eerily similar before? Increasingly that’s not just because all phones kind of look alike – there are also more and more rebrandings happening with every month that goes by. Xiaomi and its sub-brands Redmi and Poco are perhaps by far the guiltiest of playing this game, but Oppo and OnePlus are no strangers to it either. And according to a new rumor, they’re at it again.
Samsung’s Galaxy Watch4 family is comprised of amazing smartwatches with just one huge downside: battery life. The Korean company seems quite aware of this, as we’ve already heard a rumor stating that the Watch5 generation devices will have larger batteries.
Google has officially announced a partnership with iFixit to sell repair kits for its Pixel series of phones – from the Pixel 2 (2017) to the current Pixel 6 series. Original parts will only be available in the USA, Canada, Australia, UK, Australia, and EU (where Pixels are legally sold).
Back in the 1950s Tag Heuer advertisements highlighted that you could use the tachymeter bezel of the Auto-Graph watch to count golf scores. While watch technology has improved a lot, the passion of the company for golf remains the same.
The Taiwanese manufacturer of computer equipment and electronics Acer published a report for the first quarter of 2022, in which it also announced its exit from the Russian market.
vivo will announce the X Fold on April 11 and we’ve gathered enough data from leaks and rumors to know what to expect. It’s nice to have a little extra and the cost is quite high.
The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra launched in India in late February with only three colors to choose from: Phantom White, Phantom Black and Burgundy. Today a fourth colorway has arrived, Green.
