Enlarge / Mitchell rides an oversized Donkey Kong machine in the recent Citrus Bowl parade. Update (Feb. 4, 2018): Former Donkey Kong world record holder Wes Copeland has presented new statistical evidence that he says suggests Mitchell’s 1.05 million point game was patched together from multiple emulated plays. Drawing data from the KongTrackr analysis app,…

The scene in the Bolton street where the gas explosion happened (Picture: SWNS)An elderly couple were injured and a dozen homes evacuated after a ‘suspected gas explosion’ on a residential street in Bolton. A man and a woman in their 70s suffered injuries during the blast in Rydal Grove this afternoon and are being treated at…

Kylie Jenner has given birth to a baby girl after months of fevered speculation she was pregnant with her first child. She broke the news to fans on her official Twitter account, revealing she had welcomed a daughter on February 1. « I’m sorry for keeping you in the dark through all the assumptions, » she told…

Vorbemerkungen: Eigentlich ist es schnell erzählt, wen man in diesem Super Bowl die Daumen drücken sollte. Der Quarterback der Philadelphia Eagles, Carson Wentz, eines der Talente der Liga, verletzte sich drei Spieltage vor dem regulären Saisonende schwer. Jedes Team hat einen Back-Up für die wichtigste Position. Bei den Eagles ist es Nick Foles. Anfangs kicherten…

Image copyright AFP Image caption It is unclear whether Kim Yong-nam, who heads the parliament in Pyongyang, will attend the opening ceremony along with US Vice President Mike Pence North Korea is to send its highest ranking official for years to the South amid an easing of tensions during the Winter Olympics. Kim Yong-nam, the…

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Led by Rep. Adam Schiff, Democrats came out in…

Enlarge / On Jan. 10, 2013, the Saturn V F-1 gas generator completed a 20-second hot-fire test. Engineers are completing a series of tests at Test Stand 116 located in the East Test Area at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. It’s rare that a book about as high-minded and serious a topic…

And thus, 20 years ago, the term « Open Source » was born. The Open Source Initiative formed shortly after that, and one of the working group’s founders — Bruce Perens — adapted the Free Software Guidelines he wrote for the Debian Linux distro to serve as the official Open Source Definition. In the decades that followed,…

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