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Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did

Instead of a conventional linear power supply, Holt built one like those used in oscilloscopes. It switched the power on and off not sixty times per second, but thousands of times; this allowed it to store the power for far less time, and thus throw off less heat. "That switching power supply was as revolutionary as the Apple II logic board was," Jobs later said.

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition arrives on Mac next month

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition arrives on Mac next month One of the greatest real-time strategy games ever is making its way to macOS (again). Publisher Feral Interactive announced today it will bring Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition to Apple computers through Steam on May 28, with an App Store release to follow later this year. Feral worked with World's Edge, the studio that has managed the Age of Empires franchise for Microsoft since 2019, to develop the port.

RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon

I took part in a hackathon in Vilnius the other weekend (courtesy of Basedcollective) during the pink soup festival. I brought along an old rotary phone and our two-man team spent the next 48 hours sticking our fingers in it. We wired a Raspberry Pi into the phone which interfaced with all of its IO and communicated with our server via a single websocket connection which controlled everything from two-way audio, the bell ringer (with custom frequency and audio patterns) and the hangup switch.

Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac (2013)

Jef Raskin founded the Macintosh project at Apple, which led to the development of the Apple Mac and the popularisation of the graphical user-interface. He was Apple employee #31 and left the Macintosh team in mid-1981 after Steve Jobs took over the project. Jason Walsh: Before the Mac you were a professor of music.

Pop star Dua Lipa and actor Callum Turner are married

Pop star Dua Lipa and actor Callum Turner are married They tied the knot on Sunday (May 31) at Old Marylebone Town Hall in London. Pop star Dua Lipa and actor Callum Turner are married, local officials in London confirmed to The Associated Press. They tied the knot on Sunday (May 31) at Old Marylebone Town Hall.

Country diary: Today was once a public holiday, thanks to these oak 'apples' | Paul Evans

Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could

Now, that's a lot of word processing. But under the hood it's still at least PDP-8 adjacent, even considering its oddities and incompatibilities, and you can make it do many of the things a full-size Eight can. We'll take this basic unit, convert the floppy drives to solid state, tap the video output, and put it through its paces.

Apple-Peel Unfolding in Three and Four Dimensions: Spiral and Zonal Selection Rules

arXiv:2605.30373v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Apple-Peel Unfolding is a greedy algorithm that selects the faces (or cells) of a polyhedron (or polytope) one at a time in a spiral order, producing a net analogous to peeling an apple in a single continuous strip. We define two face-selection rules -- RS (Spiral rule: minimum signed determinant, i.e.\ sharpest clockwise turn) and RZ (Zonal rule: maximum coordinate along the peeling axis) -- and systematically evaluate their unfolding success...

Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs

I bought a few old games from them: SimCity 2000, Theme Hospital, Syndicate Plus. And by old games, I mean games from my childhood that still play like a good game, and not like digital drugs the likes of which are available for free from the mobile app stores. Anyway, the thing with GOG is that for DOS games, they basically ship the installers with DOSBox inside.

A prognostic human brain network for diffuse midline glioma

Abstract Diffuse midline gliomas (DMGs) are near-universally lethal tumours of the childhood central nervous system1,2. In animal models, DMGs form brain-wide integrated networks through neuron-to-glioma synapses3,4,5,6 and glioma-to-glioma gap junctional coupling3. This extensive connectivity robustly promotes the growth and invasion of DMG3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and other glial malignancies10,11,12 through paracrine mechanisms and direct neuron-to-glioma synapses.