The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities.

Today, sharing art on social media is like running on a treadmill forever. At least, that’s how illustrator Lois van Baarle describes it. “You have to post constantly,” Van Baarle, who got her start in the early aughts on DeviantArt, explained. “Otherwise, the algorithm decides you’re not interesting, and will not show your posts to your followers.”

Before big tech shepherded the vast number of online users onto a handful of sleek websites, there was a scrappier internet—where offbeat chat rooms and eccentric niche websites reigned, and carefully crafted “away statuses” were a kind of personal branding—back when you could be away from the internet. Until attention spans became a commodity, the internet was dreamed of as a “bastion for people to direct their own education,” as Charles Broskoski, co-founder of internet bookmarking site are.na, remembers.

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Three Generations of Xbox System-Link | MVG

Spanning 17 years you can play multiplayer games with any combination of Original Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One S or X, but utilizing System-Link – a form of multiplayer gaming that was introduced in 2001 with the Original Xbox and still supported in 2019 with the Xbox One.

In this episode MVG takes a look at the history of System-Link, How Three Generations of Xbox Consoles support it, and what makes it so awesome .

The ATOMIC Pi Android x86 Test $35 X86 SBC

In this video, ETA Prime tests out Android X86 on the all-new Atomic Pi Single Board Computer, He’s actually running Prime OS in this video but it’s just a mof=dified version on Android that runs on any x86 computer. He runs some benchmarks and test out some native android games like PUBG and Mincraft plus some N64 emulation. Let’s see how it performs.

Machine Learning Is Giving Retro Games Cutting-Edge Graphics

Your favorite classic video games are getting a killer makeover. But it’s not big-name game developers making the improvements: it’s independent modders.

Most game updates require teams of designers and coders working for months or even years, according to a fascinating new feature in The Verge, but now many are using machine learning to expedite the process — allowing a single highly-motivated modder to refurbish a game in just a few weeks.

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Windows 10: Microsoft lists the processors you’ll need for the May 2019 Update

Microsoft has updated its minimum processor requirements for the next major feature release of Windows 10, version 1903 or the May 2019 Update.

The biggest news from the freshly updated list of CPUs rated as “requirements” for Windows 10 1903 Semi-Annual Channel (SAC) — SAC being ready for businesses to deploy  — is that it’s exactly the same as the list for Windows 10 version 1809. 

Windows 10 1809, of course, is the much-delayed version of Windows 10 that limped out after the infamous data destruction bug and a ZIP data loss glitch were discovered. That’s why Windows 10 1903 is now, for the first time, sitting with Release Preview testers for an extra round of checksbefore being released to general users in late May, with the exception of IT pros who can get it via MSDN as of April 18.  

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