Friday 26th April 2024

From Ancient Egypt to Roman Britain, brewers are reviving beers from the past

Beer archaeologists are peering back millennia to recreate brews from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome using ancient methods and ingredients.

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Effective Leaders Articulate Values — and Live by Them | Morela Hernandez and Catherine Summers

The spring 2024 issue's special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.

The spring 2024 issue's special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.

Values lie at the heart of effective leadership, serving as the foundation for decisions and organizational cultures. Yet in the lecture halls, meeting rooms, and offices where we teach leadership, we regularly see a muddiness around how to think about these core principles.

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Nothing's Ear A Wireless Earbuds Are Bright, Stylish, and an Unbeatable Value

A flashy new color, redesigned case, and near-parity with the more expensive Ear make the Ear A an incredible value.

Take the Ear A, Nothing’s replacement for the original Ear 1 wireless earbuds that put the tech startup on the map just a few years ago. The new wireless earbuds are bright; they’re bold; they’re completely and utterly yellow.

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20 Years Later, Nintendo's Best Paper Mario Game Gets a Stunning Remake

Besides knowing how to jump, Mario can also weave a good yarn, and he has plenty of lore to explore in the Paper Mario franchise. This 2D role-playing series first graced the Nintendo 64 in 2000 before returning with the widely beloved GameCube sequel, The Thousand-Year Door, a game that’s both heavy on narrative and funny characters.

Next month, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door returns with a polished remake for Nintendo Switch. It’s an updated version of a 20-year-old game, the one that gamers love the most out of every title in the series. The graphics and audio have all been revamped and enhanced while the wit of the original 2004 GameCube title is kept intact. However, Nintendo did update some of the language to suit modern tastes, a representative said during a media preview.

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10 Things the Rabbit R1 Can Do That the Humane Ai Pin Can't

Comparing the launch day features on both AI-powered gadgets, the Rabbit R1 is the clear winner.

It’s hard not to pit the Rabbit R1 and the Humane Ai Pin against each other. After all, Rabbit just welcomed its vibrant orange device into the world with a pickup party in New York City, just weeks after the Ai Pin started shipping to its first customers.

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43 Years Later, One of the Most Important RPGs Ever Made Is Getting an Exciting Remake

You may not have played the dungeon crawler Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, but you’ve almost certainly played one of the games it inspired. Released in 1981 for the Apple II, Wizardry was one of the first roleplaying games available on computers, and the very first to feature the party-based setup so common in the genre. Now, it’s set to return to PC and consoles in a form that should be appealing to newcomers and old-school fans alike.

The Wizardry remake comes from Digital Eclipse, the same studio behind last year’s The Making of Karateka and this year’s Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story. The game entered Early Access on Steam in fall 2023, and its full release is set for May 23, which also marks the first time it will be available on consoles.

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Star Wars Just Gave Its Most Overlooked Villain a Devastating Origin Story

Star Wars has given pop culture several iconic villains, but some of its antagonists have felt undercooked. The upcoming short anthology series Tales of the Empire will finally tell us more about two of its most underrated baddies: Mandalorian and Ahsoka antagonist Morgan Elsbeth, and Clone Wars Jedi turncoat Barriss Offee. With the entire series dropping in a little more than a week, we’re getting our first glimpse at what’s coming, and it includes the reveal that one of these characters was present at a Clone Wars tragedy.

In a new clip released by IGN, we get a look at a Tales episode set during Season 4, Episode 19 of The Clone Wars, “Massacre.” That episode depicted General Grievous' attack on Dathomir and focused on the Nightsisters Assajj Ventress and Mother Talzin as they resisted the invasion.

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Star Trek's Biggest Badass Reveals a Surprising Starship Secret

David Ajala’s journey in the Final Frontier is coming to a close. Although Ajala only joined the cast of Star Trek: Discovery in 2020, at the start of Season 3, it certainly feels like his rugged space courier with a heart of gold — Cleveland “Book” Booker — has been on in the series longer than he really has. As Book, Ajala brought some Indiana Jones swagger to Discovery, albeit with a touch of Gene Roddenberry idealism.

The fifth episode of Discovery’s final season puts Book and Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) into a perilous and very familiar setting, one which connects back to The Original Series, Deep Space Nine, Discovery’s second season, and even Strange New Worlds.

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'Metaphor: ReFantazio' Fixes the Most Annoying Part of the 'Persona' Games

Atlus may be best known for its popular Shin Megami Tensei and Persona franchises, but later this year, the Japanese game developer is set to release a bold new take on fantasy RPGs in the form of Metaphor: ReFantazio. Everything we’ve seen of the game so far makes it clear the lessons learned from Persona are being applied to Metaphor, and there are even features lifted directly from that series, like the calendar and time system. But there’s one key piece of Persona that won’t be making the jump: romance options.

While that might seem surprising, it’s a step in the right direction. Persona’s romances often feel out of place, or even detract from the series’ stellar storytelling. So Metaphor not having romance options is the perfect choice. Still not convinced? Let’s dive in.

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Did 'X-Men '97' Just Ruin a Classic Avenger?

The Star-Spangled Man makes an appearance in the animated series — but on the wrong side of history.

When it comes to the X-Men, it’s always the mutant team against the world, even if that means changing the core beliefs of another familiar superhero. We’ve seen this in the comics time and again, particularly when the X-Men faced the Avengers. Heroes who would otherwise stand up for mutantkind suddenly displayed surprising anti-mutant bias, creating rifts in characterization and sparking endless debates through the Marvel fandom.

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