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Some imaginative and resourceful game preservationists have reverse-engineered a long-lost F-Zero game from the mid-'90s. Eurogamer reports that faithful recreations of two BS F-Zero Grand Prix games, broadcast exclusively for Nintendo’s long-defunct Satellaview satellite gaming extension for the Super Famicom, are now available to play for free as add-ons for the original ROMs.

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The Sims 4 is adding vitiligo in a free update, allowing players to create Sims with the skin condition. The new patch is available right now, in case you need an excuse to boot up the popular life simulator and thoroughly tank your productivity.

Announced today, The Sims 4's new update enables players to give their Sims vitiligo patches in its Create-a-Sim character creator. There are multiple



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With Every Noise at Once no longer updating, finding new music directly on Spotify has become a farce. | Image: Nick Barclay / The Verge

Spotify sucks at new music discovery. That’s not exactly a hot take considering how long users have been complaining about it over the years, but it used to be much easier to forgive when alternative services like Pandora and SoundCloud co



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Elmo celebrated his birthday earlier this month. The beloved children’s entertainer made his first appearance on Sesame Street in 1980, so it seems like a fair guess that he would have turned at least 44 years old this year. By any normal measure, Elmo should be a middle-aged man, but lurking in the details of his…

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United Airlines briefly grounded its fleet of brand-new Airbus A321neo planes, according to a report by Gizmodo. This had nothing to do with safety, as was the case with that recent Boeing controversy. Rather, it was due to the aircraft running afoul of a 1990 regulation regarding “no smoking” signs.

The 1990 ruling mandates that “no smoking” signs found on aircraft must be manually operated by



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People walk along Fifth Avenue during the Open Streets program on December 18, 2022 in New York City.
  • There are "pockets of stress" within an otherwise strong US economy, Apollo's co-president Jim Zelter said.
  • Many corporate borrowers are grappling with high debt and a slow recovery from the pandemic. 
  • Zelter said he sees signs of "hardening of

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An unspecified defect in early model Starlink satellites has prompted SpaceX to preemptively deorbit the units before they potentially fail and become hazards in low Earth orbit. While the company remains confident that the deorbiting of these problematic units will prevent any issues, this incident underscores the…

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Xi Jinping makes a public pledge of allegiance to the Constitution at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 10, 2023.
  • China's economy is transitioning from an old to newer one, Standard Chartered Bill Winters told CNBC.
  • The country's new economy is actually booming into double-digit growth rates, though confidence doesn't reflect this.
  • China is letting

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A winter snowstorm in New York could cause some voters to skip voting in a special election being held to replace Republican Rep. George Santos.
  • Long Island is holding a special election to replace former Rep. George Santos' House seat.
  • Polling has been tight but has shown Democratic candidate Tom Suozzi with a slight lead.
  • Several inches of predicted snowfall on Tuesday

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