In 18th century Vienna, the Hungarian engineer and debutant Wolfgang von Kempelen shocked court patrons with a bizarre contraption: a great mechanical box which could seemingly play and even win chess ...

If you’ve got a set number of apps that you use every day, or every time you switch your PC on, you may as well set them all to open on startup. That way you’ll save a heap of time opening them ...

Green is just too skilled with those Note Blocks, so Red, Blue and Yellow create a musical chicken to help defeat him in an epic Battle of the Bands. Epstein files released — including many Clinton ...

⚠️Warning⚠️ the song in this animation is very catchy. A Strange Gas-Pumping Defect Is Making $100,000 Corvettes Go Up in Flames Colts steal improbable victory from Broncos after officials throw ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Slime is one of the Minecraft mobs that initially appears hostile, but upon killing it you will find useful items for many sought-after crafting ...

The Windows Vista boot sound appears in the latest Windows 11 Dev Channel build. The Windows Vista boot sound appears in the latest Windows 11 Dev Channel build. is a senior editor and author of ...

The recently released Windows 11 Dev and Beta builds introduced some welcome changes and improvements. However, those preview builds are not flawless and have a pretty long list of known issues. One ...

Beware the BitLocker startup loop after Windows 10 update. Update, May 18, 2025: This story, originally published May 17, has now been updated with a statement from Microsoft regarding the Windows 10 ...

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. A Minecraft Movie, which has now earned over $800 million at the worldwide box office, is getting Block Party Edition screenings that encourage audiences to talk and ...

Alongside some bloke called Miles Davis. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The original music for Minecraft, alongside the reboot ...

Just listen to that short clip above. Go on, I'll wait. That, my friends, is the sound that began some of my early computing experiences, when this hardware writer was a mere whelp dipping his toes ...

What just happened? Sounds from Microsoft and Minecraft were among the 25 recordings recently inducted into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress based on their historical, ...