Nestled between an original Donkey Kong arcade machine, a mint condition OutRun racing simulation game and booths wired up with GameCubes and Nintendo 64s, the engineer Luke Malpass works away dismantling a broken Nintendo Wii. There has been a steady stream of people bringing in their old game consoles for repairs or modifications, on the house, to Four Quarters, a retro games arcade in Elephant and Castle, which has been transformed into a games clinic for two days. Gabriella Rosenau, 35, brought in her broken Wii that had been in the garage "for years". "I still play my brother's old Nintendo 64 and I love it, but I'd really love to get [the Wii] fixed." "I've done the odd bit of Call of Duty and the PlayStation stuff, but I have more of an interest in the retro games," she adds. Rosenau is part of a growing community who are ditching contemporary video games and picking up the consoles from their childhood, or even before their time.

A language arts teacher has shared the bizarre conspiracy theories her sixth grade students believe in and what fostered that beliefs. The teacher, who goes by the name Ms Alexanderr, said was amazed by her students' ideas and wanted to compile a list of the top five most she felt were the most bizarre. While the teacher said she wasn't surprised by one conspiracy theory that birds aren't real, she was shocked and couldn't understand others. Among them was the theory that Bill Nye the science guy is a Russian spy while another claimed Michael Jackson was still alive. The pop-star conspiracy was particularly perplexing, because her students were born after he died in 2009.

'The Five' co-hosts discuss how Bill Maher is blasting the left's obsession with race. "Star Wars" actor Billy Dee Williams pushed back on Bill Maher's "Club Random" podcast after the liberal host called today's youth "fragile." The two commiserated over not understanding the younger generations before Maher launched into a blistering tirade against today's youth. The liberal host called modern young adults "fragile" like "hothouse plants," because they were "raised wrong." Williams, who played Lando Calrissian in Star Wars, offered, before suggesting the younger generations simply lacked a "sense of history."

The bouncy, midi melody of Nintendo's Wii theme descends into a drill beat. A Game Boy Colour opens up into a lip gloss case. ASAP Rocky goes "full Minecraft" in a pixelated hoodie, and a panting man bobs up and down with his arm stuck in a bush. This is not a glitch. Both online and IRL, pop culture is embracing the aesthetics of retro gaming.

Zeerak Ahmed has spent years in the U.S., working for some of the world's biggest tech companies. But one thing he has grown frustrated with is how "computing treats non-Latin languages as second class citizens." One such language is his mother tongue, Urdu, the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan, which is also widely spoken in India. Ahmed, who is from Lahore, has had many conversations with his friends and family about the difficulties of trying to use existing Urdu keyboards or read Urdu type. And he has witnessed many young people instead resorting to English or so-called Roman Urdu, using the Latin script to produce a phonetic transliteration, in the absence of a better solution.

Myth: There is nothing you can personally do to stop climate change. Fact: There is something you can personally do, but you didn't do it. Myth: Our children will wander tornado-swept wastes strewn with the shards of a great civilization. Fact: Typhoon-swept wastes will be more common. Myth: Earth's climate has changed naturally in the past, so modern climate change must also be a natural process.

The youth of today are growing up surrounded by artificial intelligence (AI). Their values, ways of thinking, and moral codes are all shaped not only by their parents or immediate caregivers but also by the technology that is ever-present in their daily lives. This article will dive into the impacts of AI and how these can shape the future of the youth today. When talking about AI, simply put – it is everywhere. AI is not just about robots or self-navigating vehicles.

For PC Magazine's charter issue(Opens in a new window) in early 1982, the newly minted editor-in-chief and publisher David Bunnell flew to Seattle to interview a fresh-faced, 26-year-old Bill Gates, the president and co-founder of a little software company called Microsoft. Bunnell's goal with this exclusive interview was to understand the part Microsoft and its software played in the development of the groundbreaking IBM PC that was born less than a year earlier. After all, that IBM PC was the namesake of Bunnell's new publication. In the interview, the two discuss how much fun it was for Bill and his team to contribute to the IBM project, how gratifying it was to have been part of it, and how the IBM and Microsoft teams worked together to actually get it done. They even speak of shooting jokes back and forth via an early form of email used for communication between the two teams. Besides recalling many of the gritty details of how the software and hardware were developed together (it was a two-hour interview!),

You may have heard of the metaverse -- but let's be honest: do you really know what that means? If you're unsure, you're not alone: The metaverse is hard to pinpoint. It doesn't even have a definition in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Cathy Hackl, tells Freethink. A "Chief Metaverse Officer," Hackl is a professionally trained futurist and strategist, who has worked with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Magic Leap, and HTC VIVE, and helps brands understand how this new paradigm will affect their businesses. If you think of Web 1.0 as the internet that connected us to information, and Web 2.0 as the social-media iteration, which connects people, Web 3.0 (which we're now entering) is connecting people, places, and things, says Hackl. "Sometimes, these people, places, and things can be in a fully virtual or synthetic environment, or they could be in a physical world with some level of augmentation," she said.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and retail are a good fit. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation worldwide and is whipping up different business verticals to adopt various AI technologies. As per the UNCTAD survey, more than half of consumers of the emerging and developed economies are shopping online. The part of AI in the retail market in 2020 was valued at USD 1,80 billion and is expected to reach USD 10,90 billion at a CAGR of 35% by 2026. It seems like it is high time for going big or going home for retailers.