Sketch group Aunty Donna’s new parody of Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch episode will send you on a 40-minute unskippable walk around Melbourne if you make the wrong choices

Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch was an ambitious and slickly produced experiment in interactive TV, presenting an episode of the series in the form of a choose-your-own adventure with multiple possible storylines and endings. Aunty Donna’s Bandersketch is… well, a lot sillier. The popular Australian comedy group’s parody version invites you to help them write a new…

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An engineer has worked out how to speed up a 3D printer by 1000% with a Nintendo Switch, though ‘for most people, a Raspberry Pi is a better choice’

With the power of Linux installed on a Nintendo Switch, and open-source firmware called Klipper, YouTuber Cocoanix has figured out a way to speed up their 3D printing by 1000%. A model that usually takes 90 minutes to print took a mere eight in their latest video. As spotted by Hackaday, Cocoanix didn’t technically need…

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Intel’s 270K Plus is worthy of being picked by Thermal Grizzly as a delidded option, and it’s even cheaper than a stock 285K

After years of outrageous power levels, self-destructing chips, and underwhelming laptop options, Intel’s pair of Arrow Lake Refresh processors—the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and Core Ultra 7 270K Plus—are so good that almost all of Team Blue’s recent failings can be forgiven. And in the case of the 270K Plus, it’s received one more…

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‘Going just 0.5 mm thicker would probably have saved me months of engineering’: Redditor crafts actual credit card sized computer

My happy place is learning about cool things made by cool people with their own two cool hands. A self-powered, actually credit card-sized computer definitely fits that bill. Now, some would describe any number of Raspberry Pi computers as ‘credit card sized.’ I’d personally love to see those folks attempt to slide one of those…

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Star Wars: The Old Republic’s original director hadn’t played a single MMO before launching its development studio: ‘How the hell did they trust me with this much money?’

The original director of BioWare’s long-running MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic—which is now being run by Broadsword—had not played a single game in the genre when he started work on it, he has revealed. In an interview, BioWare veteran James Ohlen described the studio’s founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk calling him into their…

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