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Amazon's satellite broadband ambitions are taking shape fast. The company's Leo constellation — formerly known as Project Kuiper — now stands at three hundred ninety six satellites after an Atlas V rocket delivered twenty nine more into low Earth orbit on July second. A commercial broadband launch is expected before the year is out.
Shifting to something with a bit more nostalgia baked in — a developer has released Pixel a Go-Go for iOS, an app that takes Game Boy Camera photos and retro game screenshots and upscales them to five thousand pixel resolution. You can pull images from original hardware, FPGA handhelds like the Analogue Pocket, or emulators, then share them anywhere you'd share a photo. It's a genuinely clever bridge between old hardware and modern social media.
And for anyone who grew up watching cities sprawl across a monitor in SimCity, the gaming history site The Digital Antiquarian has kicked off a deep-dive series on Maxis, the studio behind it all. Part one traces the company's earliest ambitions — a vision so sprawling its founders once called it SimEverything. It's a reminder that the most influential studios often started with ideas far bigger than their budgets.
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