Month: March 2020

Red Magic 5G smartphone features 144Hz display, 16GB RAM, and a cooling fan

Nubia’s latest gaming smartphone features a 6.65 inch, 2340 x 1080 pixel AMOLED display with a 144 Hz refresh rate, a 340 Hz touch sampling rate, and no camera notch or punch hole. Instead, the new Red Magic 5G smartphone has a slim top bezel wit…

Nubia’s latest gaming smartphone features a 6.65 inch, 2340 x 1080 pixel AMOLED display with a 144 Hz refresh rate, a 340 Hz touch sampling rate, and no camera notch or punch hole. Instead, the new Red Magic 5G smartphone has a slim top bezel with a tiny selfie camera inside. The phone also carries on […]

Lego teams up with Nintendo for Super Mario brick-based game

Lego Super Mario sets go on sale in August, we think.

Lego teams up with Nintendo for Super Mario brick-based game

Enlarge (credit: LEGO/Nintendo)

For a while now, the online Lego community has been puzzled by cryptic clues about a Super Mario collaboration between the Danish brick merchants and Nintendo. We've had Lego video games, and obviously we've had Super Mario games, so some naturally thought it might be another video game. On Thursday morning, Lego finally spilled some of the beans.

The team-up is not for a new console game where you build castles for Bowser, and it doesn't appear to be a new range of amiibos or Mario-themed brickheadz. It's going to be a physical, brick-based take on the platform adventure called Lego Super Mario, where you can build out actual levels for our now-plastic plumber to negotiate. Since this is 2020 and not 1920, the Mario figure and some of the bricks are smart, so you can collect coins, items from question blocks, and maybe even squish koopas.

Mario has LED displays in his chest and eyes, and he has a speaker embedded in there to make the noises you expect him to make when he gets some coins or a 1UP. And the special bricks look like they activate him, possibly with magnets.

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Gesetzentwurf: Bundestag diskutiert über Demokratie und Hasskriminalität

Der Rückhalt bei der ersten Lesung des Gesetzentwurfes zur Bekämpfung des Rechtsextremismus und der Hasskriminalität im Bundestag war groß. Kritische Stimmen gab es nur wenige. (Bundesregierung, Datenschutz)

Der Rückhalt bei der ersten Lesung des Gesetzentwurfes zur Bekämpfung des Rechtsextremismus und der Hasskriminalität im Bundestag war groß. Kritische Stimmen gab es nur wenige. (Bundesregierung, Datenschutz)

Unix-Desktop: Gnome 3.36 setzt auf Design

Änderungen am Sperrbildschirm und der Shell sollen Gnome 3.36 aufhübschen. Hinzu kommen viele nützliche Kleinigkeiten. (Gnome, Linux)

Änderungen am Sperrbildschirm und der Shell sollen Gnome 3.36 aufhübschen. Hinzu kommen viele nützliche Kleinigkeiten. (Gnome, Linux)