Friday night topic: how dinosaurs probably looked
There's a new Jurassic Park movie coming out soon, over 20 years since the first movie and Michael Crichton's books changed the popular image of dinosaurs from slow-moving reptiles to quicker, warm-blooded animals. The academic consensus on dinosaurs has changed quite a bit since then, largely because we've come to accept that dinosaurs are closely related to modern-day birds.
Like it or not, the new movie will not follow in Crichton's footsteps by reconfiguring its dinos to look as we now suspect they did: frequently covered with feathers or downy proto-feathers, perhaps with brightly-colored plumage and display structures made of keratin. I ...
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Thermaltake's Suppressor F51 mid-tower looks a tad familiar
Cases with noise-reduction features, like Cooler Master's Silencio 652S and the Fractal Design Define R5, are becoming more common, and we're all for it. Thermaltake is offering its own spin on the idea in the form of the new Suppressor F51.
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Friday Shortbread
Eight is Enough
- ASCII by Jason Scott: Yes, I want your AOL CDs
- WCCFtech: Biostar unveils Skylake-ready, Gaming X170X4 motherboard
- VideoCardz: Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti performance benchmarks
- It Runs on Linux: Lemon Pi, a powerful Raspberry Pi clone
- Android Police: Nvidia finally acknowledges the 500GB Shield
Pro, says it will be out this month alongside the standard version
- Phone Arena: A Samsung tablet with 4GB of RAM and
a high-end, 14nm Intel processor spotted on Geekbench
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt patch 1.03 for PC now available
- Ars Technica UK: AMD says Nvidia's GameWorks
"completely sabotaged" Witcher 3 performance
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