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At the end of last week, there were rumblings that GameStop would make a bid on eBay, a company roughly four times its size. Then on Sunday night, before markets opened this week, the gaming retailer made the offer official: $56 billion to acquire the online auction and reseller platform. GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen claims it’s a match made in heaven, while everyone else is left scratching their heads as the meme stock company tries to extend its death grip around the market for rare Pokémon cards and other collectibles. The offer to eBay’s board comes to $125 a share,…

A mysterious green rock discovered high in the Pyrenees suggests that prehistoric people maintained a high-altitude copper mining camp in Spain for more than four millennia, according to archaeologists. The cave was filled with layers of green mineral fragments and abundant pieces of charcoal, which suggests that people repeatedly returned to the seasonal camp for generations.Archaeologists discovered the cave at around 7,333 feet (2,235 meters) above sea level in the Spanish province of Girona, near the mountainous border with France. Inside, the researchers found human remains, animal bones, broken ceramic vessels and prehistoric fireplaces — all evidence that people used…

After an unanticipated five-week break in the season, Formula One resumed action this past weekend in Miami. Held at a temporary circuit around Hard Rock Stadium, the event is emblematic of the Liberty era of F1: a turbocharged marketing extravaganza crammed full of hospitality suites with ticket prices as high as $95,000. It might be miles from the sea—the original plans to race across a bridge over Biscayne Bay did not survive contact with locals—but the sport is doing its best to make this a modern Monaco, playing up the host city’s glamorous reputation and pastel color palette. As we…

Dispatch, AdHoc’s superhero workplace comedy (also known as “Twilight for dudes”), has two love interests for protagonist Robert Robertson III. Blonde Blazer is the more standup superhero, while Invisigal is the angsty ex-villain. They contrast each other pretty well, and which relationship players choose can change a fair bit of the game. However, regardless of which lady you woo, Invisigal has substantially more screentime and interactions than Blonde Blazer. However, AdHoc claims this wasn’t a matter of the studio favoring her. In fandoms where shipping and romance are a central point of community conflict, the perception that some options are…

Volcanic activity takes on many forms in western El Salvador. The land near the city of Ahuachapán is pockmarked with craters and covered with recent lava flows. Meanwhile, a geothermal field feeds geysers, heats mineral pools, and powers a long-operating energy plant. The area is part of a volcanic landscape that stretches more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) along the Pacific coast from Guatemala to Panama, composing the Central American Volcanic Arc.  On the right side of the image, Santa Ana stands at 2,381 meters (7,812 feet) above sea level as the country’s tallest volcano. Its summit features several crescent-shaped ridges…

GameStop wants to slash eBay marketing budget Morgan Stanley similarly doubted the potential cost savings. “On the expense side, we also think the potential opportunities would likely be minimal as physical and digital business require different cost bases, as do 3P marketplaces vs. 1P wholesalers. To add another challenge, GameStop has already undergone a series of large cost cuts,” the research note said. Morgan Stanley analysts expressed skepticism about “how a deal would be financed given the material valuation gap.” If completed, they said it could end up as the largest leveraged buyout ever, “surpassing the recently announced $55 billion Electronic…

Target stores are running a Pokémon merch promotion for the next few months encompassing clothing, toys, makeup, lifestyle items, and more, and fans have predictably gone just a liiiiiittle overboard in their enthusiasm. In addition to lining up outside stores and buying up lip balm like it’s going extinct, some people are managing to make a little money by scalping one weird product in particular: Pokémon Pop-Tarts. Pokémon Pop-Tarts come in Pikachu-emblazoned boxes of 12 pastries (six wrapped packages of two each). They are “Frosted Vanilla Cupcake” flavored, and cost $2.89 per box. These snacks are proving quite popular—they just went on…

Sign Up For Goods 🛍️ Product news, reviews, and must-have deals. Golf driver faces have been almost exclusively titanium for more than three decades, with some detours into carbon fiber. Callaway tried one of those detours itself with the all-composite C4 in the early 2000s. Its new Quantum drivers take a different approach to the problem: keep the titanium, add the carbon, and bond the two with a polymer the company describes as “military-grade.” The layered build, which Callaway is calling the Tri-Force Face, debuts across all five of its flagship Quantum driver heads this season. The titanium-carbon trade-off It’s…

A study that claimed OpenAI’s ChatGPT can positively impact student learning has been retracted nearly one year after publication. The journal publisher, Springer Nature, cited “discrepancies” in the analysis and a lack of confidence in the conclusions—but not before the paper racked up hundreds of citations and made the rounds on social media. “The paper’s authors made some very attention-grabbing claims about the benefits of ChatGPT on learning outcomes,” said Ben Williamson, a senior lecturer at the Centre for Research in Digital Education and the Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, in an email to Ars.…

Reggie Fils-Aimé, former Nintendo of America president, has remained fairly on-message and diplomatic in his retirement doing speaker circuits. But he recently had a few…well, not sharp, but certainly carefully chosen words for all the companies conducting mass layoffs lately, referring to this behavior as a “red flag” and encouraging senior developers to use caution when considering working for such companies. Speaking at NYU in a conversation with professor Joost Van Dreunen, Fils-Aimé touched on a number of subjects, including Nintendo’s decision to stop selling games on Amazon. Toward the end of his time, Fils-Aimé took questions, and heard from…