Sony recently announced that the online storefronts for the PS3 and PS Vita will be shutting down over the course of the next year. As a result, PlayStation users will be losing digital access to a variety of classic PS1 games that are very expensive to purchase physically. In anticipation of this shutdown, there are around 20 games that are worth picking up now to avoid having to pay ludicrous prices for an original PlayStation copy. The shutdown of the PS3 and PS Vita stores will begin in August 2026 in Mexico, Honduras, and Nicaragua, while additional Latin America and…

Some of us really love bacon, but unfortunately, it has a shelf-life. A common storage option is to freeze it, and that works fine… for about a month. That’s the tough thing about storing bacon. You can only keep it in the fridge for a couple of weeks, and the longest you can extend that is a month in the freezer. One alternative that some people like is bacon-flavored TVP or textured vegetable protein. It does add a bacon flavor to food as a topping, and it can last up to 10 years, but it’s not really bacon. It’s soy…

It’s spring in Alaska, and I’m on a multihour run in the temperate rainforest. Moss clings to the branches of old-growth forests, and waterfalls cascade from the precipitous mountainsides above. The rain is ceaseless. Combined with an ambient air temperature of around 35 degrees, these are the type of conditions where I can’t stop moving without risking hypothermia in a remote setting. Pausing briefly for a snack break, I pull out my three extra layers and don them under a large Sitka Spruce. Carried in the Hyperlite Pemi 15, my extra layers are safe and dry, allowing me to comfortably…

I’ve developed a healthy distrust of our digital world, and for a number of reasons, but none of them involve a distrust of technology as a whole. I absolutely love technology. I’m still delighted that I get to live with modern medicine and air conditioning, for example, and I think the coolest tech I’ve seen in my life is the 3D printer. In my mind, it opens up so much potential for evolution that it’s likely to change manufacturing forever. I can, for a reasonable price, buy a device that will let me prototype a…

Cmdr. Gabriel Edwards, commanding officer of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 5, has been identified by the U.S. Navy as the sailor who went missing following a helicopter’s emergency landing in the Arabian Sea on July 1. The Navy made the announcement Tuesday evening, two days after announcing that the search for Edwards had been suspended. Edwards and three others were aboard an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter last week and assigned to the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush. The aircraft made an emergency water landing in the Arabian Sea at about 3:30 a.m. EST, according to U.S. Naval Forces…

Do you think “Divorcee State Park” is an attractive name? How about “Feminist Freedom River Park?” Or maybe “The Best Little Divorce Ranch in Nevada?” OK, that might be going too far. But Nevada’s newest park acquisition isn’t just Carson River land with rich riparian habitat for fish and wildlife. It was also part of a “uniquely Nevada industry,” according to Western Rivers Conservancy, which transferred the land to Nevada State Parks last week. The park — currently open to public name suggestions — was once a “divorce ranch.” In the 1940s, Nevada’s lenient laws only required a 6-week residency to…

Of all the Central Intelligence Agency secrets revealed to the world by the so-called Church Committee of the 1970s, perhaps none captured the American public’s imagination as vividly as the agency’s “heart attack gun.” During the Cold War, there was almost nothing the CIA wouldn’t do to get a leg up on the Soviet Union, from simple operations such as intercepting and reading the mail of American citizens to more serious — and equally illegal — acts such as dosing “unwitting, nonvoluntary human subjects” with LSD and seeing how well they would hold up to interrogation. We know about these…

One of the world’s most thrilling winter sports is finally coming to the world’s biggest stage. Freeride skiing and snowboarding has been steadily growing in popularity since at least the 1990s, when this gnarly alpine discipline was codified with official contests in the U.S. and Europe. It’s a rough-and-tumble sport that’s also fun as hell to watch. And now it’s coming to the Olympic Games. On Tuesday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that freeride skiing and snowboarding will debut at the Alpes 2030 Olympic Winter Games. This is a major milestone for a sport that relies on natural terrain,…

I came across this on Facebook earlier today, and I felt like I needed to address it. The reason, of course, is that it’s absolutely stupid, and someone posted this with the intention of it being read as profound or something. Let’s break this down for a moment.”You’re afraid we will take your guns away.”Yes, we are. We are because too many of your fellow travelers have tried it or advocated for it from the start. Just this year, Rhode Island tried to take the modern sporting rifles of residents, the very guns it grandfathered…

Epic Games settles its legal case against a former Fortnite contract worker accused of leaking details about collaborations. Credit: Image by GameRant | Source: Epic Games Originally published by  Game Rant Fortnite developer Epic Games has settled a lawsuit with a former contract worker who was accused of leaking unreleased details concerning Fortnite’s planned collaborations. The settlement details between the Fortnite development team and the accused ex-contractor were not publicly disclosed as of this writing. The settlement came months after Epic Games filed a lawsuit against a leaker known as AdiraFN. AdiraFN, who was subsequently revealed to be former Epic Games…

By Larry Keane I’ve got to be honest. I had mixed emotions when the U.S. Supreme Court announced it was going to hear arguments challenging bans on the sale of Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs). First, I was downright giddy. Then, with a sigh, I thought, “It’s about time.” In fact, NSSF used the word “elated” in our statement upon hearing that Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins will be heard by the Supreme Court in the next session. These petitions were relisted several times before the Supreme Court ultimately decided to grant cert. Viramontes and Grant challenge Cook County, Illinois and Connecticut’s respective bans on MSR possession, the…

Every recruit, in the first few weeks of boot camp, will get in a line during their medical evaluations and get stuck in the arm with all sorts of needles and have thermometers shoved into some uncomfortable places. Welcome to the military! Out of all the medications recruits get injected with throughout their processing week, none of them are as feared as the almighty “peanut butter” shot. While these peanut butter shots are awesome, the ones we get in boot camp are far from exciting. The “peanut butter” shot, in the military, is a slang term for the famous bicillin…