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Photo: Vjeran Pavic, The Verge Think about how you like to play video games. Are you the type to sink into your couch, controller in hand, TV across the living room, for a few hours of Madden? If so, Sony’s new PlayStation 5 Pro is not for you. But if you find yourself leaning forward, creeping ever closer to the screen, looking for every clue hidden in the grass or every tiny twitchy graphical advantage, a $700 console might not be such a silly idea. On this episode of The Vergecast, The Verge’s Sean Hollister joins the show to talk about his experience with the PS5 Pro. We go through what you can expect from this super-powered new gaming machine, which games and which gamers might get the most from it, and why the PS5 Pro might have more in common with a gaming PC... Continue reading…

Image: Palworld Palworld developer Pocketpair has revealed the patents at the center of the infringement lawsuit Nintendo and The Pokémon Company filed in Japan back in September. Pocketpair has also shared that, in addition to 5 million yen each plus late fees, they’re “seeking an injunction against the game and compensation for a portion of the damages incurred between the date of registration of the patents and the date of filing of this lawsuit. The Pokémon Company cites three patents, No. 7545191, No. 7493117, and No. 7528390. You can see them online and read the claims to determine what they cover. From the claims, they appear to describe Pokémon-style activities, with 191 focused on the act of throwing a ball at characters in a field, 117 tied to... Continue reading…

Five starfish in a highly elaborate ritual deposit at the Toltec site of Tula have been found – an exhibition of how central the ocean and its creatures were to the economy, religion, and artistic practices of pre-Hispanic times. Subject of a recent study, specialists and archaeologists alike focused on a group of calcareous plates discovered in the 1990s, found in a ritual deposit at the Burned Palace structure. They’ve been dated to between 950 and 1000 AD. The Tula Archaeological Zone in Hidalgo is under investigation by specialists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and the Institute of Marine Sciences and Limnology (ICML) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The aforementioned calcareous plates (which are the bony structures made of calcium carbonate that form the skeleton of many marine invertebrates) have long been suspected to be remains of echinoderms - a variety of marine species that include sea stars, sea cucumbers, brittle stars, and urchins. These finds have been published in the latest edition of Mexican Archaeology (Arquelogica Mexica). Biggest Aztec Starfish Altar Ever, Found in Templo Mayor, Mexico City! Toltecs: Fierce Warriors Who Changed the Face of Mesoamerica for Good Read moreSection: ArtifactsOther ArtifactsNewsHistory & ArchaeologyAncient PlacesAmericasRead Later 

Democrat U.S. senators and other party members are mulling convincing Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to resign so President Joe Biden can replace her with another leftist judge before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20.

President-elect Donald Trump should give GOP senators room to decide about the race to pick outgoing Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's successor, according to Senate Republican Whip John Thune, one of the three lawmakers in contention for the role.

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A fragment of cloth found in a royal tomb in Greece decades ago might be the remains of a tunic once worn by Alexander the Great, a new study claims.