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Heat is by far the No. 1 weather cause of death in the United States.

On Earth Day, the National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention teamed up to announce a new heat risk system to better communicate the severity of hot weather. The color-coded system added magenta, a fifth-tier of heat severity, beyond red, to communicate extreme heat “rare and/or long-duration extreme heat with little to no overnight relief,” according to the Associated Press.

A recent video from modder "decrazyo" documents how he converted an operating system resembling Linux to run on an unmodified NES. The source code is available on...

LUnix, or 'Little Unix,' created for the Commodore 64 is the key to getting Linux to run natively on a Nintendo Entertainment System.

How Nintendo's first console kickstarted its strange ways.

The Pikmin 2 remaster has arrived out of nowhere. Is Olimar's second adventure with the carrot people as good as the first?

Nintendo has finally decided to bring Mario back to the big screen and it's a big hit. What Super Mario Easter Eggs did we find?

It was the morning of February 1, 1985, and Nintendo needed a hit. Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, and Toshihiko Nakago were working on the first Mario game for the Famicom, and Super Mario Bros wou

I often like to cover oddities here; details of computers and arcade systems people may not have heard of, that didn’t sell well but had unique or interestin...

Masayuki Uemura, the creator of NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) and the Super NES consoles, has died at the age of 78.