The Railway Hub

January 1975: A Class 40 Battles the Storm — One Night on the Footplate in a Scottish Deluge

In January 1975, The Railway Magazine published a vivid first-hand account of what it was like to work a diesel locomotive through extreme weather on Scotla ...

Should you warm up your car, or let your faucets drip in the freezing cold temps? What to know

Sure, Chicago is used to cold winters -- but an extreme cold warning with wind chill values as between -30 and -40 degrees ...

Oh god, I feel seen by this playable ode to blog bands and late-night AIM sessions

It’s a return to a time when an indie rock record and a late-night AIM conversation with a crush were one and the same: ...
RCR Wireless NewsOpinion

Power plays and digital divides – the hard realities of the AI build-out

PTC'26 opened with familiar fanfare about the scale of the global AI build-out. But between the lines, there was a bracing ...

It's my duty as a child of the early 2000s to let you know a Beyblade-inspired roguelike was released on Steam last month

And thanks to From the Top, a recently-launched top-battling roguelike, it's a feeling I can once again relive. From the Top ...
Reuters

Steam engines behind German wage and innovation gaps 150 years on, study shows

BERLIN, Jan 14 (Reuters) - The steam engine is still shaping Germany's economy long after its invention with a new study saying areas that adopted the technology early still carry advantages, ...
Hackaday

Building A Steam Loco These Days Is Nothing But Hacks

The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten Mallard’s speed record while no one was looking… and being in production ...
CNET

Christmas Eve Gaming Crushed as Steam Went Offline. Now It's Back

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...
Engadget

Steam and Valve's online games are partially down

Starting at around 1PM ET on December 24, Steam experienced an outage that impacted users ability to access the game store and play games online. Valve didn’t acknowledge the outage publicly, but ...
Game Rant

Steam is Down Right Now

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of GameRant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...
PC Gamer

Steam seems to be back to normal, at least for the moment, but now it looks like the Epic Games Store is getting hammered

This could be a rough holiday for online gaming services. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As of 11:00 pm ET, Steam seems to have ...
PC World

Valve’s Steam Deck LCD kickstarted the PC handheld craze. Now it’s done

Valve has decided to end production of the Steam Deck LCD, the cheapest version of the company’s handheld gaming computer, reports Windows Latest. As part of the Steam Winter Sale, Valve added a note ...