The world is drying up all around us, but which crops can we use to shift the blame away from our cars, pools, and cartons of almond milk? Cast your eyes hard on these two culprits, right in your very own kitchen cabinet.
Source: Gizmodo – These Two Crops Use More of the World’s Water Than All Other Crops Combined
Grilling fish can be a messy, complicated affair, especially if the fish sticks to the grill. The fastest, easiest, and safest way to grill up a piece of fish is actually with a classic kitchen staple.
Source: LifeHacker – Perfectly Grill Fish In Three Minutes Flat With a Cast Iron Skillet
An anonymous reader writes: Google has released a new section to Google’s account settings, called My Activity, which lets users review everything that Google has tracked about their online behavior — search, YouTube, Chrome, Android, and every other Google service. Best of all, users can edit or delete their tracked behaviors. In addition, the My Activity tools come with new ad preferences. Google is now offering to use its behavioral information to tailer ads shown across the wider non-Google internet and Google’s search pages, which until now was purely done through the use of cookies. The difference between Google and other companies that offer ads like Facebook is that Google is making this interest-based advertising extension optional, or opt-in, not opt-out. There are two separate behavioral advertising settings for users to switch on or off: signed in ads and signed out ads. Signed in ads are those on Google services, and signed out ads are those served by Google on third-party sites. However, if you’re conscious about your privacy, you’ll probably want to stay opted out.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Google’s My Activity Reveals How Much It Knows About You
In more Games That Aren’t Overwatch news, Epic Studios is offering PlayStation Plus members a $20 Starter Pack for its hero brawler Paragon for free. That includes early access to the game over a month before the open beta launches on August 16.
Source: Engadget – PS Plus members get free early access to ‘Paragon’ on July 5th
When the name “Amblin” is in front of a movie, it means something special. It means a level of entertainment endorsed by the people behind E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, and Back to the Future. And the company has just begun developing their next potential franchise.
Source: io9 – Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment May Have Its Next Kid-Friendly Franchise
Frankly, it sucks any time you see a tech company cut this many jobs. The silver lining, if you can call it that after cutting 1,600 people, is that Seagate says it expects to save about one hundred million dollars a year thanks to the downsizing.
Seagate said that it will cut about 1,600 jobs, or 3 percent of its workforce, as part of a restructuring plan that should be complete by the end of September. The company added in a regulatory filing that it expects to take a charge of $62 million in its fiscal fourth quarter. Charges will cover employee termination costs. Meanwhile, Seagate said that it will save about $100 million a year.
Comments
Source: [H]ardOCP – Seagate To Cut 1,600 Jobs Amid Weak Demand
Barring some incredible new carbon capture technology, the window for limiting global warming to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius appears to have closed. That’s the stark conclusion of a report out in Nature today, which finds that the carbon reductions pledges penned into the Paris Agreement
are ridiculously inadequate for keeping our climate within a safe and stable boundary.
Source: Gizmodo – The Window for Avoiding a Dangerous Climate Change Has Closed
Airbags have been at the center of the largest auto recall this year. Japanese corporate Takata’s faulty airbags have forced major automakers to recall about 60 million cars in the US alone. While the automative industry is still dealing with the ext…
Source: Engadget – Toyota recalls another 1.4 million cars with defective airbags
Reader Vigile writes: It’s been a terribly long news cycle, but today is finally the day reviews and sales start of the new AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics card based on the company’s latest Polaris architecture and built on 14nm FinFET process technology. With a starting price tag of $199 for the 4GB model and $239 for the 8GB, the RX 480 has some interesting performance characteristics. Compared to the GeForce GTX 970, currently selling for around $280, the RX 480 performs +/- 5-10% in DX11 games but PC Perspective found that the RX 480 was as much as 40% faster in DX12 titles like Gears of War, Hitman and Rise of the Tomb Raider. Compared to previous AMD products, the RX 480 is as fast as a Radeon R9 390 but uses just 150 watts compared to 275 watts for the previous generation. Chances are that NVIDIA will have a competing product based on Pascal available sometime in July, so AMD’s advantage may be short-lived; but in the meantime, the Radeon RX 480 is clearly the best GPU for $200.AnandTech has more details.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – AMD RX 480 Offers Best-in-Class Performance For 9/9
There are 17 states with tax-free weekends this year, mostly intended for back-to-school shopping, but anyone looking for tech, supplies, or clothing can take advantage of the savings.
Source: LifeHacker – Find Out If Your State Has a Tax-Free Shopping Weekend in 2016
The Vision is one of the biggest surprises to come out of Marvel Comics in years. The company announced the android would get his own comic, just as the character was about to appear in Age of Ultron, so fans expected a light, action-y series to cater to movie fans. The Vision took that preconception and smashed it to pieces.
Source: io9 – Marvel’s The Vision Is Telling a Story Unlike Any Superhero Comic I’ve Ever Read
Believe it or not, the mobile version of Google Maps hasn’t had support for multiple destinations. You could plan that multi-city tour on the desktop, but you’d still have to navigate one stop at a time on your phone. You might not have to the next t…
Source: Engadget – Google Maps for mobile now handles multiple destinations
Stephanie Bodoni, and Aoife White reporting for Bloomberg Technology (condensed):Facebook won an appeal against a Belgian privacy ruling that prompted the social network to prevent people without an account from accessing its site within the country. The Brussels Court of Appeal said the nation’s data protection authority couldn’t prevent Facebook from storing data from non-users in a fight over measures the technology giant says help it combat hacking attacks. “Belgian courts don’t have international jurisdiction over Facebook Ireland, where the data concerning Europe is processed,” the Brussels court of appeal said in a ruling Wednesday, referring to the company’s European headquarters. The court also said there was no urgency to rule on the case since Belgian court proceedings only started in mid-2015 over behavior that started in 2012. Facebook is appealing a ruling that ordered it to stop storing data from people who don’t have an account with the social network, or face a 250,000 euro ($277,800) daily fine. Willem Debeuckelaere, president of the Belgian data protection commission, said last year that Facebook’s “disrespectful” treatment of users’ personal data, without their knowledge, “needs tackling.” Facebook said it can now start showing its pages to Belgians who aren’t signed up to its service.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Facebook Wins Belgian Court Appeal Over Storing Non-User Data
Did you miss out on the first round of PlayStation VR pre-orders, but remain determined to get Sony’s virtual reality headset on launch day? You have one last (official) chance to make it happen. Sony has reiterated that its final wave of American…
Source: Engadget – Last PlayStation VR pre-orders start on June 30th
This is a video from Veritasium highlighting the no-string-attached yo-yo tricks of Ben Conde and the physics that make them all possible. Physics, please, I can recognize a person who’s sold their soul to some sort of horned demon god for leet yo-yo skills when I see one. But this guy is not one of them. No, I suspect this man was simply TRAINED by some sort of yo-yo demigod. Perhaps even an elven queen. Or — OR — maybe it’s– “Physics.” Well I mean, sure, I guess you can’t count out any possibility, no matter how insanely unlikely.
Keep going for the video.
Source: Geekologie – Insane Yo-Yo Tricks With No String Attached (Plus The Science Of How They Works)
Arrow is continuing on its season five casting spree
by adding Carly Pope (Popular) as Susan Williams, also known in the comics as Susan Williams Jordan.
Source: io9 – A Green Lantern Character Will Investigate Oliver on Arrow
Good kitchen knives are expensive. A top of the line Shun, for instance, can cost as much as $750. But one knife enthusiast promises to offer the same great quality knife for a fraction of the price. So I got a chef to try out the prototype.
Source: Gizmodo – This Beautiful Chef’s Knife Is Beautifully Cheap
You may be incredibly close with the bride and groom, but that doesn’t mean you should stray from the registry in an attempt to give something more personal. Recent research suggests doing so sends the wrong signals.
Source: LifeHacker – When It Comes to Wedding Gifts, Stick to the Registry
After leaking once in September, then again in February, then in March, it appears the BioShock collection is ready to leak for real this time.
Source: Kotaku – BioShock Collection Leaks (Yet Again)
