Due to some personal obligations, we’re just doing one episode of Highlight Reel this week. Sorry for the delay everyone, it should go up some time tomorrow. Watch the most recent episodes here. As always, you can submit your amazing or funny clips if you have them to Highlightreel@kotaku.com.
Source: Kotaku – Due to some personal obligations, we’re just doing one episode of Highlight Reel this week.
Saying “I don’t own a TV” is a good way to let people know that you’re a pretentious asshole. But even though more and more people are eager to tell you they don’t “have TV,” don’t be fooled! You better believe that they are still “watching TV.”
Source: Gizmodo – Everyone Is Lying About Not Watching TV
I’d have to see this in action to believe it. Maybe I’m just dumb but it doesn’t seem like a very practical way of hacking a system. This seems like some James Bond BS researchers tell people to stir up investments. Personally, I prefer the ol’ stealing data via Morse code using your hard drive LED.
The researchers in Israel came up with another way to target these isolated systems. Their malware can secretly send the data over audio waves generated by the computer’s fans, according to a paper they released on Wednesday. The malware, called Fansmitter, works by controlling the speed at which the fans run. This can create varying acoustic tones that can be used to transmit the data.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Researchers Steal Data Using Noise From Your PC’s Fans
Adult Swim’s newest cartoon officially premieres on July 10, but you can catch a 10-minute episode of Brad Neely’s Harg Nallin Sclopio Peepio right now on an unlikely platform: Vine. It’s a clever collaboration to highlight both the show and Vine’s just-debuted feature that allows videos longer than six seconds.
Source: io9 – Adult Swim Uses Vine’s Extended-Play Feature to Debut Its New Cartoon
Star Wars Episode VII’s main story is great and all, but have you heard about how dashing Resistance pilot Poe Dameron and C3PO saved rescued Admiral Ackbar from a First Order Star Destroyer? Let me tell you all about it.
Source: Kotaku – Untold Stories Are The Best Part Of Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens
There is a concept in chemistry known as activation energy. Activation energy is the minimum amount of energy that must be available for a chemical reaction to occur. Let’s say you are holding a match and that you gently touch it to the striking strip on the side of the match box. Nothing will happen because the energy needed to activate a chemical reaction and spark a fire is not present.
Source: LifeHacker – The ‘Chemistry’ of Building Better Habits
Every few months or so, Google improves the satellite imagery on services like Earth and Maps. Now, as part of its efforts to keep making the experience better for users, the search giant is going to offer higher-resolution virtual views going forwar…
Source: Engadget – Google brings higher-resolution imagery to Earth and Maps
An anonymous reader writes: Google has launched a hardware project dubbed ‘Project Bloks’ to help teach kids how to code. There are three components to the learning experience: Brain Board, Base Boards, and Pucks. The Brain Board features a processing unit that is based off of Raspberry Pi Zero, which controls and provides power to the rest of the connected components. It does also interact with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices. The Base Boards are connective units that let users design instruction flows. Finally, the Pucks are the components you interact with. They’re shaped with switches, arrows, buttons, dials and more, and can be programmed to turn things on or off, move avatars, play music, and more. What’s neat is you can record instructions from multiple pucks into a single one. Some of them can be made with simple, inexpensive materials like paper with conductive ink. You can watch the official introduction video on YouTube. Google did release a subsequent video about the project called “Developing on Project Bloks.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Google Launches ‘Project Bloks’ Toys To Teach Kids To Code
What would the soundtrack of a brutally violent, post-apocalyptic Japan sound like? In Suda51’s latest, Let It Die, it’d be a rock playlist of Japanese Indie bands hand-picked by Silent Hill music legend Akira Yamaoka. But for these current times, Yamaoka would recommend listening to Dizzy Mizz Lizzy.
Source: Kotaku – Let It Die Composer On Creative Process, Silent Hill, And Suda51. Oh, And Persona, Too
Enlarge / A premature announcement by Sun’s then-CEO Jonathan Schwartz might have doomed ZFS on OS X. (credit: Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty — Edited by Aurich Lawson)
This article was originally published on Adam Leventhal’s blog and is reprinted here with his permission.
I attended my first WWDC in 2006 to participate in Apple’s launch of its DTrace port to the next version of Mac OS X (Leopard). Apple completed all but the fiddliest finishing touches without help from the DTrace team. Even when it did meet with us, we had no idea that it was mere weeks away from the finished product being announced to the world. It was a testament both to Apple’s engineering acumen as well as its storied secrecy.
At that same WWDC, Apple announced Time Machine, a product that would record file system versions through time for backup and recovery. How were they doing this? We were energized by the idea that there might be another piece of adopted Solaris technology. When we launched Solaris 10, DTrace shared the marquee with ZFS, a new filesystem that was to become the standard against which other filesystems are compared. Key among the many features of ZFS were snapshots that made it simple to capture the state of a filesystem, send the changes around, recover data, etc. Time Machine looked for all the world like a GUI on ZFS (indeed, the GUI that we had imagined but knew to be well beyond the capabilities of Sun).
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Source: Ars Technica – ZFS: The other new Apple file system that almost was—until it wasn’t
For your viewing pleasure this afternoon are some fresh NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900/1000 benchmarks with the 367.27 display driver compared to various Radeon GCN GPUs using a patched Linux 4.7 kernel and Mesa 12.1-dev Git as of this past weekend…
Source: Phoronix – A Variety Of OpenGL/OpenCL NVIDIA 367.27 vs. AMD Linux 4.7 + Mesa Git Benchmarks
A Ford car dealership in Quincy, Massachusetts used art from the hit indie game Firewatch in a recent advertisement, displaying the game’s signature mountain panorama in an e-mail blast sent to customers about a new sale today.
Source: Kotaku – Ford Dealership Uses Firewatch Art To Advertise Sale
There are a lot of great ambient noise apps out there, like Noisli, the serene Jazz and Rain
, and the epic Warp Speed Noise Generator
. What’s your favorite tool for customizing and listening to great background noise while you work, meditate, and play.
Source: LifeHacker – What’s Your Favorite Ambient Noise App?
Microsoft’s pushy and occasionally misleading Windows 10 update process has had some tangible backlash. According to the Seattle Times, a small business owner from California has successfully sued Microsoft for $10,000 in “compensation for lost wages…
Source: Engadget – Microsoft sued for ,000 after unwanted Windows 10 upgrade
You can pretend to be disappointed every time SpaceX’s Falcon 9 crashes during a landing attempt, but deep down you know part of you wants to see an explosion. That’s why this video of a miniature flying SpaceX Falcon 9 drone is both awesome and disappointing, because there’s never going to be a fireball.
Source: Gizmodo – Watch This Tiny Flying SpaceX Falcon 9 Replica Totally Stick its Landing
The TV version of Roadside Picnic is moving ahead. An adaptation of the famous Soviet scifi novel was first announced in 2015
, then picked up by WGN America a few months later
. Now the pilot has its star: Matthew Goode, known to genre fans for roles in Watchmen and Stoker.
Source: io9 – Matthew Goode Will Star in the Alien Aftermath Show Roadside Picnic
You know someone at this Ford dealership is going to get fired over this. Personally, I don’t understand why people do this, they know they are going to get busted for snagging someone else’s artwork but they do it anyway. At least the game developer had a good sense of humor about it.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Ford Dealership Steals Game Art To Advertise Sale
According to this Nielsen report, roughly half of all households in the United States have Netflix, Amazon Video or Hulu. Interestingly, compared to televisions, computers and tablets, digital media consumption via smartphone is way up as well.
In the first quarter of 2016, daily time spent using smartphones to consume media among U.S. adults (18+) shot up 60% — from 62 minutes a year earlier to 99 minutes per day. At the same time live TV dropped 1%, declining about 3 minutes on average, from 4 hours 34 minutes in Q1 2015 to 4 hours 31 minutes, and compared with 4 hours 51 minutes in the first quarter of 2014, per Nielsen’s quarterly Total Audience Report, released Monday.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Half of The U.S. Subscribes To VoD Services
Fusion’s Kashmir Hill is reporting that Facebook is using your phone’s location to suggest new friends. It’s unclear exactly when the social juggernaut began doing this, but a number of instances suggest it only started recently. From the report:Last week, I met a man who suspected Facebook had tracked his location to figure out who he was meeting with. He was a dad who had recently attended a gathering for suicidal teens. The next morning, he told me, he opened Facebook to find that one of the anonymous parents at the gathering popped up as a “person you may know.” […] “People You May Know are people on Facebook that you might know,” a Facebook spokesperson said. “We show you people based on mutual friends, work and education information, networks you’re part of, contacts you’ve imported and many other factors.” One of those factors is smartphone location. A Facebook spokesperson said though that shared location alone would not result in a friend suggestion, saying that the two parents must have had something else in common, such as overlapping networks.While this feature could be useful in some cases, it could also be seen as a big invasion to users’ privacy. Hill has succinctly explained a number of them.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Facebook Is Using Your Phone’s Location To Suggest New Friends
Beautiful flower, pretty butterfly, cutest face ever!
Source: TreeHugger – Photo: Swallowtail parks on the milkweed
