Fox Sports and NextVR are at it again. The two have paired up for live sports broadcasts in VR before and now they’re bringing those immersive views to the pitch in Munich. This weekend marks the beginning of the Bundesliga soccer season in Germany,…
Source: Engadget – Fox starts the Bundesliga season with a soccer VR broadcast
Monthly Archives: August 2016
VR Taste Testing Alcohol
Although this seems like pure marketing B.S., I wouldn’t mind drinking a ton of alcohol while wearing a VR headset to see if in-fact the company’s claims are valid. Okay, I would pretty much use any reason to drink a bunch of alcohol but this just gives me an excuse.
For a new slant on enjoying the age-old pastime that is boozing, Scottish craft-beer brewer Innis and Gunn and rumrunner Havana Club have brewed up virtual-reality experiences that take you to the hallowed birthplaces of their unique flavours. VR fools the eyes and ears to take you somewhere strange, and the goal of these experiences is to fool your tongue too. By taking you to where these drinks come from, the makers claim you taste them differently.
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Milk-based film could be the next generation of sustainable food packaging

This is great news, unless you’re sensitive to casein, or are vehemently opposed to the dairy industry.
Source: TreeHugger – Milk-based film could be the next generation of sustainable food packaging
10 Simple Ways to Eat Healthier Without Thinking

Your environment has an incredible ability to shape your behavior. If you design your environment to be conducive to healthy habits, then you’ll find yourself improving your diet without even thinking about it.
Source: LifeHacker – 10 Simple Ways to Eat Healthier Without Thinking
Iraq Wants to Hunt Down ISIS With This Killer Robotic

Military robots are nothing new—whether in reality
or pop culture nightmare scenarios. But the Bagdhad Post reports that a new bot could be the first to fire its weapon on Iraqi soil. It’s called alrobot—Arabic for “robot”—and it’s a deadly machine.
Source: Gizmodo – Iraq Wants to Hunt Down ISIS With This Killer Robotic
Japan may forge Olympic medals from recycled smartphones
If you caught Japan’s teaser for the 2020 Summer games in Tokyo, you know the nation is planning to lean hard on its pop-culture icons — but Tokyo may also use the Olympics to make a statement about sustainability. According to a report from Nikkei,…
Source: Engadget – Japan may forge Olympic medals from recycled smartphones
FBI Finds 14,900 More Documents From Hillary Clinton's Email Server
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: The FBI uncovered nearly 15,000 more emails and materials sent to or from Hillary Clinton as part of the agency’s investigation into her use of private email at the State Department. The documents were not among the 30,000 work-related emails turned over to the State Department by her attorneys in December 2014. The State Department confirmed it has received “tens of thousands” of personal and work-related email materials — including the 14,900 emails found by the FBI — that it will review. At a status hearing Monday before federal Judge Emmett Sullivan, who is overseeing that case, the State Department presented a schedule for how it would release the emails found by the FBI. The first group of 14,900 emails was ordered released, and a status hearing on Sept. 23 “will determine the release of the new emails and documents,” Sullivan said. “As we have previously explained, the State Department voluntarily agreed to produce to Judicial Watch any emails sent or received by Secretary Clinton in her official capacity during her tenure as secretary of state which are contained within the material turned over by the FBI and which were not already processed for FOIA by the State Department,” said State Department spokesman Mark Toner in a statement issued Monday. “We can confirm that the FBI material includes tens of thousands of non-record (meaning personal) and record materials that will have to be carefully appraised at State,” it read. “State has not yet had the opportunity to complete a review of the documents to determine whether they are agency records or if they are duplicative of documents State has already produced through the Freedom of Information Act” said Toner, declining further comment.
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Source: Slashdot – FBI Finds 14,900 More Documents From Hillary Clinton’s Email Server
This Is What A Thoroughly Broken Manual Transmission Looks Like Inside

Yesterday, I found out what happens when water gets into the oil of a manual transmission. It’s bad. Very bad.
Source: Gizmodo – This Is What A Thoroughly Broken Manual Transmission Looks Like Inside
I Have Seen Hell and It's Marvel's College Football Comic Covers

You know what’s fun? Football. You know what else is fun? Comic books. You know what’s not fun? These Marvel covers for the first week of college football.
Source: io9 – I Have Seen Hell and It’s Marvel’s College Football Comic Covers
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided: The Kotaku Review
Avoid Overpacking by Taking Two Bottoms for Every Five Days of Travel

It’s easy to overpack for a trip when you don’t have some guidelines in place, especially when it comes to clothing. This simple rule of thumb should keep your carry-on from getting stuffed with every pair of pants you own.
Source: LifeHacker – Avoid Overpacking by Taking Two Bottoms for Every Five Days of Travel
FBI finds 14,900 more files from Hillary Clinton's email server
Just because the US Attorney General isn’t bringing charges over Hillary Clinton’s private email server doesn’t mean that it’s all over — far from it. FBI investigators have unearthed 14,900 more files (email and documents) on the server, or almost…
Source: Engadget – FBI finds 14,900 more files from Hillary Clinton’s email server
Self-Assembling Phones Are A Thing Now
I have no idea why you would want something like this but, thanks to the big brains at MIT, we may soon have self-assembling phones.
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BlackBerry’s new round of lawsuits targets BLU—and Android

Over the years, BlackBerry has amassed a giant portfolio of patents, but it hasn’t used them to sue others—until now.
BlackBerry has filed three patent infringement lawsuits in as many weeks. The struggling phone company’s offensive barrage began with a case filed against IP telephony company Avaya on July 27. Last week, BlackBerry filed two lawsuits against budget cell phone maker BLU’s products, alleging that BLU infringes a whopping 15 patents.
The dual lawsuits against BLU suggest that BlackBerry’s new turn toward patent licensing isn’t going to be a one-off event, but rather a more extended campaign. In a May earnings call, BlackBerry CEO John Chen told investors he’s in a “patent licensing mode” and is hoping to monetize his company’s 38,000 patents.
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Source: Ars Technica – BlackBerry’s new round of lawsuits targets BLU—and Android
Daylight's End Trailer Proves Lance Henriksen Is Invaluable During a Zombie Apocalypse

Daylight’s End looks like yet another zombie apocalyptic action movie, but it has a secret weapon: Lance Henriksen, who is pushing 80 but is still quite obviously 100 percent badass. He may have a supporting role here, but anyone in a doomsday plague survival situation would be lucky to have this Aliens veteran by their side.
Source: io9 – Daylight’s End Trailer Proves Lance Henriksen Is Invaluable During a Zombie Apocalypse
Comcast Says There's 6 Million Unhappy DSL Users Left To Target
Karl Bode, writing for DSLReports: As we noted last week, cable is effectively demolishing phone companies when it comes to new broadband subscriber additions, and Comcast still says the company has plenty of room to grow. Comcast and Charter alone added 500,000 net broadband subscribers last quarter, while the nation’s biggest telcos collectively lost 360,783 broadband users during the same period. With AT&T and Verizon backing away from unwanted DSL users, and Windstream Frontier and CenturyLink only eyeing piecemeal upgrades, the bloodshed is far from over. Speaking this week at the Nomura 2016 Media, Telecom & Internet Conference, Comcast VP Marcien Jenckes stated that the company has plenty of unhappy DSL customers left to nab. In fact, Comcast says the company still has around 6 million DSL subscribers in its territory, many of which are likely frustrated by outdated speeds.
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Source: Slashdot – Comcast Says There’s 6 Million Unhappy DSL Users Left To Target
iOS Notes App Vesper Is Shutting Down, Here's How to Save Your Notes

Vesper was a notes app released back in 2013 thats main claim to fame was the fact the development team included Apple pundit John Gruber and app developer Brent Simmons. While it didn’t offer anything new, it was a solid notes app a lot of people loved. The app’s being shut down, and with that announcement comes a new export feature.
Source: LifeHacker – iOS Notes App Vesper Is Shutting Down, Here’s How to Save Your Notes
The Exceptional Beauty of Doom 3's Source Code


This is a story about Doom 3’s source code and how beautiful it is. Yes, beautiful. Allow me to explain.
Source: Kotaku – The Exceptional Beauty of Doom 3’s Source Code
Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight

A lie with a billion dollars behind it is stronger than the truth. Peter Thiel has shut down Gawker.com.
Source: Kotaku – Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight
The Volkswagen Golf TSI: Wolfsburg gains the middle ground
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The Volkswagen Golf TSI : not quite a GTI, but none the worse for it.
Jim Resnick
A funny thing happened on the way to diesel emissions scandal—Volkswagen still sells cars. There are no diesels until they get a clean bill of health, but as VW must rely solely on gas-fired sales in the US right now, the Golf TSI SEL sits squarely in the middle of their lineup globally. Through some recent updates, VW’s improved its latest edition. We cohabitated the new Golf TSI for a week and agreed to not even bring up the “d” word.
The biggest Golf changes for this year are on the inside. The most immediately apparent is a new 5-inch display on the base model and a 6.5-inch display on all other trim levels. Running VW’s Modular Infotainment Platform II (MIB II), it supports Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and MirrorLink. More importantly, this display looks and works much better than the previous infotainment system, which took forever to respond to menu selections.
Beyond MIB II, the car’s buttons are logically placed, switchgear is vastly better, and the standard seats offer above-average support and bolstering. The steering wheel and gauges even exude greater-than-VW quality—everything you touch inside would be equally at home in a BMW or Audi.
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Source: Ars Technica – The Volkswagen Golf TSI: Wolfsburg gains the middle ground


