A lot of companies claim to “reinvent” things, and to be honest, it’s an overused term. But, after taking a look at HP’s latest desktop PCs, the Pavilion Wave and Elite Slice, you might just find HP’s claim to “reinvent” the desktop an apt one.
The Elite Slice is a compact PC that’s designed to look good while packing in what it takes to
Source: Hot Hardware – HP Aims To Reinvent Desktop PCs With New Pavilion Wave And Elite Slice
katil10‘s desktop is well-customized, pretty minimal, but also just energetic enough to make us want to sit down and get stuff done. Here’s how it’s all set up, and what you’ll need to get the same beautiful, personalized look.
Source: LifeHacker – The Crashing Waves Desktop
The trolley problem is a classic thought experiment in ethics, which asks you to imagine a trolley headed toward a track that five people are bound to. If you pull a lever, you can redirect the trolley to another track, where one person is bound. Do you do nothing at all and watch five people die? Or pull the lever, change fate and be personally responsible for the death of one person?
Source: Gizmodo – Two-Year-Old Prodigy Finds Viciously Perfect Solution to the Trolley Problem
Getting you the latest news about Droids That Don’t Actually Exist In Reality is an important job, and I have a very important update: another droid from Rogue One has been revealed, and this one is an astromech! The droid is named C2-B5, and I’m excited to speculate all about it for you. Right now.
Source: io9 – Another Rogue One Droid Has Been Revealed And It’s An R2 Unit!
Yesterday, reporter Laura Kate Dale posted a review and video of the PlayStation 4 Slim. Problem: the console isn’t out yet, nor has Sony announced it at all.
Source: Kotaku – What It’s Like To Review A Console That Hasn’t Even Been Announced
On top of trying to outdo a beloved Disney classic, director Jon Favreau achieved a fascinating feat with his film adaption of The Jungle Book: Aside from its young actor portraying Mowgli, every other character and setting were built with CGI. But i…
Source: Engadget – ‘Iron Man’ director’s VR game lands on September 8th
You only have a few more months to enter… The Twilight Zone. Disney has announced that it will officially close the doors to the ride Twilight Zone: Tower of Terror on January 2, 2017, making way for Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout.
Source: io9 – Disney’s Twilight Zone: Tower of Terror Will Close Its Doors in January
Want to know why phishing continues to be one of the most common security issue? Half of the people will click on anything without thinking twice ArsTechnica reports: A study by researchers at a university in Germany found that about half of the subjects in a recent experiment clicked on links from strangers in e-mails and Facebook messages — even though most of them claimed to be aware of the risks. The researchers at the Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, led by FAU Computer Science Department Chair Dr Zinaida Benenson, revealed the initial results of the study at this month’s Black Hat security conference. Simulated “spear phishing” attacks were sent to 1,700 test subjects — university students — from fake accounts. The e-mail and Facebook accounts were set up with the ten most common names in the age group of the targets. The Facebook profiles had varying levels of publicly accessible profile and timeline data — some with public photos and profile photos, and others with minimal data. The messages claimed the links were to photos taken at a New Year’s Eve party held a week before the study. Two sets of messages were sent out: in the first, the targets were addressed by their first name; in the second, they were not addressed by name, but more general information about the event allegedly photographed was given. Links sent resolved to a webpage with the message “access denied,” but the site logged the clicks by each student.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Half Of People Click Anything Sent To Them
The director of the FBI says he wants to have an adult conversation on encryption next year. I have an idea, why doesn’t the FBI build a team of people that can stay one step ahead of the crooks, instead of relying on companies to provide them an “easy” button.
FBI Director James Comey warned again Tuesday about the bureau’s inability to access digital devices because of encryption and said investigators were collecting information about the challenge in preparation for an “adult conversation” next year. “We are working hard to make people at keyboards feel our breath on their necks and try to change that behavior,” he said. “We’ve got to get to a point where we can reach them as easily as they can reach us and change behavior by that reach-out.”
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Source: [H]ardOCP – FBI Wants ‘Adult Conversation’ On Device Encryption
I am a firm believer that, in order for self-driving cars to truly be efficient and effective, we need to remove humans from the equation entirely. Oddly enough, this video about a “solution to traffice” does a great job of demonstrating why we need to just ban human drivers altogether.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – The Simple Solution to Traffic
As a continuation to last year’s classic video edit Hell’s Club
, where Antonio Maria Da Silva of AMDS Films stitched together famous movie characters into one tremendous club scene, comes this epic bathroom scene. Characters like Tony Montana from Scarface and Tyler Durden from Fight Club can get into a brawl, while Jack Torrance from The Shining breaks down the door to peer in on Arnold in True Lies fighting some damn monster. Oh yeah, and Mr. Bean is over there trying to pat himself dry.
Source: Gizmodo – Fun Video Edits Together Your Favorite Movie Characters Into One Awesome Bathroom Scene
At the height of tomato season, there’s nothing better than fresh tomato sauce. You have a lot of types of tomatoes to choose from, but try cherry tomatoes for the best flavor and the least effort. Here’s why.
Source: LifeHacker – Make a Flavor-Packed, Ten-Minute Sauce with Cherry Tomatoes
An anonymous reader writes: At IFA in Berlin, Lenovo announced the Yoga Book, a laptop that measures in at just 0.38-inches thick, making it the thinnest laptop currently available. In order for it to retain such a slim profile, the keyboard needed to be redesigned. The Yoga Book features what is called the Halo Keyboard, a touchscreen keyboard that is separated from the display and doubles as a drawing tablet. Gizmodo reports: “Officially it’s called the Halo Keyboard, and if you’ve ever tried to quickly type on a tablet’s software keyboard than you’ll be familiar with the experience. Only it’s a little nicer because the keyboard is separated from the display, so it doesn’t suck up screen real estate, and it has a pleasantly rough texture. It’s also got haptic feedback, which in the case of a touchscreen keyboard is sort of like sticking lipstick on the pig. A press of a button turns the keys off and turns the keyboard into a drawing tablet. From there, it behaves a lot like a Wacom tablet, directly reporting pen input into your chosen app. It even reads pen inputs through paper laid over the input panel.” Some other specs of this 2-in-1 laptop/tablet include an Intel Atom processor, 64GB of onboard storage with support for a microSD card, 13 hours of battery life, 4G LTE, 802.11 AC Wi-Fi, front and rear cameras, and a 10.1-inch, 1080p display.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Lenovo’s ‘Yoga Book’ Laptop Is So Thin It Needs A Touchscreen Keyboard
I don’t usually search out particular stickers to express myself on Facebook Messenger (I’m a ? or ? emoji kind of guy) but recently people who do, have noticed some strange results. VentureBeat points out a tweet by Serena Ehrlich showing the vomit…
Source: Engadget – Facebook’s sticker search has a queasy political reaction
As Harkyn you’ll do your best to end a war between humans and the gods in Lords of the Fallen on PS4, which is just one of the upcoming titles heading to PlayStation Plus in September, 2016.
Here’s the rest of the PS Plus lineup for…
Lords of the Fallen PS4 Heads to PS Plus Free Games in September
Source: PS4 News – Lords of the Fallen PS4 Heads to PS Plus Free Games in September
Like first-person games that challenge you to solve puzzles in room after room? The Turing Test is one of those. We livestreamed it on Facebook today, and you can watch the archive here. It starts with a cleverly-built puzzle that’s not too tough, but then we hit one that stumps us badly.
Source: Kotaku – 42 Minutes Of The Turing Test, The New Portal-Style Puzzle Game
Bill Nye has just confirmed that he’s getting his own science themed Netflix series. Each episode of Bill Nye Saves The World will “tackle a topic from a scientific point of view, dispelling myths and refuting anti-scientific claims that may be espoused by politicians, religious leaders or titans of industry.” Basically what he’s already been doing in recent history, just in Netflix show form. Some of the first topics to to tackle include (surprise!) climate change and GMOs. Sounds like some real Netflix and chill material, am I right? Nothing gets me more aroused than science. Literally, because science invented boner pills. Just kidding, that was Dr. Hardlonger, but still — you slip into something comfy, I’ll take my pill and start popping the popcorn.
Thanks to JD, who plans on binging the entire series in a day and filling his head with so much knowledge some university awards him an honorary doctorate. That would be cool!
Source: Geekologie – Science!: Bill Nye Gets His Own Netflix Series
British acting icon Jim Broadbent is joining the cast of Game of Thrones in season seven. Which means, inevitably, that Game of Thrones probably has plans to do something grim and gruesome to poor Jim Broadbent, because that’s what it does best.
Source: io9 – What Dark, Terrible Things Will Game of Thrones Do to Jim Broadbent?
The day has finally arrived: You can now zoom into images and videos on Instagram. Previously, the only method to enlarge images was moving the phone closer to your face.
Source: LifeHacker – Remains of the Day: You Can Now Pinch to Zoom on Instagram
