Sony was vague about when PlayStation Now would reach PCs, but apparently you didn’t have to wait long at all — it’s available today. If you have a sufficiently beefy Windows PC (a 3.5GHz Core i3 or better), you can stream PS3 games to your compute…
Source: Engadget – PlayStation Now is available on your PC
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Just Look at This Freaking Giant Black Slug
Gulp. Just look at how ridiculous this thing looks. It’s a giant black sea slug known as a sea hare and it’s freaking monstrous. You don’t really hold it in your hand as much as the sea hare, which can grow up to over 3 feet long and weigh over 30 pounds, just swallows your entire arm. Brave Wilderness found the black sea hare in the tide pools off the coast of the Pacific Ocean in San Pedro, CA and described holding it as super slimy and unbelievably slippery.
Source: Gizmodo – Just Look at This Freaking Giant Black Slug
Google Reportedly Dropping Nexus Name From Flagship Android Nougat Phones
If you’ve grown a fond attachment to Google’s Nexus branding for its flagship Android smartphones and tablets, now might be the time to cut the cord. According to a new report out today, Google will axe the Nexus name starting with this year’s Marlin and Sailfish Android 7.0 Nougat smartphones.
Although the Nexus name has been prominently
Source: Hot Hardware – Google Reportedly Dropping Nexus Name From Flagship Android Nougat Phones
Rest In Peace ITT Tech, You Bastards
If you grew up in the 90s, you probably saw one of the legendary ITT Technical Institute commercials in the wee hours of the morning. Now, you’ll probably never see one again.
Source: Gizmodo – Rest In Peace ITT Tech, You Bastards
Well That Sucks: Lightning Strike Takes Out Over 300 Reindeer In Norway
323 reindeer are dead in Norway after a fierce rainstorm and lightning strike electrocuted them right where they stood. Apparently reindeer instinctively huddle during storms, which made the 323-birds-with-one-stone shot possible.
Officials surmised that an extremely high discharge of electricity from the storm on Friday afternoon — and the interaction of the lightning with the earth and water — had electrocuted the animals.
“The lightning was fierce, the amount of water pouring down that day was incredible, and the whole group was found dead at the scene, placed as they usually are, huddled into a group, with some standing in two lines on the side and a larger congregation in the middle,” he said. “They were standing on a hill, moving up that hill. They seem to have fallen dead on the ground, exactly where they stood.”
Now I’m not saying it’s pretty clear that God did this to get back at Santa for constantly overshadowing his son’s birthday, but it’s really the only logical explanation if you think about it. I didn’t get this plastic detective badge out of a 25-cent machine after all. It was a dollar.
Thanks to Stephanie B, who picked lightning as her superpower. I was drunk and picked the ability chew gum so it never loses its flavor.
Source: Geekologie – Well That Sucks: Lightning Strike Takes Out Over 300 Reindeer In Norway
Black Panther and Black Widow Have a War of Words in This Short But Sweet Civil War Deleted Scene
Civil War had a lot of fun stuff in it, but its pitch-perfect introduction of the Black Panther
is one of our absolute favorite parts. This new deleted scene featuring him and Black Widow having a loaded little chat is certainly no exception to the film’s rule that T’Challa basically has to be awesome in every scene he’s in.
Source: io9 – Black Panther and Black Widow Have a War of Words in This Short But Sweet Civil War Deleted Scene
GTA V Players Have Spent 2016 Trying To Destroy A Possibly Indestructible Dam
GTA players have chased bigfoot
, hunted for jetpacks
, stared at a face in a mountainside, and, at one point, tried to pinpoint a sewer dwelling human/rat creature. Recently, the obsessions of hardcore GTA V fans have turned slightly more bizarre, with some players latching onto the idea that maybe, just maybe, they can blow up an in-game dam.
Source: Kotaku – GTA V Players Have Spent 2016 Trying To Destroy A Possibly Indestructible Dam
Make Easy, Delicious Sweet Potato Chips In Your Microwave
Baked or mashed sweet potatoes are lovely, but what if you’re short on time and have only one sweet potato
lying around the kitchen? Turn it into chips! This recipe by Allrecipes shows you how to use the microwave to make some sweet sweet potato chips in no time.
Source: LifeHacker – Make Easy, Delicious Sweet Potato Chips In Your Microwave
Gran Turismo Sport, the first PS4 installment of Sony’s vaunted racing series, has been delayed to 2
Gran Turismo Sport, the first PS4 installment of Sony’s vaunted racing series, has been delayed to 2017, further
depleting the PS4’s well of holiday 2016 exclusives. Series lead creator Kazunori Yamauchi announced the delay over at the PlayStation blog.
Source: Kotaku – Gran Turismo Sport, the first PS4 installment of Sony’s vaunted racing series, has been delayed to 2
SpaceX to launch SES satellite on a reused Falcon 9 rocket
Satellite operator SES will be the first company to launch a spacecraft on a ‘second-hand’ SpaceX rocket. The Falcon 9 which travelled to the ISS in April, before landing on a drone ship in open water, will be called upon for the new flight later thi…
Source: Engadget – SpaceX to launch SES satellite on a reused Falcon 9 rocket
After a much-needed sabbatical, Highlight Reel is coming back this Thursday!
After a much-needed sabbatical, Highlight Reel is coming back this Thursday! I’m going through the backlog of submissions I’ve received now, but feel free to send more great clips my way at Highlightreel@kotaku.com.
Source: Kotaku – After a much-needed sabbatical, Highlight Reel is coming back this Thursday!
Google's Close To Beating Amazon, Microsoft For a Major Cloud Client: Sources
An anonymous reader shares a CNBC report: Google’s aggressive push into cloud computing, where it trails Amazon.com and Microsoft, has put the internet giant in the lead position to land a marquee client: PayPal. While Google is the front-runner, according to people familiar with the matter, PayPal is evaluating the other leading providers and hasn’t made any final decisions. PayPal is unlikely to move its technology infrastructure in the fourth quarter, the peak period for online commerce, said the sources, who asked not to be named because the talks are confidential. Under the leadership of VMware co-founder Diane Greene, Google is out to prove that it’s a legitimate player in the rapidly expanding cloud infrastructure market.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Google’s Close To Beating Amazon, Microsoft For a Major Cloud Client: Sources
Ugliest Tesla You Will Ever See
It could very well just be me, but I can’t believe someone would do this to a Tesla. I know, I know, it belongs to a celebrity so we should expect this kind of stuff but damn man, that thing is fugly.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Ugliest Tesla You Will Ever See
Could the Warcraft Sequel Not Open in the U.S.?
Duncan Jones’ Warcraft was not a success in the United States—based on a reported $160 million budget, it made only $47 million here. Internationally, however, it grossed almost 10 times that. This leads us to two questions: what happened and what’s next ?
Source: io9 – Could the Warcraft Sequel Not Open in the U.S.?
Astronauts Finally Tested Their Alien Detecting DNA Sequencer in Space
They haven’t found alien life out there yet, but following the first successful in-space DNA sequencing, astronauts have a better way to look for it.
Source: Gizmodo – Astronauts Finally Tested Their Alien Detecting DNA Sequencer in Space
Testing The Open-Source "RADV" Radeon Vulkan Driver vs. AMDGPU-PRO
With word coming out last week that the RADV open-source Vulkan driver can now render Dota 2 correctly, I’ve been running some tests the past few days of this RADV Vulkan driver compared to AMD’s official (but currently closed-source) Vulkan driver bundled with the AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan driver.
Source: Phoronix – Testing The Open-Source “RADV” Radeon Vulkan Driver vs. AMDGPU-PRO
My favorite games to read
I’ve been reading a really great story recently. By which I mean I have been playing a really great video game. Specifically, I’ve been playing adventure game Kentucky Route Zero, now on its fourth episode (of five). Despite being a video game, it is…
Source: Engadget – My favorite games to read
Halo's Warthog Probably Handles A Lot Better In Forza Horizon 3
After years of pleading from fans on both sides, Microsoft is finally crossing-over two of its most popular characters: Forza car and Halo Warthog.
Source: Kotaku – Halo’s Warthog Probably Handles A Lot Better In Forza Horizon 3
Living in Silicon Valley Sounds Like a Nightmare
The housing situation has gotten so ridiculous in Palo Alto, the original home of Facebook and Google, that there’s a studio up for sale for a cool $1.3 million dollars. Bloomberg says that’s totally normal. Good luck using your phone in your stupid overpriced studio, because cell service is a total shit show.
Source: Gizmodo – Living in Silicon Valley Sounds Like a Nightmare
Spend the Rest of the Summer Floating Around on a Giant Cockroach
If you woke up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night yesterday, panicked that there wasn’t enough time left this summer to float around on a giant six-feet long inflatable cockroach, do not worry. There is still plenty of time to disgust everyone at the beach or local your pool with this disturbingly life-like inflatable.
Source: Gizmodo – Spend the Rest of the Summer Floating Around on a Giant Cockroach