Corsair’s Strafe series is your favorite line of mechanical keyboards
, and the Cherry MX Red is marked down to an all-time low $75 on Amazon right now, if you can wait out a backorder.
Source: Kotaku – Bang On One of Your Favorite Mechanical Keyboards For Just
Microsoft is getting its proverbial development ducks in a row, with the addition of new capabilities to its Dev Center that should make multi-platform publishing a whole lot more straightforward, as well as provide more feedback to developers.
Source: Engadget – Devs can now publish Windows apps straight to Xbox One
Natalie Portman was on Jimmy Kimmel Live and the host asked if her five-year-old son had seen her in Star Wars. It turns out she has a pretty good reason for not showing her children the prequel trilogy, and it has nothing to do with Anakin’s terrible “I hate sand” speech.
Source: Gizmodo – Natalie Portman Made the Star Wars Prequels to Have Something to Show Her Kids, Then Padmé Died
Smartphones do a plethora of things for us. But if you stopped using them, you might actually start seeing improvements in the work you do. From a Business-Standard report: The study, commissioned by Kaspersky Lab, showed that employees’ performance improved 26 percent when their smartphones were taken away. The experiment tested the behaviour of 95 persons between 19 and 56 years of age in laboratories at the universities of Würzburg and Nottingham-Trent. The experiment unearthed a correlation between productivity levels and the distance between participants and their smartphones. “Instead of expecting permanent access to their smartphones, employee productivity might be boosted if they have dedicated ‘smartphone-free’ time. One way of doing this is to enforce rules such as no phones in the normal work environment,” says Altaf Halde, managing director, South Asia at Kaspersky Lab.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Not Using Smartphones Can Improve Productivity By 26%, Says Study
This is an exciting video of a old man driving through a car wash in Sacramento, California at at an estimated 30MPH. It’s actually from last year but nobody ever showed it to me, I’m assuming because everyone was worried I’d try to copycat (which I’m still going to, you only delayed the inevitable). Nobody was injured and the 94-year old driver claims he couldn’t remove his foot from the gas pedal, presumably because his leg is 94-years old and doesn’t work as good as it used to. The carwash (Quick Quack Car Wash, yes seriously) suffered an estimated $100,000 in damage but was back up and running within a few days. Now, the question is which one of my neighbors’ cars should I offer to wash first?
Keep going for the video released from the actual carwash, complete with their catchy Quick Quack Car Wash jingle. It’ll get stuck in your head! Also, lucky the car at the vacuum station moved just in time.
Source: Geekologie – Quick Wash: Video Of Man Driving Through Car Wash At 30MPH
Kindred Spirits on the Roof was touted as being the first ‘erotic game’ released on Steam in its original uncensored format, but anybody seeking out this girl-on-girl visual novel for base titillation is going to find themselves sorely disappointed.
Source: io9 – Steam’s First ‘Uncensored’ Sex Game Is Actually Pretty Tame
Kindred Spirits on the Roof was touted as being the first ‘erotic game’ released on Steam in its original uncensored format, but anybody seeking out this girl-on-girl visual novel for base titillation is going to find themselves sorely disappointed.
Source: Kotaku – Steam’s ‘Uncensored’ Sex Game Is Actually Pretty Tame
Sony’s PlayStation Now game streaming service is now available for Windows PC in North America. A seven day trial is available to new users, with $19.99 month, $44.99 three month and limited time $99 twelve month subscriptions on offer. Should go great with that controller dongle
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Source: Kotaku – Sony’s PlayStation Now game streaming service is now available for Windows PC in North America.
Polyphony Digital has a reputation for taking its sweet time to bring Gran Turismo games to Sony consoles, and Gran Turismo Sport won’t be an exception to the rule. The studio has delayed its first PS4 racing game to sometime in 2017 after having pr…
Source: Engadget – ‘Gran Turismo Sport’ delayed to sometime in 2017
The folks at NVIDIA send word that the brand new GeForce Game Ready 372.70 WHQL drivers are out now. According to the release notes, these drivers provide an optimal experience for World of Warcraft: Legion, Battlefield 1: Open Beta, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and Quantum Break on STEAM. Hit the link above for the new drivers and this link for release notes.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 372.70 WHQL Drivers
Enlarge / The Chromebook Pixel 2. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
Since it was introduced in 2013, Google’s Chromebook Pixel line has always been an option for people who love Chrome OS and high-quality hardware and aren’t worried about paying money to get both. But according to a statement from Google given to VentureBeat, Google has discontinued 2015’s Chromebook Pixel 2, and there’s no replacement in sight.
“We’re committed to the Pixel program but we don’t have plans to restock the Pixel 2,” a Google spokesperson said.
The team that developed the Pixel and Pixel 2 also designed the more recent Pixel C, an Android tablet that almost definitely began life as a Chrome OS device. It’s possible that Google intends to refocus the Pixel brand around Android rather than Chrome OS, given that Android will soon have a very desktop-y windowed multitasking mode. Google is also said to be merging Android and Chrome OS at some point in the future.
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Source: Ars Technica – Google discontinues the Chromebook Pixel 2 without replacing it
Uber is a comic-book where enhanced metahumans have made World War II bloodier and more vicious than it already was. The ubermenschen in the series have hollowed out gore-filled craters through Europe and Russia, leaving Paris and London smoking ruins. Now they’re coming for the United States. No wonder Alan Moore likes this book.
Source: io9 – Ask Kieron Gillen Why Now Is the Right Time for a Comic About Super-Nazis Invading America
Phobos just can’t catch a break. Not only is Mars’ lumpy, crusted-over dust bunny of a moon destined to be ripped to pieces in ten million years, it seems the poor thing can’t stop punching itself.
Source: Gizmodo – We Finally Know What Caused Those Mysterious Craters on Phobos
Made for Ludum Dare 36, No Mario’s Sky is the Last Mario You Will Ever Need™. Okay, that may be an exaggeration but it is full of mushrooms, coins, goombas, rocket ships, and more!
Source: Kotaku – No Mario’s Sky Offers Infinite Goombas to Stomp
Your smartphone does so much that it feels impossible to get through the day on a full charge. It doesn’t have to be that way, though. Android’s Doze feature, introduced in Marshmallow
and refined in Nougat, keeps battery drain low when you’re not using your phone. Here’s how it works, and how to make the most of it.
Source: LifeHacker – How Android Doze Works, and How to Tweak It to Save Your Battery
With having just wrapped up the Windows 10 vs. Linux Radeon Software Performance benchmarking roundabout, I decided to run some very quick tests with Wine and Wine-Staging while gauging interest to run a larger Wine comparison…
Source: Phoronix – Some Quick Basic Gaming Tests With Wine/Wine-Staging vs. Linux vs. Windows
Apple has been ordered to pay a record sum of 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) plus interest after the European Commission said Ireland illegally slashed the iPhone maker’s tax bill, in a crackdown on fiscal loopholes that also risks inflaming tensions with the United States Treasury. According to the European Union regulator, Apple benefited from selective tax treatment that gave it an unfair advantage over other businesses. In the meanwhile, Apple has refuted such accusations, saying that EU’s conclusion has “no basis in fact or law.” EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said, “If my effective tax rate would be 0.05 percent falling to 0.005 percent — I would have felt that maybe I should have a second look at my tax bill.” Apple CEO Tim Cook said, “Over the years, we received guidance from Irish tax authorities on how to comply correctly with Irish tax law — the same kind of guidance available to any company doing business there. In Ireland and in every country where we operate, Apple follows the law and we pay all the taxes we owe.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Apple Ordered To Pay Up To .5 Billion in EU Tax Crackdown, Cook Refutes EU’s Conclusion
Google’s ability to interpret and translate handwriting isn’t perfect. Sometimes you’ll scribble a word or take a photo of a restaurant menu on holiday, only to have a garbled mess thrown back at you. To help its “smart” assistants and services, Goog…
Source: Engadget – Google wants your help to improve its automatic translations
Bing, Microsoft’s version of Google, just learned the hard way that fucking up your translation service is a bad way to win friends on the internet.
Source: Gizmodo – Bing’s Translator Accidentally Confuses ISIS and Saudi Arabia
The joy of the automobile is in the harmony of form and function—or, in the case of our old pal the Black Eyed Peas’ Will.i.am, to just stick a bunch of fake vents and other junk on a Tesla and call it a day.
Source: Gizmodo – Oh God, Will.i.am Modified A Tesla
