Are you still buying the annual iterations of a series that peaked a decade ago, shelling out 60 bucks for nothing but updated rosters and the privilege of continuing to be beaten by racist 14-year-olds in online head-to-head play? Happy glitch hunting.
Source: Kotaku – Madden 17 Glitch Season Is Officially Upon Us
It seems that these days you can build just about anything with a CNC machine.
Source: TreeHugger – Stair of the week is a DIY spiral made out of plywood
Here we go again. Unless Uber is claiming that the UAE is arresting drivers for no reason at all, it’s pretty sad that you have to start arresting drivers by the dozens in order to get Uber’s attention.
Ride-hailing companies Uber [UBER.UL] and Careem have suspended services in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, since Saturday and do not know when they can resume operations, they said on Sunday. The National, a UAE newspaper, quoted unnamed sources as saying that as many as 50 drivers for Uber and Careem had been arrested.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Uber, Careem Suspend Services In UAE Capital
The crew at OCInside have posted hundreds of pictures from Gamescom 2016. Today’s coverage includes games coming in 2016 – 2017, virtual reality games, retro games, hardware, case mods, cosplay and more. I snagged a few pictures for those of you that can’t visit the link from work or school.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Gamescom 2016 Coverage
If you still haven’t outfitted your kitchen with a KitchenAid, you can get a brand new Professional 6 quart model for just $259, today only as part of Amazon’s Gold Box. We occasionally see KitchenAids cheaper, but those are usually refurbished and/or smaller and less powerful models.
Source: LifeHacker – Finally Buy Yourself a KitchenAid For 9, Today Only
Chances are you’ve already played Hot Lava, the first 3D game from Klei Entertainment of Don’t Starve and Invisible, Inc. fame. It’s the video game version of the perennial children’s imagination game with only one rule: don’t touch the floor.
Source: Kotaku – The Floor Is Lava In Klei’s First 3D Game
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The rumors were true: Fitbit isn’t done for the year. The company just announced two new fitness trackers that add second iterations of existing products to its lineup: the Charge 2 and the Flex 2. The Charge 2 is an improved Charge HR, now with new features, a larger display, and interchangeable bands, while the swim-capable Flex 2 is an upgraded Flex with a completely new design that focuses on versatility.
Let’s start with the Charge 2: its biggest physical improvement is the 1.5-inch display that replaces the Charge HR’s small, narrow screen. It’s like a wider version of the Fitbit Alta’s display, finally big enough to show the time at the top and tap-to-scroll stats beneath it. Those stats include steps, heart rate, active time, and more. The Charge 2’s bands are interchangeable, so you can swap the silicone, active band for more fashionable leather and jewelry-like bands. However, since the Charge 2 is just a wider version of the Alta, its overall attractiveness is in the eye of the beholder.
The Charge 2 has new software and tracking features that the Charge HR doesn’t have. Its connected GPS lets it pair with your smartphone’s GPS to map running routes and get better distance calculations, while its interval workout mode lets you to customize routines that alternate bursts of intense exercise with periods of low-intensity activity. The Charge 2 also has reminders to move, while calling, texting, calendar alerts, and activity profiles are accessible from the band’s display. These profiles let you quickly track your most-completed exercises, like running, walking, biking, Pilates, and more. You decide which appear on the band and which don’t.
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Source: Ars Technica – Fitbit’s Charge 2 and Flex 2 are next gen trackers that blend fitness and style
The Fitbit Charge HR is a very good fitness tracker
. One might argue, and we certainly have, that it’s the best fitness tracker
available. But the Fitbit Charge HR is nearly two years old, and has been plagued by issues over the last year. It’s time for a refresh and a refinement. The Fitbit Charge 2 looks like its solving all the problems of the original.
Source: Gizmodo – Fitbit Finally Updated Its Very Best Trackers
It might be a while before we learn the title for Episode VIII. More details about Star Trek: Discovery’s protagonist have been revealed. Michael Cudlitz may have let slip a tiny part of The Walking Dead’s big secret. Plus, Jerry O’Connell in Scream Queens, a new location for iZombie, and new stills from Rogue One. To me, my Spoilers!
Source: Gizmodo – Daenerys May Make a Surprising Visit in Game of Thrones
It’s no surprise that Fitbit’s been planning a major update to its fitness trackers. And about time, too. The two-year-old Charge and three-year-old Flex are in dire need of a tune-up to help the company maintain (or grow) its narrow lead in the indu…
Source: Engadget – Fitbit’s new Charge and Flex track every type of workout
You’re probably going to have to start using USB-C cables for some gadgets in the near future, but you should probably be careful which ones you buy
. Diligent engineers have found a flaw in some Anker USB cables that can destroy hardware.
Source: LifeHacker – Some Anker USB-C Cables Are Getting Recalled For a Hardware-Frying Flaw
The Vulkan 1.0.x release train has been slowing down a bit with not seeing releases every week now but sometimes it’s now every other week…
Source: Phoronix – Vulkan 1.0.25 Moves To Single-Branch Model, Adds NVIDIA Extensions
It’s a scene straight out of Santa’s worst nightmare: A lightning strike killed more than 300 reindeer at a park in southern Norway on Friday.
Source: Gizmodo – Lightning Storm Kills Hundreds of Reindeer in One Fell Swoop
Enlarge / The RATAN-600 radio telescope, in Zelenchukskaya, Russia. (credit: Wikimedia commons)
It remains only the barest of probabilities that astronomers have just found evidence of extraterrestrial, intelligent life. Nevertheless in the community of astronomers and other scientists who use radio telescopes to search the heavens for beacons of life there is considerable excitement about a new signal observed by a facility in Russia.
According to Paul Glister, author of the Centauri Dreams website, the Italian astronomer Claudio Maccone and other astronomers affiliated with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence have detected “a strong signal in the direction of HD164595.” HD 164595 is a star of 0.99 solar masses about 95 light years from Earth, with an estimated age of 6.3 billion years. The system is known to have at least one planet, HD 164595 b, which is similar in size to Neptune and orbits its star in 40 days. Other planets may exist in the system as well.
The observation was made with the RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya, in southern Russia, Glister reports. He cautioned that the evidence is very preliminary:
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Source: Ars Technica – SETI has observed a “strong” signal that may originate from a Sun-like star
Mark Zuckerberg is chilling with the Pope, and the 32-year-old internet professional brought the head of the Catholic Church a cute model plane.
Source: Gizmodo – Mark Zuckerberg Shows Pope His Model Plane
In his latest short film called The Real Deal, Patrick Bovin uses some flawless CG to bring a five-year-old’s imagination and Transformers toys to life. It’s as close as you can get to looking inside a five-year-old’s brain while they play, and we would happily sit through two whole hours of this, instead of this short being over in less than a minute.
Source: Gizmodo – This Transformers Short Film Is Every Kid’s Imagination Come True
Netherlands-based pharmaceutical company Mylan has announced plans to launch its first generic EpiPen. But at a cost of $300—which is half of the branded product’s list price—it’s still a heap of money for this critically important medicine.
Source: Gizmodo – Mylan’s New Generic EpiPen is Still Too Godamned Expensive
Fire up the synth music. Blow dry your hair and throw on a leather jacket. It’s time to take a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist, and then be… deeply disappointed.
Source: Gizmodo – Knight Rider’s KITT Is Actually Horrible To Drive
Data breaches happen all too frequently to companies both big and small. The latest victim is Opera Software, the Scandinavian outfit behind the Opera browser that’s especially popular on mobile devices. Opera’s security team said it detected signs of a attack on its sync system, and though the hack was quickly blocked, it believes the culprit(s)
Source: Hot Hardware – Opera Sync Users, 1.7 Million Of You, Reset Your Passwords Now, You’ve Been Hacked
We’ve all been there: you’re at a pick-up roleplaying group at your local game shop, and that noisy munchkin to your right—who is playing some kind of half-dragon triple-multiclassed character from an out-of-print rulebook that he found a PDF of online—seems to roll more than his fair share of natural 20s. Okay, maybe we haven’t all been there, but let me tell you: it’s annoying when someone appears to be awfully lucky with their rolls.
The issue is slightly less pronounced with board games, where everyone tends to use the same pool of dice, but having dice regularly come up high or low can obviously affect how the game plays out.
Putting aside cases of intentional cheating, did you know that dice—particularly polyhedral dice like d20 or d8—are almost universally unbalanced? Some are more balanced than others, but as you’d expect from mass-produced objects, small flaws in manufacturing and materials nearly always push each individual die either above or below the expected average roll.
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Source: Ars Technica – How fair are your dice?
