Comedy Central is ordering a TV show starring, created by, and executive produced by comedian James Davis. This might be just like any other series announcement out there, except this show is based on Swag-A-Saurus with James Davis, a Snapchat series…
Source: Engadget – Comedy Central is bringing a Snapchat show to prime time
Monthly Archives: August 2016
The Most Interesting Wrestling Promo In Years Happened Last Night
Pro wrestling is an act, as many a helpful Internet commenter will point out below any article about this stuff. It’s staged. It’s scripted. The evil Russian bad guys, it turns out, are often actually Americans.
Source: Kotaku – The Most Interesting Wrestling Promo In Years Happened Last Night
Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks PowerShell
whoever57 writes: According to a report via InfoWorld, the latest Windows 10 update [KB 3176934] breaks Desired State Configuration (DSC) functionality in PowerShell. Some things that were broken in the prior update, such as support of many webcams and a freeze issue, don’t appear to have been fixed in this update. Windows PowerShell Blog reported last night: “Due to a missing .MOF file in the build package, the update breaks DSC. All DSC operations will result in an ‘Invalid Property’ error. If you are using DSC from or on any Windows client, take the following steps: Uninstall the update if already installed […]; If using WSUS, do not approve the update. Otherwise, Use Group Policy to set the ‘Configure Automatic Updates’ to ‘2 — Notify for download and notify for install’ […] A fix for this issue will be included in the next Windows update which is due out 8/30/2016.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks PowerShell
NASA Wants To Make Space Habitats From Orbiting Rocket Fuel Tanks
The idea of re-purposing an (ideally) empty rocket fuel tank and turning it into a space habitat has been around for a long time, because it’s a really appealing idea. America’s first space station, Skylab
, was designed from a Saturn V rocket’s upper-stage fuel tank, albeit one that was never filled with fuel. Now NASA has selected a company to develop habitats made from used rocket fuel tanks.
Source: Gizmodo – NASA Wants To Make Space Habitats From Orbiting Rocket Fuel Tanks
Use a Piece of Scrap Wood to Make Hanging Heavy Items Easier
When you hang heavy items, like large mirrors or framed art, you want enough support to keep it firmly on the wall, and using two hooks is the best way to do it—but hanging those hooks first and the art second can be tricky. Use a piece of scrap wood to make sure the hooks are the right distance apart. Here’s how.
Source: LifeHacker – Use a Piece of Scrap Wood to Make Hanging Heavy Items Easier
Christoph Waltz Could Join Robert Rodriguez's Alita: Battle Angel
The long-in-development
manga adaptation Alita: Battle Angel now has its third piece of the puzzle. First, producer James Cameron hired director
Robert Rodriguez. Rodriguez then hired
Rosa Salazar to play the lead. Now, he’s about to sign Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz to play her mentor.
Source: io9 – Christoph Waltz Could Join Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel
Self-Driving Cars Aren't Going To Be So Great Until We Make Our Maps Better
Uber is debuting its self-driving cars in Pittsburgh this month, a move that has many taxi drivers upset. The Verge’s Nilay Patel argues that this move should change the way we think about maps and addresses. He adds that Uber is currently unable to pinpoint his home, and often ends up at the door of a “widely different address.” Citing the CEO of a “large ridesharing company”, Patel writes that this issue is known as the “egress problem” — “the way we locate buildings on a map doesn’t really describe how people move in and out of those buildings.” Though there are workarounds and inventive ways to pinpoint your exact address, Patel argues that when we grow reliant on self-driving cars, things will get far more complicated and futile if we don’t make our maps and navigation services better. He writes: Driverless cars are one of the ultimate signifiers of the future — the real Jetsons stuff. And we’re so close to making them happen: tons of cars have sophisticated adaptive cruise control that can basically keep you going on the highway, prototypes of true self-driving cars from Google and others are already on the road, and the momentum is only increasing. But maybe we shouldn’t hand control of how we get somewhere to the machines until we’re entirely sure the robots know where we’re going.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Self-Driving Cars Aren’t Going To Be So Great Until We Make Our Maps Better
Guy's Mom Tries To Describe Overwatch Characters Without Knowing Overwatch
The “parents don’t know but they’ll talk about it anyway” gag is not a new one, but it remains a sweet one when the parents do a good job (and aren’t treated like idiots by exploitative kids). Like Karhall’s mom here, who was asked to talk about Overwatch characters without knowing who the hell they were.
Source: Kotaku – Guy’s Mom Tries To Describe Overwatch Characters Without Knowing Overwatch
There Can Be Only One: Sulfuric Acid Vs Big Mac
This is a video of a Big Mac being subjected to a dousing of sulfuric acid. I thought it help up surprisingly well, leading at least one fast-food loving blogger to announce his stomach and @$$hole the winner in this impromptu Big Mac digesting contest. Although — is sulfuric acid really the best acid to use to dissolve a burger? Because whatever acid lives in my stomach has dissolved all kinds of burgers. Plus a ton of LEGO bricks and green army men. It has also unsuccessfully tried to digest coins and marbles, but I’m thinking that’s where the quart of bleach comes in. You know how they tell you not to mix cleaning supplies? That’s just because they don’t want you to invent something better than they’re selling. One time I mixed every cleaning product I had in a big bucket in my bathroom and then passed out and when I woke up everything was whiter and cleaner than it’s ever been. Just kidding, turns out that was the hospital. Be safe, kids.
Keep going for the video.
Source: Geekologie – There Can Be Only One: Sulfuric Acid Vs Big Mac
Remains of the Day: Microsoft's iOS Keyboard Gets Built-In Search
Microsoft is adding some new features to their Word Flow
keyboard today that already features a one-handed mode and predictive typing. Now you can also use it to search for GIFs, emoji, and pretty much anything through Bing.
Source: LifeHacker – Remains of the Day: Microsoft’s iOS Keyboard Gets Built-In Search
Italian earthquake victims asked to disable WiFi passwords
Early Wednesday a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck central Italy, killing at least 120 people and trapping countless others under debris. To help ease communications for search and recovery, multiple disaster relief institutions are urging locals to t…
Source: Engadget – Italian earthquake victims asked to disable WiFi passwords
These Comic Book Formal Suits Are Wonderfully Bonkers
Recently Fun.com announced a series of Marvel and DC “secret identity” suits, which let you wear fancy threads with a hidden bit of comic-book geekery
. The company’s latest suits, however, throw all that subtlety out of the window in favor of full-on suit insanity.
Source: io9 – These Comic Book Formal Suits Are Wonderfully Bonkers
Kubo and the Two Strings: An absurdly beautiful, hand-made hero’s tale.
Kubo and the Two Strings: An absurdly beautiful, hand-made hero’s tale.
Source: Kotaku – Kubo and the Two Strings: An absurdly beautiful, hand-made hero’s tale.
'Touch Disease' Is the Latest Flaw Killing iPhones
If a new report is true, your iPhone 6 and 6 Plus might have an expiration date unrelated to failing batteries or outdated tech. Some users report that over time the touchscreen on these iPhone models becomes unresponsive, and that, eventually, a flickering gray bar will appear on the top of the screen. After that the phone is toast. While the phone may be intermittently operational afterwards, it’s unlikely to make a full recovery. What was once an attractive hunk of Apple engineering
will now be a computer you operate exclusively by Siri and your tears.
Source: Gizmodo – ‘Touch Disease’ Is the Latest Flaw Killing iPhones
Hands-On: Dlodlo Promises Lightweight VR Glasses
I don’t care how cool these VR glasses may look, it’s the name that is keeping me from putting one in my face. The company might as well go all out and name the accessories stuff like “cybrator” for haptic feedback and headphones named “ear entry.”
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Hands-On: Dlodlo Promises Lightweight VR Glasses
How The Internet Is Increasingly Taking Over Human Memory
I don’t know about the internet taking over human memory and all that, but I do know that people these days are lazy and, instead of using their brain, they use Google for everything. Not sure why we needed a study to find that out.
Our increasing reliance on the Internet and the ease of access to the vast resource available online is affecting our thought processes for problem solving, recall and learning. In a new article published in the journal Memory, researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz and University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign have found that ‘cognitive offloading’, or the tendency to rely on things like the Internet as an aide-mémoire, increases after each use.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – How The Internet Is Increasingly Taking Over Human Memory
No Man's Sky Doesn't Need To Be 'The Ultimate Video Game'
If you couldn’t tell by now, No Man’s Sky is not the game a lot of people wanted it to be
. But what is that game, exactly?
Source: Kotaku – No Man’s Sky Doesn’t Need To Be ‘The Ultimate Video Game’
What to Look for When Picking Out a Mini-Fridge for Your Dorm Room
You move into your dorm room, unpack all your stuff, and realize something’s missing: a mini-fridge. But you don’t want some crappy box that barely chills a few sodas, especially if you have to share it with a roommate. Here are the features you should keep an eye out for when you’re shopping for the perfect mini-fridge.
Source: LifeHacker – What to Look for When Picking Out a Mini-Fridge for Your Dorm Room
Rubbermaid's Uber-Popular FreshWorks Starter Pack Is Down To Just $15, If You Hurry
Earlier today
, a couple of a la carte Rubbermaid FreshWorks containers went on sale (albeit briefly), but if you were holding out for a deal on the 2-pack, you were wise to wait.
Source: LifeHacker – Rubbermaid’s Uber-Popular FreshWorks Starter Pack Is Down To Just , If You Hurry
HP Hit With Age-Discrimination Suit Claiming Old Workers Purged
Hewlett-Packard started laying off workers in 2012, before it separated into HP Inc. and HP Enterprise last year. The company has continued to cut thousands of jobs since. As a result of the “restructuring,” an age discrimination lawsuit has been filed by four former employees of HP alleging they were ousted amid a purge of older workers. The Mercury News reports: “The goal ‘was to make the company younger,’ said the complain filed Aug. 18 in U.S. District Court in San Jose. ‘In order to get younger, HP intentionally discriminated against its older employees by targeting them for termination […] and then systematically replacing them with younger employees. HP has hired a disproportionately large number of new employees under the age of 40 to replace employees aged 40 and older who were terminated.’ Arun Vatturi, a 15-year Palo Alto employee at HP who was a director in process improvement until he was laid off in January at age 52, and Sidney Staton, in sales at HP in Palo Alto for 16 months until his layoff in April 2015 at age 54, have joined in the lawsuit with a former employee from Washington, removed at age 62, and one from Texas, out at age 63. The group is seeking class-action status for the court action and claims HP broke state and federal laws against age discrimination.” The lawsuit also alleges that written guidelines issued by HP’s human resources department mandated that 75 percent of all hires outside of the company be fresh from school or “early career” applicants.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – HP Hit With Age-Discrimination Suit Claiming Old Workers Purged