In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Steve Rogers is the only Captain America—but that’s not the case in the comics, where many people have come to wield the shield. This fun little deleted scene from Civil War reveals that the movie was going to make sly reference to a few of those non-Steve Captains.
Source: io9 – New Civil War Deleted Scene Reveals a Playful Nod to the Comic Book Captains America
The worst part about making your own ice cream is waiting for it to freeze. This clever DIY machine makes your homemade ice cream ready to eat in a matter of minutes.
Source: LifeHacker – This DIY Machine Can Make Ice Cream Almost Instantly
Because some people take gaming in comfort seriously (I game sitting on a bed of broken glass to remind myself to be humble and appreciate the things I have in life, which is literally just a dog and a PS4), these are the official X-Box Onesies. They have features that make gaming a much more comfortable and enjoyable experience. “Handjob machines?” No handjob machines, mostly pockets:
it’s an adult-sized pair of zip-up pajamas packed to the seams with purpose-built, Xbox-themed accoutrement. We’re talking oversized pockets for gamepads and remotes, an arm pouch for your phone and a giant hood that shouldn’t interfere with even the bulkiest of headphones. That’s in addition to “forearm grips to prevent slipping on those ‘edge of your seat’ moments” and the option to have your Gamertag embroidered on the getup.
There are a few catches though. 1) It doesn’t look like a spacesuit enough to be able to choke out a crew member and take their place on a rocketship before it takes off. 2) They only come in black and white. Black is fine, but who the hell is going to buy a onesie they plan on living in 80+ hours a week in white? You’re really gonna have to own those food and bodily fluid stains. 3) They’re only available in Australia, which isn’t even a catch by itself, it’s the giant spider that manages to sneak in the box before it gets shipped to you — she’s the catch. I burn all packages from Australia for at least two days before opening them and filling out the insurance forms.
Keep going for a shot of a girl in a black onsies about to rub popcorn into her couch with her feet while she laughs at the funniest thing she’s ever seen on a fake flatscreen.
Source: Geekologie – Finally, Officially Licensed X-Box Onesies Designed For Gaming
Like any other potential advertising space, New York City’s Bryant Park needs information about its visitors in order to attract potential sponsors. To gather that information, the private Bryant Park Corporation, which runs the city-owned park, has…
Source: Engadget – New York’s Bryant Park is tracking visitor behavior
Reader mspohr writes: Our favorite science guy has an interview (and video) in Quartz where he explains how Louisiana flooding is due to climate change:”As the ocean gets warmer, which it is getting, it expands,” Nye explained. “Molecules spread apart, and then as the sea surface is warmer, more water evaporates, and so it’s very reasonable that these storms are connected to these big effects.”The article also notes that a National Academy of Sciences issued a report with the same findings:”Scientists from around the world have concurred with Nye that this is exactly what the effects of climate change look like, and that disasters like the Louisiana floods are going to happen more and more. According to a National Academy of Sciences report published earlier this year, extreme flooding can be traced directly to human-induced global warming. As the atmosphere warms, it retains more moisture, leading to bouts of sustained, heavy precipitation that can cause floods.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Bill Nye Explains That the Flooding In Louisiana Is the Result of Climate Change
The Concourse Donald Trump Says Leonardo DiCaprio Isn’t “Very Hot Anymore”
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Source: Kotaku – The Concourse Donald Trump Says Leonardo DiCaprio Isn’t “Very Hot Anymore” | Jezebel Leslie Jones’ P
8Bitdo, the company behind those Bluetooth SNES and NES controllers
that let you play classic 8 and 16-bit games without annoying wires, is teasing this gorgeous wooden retro desktop arcade on its Facebook page, and at the Gamescom convention currently underway in Cologne, Germany.
Source: Gizmodo – Wooden Desktop Arcade Might Be the Most Beautiful Retro Hardware I’ve Ever Seen
Admit it, at some point or another, all of us wanted to use something like this at our dinner table. In today’s day and age, you’d probably be sued by one of your family members or friends for illegally blocking their Wi-Fi access.
Among devices used at the table were smartphones, tablets and laptops, with social media, streaming and gaming the biggest distractions. In order stop people from using tech at the dinner table Dolmio have created the Pepper Hacker — a pepper grinder that reroutes the home Wi-Fi and shuts down access to the internet on dependant technology.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Pepper Grinder Hack Disables Wi-Fi At The Table
Researchers from UCL and the University of Bristol found that people will actually lie to a robot to avoid hurting its feelings. If you ask me, that’s a smart move. Trust me, once robots have enslaved mankind, that robot will remember you were nice to it.
Making an assistive robot partner expressive and communicative is likely to make it more satisfying to work with and lead to users trusting it more, even if it makes mistakes, a new UCL-led study suggests. But the research also shows that giving robots human-like traits could have a flip side – users may even lie to the robot in order to avoid hurting its feelings.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – People Lie To Robots To Avoid Hurting Their Feelings
The decision to get a high-end virtual reality headset is as much about the software selection as the technology itself. So which platform is getting the most attention from developers? Apparently, it’s HTC’s Vive. A UBM Game Network industry repo…
Source: Engadget – VR game developers prefer the HTC Vive, grapple with nausea
Today Google Fiber began taking signups in Salt Lake City, Utah, the gigabit ISP’s seventh metro area.
Hello, Salt Lake City. #googlefiber has arrived. Sign-ups start today. Check your address: https://t.co/PgHKNIJ72Y pic.twitter.com/XfXmpwsYmm
— Google Fiber (@googlefiber) August 24, 2016
Gigabit Internet will be available for $70 a month and 100Mbps will cost $50 a month. Gigabit Internet with TV service is $140 a month. There are no data caps on any of the tiers. Phone service can be added for $10.
The initial deployment “will cover roughly 112 blocks from 100 South to 800 South between 400 West and 1300 East,” The Salt Lake Tribune reported today. Assuming demand is high, installations “could take a week or more after customers apply.” Google Fiber said that other parts of the city will get the service within months but offered no more specific timeline.
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Source: Ars Technica – Google Fiber hits Salt Lake City, now available in seven metro areas
Fun fact: Jason Statham has kicked more people than he has punched people in his movies. I’m glad that information occupies a part of my brain, and I’m so glad that I can share that with you so that it’ll take up a wrinkle in your brain now too.
Source: Gizmodo – Silly Video Shows Every Jason Statham Kick in All His Badass Movies
Whether it be Twitter, Facebook, your text messages or just general web surfing, it’s almost certain you’ve seen the work of 100% Soft. The artist has become the go-to person in terms of pop culture emojis
because his style is so perfectly suited to it. This weekend, he’s having his second solo art show, and we’re excited to debut some of the pieces.
Source: io9 – Mad Max, Harry Potter, Walking Dead, and More Are Adorably Badass in This Amazing Art
There’s a scene in Final Fantasy IV that’s always stood out to me. It centers around the elderly wizard Tellah, who starts off with a puny library of magic but eventually, thanks to divine intervention and a magical house of mirrors, remembers that he’s actually a talented badass with access to every spell in the game.
Source: Kotaku – Final Fantasy IV Was Ahead Of Its Time
One of the best parts of any vacation is finding that unsung local landmark. Perhaps it’s a neighborhood bar that blew you away, a cultural monument rarely mentioned in travel guides, or an amazing burrito from a street cart. Over on the New York Times, Jenna Wortham points out that Instagram’s a great tool to find these types of places.
Source: LifeHacker – Use Instagram to Find Places to Visit (and Avoid) on Vacation
This week’s new update to Pokémon Go
allows you to ask the game’s team leaders to appraise your Pokémon. A useful feature? We’re not sure. It has led to a lot of penis jokes–so many that that the game’s main subreddit is banning those jokes! Anyway…get any good, bad or funny appraisals? Share them in the comments below.
Source: Kotaku – Show Us Your Best Pokémon Go Appraisals
Mpow’s new AquaPro Bluetooth speaker looks like the top-selling Omaker M4, and at $17, it’s priced like it too. But the AquaPro has dual 3W drivers instead of one, and is IPX7 water resistant, which is far superior to the Omaker’s IP54 rating. Just use code 3LINWNZR to get the deal, and then sing yourself silly in the shower.
Source: Gizmodo – Mpow’s New Bluetooth Speaker Can Go Completely Underwater
If you asked me how many graphics were in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
, my answer would be, “a lot.” If I had to guess, I’d say, like, a hundred? Two hundred? It’s a lot, is the point.
Source: Kotaku – Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Sure Has Beautiful Wood
Let’s talk about Apple, unarguably one of the most remarkable companies on the face of the earth. (Remarkable doesn’t necessarily mean great — it just means that the company is something worth making a remark). You can like it, or hate it, but you can simply not ignore Apple. But what’s the occasion, you ask? It’s been five years since Tim Cook took over as Apple CEO. (Editor’s note: auto-playing video ahead, which may annoy you) Under his leadership, Apple has grown to become the world’s most successful company, doubling the stock price and registering a staggering 84 percent growth in its net worth. Media outlets are abuzz with articles, analysis, and over-analysis of Tim Cook’s Apple today. Some excerpts from a CNN article: Apple’s culture has changed noticeably, both for the better and the worse. […] If Jobs put a dent in the universe through Apple’s coveted products, Cook is making his mark by highlighting the importance of social efforts: LGBT rights, philanthropy, corporate diversity, renewable energy and improving manufacturing conditions abroad. Under Cook’s leadership, Apple finally began matching charitable contributions from employees, which had long been a sore spot for staff. Apple had 110,000 full-time employees as of the end of September 2015, nearly doubling from the 60,400 employees it reported having in September 2011, shortly after Cook took over, according to annual filings with the SEC. […] There’s now a feeling among some Apple insiders that the company is just running the same product playbook that Jobs created in his final years at the helm. “For four or five years, the playbook is the same that’s been done,” says Amit Sharma, a former Apple exec on the online store team. But, he adds, “just because everybody is looking for new doesn’t mean it’s not working.”
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Source: Slashdot – Apple Under Tim Cook: More Socially Responsible, Less Visionary
We came away from last weekend’s early Titanfall 2 “tech test” impressed and reminiscing about what we liked about the original mech-and-wallrun-heavy first-person shooter. Not everyone was so enamored with some of the changes on display, though, leading multiplayer game designer Steven DeRose to promise further tweaks to the game before its final launch.
Chief among the coming changes is the game’s sense of speed. DeRose says the team toned down “pilot mobility” in Titanfall 2 in an attempt to make flanking feel more “skillful” and close-range firefights less “overly chaotic due to erratic player movement.” That said, a few glitches that limited air and wall-running speed are being fixed, and normal traversal will no longer be accidentally impacted by some anti-bunnyhop speed restrictions.
The giant, map-dominating Titans will soon be easier for players to call down, as well. DeRose says that, in addition to gaining points toward a Titan for completing game objectives, players will soon also gain “a small passive amount” of credit toward a new Titan “every few seconds,” as they did in the first Titanfall. The goal is to let “every player be… guaranteed a Titan per match.”
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Source: Ars Technica – After public complaints, here’s what EA is changing about Titanfall 2