Campari—the bright red liquor best known as the start of the negroni—is delicious. But what the hell is it, exactly? The few people who know have kept the recipe a secret for well over a century. That didn’t stop master bartender Hiroyasu Kayama from trying to make his own.
Source: Gizmodo – Master Bartender Makes Ersatz Campari From Scratch
By now you’ve heard the exciting news
that astronomers have discovered an Earth-like exoplanet a mere four light years away. It’s a promising candidate for harboring life
, and it’s close enough to Earth to make a robotic exploratory mission feasible within a generation.
Source: Gizmodo – Astronomer Avi Loeb Is Here To Talk To You About Exoplanets
Source: Engadget – Uber partners with startup Betterment to offer retirement accounts
How much of a difference it makes is another story, but it’s the thought that counts.
Source: TreeHugger – Japanese companies saving money and energy by crowding the elevators, turning out lights
Meet Thor. Thor is a domestic bengal cat with near perfect jungle cat markings. That is a good looking cat. Plus he has those piercing green eyes. You know I used to date a girl with piercing green eyes once but we broke up because they were so piercing she could see straight into my soul and she did NOT like what she saw there. I don’t blame her. The last time I took the elevator down to my soul vault there was nothing there but two knights jousting with their wieners and begging me to buy NFL Sunday Ticket this season. I don’t even have DirecTV! Beautiful cat though, puts all the cats in my neighborhood to shame. Except One-Eye, he’s a special cat. He only has one-eye. Plus he has some sort of rare genetic disorder that prevents him from being able to jump. “Yeah, it’s called being a possum.” He does look kind of mousy now that you mention it.
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Source: Geekologie – Thor, The Bengal Cat With Near Perfect Markings
Summer is nearly at it end, and as publishers put away its big events and crazy twists for the latter part of the year, getting ready to replace them with… well, more big events and crazy twists! Here’s our guide to the very best new comic series you’ll want to curl up with in the cooler months. Warning: There are a lot.
Source: Gizmodo – io9’s Guide to the Overwhelming Amount of Awesome New Comics Coming This Fall
Frozen pizza is fine. It is one of the least ambitious and yet completely decent meals you can make with almost no effort. But why not aim for more than decent? With a few added toppings, you can upgrade your cardboard pie to something resembling an actual meal.
Source: LifeHacker – How Professional Chefs Upgrade Frozen Pizza
An anonymous reader shares a TorrentFreak report: In recent months CloudFlare has been called out repeatedly for offering its services to known pirate sites, including The Pirate Bay. These allegations have now resulted in the first lawsuit after adult entertainment publisher ALS Scan filed a complaint against CloudFlare at a California federal court. […] Copyright holders are not happy with CloudFlare’s actions. Just recently, the Hollywood-affiliated group Digital Citizens Alliance called the company out for helping pirate sites to stay online. Adult entertainment outfit ALS Scan agrees and has now become the first dissenter to take CloudFlare to court. In a complaint filed at a California federal court, ALS describes piracy as the greatest threat to its business. The rise of online piracy has significantly hurt the company’s profits, they argue, noting that “pirate” sites are not the only problem. “The problems faced by ALS are not limited to the growing presence of sites featuring infringing content, or ‘pirate’ sites. A growing number of service providers are helping pirate sites thrive by supporting and engaging in commerce with these sites,” ALS writes.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Cloudflare Faces Lawsuit For Assisting Pirate Sites
It won’t take much longer before you can get a taste of Halo 5 on your PC. Microsoft and 343 Industries have revealed that Halo 5: Forge, the multiplayer level creation experience, will reach Windows 10 on September 8th. As mentioned earlier, it’s…
Source: Engadget – ‘Halo 5: Forge’ reaches PCs on September 8th
After a week of rampant speculation
, astronomers have officially announced the discovery of Proxima b, a potentially habitable world circling our nearest neighboring star. But even as engineers prepare for an interstellar voyage
to scope out Proxima b for signs of life, some experts warn that M dwarf systems like Proxima Centauri may be unable to support life at all.
Source: Gizmodo – How Life Could Survive on the Newly Discovered Exoplanet Proxima B
The virtual reality market is still new enough that we’re seeing plenty of experimentation and iterative design work on the hardware itself. So it’s not a huge surprise that Samsung and Oculus are out with a new, redesigned version of the Gear VR, even though it has been less than a year since the device was officially launched as a consumer product (and less than two years since the early “Innovator Edition” hit stores).
For the most part, the new Gear VR works like the old Gear VR. You still use certain Samsung Galaxy phones (anything since the Galaxy Note 5 will work) to provide the display and processing guts. The Gear VR headset itself still provides some crucial extra processing for tracking the angle of your head and a touchpad on the side for basic in-app controls (you can also use bluetooth controllers for more complex games). The Gear VR still can’t track your head’s position in space, though, so when you lean forward in a Gear VR app, the whole world comes with you in a nauseating fashion.
The main reason for the redesign is the launch of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7, which sports a USB Type-C connection that isn’t compatible with last year’s Gear VR model. The new Gear VR sports a Type-C docking dongle on the front by default, but that can be slid out and easily replaced with an older USB micro dock for compatibility with older Galaxy phones. The pass-through charging slot on the underside of the Gear VR is also USB Type-C now, though the headset comes with a tiny adapter to take a charge through older cables.
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Source: Ars Technica – Samsung Gear VR (2016) review: More of the same great portable VR
Every time you hear the term “ransomware” it is almost always bad news. That is why I love it when I get the opportunity to post news like this. The free decryption tool was developed by the people behind the No More Ransomware initiative. For those of you that need it, you can download the tool for free here.
Whoever is behind Wildfire, victims no longer need to pay a ransom in order to get their files back,with the decryptor tool now available to download for free from the No More Ransom site. The tool contains 1,600 keys for Wildfire, and No More Ransom says more will be added in the near future.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Wildfire Ransomware Victims Can Now Unlock Files For Free
Many professionals like to use Apple’s MacBook Pro range when on the go, however, the notebooks aren’t exactly known for their graphics prowess — even with discrete GPU options available. Couple that with the fact that Apple has not exactly been on top of things when it comes to upgrading its Mac lineup over the years, you can why customers
Source: Hot Hardware – Wolfe External Thunderbolt Graphics Box For MacBooks Promises Gaming And VR Prowess
After weeks of rumors and unconfirmed reports, European scientists have officially announced the discovery of an Earth-sized world around the closest star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri. Although the planet theoretically orbits its star in a region where water could exist as a liquid on its surface, no direct information can be gleaned about whether Proxima b has an atmosphere, water, or other characteristics that would increase its habitability. Nonetheless, it is tantalizing to imagine a habitable world so close to home.
The existence of a likely terrestrial world orbiting Proxima Centauri, which is 4.2 light years from the Sun and part of a three-star system that includes two distant members, Alpha Centauri A and B, has been speculated about for some time. That’s because Guillem Anglada-Escudé, an astronomer at the Queen Mary University of London, and colleagues used spectrograph data from the European Southern Observatory in Chile during the 2000s to discern a wobble in the star’s movement.
Then, earlier this year, with a concerted observing program over 60 nights at the observatory, they gathered additional data to rule out other explanations for Proxima Centauri’s wobbling, such as flares or other stellar activity. It had to be the gravitational effect of a nearby planet. “Statistically, there can be no doubt now,” Anglada-Escudé said during a telephone news briefing about the findings, published Wednesday in Nature.
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Source: Ars Technica – It’s true—the closest star to the Sun harbors an Earth-sized planet
Microsoft’s Word Flow keyboard for iPhone just got a significant upgrade this week, adding a search engine for emoji, GIFs, and more from Bing.
Source: Engadget – Microsoft’s Word Flow keyboard gets a Bing search upgrade
Last weekend, Respawn Entertainment held an open technical test for the multiplayer shooter Titanfall 2 on the Xbox One and Playstation 4. I enjoyed my own time
with the game but other players were a bit more concerned. Now, Respawn Entertainment is responding to critiques and discussing new changes coming to the anticipated sequel.
Source: Kotaku – Titanfall 2 Developers Announce Changes After Fan Backlash
Android Nougat wants to keep you and spammy callers as far away from each other as possible. Now, when you block a number, it’s blocked for all apps on your phone forever. However, it’s a little quirky right now. Here’s it works.
Source: LifeHacker – How to Block Annoying Spam Calls and Texts In Android Nougat
In what’s being hailed as one of the biggest astronomical discoveries
of the century, scientists with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) today confirmed the discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri—our nearest neighboring star. Details of the team’s discovery were just published in Nature.
Source: Gizmodo – New Earth-Like Exoplanet Could Be Discovery of the Century
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is just as pissed off about the iPhone 7‘s reported lack of a headphone jack as you are.
Source: Gizmodo – Woz to Apple: You Don’t Know Jack
We love Ash vs Evil Dead. And we get why the show is the most excellent way to continue Ash’s adventures as he blasts his way through his 50s. But that doesn’t mean we don’t wish that, back in the day, Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, and company had made Evil Dead 4—especially now that we’ve heard a few of Raimi’s ideas.
Source: io9 – Sam Raimi’s Ideas for an Army of Darkness Sequel Make Us Wish It Had Happened