The Korean dating simulator Mystic Messenger has become somewhat of a sensation among over a million women worldwide. It’s an “otome” game (literally, “maiden game”) that offers female players a harem of anime boys to court. These suitors are all charming in their own ways and all have their particular emotional needs. And, goddamn, are they needy.
Source: Kotaku – Hit Dating Game Mystic Messenger Makes A Game Out Of Emotional Labor
It doesn’t matter whether or not you like the original Seven Nation Army song, what this guy did is pretty damn impressive. Hell, if you ask me, I like this version of the song better than the original.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Seven Nation Army Song Played Using Only Battlefield One Sounds
Green Lord Motors, better known as GLM, has been called the Tesla of Japan on more than one occasion. Founded in 2010, GLM has quietly been producing its own electric vehicle platform paired with a third-party body much in the same way Tesla launched…
Source: Engadget – GLM unveils its exotic electric G4 concept car
Grab yourself a bear claw and a blue cocktail, preferably served in a goldfish bowl. Sure, we had a feeling this was coming—PHRASING—but FX’s animated spy comedy Archer will end after its 10th season. We’ll still be getting three more seasons, but they will only run eight episodes each.
Source: io9 – Archer Creator Adam Reed Says the Show Will End After Season 10
After Newsweek published a report titled “How Donald Trump’s Company Violated The United States Embargo Against Cuba,” the site found itself on the receiving end of a “massive” denial-of-service attack that managed to shut down the site for several hours. TPM reports: Editor-In-Chief Jim Impoco noted that the attack came as the story earned national attention. “Last night we were on the receiving end of what our IT chief called a ‘massive’ DoS (denial of service) attack,” Impoco wrote in an email to TPM. “The site was down most of last evening, at a time when Kurt Eichenwald’s story detailing how Donald Trump’s company broke the law by violating the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba was being covered extensively by prominent cable news programs. Our IT team is still investigating the hack.” Later Friday afternoon, Impoco emailed TPM that in an initial investigation, the “main” IP addresses linked to the attack were found to be Russian. It should be noted that it is possible to fake an IP address. “As with any DDoS attack, there are lots of IP addresses, but the main ones are Russian, though that in itself does not prove anything,” he wrote. “We are still investigating.” Eichenwald tweeted Friday morning: “News: The reason ppl couldnt read #TrumpInCuba piece late yesterday is that hackers launched a major attack on Newsweek after it was posted.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Newsweek Website Attacked After Report On Trump, Cuban Embargo
Music affects our brains in all kinds of wonderful ways. Upbeat music is great for working out and classical music can help you focus, but even sad music has its perks. Here’s why we love listening to sorrowful songs, and why they deserve to be on your playlists.
Source: LifeHacker – Why We Love Listening to Sad Music
Enlarge / The two stars of η Carinae are embedded in the nebula they’ve created. (credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team)
“Even among Luminous Blue Variable [stars], η Car is unusual and its parameters are extreme.”
That bit of science-speak roughly translates to “Even among the largest, most energetic stars, η Carinae has done things we can’t explain, but find incredibly impressive.” The top item in η Carinae’s list of extreme behaviors involves producing a decades-long outburst that caused it to become the second-brightest star in the sky. This outburst released as much energy as a supernova and ejected many times the mass of the Sun. Yet somehow η Carinae remained intact.
Now, researchers have used a series of Hubble images to produce a timeline of the debris left behind by this enigmatic outburst. The new data reveal that this was just the latest in a series of eruptions, and we still can’t explain why they happen.
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Source: Ars Technica – Studying a star that survived a supernova-scale eruption
Today at Twitch Con 2016 in San Diego, Amazon and the world’s biggest livestreaming platform announced a new perk of their deepening relationship. It’s called Twitch Prime and starting today Amazon Prime members get ad-free viewing on Twitch, plus ex…
Source: Engadget – Twitch announces ad-free streaming for Amazon Prime members
In this week’s episode of The Save Files, we look at the ridiculous ways people have tried to exorcise ghosts in The Sims 4, a mystery within Binding of Issac, and the latest on Resident Evil 7’s finger.
Source: Kotaku – The Sims 4 Players Who Are Being Haunted By Glitch Ghosts
This is the ELLI elephant bank available in black, white and pink from Monkey Business Designs ($15). You can roll coins down its trunk into the slot. Next thing you know, you’ll have enough money saved up to buy whatever the hell you were saving for in the first place. Was it a gift for me? I sure hope so. I can’t even remember the last time somebody bought me something nice, but I suspect it was in a previous life. Not in the one where I was born a butterfly though, that wouldn’t make sense.
Keep going for several more shots and a short Instagram video of a ghost using the bank.
Source: Geekologie – Never Forget To Save: Roll Coins Down The Trunk Of This Elephant Bank
In Colossal, Anne Hathaway plays an alcoholic underachiever who is forced to move back to her rural hometown. There, she realizes if she stands in a certain place at a certain time, a massive kaiju that mimics her movements spawns in the city of Seoul, South Korea. Yes, you read that right.
Source: io9 – Movie Review: Anne Hathaway Is Literally a Giant Monster in the Crazy, Original, Colossal
The best part of camping for some people is getting out in the middle of nowhere and looking at the stars. For others, it’s just getting together with friends and having a good time. Over on Tested, Adam Savage goes for the latter and builds a portable movie theater made for camping.
Source: LifeHacker – Build a Portable Movie Theater In the Back of a Pickup Truck
It says “Mini” but every generation gets bigger and bigger. (credit: Jim Resnick)
BMW confirmed to Bloomberg today that it will start work on an electric Mini and an electric X3 SUV. This news comes after reports of deliberation on BMW’s electric strategy among the company’s top executives earlier this month.
Chief Executive Officer Harald Krueger told Bloomberg that the all-electric Mini would be market-ready by 2019 and the X3 SUV would be a 2020 vehicle.
Reuters reported three weeks ago that BMW’s top executives had been resistant to the idea of building an electric Mini-brand car. Minis have a smaller profit margin than BMW-brand cars, they argued, and the investment costs of building an all-electric vehicle are considerable. A few executives felt that BMW should push ahead in the electric vehicle field, but after the weak US performance of the i3, other bigwigs were apparently not convinced that committing additional investment to purely electric cars would make financial sense.
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Source: Ars Technica – BMW will make an electric Mini and an electric X3 SUV after all
Monday night, while blogging about a group of record labels suing Youtube-to-mp3.org who listed “All About That Bass” by Meghan Trainor as an example of a frequently pirated song, I pondered whether a song worse than Trainor’s hit single exists. Jokingly, I then suggested the internet give me $200 to listen to her entire discography.
Source: Gizmodo – The Internet Gave Me 0 to Listen to Meghan Trainor’s Entire Discography
BMW’s outline to reinvent itself as an automaker of the future has a new wrinkle to it. The company plans to sell electric versions of the X3 SUV as well as an EV Mini, according to Reuters. There isn’t a timeline for the former, but the latter is ex…
Source: Engadget – BMW teases an all-electric future with Mini and X3
Around 1pm today in Jakarta, commuters were treated to an impromptu porn screening. Sadly, police were able to cut power to the jumbotron billboard after approximately five minutes.
Source: Gizmodo – Porn Plays on Electronic Billboard During Traffic Jam [NSFW]
I’m not sure if I would sign up for Amazon Prime just for this, but add it to the list of cool things you get as a Prime member and it just makes it an even better value.
Here it is: Twitch Prime is a new premium experience on Twitch that is included with Amazon Prime. As a Twitch Prime member, you get free game loot every month, like instant access to the newest Hearthstone hero, Tyrande Whisperwind, or the new indie game, Streamline. You also receive discounts on new-release box games sold by Amazon during the pre-order period and for the first two weeks after launch. And on Twitch, once you link your Amazon Prime account to your Twitch account, you get an ad-free viewing experience, exclusive emotes and chat badge, and one free channel subscription every 30 days.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Twitch Offering Ad-Free Streaming To Amazon Prime Members
This guy is my new hero. I have no idea why he is smashing all those phones, iPads and laptops with a steel ball but I couldn’t help but laugh as everyone just stood there watching him.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Man Smashes iPhones & iPads In Apple Store
This last week I was with Lenovo going over their server, storage, and networking strategy as they continue their pivot to become one of the last remaining hardware focused vendors in a market more often defined by change than focus these days. One of the things that strikes me as a huge competitive advantage is that unlike most technology companies that are based in either the US or Asia, Lenovo is pretty much evenly balanced between the US and China putting them closer to a future model of being more of a global company than one located in any one country. Let’s explore that this week. The…
Source: TG Daily – Lenovo’s Powerful Potential Global Market Position
Forza Horizon 3 has as pretty fired up over its photorealistic graphics and extensive list of cars. But to get a really direct comparison of how it visually stacks up to other driving games, you’ve got to try the same car and conditions in each virtual world back-to-back-to-back.
Source: Kotaku – See How Forza Horizon 3’s Graphics Really Compare To Other Driving Games
