Deadspin It’s Probably Time To Start Worrying About Sammy Watkins | The Muse Artists Call for a Boycott of Kelley Walker’s ‘Irresponsible and Offensive’ St. Louis Exhibition | Gizmodo Massive Earthquake Along the San Andreas Fault Is Disturbingly Imminent | The Slot ‘Check Out Sex Tape,’ Presidential Candidate Tweets at 5 AM |
Source: Kotaku – Deadspin It’s Probably Time To Start Worrying About Sammy Watkins | The Muse Artists Call for a Boyc
As if we couldn’t possibly be more excited for a return to Twin Peaks next year, here’s a minute of Angelo Badalamenti playing Laura’s theme from the original show to make the wait for more even more excruciating.
Source: io9 – Twin Peaks’ Synth-Infused Soundtrack Returns In a Haunting New Teaser
It’s a reader’s dream come true. A London bookshop has announced a competition that will award the winner with a lifetime of free literature.
Source: TreeHugger – How to win free books for life
The White House issues a Housing Toolkit that is going nowhere, and here is why.
Source: TreeHugger – The best explanation ever about why change in our cities is so slow
BEDDI combines three of our most popular categories: phone charging, bluetooth speakers, and wake-up lights into a single product. Tip of the iceberg.
Source: LifeHacker – BEDDI Packs Every Bedside Device and Integration Into a Single Alarm Clock
Volkswagen has just announced the 2020 production of the Volkswagen I.D., a poorly named electric vehicle that looks like a Mac mouse and has an estimated single-charge range of 373 miles. For reference, most existing electric vehicles have a range of less than 100 miles except for Tesla models, which can get 200+ and cost accordingly. My bike? My bike can go about four miles on a single Whopper Jr. combo from Burger King before I need a nap.
As for the price, Volkswagen says it will have a price on the level of today’s Golf Diesel with comparable power. That’s less than $30,000 in the U.S., though we don’t know whether that’s before or after tax credit.
You know what we should be developing instead of electric cars? Affordable and efficient jetpacks. Nothing screams the future louder like jetpacks. And nobody screams jetpacks louder than myself. Check it: *clears throat* PEENIIIIISSSSS!! Wait, hold up, let me get a do-over. Actually, no, I was happy with that. Impressive right? I’ve got some pipes.
Keep going for a video unveiling of the vehicle at the recent Paris Motor Show.
Source: Geekologie – Volkswagen Plans To Debut Electric Car In 2020 That Doubles Current Range
A new microscope developed by the Marine Biological Laboratory in Chicago is allowing scientists track the position and orientation of individual molecules in living cells. It has the potential to reveal unknown aspects of molecular behavior, including those that turn cells into agents of disease.
Source: Gizmodo – Our Best View Yet of Molecules Moving Inside Living Cells
These Mackie CR4 reference speakers sell for $150 on Amazon, where they carry a 4.4 star review average, but Adorama will sell you the pair for $115 today, which is a match for the best price we’ve ever seen. Plus, a $20 mail-in rebate is available to effectively take them down to $95.
Source: Kotaku – Save A Whopping On These Popular Mackie Reference Speakers
With the US presidential election just over a month away, a Homeland Security official says voter registration systems in 20 states were the targets of hackers. The Associated Press reports that an official from the department confirmed the activity…
Source: Engadget – Hackers targeted voter registration systems in 20 states
Salesforce is urging the European Union to take a closer look at Microsoft’s takeover of LinkedIn as EU regulators ask questions on how the software giant could use AI to exploit data from LinkedIn’s professionals. Chief Legal Officer Burke Norton said Salesforce plans to tell European and U.S. antitrust officials it has concerns about the acquisition. From a CNN report:”Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of LinkedIn threatens the future of innovation and competition,” Burke Norton, chief legal officer at Salesforce, said in a statement. “By gaining ownership of LinkedIn’s unique dataset of over 450 million professionals in more than 200 countries, Microsoft will be able to deny competitors access to that data, and in doing so obtain an unfair competitive advantage. […] We intend to work closely with regulators, lawmakers and other stakeholders to make the case that this merger is anticompetitive,” he added. The European Commission is reaching out to multiple companies as part of a review of the pending acquisition. Salesforce’s comments came in response to this, according to Chi Hea Cho, a spokeswoman for Salesforce.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Salesforce Pushes Regulators To Block Microsoft’s LinkedIn Deal
October is nearly here, which means it’s time to re-up your pile of reading material for a new month. And there is some excellent subject matter here: Twin Peaks, political intrigue, magicians, artificial humans, the apocalypse, vampires, and Young Frankenstein, to name just a few.
Source: io9 – 21 Amazing Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Add to Your October Reading List
Young photographer Bertie Gregory’s love of nature and contagious enthusiasm make him the perfect host for Nat Geo’s foray into the wilds of Vancouver Island.
Source: TreeHugger – 23-year-old lives dream life for Nat Geo WILD (photos)
Young photographer Bertie Gregory’s love of nature and contagious enthusiasm make him the perfect host for Nat Geo’s foray into the wilds of Vancouver Island.
Source: TreeHugger – 22-year-old lives dream life for Nat Geo WILD (photos)
Yes, like some of you out there, I too am pretty excited about the news that The Tick is coming back. Between that and Space Ghost streaming for free, I’m getting a pretty heady dose of early 90’s TV nostalgia. Can we just bring back all of Liquid…
Source: Engadget – The Public Access Weekly: Spooooooon!
Well this sucks. It looks as though, not only is this lawsuit moving forward, J.J. Abrams and Justin Lin might be getting dragged into this whole thing as well. For those of you not familiar with the Star Trek Axanar fan film:
The defendants not only want Abrams and Lin communications to help support its arguments on this topic, but they aim to compel the studios to hand over everything from financial documents related to Star Trek to internal discussions about fan films and fan film guidelines. They surely hope that CBS and Paramount’s long acquiescence to fan films is further supportive of their position. In response, the studios argue that some of the information is protected by attorney-client privilege or constitutes confidential information and trade secrets.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Star Trek Axanar Fan Film Lawsuit Continues
A twin set of glasswing butterflies doubles the wow factor.
Source: TreeHugger – Photo: Matching glasswings reflect upon each other
There’s already a ton of stuff in Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods for showrunner Bryan Fuller’s TV adaptation to cover, but now we know the series is going to start delving into less-explored areas of the book’s world of deities—especially, it seems, the mysterious Mad Sweeney.
Source: io9 – More Details on How the American Gods TV Series Will Go Beyond the Novel
This week the topic of cybersecurity made its first-ever appearance at a presidential debate.
This was thanks to moderator Lester Holt, who asked candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump how to fight cyberattacks. Both were heavy on emphasizing i…
Source: Engadget – Wanted: One 400-lb hacker (or maybe five tiny ones)
It’s always a pleasure when I get to showcase the work of an entire team on Fine Art, and doubly so when it’s a game that I really, really like.
Source: Kotaku – The Art Of Total War: Warhammer
There are a lot of rumors about white spots on your nails being a sign of something serious, like a nutrient deficiency, but the most common cause is nothing to worry about: You just bumped your nail against something.
Source: LifeHacker – Why You Get White Spots On Your Nails