There are few things in this world as sacred as a person’s Twitter followers. Sadly for President Barack Obama, he’s going to have to give up all 11.1 million he’s earned on the @POTUS Twitter handle when he leaves the Oval Office in January 2017.
Source: Gizmodo – How Donald Trump Can Forcibly Steal President Obama’s Twitter Followers
After decades as a mainstay in Mexico’s taxi fleets, Nissan announced the Tsuru—a new 1992 Sentra, basically—will cease production after a dismal zero-star crash test. Just how bad was the Tsuru, especially compared to a modern car? This bad.
Source: Gizmodo – Horrifying Crash Test Against A Modern Car Shows Why Mexico’s Nissan Tsuru Is No More
It was a dark day in Deadpool land when director Tim Miller, who did such an amazing job on the first film, left its developing sequel. He’s quickly found himself a new project, though. “Quick” being the key word.
Source: io9 – The Director of Deadpool Will Now Produce Sonic the Hedgehog
You might not like that companies are trying to either discourage ad blocking or serve ads regardless, but at least they’re getting creative about it. Netflix is promoting its bleak drama Black Mirror by serving special ads just to people spotted usi…
Source: Engadget – Netflix taunts ad blocking crowd with ‘Black Mirror’ ads
I don’t care if you are a grandmother or not, stealing is stealing. She even looks like the kind of hard core pirate that would willfully deprive content owners of their hard earned money just because she’s too cheap to pay for games. Shame on you granny. Shame on you.
The 86-year-old from Ontario has been warned she could have to pay up to $5,000 for illegally downloading a game she’d never heard of. “I found it quite shocking … I’m 86 years old, no one has access to my computer but me, why would I download a war game?” McMillan told Go Public. In May, she received two emails forwarded by her internet provider. They were from a private company called Canadian Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement (CANIPRE) claiming she had illegally downloaded Metro 2033, a first-person shooter game where nuclear war survivors have to kill mutants.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – 86 Year Old Lady Accused Of Pirating Metro 2033
Unpopular opinion: the biggest problem with Skyrim is that everybody’s not Draculas.
Source: Kotaku – Skyrim Halloween Mod Makes The Whole Game Spookier
When you’re trying to pack on muscle or build your endurance, you have to consider every aspect of your health. What you eat, how much you sleep, and what you do all matters—even sex.
Source: LifeHacker – How Sex and Masturbation Affects Your Workouts
As a bitter, multi-year battle over the legality of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) rages on, an alternate path forward has begun to emerge. The world’s largest telescope may not wind up on the frosty peak of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, but instead it might be placed in Spain’s Canary Islands. It’d be a loss for astronomy, but a major win for Hawaiian cultural practitioners who don’t want their sacred mountain marred by gigantic machines.
Source: Gizmodo – The World’s Largest Telescope Might Not Be Built in Hawaii After All
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission has given a helping hand to Louisville, Kentucky, in the city’s attempt to enforce local rules that would make it easier for Google Fiber to compete against ATT. ATT sued the local government in Louisville and Jefferson County in February to stop a One Touch Make Ready (OTMR) ordinance designed to give Google Fiber or other new competitors faster access to utility poles. Today, the US government submitted a statement of interest (full text) on behalf of the FCC, which says that one of ATT’s primary legal arguments is incorrect. ATT — also known as BellSouth Telecommunications in Kentucky — argued that the Louisville ordinance is preempted by the FCC’s pole-attachment rules. The local ordinance “conflicts with the procedures created by the FCC, and upsets the careful balances struck by the FCC in crafting its pole attachment regulations,” ATT’s lawsuit said. But that is false, the FCC says. The FCC does have rules ensuring reasonable access to utility poles, but states are allowed to opt out of the federal pole-attachment rules if they certify to the commission that they regulate the rates, terms, and conditions of pole attachments. Kentucky is one of 20 states that has opted out of the federal regime and imposed its own rules, the FCC noted. Accordingly, the federal pole-attachment regulations enacted under Section 224 [of the Communications Act] simply do not apply here,” the FCC wrote. More generally, One Touch Make Ready rules are consistent with federal communications policies and regulations that seek expanded broadband deployment, the FCC also wrote.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – AT&T Falsely Claimed Pro-Google Fiber Rule Is Invalid, FCC Says
Today on Highlight Reel we have horse action, plane action, last minute saves, tank flight, and much more!
Source: Kotaku – Battlefield 1 Respawn Goes Poorly
Director Rick Famuyiwa, who made last year’s underrated gem Dope, has left the Warner Bros and DC film The Flash due to “creative differences.” And while that news definitely sucks, maybe there’s a silver lining.
Source: io9 – The Flash Just Lost Its Dope Director, But Could That Be a Good Thing?
Peter Thiel built his fortune in Silicon Valley as a founder of PayPal, an early backer of Facebook and a venture capitalist focused on the technology industry. He’s living proof of the Bay Area’s ability to make billionaires of mortal men.
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Source: Engadget – Peter Thiel’s tech wealth made him a First Amendment gatekeeper
In the run-up to Halloween, I’ve seen really young girls dressed up as Harley Quinn pop up on social media. Confession: it grosses me out when I see it.
Source: io9 – Dressing Little Girls Up as the Joker’s Girlfriend Is So Creepy
This is a video of Youtuber Jesse Wellens bodypainted as the Silver Surfer (courtesy of makeup artist Alexys Fleming) and cruising around the streets of New York City on an electric surfboard. Personally he looks like more of a Gray Surfer to me and I would have spraypainted myself silver if I were him but that’s just me and I believe in authenticity. Also: paint fumes. I believe in paint fumes a lot. I also believe in the smell of gasoline and industrial strength cleaning supplies. Oh, and ghosts. I believe in ghosts. “What about global warming?” Global warming is a hoax perpetuated by the manufacturers of refrigerators and tank tops.
Keep going for the video.
Source: Geekologie – Silver Surfer Rides Through NYC On Electric Surfboard
Christine McMillan, an 86 year-old woman from Ontario, was pretty surprised when she received an email claiming she’d pirated post-apocalyptic FPS Metro 2033. She was even more surprised about the part where she was liable for a fine of up to $5,000. Itsy bitsy problem: she didn’t even know what Metro 2033 was.
Source: Kotaku – 86-Year-Old Grandmother Accused Of Pirating PC Game, Liable For ,000
Sometimes it can feel like your career has been chosen for you, and that you’re stuck doing something you don’t really like. But that may be because you never really considered all of your interests.
Source: LifeHacker – Choose a New Career You’ll Care About With the “Cloud Technique”
Last week marked the release of the AMDGPU-PRO 16.40 driver as AMD’s first hybrid driver since the 16.30 driver series over the summer that rolled out Polaris GPU support. With this first AMDGPU-PRO update in a few months, here are some fresh benchmarks comparing the performance to the latest open-source driver code.
Source: Phoronix – AMDGPU-PRO 16.40 vs. Linux 4.8 + Mesa 13.1-dev Driver Comparison
Black riders have to wait “significantly longer” for their Uber cabs and experience “double” the cancellation rates of white passengers, according to a new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The study, which also observed a similar pattern among Lyft drivers, claims it has found “significant evidence of racial discrimination” in ride-hailing services based on a pair of experiments in Seattle and Boston. From a report on Time: Researchers pulled data from more than 1,400 field tests conducted using mostly Uber and Lyft, but also traditional taxi services. The findings in Boston and Seattle showed evidence of discrimination that manifested in either longer waits or a higher likelihood for cancellation. In Seattle, African-American UberX users on average waited 5 minutes and 15 seconds for pick-ups — roughly 30% longer than white riders, who waited 4 minutes on average. Lyft users did not experience a significant difference during the experiment. When the research assistants switched between using white-sounding and African-American-sounding names, they did not find a significant increase in their wait times. But the overall rates at which drivers canceled the ride after it was assigned to them was more than one in 10 for riders with black-sounding names, roughly double than for riders with white-sounding names.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – It’s Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You’re Black, Study Says
October 9th marked Hugo Barra’s third year at Xiaomi, and as its Global Vice President, he watched the company evolve from a China-centric smartphone e-tailer to an IoT ecosystem with a growing international footprint. Xiaomi’s recently entered Russi…
Source: Engadget – Outside China, Xiaomi seeks another home on US networks
When is the last time that a $5 gadget literally changed your life?
Source: TreeHugger – At just , this solar lamp is the most affordable in the world