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Source: Kotaku – A For Honor Kill So Nice They Fell Twice
Monthly Archives: January 2017
Remains of the Day: Paper by Dropbox Launches Globally
Paper, Dropbox’s project collaboration app, is finally out of beta. It is comparable to something like Google Docs with more of an emphasis on working together with your colleagues within the Dropbox environment. That and more in today’s news.
Source: LifeHacker – Remains of the Day: Paper by Dropbox Launches Globally
This tiny glob could be humans' earliest known ancestor
Paleobiologists in search of the earliest records of life on Earth have discovered what they believe is the human race’s earliest known ancestor: a 540 million-year-old deuterostome about the size of a grain of rice called Saccorhytus coronarious tha…
Source: Engadget – This tiny glob could be humans’ earliest known ancestor
Hyperloop pod competition yields a few outstanding models, tunnel announcement
Megan Geuss
HAWTHORNE, Calif.—On a hot, Southern California Sunday, 27 teams gathered to show off their model Hyperloop pods. But only three won a chance to load their pods into a low-pressure environment created in a 0.75 mile (1.25 km) Hyperloop test tube built by SpaceX next to the company’s headquarters. Those teams—from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, WARR (a student group within Munich Technical University), and Delft University of Technology—were determined to have some of the most sophisticated pods, capable of levitation, braking, and running on their own power.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk popularized the idea of the Hyperloop—a theoretical pod system that runs in low-pressure tubes, hovering along a track using magnetic skis to minimize friction. As Musk imagined it in 2013, the system would send pods up to 760 mph. But the CEO decided that he didn’t want to work on the project himself, so he made his ideas available to anyone interested in running with it. That spawned several startups as well as this competition for students and other private research teams.
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Source: Ars Technica – Hyperloop pod competition yields a few outstanding models, tunnel announcement
New Radeon Software Crimson ReLive v17.1.2
AMD has blessed us with yet another new version of its Crimson ReLive driver, v17.1.2, which you can download here. This new version has support for Conan Exiles Beta as well as Tom Clancy’s Recon Wildlands Beta. You can find the release notes here.
You might considering giving our AMD Video Card Driver Performance Review – Fine Wine? review a read as well. We track driver gains over the lifetime of the Fury X and RX 480 GPUs.
Fixed Issues
Changing memory clocks with Radeon WattMan with more than one display connected may cause memory clocks to intermittently become stuck at their minimum setting or switch between min and max ranges intermittently causing display flickering.
Diablo®III May experience smoke or lighting effects may appear corrupted when using DirectX®9 API.
Some applications may experience an intermittent or random runtime crash in atidxx64.dll.
FIFA®17 may experience a black screen on launch when using Hybrid Graphics or AMD PowerXpress system configurations.
Watch_Dogs®2 may experience an intermittent game crash after extended periods of play on some Radeon RX 300 series products.
Paragon™ may experience flickering in profile or store preview pages after changing graphics settings when using Multi GPU.
Forza Horizon 3 may experience a crash or application hang with the Blizzard Mountain DLC on some select Radeon GCN products.
Discussion
Source: [H]ardOCP – New Radeon Software Crimson ReLive v17.1.2
We'll Return to The Good Place for a Second Season
If you haven’t been watching The Good Place, you have been missing out. And now you have even more of a reason to binge the show: to catch up before season two premieres.
Source: io9 – We’ll Return to The Good Place for a Second Season
Razer acquires Nextbit and its 'cloud phone'
In the last couple of years Razer has acquired companies including Ouya and THX, and now it’s making a splash in mobile with the purchase of Nextbit. Its latest target introduced the Robin “cloud phone” last year, which we found “beautiful, but flawe…
Source: Engadget – Razer acquires Nextbit and its ‘cloud phone’
There's A New Double Dragon Game Out Today
In case you missed it or were confused by its appearance in The Week in Games, Double Dragon IV is out for the PlayStation 4 and PC today. Arc System Works grabbed the rights back in 2015, recruited some of series’ original devs and made a new old game.
Source: Kotaku – There’s A New Double Dragon Game Out Today
Ask Auto Mechanics to Show You the Problem to Avoid Getting Ripped Off
Most mechanics aren’t looking to cheat you out of money, but auto repairs are expensive. That goes double for the ones you don’t need. Asking your mechanic just one simple question can help you avoid any issues.
Source: LifeHacker – Ask Auto Mechanics to Show You the Problem to Avoid Getting Ripped Off
'Father of Pac-Man,' Masaya Nakamura, Dies At Age 91
AmiMoJo writes from a report via The Japan Times: Masaya Nakamura, the founder of game developer Namco and known as “the father of Pac-Man,” has died at age 91. He founded Nakamura Seisakusho in 1955, which was renamed Namco in 1977. The company developed numerous hit video games, including “Galaxian,” “Pac-Man” and “Ridge Racer.” “Pac-Man,” designed by Namco’s inhouse video game maker Toru Iwatani, is one of the most recognizable and popular video games in history. In 2005 it was listed by Guinness World Records as the “most successful coin-operated arcade machine.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – ‘Father of Pac-Man,’ Masaya Nakamura, Dies At Age 91
Locked down Windows RT could be coming back as Windows Cloud
Microsoft’s own Surface: one of the few Windows RT devices that you could actually buy.
There are increasing signs that Microsoft is planning to release a new edition of Windows 10. Evidence from the Windows SDK and in product key configuration files points at something called “Windows Cloud” (and “Windows Cloud N,” which is presumably the same thing with Media Player removed to make the EU happy). Amid speculation that this may be some kind of subscription edition of Windows, Mary Jo Foley reports that according to her sources, it is in fact a resurrection of Windows RT. Specifically, she writes that Windows Cloud is a version of Windows that can only install apps distributed through the Windows Store.
Windows RT, the version of Windows 8 that made its debut with Microsoft’s ARM-powered Surface, was not merely a version of Windows compiled for ARM. It was Windows compiled for ARM with the addition of an important restriction: the only applications it could (officially) run were applications downloaded and installed through the Windows Store, apps digitally signed by Microsoft. Third-party desktop applications were not permitted.
The upside of this design was a certain amount of security and reliability. The Store apps are sandboxed and locked down, giving a PC-like device some semblance of smartphone-like robustness. But the downside was substantial. Most Windows applications are desktop applications written using the Win32 API, and without those applications, Windows becomes much less useful. With the Windows 8 Store offering few desirable applications, Windows RT was a market failure.
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Source: Ars Technica – Locked down Windows RT could be coming back as Windows Cloud
Overwatch's Bastion Is About To Get Some Big Changes
Once upon a time, Bastion was the bane of Overwatch players’ existence. Then everybody figured out how to counter him, and the turret bot’s reputation fell to pieces—as did he, repeatedly. Now, after months spent at the bottom of the ladder, Bastion’s in line for some big changes.
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch’s Bastion Is About To Get Some Big Changes
Gamma ray telescope spots ancient, intense black holes
NASA’s Fermi gamma ray telescope has been working overtime, it seems. Scientists using the instrument have spotted extreme astronomical phenomenon both at the far edge of the universe and close to home. They’ve detected the farthest known blazars, or…
Source: Engadget – Gamma ray telescope spots ancient, intense black holes
You Aren't Living in a Hologram, Even if You Wish You Were
You may have read today that the entire universe is a giant hologram. Maybe your mind was blown while you hit your Big Bong and contemplated a 2D universe, or that researchers had somehow found substantial evidence you were “living in an illusion.”
Source: Gizmodo – You Aren’t Living in a Hologram, Even if You Wish You Were
The Curious Case of Wedge Antilles In Rogue One
Be honest. While watching Rogue One, you were really pulling for Wedge to show up during the Battle of Scarif. We all were. Red and Gold Leaders were there, so why not Wedge? Well, there’s a very good reason for it, one most of us likely didn’t think of.
Source: io9 – The Curious Case of Wedge Antilles In Rogue One
Ease Into Decluttering Your Home With a "Limbo Box"
Getting rid of your unnecessary belongings is tough, but it’s even harder when there are memories attached to them. If you’re trying to pare down, but can’t quite say goodbye to some things you know you don’t need, a “limbo box” can help.
Source: LifeHacker – Ease Into Decluttering Your Home With a “Limbo Box”
It's a More Complicated Choice Than Uber Vs. Lyft
Following an incident over the weekend in which Uber defied the New York Taxi Workers Alliance’s hour-long strike in support of Muslim detainees at New York’s JFK airport, people have been deleting the app en masse and switching over to Lyft, a competing company that has pledged $1 million to the ACLU.
Source: Gizmodo – It’s a More Complicated Choice Than Uber Vs. Lyft
Why Rockstar's Removal of A GTA Online Car Exploit Is So Controversial
For almost 2 years, one of the most popular ways to earn money in GTA Online was to use an armored “Kuruma” car during the final part of a specific heist. Instead of riding motorcycles and dodging hundreds of police bullets, as the heist typically demanded, a crew could pile into an armored car and drive to safety.…
Source: Kotaku – Why Rockstar’s Removal of A GTA Online Car Exploit Is So Controversial
Mexico City's new hybrid taxis have a 'panic' button
While President Trump continues to claim Mexico will pay for his big, beautiful wall, our neighbors south of the border are busy spending money on making their largest city safer and less polluted. The Mayor of Mexico City, Miguel Ángel Mancer…
Source: Engadget – Mexico City’s new hybrid taxis have a ‘panic’ button
What Are Your Online Dating Dos and Don'ts?
With pretty much everyone looking for love on the internet what was once a brave new world is now routine, and we want to hear about your experiences. What are your dos and don’ts when it comes to online dating? What do you look for and what are the red flags?
Source: LifeHacker – What Are Your Online Dating Dos and Don’ts?