This Sensi thermostat might not look like much, but you can control it with an app on your phone, or even with Alexa, meaning it’s basically an uglier Nest for less than half the price. No wonder it’s actually Amazon’s #1 selling thermostat.
Source: Gizmodo – This Sensi Thermostat Is Basically An Uglier Nest For Only 4
Forget the idea that you need to be an expert. Give yourself permission to dabble if you’re curious.
Source: TreeHugger – In praise of micromastery
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This is ‘100 Movies 100 Numbers 100 Seconds’, a video counting down from 100 using only numbers voiced in movies (with no duplicates), in 100 seconds. You can see a list of all the movies used at the video’s Youtube page HERE. How many have you seen? I’ve seen them all. I’m kidding, I’ve seen 64. Fine, 27. Kidding again, I’ve only seen six. I’m lying, what’s a movie?
Hit the jump for the video of the numeric alphabet being recited.
Source: Geekologie – Counting Down From 100 Using Numbers Voiced In Movies
On Tuesday, federal authorities announced that several members of the Tijuana-based Hooligans Motorcycle Club had been indicted for some stealing $4.5 million worth of Jeeps in San Diego County. How’d they do it? Stolen keys? Smash and grab operation? Nah, according to police, these bikers just gained access to a…
Source: Gizmodo – Cops Think This Tijuana Biker Gang Hacked Into and Stole Over 100 Jeeps
Tesco is already a solid if unspectacular seller of consumer tech, but a new partnership with Dixons Carphone looks set to take things up a notch. In an announcement today, the UK’s biggest grocer confirmed it will open two Currys PC World outlets in…
Source: Engadget – Coming soon to Tesco: Currys PC World outlets
A future with self-driving cars has induced a lot of anxiety about a resulting loss of jobs, but in fact, they’ll create tons more jobs, Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen (Wikipedia) said at Recode’s annual conference on Tuesday evening. “The jobs crisis we have in the U.S. is that we don’t have enough workers,” he said. From a report: “It’s a fallacy,” Andreessen said (specifically citing the lump of labor fallacy and the luddite fallacy). “It’s a recurring panic. This happens every 25 or 50 years, people get all amped up about ‘machines are going to take all the jobs’ and it never happens.” Andreessen used the example of the rise of the automobile industry a century ago, which many thought would cost the livelihood of everyone whose jobs were to take care of horses. But “the car then created not only a lot of jobs creating cars” but everything else that happened because of the car: Paved streets, restaurants, motels, movie theaters, apartment complexes, office complexes, the entire buildout of suburban America, etc. “The jobs that were created by the automobile on the second, third, and fourth order effects were 100X, 1000X the number of jobs that blacksmiths had,” he said.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Self-Driving Cars Will Boost the Job Market, Says Marc Andreessen
Toyota will be the first US automaker to use “Automotive Grade Linux (AGL)” for its 2018 Toyota Camry. In case you’re understandably confused by all the competing infotaintment platforms, AGL is an open-source system based on, you guessed it, Linux….
Source: Engadget – Toyota’s latest infotainment system is powered by Linux
Rivet Networks is serving up a fresh take on its Killer Networking with a new hardware and software solution called xTend. With xTend, you will in essence be able to provide additional coverage for your wireless and wired networking devices without the need for an additional network switch or Wi-Fi extender.
So how does it work? Well, you’ll
Source: Hot Hardware – Rivet Networks xTend Tech Transforms Your PC Into A Gaming-Optimized Wi-Fi AP And Switch
Enceladus is having a moment: ever since NASA announced it had all the basic ingredients to support life, people have become interested in the unusual Saturnian moon. In addition to hiding a warm subterranean ocean beneath its crust, Enceladus produces enough energy from its hydrothermal vents that could…
Source: Gizmodo – A Wild Origin Story For Saturn’s Most Mysterious Moon
Welcome back for the latest installment of HOT deals! On tap for you all today, we have deals on an Ajazz Firstblood Geek RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, a Hizek 1200LM Android-based WiFi Projector, a Universal USB 3.0 Display Dock, and more. Full details for all of today’s features deals are available below, but many more are available here…
Today’s
Source: Hot Hardware – Hot Deals On A RGB Mechanical Keyboard, Android Wi-Fi Projector, 4TB Seagate HDD, And More
To the naked eye, someone slicing through steel using a high-temperature plasma torch just looks like a massive shower of sparks. But through the lens of a high-speed camera filming at 480 frames per second, the steel looks about as strong as melting butter as the torch easily slices through it.
Source: Gizmodo – A Plasma Cutter Makes Solid Steel Melt Like Butter
While the rest of us old farts have been rocket jumping since the mid-90s, I guess you n00bs need a little bit of instruction. Let me give you some insight, aim down…fire rocket….get good at it. Try that with your crappy console, peasant.
Covering the main types of rocket jumps that I use in the Quake Champions BETA. I learned most of these in Quake 3 and Quake Live… the skills still apply and the rocket feels pretty good in the current version (they’re working on improving it further though).
Discussion
Source: [H]ardOCP – n00bs Learn how to Rocket Jump
The practice of hacking standard Super Mario World cartridges on stock Super Nintendo hardware has come a long way in a short time. Three years ago, it required a robot entering thousands of button presses per second to insert arbitrary code on top of the game. By last year, streamer SethBling was proving that this kind of code insertion was possible for a human acting with pixel-perfect precision.
Now, SethBling and others in the SMW hacking community have taken things a step further, permanently writing a full hex editor and gameplay mods onto a stock Super Mario World cartridge using nothing but standard controller inputs.
SethBling’s ten-minute video explaining the entire “jailbreaking” process is a must-watch for anyone interested in the particulars of perpetually altering a 25-year-old game without any special hardware. In short, the jailbreak builds on an exploit discovered by Cooper Harrsyn that lets players write data directly to the small, 256-byte save files that are permanently stored on the Super Mario World cartridge.
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Source: Ars Technica – Hackers jailbreak permanent mods onto Super Mario World save files
A new experiment shows that long-term exposure to microgravity affects bacteria at the genetic level—conferring reproductive advantages that persist even after the bacteria is reintroduced to unaffected colonies and normal levels of gravity here on Earth.
Source: Gizmodo – Space-Mutated Bacteria Could Be Bad News For Humans
Nintendo has a long history of building innovative game controllers — the company put shoulder buttons on the SNES gamepad, added force feedback to the N64’s bizarre controller and made a fad out of motion controls with the Wii. Its most enduring in…
Source: Engadget – A 3D printer gave my Nintendo Switch a real D-pad
EVGA has once again collaborated with extreme overclocker Vince “K|NGP|N” Lucido to develop the new EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti K|NGP|N Edition. As EVGA’s ultra-high-end overclocking card, EVGA is guaranteeing each card can be to be overclocked to at least 2025MHz, which means we’re looking at a binned card with a whole heap of modifications and tweaks to allow for squeezing the last few MHz out of the card.
| EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti K|NGP|N Edition | |||
| Boost Clock | 2025MHz | ||
| Memory Clock | 11Gbps | ||
| VRAM | 11GB | ||
| TDP | Well Over 250W If You’re Doing It Right | ||
| Power Connectors | 2x 8pin | ||
| Length | ? | ||
| Width | 2 Slot | ||
| Cooler Type | Open Air | ||
| Price | TBD | ||
EVGA uses a fully custom PCB designed to withstand the rigors of overclocking. The card features a 15 phase digital VRM system with dual 8-pin power connectors on the right edge for better cable management. You will also find the EVGA Evbot connector next to the power connectors on the rear of the card, an interesting situation as this is a feature that doesn’t show up on too many EVGA products these days. The PCB features nine temperature sensors: three for memory, five for PWM, and one for the GPU. When it comes to display connectivity, there are three Mini DisplayPort 1.4 connectors, one DVI, and a single HDMI 2.0 port all in a row, making it possible to create a single-slot graphics card when used with a water block.
The heatsink shroud has a very similar look to EVGA’s FTW3 edition video card. Integrated into the black plastic shroud you’ll find three large dual-ball bearing fans pushing air through interlaced copper-plated fins bonded to six copper heatpipes (three 6mm and three 8mm) that are attached to the copper-plated baseplate. A large metal backplate spans the entire length of the graphics card, adding rigidity and structural strength to prevent it from bending under the weight of the heatsink. The card also has accommodations for LN2 overclocking.
EVGA’s Jacob Freeman tweeted a picture from Computex showing the GTX 1080 Ti K|NGP|N Edition running cool as a cucumber at 2404MHz. The company said the card will be available in July. No price has been announced yet.
Steven Lynch Contributed to this Report
Source: AnandTech – EVGA Unveils its GeForce GTX 1080 Ti K|NGP|N Edition
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With clever chemical tweaks, an old antibiotic can dole out any of three lethal blows to some of the deadliest bacteria—and give evolution one nasty concussion.
The antibiotic, vancomycin, has always been a heavy hitter against odious germs; it uses one crafty maneuver that can take out even drug-resistant foes and is often used as a last resort. But, with three chemical modifications, reported this week in PNAS, the drug now has three distinct molecular moves to take out pathogens. The menacing modifications render vancomycin at least 25,000 times deadlier. And with that level of potency, dazed bacteria stumble at developing resistance when given the chance in lab experiments.
And maybe that should be the real goal in the war against drug-resistant microbes, the authors of the new study—chemists at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California—argue.
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Source: Ars Technica – Killer antibiotic now 25,000× more potent—and resistant to drug resistance
Some Earthlings have the silly tendency to think that if they don’t understand something, it must be fake. That includes our influence on the changing climate, the fact that the Earth is round, and the existence of black holes, massive blobs so dense that not even light can escape their tug.
Source: Gizmodo – How Do We Know Black Holes Are Really Holes?
It’s a mix of ancient tech and nanotech
Source: TreeHugger – Graphene infused lime paint has magical green properties
SoundCloud keeps expanding its influence to stay competitive with the likes of Spotify and Pandora. It borrowed $70 million last March to enhance its push into new markets, added new tiers to its subscription service, brought Chromecast streaming to…
Source: Engadget – SoundCloud beats Spotify to Xbox One music streaming
