If your Xbox copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is stashed away on a shelf somewhere, you might want to pull it out as you’ll have some use for it again next week. Starting next Thursday, Rockstar Games is adding backwards compatibility for the ga…
Source: Engadget – ‘GTA: San Andreas’ gets Xbox One backwards compatibility
Monthly Archives: May 2018
Amazing Animated Monster Fight Cartoon Filmed In A Single Shot
This is an awesome monster fight animation created with pencil drawings on pieces of cut out poster board that was all filmed as one continuous shot with an iPhone. Plus the artist shows you how it was filmed after the animation itself, which might have been even more interesting than the actual cartoon. Did any of that even make sense? I don’t know, just watch it — I’m bad at describing things. “Your dating profile reads ‘Fun loving dud with a beer belly.'” Okay now that I nailed.
Keep going for the video while I speculate why none of the ladies on CheapDates don’t ever want to message such a fun loving dud.
Source: Geekologie – Amazing Animated Monster Fight Cartoon Filmed In A Single Shot
Canon Has Sold Its Last Film Camera
As spotted by PetaPixel, Canon this week announced with no fanfare that it’s sold its last film camera. TechCrunch reports: The model in question is the EOS-1V, which, incidentally, the company actually stopped making a full eight years ago. Since it has simply been selling out the rest of its stock, which, it seems, has finally depleted. It’s less of a bang than a prolonged whimper, but it’s the end of an era, nonetheless, marking the first time Canon hasn’t offered a film camera since the 30s, when its parent company started offering a device called the “Kwanon.” Those who are feeling suddenly nostalgic, you can likely pick one up used fairly easily (though this news might bump up their premium a bit), and I’m sure the inevitable Kickstarter project to revive the technology can’t be too far off, because that’s how these things go now. Canon will continue to offer repair on the EOS-1V until October 31, 2025, “though that could end as early as 2020 for some, if parts and inventory run out sooner,” adds TechCrunch.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Canon Has Sold Its Last Film Camera
Grindr May Add a Way for Users to Notify Past Hookups of STI Risk
Popular hookup app Grindr is reportedly considering a new feature that would alert users if may have been exposed to a sexually transmitted infection.
Source: Gizmodo – Grindr May Add a Way for Users to Notify Past Hookups of STI Risk
Walmart Wants to Trick Rich People Into Shopping at Walmart by Texting Orders to Bots
Walmart is getting creative in its total war with Amazon. The retail giant recently announced a new service called Jetblack, a text message-based personal shopping service helmed by Rent the Runway co-founder Jenny Fleiss. Its initial target demographic? Rich families who live “in Manhattan doorman buildings” and…
Source: Gizmodo – Walmart Wants to Trick Rich People Into Shopping at Walmart by Texting Orders to Bots
Walmart's new service does your shopping when you send it a text
Walmart has been ramping up its remote shopping efforts, including expanding its grocery delivery with Postmates and adding more of its ‘pickup towers’ for online orders. At a shareholder meeting today, the retail giant formally unveiled its next pro…
Source: Engadget – Walmart’s new service does your shopping when you send it a text
SoftBank pours $2.25 billion into GM's self-driving car division
Source: Engadget – SoftBank pours .25 billion into GM’s self-driving car division
Google Listed 'Nazism' as the Ideology of the California Republican Party
Less than a week ago, if you searched for the California Republican Party on Google, you might have read that the political party’s ideologies included conservatism, market liberalism, and nazism. The latter listing has since been removed, and Google is blaming the results on Wikipedia “vandalism.” From a report: Vice first reported the inclusion of “Nazism” under ideologies in Google’s knowledge panel — the box that shows up to the right of search results. It’s unclear how long the term had been there, but the tech giant removed it after being notified by the publication. “We regret that vandalism on Wikipedia briefly appeared on our search results,” Google tweeted on Thursday in response to California congressman and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. “This was not the the result of a manual change by Google. We have systems in place that catch vandalism before it impacts search results, but occasionally errors get through, and that happened here.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Google Listed ‘Nazism’ as the Ideology of the California Republican Party
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Source: LifeHacker – Earther Stop Whatever You Are Doing and Look at These Images From NOAA’s New Weather Satellite | The
Rockstar Adding Three Titles to the Xbox One Backward Compatibility
A distinguished trio of Rockstar Xbox 360 titles are coming to the Xbox One Backward Compatibility catalog next week: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Midnight Club: Los Angeles and Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis.
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Source: PS4 News – Rockstar Adding Three Titles to the Xbox One Backward Compatibility
$2,500 2v2 FORTNITE TOURNAMENT // #1 Ranked Player PS4 // 2,160 Wins // 17,000 Kills
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IMPOSSIBLE SPIKE TRAP *WIN* IN FORTNITE BATTLE ROYALE!!! (Fortnite Battle Royale Solo Win…
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Logan Paul Vs Ninja Twitch Battle (SOT)
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Source: PS4 News – Logan Paul Vs Ninja Twitch Battle (SOT)
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What The Hell Was That?: Psychedelic Levi Commercials From The Early 1970's
These are two vintage Levi commercials from the early 1970’s narrated by voice-over and recording artist Ken Nordine, best known from his Word Jazz albums of the 1950’s and 60’s. The first is a trippy evolution of man themed ad, and the second is based on Nordine’s recording of the poem ‘Flibberty Jib’ from the original Word Jazz album. As weird as they are, that was definitely some solid advertising, and I just bought six pairs of Levis off Amazon, all in sizes that I know won’t fit me but I won’t return. Modern advertisers should really take a page from the 1970’s advertising playbook and– “What? Sit around and do psychedelics all day?” Not a bad job if you can get it. Wait — can you get it? I’m willing to try new things, here’s my resume. “This is a picture of a cat licking a window.” I want a corner office.
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Source: Geekologie – What The Hell Was That?: Psychedelic Levi Commercials From The Early 1970’s
Skyscraper Window Replacement Goes Horribly, Horribly Wrong
Construction workers in Poland using a rooftop crane to lift a giant pane of glass to the top of a 30-plus-story skyscraper will unfortunately have to try it once again. The glass was almost in their reach when the cable apparently snapped, sending the window and its support rig plummeting to the ground.
Source: Gizmodo – Skyscraper Window Replacement Goes Horribly, Horribly Wrong
Google search showed ‘Nazism’ as a California Republican Party ideology
As California gears up for its primary, many of the state’s Republicans are fuming over how Google described their party in its search results. Those searching for “California Republicans” or “California Republican Party” would have found a result th…
Source: Engadget – Google search showed ‘Nazism’ as a California Republican Party ideology
The 10 Best Deals of May 31, 2018
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
Source: LifeHacker – The 10 Best Deals of May 31, 2018
The Millennium Falcons that Never Were
Certainly most every person that reads this meager news feed can easily picture the Millennium Falcon in their mind’s eye right now, but what about all the versions that we never will get to see on the big screen? StarWars.com has a story about looking back in time with the Falcon, which of course is there to prop up the floundering Han Solo film, but it is still really cool to see.
Clyne, Lucasfilm’s design supervisor for Solo: A Star Wars Story, and his team ultimately created about 60 iterations of the fastest ship in the galaxy before landing on the design that’s featured in the new film, out now. The process took Clyne back to his childhood and essentially transported the entire crew back to the 1970s to explore muscle car culture, model building, and the original concept art that inspired the creators of Star Wars in 1977.
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