Being a millennial is no picnic. But a new study published this Friday in JAMA Open suggests it’s especially hard for expectant moms. It found that pregnant women today are more likely to feel depressed than their mothers were during their pregnancies a generation ago.
Source: Gizmodo – Pregnant Millennials May Get Depression More Than Their Mothers in the 1990s
We Happy Few has come to fruition in a unique way. Compulsion Games first captured attentions in 2015 with its creepy, atmospheric trailers, also launching a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund continued development of its dystopian title. The fo…
Source: Engadget – We Happy Few’s dystopia is held together by drugs and denial
Lian Li has started to sell its new PSU cable featuring addressable RGB lighting. The cable is now available on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean at an introductory price below $40/€40. Going forward, the unit will get a bit more expensive, but will stay below $50/€50.
Announced at Computex last month, the the Lian Li Strimer (pronounced ‘Streamer’) is a light emitting module featuring RGB LEDs that can be attached to Lian Li’s white PSU cable and create an impression that the wires are glowing. The Strimer has a connector to attach to motherboards that can control addressable RGB lighting and works with all popular motherboards brands as well as their software. Alternatively, the Strimer can be plugged to a special module that features 10 pre-programmed lighting options and can be controlled manually.
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Lian Li’s Strimer module and its white cable are compatible with all ATX PSUs available on the market and the installation procedure does not seem to be too complex.
The Lian Li Strimer is now available from Amazon and Newegg in the US, Caseking in Germany, and OcUK in the UK. For a limited time the product will cost $5/€5/£5 below its MSRP, but after that its price will increase to $45/€45/£40.
| Pricing of Lian Li Strimer | ||||
| Retailer | Country | Current Price | MSRP | |
| Amazon | U.S. | $35 | $45 | |
| Caseking | Germany | €40 | €45 | |
| Newegg | U.S. | $40 | $45 | |
| Overclockers UK | U.K. | £35 | £40 | |
Source: AnandTech – Lian Li’s Strimer RGB PSU Cable Now Available: For A Limited Time
Yesterday, Build-A-Bear put on a Pay Your Age event, promising customers they could pay their age for just about any stuffed animal in the store. That meant if your kid is three, she could have snagged a furry friend for three bucks. What could go wrong, right? It’s only every child’s dream to bring home their very…
Source: LifeHacker – How to Stuff Your Own Damn Teddy Bear for Cheap
It looks like a bike but can schlep a family.
Source: TreeHugger – The Capacita may change the way you think about e-bikes
The ASUS ROG Swift PG27UQ has been a long time coming, and spoiler alert, it was worth the wait. The ASUS ROG Swift PG27UQ is one of the first monitors to finally bring together a full collection of premium technologies and combine them into a single offering, like a delicious stew full of tasty gaming ingredients. In this case, the recipe…
Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS ROG Swift PG27UQ Monitor Review: Glorious 4K HDR, 144Hz G-SYNC Gaming
Source: Engadget – SpaceX is one step closer to launching astronauts into space
Adobe, the maker of popular digital design programs for creatives, is planning to launch the full version of its Photoshop app for Apple’s iPad as part of a new strategy to make its products compatible across multiple devices and boost subscription sales. From a report: The software developer is planning to unveil the new app at its annual MAX creative conference in October, according to people with knowledge of the plan. The app is slated to hit the market in 2019. Engineering delays could still alter that timeline. San Jose, California-based Adobe has been on a multiyear journey to modernize its dominant creative media software. The company shifted all of its apps to the cloud in 2012, launching a new subscription-based business model that’s on track to more than double sales through the end of this fiscal year and sent the stock soaring more than 700 percent. Recently, Adobe has also begun pitching its products to hobbyists, who prefer working on mobile devices rather than PCs. Still, the company has yet to transition full versions of its best-known apps to smaller screens.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Adobe To Launch Photoshop for iPad in Strategy Shift
Given the recent releases of FreeBSD 11.2, Scientific Linux 6.10, openSUSE Leap 15, and other distribution updates in the past quarter, here are some fresh benchmarks of eight different Linux distributions compared to FreeBSD 11.2 and Microsoft Windows Server 2016. The tested Linux platforms for this go-around were CentOS 7.5, Clear Linux 23610, Debian 9.4, Fedora Server 28, openSUSE leap 15.0, Scientific Linux 6.10, Scientific Linux 7.5, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Source: Phoronix – Windows Server 2016 vs. FreeBSD 11.2 vs. 8 Linux Distributions Performance
I am not showing you my receipts. We’re not here to talk about me. We’re here to talk about the hundreds of thousands of people dumping their money into the mobile rhythm-game industry.
I just happen to be one of them.
Source: Engadget – Japan’s rhythm game infatuation: Empty wallets, full hearts
MoviePass competitor Sinemia made it a bit more attractive to sign up for its service this week: it’s now offering $25 in free Restaurant.com gift certificates each month with every subscription.
Source: LifeHacker – MoviePass’ Competitor is Now Offering in Free Food With Monthly Movie Subscriptions
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has been known to offer help, from donating solar batteries to Puerto Rico to building a tiny ‘submarine’ to rescue that Thai soccer team that was trapped in a cave. (It was never put to use.) The latest disaster to land on Musk’s radar? The water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
Source: Gizmodo – Here’s What Flint’s Mayor Wants Elon Musk to Do
Microsoft is really looking to take the fight to Slack with its Teams collaboration tool. For those not in the know, Microsoft Teams is a platform for chatting, file sharing and video/audio calls (among other things) aimed at business users. In addition, Teams offers excellent integration with other Microsoft products including the ever-popular
Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft Takes It To Slack With New Teams Features And A Free Version
Perhaps in a parallel universe, tablets rule the day and traditional PCs are now extinct. Not in this universe, though. Both Gartner and International Data Corporation (IDC) tallied more than 62.1 million worldwide PC shipments in the second quarter of 2018. Where the two differ is in the precise growth rate—Gartner says PC shipments are up
Source: Hot Hardware – New PC Sales Are On The Upswing For The First Time In 6 Years
A commercially available “quantum computer” has been on the market since 2011, but it’s controversial. The D-Wave machine is nothing like other quantum computers, and until recently, scientists have doubted that it was even truly quantum at all. But the company has released an important new result, one that in part…
Source: Gizmodo – New Quantum Computer Milestone Would Make Richard Feynman Very Happy
Save big on a Dyson vacuum, the uber-popular Spikeball, your favorite affordable Bluetooth headphones, and the rest of today’s best deals.
Source: LifeHacker – Friday’s Best Deals: 0 Dyson Vacuum, Spikeball, Reader-Favorite Headphones, and More
Filling the blue bin no longer does much good for the planet.
Source: TreeHugger – Californians are caught up in “wish recycling”
Over at the Google AI blog they’re talking about computer vision and how they are using it to find protein crystallization. According to Google, computer vision will replace human researchers and reduce human error while finding individual protein crystals that can be targeted by new drugs. This technique currently has an accuracy of 94%. That’s pretty accurate and shows how important machine learning really is to science. This is the kind of thing that’s going to help us better treat many diseases.
If you want to use your spare computer cycles to help in medical research you should stop by our Distributed Computing Forum and chat with the folks there.
…we discuss how we used some of the most recent architectures of deep convolutional networks and customized them to achieve an accuracy of more than 94% on the visual recognition task of identifying protein crystals. In order to spur further research in this area, we have made the data freely accessible, and open-sourced our model as part of the TensorFlow research model repository, and available to researchers as a Cloud ML Engine endpoint.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Automating Drug Discoveries Using Computer Vision
Reuters is reporting that sources within Blue Origin told them tickets for suborbital flights will cost at least $200,000 each. The New Sheppard capsule will carry 6 passengers and travel to an altitude of more than 62 miles for this low ticket price. However, Blue Origin won’t say how much it costs them for each flight, but one analyst believes the number is $10M per flight. This means Blue Origin is losing millions per flight. Also, sources claim the first passengers are going to be company employees and they haven’t been selected yet. Mandatory guinea pigs anyone? Good luck!
Blue Origin has completed eight test flights of the vertical take-off and landing New Shepard from its launch pad in Texas, but none with passengers aboard. Two flights have included a test dummy the company calls “Mannequin Skywalker.”
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Sources Say Jeff Bezos Plans to Charge at Least 0,000 for Space Rides
If your smartphone of choice has forced you to upgrade to wireless headphones, you probably hate having to swap them out for a corded pair when you want to play your Nintendo Switch with a little privacy. The portable console doesn’t come with Bluetooth, but a tiny dongle called the Genki does, theoretically making it…
Source: Gizmodo – You Can Now Use Wireless Headphones With Your Nintendo Switch Thanks to This Dongle