Sometimes, when I’m feeling stressed, my mind instinctively hearkens back to peaceful, idyllic days and just lingers there for a little while: a perfect Sunday brunch. An hours-long walk along the beach. A concert so good that, for just a moment, the outside world vanished. Eastshade is a game that feels like those…
Source: Kotaku – Eastshade Has So Much Personality That You Forget You’re Just Painting and Talking
The day-to-day decisions that most impact your health aren’t the ones you make in the grocery store, say, deciding between the organic and the regular apples. They’re high impact things like getting vaccines and wearing your seatbelt.
Source: LifeHacker – Follow These Health Professionals’ Tips to Avoid Terrible Fates
The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti was one of the worst kept secrets in the tech industry, as specs and retail card leaks kept leaking on a continual basis. Last week, we were finally able to get a true glimpse of what this “budget” card can do and it dominates the Pascal-based GeForce GTX 1060 while offering comparable performance to the GeForce GTX
Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 And GTX 1650 Prices And Launch Dates Reportedly Leaked
MWC attendees were among the first in the world to get their hands on Samsung’s Galaxy S10 5G, but some of the company’s biggest fans won’t have to wait too much longer to buy one. The company has already publicly said that its 5G flagship would go o…
Source: Engadget – The 5G Galaxy S10 is coming to South Korea first in April
Given the weather and the politics these days, packing and moving looks very attractive right now.
Source: TreeHugger – Where would you move if you could?
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Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our friends at TechBargains, we have another round of deals to share. Today’s list is headlined by another deal on the Nintendo Switch, as the popular portable game console is currently available for $270 at Newegg. That’s a $30 discount. Models with gray and blue/red controllers are both on sale.
A couple things worth noting here: you’ll have to apply the code “EMCTVVA34” at checkout to receive the discount, but in order to do that, you’ll have to give Newegg an email address first. The discount is only available through Tuesday. The deal comes from Newegg itself, not a third-party vendor. But this is the part when we mention that Newegg’s checkout process was subject to a data breach last year that put customers’ payment data at risk of theft for a full month. The retailer has since resolved that issue, but the more you know, etc.
It’s also worth noting that Nintendo is running a separate Switch deal that bundles a $35 eShop gift card with the console at its standard $299 price. If you plan on downloading a game or two from the Switch’s digital shop anyway rather than sticking to physical cartridges, that may be a better value than the straight discount here.
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Source: Ars Technica – Dealmaster: Get a new Nintendo Switch console for 0
Physicists typically build large, complex experiments to hunt for dark matter particles coming from outer space, but what if clues to its existence have been hiding inside the Earth all along? One group of physicists proposes hunting for signs of it in ancient minerals, such as olivine or gypsum, that formed in the…
Source: Gizmodo – Physicists Propose Hunting for Signs of Dark Matter in Ancient Minerals
Being a PC gamer can be a challenge in today’s console-centric world. Cool games launch first on consoles, and the PC gamer has to sit and wait until a launch date is announced, sometimes months or even years after the game landed on the console. Red Dead Redemption 2 is a perfect example; that game is still not available for PC gamers, but
Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft Blurs Line Between Xbox One And PC Gaming With New Windows 10 Updates
An anonymous reader writes: We’ve seen companies big and small build everything from AI-driven developer tools to AI-powered developer environments. But what if instead of having AI merely help developers write code, it did all the heavy lifting? Dry.io, a developer playground that helps you write web apps using just a few lines of code, began accepting signups today for its first wave of external testing. The programmable software platform lets you set the parameters of what you want to build, “and the AI takes care of the rest.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Dry.io Wants To Democratize Software Development Using AI
Google Docs’ AI grammar suggestions are no longer limited to early adopters. The company is rolling out the machine learning tool for G Suite users, giving them an easier way to polish their reports. As Google outlined last year, this isn’t a spell…
Source: Engadget – Google Docs’ AI grammar checker rolls out to G Suite users
David Walker is busy. He’s co-writing Naomi, a new high-profile series from DC Comics, along with Brian Michael Bendis and artist Jamal Campbell. He’s also working on Image Comics’ enthusiastically received Bitter Root with co-writer Chuck Brown and artist Sanford Greene. But, despite the fact that the veteran writer…
Source: io9 – David Walker Is Betting on the Power of Black History and a Bold New Self-Publishing Gamble
According to reports, Google Duo is now accessible on the web. By heading to the Google Duo website, users should be able to place video and phone calls within their web browser.
There’s no tedious setup to get started with Duo on the web–no phone number authentication or QR code scans like with other Google products. You just need to be logged into your Google account. You can, of course, choose to answer Duo calls on your phone instead of the web (you’ll get a browser notification if you’re logged in).
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Google Duo Is Now Accessible from the Web
Alien shenanigans are imminent with today’s release of new Sims 4 game pack Strangerville. To celebrate, players are making decked-out trailer homes for their Sims like the one featured in the pack’s trippy video teaser.
Source: Kotaku – Sim 4 Players Make Luxurious Trailer Homes to Celebrate New Alien-Themed Content
One of the keys to getting on the same page with your partner about money is to have open and honest communication. As Lifehacker has covered, scheduling periodic money check-ins—whether that’s weekly, monthly, etc.—is important in any relationship.
Source: LifeHacker – Bridge Your Relationship’s Money Gap With a Data Dump
Wind power has become increasingly popular, but its success is limited by the fact that wind comes and goes as it pleases, making it hard for power grids to count on the renewable energy and less likely to fully embrace it. While we can’t control the…
Source: Engadget – Google’s DeepMind can predict wind patterns a day in advance
The Federal Trade Commission will be launching a task force to monitor competition in the US’s technology markets, commissioners announced today. From a report: The task force will include current officials working in the agency’s Bureau of Competition in order to “enhance the Bureau’s focus on technology-related sectors of the economy, including markets in which online platforms compete.” It will also include 17 staff attorneys who will be tasked with investigating anti-competitive behavior in the tech industry. “The role of technology in the economy and in our lives grows more important every day,” FTC Chairman Joe Simons said. “As I’ve noted in the past, it makes sense for us to closely examine technology markets to ensure consumers benefit from free and fair competition.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – New FTC Task Force Will Take on Tech Monopolies
When four American families switched to all-organic diets for a week, the results were dramatic.
Source: TreeHugger – An organic diet rapidly reduces pesticide exposure
Much like Bill and Ted traveled through time to collect historical figures, you can now do something similar. Except the time travel is nostalgic (no magic phone booth required), and the historical figures you’ll be collecting are actually of Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan.
Source: io9 – Check Out These Excellent Bill & Ted Toys Celebrating the Movie’s 30th Anniversary
This is a very short video of Russian “professional calisthenics athlete” Alexander Didenko performing a very impressive backflip to handstand (or, as I’m calling it, a half back handspring). I can already hear my wrists breaking. Now I’m not saying I could do that, because I know that I could’t because my penis is so gigantic it completely throws off my center of gravity. “I don’t think that’s the reason.” *shaking head sadly at penis* You’ve ruined me.
Keep going for the video, although the gif is really the whole thing, just with a crappier framerate.
Source: Geekologie – Ninjas Are Everywhere: Man Performs Backflip To Handstand
This is the functional Heckler & Koch XM8 assault rifle (actually an SL8 with a custom XM8 conversion kit) modded by Hollywood props engineer Tom Bostic of TommyBuilt Tactical with a Cobra Commander theme from the G.I. Joe franchise. Man, I miss those old red lasers vs blue lasers days. Some more info:
This is an H&K SL8 I converted to an XM8 with my furniture kit, that’s an actual Insight Technologies 4x XM8 prototype optic basically unobtainable, lol Beta C 100 G36 drum and a custom barrel shroud. We did it up in the Old 80’s cartoon Cobra Commander theme from the GI Joe toys and cartoons.
Are you thinking what I’m thinking? “Pork chop sandwiches?” Forever and always. That’s one of my top two go-to’s when I’m feeling down. “And the other?” The bar. If I’m really down I watch the video AT the bar.
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Source: Geekologie – A Custom Cobra Commander Themed Heckler & Koch XM8 Assault Rifle
