A Dutch oven, air fryer, Anker projector, and kitchen essentials lead off Thursday’s best deals.
Source: io9 – Thursday’s Best Deals: Switch Games, Akira, Philips Hue, Urban Decay Lipstick, and More
Monthly Archives: February 2019
Google's Latest Chrome Caching Feature Turbocharges Your Browsing Experience
Chrome is on its way towards becoming a much faster browser than it already is, though there is a caveat—the upcoming speed boost applies to previously visited webpages, as Google’s developers are exploring a new back-and-forward cache scheme that will make navigating back and forth “very fast,” the company says.
“A back/forward cache (bfcache)
Source: Hot Hardware – Google’s Latest Chrome Caching Feature Turbocharges Your Browsing Experience
You can now remap the Bixby button on older Galaxy phones
When Samsung revealed its Galaxy S10 last week, one feature caused a buzz: the ability to remap the phone’s Bixby button so that it opens any app. On older phones, the Bixby button simply opened Samsung’s voice assistant, but that changed today. A so…
Source: Engadget – You can now remap the Bixby button on older Galaxy phones
Deadspin Racist Fans Force Quebec Hockey Player To Leave Game Early With Family | The Muse Why Leavi
Deadspin Racist Fans Force Quebec Hockey Player To Leave Game Early With Family | The Muse Why Leaving Neverland’s Director Believes His Subjects’ Claims of Being Molested by Michael Jackson | Splinter Here’s Definitely Not Racist Mark Meadows Being Wildly Racist About Obama | The Root Buffet Brawl Over Crab Legs…
Source: LifeHacker – Deadspin Racist Fans Force Quebec Hockey Player To Leave Game Early With Family | The Muse Why Leavi
Four Hospitalized After 'Sweet, Burning' Odor Fills Alaska Airlines Flight
An Alaska Airlines flight was diverted from its destination on Wednesday night after its crew reported smelling a mysterious odor in the cabin. Passengers were reportedly having trouble breathing and four crew members were taken to a hospital for further medical evaluation. This is the second time this week that an…
Source: Gizmodo – Four Hospitalized After ‘Sweet, Burning’ Odor Fills Alaska Airlines Flight
ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T Makes For A Great Linux/BSD EPYC Workstation – 7-Way OS AMD 7351P Benchmarks
If you are looking to assemble an AMD EPYC workstation, a great ATX motherboard up for the task is the ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T that accommodates a single EPYC processor, eight SATA 3.0 ports (including SAS HD), dual M.2 PCIe slots, dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports,and four PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots all within ATX’s 12 x 9.6-inch footprint. This motherboard has been running well not only with various Linux distributions but also DragonFlyBSD and FreeBSD.
Source: Phoronix – ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T Makes For A Great Linux/BSD EPYC Workstation – 7-Way OS AMD 7351P Benchmarks
The five-camera Nokia 9 PureView hits the US March 3rd
HMD Global isn’t wasting much time with the Nokia 9 PureView. While it just announced the phone, which has five rear cameras, a few days ago at Mobile World Congress, it will start selling the handset in the US March 3rd. If you’re interested, it mig…
Source: Engadget – The five-camera Nokia 9 PureView hits the US March 3rd
Russian Cargo Ship Crashes Into Korean Highway Bridge
Wide open seas? Check. I think I’ll hit that bridge.
This is a video from South Korea of a Russian cargo ship slow-speed crashing into part of the Gwangandaegyo (aka the Diamond Bridge, the same one seen in Black Panther) while trying to…actually I’m not sure what it was trying to do. Apparently not avoid crashing into bridges hard enough though. The ship’s captain (whose name has been withheld) was identified as being ‘slightly intoxicated’ when the accident happened, which I assume is Russian for pass-out wasted, like the same kind of drunk you’d get before working on a roof or with high-voltage electricity.
Keep going for the video. And thankfully there were no injuries reported except to the ship and to the captain’s job prospects.
Source: Geekologie – Russian Cargo Ship Crashes Into Korean Highway Bridge
Will Smith Will Apparently Not Return for The Suicide Squad
The skwad is already down one of its major members ahead of its upcoming sequel.
Source: io9 – Will Smith Will Apparently Not Return for The Suicide Squad
The Ultimate Guide to Reinstalling Windows From Scratch
There comes a time in every Windows user’s life when things start to feel slower. Perhaps you’ve been installing and uninstalling a ton of applications, or you’ve been mucking around with obscure Windows settings (or worse, the registry). Maybe you even decided to live life on the wild side, like me, and signed up for…
Source: LifeHacker – The Ultimate Guide to Reinstalling Windows From Scratch
Some Uber, Lyft Drivers To Get Stock in IPOs
Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft are planning to give some drivers money to buy stock in their initial public offerings, WSJ reported Thursday [The link may be paywalled; alternative source]. From a report: Both Uber and Lyft’s IPOs will include programs that would give some of their most-active or longest-serving drivers a cash award with an option to put it toward stock in the IPOs, according to people familiar with the matter. It is typically hard for an ordinary investor to buy a company’s stock at its IPO price before it begins trading on an exchange, so this move would give drivers access they likely wouldn’t have had otherwise.
Uber is working out the details of a program expected to be valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars that would give a significant portion of its 3 million active drivers and couriers globally either a cash bonus or the option to use that cash to purchase shares at the IPO price, people familiar with the matter said. These awards will be tiered based on a sliding scale related to the driver’s length of service and number of trips or deliveries, these people said.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Some Uber, Lyft Drivers To Get Stock in IPOs
Spacecraft Spots Evidence That Groundwater Once Saturated Mars
Scientists report finding evidence for an ancient planet-wide groundwater system on Mars, according to a new study. The clues appeared in images taken by Mars orbiters.
Source: Gizmodo – Spacecraft Spots Evidence That Groundwater Once Saturated Mars
This Cheap Robot Vacuum Isn't Super Flashy, But It Gets the Job Done
Even though they’re still kinda dumb, robot vacuums happen to be the most successful type of home robot right now. But a couple of years ago, they were too expensive for the average person, and budget options tended to be hilariously awful. They’d miss obvious dust bunnies, crash into furniture, and get hopelessly…
Source: Gizmodo – This Cheap Robot Vacuum Isn’t Super Flashy, But It Gets the Job Done
Nike embraces esports with 'League of Legends' sponsorship deal
What was once a rumor is now official: Nike is moving into esports. The apparel giant has signed a three-year deal with the League of Legends Pro League (LPL) in China, a massive competition with 16 professional teams. Nike will supply every squad wi…
Source: Engadget – Nike embraces esports with ‘League of Legends’ sponsorship deal
Thunderclap Security Vulnerability Poses Serious Risk To Thunderbolt Macs
A set of vulnerabilities related to Thunderbolt connectivity leave most Mac systems released in the past several years susceptible to malicious exploits, according to researchers who presented the data at the Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium in San Diego earlier this week.
Dubbed “Thunderclap,” the collective vulnerabilities
Source: Hot Hardware – Thunderclap Security Vulnerability Poses Serious Risk To Thunderbolt Macs
Apple Watch Reportedly Gobbled Half of Global Smartwatch Market During Q4 2018
Back in mid-February, we received some sales figures from NPD Group that showed the Apple Watch was the “clear market leader” in smartwatch shipments ahead of second place Samsung and third place Fitbit. Apple’s position at the top came despite the fact that prices increased across the board for the Apple Watch Series 4.
New figures have
Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Watch Reportedly Gobbled Half of Global Smartwatch Market During Q4 2018
Fox Spins Off Alien Isolation's Cutscenes as a Digital Series
Following up on their promise to release more Alien spin offs, 20th Century Fox just announced a digital series based on the cutscenes from Alien: Isolation. The IGN press release says that “the goal was to offer new depth to a story that many gamers would have already experienced in 2014’s release, and also tell the story in a newly accessible way for those who haven’t,” and mentions that some newly rendered scenes that weren’t part of the original game will be in the series. Check out the trailer below:
The official summary for the Alien: Isolation series reads: “Fifteen years have passed since the deep-space freighter Nostromo disappeared with all hands. And for fifteen years, Amanda Ripley has scoured the known universe for information about her mother, Ellen Ripley, the Nostromo’s warrant officer. When representatives from the Weyland-Yutani Corporation approach Amanda with news that the Nostromo’s flight recorder has finally been found and brought to the space station Sevastopol, Amanda joins the Company’s expedition to the remote outpost. But when Amanda reaches the station, she walks into a living nightmare: Sevastopol’s inhabitants have been terrorized, hunted, and brought to the brink of annihilation. Now she and a band of unprepared – and perhaps untrustworthy – survivors will have to confront the same diabolical species that changed her mother’s fate forever.”
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Fox Spins Off Alien Isolation’s Cutscenes as a Digital Series
New ToeJam & Earl game, 8Bitdo controller get Genesis nostalgia right
Enlarge / The 8Bitdo M30, posed next to a pair of Toejam and Earl figurines that shipped to select Kickstarter backers. (credit: Sam Machkovech)
Roughly a week ago, two bulletins landed in my inbox from companies eager to capitalize on Sega Genesis nostalgia. I nearly shrugged them off, since neither actually came from Sega. But their coincidental, nearly simultaneous appearance triggered a wave of ’90s nostalgia that made me bite.
The result has been a solid few days back in my early-’90s childhood, as if I were firmly planted in front of a massive CRT TV with some of my favorite games of the era. (If you’re wondering: this ’80s-kid author absolutely had a lengthy “Genesis does what Nintendon’t” phase.) My recent feeling may have emerged, in part, because Sega’s current handlers left Genesis fans out to dry during the tiny-console fad. The less said about the AtGames Genesis Flashback—an atrocious cash-in that followed the NES Classic—the better.
But this week’s one-two punch of releases was just what I needed to wash a foul taste of wasted nostalgia out of my mouth: the 8Bitdo M30 gamepad and the new game Toejam & Earl: Back in the Groove. Both feel a whole lot like 1992: hardly revolutionary in modern terms, yet somehow packed with that singular, early-’90s feeling of new, refreshing ideas around every corner.
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Source: Ars Technica – New ToeJam & Earl game, 8Bitdo controller get Genesis nostalgia right
Snoo Saved My Sanity in the Early Newborn Chaos
I knew being a new parent meant sacrificing sleep, but when our newborn son was waking up every hour…on the hour…every night…for six weeks…I realized I was walking a very fine line when it came to my mental health. I needed to sleep, or I was about to lose it.
Source: Gizmodo – Snoo Saved My Sanity in the Early Newborn Chaos
Samsung is Loading McAfee Antivirus Software On Smart TVs
Samsung is adding bloatware to its 2019 TVs because McAfee is paying them to do so. From a report: There is arguably no reason at all for Samsung to offer a third-party antivirus software for an operating system that is developed in house. Partnering with software vendors is fairly common practice for large hardware manufacturers. Laptop makers frequently preinstall bloatware in return for some sizable payouts and smartphone OEMs are no different. Samsung is now installing McAfee antivirus software on its 2019 TV lineup.
Samsung is claiming something to the effect of wanting to protect users from malware. On the surface that makes sense, but Samsung is running its very own Tizen OS on all of its TVs. Instead of adding more junk to a TV, why not just improve the OS? The answer though is very self explanatory. Samsung would not receive a payout from McAfee if it did not install the unneeded software.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Samsung is Loading McAfee Antivirus Software On Smart TVs