If you have some time this weekend, maybe open up iTunes and double check your MP3 tags again, just for old-times sake. On Monday Apple’s WWDC 2019 event starts with a keynote, and as we’ve heard before, it could mark a final shift away from the comp…
Source: Engadget – Apple could be done with iTunes
Prior to 2006, I had used only Windows. Around that time, there was a lotof anxiety about its upcoming successor to Windows XP, which at the timewas code-named Project Longhorn. My colleagues and I all were dreadingit. So, rather than go through all that trouble, I switched to Linux.
Source: LXer – Hello Again, Linux
The problem with atoms is that they’re small. Too small. Don’t you wish they were… bigger?
Source: Gizmodo – These Little Silica Hexagons Are Like Super-Advanced Lego Bricks
Earlier this week, Sony announced the Death Stranding release date via a nearly day-long Twitch stream that mostly just showed handprints appearing on a black screen. The reasons why fans would watch this is obvious: Anticipation is exciting, and infectious. The reasons why it is encouraged by publishers is also…
Source: Kotaku – Twitch Isn’t Just For Watching Games, It’s For Waiting For Them
While it was initially reported that iTunes would live on in macOS 10.15, it now looks like the app will be retired, over 18 years after it was introduced by the late Steve Jobs at Macworld on January 9, 2001. MacRumors reports: Apple will be replacing iTunes with standalone Music, TV, and Podcasts apps in the next major version of macOS, expected to be unveiled at WWDC 2019 next week, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman: “iTunes has been the way Apple users listen to music, watch movies and TV shows, hear podcasts, and manage their devices for almost two decades. This year, Apple is finally ready to move into a new era. The company is launching a trio of new apps for the Mac — Music, TV, and Podcasts — to replace iTunes. That matches Apple’s media app strategy on iPhones and iPads. Without iTunes, customers can manage their Apple gadgets through the Music app.”
This information lines up with a recent report from 9to5Mac’s Guilherme Rambo, who claimed that iTunes will be renamed to “Music” on the Mac. In other words, iTunes is going away and will be replaced by the new Music app, which is expected to become the new utility for syncing and managing Apple devices.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – iTunes Expected To Be Retired After Over 18 Years
Aubrey Graham, better known to the world as Drake, is basically a human meme. He has this uncanny ability to make people on the internet want to turn anything he does into viral content. Drake also happens to be an ultimate troll. Last night, during…
Source: Engadget – Drake sparks hundreds of fake eBay listings for Steph Curry’s hair lint
This is the Dad Hoodie, a hoodie with integrated storage perfectly suited for the kind of things a new father (or one to young children) might need to carry around. Stuff like bottles, diapers, wipes, and (presumably) a flask. It would probably also work well for drug dealers. The $95 hoodie is available in either gray or navy and is sure to be this fall’s father fashion must-have. Or you could just carry a bag. Or, if you’re like me, a hobo stick. “It’s called a bindle.” It’s called whatever I want to call it, now let’s hop on a westbound train and not stop till we see the ocean — or murder each other, whichever comes second.
Keep going for several more shots and a video that shows how the Dad Hoodie works. SPOILER: like a hoodie with interior pockets.
Source: Geekologie – The Dad Hoodie, A Hoodie With Storage Designed Specifically For Dad Needs
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of the merchandise threatening to drain our wallets of their life essences. This week: McFarlane takes on the wizarding world of Harry Potter, Hasbro conjures up an adorable little Simba, and the Voltron you used to ignore gets a rad action figure. Check it out!
Source: io9 – This Week’s Toys Are in Awe at the Size of This Absolute Pikachunit
Attorneys for Chelsea Manning on Friday have once again asked the court to release the activist and whistleblower from her confinement in Virginia on the basis that she cannot be coerced to testify in the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation into Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange.
Source: Gizmodo – Chelsea Manning’s Lawyers Ask Again For Her Release, Say She’ll Never ‘Betray Her Principles’
With a $100,000 prize pool at stake, this weekend’s big Rocket League tournament in Dallas will give some of the game’s biggest teams one last chance to test one another before next month’s World Championship.
Source: Kotaku – This Weekend’s Rocket League Tournament Will Set The Stage For The World Championship
Stratolaunch Systems Corporation, the space company founded by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is closing operations, cutting short ambitious plans to challenge traditional aerospace companies in a new “space race,” Reuters reported Friday, citing four people familiar with the matter. From the report: The company, a unit of Allen’s privately held investment vehicle Vulcan, had been developing a portfolio of launch vehicles including the world’s largest airplane by wingspan to launch satellites and eventually humans into space. Allen, who founded Seattle-based Stratolaunch in 2011, died at age 65 last October. […] Stratolaunch aimed to launch Northrop’s small-payload Pegasus from Stratolaunch’s carrier plane in 2020.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Space Firm Founded By Paul Allen Closing Operations, Report Says
The Stratolaunch aircraft took flight for the first and only time in April. [credit:
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The aerospace company founded by Paul Allen, Stratolaunch, is closing operations according to a report by Reuters that cited anonymous sources. The company will cease its efforts to challenge traditional aerospace companies in a new “space race,” four people familiar with the matter told the wire service.
In response to a query from Ars about potentially ending operations, a spokeswoman for the Seattle-based company replied, “We don’t have any news or announcements to share at this time. Stratolaunch remains operational.”
Questions about the future of Stratolaunch arose almost immediately after Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, died in October, 2018, at the age of 65. According to Reuters, the decision to set an exit strategy was made late last year by Allen’s sister, Jody Allen. In January, Stratolaunch abandoned efforts to build a series of rockets to be launched from its large carrier plane—an ominous sign.
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Source: Ars Technica – That the world’s largest airplane may be grounded after a single flight
Silicon Valley will return to HBO later this year for its sixth season. Unfortunately for its fans, it will also be the end of the show’s run. Variety reported today that the upcoming season of Mike Judge’s tech-centric comedy will be the last. Seaso…
Source: Engadget – The sixth season of ‘Silicon Valley’ will be its last
HowToForge: The Z Shell or zsh is an interactive UNIX shell and powerful command-line interpreter for scripting language including shell scripting.
Source: Linux Today – How to Setup ZSH and Oh-my-zsh on Linux
If the idea of someone running Windows XP in 2019 makes you laugh, I urge you to maintain that blissful naïveté. Just leave now.
Source: Gizmodo – You Need to Patch Your Older Windows PCs Right Now to Patch a Serious Flaw
The Overwatch Workshop, which allows players to create new modes with robust tools and rudimentary programming, has given rise to all sorts of unexpected oddities: a Smash Bros. clone, airplane races, portal guns, Mercy reinventions, and heaps more. The most popular mode of all, though? Uno. Yep, the card game.
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch Workshop’s Most Popular Mode Is The Card Game Uno
It’s the start of a new month, which means it’s time for another list of new sci-fi and fantasy books. For June, we’ve got works by Neal Stephenson, Terry Brooks, Blake Crouch, and Yoon Ha Lee, plus tales of reluctant royalty, steampunk dragon riders, near-future dystopias, time-travelers who travel too close to home,…
Source: io9 – Your Summer Reading List Is Set With All of June’s New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
The first batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites has been orbiting Earth for about a week, and now SpaceX has released a status update on the mission. According to a spokesperson, “all 60 satellites have deployed their solar arrays successfully, ge…
Source: Engadget – Most of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites are already on track
Because this is the internet, and the internet doesn’t know the meaning of rock bottom (and clearly neither do I) this is a short video of a cat trying to scratch itself and failing because there’s a computer monitor in the way. What the hell, cat? You know it’s weird how sometimes cats seems so clever and calculated, and then other times they’re just like– “Stupid idiots.” Takes one to know one! “What’s that supposed to mean?” I have a lot of dumb cats and I blame myself.
Keep going for the video.
Source: Geekologie – What Are You Doing?: Cat Can’t Scratch Itself Because There’s A Computer Monitor In The Way
The Navajo Generating Station in Arizona is closing, and that’s terrible news for the Native American communities that rely on the coal plant for their income. A new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) is calling on the federal government to step in for this major economic…
Source: Gizmodo – Closing the West’s Largest Coal Plant Will Leave the Navajo Nation With Million in Missing Revenue