The tag team partners of Dwanye Johnson and Under Armour have teamed up again for a new product in their collaborative line. the activewear company announced today the Project Rock True Wireless In-Ear Headphones. The fitness-focused earbuds are desi…
Source: Engadget – The Rock and Under Armour cook up true wireless earbuds
Monthly Archives: May 2019
I made deviled eggs nine ways and found the best recipe
The deviled egg: A potluck staple. A titan of the hors d’oeuvre world. Not exactly impossible to screw up, but also nowhere near as complicated as their fancy appearance might suggest. But as with all classic recipes, there are many, many ways to make them, and small variations make a huge difference.
Source: LifeHacker – I made deviled eggs nine ways and found the best recipe
Fable Was Initially Pitched As A Game About Wizards Dueling For Each Other's Hearts
In 2004, amidst a moral panic over the consequence-free violence of games like Grand Theft Auto, Fable broke ground for showing players the tangible consequences for their good or evil actions. But the fantasy role-playing game didn’t begin its life as Fable—or even as a role-playing game.
Source: Kotaku – Fable Was Initially Pitched As A Game About Wizards Dueling For Each Other’s Hearts
How to Use Fail2ban to Secure Your Linux Server
With an intrusion prevention software such as fail2ban you can examine your server logs and add extra iptables rules to block problematic IP addresses.
Source: Linux Today – How to Use Fail2ban to Secure Your Linux Server
A USB Stick as an SSD? A New Silicon Motion SM3282 Single-Chip Controller for USB SSDs
Silicon Motion has introduced its first single-chip controller for portable USB SSDs. The SM3282 promises to enable makers of portable drives to offer up to 400 MB/s sequential read speeds in a cost-efficient manner previously unachievable by external SSDs.
Silicon Motion’s SM3282 chip packs a USB 3.0 (aka USB 3.2 Gen 1) controller alongside an SSD controller featuring 2 NAND channels with 4 CE (Chip Enables) per channel, integrated 3.3V/2.5V/1.8V/1.2V voltage regulators, and other necessary things. The chip comes in a 68-pin QFN package and supports the latest types of 3D NAND memory (including 3D TLC and 3D QLC memory featuring up to 96 layers) from all leading suppliers of flash. It also supports both USB Type-A as well as USB Type-C connectors.
Previously, makers of external SSDs had to use a USB-to-PCIe bridge alongside an SSD controller to build their products, which greatly increased BOM costs as well as the final price. The SM3282 packs all the necessary functionality into a single chip and thus reduces BOM cost of external SSDs.
As far as performance is concerned, the SM3282 can enable external SSDs featuring up to 400 MB/s sequential read and write speeds. Meanwhile, producers of actual SSDs tend to use different types of memory with different interface speeds, so performance of actual devices will vary.
This week Silicon Motion is demonstrating prototype external SSDs based on the SM3282 at Computex. Expect commercial drives powered by the controller to be available in the coming quarters at a variety of price bands.
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Source: AnandTech – A USB Stick as an SSD? A New Silicon Motion SM3282 Single-Chip Controller for USB SSDs
Internet Providers in Maine Will Soon Have To Get Consent Before Selling Customer Data
Internet service providers gobble up a disconcerting amount of information about you—your browsing history, your geolocation information, your financial information, and a lot (a lot) more. There have been many attempts to pass state-level bills that prevent ISPs from selling this type of data—since Republicans in…
Source: Gizmodo – Internet Providers in Maine Will Soon Have To Get Consent Before Selling Customer Data
Make a Kinder, Gentler 'Negroni' With Avèze
It’s Negroni season. How can I tell? Easy—I just open my inbox and read the many press releases alerting me to the fact. I do love the three-ingredient cocktail; I drink it year-round, but the “season” is really a marketing ploy for the Campari company, which means the grassier, gentian-focused White Negroni gets left…
Source: LifeHacker – Make a Kinder, Gentler ‘Negroni’ With Avèze
NASA picks first commercial landing partners for return to the Moon
NASA has edged one step closer to fulfilling its dreams of returning to the Moon. The agency has chosen its first three commercial Moon landing service providers, each of which will carry NASA-supplied science and technology missions as part of the…
Source: Engadget – NASA picks first commercial landing partners for return to the Moon
Hulu Has 82M Viewers, and Most of Them Are Seeing Ads
Hulu has broken out some new total audience figures and revealed just how many of those total viewers are watching the company’s ad-supported streaming service. From a report: Peter Naylor, senior vice president and head of advertising sales at Hulu, said that his company counts 82 million overall viewers, and added that nearly 70% of those viewers are on Hulu’s $5.99-per-month ad-supported plan. According to Variety, that works out to 58 million, or an average of 2.9 viewers per Hulu account. Naylor’s comments add some context for figures that Hulu disclosed earlier this month. The company said it now has more than 28 million total customers (26.8 million paid subscribers and 1.3 million promotional accounts). The company also said that its ad-supported audience grew by 43% year over year and that total ad-supported hours watched on Hulu increased by 82% year over year.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Hulu Has 82M Viewers, and Most of Them Are Seeing Ads
WireGuard Sees New Snapshot With Windows, Linux & BSD Updates
WireGuard lead developer Jason Donenfeld has released a new snapshot of this secure network tunnel software to close out May…
Source: Phoronix – WireGuard Sees New Snapshot With Windows, Linux & BSD Updates
Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge Is Here: The Good, the Bad, and the Incredible
Everywhere you look in Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge, there’s something to see, something to explore, or something to do. Even though it’s not 100 percent complete, the land itself is a star. You walk in, and you instantly feel like you’ve left Disneyland in Anaheim, California and become immersed in the Star Wars universe.
Source: io9 – Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Is Here: The Good, the Bad, and the Incredible
Sex, lies, and surveillance: Something's wrong with the war on sex trafficking
Silicon Valley’s biggest companies have partnered with a single organization to fight sex trafficking — one that maintains a data collection pipeline, is partnered with Palantir, and helps law enforcement profile and track sex workers without their…
Source: Engadget – Sex, lies, and surveillance: Something’s wrong with the war on sex trafficking
IKEA Recreates The Simpsons, Stranger Things, And Friends Living Rooms With Their Furniture
These are three shots of pop culture living rooms (The Simpsons, Stranger Things, and Friends) recreated by IKEA using their furniture as part of their ‘Real Life’ series. Want to recreate my living room? Here’s what you do: hang a 32-inch flatscreen on the wall using long nails. Does the television work? If it works break it. Next, order a bunch of pizzas and use the empty boxes as a coffee table/roach attractor. Finally, lay an air mattress on the floor under the wall opposite the television. Blow it up. Is it nice and firm? Now pop it with a car key and welcome to my life.
Keep going for the rooms, as well as the actual versions for reference.
Source: Geekologie – IKEA Recreates The Simpsons, Stranger Things, And Friends Living Rooms With Their Furniture
Google's DeepMind AI Takes Down Human Players In Quake III's Capture The Flag Mode
Google’s DeepMind AI lab has been hard at work creating programs to take on human players across a variety of games these last few years. In 2016 its AlphaGo beat the best Go player in the world. Earlier this year, its Alpha Star defeated two middle-tier pros at StarCraft II. Now it’s learning to win at multiplayer…
Source: Kotaku – Google’s DeepMind AI Takes Down Human Players In Quake III’s Capture The Flag Mode
Death Stranding Rumored To Arrive On PC After PS4 Time-Limited Exclusive
The name Hideo Kojima is one well-known amongst many gamers. Kojima is the person behind the classic and immensely popular Metal Gear franchise of video games, among others. The latest game from the game designer is called Death Stranding, and it has generated lots of buzz amongst gamers.
The biggest letdown for Death Stranding was that
Source: Hot Hardware – Death Stranding Rumored To Arrive On PC After PS4 Time-Limited Exclusive
Man Suffers 9-Day Erection After Bruising Taint in Moped Accident
A man’s fall from a moped caused him much stranger trouble than anyone could have imagined. According to his doctors, a bruise near his genitals left him with a days-long erection—one that eventually required a trip to the emergency room to treat. Thankfully, doctors were able to resolve his awkward complication, and…
Source: Gizmodo – Man Suffers 9-Day Erection After Bruising Taint in Moped Accident
The North Face Used Wikipedia To Climb To the Top of Google Search Results
An anonymous reader shares a report: When you first start planning a big trip, step one will likely happen at the Google search bar. Step two might be clicking onto the images of your target destination. The North Face, in a campaign with agency Leo Burnett Tailor Made, took advantage of this consumer behavior to keep its name top of mind with travelers considering an adventure sports excursion.
The brand and agency took pictures of athletes wearing the brand while trekking to famous locations around the world, including Brazil’s Guarita State Park and Farol do Mampimptuba, Cuillin in Scotland and Peru’s Huayna Picchu. They then updated the Wikipedia images in the articles for those locations so that now, the brand would appear in the top of Google image search results when consumers researched any of those locations — all done for a budget of zero dollars. “Our mission is to expand our frontiers so that our consumers can overcome their limits. With the ‘Top of Images’ project, we achieved our positioning and placed our products in a fully contextualized manner as items that go hand in hand with these destinations,” explained Fabricio Luzzi, CEO of The North Face Brazil in a statement.
According to the agency, the biggest obstacle of the campaign was updating the photos without attracting attention of Wikipedia moderators to sustain the brand’s presence for as long as possible, as site editors could change them at any time. The “hack” worked, at least for a while, evident in a quick Google search of some of the places mentioned in the campaign’s case study video. Further reading: Wikimedia is not pleased.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – The North Face Used Wikipedia To Climb To the Top of Google Search Results
How To Lock The Keyboard And Mouse, But Not The Screen In Linux
This tutorial explains how to lock the keyboard and mouse, but not the screen in Linux using “xtrlock” utility.
Source: LXer – How To Lock The Keyboard And Mouse, But Not The Screen In Linux
American Express Just Added Quantas As a Transfer Partner: Here's Why You Should Care
Even if you aren’t planning any trips to Australia, the addition of Quantas as an American Express Membership Rewards transfer partner is worth your attention.
Source: LifeHacker – American Express Just Added Quantas As a Transfer Partner: Here’s Why You Should Care
Spotted at Computex: The Worst Fake MacBook Air
It’s a common way to get a cheap laugh: mention that China doesn’t care about IP infringement and that a lot of fake products exist. There are a good number of people willing to copy just about anything if it gives them a way to make a quick Yuan. So color me unsurprised to find a fake MacBook Air at one of the small booths hidden in the corner.
The fact that it was presented at the front of a moulding company booth makes it all the more amusing. This wasn’t a system, but a picture of an iOS desktop was plastered on the ‘screen’. Someone should tell these guys about what the MacBook chassis color actually is, and how the logo isn’t fully underlined.
They also got a big agitated when I started taking pictures.
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Source: AnandTech – Spotted at Computex: The Worst Fake MacBook Air