What the duck am I looking at?
Source: Kotaku – Tactical Strategy Game Mutant Year Zero Looks Like A PS2 Game On Switch
Monthly Archives: July 2019
Honor 20 Pro Launched in UK, +70% Prime Day 2019 Performance
When Honor announced its new Honor 20 Pro in May, one of the confusing things was that despite the global launch being in the UK, the device wasn’t ready. Review samples were recalled, and uncharacteristically for the company, they couldn’t tell us when it would be ready. Part of this was down to how the US Commerce Department had listed Honor’s parent company, Huawei, on a trade blacklist that would require US companies to obtain licenses to work with them, which had knock on effects with Google and similar businesses. Fast forward a few months, and now the Honor 20 Pro is officially being released in the UK.
Source: AnandTech – Honor 20 Pro Launched in UK, +70% Prime Day 2019 Performance
The Best Apps for Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent fasting isn’t magic, but it works well as a weight loss tool for people who manage to stick to it. If that’s you, consider using one of these fasting trackers to remind you of start and end times and to keep tabs on how well you’ve stuck to your plan in the past.
Source: LifeHacker – The Best Apps for Intermittent Fasting
Dealmaster: Take $200 off the latest Dell XPS 13 and get a $200 prepaid card
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Greetings, Arsians! The Dealmaster is back with another round of deals to share. Today’s list is headlined by a deal on Dell’s latest XPS 13 ultrabook: a variant with a Core i7-8565U processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD is down to $1,150 with the code “50OFF699” at checkout. That’s about $200 off its usual going rate, a decent discount, but the deal also includes a $200 Visa prepaid card. Assuming you use it, the card brings the effective price down to $950, making this a good value.
We liked the XPS 13 enough to deem it the best option for most people in our recent Windows ultrabook buying guide. The XPS 13 line has been a critical favorite for years, but this latest model, the XPS 13 9380, finally (finally) fixed the series’ longest-running flaw by putting the notebook’s webcam above the display. Besides removing those under-the-nose shots, the notebook still features a wonderfully thin (0.46 in) and light (2.7 lb) chassis, strong performance relative to other ultrabooks, a comfortable keyboard, trackpad, and wrist rest, solid battery life, and a vibrant display. Its 16:9 display and lack of any USB-A ports could be hangups for some, but all told, it remains a powerful yet easily portable device.
If you don’t need a new laptop, we also have games like Marvel’s Spider-Man and God of War down to $20, Roku’s Streaming Stick+ down to $50, deals on computer speakers and portable hard drives, and much more. Have a look for yourself below.
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Source: Ars Technica – Dealmaster: Take 0 off the latest Dell XPS 13 and get a 0 prepaid card
DoorDash Tip-Skimming Scheme Prompts Clash Action Lawsuit Seeking All Those Tips That Didn't Go to Drivers
DoorDash’s years-long scheme to use customer tips to subsidize its workers’ wages is finally catching up to the company. And hot on the heels of renewed outrage about its tip-shaving scheme, a new class-action lawsuit is taking aim at the company for misleading its customers about how their tips were used.
Source: Gizmodo – DoorDash Tip-Skimming Scheme Prompts Clash Action Lawsuit Seeking All Those Tips That Didn’t Go to Drivers
MediaTek Targets Gaming Smartphone Market With Helios G90 SoC
MediaTek has announced its latest SoCs for mobile devices, and it is aimed squarely at the gaming smartphone market. The new chipsets both fall into the G series and include the Helio G90 and the G90T. The company says that when these chips are paired with its HyperEngine technology, the entire smartphone is tuned for the best gameplay experience.
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Source: Hot Hardware – MediaTek Targets Gaming Smartphone Market With Helios G90 SoC
Get Anker's Noise-Canceling Headphones, a Portable Battery Pack, and More For $56
Anker Soundcore Life 2 Gift Bundle | $56 | Amazon | Clip the $24 coupon
Source: Gizmodo – Get Anker’s Noise-Canceling Headphones, a Portable Battery Pack, and More For
Are you ready for some football?!
Are you ready for some football?! I’m not! Which means that, were I confronted by some football, my reactions of surprise and delight would be genuine. This is precisely why I’m about to stream Madden NFL 20 over on our Twitch channel. Roar from the bleachers in our chat, bruddy. (That’s a portmanteau of “bro” and…
Source: Kotaku – Are you ready for some football?!
The Text In Fire Emblem: Three Houses Is Too Damn Small
Fire Emblem: Three Houses has some of the most rewarding tactics action and Hogwarts-simulating that you can get. There aren’t many flaws in the game, but there is something that badly needs to be fixed: For a game focused on navigating menus, that text size sure is tiny.
Source: Kotaku – The Text In Fire Emblem: Three Houses Is Too Damn Small
What Life Is Like for a Child With ADHD
Kids with ADHD can seem unfocused, indecisive, impulsive and undisciplined. But they’re actually experiencing and processing the world around us in a different way. Gaining a little insight into their perspective—and understanding that it’s not simply a matter of them needing to sit still and focus—can go a long way…
Source: LifeHacker – What Life Is Like for a Child With ADHD
Apple's AWDL Protocol Plagued By Flaws That Enable Tracking and MitM Attacks
Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL), a protocol installed on over 1.2 billion Apple devices, contains vulnerabilities that enable attackers to track users, crash devices, or intercept files transferred between devices via man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks. From a report: These are the findings of a research project that started last year at the Technical University of Darmstadt, in Germany, and has recently concluded, and whose findings researchers will be presenting later this month at a security conference in the US. The project sought to analyze the Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL), a protocol that Apple rolled out in 2014 and which also plays a key role in enabling device-to-device communications in the Apple ecosystem. While most Apple end users might not be aware of the protocol’s existence, AWDL is at the core of Apple services like AirPlay and AirDrop, and Apple has been including AWDL by default on all devices the company has been selling, such as Macs, iPhones, iPads, Apple watches, Apple TVs, and HomePods. But in the past five years, Apple has never published any in-depth technical details about how AWDL works. This, in turn, has resulted in very few security researchers looking at AWDL for bugs or implementation errors.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Apple’s AWDL Protocol Plagued By Flaws That Enable Tracking and MitM Attacks
How to Fix a Stinky Sink
Sinks—and running water in general—are wonderful things. Hot or cold water, whenever we want it, straight out of a tap conveniently located in our own homes? It’s pretty great. But sometimes, sinks get stinky. If it’s your kitchen sink, the stench is probably coming from rotting food stuck in your drain. A smell from…
Source: LifeHacker – How to Fix a Stinky Sink
Nintendo's Switch Lite is now available for pre-order
Nintendo revealed a cheaper, handheld-only version of its ultra-successful Switch a couple of weeks back. The Switch Lite won’t ship until September 20th, though you can pre-order one as of today.
Source: Engadget – Nintendo’s Switch Lite is now available for pre-order
This Sabrent 1TB Rocket PCIe 4.0 SSD Deal Undercuts Rivals With Aggressive Pricing And Blazing Speeds
With the launch of AMD’s X570 Ryzen 3000 platform, PCIe 4.0 support is now available to the masses. Although the physical support is there, actual hardware that can take advantage of PCIe 4.0 is not exactly plentiful. There is AMD’s own Radeon RX 5700 family of GPUs and a handful of PCIe 4.0 SSDs.
On that last front, Sabrent’s 1TB Rocket
Source: Hot Hardware – This Sabrent 1TB Rocket PCIe 4.0 SSD Deal Undercuts Rivals With Aggressive Pricing And Blazing Speeds
The Nerd's Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in August
You can get comprehensive lists of everything coming to streaming services anywhere. But half of those titles you don’t care about, and the other half are terrible. Where’s the good stuff? io9 is here to help.
Source: io9 – The Nerd’s Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in August
Greta Thunberg will cross the Atlantic by sailboat
It solves the young activist’s dilemma of wanting to attend two U.N. climate change summits without relying on fossil fuels.
Source: TreeHugger – Greta Thunberg will cross the Atlantic by sailboat
How to Add a Directory to PATH in Linux
When you type a command, the shell searches through all directories specified in the user $PATH variable for an executable file of that name.
Source: LXer – How to Add a Directory to PATH in Linux
Happy Birthday, Thorstein Veblen, who coined the term "conspicuous consumption"
We live in his world of conspicuous waste.
Source: TreeHugger – Happy Birthday, Thorstein Veblen, who coined the term “conspicuous consumption”
Watch Where You're Going: Wakeboarder Clotheslines Himself On Tree Branch
This is a video of very amateur wakeboarder (you have to start somewhere) Caleb Sund who, totally stoked after watching his buddy repeatedly stomp the landings of his bunny-hops, proceeds to clothesline himself on an overhanging tree branch in celebration. Obviously, I think I speak for everyone here who cares about our earth’s oceans, but fingers crossed Caleb doesn’t want to be an oil tanker captain when he grows up.
Keep going for the whole video complete with sick tricks and concerned mom.
Source: Geekologie – Watch Where You’re Going: Wakeboarder Clotheslines Himself On Tree Branch
Putting the PS4’s 100 million sales in context
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Fig. 1: The PS4 is the fastest home console to reach the 100 million sales milestone, though the Nintendo DS was a bit faster.
Here at Ars, we haven’t been putting a lot of regular time and effort lately into updating Ars readers on the continuing sales battle between Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One. It has been abundantly clear for a while now that Sony’s system is heavily outpacing Microsoft’s in worldwide sales. In fact, the PS4 is also still outselling the Nintendo Switch on an annual basis despite being many years older.
But with Sony announcing last night that the PS4 had passed the 100 million sales mark in under six years, we thought it was worth putting that nine-figure milestone into some context. Here are some comparisons to help your mind grasp how significant this sales level (and pace) really is.
- 67 months: Time for the PlayStation 4 to sell 100 million units worldwide. (Source)
- 69 months: Time for the PlayStation 2 to sell 100 million units worldwide. (Source)
- 79 months: Time for the Wii to sell 100 million units worldwide. (Source)
- 113 months: Time for the original PlayStation to sell 100 million units worldwide. (Source)
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Source: Ars Technica – Putting the PS4’s 100 million sales in context