Madden 20’s new Face of the Franchise single-player mode lets you create a custom character and give them whatever name you want. I named my custom quarterback Madden Myers, because my actual name is Maddy Myers, and that’s the type of thing that I find funny. It was great to hear the in-game NFL commentators say my…
Source: Kotaku – It’s Awkward When Madden NFL 20 Characters Avoid Saying My Player’s Name
Not being shy to take some gambles, this one appears to be its biggest yet: Honor is going to be developing both TVs and display scalers for the consumer market. Today at a briefing Honor disclosed some minor details about its new Honghu 818 chipset, which it states will be the driving force behind its push into consumer televisions.
Source: AnandTech – Honor Set to Enter TV Market with New Honghu 8K CPU
When it comes to summer produce, nothing (besides a really good tomato) gets me more pumped for the season than corn. I will eat it grilled. I will eat it steamed. I will eat it raw. But when I see people shucking their corn in the store, leaving behind the husks and silks, I weep, for they are leaving behind flavor.
Source: LifeHacker – Make Corn-Flavored Butter With Cobs and Husks
Capital One has already started the notification process for its most recent data breach—affecting approximately 100 million people in the U.S. and an additional six million in Canada (for now). If you happened to catch the company’s announcement about the issue, though, it sure sounded like everything is fine and…
Source: LifeHacker – Capital One’s Data Breach: Why You Need to Read the Fine Print
As a technical search engine optimizer, I am always looking for ways to use data in novel ways to better understand how Google ranks websites. I recently investigated whether Google’s Natural Language API could better inform how Google may be classifying a site’s content.read more
Source: LXer – Using Python to explore Google’s Natural Language API
Helen Hudson will tell you what the 15th Ward was like when she was a girl. In the 1950s and early ’60s, the Syracuse neighborhood was home to thousands of predominantly black residents who had settled in the growing upstate New York city during and after the Great Migration. Those who remember it, like Hudson,…
Source: Gizmodo – The Highway Was Supposed to Save This City. Can Tearing It Down Fix the Sins of the Past?
You’d be forgiven if you were befuddled by AT&T’s range of streaming services. Between DirecTV Now, HBO Max, Watch TV and now AT&T TV, it’s not always clear what service will meet your needs, or even which app you might need. The telecom th…
Source: Engadget – Farewell DirecTV Now, hello AT&T TV Now
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Source: LifeHacker – You Can Safely Pull Burning Hot Trays Out Of the Oven With These Silicone Gloves
Please enjoy this guide to the best consoles, games and accessories for students, just one part of the larger 2019 back-to-school special. In addition to top picks in 11 categories — everything from laptops to smartphones to gaming and dorm gear –…
Source: Engadget – Back to school: The best game consoles and accessories for the dorm
Zotac, a company that knows a thing or three about putting big things into small packages, is upgrading its Mek Mini gaming PCs with NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 2070 Super and GeForce RTX 2060 Super graphics cards, both of which sit shotgun to a 9th generation Intel Core processor (or is it the other way around?).
Intel and NVIDIA can debate if
Source: Hot Hardware – Zotac Mek Mini Gaming PC Packs A Mean Graphics Punch With A GeForce RTX 2070 Super
Having to occasionally reboot a sluggish laptop after a few days of use is a minor inconvenience for a $1,000 gadget. But what about a $300 million+ commercial plane? Airlines who haven’t performed a recent software update on certain models of the Airbus A350 are being told they must completely power cycle the…
Source: Gizmodo – ‘Turn it Off and On Again Every 149 Hours’ Is a Concerning Remedy for a 0 Million Airbus Plane’s Software Bug
Following the release of OpenXR 1.0, Collabora has announced the release of Xrdesktop, which was funded by Valve…
Source: Phoronix – Valve Funded Development Of Xrdesktop – Lets GNOME & KDE Work In VR
Competition is supposed to be good, right? It means a bigger selection and better prices, so it’s great for consumers. But when the Epic Store launched last December, gamers were pissed. Because it meant their digital games collection was now fragmen…
Source: Engadget – GOG Galaxy 2.0 aims to put all your digital games in one place
In December, a three-month-old Tesla spontaneously caught on fire while at a repair shop for a flat tire. Six hours later, after the fire was finally extinguished, the car burst into flames again.
Source: LifeHacker – How to Prevent a Car Fire
Truecaller, a service that helps users screen robocalls, has rolled out an update to its app in India, its largest market, after a previous software release covertly signed up an unspecified number of users to its payments service. From a report: A number of users in India began to complain late Monday that Truecaller, which has amassed over 100 million daily users in the country, had registered them to its payments service without their consent. In a statement to TechCrunch, Truecaller acknowledged the error and said a bug in the previous software update caused the issue. The bug led the app to quietly send a text message to a bank to verify their account — which is part of the procedure to sign up to the payments service.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Called ID App Truecaller Pushes Software Fix After Covertly Signing Up Indians To Its Payments Service
In a word, no. Ford can sell this fiction, but it is all about friction.
Source: TreeHugger – Electric Ford F-150 pickup truck tows a million pound train. Is this a big deal?
We love premium laptops and convertibles. A meticulously engineered build, finely-tuned performance, and solid battery life comprise the three primary tenets we look for when reviewing new machines. Checking these boxes does come at a cost, leaving many of our favorite laptops with hefty price tags. Unfortunately, most of us cannot justify…
Source: Hot Hardware – Acer Spin 5 Review: An Affordable All Aluminum 2-In-1 Laptop
If you want to learn how to code, taking your first steps into this huge universe might seem like a daunting, if not intimidating task. Here’s the big secret: There are plenty of free (and inexpensive) resources you can use to give yourself all the help you need, teach yourself new techniques, and make this learning…
Source: LifeHacker – The Best Ways to Teach Yourself to Code
Obsidian had already revealed its Fallout-esque sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds will debut on PC, Xbox One and PS4 October 25th. Sometime after that, it’ll land on Switch too. Nintendo’s console is less powerful than Sony and Microsoft’s ones, and won’t…
Source: Engadget – Obsidian’s ‘The Outer Worlds’ is coming to Nintendo Switch
Earlier the month, AOC dropped jaws when it announced its latest 24.5- and 27-inch gaming monitors boasting an ultra-low response time of 0.5ms. Now, it’s Acer’s turn with the unveil of the Predator XN253Q X 24.5-inch gaming monitor.
The Predator XN253Q X features a 1920×1080 panel with a high 240Hz refresh rate, but its headlining feature
Source: Hot Hardware – Acer Predator XN253Q X 240Hz G-SYNC Gaming Monitor Pumps Ultra Fast 0.4ms Response Time
