The Fast & Furious series has, since 2011’s Fast Five, successfully retooled itself it as a multi-billion-dollar live-action cartoon, abandoning the street-racing formula of the 2001 hit The Fast And The Furious and its early, Vin Diesel-less sequels in favor of caper and spy plots and extravagant chase scenes that…
Source: Kotaku – Hobbs & Shaw is the silliest Fast & Furious movie yet, but far from the best
An easy way to grab someone’s attention is by telling them that something is different about the Moon. The Moon, you see, is our night sun, and thus holds an important place in our minds and hearts.
Source: Gizmodo – Oh My God Stop It With the Fake Moon Names What the Hell Is a ‘Black Moon’ That Isn’t Anything
I used to make a lot of smoothies for my son when he was younger. My go-to recipe was bananas, frozen blueberries, greek yogurt, milk or orange juice, spinach and flaxseed. He loved it fresh out of the blender. But I’d always have a bit leftover, and once it had been stored in the fridge for a while, he turned his…
Source: LifeHacker – Make Popsicles Out of Your Leftover Smoothies
This is another video from Metal Ball Studios (previously), this time comparing the sizes of known rockets sent into space. I say known because there’s no way the deep state isn’t sending rockets into space for their mind control program behind our backs. As you can see, most of the rockets are pretty big. Of course the largest rocket of all– “Let me guess, is in your pants?” Most of the time yes, but not right now because I’m working from home in– “THE NUDE?” No, in the bathroom. Pants around ankles, legs asleep for well over an hour.
Keep going for the video while my mind is blown that the Statue Of Liberty and Eiffel Tower are actually rockets.
Source: Geekologie – To Infinity And Beyond!: A Comparison Of Space Rocket Sizes
The Trump administration is outlining two possible ways certain drugs that were intended for foreign markets could be imported to the U.S. — a move that would clear the way to import some prescription drugs from Canada. From a report: “Today’s announcement outlines the pathways the Administration intends to explore to allow safe importation of certain prescription drugs to lower prices and reduce out of pocket costs for American patients,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in a statement about the plan. “This is the next important step in the Administration’s work to end foreign freeloading and put American patients first.” The Department of Health and Human Services outlined two “pathways” for importing the drugs to the U.S.
In one initiative, the Food and Drug Administration and HHS will rely on their rulemaking authority to use existing federal law to set up pilot projects from states or wholesalers “outlining how they would import certain drugs from Canada that are versions of FDA-approved drugs that are manufactured consistent with the FDA approval.” Separately, the FDA will work on safety guidelines for drug manufacturers who want to import any drugs they sell in foreign countries to the U.S. market.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Trump Administration Plans To Allow Imports Of Some Prescription Drugs From Canada
Ever the parade-rainer, the Federal Trade Commission announced today that with so many Equifax breach victims opting for cash payments instead of free credit monitoring, each one of them will likely only get “a small amount of money.”
Source: Gizmodo – FTC: You’ll Probably Get Almost Nothing From the Equifax Settlement
Kale does not come out of the ground ready to eat. It may be tough and bland, but it’s also bitter! These shortcomings, however, make it a great make-ahead lunch salad, you just have to apply some pressure.
Source: LifeHacker – Marinate and Massage Kale With Your Vacuum Sealer
Advantech has launched a rugged, soldered “SOM-2569” SMARC module that runs Linux or Windows on an Apollo Lake SoC and offers WiFi and Bluetooth, dual GbE controllers, and triple display support. Advantech has posted preliminary specs for its first SMARC form-factor computer-on-module. Available with the full range of Intel’s Apollo Lake Atom, Celeron, and Pentium […]
Source: LXer – Advantech launches its first SMARC module
CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox have joined forces in a fight against Locast, a nonprofit streaming service funded in part by AT&T Inc and Dish Network Corp. The service is marketed as a distribution alternative for people who can’t get local TV signals th…
Source: Engadget – Major broadcasters sue nonprofit TV service over copyright infringement
Gwyneth Paltrow isn’t the only one who was in the dark about their role in a Spider-Man film—although, in this case, it wasn’t actually Cobie Smulders’ fault. The actress shared how she had no idea about her character’s major Spider-Man: Far From Home twist until about a week before it came out, and that a little…
Source: io9 – Cobie Smulders Had No Clue About Her Spider-Man: Far From Home Reveal
Falling asleep to podcasts has become the geeky equivalent of a glass of warm milk before bed. It’s so popular, in fact, that there’s an entire podcasting genre dedicated to dry topics and gentle conversations to help lull you to sleep. It’s also a terrible catch-22: put on your favorite podcast before bed, and you…
Source: LifeHacker – How to Set a Sleep Timer in Your Podcast App so You Don’t Lose Your Place After Dozing Off
The Galaxy Tab S6 with keyboard case.
Samsung is still not giving up on the Android tablet market. Today the company announced the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6, its latest high-end tablet, for $649.
The Samsung Tab S6 features a 10.5-inch 2560×1600 OLED display, a 2.84GHz Snapdragon 855, and a 7040mAh battery. The base version has 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, with a higher tier of 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. For cameras, there’s an 8MP front camera, while the rear gets a 13MP main camera and a 5MP wide-angle lens. The device is down to 5.7mm thick and weighs 420 grams. This is Samsung’s first-ever tablet with an in-screen fingerprint reader. Interestingly, it’s an optical reader instead of the ultrasonic tech that the Galaxy S10 uses.
Somehow, on a 10-inch tablet, Samsung couldn’t find room for a headphone jack. Even Apple, which ditched the headphone jack two years ago, still puts a headphone jack on iPads. Samsung is apparently declaring war on the headphone jack with this round of updates—the Galaxy Note 10, launching next week, is expected to dump the headphone jack, too.
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Source: Ars Technica – Samsung won’t let Android tablets die, announces the Galaxy Tab S6
On Tuesday night, 10 of the Democratic Presidential candidates took the stage in Detroit to discuss issues of immigration, gun violence, climate change, student loan debt, and race relations in America.
Source: LifeHacker – Here’s What You Missed From Round One of the Democratic Debates in Detroit
We’ve been talking quite a bit about the SHIELD TV over the past few weeks, but that’s mainly been in relation to a rumored hardware refresh that is in the works. Today, however, NVIDIA did make a pretty big announcement regarding the SHIELD TV, but it pertains to the software that the 4K media streamer runs.
NVIDIA has announced the availability
Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA SHIELD TV Gains Android Pie With SHIELD Experience Upgrade 8.0
Epic is finally ready to show a sliver of Fortnite season 10 a day before its August 1st debut, and it seems like nostalgia is the order of the day. The company has posted a brief story trailer suggesting that you’ll see locations, goodies and theme…
Source: Engadget – ‘Fortnite’ season 10 trailer is filled with the game’s greatest hits
Enlarge / The text is inscribed on all four sides of the stylus. (credit: Museum of London Archaeology)
“I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me,” reads the Latin inscription on the 2,000-year-old iron stylus. “I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able [to give] as generously as the way is long [and] as my purse is empty.” The “City” almost certainly refers to Rome, and the souvenir stylus essentially boasts a more flowery version of today’s “I went to Rome, and all I brought you was this pen.”
The stylus dates to around 70 CE—about 20 years after the founding of Roman Londinium, a decade after a Celtic uprising burned it to the ground and about 50 years before the first stones were laid for Hadrian’s Wall. It’s among 14,000 artifacts unearthed during the construction of Bloomberg’s European headquarters starting in 2013, and conservators are finally ready to put it on display.
The site where the stylus was found stands on the banks of the ancient River Walbrook, a tributary of the Thames that now flows beneath the city’s streets. Before London officials culverted and covered the river during the 1400s, it flowed through the center of London, and before that, it bisected Roman Londinium.
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Source: Ars Technica – A 2,000-year-old stylus makes a point about ancient Roman humor
Google on Wednesday announced it’s making its Titan Security Key available via the Google Store in multiple new countries: Canada, France, Japan and the United Kingdom. Google launched the second-factor security key last year, starting with availability in the US. From a report: Google touts the Titan Security Key as one of the best ways to protect Google Accounts from hacking and phishing, especially high-value accounts that are regularly probed and attacked. The key is used as part of Google’s Advanced Protection Program. Based on FIDO open standards, the security key comes in both USB and Bluetooth varieties. Back in May, Google had to issue replacements for the Bluetooth keys due to a vulnerability in the pairing process.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Google Brings the Titan Security Key To More Countries
Collabora is very excited to announce xrdesktop, a new open source project sponsored by Valve
Source: Linux Today – Moving the Linux desktop to another reality
If you heard the reverberation of a few thousand heads exploding last week, it was the sound of information security professionals reacting to US Attorney General Barr saying that Big Tech “can and must” put backdoors into encryption.
In his speech…
Source: Engadget – Here’s how AG Barr is going to get encryption ‘backdoors’
Sometimes, you look around at games today and say, “Gosh, I need some more Sega Dreamcast vibes.” CROSSNIQ+, a relaxing but challenging puzzle game that exudes late-nineties aesthetics, fills that gap. With a difficult time attack mode and an extremely low-key “chill mode” wrapped in its distinct “Y2K” look, it has…
Source: Kotaku – A Chill And Challenging Puzzle Game With A Sega Dreamcast Vibe
