Some Call of Duty players are deliberately tanking their stats to try and place themselves in better lobbies, testing for any exploits they can find in Modern Warfare’s strict matchmaking.
Source: Kotaku – Modern Warfare Is Denying Players The Time-Honored Tradition Of Stomping Noobs
While coming a few weeks later and two months after the original “shipping” of Librem 5 smartphones, the Librem 5 Birch batch has begun shipping to actual consumers who pre-ordered the privacy-minded Linux smartphone…
Source: Phoronix – Librem 5 “Birch” Linux Smartphones Begin Shipping To Consumers
One of Engadget’s favorite smart speakers over the past few years has been Amazon’s Echo Dot. It’s small, easy to use and incredibly affordable at only $50. Sure, there are speakers offering better audio, but if all you wanted was a cheap way to get…
Source: Engadget – The Echo Flex is Amazon’s Alexa gateway drug
A man’s love of delicious hot pot led him down a far more perilous path than he expected. His doctors in China say that the undercooked meal exposed him to a tapeworm infestation that riddled his brain with larval cysts and caused him to have seizures. Thankfully, though, he’s now on the mend.
Source: Gizmodo – A Man’s Love of Hot Pot Gave Him Brain Tapeworms
Mobile gamers who want to get a new gaming laptop need to be on the lookout at Acer.com. Acer is teasing a massive Black Friday discount on one of its high-end gaming notebooks: the Predator Triton 700. The laptop has a massive discount at $2,000 off the normal retail price.
Acer is playing coy with the exact timing of the sale. As of this
Source: Hot Hardware – Acer’s Atomic Bomb Black Friday Deal Nukes ,000 Off Predator Triton 700 Notebook
There are plenty of people who like the thought of a Mustang-branded electric SUV, apparently. Ford has confirmed to Roadshow that the Mustang Mach-E First Edition is sold out in the US. If you wanted to be one of the earliest of early adopters for…
Source: Engadget – Ford’s Mustang Mach-E First Edition is sold out in the US
NPR reports: Back in September, India’s hopes for a historic first ended — inconclusively. High hopes had been riding on its Chandrayaan-2 orbiter. The spacecraft was sending a landing vehicle down to the moon — an operation that, if successful, would be the first robotic mission at the moon’s unexplored south pole and that would make India only the fourth country in history to make a moon landing. Unfortunately, it was not to be. At the time, the Indian Space Research Organisation didn’t offer much explanation for the operation’s failure besides an ill-timed loss of contact, adding little more than a terse, “Data is being analyzed.” Now, the Indian government has offered its first conclusive statement on the incident, in a brief report responding to a lawmaker’s question last Wednesday: Put simply, the Vikram lander’s braking thrusters malfunctioned, and it crashed.
“During the second phase of descent, the reduction in velocity was more than the designed value. Due to this deviation, the initial conditions at the start of the fine braking phase were beyond the designed parameters,” said Jitendra Singh, minister of state for the Department of Space, the ISRO’s parent department. “As a result, Vikram hard landed within 500 m of the designated landing site.” Singh did not clarify what caused the malfunction in the lander’s landing system. The statement is believed to be the first formal acknowledgment by India’s government that the craft crashed. In the ISRO’s previous public updates on Vikram — the latest on its website was released back on Sept. 10, several days after the intended landing date — the agency noted only that it had located the lander but had made “no communication with it yet.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – 2 Months After Failed Moon Landing, India Acknowledges Its Craft Crashed
itsFOSS: With the free and open source application, Penguin subtitle player, you can add subtitles to any online videos. Learn more about this nifty app.
Source: Linux Today – App Highlight: Penguin Subtitle Player for Adding Subtitles to Online Videos
I’ve been playing a lot of Life Is Strange 2 lately. While I’m mostly doing this to catch up for the final episode dropping on December 3, I also find that it’s a very good game to play around this time of year—a slow, soothing contrast to the harried pace of the holiday season. It’s also doing a number on me, because…
Source: Kotaku – Life Is Strange 2 Is A Heartbreakingly Accurate Brotherhood Simulator
I don’t know if you can tell or not, but I recently purchased a waffle maker, and have been testing the limits of what can be waffled. (Prosciutto waffles very well, as it turns out.) I already had plans to waffle any and all leftover stuffing, and mashed potatoes seemed like the rational next step.
Source: LifeHacker – Make These Parm-Crusted Waffles With Leftover Mashed Potatoes
AMD has had a resurgence in the consumer (and server) market with its Zen-based processors over the past few years. Kicking off with first-generation Ryzen/Ryzen Threadripper processors (Zen) in 2017, AMD followed up with their second-generation Zen+ based counterparts in 2018. During the summer, AMD launched the Zen 2 based Ryzen 3000 family
Source: Hot Hardware – AMD’s Ryzen Gang Is Currently Clobbering Intel On Amazon’s CPU Sales Chart
Learning this lightweight text editing tool can help you navigate faster, inside and outside of the text editor.
Source: LXer – A beginner’s guide to text editing with Emacs
When Google introduced the Home Mini two years ago, it was playing catch-up to Amazon’s Echo lineup. The Echo Dot, a tiny and affordable version of the larger Echo smart speaker, had been on sale for more than a year and a half, and Google was clearl…
Source: Engadget – Google’s Nest Mini vs. Amazon’s Echo Dot: pick your assistant
This is a special year for us here at HotHardware. We are celebrating our 20th Anniversary! The first version of HotHardware went live in 1999 and we have been partying like it ever since! This year also happens to be the 20th Anniversary of Falcon Northwest’s Talon systems and it’s AMD’s 50th Anniversary too.
With all of these major milestones
Source: Hot Hardware – HotHardware’s 20th Anniversary Talon Giveaway With Falcon Northwest, AMD And Obsidian Winner!
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Saw this and wanted to share. I love mine.
Source: [H]ardOCP – Alienware aw3418dw 9 free shipping bf deal newegg
I was wondering if this guy was a funeral director. I think he got Coffin from the shape of the lid on the CPU is this something way over my head.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Intels Coffin?
Mark Zuckerberg cares deeply about the voice of the people, so this year, he invited a bunch of white dudes to discuss that and other Big Stuff in six pre-recorded conversations. This was Zuckerberg’s 2019 “personal challenge”: A series of “public discussions” aimed, in his words, to “engage more in some of these…
Source: Gizmodo – Mark Zuckerberg Basically Only Invited White Men to His Conversation Series, the Result Is a Grueling Endurance Test
Two years ago, the Department of Justice launched an investigation into whether AT&T, Verizon (Engadget’s parent company) and the GSM Association (GSMA) worked together to limit eSIM technology. Today, The New York Times reports that the DOJ is c…
Source: Engadget – AT&T and Verizon agree to change their eSIM practices
Watchmen’s recent glimpse into the origins of American superheroism profoundly changed the overall arc of the show and intertwined the HBO series with the comic in unexpected ways. But as fascinating as the show’s exploration of the past was to see on screen, there’s more to the story of Hooded Justice and Captain…
Source: io9 – Watchmen’s Captain Metropolis Tried to Make Things Right in the End