Shang-Chi may be casting some super spies. Work’s already begun on Servant’s second season. The 100 spinoff series has been given a slithery subtitle. Plus, what’s to come when The Walking Dead returns, Sue Dearborn arrives on The Flash, and Jason Segel gets inducted into the Elsewhere Society. To me, my spoilers!
Source: Gizmodo – Updates From the Little Shop of Horrors Remake, the New Willow, and More
I need your help. When I get anxious, I like to buy things. I’ve been good about it for the last few years. I buy a couch—because I need a couch. Or I buy a new computer case because my old one is too big for the space where I’m putting the computer. Sometimes, I’ll blow money on a much pricier and more useless item.…
Source: Gizmodo – Someone Talk Me Out of Spending 0 on Some Keyboard Caps
Buried deep in the 1996 Telecommunications Act is a tiny clause that underpins everything we do online. It’s often described as the 26 words that created the internet — and with very good reason. Every email you send, social media post you make and…
Source: Engadget – What happens if the internet’s most important law disappears?
My coworker Ethan Gach and I watched press screeners of the first season of Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet, a sitcom that premieres on Apple’s new streaming service on February 7. Mythic Quest is a workplace comedy about a video game studio. We’re pretty mixed: Parts of the show are hilarious, others are touching, and…
Source: Kotaku – What We Loved And Hated About Mythic Quest, A TV Show About A Fictional Game Studio
Your laptop computer is a delicate beast. It can take a pounding, perhaps even a dropping, up to a certain point. It might survive a fall from the desk without a scratch, but bumping it with something heavy in just the right way, at just the right time, could end it all.
Source: LifeHacker – Help! I Bumped My PC and Now It Won’t Turn On
Your phone can do it all. It’s a portable music player, diary, digital camera, communication device, calculator, and just about everything else. But you might not have considered that it can also replace your measuring tape. With the right sensors on board and the right apps installed, you can measure more data with…
Source: Gizmodo – How to Measure Almost Anything Using Your Phone
All of our fears around facial recognition technology are coming true thanks to a little known startup called ClearView AI. This week, Devindra and Cherlynn dive into how ClearView works, and what unchecked access to powerful facial recognition means…
Source: Engadget – Podcast: Why Clearview AI’s facial recognition is a privacy nightmare
I know Waddle Dees are Kirby’s enemies, minions of King Dedede, but that isn’t stopping my heart from breaking over the sad face on Good Smile Company’s new Waddle Dee figure.
Source: Kotaku – Let Waddle Dee Have An Apple, You Monsters
Enlarge / You can practically hear the opening film’s orc screaming, “You should seriously reconsider spending $30, you human sacks of filth!” (credit: Blizzard Entertainment)
The more I look at this week’s launch of WarCraft III: Reforged, the more I shake my head. I’ve grown up playing Blizzard games for a majority of my life, and while I can think of Blizzard game launches with technical issues or critical shoulder-shrugs, I can’t recall a retail launch for a product that, quite simply, wasn’t finished. WC3:R changes that.
What’s more, the uneven and problematic changes to this “reforged” 2002 game come with a bold, new step for Blizzard: the official sunsetting of a classic game’s client. The original code base, which has remained roughly 1.3GB in size after an expansion pack launch and years of patches, has been pushed aside. Anyone who already owned an official WC3 license is prompted by Blizzard’s default game launcher to download the new 26+ GB version to play online, whether or not they pay an additional $30 for its GBs of “reforged” content.
Worse, between a new Terms of Service requirement and a number of features removed from the previous version, it looks like the game’s online ecosystem—the very thing that kept the game afloat for decades and earned a glowing retrospective from us only days ago—may be gone for good. Pardon my English, but, what in the freaking world is going on, Blizzard?
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Source: Ars Technica – WarCraft III Reforged: Not the flavor of chaos we were hoping for
Following on from our recent announcement that Raspberry Pi 4 is OpenGL ES 3.1 conformant, we have some more news to share on the graphics front. We have started work on a much requested feature: an open-source Vulkan driver!
Standards body Khronos describes Vulkan as “a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs”. The Vulkan API has been designed to better accommodate modern GPUs and address common performance bottlenecks in OpenGL, providing graphics developers with new means to squeeze the best performance out of the hardware.
The “first triangle” image is something of a VideoCore graphics tradition: while I arrived at Broadcom too late to witness the VideoCore III version, I still remember the first time James and Gary were able to get a flawless, single-tile, RGB triangle out of VideoCore IV in simulation. So, without further ado, here’s the VideoCore VI Vulkan version.
First triangle out of Vulkan
Before you get too excited, remember that this is just the start of the development process for Vulkan on Raspberry Pi. While there have been community efforts in the direction of Vulkan support (originally on VideoCore IV) as far back as 2018, Igalia has only been working on this new driver for a few weeks, and we still have a very long development roadmap ahead of us before we can put an actual driver in the hands of our users. So don’t hold your breath, and instead look forward to more news from us and Igalia as they make further development progress.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the last pristine landscapes in America. Tucked along the northern border of Alaska and Canada, the nearly 20 million acres of wilderness is home to a variety of wildlife species, including the Porcupine caribou herd, which visits the refuge’s coastal plain every summer…
Source: Gizmodo – These Maps Paint a Dark Future for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge If Trump Has His Way
Nothing in Disney’s divisive Lion King remake was real. Simba, Scar and the sprawling Pride Lands — all of it was created digitally. To convey this gargantuan effort, visual effects studio MPC Film — the same company behind The Jungle Book and coun…
Source: Engadget – Watch how VFX artists crafted Disney’s ‘The Lion King’ remake
Folding@Home bigadv EOL Anniversary Challenge on Jan. 31st – Feb. 7th: The race has started!
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NVIDIA has sent out word that they no longer plan to issue anymore driver updates for their 340 series Linux legacy branch…
Source: Phoronix – NVIDIA Retiring Their Pre-Fermi “340 Series” Legacy Linux Graphics Driver
Super Bowl LIV weekend is finally here, and for the first time, we can watch at home with a faux-K feed (it’s really 1080p, but it looks great and supports HDR in some cases). Of course, there had to be a catch, and a dispute between Fox and Roku may…
Source: Engadget – The Morning After: Apple finishes rebuilding its US maps
Lead UBports developer Marius Gripsgard has shared some exciting news: their Unity 8 code is now riding happily on Wayland…
Source: Phoronix – UBports’ Unity 8 Has Working Wayland Support
Transformers Generations 35th Anniversary Megatron | $15 | Walmart
Source: Kotaku – Megatron Approves of This Deal
The Super Bowl is right around the corner, so here come all the brand collabs. To celebrate Sunday’s showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers, Xbox, EA Sports and Nike have joined forces to create a limited-edition custom Xbox…
Source: Engadget – Microsoft made a Nike Air Max 90 Xbox but you can’t buy it
Enlarge / The mighty Delta IV Heavy rocket takes to the skies. (credit: Aurich Lawson/United Launch Alliance)
Welcome to Edition 2.30 of the Rocket Report! We’ve reached the end of January, and the business of launch has really started to heat up for 2020. Plenty of news this week from the deepening of the low Earth orbit satellite Internet race to quirky stories involving tech journalists and rocket companies. All that, and more, in this week’s report.
As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don’t want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.
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Source: Ars Technica – Rocket Report: Starlink flies, OneWeb has next mega-constellation launch
A few tweaks by stores could make the process more efficient.
Source: TreeHugger – How to improve the zero-waste shopping experience
