If you’re getting a little bored with your board games (sorry, I had to), the team behind the Board Game Remix Kit—which, as the name implies, provides instructions for new games stitched together from the pieces of others you may already own—just made all of their remix resources free to download.
Here’s one of their…
Source: LifeHacker – Remix Your Board Games With This Free Kit
While coverage of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic continues to dominate headlines, the Trump administration has quietly weakened the country’s fuel economy standards. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Environmental P…
Source: Engadget – EPA weakens annual fuel economy standard increase to 1.5 percent
Photography can be a fantastic creative outlet (and time-killer) for kids if you’ve got the right equipment. A camera they can’t easily break is a must, as is a way to easily print out their prized shots. Most instant cameras rely on pricey film stock, but the myFirst Camera Insta 2 uses cheap rolls of thermal paper…
Source: Gizmodo – Instant Camera For Kids Prints Photos on Rolls of Cheap Thermal Paper
For better or worse, Star Trek: Picard leaned heavily into the nostalgia of its returning hero. Over the course of its recently concluded first season, this didn’t just mean bringing back familiar faces, it meant many sweet callbacks to the beloved Next Generation for fans to spot over its 10-episode run.
Source: io9 – Star Trek: Picard’s Best Callbacks to The Next Generation
In this article, we describe how to install GNU Octave, an interpreted high-level language mainly intended for numerical calculations. It offers possibilities for the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems and for performing other numerical experiments.
Source: LXer – How to Install GNU Octave on Debian 10
Apple acquired popular mobile weather service Dark Sky to help bolster the Weather applications on its devices. From a report: The service, which has existed on the web and on iPhone and Android platforms, stood out from the competition by offering more specific data and notifications such as when it is about to rain. Dark Sky announced the deal on its website, saying “we’re thrilled to have the opportunity to reach far more people, with far more impact, than we ever could alone.” The companies didn’t specify the price of the deal. Apple has included a Weather app on its devices since the first iPhone and currently gets its data from The Weather Channel. It could use this purchase to revamp its Weather app.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Apple Acquires Dark Sky App To Boost Weather Data on iPhones
Apple has bought weather app Dark Sky, which is highly regarded for its radar maps and accuracy of its hyperlocal, by-the-minute weather predictions. It’ll still be available on the iOS App Store, as you might expect, but the Android and Wear OS…
Source: Engadget – Apple buys Dark Sky weather app
All signs point to Apple releasing a low-cost iPhone 9 (iPhone SE) very shortly. The latest evidence of this impending arrival comes courtesy of new cases that have showed up at nationwide electronics retailer Best Buy.
More specifically, Best Buy stores have been receiving shipments of a new Urban Armor Gear case, and it’s further described
Source: Hot Hardware – Apple iPhone 9 Release Imminent As Third-Party Cases Arrive At Best Buy
The 64-bit ARM architecture code will support several new features with the in-development Linux 5.7 kernel…
Source: Phoronix – Linux 5.7 For 64-bit ARM Brings In-Kernel Pointer Authentication, Activity Monitors
This is a beautiful video captured by nature photographer Greg Harlow of a rainbow in the 1,400-foot upper portion of Yosemite Falls, as shot from Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park in real-time (also cool to watch in slow motion AND fast forward). Beautiful, isn’t it? “It probably has coronavirus.” What is wrong with you?
Keep going for the full video.
Source: Geekologie – Mother Nature’s Majesty: A Six Minute Real-Time Video Of A 1,400 Foot Rainbow In Yosemite Falls
If you’re Jeff Bezos, you have the cash to buy yourself eleventy billion watches that serve a myriad of purposes in your life. But since most of us aren’t Bezos and are lucky to snag one fancy GPS watch for the rest of our days, let’s talk about the Suunto 7, the newest addition to the Finnish brand’s lineup.
Source: LifeHacker – Meet the New Suunto 7: Blurring the Lines Between Fashion, Function, and Fitness
Half-Life: Alyx has only been out for a week, and the Alyx-specific version of Valve’s “Hammer” mapping tool isn’t yet available. That, however, has not stopped one enterprising modder from cracking open the dystopian destination VRcation, scooping out its insides, and replacing them with Half-Life 2‘s.
Source: Kotaku – Half-Life: Alyx Mod Recreates Iconic Half-Life 2 Environment
I’ll start by saying: I’m sorry. If you’re a parent of a little kid and you’re stuck at home right now, the last thing you need is for Baby Shark to start playing in your head on repeat. And I know that just seeing that image was enough to press the mental play button. But, if you’re struggling to get your little kids…
Source: LifeHacker – Educate Your Kids and Torture Yourself With a Baby Shark Hand-washing Video
Minecraft Dungeons is on the way to consoles and PC, albeit a bit later than expected. Mojang says the Minecraft dungeon-crawler spin-off will drop May 26th on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation 4 and, as revealed during last week’s surpri…
Source: Engadget – ‘Minecraft Dungeons’ is delayed until May 26th
In case you didn’t already feel inundated with news, Microsoft is introducing a new app that will display a scrolling news feed across your desktop. News Bar, currently available as a beta for Windows 10, will curate the top regional news from ov…
Source: Engadget – Microsoft’s News Bar adds a scrolling news feed to Windows 10
Many of us suddenly have more time for reading these days, and lucky for sci-fi and fantasy fans, April is chock-full of new releases—with tales of witches, monsters, vengeful forces of nature, space colonists, AI gone wild, and so much more. Crack open a new book and escape into its pages!
Source: io9 – There’s Something for Everyone on April’s Giant List of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Releases
The covid-19 museum closures have made abundantly clear that accession committees and the web’s corporate overlords don’t have much love for net art. While museums spent the past decade and hundreds of millions of dollars colonizing the earth and sky to make space for hoards of painting and sculpture, the web’s…
Source: Gizmodo – Decompress With These Video Game Dreamscapes
While time travel carries a great deal of reward, it’ll also cause major issues in the game. Here’s what you need to know about Animal Crossing’s time travel function.
Source: Kotaku – How To Time Travel In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Samsung’s Galaxy S20 and S20+ smartphones are on sale at various retailers today for $200 less than normal, though some have deals reaching as much as $280 off.
Source: LifeHacker – Save 0 on an Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S20 or S20+ Today
Satellite radio giant SiriusXM announced today it’s made its 300-plus channel streaming service available for free in North America starting today through May 15.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – SiriusXM is Free Through May 15 To Help With Coronavirus Isolation Boredom