Now that we’ve spent eight hours watching artist Bosslogic paint a picture of a Viking, it’s time for something more substantial. Here’s the epic cinematic trailer debut for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, along with the first concrete details on the holiday 2020 release.
Source: Kotaku – Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Coming To Old And New Gen Consoles, Features Choice Of Male Or Female Protagonist
Netgear Nighthawk X10 | $250 | B&H Photo
Source: Kotaku – Netgear’s Speedy Nighthawk Router Is 48% off Right Now
Game Pass now has over 10 million subscribers. Xbox boss Phil Spencer announced the stat in a new blog post outlining the downloadable game service’s continued growth. That’s up from 9.5 million monthly users last year. Spencer said subscribers are playing games twice as much since the outbreak of the covid-19…
Source: Kotaku – Game Pass now has over 10 million subscribers.
Nintendo is telling partner developers it’s not going to hold one of its Nintendo Direct video events in June. From a report: The publisher has had a June Direct to correspond with E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) every year since 2013. And before that, it held annual stage presentations. But complications brought about from Japan’s work-from-home order as part of its attempts to mitigate COVID-19 are forcing Nintendo to push back its schedule. Nintendo was putting together a June event. The company was lining up partners and was planning to unveil its first-party schedule for the rest of 2020. That included highlighting the Mario franchise’s 35th anniversary, which it’s going to celebrate with the release of some classic 3D Mario games on Switch, according to various reports. But now, the company is far less certain. If it holds another Direct, it may not come until the very end of summer.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – No Nintendo Direct Planned for June Due To Work-From-Home Hurdles
A Humble Bundle of The Walking Dead comics, a Neo Geo Mini International Edition all-time low discount, a $5 sale on Fenty highlighter, and a Parks and Recreation: The Complete Series highlight Thursday’s best deals.
Source: Kotaku – Thursday’s Best Deals: The Walking Dead Comics Humble Bundle, Neo Geo Mini, Fenty Highlighter, Parks and Recreation: The Complete Series, and More
Even if social distancing has helped you to achieve the nigh impossible task of watching your entire Netflix queue, there’s still a trove of media to consume. Sonos has teamed up with OverDrive — makers of the audiobook lending app Libby — to let c…
Source: Engadget – Sonos can now stream free audiobooks from your local library
The coronavirus caused Lauren Singer to do something she hasn’t done in eight years: she created waste.
Source: Gizmodo – Coronavirus Could Change Our Relationship With Trash
For most of us, traveling faster than the cosmic speed limit—the speed of light—is a science-fiction fantasy that breaks the very foundation of modern physics. But in the eyes of an engineering undergrad at the University of Alabama in Huntsville named Joseph Agnew, it’s a theory worthy of study.
Source: Gizmodo – The Scientists Who Won’t Give Up on the Warp Drive
May is traditionally a pretty robust month for book releases, but as you can probably guess, 2020’s selection is a little slimmer than usual. Several titles that were due this month have shifted to later dates, for obvious reasons—but despite everything, we still have tons of new sci-fi and fantasy to share. Dig in!
Source: Gizmodo – Plan Your Escape to Another Dimension With May’s New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
It’s good for kids to be bored. I know this, you know this, most of us know this. We were bored as kids, roaming the neighborhood with our friends, our imaginations and a distinct lack of electronic devices. We believe this boredom is at least partly responsible for the creativity and resilience we developed as kids.…
Source: LifeHacker – Finally, Our Kids Are Bored
Sochip has launched a $440 V831 development kit for the new Allwinner V831 IP Camera SoC. The Linux-driven, single Cortex-A8 SoC supports H.265 encoding of single HD or lower-res dual-stream video, and features a 0.2-TOPS NPU. Sochip collaborates with Allwinner on Allwinner-branded low-power camera SoCs such as the 1.2GHz, single Cortex-A7 Allwinner S3 found on […]
Source: LXer – Linux-powered dev kit debuts AI-enabled Cortex-A7 camera SoC
Apple earlier this month gave a short in the arm to its mid-range smartphone lineup with the iPhone SE. Putting a current-generation A13 Bionic SoC into the chassis of the popular iPhone 8 form-factor at the $399 price point has proven to be a popular move for the company.
Now that the iPhone SE introduction has come and gone, everyone
Source: Hot Hardware – Apple iPhone 12 Family Pricing Rumors Hint At Surprisingly Low 9 5G Entry Point
Apple AirPods (2nd Generation) | $140 | B&H Photo
Source: LifeHacker – You Can Get Apple’s Airpods for off Right Now
A long-standing debate about movies at home versus in the theater is reaching a tipping point. At the heart of the debate now is a public pissing match between AMC, one of the U.S.’s largest movie theater chain, and Universal Pictures, one of it largest production studios, over premium video on demand and theaters’…
Source: Gizmodo – Movie Theaters Are Screwed
Zoom has admitted it doesn’t have 300 million daily active users. From a report: The admission came after The Verge noticed the company had quietly edited a blog post making the claim earlier this month. Zoom originally stated it had “more than 300 million daily users” and that “more than 300 million people around the world are using Zoom during this challenging time.” Zoom later deleted these references from the original blog post, and now claims “300 million daily Zoom meeting participants.” The difference between a daily active user (DAU) and “meeting participant” is significant. Daily meeting participants can be counted multiple times: if you have five Zoom meetings in a day then you’re counted five times. A DAU is counted once per day, and is commonly used by companies to measure service usage. Only counting meeting participants is an easy, somewhat misleading, way to make your platform usage seem larger than it is.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Zoom Admits it Doesn’t Have 300 Million Users, Corrects Misleading Claims
The last thing you want to happen when dropping four figures on a smartphone is to see it fall apart. Unfortunately for some buyers of Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S20 Ultra, that is sort of happening. It is not coming apart at the seams or anything like that, though oddly enough, some users report the glass covering on the rear camera bump developing
Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra Owners Complain Of Nasty Cracks In Rear Camera Bump
Suaoki Portable Generator | $76 | Amazon | Promo code NBVFMA8N
Source: LifeHacker – Charge All Your Essentials With a Portable Generator
This is a video of cellist Samara Ginsberg performing a very tasty multi-track rendition of the Inspector Gadget theme song on cello. She does an excellent job. That theme song really takes me back. I feel like I should have a bowl of sugary cereal in front of me right now instead of *gesturing angrily* a bowl of whatever the hell these things are. “Black jelly beans.” I hate them. “Then why keep eating them?” They’re all I deserve.
Keep going for the video while I ask my dogs why they can’t be more like Brain.
Source: Geekologie – Well That Was Delightful: Lady Performs Multi-Track Inspector Gadget Theme On Cello
One of my favorite things about smartwatches is their ability to morph their appearance depending on the day. Between all the watch faces on the Play Store, you’re covered for whatever look you want to achieve. You might not realize it, but the same applies to watch bands, too.
Source: Gizmodo – The Best Inexpensive Watch Bands for Your Smartwatch
Announced in 2016 as Project Wight, Darkborn is a game in which players control a monster whose species has been hunted to near-extinction by humans. Today Swedish game studio The Outsiders announced development on Darkborn has been halted indefinitely.
Source: Kotaku – Former Battlefield Devs’ Intriguing Monster Game Put On Indefinite Hold