Announced via Roger Craig Smith’s Twitter earlier today, the prolific voice actor’s 10-year-run as the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog has come to an end. A Sega rep tells Kotaku the company will “always be thankful to Roger for his contribution to the franchise.”
Source: Kotaku – Sonic The Hedgehog Voice Actor Roger Craig Smith Departs Role
Earlier today, we reported that Robinhood and TD Ameritrade were restricted trading for a rash of stocks including GameStop and AMC. At the time, Robinhood said that it was making the decision to help its users stay informed in its efforts to democratize access to financial institutions.
“We continuously monitor the markets and make changes
Source: Hot Hardware – Robinhood Slapped With Class-Action Lawsuits Following GameStop Trade Blockade
Enlarge / U.S. President Joe Biden signs an executive order in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (credit: Bloomberg / Getty Images)
Yesterday, US President Joe Biden signed three executive orders. The order with the widest scope was focused on climate policy, and it received the most attention. But the other two, while more narrowly focused, may also have a profound impact, because they seek to reorient the entire federal government’s approach to science itself. That includes both protecting scientists from political interference and ensuring that government decisions are based on the evidence produced by science as often as possible.
One of the two executive orders officially starts off the Biden administration’s President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, or PCAST. The organization is typically set up by an executive order and runs for two years before being renewed by a second. It dates back to the George H.W. Bush administration and has a broad remit to identify the current consensus in relevant fields of science and technology as well as to advise the entire executive branch regarding them.
The importance of PCAST isn’t just limited to science agencies; for example, an Obama-era council issued a report on forensic science that was relevant to everything from research-funding bodies to federal law enforcement agents.
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Source: Ars Technica – New Biden executive order makes science, evidence central to policy
Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes. In this article, we will see the steps to install Helm3, in terms of architecture there is a difference between Helm2 and Helm3. One of the major differences is “Removal of Tiller”.
Source: LXer – How to Install Helm Kubernetes Package Manager on Ubuntu 20.04
Shin Godzilla was a Japanese movie that brought the idea of the original Godzilla—a mindless giant monster and merciless force of nature—to see how modern Japan would handle him. Shin Ultraman, a similar reimagining of the hero who spawned the entire genre of tokutatsu shows from the same team behind Shin Godzilla, is…
Source: io9 – The First Shin Ultraman Movie Footage Is a Modern Blast From the Past
Scientists stunned the world last year by claiming to have discovered traces of phosphine in the Venusian clouds. New research suggests this gas—which, excitingly, is produced by microbes—was not actually responsible for the signal they detected. Instead, it was likely sulfur dioxide, a not-so-thrilling chemical.
Source: Gizmodo – Intriguing ‘Life’ Signal on Venus Was Plain Old Sulphur Dioxide, New Research Suggests
After a wild ride that took it off the tracks and onto the goddamn Rainbow Road from Mario Kart, the GameStop stock train appears to finally be pulling back into the station. People are blaming market manipulation from stock trading apps like Robinhood for this, but they’re also lumping in a name day traders might be…
Source: Kotaku – Discord’s r/WallStreetBets Ban Wasn’t A Conspiracy, Just A Demonstration Of Platforms’ Power
Source: LifeHacker – Is New Balance Basketball the Sneaker Brand To Watch in 2021?
You’re running out and forget to bring eye shadow or blush; instead of picking some up from the corner store, you grab your matte lipstick and blend it in on your cheekbones and eyelids. Anyone who wears makeup has done it at some point: took a cosmetic meant for one thing and used it for another. It’s all meant for…
Source: LifeHacker – Why You Shouldn’t Use Lipstick as Eyeshadow, or Vice Versa
After removing GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry, and Nokia from its platform, getting slapped with a class-action lawsuit, and flooded with 1-star reviews on the Google Play Store, Robinhood is starting to have a change of heart. The trading platform announced that, beginning Friday, it will allow “limited buys” on restricted stocks, like GameStop, AMC, and others. The Verge reports: “Starting tomorrow, we plan to allow limited buys of these securities,” the company said in a blog post. “We’ll continue to monitor the situation and may make adjustments as needed.” In its statement, Robinhood emphasized that the decision to halt purchases was made because of internal risk to the company, not as a response to outside pressure from other financial actors.
“As a brokerage firm, we have many financial requirements, including SEC net capital obligations and clearinghouse deposits. Some of these requirements fluctuate based on volatility in the markets and can be substantial in the current environment,” the post argues. “To be clear, this was a risk-management decision, and was not made on the direction of the market makers we route to.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Robinhood Will Allow ‘Limited Buys’ of Stocks Like GameStop, Starting Friday
Another free, ad-supported streaming service with a focus on non-fiction films launches today, this one hoping to win over the documentary crowd.
Source: Gizmodo – Documentary+ Is the Latest Free Service to Enter the Streaming Wars
If you’ve worried that your toothbrush, being usually in the same room as your toilet, is perpetually covered in microscopic fecal matter, well, here’s some relief. According to a new study, our brushes are full of bacteria found in our mouths, but they’re not full of bacteria from our guts. In other words, our…
Source: Gizmodo – Toothbrushes Might Not Be Covered in Poo After All
Microsoft this morning disclosed investments in more climate-related companies as part of efforts to make good on its year-old pledge to become “carbon negative” by 2030. From a report: One company the tech behemoth is staking is Climeworks, a firm looking to scale up deployment of direct air capture technology that removes CO2 already in the atmosphere. The size of the investment was not disclosed. Microsoft also revealed that it’s a customer of the Swiss firm. “Through Microsoft’s purchase of negative emissions from Climeworks, we will permanently remove 1,400 metric tons of carbon,” Lucas Joppa, Microsoft’s top environmental official, said in a blog post. It’s part of a growing move by deep-pocketed companies and investors to back the fledgling direct air capture sector — and pay them for carbon removal. The volumes currently being removed are a tiny drop in the bucket, but DAC could be among the technologies that eventually join the list of meaningful tools against warming. Another firm, Carbon Engineering, counts backers including Bill Gates, Chevron and Occidental Petroleum.
Climeworks’ other investors and customers include e-commerce heavyweight Shopify.
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Source: Slashdot – Microsoft Backs Direct Air Capture Player Climeworks
With COVID case counts still high and potentially more-contagious variants spreading, it may be time to up your mask game. Doubling up is one solution, but N95s and other high quality masks still provide the best filtration.
Source: LifeHacker – How to Buy a High-Quality Mask
In the lead up to its return later this year, G4 plans to bring back both Attack of the Show! and X-Play. The two will return this summer alongside the network, according to a teaser shared by the official G4TV Twitter account. pic.twitter.com/OnZ…
Source: Engadget – G4 teases the return of ‘Attack of the Show!’ and ‘X-Play’
Windows Insider members have found an issue with Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 feature pack, one that affects part of the screen-snipping utility.
Source: Gizmodo – Snipping Tool Bug is Keeping Windows Insider Users From Copy-Pasting Screenshots
Magic: The Gathering Arena, the online multiplayer version of the popular trading-card game, launched today in early access for select Android devices via Google Play, with an iOS version due out later this year. Playing involves some squinting, but now it’s even harder to put down.
Source: Kotaku – Magic: The Gathering Arena Now Available On Google Play
Both tmux and screen are two of the best terminal multiplexers to help you manage multiple SSH sessions, but which is the best? Let’s find out here.
Source: LXer – Tmux vs. Screen: Which Is the Best Terminal Multiplexer?
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Source: LifeHacker – The 10 Best Deals of January 28, 2021
Enlarge / Ctrl IQ provided us with this diagram of its proposed technology stack. (Thankfully, spelling correction is not one of the core services Ctrl IQ offers.) (credit: Ctrl IQ)
Gregory Kurtzer, co-founder of the now-defunct CentOS Linux distribution, has founded a new startup company called Ctrl IQ, which will serve in part as a sponsoring company for the upcoming Rocky Linux distribution.
Rocky Linux is to be a beneficiary of Ctrl IQ’s revenue, not its source—the company describes itself in its announcement as the suppliers of a “full technology stack integrating key capabilities of enterprise, hyper-scale, cloud and high-performance computing.”
If you’ve been hiding under a Linux rock for the last few months, CentOS Linux was the most widely known and used clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Kurtzer co-founded CentOS Linux in 2004 with mentor Rocky McGaugh, and it operated independently for 10 years until being acquired by Red Hat in 2014. When Red Hat killed off CentOS Linux in a highly controversial December 2020 announcement, Kurtzer immediately announced his intention to recreate CentOS with a new distribution named after his deceased mentor.
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Source: Ars Technica – Rocky Linux gets a parent company, with m Series A funding
