Researchers have found a minuscule chameleon in Northern Madagascar, which they believe to be the smallest reptile on the planet. Small body, big attitude—just look at that face.
Source: Gizmodo – Ridiculously Tiny Chameleons Discovered in Madagascar
My partner and I spent $1000 on a game yesterday. We didn’t spend it on Pokémon cards, or Fortnite V-bucks, or decide to become whales in Genshin Impact. But, at my insistence, we combined some funds, downloaded the Robinhood trading app, and bought some stock.
Source: Kotaku – I Threw ,000 Into That Stonks Game Because Why Not
Government agencies have announced changes that allow for “Dreamers”—U.S. residents with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status—to qualify for FHA mortgage loans, as well as a deadline extension on mortgage forbearance for people who already have these loans and are struggling to make payments.
Source: LifeHacker – It’s Now Easier to Get an FHA Loan
“So, Kellyanne, you’re going to fucking jail,” said 16-year-old Claudia Conway, daughter of former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, in a TikTok posted Monday night. She was reacting to news that a topless photo of herself was briefly posted to her mother’s Twitter account, the veracity of which she confirmed. In the…
Source: Gizmodo – What to Make of Claudia Conway’s Domestic Violence Allegations
Spotify has been granted a patent with technology that aims to use recordings of users’ speech and background noise to determine what kind of music to curate and recommend to them. The company filed for the patent in 2018; it was approved on January 12, 2021. From a report: The patent outlines potential uses of technology that involves the extraction of “intonation, stress, rhythm, and the likes of units of speech” from the user’s voice. The tech could also use speech recognition to identify metadata points such as emotional state, gender, age, accent, and even environment — i.e., whether someone is alone, or with other people — based on audio recording.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users’ Speech To Recommend Music
Robinhood can now add a class action lawsuit to its growing list of headaches after it said it would restrict users from trading GameStop and other stocks. A class action lawsuit was filed in New York Thursday, alleging that Robinhood “deprived their…
Source: Engadget – Robinhood hit with class action lawsuit after it restricts GameStop stock
Facebook’s Oversight Board, the supposedly independent entity the company created to quell some of the heat over its moderation policies, announced its first five decisions on Thursday. The oversight panel, which consists of 20 academics, lawyers, and human rights activists, overruled Facebook moderators on four of…
Source: Gizmodo – Facebook’s Oversight Board Issues First Five Rulings for Everyone to Get Mad About
Tonight we’ll see the rise of the wolf moon, the first full moon of 2021. Oddly enough, peak illumination begins at 2:16 p.m., when the moon is not generally visible. But don’t let the sun ruin the moon’s first big day this year; you can get a good glimpse right around sunset.
Source: LifeHacker – How to View Tonight’s Wolf Moon
Intel’s open-source driver developers have begun posting patches for bringing up “Display13” as their next-gen display IP that looks like it will be introduced after the upcoming Rocket Lake / Alder Lake / DG1 platforms…
Source: Phoronix – Intel Publishes Initial Linux Driver Patches For New “Display13”
How to use the fmt command and it’s options to format large text files for reading on the command line.
Source: Linux Today – The Linux fmt Command – Formatting Text on the Linux Command Line
Holy cow. Whenever we write these Co-op pieces where we ask our readers to help pick the best products, we always get wonderful insights from the comments, with some cheekiness mixed in for good measure. But I was not prepared for how passionate the response would be when we asked people for their favorite two-player…
Source: io9 – The Best Two-Player Board Game, According to Our Readers
There hasn’t been much attention paid to the iPod since the iPhone arrived, and that’s a crime, because it was a brilliantly simple device with a wonderful user interface. To help make it relevant again, Guy Dupont gave a 17-year-old iPod a much-needed upgrade with the ability to wirelessly stream Spotify so that it…
Source: Gizmodo – Someone Hacked a 17-Year-Old iPod to Stream Spotify
Just last week I wrote about Itanium IA-64 support in Linux kernel being broken for a month during the Linux 5.11 kernel cycle. That was fixed but since then another regression came to light that had been affecting all IA-64 hardware since a patch was merged back in October. A fix for that latest regression has landed while in the process now marking the Itanium architecture as orphaned…
Source: Phoronix – Linux Kernel Orphans Itanium Support, Linus Torvalds Acknowledges Its Death
Are you looking to get a cool 20,000 BattlePass XP in Fortnite for next to no work? Look no further than the Season 5 Week 9 Epic Games challenge of visiting a mysterious bunker. Finding any of the three bunkers spread evenly across the map should not be a challenge at all if you know where to look. Thus, we are sharing the locations of each
Source: Hot Hardware – How To Scout Fortnite Week 9 Hidden Bunker Challenges To Unlock Sweet BattlePass XP
Returnal, the upcoming PS5 exclusive from Resogun studio Housemarque, will arrive a little later than expected. The studio and Sony have pushed back the release date from March 19th to April 30th to give Housemarque more time to “polish the game to t…
Source: Engadget – Sony pushes PS5 exclusive Returnal’s release date to April 30th
The problem is to build a string of asterisks and hyphens for a score out of 10. if the score is 6 the string is ******—-. If the score is 4 the string is ****——. Three command-line solutions are demonstrated here.
Source: LXer – ASCII score bars and a gorblimey command
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles are continuing to find success using ultrasound to “jump-start” the brains of people stuck in a minimally conscious state. In a report out this month, they detail two patients with chronic and severe brain injuries who experienced improvements in their awareness…
Source: Gizmodo – UCLA Scientists Successfully ‘Jump-Start’ the Brains of People in a Coma-Like State
How about that steering yoke, huh? Well, while everyone was getting riled up over that, Tesla did another weird thing, which is put a console-caliber gaming rig in some of its cars.
Source: Kotaku – You’ll Be Able To Play Cyberpunk 2077 In Your Tesla If You’re Into That Sort Of Thing
Tesla has unveiled refreshed versions of its Model X and Model S cars, revealing that both are equipped with gaming hardware supporting “up to 10 teraflops of processing power.” This theoretically puts a car within the ballpark of a new generation console. From a report: The Tesla models, priced in excess of $80,000 and shipping in March, are fitted with hardware to power Tesla Arcade, an in-car gaming system that is already available in current Tesla models. The difference is that previous models are only able to run less demanding games such as Cuphead and Cat Quest, while the promotional materials for the new Tesla models show The Witcher 3 displayed on the 17″ central console. This suggests a significant step up for the car’s gaming potential. Specifics on how powerful the car’s gaming rig is isn’t easy to tell, as the quoted “up to 10 teraflops of processing power” can’t be directly translated to the power of a PS5, which is capable of 10.28 teraflops. The accompanying components must also be taken into account, and Tesla has offered no details on the full specs of the hardware. It’s unclear if Nvidia or AMD GPUs are being used, or if it all comes from Tesla’s own system-on-a-chip. And while The Witcher 3 is an impressive game by… err… car standards, it’s very much a last-gen experience now. Theoretically, though, the system in the new Teslas is capable of strong gaming performance.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Tesla’s New Cars Can Run The Witcher 3 on Their 10-Teraflop Gaming Rigs
In a wide-ranging keynote delivered at the (online-only) 2021 Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference this morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook called for greater scrutiny of businesses “built on misleading users” and data exploitation.”The fact is…
Source: Engadget – Tim Cook takes aim at Facebook’s practices during privacy conference