The current scoreboard on the Reddit meme stock war here. Reddit: 1, Hedge Fund Antagonists: 0. Citron Capital and Melvin Capital—the latter, the main loser in the massive inflation of GameStock prices, thanks to the subreddit WallStreetBets—have reportedly pulled out of their short positions in GameStock. Meaning…
Source: Gizmodo – Current Status of WallStreetBets’s GameStop Run: 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
Want to spend an hour or so wandering colorful cartoon dreamscapes crafted by the creators of Sonic the Hedgehog? Do you enjoy the sensation of being pleasantly bewildered? If you answered yes to either of those questions you’re going to want to play the demo for Balan Wonderworld. It’s something else.
Source: Kotaku – There’s A Lot Of Sonic And Nights In Balan Wonderworld’s Trippy Demo
EA has formed a new studio to develop the next Skate game. On Wednesday, the publisher announced the existence of Full Circle, which, like previous Skate developer Black Box, will be based out of Vancouver, Canada. EA has tapped Daniel McCulloch, who…
Source: Engadget – EA founded a new studio to work on the long-awaited ‘Skate 4’
One of the best cable alternatives for live TV enthusiasts is getting a price hike.
Source: Gizmodo – Sling TV Prices Are Going Up Now, Too
Sony has revealed the next batch of free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers — Control: Ultimate Edition, Destruction AllStars (PS5 only) and Concrete Genie — which you can claim from February 2nd. The inclusion of Control has caused some outcry g…
Source: Engadget – ‘Control: Ultimate Edition’ headlines February’s batch of PS Plus freebies
The end is near, Screaming Firehawks, and with just one Expanse episode to go after this week’s blazing “Winnipesaukee,” the stage is set for a finale full of questions that need answering, conflicts we hope to see resolved, and a reunion we’ve been waiting almost all of season five to see. But first: PUNCH IT!
Source: io9 – The Expanse Will Rip Your Heart Out and Make It Feel Good
Back during CES 2021, Intel revealed some concrete details on its upcoming 11th generation Rocket Lake-S desktop family. Rocket Lake-S is the successor to Comet Lake-S, and will be the last 14nm product family from Intel built on the 14nm process node (which has long overstayed its welcome).
At the time, the company provided details on
Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Core i9-11900K, i7-11700K, i5-11600K 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S CPU Specs Leaked In Full
Dead Cells recently got a lot bigger. This week’s Fatal Falls expansion adds a crop of weapons and enemies to the game, plus two new biomes. Trouble is, actually accessing those two zones—the Fractured Shrines and the Undying Shores—eludes simple explanation. Classic Dead Cells, right? Here’s how to find them.
Source: Kotaku – How To Actually Access The New Dead Cells DLC
You can now install YouTube as a progressive web app (PWA) on Windows. What does this mean? PWAs are like desktop shortcuts to websites that run in their own separate app window. They don’t take up much space and load faster than navigating to the website in Chrome or Edge. PWAs also get their own icons on the taskbar…
Source: LifeHacker – How to Install YouTube as a Progressive Web App on Windows
Nintendo faces a complaint from BEUC, a European consumer group, over what it calls “systematic problems” with the controllers for the company’s popular Switch games console. BEUC said it filed a complaint with the European Union and national consumer protection organizations after evidence from users showed that in 88% of cases, “the game controllers broke within the first two years.” A report adds: The group said some 25,000 gamers and other consumers across Europe, including France, Belgium and the Netherlands, complained about a “recurring technical problem with Nintendo Switch controllers, commonly referred to as ‘Joy-Con Drift,’ according to a statement on Wednesday. The problem causes a glitch where characters can move within games without any input from the user.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Nintendo Sued by European Gamers Hampered by Broken Controllers
Finally with the upcoming Linux 5.12 cycle is support for Variable Rate Refresh (VRR) / Adaptive-Sync for Intel Tiger Lake “Gen12” Xe Graphics and newer…
Source: Phoronix – Linux 5.12 Bringing VRR / Adaptive-Sync For Intel TIger Lake / Xe Graphics
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Source: Gizmodo – Blast the Stars Onto Your Ceiling With This Galaxy Projector
February’s PlayStation Plus games are great. You get Destruction AllStars for PS5, and the storied Control: Ultimate Edition as either the PS4 version or PS5 version. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus membership.
Source: Kotaku – Here’s February 2021’s PlayStation Plus Lineup
Open-source software is famously able to be used by anyone for any purpose;
those are some of the keystones of the open
source definition.
But some companies that run open-source projects are increasingly unhappy
that others are reaping some of the profits from those projects.
That has led to various
efforts of “license reform” meant to try to capture those profits. So
far, those efforts have just led to non-open-source licenses, thus projects
that are no longer open source. We are seeing
that play out yet again with Elastic’s mid-January announcement that
it was changing the license on some of its projects.
Source: LWN.net – [$] Elastic promises “open”—delivers proprietary
The two wealthiest men in the world—Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos—are bickering about their competing satellite internet projects, in an argument prompted by SpaceX’s recent request to move some Starlink satellites to a lower orbit.
Source: Gizmodo – Musk and Bezos Scrap Over Who Gets to Be Space King
Cars with Google Maps built in are getting a few more features that should make it easier to plan trips around charging stops. Google is using graph theory in its latest routing algorithms to help you determine the best way to get to your destination…
Source: Engadget – EVs with Google Maps will make it easier to plan trips around recharging
Death is inevitable. But Seattle-based company Recompose is giving people a new way to exit this mortal coil: Having their remains laid in a tube of mulch and soil and letting bacteria turn them into compost in a month’s time. After having opened their doors earlier this winter, Recompose is now fully getting to work…
Source: Gizmodo – America’s First Composting Funeral Home Is Finally Open
Buying meat when it’s on sale and then freezing it for when you need it is great…in theory. In practice, it’s difficult (some might even say impossible) to remember to thaw frozen meat ahead of time. The recommended method—thawing frozen meat overnight in the fridge—can take more than a day. It also requires…
Source: LifeHacker – Defrost Frozen Meat Faster With a Hot Water Bath
Teenagers’ mental health is being damaged by heavy social media use, a report has found. From a report: Research from the Education Policy Institute and The Prince’s Trust said wellbeing and self-esteem were similar in all children of primary school age. Boys and girls’ wellbeing is affected at the age of 14, but girls’ mental health drops more after that, it found. A lack of exercise is another contributing factor – exacerbated by the pandemic, the study said. According to the research: One in three girls was unhappy with their personal appearance by the age of 14, compared with one in seven at the end of primary school. The number of young people with probable mental illness has risen to one in six, up from one in nine in 2017. Boys in the bottom set at primary school had lower self-esteem at 14 than their peers. The wellbeing of both genders fell during adolescence, with girls experiencing a greater decline, the report said.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Social Media Damages Teenagers’ Mental Health, Report Says
With great popularity comes great scrutiny. Following WhatsApp’s controversial announcement of changes to its privacy policy, users have flocked to the encrypted messaging app Signal. The app has maintained a relatively small userbase for years, but in the last month, it has reportedly doubled in size. And now it’s…
Source: Gizmodo – Signal Blocked by Iran as Encrypted Messaging App’s Popularity Explodes