The Rise of Skywalker was a freaking nightmare, but it had one bright spot: a tiny Anzellan droidsmith named Babu Frik. And now the cute little guy will be making the jump to Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga when it launches later this year.
Source: Kotaku – Holy Crap, Babu Frik Is Playable In The Next Lego Star Wars Game
Digital blackface.
Source: LifeHacker – I’ve Got a Meme for That: Unpacking the Racist Practice of Digital Blackface in the Information Age
Media streaming service Plex is moving beyond TV, movies, audio and photos. Starting today, you can play a bunch of Atari games through a Plex Arcade subscription. Plex has teamed up with Parsec to offer classics like Asteroids, Centipede, Missile Co…
Source: Engadget – Plex Arcade features a bunch of old-school Atari games
Well, here’s something you don’t see every day.
Source: Gizmodo – Sweet View From Deep Space Shows Earth, Venus, and Mars in a Single Frame
On Monday, Target became the latest retailer to stop selling Chaokoh coconut milk, according to a statement from PETA. In recent months, the animal rights organization has led a boycott campaign against Chaokoh claiming that it uses forced monkey labor to manufacture its product.
Source: Gizmodo – Allegations of Forced Monkey Labor Prompt Target to Pull Coconut Milk
Enlarge / The 2020 iPad Air—one of several devices supported by today’s new software releases. (credit: Samuel Axon)
Today, Apple began rolling out iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4 to supported iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices. The company also pushed watchOS 7.3 to Apple Watches and tvOS 14.4 to Apple TVs.
iOS 14.4/iPadOS 14.4 is a somewhat small feature update. New additions in the release notes include the ability to read smaller QR codes with the iPhone cameras, notifications to tell users “when the camera of your iPhone is unable to be verified as a new, genuine Apple camera,” and a number of bug fixes.
Here are Apple’s full iOS 14.4 release notes:
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Source: Ars Technica – iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4 hit supported devices today
Google has started rolling out Chrome OS 88. The update includes a couple of enhancements, the most notable of which is a new screen saver you can use to get more functionality out of your computer’s lock screen. By enabling the feature, your Chromeb…
Source: Engadget – Chrome OS 88 turns your Chromebook into an impromptu smart display
Google Play’s crazy automated app review process strikes again. From a report: This time, the puritan robot overlords that run the Play Store briefly decided that listing support for common subtitle files is enough to get your app banned. The developer for Just (Video) Player wrote in the app’s bug tracker, “After a tiny unrelated description update, Just Player got suspended from the Google Play Store for “Sexual Content and Profanity policy”. Google finds issues with following: Full description (en_US): “* Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, TTML, VTT.”” Yes, just listing standard video player features like support for the “ASS” subtitle format was apparently enough to temporarily earn a suspension. The developer says they “immediately filed an appeal” and today, the app is back up with the ASS subtitle listing still in the description.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Google Play Bans Video App For Standard ‘.ass’ Subtitle Support
Some time ago, I wanted to give a blackboard-style look to a typeset equation. I started playing around with the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) and was satisfied with the result. The problem was that I had to perform several actions on the image, I wanted to use this style again, and I did not want to repeat the steps for all the images. Besides, I was sure that I would forget them in no time.read more
Source: LXer – Write GIMP scripts to make image processing faster
Plex just added a new subscription tier to its live TV and media streaming services: Plex Arcade, a cloud gaming service like Amazon Luna and Google Stadia, but focused entirely on retro arcade games.
Source: Gizmodo – Plex’s New Atari Retro Arcade Subscription Looks Awesome
It’s time to stop giving out your real phone number around the web. If you can avoid it, don’t link your phone number to your various online accounts, because if (or when) those services are breached—as just happened to Facebook and, almost, TikTok—your number will hanging out in the open for anyone to mess with. Worse…
Source: LifeHacker – Facebook Doesn’t Need Your Real Phone Number
Forty-eight years after its debut, despite its antiquated two-dimensional graphics and gameplay, Pong remains a fun and challenging video game. But what happens when you strip it down to just a single dimension? Mirko Pavleski still managed to come up with a way to make 1D Pong a challenge when battling someone head…
Source: Gizmodo – One Dimensional Pong Is Still Surprisingly Challenging
It’s the quickest way to suck the joy out of buying a cute new top: You peel off the long sticker labeled with the size of the garment, and it leaves behind a relentlessly sticky residue that attracts lint and dust. Next thing you know, there’s a discolored rectangle in the middle of your brand new shirt.
The most…
Source: LifeHacker – How to Safely Remove Sticker Glue From Clothing
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was supposed to arrive this year, but its journey to your screens will take unexpectedly longer. Developer Daedalic announced that it will release the game in 2022 on PC, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation and Xbox consoles…
Source: Engadget – ‘The Lord of the Rings: Gollum’ is delayed to 2022
Brian Fagioli, writing at BetaNews: Today, Plex launches a retro video game streaming service that should make playing older titles even easier. Called “Plex Arcade,” it currently only offers games licensed from Atari, so we are talking really old-school stuff here, folks (think Centipede and Combat). At $4.99 month ($2.99 for those with Plex Pass) it is rather affordable. Unfortunately, there is one big catch — Linux users are being left out.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Plex Launches Retro Video Game Streaming Service
On January 28th, Animal Crossing: New Horizons will be getting a free update to bring festivity to every player’s island. This update will include “a colorful and feather-filled Festivale event, some heartfelt seasonal additions, new Reactions and new items to purchase.” Also, there are hints for an interesting collaboration on the horizon
Source: Hot Hardware – Animal Crossing’s Colorful Festivale Update Arrives This Week, Mario Crossover Set For March
In addition to a show-within-a-show, each of WandaVision’s episodes has featured vintage-inspired commercials advertising fictional products. In some way, they all allude to the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe outside the warped bubble reality of Westview where Wanda Maximoff and Vision are now living. But do we …
Source: io9 – WandaVision’s Nazi Watch May Be Important to the Show, But You Don’t Need to Buy It
Google is winding down support for yet another one of its marquee VR products. In a blog post spotted by Protocol, the company said it’s halting development on Tilt Brush and open sourcing the project so that the community can continue to use the app…
Source: Engadget – Google is turning Tilt Brush over to the open source community
The classic real-time strategy game Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings just keeps growing, and growing, and growing. Its latest expansion, decades after the game was originally released in 1999, is called Lords of the West and adds three more campaigns and two completely new civilizations: Burgundians and Sicilians.
Source: Kotaku – Age of Empires II Is Still Getting New Civilizations, More Than 21 Years Later
Almost all of the chatter centered on DDR5 memory so far has been in reference to full-size modules for future motherboard applications. That is all fine and dandy, especially with Intel set to release its Alder Lake-S lineup later this year, and AMD on track to deliver Zen 4 around the same time. But what about laptops? Those will be getting
Source: Hot Hardware – Teamgroup’s First DDR5 Memory For Next-Gen Laptops Zips Along At 4800MHz
