Health officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are pleading with pregnant people to get vaccinated against covid-19. In a new urgent health advisory out this week, the CDC says that only around a third of these individuals have gotten fully vaccinated. Research has shown that the vaccines do not…
Source: Gizmodo – CDC Urges Pregnant People to Get Vaccinated for Covid-19 As Soon as Possible
Free-to-play game Genshin Impact made $2 billion on the Google Play and Apple App stores in its first year. That makes Genshin Impact the third most financially successful mobile game in the world, sitting comfortably behind Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile. Excluding sales figures from China, Genshin Impact is the…
Source: Kotaku – Genshin Impact Made Billion In A Year
Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart are looking to buy another law in Massachusetts by replicating Prop 22, the disastrous, virtually irrevocable California ballot measure that deprived their workers of employee status. Now, leading rideshare labor researchers from the UC Berkeley Labor Center have predicted how bad…
Source: Gizmodo – Rideshare Drivers Could Make as Little as .82 Per Hour if Uber Gets Its Labor Law in Massachusetts, Study Finds
Forza Horizon 5 is nearing release and it seems as though the game will look fantastic across Windows 10 and Windows 11 hardware configurations, no matter your setup. This is great news for PC players who have been seeing many new games push their PCs to the limit.
The game should render stunningly realistic graphics on PCs down to the tiniest
Source: Hot Hardware – Forza Horizon 5 PC Requirements Should Play Nicely With Most Modern Gaming Rigs
Congratulations to Shin Kamen Rider for having the best costume in a superhero movie, but then again, that’s mostly because it’s just the original Kamen Rider suit.
Source: Gizmodo – In Shin Kamen Rider’s First Trailer, Hideaki Anno Is Just Living His Best Life
An anonymous reader shares a report: You probably don’t know Paul Weedon by name, but you’ve probably seen him get punched in the face. He is the man behind the “I can’t believe you’ve done this” meme, an old, viral video in which he talks to the camera for a few seconds before someone off camera sucker-punches him mid-sentence. It’s a canonical internet video that has spread far and wide since Weedon uploaded it to YouTube 14 years ago, and for reasons that he doesn’t understand, yesterday YouTube decided to remove it, citing its violence policies. Weedon has tried appealing YouTube’s decision, but the company denied his request.
“I got an email from YouTube late last night informing me that it had been taken down because it had violated their ‘violent or graphic content’ policy, which seemed a bit mad after all this time,â Weedon told Motherboard. “I’d maybe understand it if the video was new, but it’s been on YouTube for over a decade. At that point you’d have thought they’d have flagged that there was an issue with it and dealt with it.” Weedon said he has no idea why the video was removed now, but he’s not worried about it disappearing from the internet.
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Source: Slashdot – YouTube Removes Legendary Meme Video After 14 Years for ‘Violence’
If you’ve wanted to add to your Google Assistant home setup without spending too much money, Best Buy has a new way that you could do that. The retailer has the original Nest Hub smart display for $40, or $50 off its normal price. This gadget came out in 2018 and has since been replaced by the sleep-tracking, second-generation Nest Hub — but if you’re willing to skip a few new features, you can get a largely similar device for one of the best prices we’ve seen.
Buy Nest Hub (1st-gen) at Best Buy – $40
We gave the original Nest Hub, formerly known as the Google Home Hub, a score of 87 when it first came out for its lovely 7-inch display, charming minimalist design and extra privacy thanks to a lack of a camera. It makes a good smart alarm clock, even if it is slightly larger than something like the Echo Show 5, but it also won’t look out of place on your kitchen countertop. It can even act as a digital photo frame if you use Google’s Live Albums feature. Plus, you can control smart home devices from its touchscreen, and it’ll show feeds from Nest security cameras so you can check in on any area of your home more easily.
So what will you miss out on if you opt for the previous-generation device instead of the new, $100 Nest Hub? It comes down to three main things: the Soli motion sensor, improved audio and a speedier Google Assistant. The Soli sensor enables gesture controls as well as sleep tracking, so you could position the new Nest Hub on your nightstand and it will track things like time asleep, sleep quality and snoring. We weren’t super impressed by the device’s nighttime tracking abilities, but we expect improvements to be made in future software updates.
As for sound and the Assistant, the new Nest Hub has the same audio system as the Nest Audio speaker, so it’s a big improvement over the original. Plus, the onboard machine-learning chip allows the Assistant to respond more quickly to queries and commands. Overall, the latest Nest Hub is an improvement on the original, but the first-generation device remains a solid option if you’re on a strict budget or if you feel you can safely skip the latest upgrades.
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Source: Engadget – Google’s original Nest Hub drops to at Best Buy
For a few years now, Super Impulse has been miniaturizing nostalgia with tiny replicas of classic arcade cabinets and squeezing popular retro games into credit card-sized consoles. For its next trick, it’s focusing more on authenticity (relatively speaking) with a pair of retro gaming experiences that look and play…
Source: Gizmodo – You Won’t Need Your Parents’ Basement for These Tiny Atari 2600 and Dance Dance Revolution Setups
The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S have been on the market for almost a year now, they just have not been the least bit easy to obtain for the bulk of that time. Not unless you’re willing to pay way above MSRP from a marketplace seller or on eBay. Yeah, no thanks. Is there an end in sight to supply coming up way short of demand? Maybe, but
Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft Confirms Xbox Series X Shortages Will Linger Through 2022
The title of the pointiestick.con post alone tells you a lot: “Plasma in progress.” So this means that Plasma 5.23 beta is now available, and in the list of new features that have advanced today, there are many changes that will come in the next major release,. One of them concerns the accent color that can be chosen. So, the KDE project starts to focus on the new features of Plasma 5.24 which already has many new features as you can see below.
The post What’s New in KDE Plasma 5.24 appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – What’s New in KDE Plasma 5.24
Intel has some new announcements around their neuromorphic computing research…
Source: Phoronix – Intel Announces Loihi 2, Lava Software Framework For Advancing Neuromorphic Computing
Paramount+’s animated Star Trek: Lower Decks has already done a fantastic job of really diving into the internal conflict and privileges of the typical Starfleet bridge crew and the tough lives our lower deckers live. But just as much of this season has been about building on the bonds between our four heroes, this…
Source: Gizmodo – Star Trek: Lower Decks Showed Everyone How the Other Half Lives
We’ve been keeping light tabs on Intel’s Neuromorphic efforts ever since it launched its first dedicated 14nm silicon for Neuromorphic Computing, called Loihi, back in early 2018. In an interview with Intel Lab’s Director Dr. Richard Uhlig back in March 2021, I asked about the development of the hardware, and when we might see a second generation. Today is that day, and the group is announcing Loihi 2, a substantial upgrade over the first generation that addresses a lot of the low-hanging fruit from the first design. What is perhaps just as interesting is the process node used: Intel is communicating that Loihi 2 is being built, in silicon today, using a pre-production version of Intel’s first EUV process node, Intel 4.
Source: AnandTech – Intel’s First 4nm EUV Chip, Ready Today: Loihi 2 for Neuromorphic Computing
True crime blurs lines. Listening to a crime podcast or turning on a murder show is a dive into ambiguity. Is the program empathetic or exploitative? Are you being informed or desensitized? Who is this helping, and who is it hurting? Is this entertainment?
Source: LifeHacker – There Are Ways to Consume True Crime More Ethically
I love paying with my iPhone. I use Apple Pay at grocery stores, vending machines, and really anywhere else that’s compatible. However, if you use Apple Pay, too, be warned—a recently discovered security flaw could allow hackers to steal from right from your mobile wallet, particularly if you use public transit.
Source: LifeHacker – How to Fix the Express Transit Vulnerability on Your iPhone
In the last year alone, almost 1.5 million podcasts have been added to Spotify. Fishing out something good from that ocean of content might not be easy, but Spotify wants to help you find a keeper. To mark International Podcast Day, it created a quiz to help listeners discover a show that matches their taste.
Users in the US, UK, Germany and Australia can now check out the Find The One tool. It asks questions such how a podcast can win you over — perhaps you prefer a conversational show or a narrative-driven murder mystery one — and how serious you like things to be. Spotify will then make a recommendation that’s partly based on your listening habits.
The company says it found correlations between some artists and podcasts. Lil Nas X, for instance, has a lot of gamer fans who also listen to the likes of the TommyInnit Podcast, while Olivia Rodrigo and Call Her Daddy have a shared audience. Spotify also discovered that many BTS and Queen fans listen to podcasts about… BTS and Queen.
Source: Engadget – Spotify’s quiz will help you find a new podcast based on your listening habits
The head of Microsoft’s games business told The Wrap that a shortage of chips wasn’t the only thing stopping the company getting as many Xbox Series X/S consoles onto store shelves as it would like. From a report: “I think it’s probably too isolated to talk about it as just a chip problem,” he said. “When I think about, what does it mean to get the parts necessary to build a console today, and then get it to the markets where the demand is, there are multiple kind of pinch points in that process. And I think regretfully it’s going to be with us for months and months, definitely through the end of this calendar year and into the next calendar year. The thing that’s most disappointing is just the fan disappointment,” Spencer continued. “People really want this new generation of consoles — they’re good consoles, both from us and the other platform holders — and they want the new functionality. We’re working hard to bring them to market but it’s going to be a challenge that we’ll work through for quite a while.”
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Source: Slashdot – Xbox Boss Says Console Supply Issues Will Continue Into 2022
Automation is the great IT and DevOps ideal, but in my experience, anything that’s not immediately convenient may as well not exist at all. There have been many times when I’ve come up with a pretty good solution for some task, and I’ll even script it, but I stop short of making it literally automated because the infrastructure for easy automation doesn’t exist on the machine I’m working on.read more
Source: LXer – How I use Ansible and anacron for automation
Many hints about the storyline of Destiny 2 are dropped in its lore or in other subtle ways throughout the game. The recent reappearance of one particular weapon has Guardians shaking in their boots. It was recently confirmed that Spoiler Alert is a sign that a character will soon die in Destiny 2.**Warning: Major Spoilers Ahead**
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Source: Hot Hardware – Bungie Foreshadows The Death Of A Major Destiny 2 Character
Intel hasn’t officially announced its 12th generation Alder Lake processor families yet, but that isn’t stopping Lenovo from giving us a teaser of what’s to come. The company today pulled the wraps off its Legion 9000K (2022) desktop PC via Weibo.
Translating the text on the poster, Lenovo says that the system is “Equipped with a new Core
Source: Hot Hardware – Lenovo Teases Legion 9000K Desktop Gaming PC With 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake CPUs
