Sometimes our worst nightmares come while we’re awake. Consider the fact that while some of the most terrifying horror movies ever made vary wildly in subject matter—moving from straight-up monster movies to serial killer flicks—they have one thing in common: They are all (or at least claim to be) based on events that…
Source: LifeHacker – 15 Horror Movies Based on True Events (More or Less)
MSI has issued an apology for jacking up the price of its GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X graphics cards after reviews (including our own) reflecting the original MSRP were published. According to a statement released by MSI, the higher price on its own webstore boiled down to a miscommunication. MSI has since restored the original pricing,
Source: Hot Hardware – MSI Addresses GeForce RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X Price Controversy And Tries To Make Good
If you assumed that military training simulators were only made possible with the advent of 3D graphics and virtual reality, Tom Scott is here to prove you wrong as he test drives a fascinating ‘70s-era tank simulator that relies on a tiny camera exploring a detailed model of a miniature European countryside.
Source: Gizmodo – I’m in Awe of This ’70s-Era Tank Simulator That Uses a Tiny Camera Roaming a Miniature Model
In the wake of Google Stadia’s recently announced, entirely inevitable collapse, launching a new streamed gaming service might seem a little brave. But then, if you’re Netflix, you’ve certainly at least got some of the infrastructure in place. The streaming giant has made clear its intentions to leap into this space.…
Source: Kotaku – Netflix Announces Game Streaming Plans Three Weeks After Google’s Attempt Blows Up
In this tutorial, we are going to explain in step-by-step detail how to install Joomla 4 on Debian 11 OS. Learn more here.
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Source: Linux Today – How to Install Joomla 4 on Debian 11
Whon Namkoong, the co-chief executive of Kakao, has resigned in a remarkable demonstration of corporate accountability after a fire incident at an SK C&C data center in the south of Seoul caused a mass outage over the weekend and disrupted Kakao’s several services, including messenger, ride-hailing, payment, banking and gaming. TechCrunch reports: Namkoong, who joined Kakao in 2015, was elevated to the co-CEO role this March. At a press conference on Wednesday, co-CEOs of Kakao apologized for the mass outage “for such an extended period.” Namkoong said that he feels “the heavy burden of responsibility” over the incident, adding that the company will do its best to restore the faith of users. Euntaek Hong, co-CEO of Kakao, who led the firm alongside Namkoong and is currently leading Kakao’s emergency taskforce team, will remain the firm as the sole head of Kakao, per a company filing.
Kakao said today morning it had restored additional services like Kakaomail and TalkChannel. Most of its services are in almost full operation, with some remaining partially down. Kakao’s slow recovery process was caused by the company’s lack of owned server infrastructure and “high dependence” on the SK C&C data center, which caught fire, analysts at Bernstein said in a report this week. Kakao also didn’t have a well-distributed backup system, they added. Hong said at a press conference today that the company plans to invest 460 billion KRW (~$325 million) to build its own data center from next year, aiming to complete it in the following year. According to a report in August, the company said its Kakao Talk messenger app has more than 47 million active users in South Korea and 53 million globally.
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Source: Slashdot – Kakao Co-CEO Resigns After Its Datacenter Fire Locked 53 Million Users Out
In fall 2020 I was making a lot of really bad life decisions. I don’t know if it was the stress of the pandemic, the chaos in my personal life, or my journalistic obligations to stay up on tech news, but for some reason I decided to sign up for Parler. That wasn’t the biggest mistake I made that year, but it’s one…
Source: Gizmodo – 5 of the Trashiest Emails I’ve Gotten From Parler
We’ve seen tons of comic books made into live-action films—but Room Service, an in-the-works horror short, flips the script a bit: it’s an original live-action film made by three acclaimed comics creators: Eisner Award winner James Tynion IV (The Nice House on the Lake, Something Is Killing the Children) wrote the…
Source: Gizmodo – Get an Exclusive Look at a New Horror Short Coming From 3 Comics Legends
Puff pastry is the impressive main element in dozens of sophisticated desserts because of its structure, rich flavor, and versatility. It’s also exactly what I needed to make a thoroughly unsophisticated Halloween dessert. These mummy Nutella tarts require only three ingredients and an oven—you don’t even need any …
Source: LifeHacker – Make These Three-Ingredient Nutella Mummy Tarts
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The V-1302 John Mahn has sat at the bottom of the North Sea off Belgium for decades. The ship began its life in Germany as a 48-meter-long fishing vessel. However, during the Second World War, the Nazi Kriegsmarine requisitioned it for use as a patrol boat. On February 12, 1942, a squadron of six British Royal Air Force planes struck it with two bombs. It sank.
It wasn’t just the boat that sank, however. Along with it went its stores of coal and its remaining ammunition, among other chemicals. While the boat’s no longer a Nazi threat, new research suggests that it has been leaking pollution—including various heavy metals—into the North Sea ever since. This, in turn, has changed the surrounding environment at a microbial level. The research is part of the North Sea Wrecks project, an effort to aid in the identification and mitigation of wrecks and their environmental impacts in the region.
“We wanted to see if old shipwrecks in our part of the sea … were still shaping the local microbial communities and if they were still affecting the surrounding sediment. This microbial analysis is unique within the project,” Josefien Van Landuyt, a PhD candidate at Ghent University and one of the paper’s authors, said in a press release.
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Source: Ars Technica – After 80 years, a Nazi shipwreck is causing environmental damage
Enlarge / Is living in a language-rich world enough to teach a child grammatical language? (credit: kate_sept2004 via Getty)
Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy and incomplete, full of false starts, interruptions and people talking over each other. From casual conversations between friends, to bickering between siblings, to formal discussions in a boardroom, authentic conversation is chaotic. It seems miraculous that anyone can learn language at all given the haphazard nature of the linguistic experience.
For this reason, many language scientists—including Noam Chomsky, a founder of modern linguistics—believe that language learners require a kind of glue to rein in the unruly nature of everyday language. And that glue is grammar: a system of rules for generating grammatical sentences.
Children must have a grammar template wired into their brains to help them overcome the limitations of their language experience—or so the thinking goes.
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Source: Ars Technica – AI is changing scientists’ understanding of language learning
Enlarge / A cluster of sensors atop the roof of the DLIVEREE. (credit: Gregory Leporati)
PAHRUMP, NEVADA—You could hear Porsches, Ferraris, and Lamborghinis roaring across the desert—or, more specifically, Spring Mountain Motor Resort, a scorching-hot racetrack about 60 miles west of Las Vegas. I was driving a Porsche GT3 RS with Jamie Wall, a professional racecar driver and McLaren coach, beside me—and it handled a bit differently than the 1997 Toyota Camry I’ve owned for the past 18 years.
“I bet it’s a fair bit faster, too,” Wall laughed.
As we set out across the winding road course, our goal, technically, was loftier than just having fun: We were acquiring data that could help fuel and inform autonomous vehicles.
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Source: Ars Technica – “Data in the Desert” hints at the future of autonomous vehicles
California homeowners might soon see some reprieve in skyrocketing property insurance rates. That is, if they take steps to wildfire-proof their houses. The West Coast state is the first in the country to require insurance companies to lower premiums when and where customers enact suggested wildfire safety and…
Source: Gizmodo – Californians Who Fortify Their Homes Against Wildfires Will Now Pay Less for Insurance
Don’t worry if you missed out on initial discounts for the Apple Watch Series 8 — they’re back. Amazon is once again selling the 41mm GPS smartwatch at the all-time low price of $349 that you saw during the Prime Day Early Access sale. The deal only applies to this smaller case size and rules out cellular models, but you’ll have your choice of colors.
Buy Apple Watch Series 8 at Amazon – $349
The Apple Watch Series 8 is a slight step up from the Series 7, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing at this price. The new wristwear adds crash detection that could prove useful in an emergency, while temperature monitoring can help track ovulation cycles if you’re trying to conceive. The features we liked from Series 7 are still intact, including an excellent always-on display, brisk performance (including charging) and a robust operating system.
That does mean some hitches remain. Apple’s sleep tracking is relatively limited even with watchOS 9. And while the new low-power mode can stretch battery life, you’ll likely still want to charge every day. And if you don’t need the always-on screen or advanced health tracking, the Apple Watch SE offers much of the core experience for less. When the price difference is down to $100, however, the Series 8 is considerably easier to justify.
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Source: Engadget – Apple Watch Series 8 returns to an all-time low of 9
A simple guide on how you can install Viber messaging client in Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora and Arch Linux distributions.
Source: LXer – Install and Configure Viber Messaging Client from your Linux Desktop
Multi-CEO and internet jester Elon Musk has sold 30,000 bottles of a perfume meant to smell like your head is on fire, “Burnt Hair.” Described by Musk as both “the essence of repugnant desire” and “the finest fragrance on Earth,” the “unique, limited edition, collector’s item” is now sold out, Musk announced on Twitter
Source: Gizmodo – Elon Musk’s 0 Burnt Hair Perfume, the ‘Essence of Repugnant Desire,’ Has Sold Out
Grocery prices are being what they are in 2022, I’m not looking forward to Thanksgiving shopping. I recently noted my much-needed 12-packs of Diet Coke, which I buy at least twice a week, are costing me around $8 ($3 or $4 more than last year), making my Coke habit a lot harder to budget for. Thus, I began to suspect …
Source: LifeHacker – How to Plan a (Relatively) Cheap Thanksgiving
Ikea is stepping into the future: The Swedish furniture retail giant is testing out autonomous delivery vehicles in Texas with help from Kodiak Robotics.
Source: Gizmodo – Yeehaw: Ikea Is Testing Autonomous Delivery in Texas
An insurance policy for your home doesn’t just pay for necessary repairs when disaster strikes, it also can protect you in case of an accident on your property, such as a slip and fall. Peace of mind for major repairs and bad accidents is important—but there are some things you might be doing that can void your…
Source: LifeHacker – Avoid These Mistakes That Can Void Your Homeowner’s Insurance Policy
If you habitually ride Mesa Git for the latest and greatest open-source AMD Radeon graphics driver code and use the KDE Plasma desktop with Wayland, you may have noticed a glitchy cursor recently. Fortunately, that’s now fixed up with today’s Mesa Git code and ended up stemming from the recent global enabling of Mesa OpenGL threading…
Source: Phoronix – Mesa OpenGL Threading Messed Up Cursor Handling With KDE Wayland – Fixed Now
