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  1. They're a little bit late on Nintendo Offers Up To $20,000 To Hack the 3DS (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    SKY3DS can already play backups

  2. "Google Is Renaming 'In the News' Section From Desktop Search After Criticism" - FTFY

  3. This is pretty much exactly what you get with RetroPie. I wonder if the 4k video is limited to x264 or can it do HEVC (kind of doubt it)?

  4. I'll take this over OLED on Panasonic Announces 1,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio LCD Panel To Rival OLED (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 2

    OLED looks great the first year, then starts yellowing. I'd rather have a panel that looks good for the 7-10 years I'll probably use it. This sounds good to me.

  5. I prefer the american versions of Kit Kat, Reese, etc because they taste more chocolatey somehow and less sweet. I visited family in Canada and tried some Hershey bars there, too overly sweet and missing vanilla... I also tried Cadbury and found that to be too sweet again, and also lacking that vanilla twist. I brought some real Hershey bars more recently and everyone agreed it was much better! Some said it's what Hershey Kisses used to taste like in Canada until they started making them different (presumably to be cheaper), so I tried Canada Kisses and yeah, again missing the vanilla and too sweet.

    I do like coffee crisp though which we don't have, but that's about it.

  6. Letting the phone act as a PC by hooking up a monitor and keyboard/mouse. MS are looking into x86 on ARM

  7. It does quite a bit actually on 'No Man's Sky' Releases Huge New 'Foundation' Update (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    - Base building
    - Teleporters work
    - Farming / Biodome / Specimen collection
    - Making camp
    - Setting up harvesters
    - Leave messages for other players on terminals
    - Purchase/manage/customize/enter freighters
    - Grow crops on board, recruit crew
    - New resources & tech
    - More NPC variation
    - Better cockpit indicators and panels in ships, more scanning options
    - New anti aliasing options on PS4
    - Added free exploration and survival game modes
    - Tons of audio/visual/gameplay tweaks

    So it adds a lot of what was missing, and some additional stuff.

    Missing:
    - Sand worms
    - Varied planetary physics
    - In-atmosphere battles
    - Rivers
    - Ringed planets
    - Hacking locked doors
    - Radio chatter
    - Seeing other players
    - Asteroid landings

    The missing list is getting smaller.

  8. What do you do with the old ones? on Japan Eyes World's Fastest-Known Supercomputer, To Spend Over $150M On It (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So what do you do with all the old supercomputers when they're too big/power hungry vs performance? Helluva paperweight.

  9. Tax cuts? But no cheap labor on Trump Says He's Going To 'Get Apple To Build a Big Plant In the United States' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple already gets tax cuts, giving them more won't make them bring factories here especially if they don't have the cheap labor and cheap local resources/refineries/expertise they enjoy elsewhere

  10. V for Vendetta on UK Plans To Censor Online Videos Of 'Non-Conventional' Sex Acts (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I liked that scene with Stephen Fry. Coming soon to real life I guess.

  11. He's a politician on Trump Admits 'Some Connectivity' Between Climate Change and Human Activity (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did anyone expect any different?

  12. Re:I store my eggs locally on Android User Locked Out Of Google Accounts After Moving To A New City (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't think of anything tied to my account that isn't already free or can't just be recreated or rescued via other means (such as an amazon or ebay account which can be restored to a new email address)... And if something truly depends on an email address as a sole means of authentification then I guess I just won't use it. I haven't need to thus far...

  13. I store my eggs locally on Android User Locked Out Of Google Accounts After Moving To A New City (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I download all of my email and store/browse it locally, and try to do so with any of my accounts, depending on them only as a temporary method of caching my items until I can fully capture and store the transmission, and then delete them online, relying on my own backups. I don't feel I can ever rely on online storage, and try to be prudent in what I leave online to be possibly accessed by others, and as a precaution try to keep everything online and remove any online copies under my own control as soon as I can store them offline.

  14. Competition springs up, offer deep discounts until competition folds, remove discounts. Profit.

  15. If it's a USB stick... on A USB Stick Can Show HIV Test Results In Under 30 Minutes (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Then why should the results be read through an app? Once results are found maybe it should produce some commonly readable files as the USB stick is mounted as a drive, allowing you to view say a PDF, TXT, HTML, and PNG of the results, allowing it to be read on any device in whatever format is most convenient. Why tie this to an app that may or may not be updated or even currently supported on the given OS?

  16. Apparently some have not gotten the message yet

  17. Confusing branding for gamers on Facebook Officially Announces Gameroom, Its PC Steam Competitor (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Gamers might associate the name with Microsoft's lackluster Game Room platform for emulated games on the Xbox 360 and Windows PC/phone. They over-pro!mised and under-delivered, being slow to add new games as well as charging fees to import supported games users already purchased.

  18. I love the Pi. on Fedora 25 Beta Linux Distro Now Available For Raspberry Pi (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What a great piece of kit. Shows how if you make something useful, documented, inexpensive, widely available, and open (yes to a point) -- build it and they will come. Hobbyists and professionals come together.

  19. Streaming services exist, and $400 price tag on Mark Cerny, Chief PlayStation Architect, Explains the PS4 Pro (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    They want it to be cheap enough, and are betting on savvy gamers (the target audience here) to be more into streaming services than physical media

  20. Netflix can push back, we can't on More Unblocking Companies Give Up Their Fight Against Netflix (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    And anyway, how useful is that subscription if you're living outside the US? Content providers have to wise up and realize this is now a global audience and you can't just target one nation anymore, we communicate on a global level and disjointed experiences don't work anymore. You want to talk to your friends about a video and if they can't see the same thing as you they're going to obtain it some other way and just keep getting frustrated with these antiquated policies

  21. "they're voting for her because of Trump or voting for Trump because of her."

    I'm embarrassed for my country that it has come to this. And yet people still won't vote for candidates other than these two clowns. At presidential debates we only see the clowns, none of the other candidates. Just ridiculous.

  22. Morphing on No One Wants To Buy Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Increasing the text limit, adding videos and images, they've strayed from the original vision of mandatory quick updates and have introduced more time consuming/bandwidth-heavy elements that make it more like a traditional blog than just a series of status updates that can be rapidly consumed. Also adding verified accounts has created a disparity in the feature set that has created a different tier of users, perhaps adding an illusion of a schism in communication.

  23. Haha. It didn't go down exactly like that, anyway I was clearly a little too obsessed and had other problems besides, maybe I just fixated on that part of it? It was a dark time,every relationship goes through some shit

  24. Maybe on Smartphones Are 'Contaminating' Family Life, Study Suggests (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When I'm around my kid I just don't use these things, including video game consoles or watching TV. Even if my kid is playing well enough by himself I've got stuff to do anyway like clean or make his meal, only time I really have to pay attention to anything personally for myself is nap time or when he's gone to bed, or off with mom just the two of them.

    Even before he was born I found that going online for too long was causing me stress and I'm not sure for what, I mean, at one point I was just refreshing favorite sites, making comments, soaking up any news item or just following trends like memes etc. My wife got pissed off because she wasn't into that and demanded I make time for her, and it got to the point where I had to do that or something in the relationship was going to go real bad. So I just cut back, and found I had a lot more space in my head to think, be creative, and enjoy what I already had. It only took about a couple weeks before I didn't even remember what I was doing all that time. It seems like a waste now.

    But then my wife got a smartphone and Facebook was a thing and suddenly the script has flipped! Now I really see why she was annoyed. :)

  25. Why isn't this rated troll? Honestly I love Linux and have no Windows boxes because I personally don't like their software but it doesn't automatically discount them from being useful somewhere. On any other site this would be considered a troll. Instead it's rated funny, but is very pandering and not really a nuanced joke in any way. Disappointed in Slashdot here.