Geeks on Gadgets, Games and Tech: January 2018

Last week, AT&T took out full-page ads in a number of major newspapers nationwide claiming that the company supports net neutrality, and calling on Congress to pass legislation, a so-called “Internet Bill of Rights.” This comes just a day after year-end disclosures show AT&T spent more than $16 million lobbying against net neutrality and Internet privacy protections last year alone.

At the exact same time that the ads went live, Congressional staffers reported that they started getting flooded with mysterious tweets using the hashtag “#netneutlawnow,” with a message reading: “We need real net neutrality - not a CRA that can't pass. Please pass a permanent net neutrality law!”

If you just search Twitter for the hashtag “#netneutlawnow,” you only find a few tweets, like this one, from the Progressive Policy Institute, a “think tank” that’s been partly funded by … you guessed it: AT&T. If you search for the phrase that’s tweeted, you see large numbers of identical tweets, which appear to be generated through a paid hashtag campaign geo-targeted at people’s lawmakers.

Astroturf efforts like these are just the latest in a long and sordid history of campaigns funded by big telecom companies attempting to create the false impression that there is grassroots support for their terrible positions on net neutrality and consumer privacy.

The purpose of these tweets is to spread misinformation. The ISPs’ plan has always been to use the “crisis” they created by gutting the FCC rules to ram through bad legislation that permanently undermines net neutrality while claiming to “save it.”

But this latest campaign just comes off as a bit desperate. It shows that AT&T’s army of lobbyists is scared. The “CRA” that the tweets mention refers to the Congressional Review Act resolutions that are gaining momentum in both the Senate and the House thanks to the overwhelming, cross-partisan public support for net neutrality rules, and the massive backlash to the FCC’s repeal of them.

The CRA allows our elected officials in Congress to block the FCC’s decision with a simple majority in the Senate and House. We’re currently just one vote away from winning in the Senate, and there are already more than 110 co-sponsors for the CRA in the House.

It seems that the giant ISPs that spent millions lobbying to kill the FCC’s net neutrality rules are getting nervous. But lawmakers could be easily fooled by this latest astroturf campaign, so it’s more important than ever to contact your Senators and Representatives and tell them not to fall for it, and instead to support the CRA resolution and restore the net neutrality protections that should never have been taken away in the first place.

Here is a Testimonial from someone who felt misled: “It looked like an image with a ‘Tweet #netneutlawnow’ button. Now that i realize that it’s just corporate greed, I feel very misled. As a hardcore supporter of net neutrality, I say this is an outrage!" - Eric Edmondson, Queens, NY (@EricE549)

If you or someone you know may have mistakenly tweeted out one of these messages, please pm me. We could use your help to expose this astroturfing effort by AT&T.

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Saturday, 27 January 2018

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Found on BBC News about drug use in games...

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I didn’t buy Fifa 18 and I’m not going to, I love football yes but I’ll stick with the old ones because I don’t wanna ruin football games anymore, I don’t want them to be online only. Just because there are people who loves playing online and okay with paying tons of money to get some good players so they can enjoy the game, doesn’t mean you can ignore career mod players and make online players pay a lot. Rightnow buying FIFA or PES is like paying $60 for a squad&kit update. If we’re mad at EA because of Battlefront 2, we should boycott FIFA aswell.

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EA have done it again

Hello r/gaming

I come from the far away world of r/futmobile, and once again I am here with a post about EA’s very.. very shitty money making tactics.

Let me start off by saying this.. I do understand that gaming companies need to make money to provide great games. That makes sense. But what you are about to see is how EA took people’s money, then switched the rewards.

In FIFA mobile, you work your way up leagues by defeating other players. There are a number of leagues to work up, and at the end of each week there is a weekend tournament that you can play. This tournament requires special stamina.. which must be bought with real currency to get the bigger rewards. Depending on your league, the rewards may vary.. but are ultimately almost the same. When the weekend tournament dropped this was the reward. Now for anyone who has played FIFA Ultimate team, you may know that a 90+ ranked player is absolutely fantastic. But this isn’t just any 90+ ranked player... this is a Team Of The Year player. TOTY players are voted on by the community and EA as special players at the end of each year. Current calculations are putting that some of these players can cost upwards of $10,000 to accomplish.. so you can see everyone’s excitement to know that if they work hard enough, there is a chance they can acquire one of these players.

HOWEVER.. after leaving that reward up for an hour and a half or so.. they changed it to a CHANCE at a 90+ player.. AFTER taking everyone’s money. They legitimately waited an hour and a half.. got people’s money.. then took the guaranteed reward away.

This is absolutely pathetic. And it is not the first time they have done this on this game (check Carniball event 2017). They continue to RIP the fifa mobile community off, but continuously showing that there is no way to get good without paying $1,000’s of dollars.

If you want more information regarding this scandal, and many many more that have occurred to this gaming community. r/Futmobile has plenty of threads about it.

EA.. get your shit together.

Edit; ‘Chance’ meaning “more than likely not” or .000001% (speculated)

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Friday, 26 January 2018

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FCC Hopes Its Phony Dedication To Rural Broadband Will Make You Forget It Killed Net Neutrality

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The Halo Online modders have released multiplayer - Halo 3 PC is finally a reality

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Monster Hunter World Is Everything I Hoped It Would Be

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Smaller Cable Companies Say Comcast is Far Too Powerful

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Washington Bill Would Make it Illegal to Sell Electronics That Don’t Have Easily Replaceable Batteries: iPhone CPU throttling controversy is fueling a new round of state-level right to repair legislation.

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Here we go again... UK Prime Minister urges nerds to come up with magic crypto backdoors

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VR and Googly eyes, setting a new standard

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Shell buying spree cranks up race for clean energy - “spent over $400 million on a range of acquisitions in recent weeks, from solar power to electric car charging points, cranking up its drive to expand beyond its oil and gas business and reduce its carbon footprint.”

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Final boss of Dark Souls one-shotted via pure skill.

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George Soros: Facebook and Google a menace to society

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Uhhhhh

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A newly proposed anti-encryption bill in Australia would have dire consequences for all Australians’ Internet privacy and security, according to VPN provider NordVPN

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Precision shot from a distance.(Not Mine)

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Thursday, 25 January 2018

My brother in law couldn’t resist getting all the colors.

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Haven't we all?

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FCC 'Broadband Advisory' Panel Stocked With Industry Lackeys

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Zelda in her different Outfits

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Intel alerted computer makers to chip flaws on Nov 29 – new claim. Total coincidence: That's the same day Chipzilla's CEO sold off his shares

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Tesla employee blocked from joining Virginia’s Motor Vehicle Dealer Board after Senators side with dealers

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I did a Doom Guy with coloured pencils.

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Monster Hunter World

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Senator Asks FBI Director, Who Seeks Backdoor in Silicon Valley Companies' Software, to Justify His Ill-Informed Policy Proposal For Encryption

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Tunnel Vision

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San Jose mayor says he’s quitting FCC broadband committee because Big Telecom is running it.

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Just finished this drawing and thought you guys might like it

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Google Chrome now lets you permanently mute annoying websites

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The Deadric Princes

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me vs me

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In the grim dark future there is only DOOM

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Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest Sources of Electricity, and It's Getting Cheaper: A comprehensive survey of the wind industry shows wind energy is routinely purchased in bulk for just two cents per kilowatt-hour—and turbines are only getting cheaper, bigger, and better

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3D Printed thumbstick for the HTC Vive controller

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I’m so glad Nintendo have ported the three best Wii U games to Swi- oh.

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I Can't Believe This Was Created

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Found this in my school's IT department

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Just finished painting this. Brb, jumping inside!

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Master Skywalker, there're too many of them, what are we going to do?

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Samsung needs to kill Bixby on the Galaxy S9

Exactly one month from now, Samsung will unveil its next flagship phone, the Galaxy S9. It will be the biggest attraction at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and it will set the bar for Android flagships for the rest of the year. It will also be Samsung’s first opportunity to respond to Apple’s radically redesigned iPhone X. And, inevitably for being the latest and best product from the world’s most prolific smartphone vendor, the S9 will sell in the millions.

I have no doubt that this phone — or, more likely, phones, given Samsung’s habit of issuing a Plus-sized model — will be momentous and important. I’m sure Samsung will do its usual thing of sandwiching together the best hardware possible inside a design that feels implausible. But I do have one overriding question regarding this upcoming device, a question that might go neglected as the usual hot topics of specs and design start to overtake the conversation.

What will Samsung do with Bixby?

I set out my feelings about Bixby at length back in September: I consider Samsung’s personal assistant software to be a form of structural bloatware that’s using up valuable development time within Samsung and even more valuable goodwill among its users. Bixby is intrusive without being helpful (remember Clippy?), with the pinnacle of its irritant powers being the way it demands you activate it every time you turn on the phone’s camera. Samsung even dedicated a hardware key to Bixby on the otherwise starkly minimalist Galaxy S8. This thing is a problem. Many people spent half the year trying to find a way to turn that spare button into a Google Assistant trigger — the voice assistant Android users actually want to use — and Samsung was eventually embarrassed into allowing the Bixby key to be disabled to avoid accidental launches.

Bixby’s failure didn’t sink the Galaxy S8, and I don’t believe the S9’s commercial success will depend on it either. But Bixby has been a blemish. Like the awkwardly misplaced fingerprint sensor next to the rear camera lens of the S8 and Note 8, Bixby’s nagging presence simply degrades the Samsung user experience in a fashion that feels unnecessary and unacceptable. If we take it as a given that Samsung will avoid the fingerprint sensor misplacement this time around (rumors suggest it will be centered on the back), that leaves only Bixby as the potential anchor dragging down the S9.

Looking at the Galaxy S8 today, you’ll find very little that actually needs improvement, fixing, or upgrading. That phone is stunning in its efficiency, and I still consider the Galaxy S8 Plus to be the most ergonomic large-screen phone I’ve yet used (when relying on iris scanning for biometric ID and not the off-center fingerprint reader, of course). But, even with all the good things about Samsung’s 2017 phones, I was reluctant to recommend them to friends. Bixby and that annoying fingerprint reader were the difference between “great, but flawed” and just flat out great.

The optimist in me would like to believe that there’s a scenario where Samsung actually figures out how to make its voice assistant useful and essential instead of just a nuisance. I’d like to believe that, but I can’t. Google’s Assistant is the gold standard for voice-activated digital genies, and Amazon’s Alexa is wildly popular. There really isn’t room for yet another alternative, and even if there was, is Samsung really the company you’d trust to get it right?

More realistically, I’d constrain my optimism to believing that Samsung can cut ties with its dreadfully unappealing personal assistant and just get on with the business of making a great smartphone. The invite to Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event teases camera improvements for the next flagship, which is a generic but always appreciated area of focus. As a reviewer, I’d love to spend the first half of this year comparing Samsung’s latest camera tech to Google’s world-conquering Pixel camera. What I would hate is to have to write another excoriation about how half-baked Bixby is and how Samsung can’t help spoiling a good thing.

Samsung is one of the many tech companies to claim that it only seeks to engage in meaningful innovation. Technological advances mean nothing without being actually useful to the user, and so anything that Samsung puts into its phones should be able to pass a basic utility test. Waterproofing, fast wireless charging, gorgeous displays, large batteries, and great cameras all satisfy that condition and contribute to making the company’s Galaxy phones attractive. All I’m asking of Samsung is to live up to its own aspirations: if you can’t make Bixby work well, leave it out of the Galaxy S9.

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'AT&T Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds': Net Neutrality Defenders Call Out Telecom Giant for Fake Fix

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France to shut all coal-fired power stations by 2021, Macron declares

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Just NPC things

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Wednesday, 24 January 2018

50 Cent: 'I Forgot' Taking 700 Bitcoins For 2014 Album; Stake Is Now Worth Millions

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REMINDER: Star Wars Battlefront 2 is currently heavily discounted on Xbox, and will most likely get a heavy discount on PS4 and PC in the coming weeks. DON’T GIVE IN. EA is trying to boost their new quarterly numbers. REMEMBER WHAT SHIT THEY TRIED TO SHOVEL.

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[BotW] Fire in the Hole

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[Sea of Thieves] "Sinking" a ship [X-post /r/GamePhysics]

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Insert Benny Hill theme

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Love the characters in Fallout: New Vegas.

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AT&T Is Full of Shit With Its Full-Page Net Neutrality Ads

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Eight years of PC Gamer (2001-2008)

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New York governor signs executive order to keep net neutrality rules after the FCC’s repeal

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A long-time Google engineer, Steve Yegge, quits, saying the company is '100% competitor focused' and 'can no longer innovate'

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Nice sho.... Oh Never mind.

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Friend took this screenshot in Horizon: Zero Dawn. All I see is Conan O'Brien in the smoke cloud

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New Bill Would Prevent Comcast-Loyal States From Blocking Broadband Competition

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Burger King made a surprisingly good ad about net neutrality

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Arrows and bows before bros

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NSA deletes “honesty” and “openness” from core values.

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What everyone is really waiting for...

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Burger King Deviously Explains Net Neutrality by Making People Wait Longer for Whoppers

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I did a Professor Layton pen art

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When the Builder finishes on the wrong side of the wall

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My son's pinewood derby car.

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When your execution's at 6:00 but you gotta fight the Empire at 6:01

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First Look at Metal Gear Solid for Nintendo Switch Labo (OC)

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This is how the $1.000.000$ battle ended in EVE online.

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Uhmmm..🤔

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Web Developers Write Open Letter to Google: Stop Forcing Everyone to Come Under Your Umbrella

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Budweiser switches to renewable energy for US brewing - Switching brewing to renewables from fossil fuels will correspond to taking 48,000 cars off the road every year

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Qualcomm fined $1.2 billion by the EU for paying off Apple

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Tuesday, 23 January 2018

The Most Evil Level On Super Mario Maker

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WatchDogs 2 GPS makes you drive like a real Californian!

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Tesla’s giant battery in Australia made around $1 million in just a few days

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A long gaming gif about life

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WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?' Linus Torvalds explodes at Intel spinning Spectre fix as a security feature. Patches slammed as 'complete and utter garbage' as Chipzilla U-turns on microcode

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I replaced my Xbox One Controller faceplate!

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AC: Origins knows who has the advantage

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Am I the only one who never realized this game had enough of a story to make a movie? Let alone one staring The Rock??

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Nintendo's HQ a century ago

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Montana Says It Won't Do Business With Net Neutrality Violating ISPs

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DuckDuckGo adds tracker blocking to help curb the wider surveillance web

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My friend playing Mario Odyssey during class

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I am Adam Segal, senior fellow and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Let’s talk Russian hacking, Chinese espionage, and more. AMA!

Hello r/technology! I’m Adam Segal, the Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations.

The focus of my research examines how countries are using the internet, cyberattacks, and other digital means to promote their political or economic interests. For example, our program recently launched the Cyber Operations Tracker, a database of instances where countries have used digital espionage, DDOS, and sabotage in pursuit of their foreign policy goals.

I’ve written a few books, most recently on how countries fight, trade, and manipulate in the digital age. I’ve also written about how online conflicts between countries can have offline implications, and China’s efforts to control the internet.

I’ll be around for the next few hours to answer questions you may have about how countries use the internet and tech to pursue their interests. AMA!

Proof: https://twitter.com/adschina/status/955836071824314368

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The eyerony.... [Skyrim]

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Playing couch co-op with an Xbox One and PS4 controller at the same time

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Trying to pacifist run SuperHot is insane.

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Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society.

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Dialogue

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Horizon Zero Dawn - Oil Painting by Aronja-Art https://youtu.be/P5dgHcRcEXk

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Do true!

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Took me 4 months, but I'm happy with my Samus

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Blending in the crowd

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My boss's son made Banjo-Kazooie using a 3D pen.

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AMD and NVIDIA meet to discuss the video card shortage.

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MIT engineers design artificial synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware

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New smart windows darken in the sun—and generate electricity at the same time - “Two research groups report that they’ve created perovskite-tinted windows that not only transition based on the temperature, but also harvest power like solar cells.”

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Netflix once loved talking about net neutrality - so why has it suddenly gone quiet?

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55% of mobile apps don’t comply with European privacy regulations

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Today, I Was Faced With the Harsh Reality That I am a Coward.

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Monday, 22 January 2018

Google just broke Amazon’s workaround for YouTube on Fire TV

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Present day Ready Player One

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When she asks if you've been to any exotic places...

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Trump Taxes Solar Imports in Biggest Blow to Renewables Yet

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Nerdgasm

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After 15 years, EVE Online is having it's first $1,000,000 battle tomorrow. Here is your guide to the action.

tl;dr: Four years ago there was an EVE battle where $300,000 worth of stuff was destroyed, and it made the news. After that battle, EVE’s greatest player, The Mittani, made a bunch of money selling out his massive 15,000 person super-organized gaming community to other games for cash. This went well, but then he tried to raise $150,000 in a kickstarter to get Sci-Fi Author Jeff Edwards to write a book about himself and a famous war he won in EVE Online. The rest of the EVE player community revolted against this idea, the kickstarter fell short in spectacular fashion, and the community then united to destroy The Mittani’s EVE empire once and for all, bank rolled by a massive EVE casino run by one guy. Towards the end of that war, the guy who ran that casino was banned because the CS:GO gambling scandal made the game company behind EVE afraid of lawsuits related to gambling. With no money bankrolling them, the EVE community split apart before they could deal the final blow, and now 15 months later, EVE’s greatest player is back for revenge in what could be EVE Online’s first $1,000,000 battle.

Hi, IAMA fleet commander in the MMO video game EVE Online. EVE Online is the game that many of you “love to read about, but would never actually play”. I don’t blame you, it’s a complicated time sink, and if you’re not careful it can add a few years to your college career (plenty of people take 6 years to graduate though, so it’s no big deal). It’s likely that the last time many of you read about this game was back in 2014 when roughly $300,000 worth of warships were destroyed in a single day, as reported by Wired, CBS, ABC, etc. Well, nearly four years later, a crazy timeline of events has led us to what is going to be EVE Online’s first $1,000,000 dollar battle, that will dwarf the size of the famous battle four years ago. This battle will be occurring tomorrow at roughly 20:00 UTC (3 pm US Eastern). Since plenty of you gamers enjoy reading about the crazy people who play EVE Online, I’ve decided to type up a simple guide to the battle happening tomorrow as well as the unbelievable events that led up to it, so you can continue to read about EVE from a safe distance.

A super basic guide to EVE Combat:

EVE combat really isn’t that hard to understand if you’ve ever played even just a few video games and understand basic video game concepts. EVE has many many ship classes, divided into three main groups: subcapital, capital, and super capital. But there are really only two that matter: Titans (the biggest super capital class), and Force-Auxiliary Carriers (the only capital class ship that can efficiently heal capital and super capital ships). Titans are the best ships in the game because they have the largest hitpoint pool by a large margin and they do the most damage. Titans are also the most expensive ships in the game by a large margin, which is why two sides with lots of titans rarely fight each other, and when they do it tends to make the news. The big fight that happened in 2014 that I mentioned above is the last time that two real titan fleets faced off against each other. In that battle, each side fielded roughly 80 titans, with the losing side losing 59 titans and the winning side losing 16 titans. Tomorrow, each side will field over 250 titans, and likely 1,000 support capitals and super capitals. The story of how the game went from a 100 titan battle to a 500 titan battle in 4 years, with no big battles in between, is truly amazing and worth reading for even the most casual observers, but before I get into that here’s a brief aside on why all the news media like to quote EVE battles in $$ values (hint: for clicks, but it’s technically accurate).

How did $300,000 get destroyed four years ago? And why is this a $1,000,000 battle?

Though a majority players are content to just pay the monthly subscription and play the game, EVE Online has a convenient method for calculating the conversion rate of in-game currency (called ISK, I’m going to use ISK from now on) to real world currency because it allows its players to buy “subscription time” and sell it on the in-game market for extra ISK. Basically, I can take $15 dollars, buy a 30 day subscription code, put that on the in-game market, and someone can use ISK to buy that game time and play the game for free. Using this, we can calculate the conversion rate for any ship or item to generate amazing headlines so the EVE players can justify how much time they all spend on this game.

Fun Fact: Just like other games with microtransactions, there are crazy people in EVE who blow stupid amounts of money on this game. Not many EVE players know this, but the current Chinese Player group (Fraternity Coalition) has had their current war funded by one guy for the last two months, and he has spent $70,000 doing that, and they’re still going to lose anyway, which is kind of hilarious.

But enough about that, let’s get to the fun part, the crazy story of how the game got to where it is today.

Why are $1,000,000 worth of nerds facing off in a battle tomorrow?

The great thing about this story is that we can pick up right where we left off in 2014. After that big giant battle, the winning side (The ClusterFuck Coalition, CFC from here on) were kings of the universe. While they didn’t own all of the space, it was clear that no one could challenge their power. Their leader, The Mittani, had built the largest and most organized online gaming organization on the internet, with an estimated member count exceeding 15,000 people, and capable of summoning over 1,000 players to login to the game at a moment’s notice. With nothing left to conquer, he decided to try and grow the CFC into something even greater. He had already started a gaming news website named after himself, so he started a Twitch channel to go along with it, and then started cozying up to people in the gaming industry. He started approaching different gaming companies and offering to bring the CFC to their game if they would give them special promotions and free ingame items, and this worked. They did this for Planetside 2 and H1Z1. The Mittani would constantly push these promotions on his members in the CFC, and for the most part this went pretty well.

Then, in late 2015, they decided to aim even higher. The Mittani had somehow gotten to know Sci-Fi author Jeff Edwards, and convinced him to write a Sci-Fi book about a war that happened in EVE Online. The Mittani was going to do a $150,000 kickstarter to pay Edward’s fee, and his media machine spun into full action to attempt to raise the money from not just the CFC, but the entire EVE Online community. There were two problems with this plan though: 1) The CFC was starting to turn on the idea of being constantly harassed for money, and 2) The war he wanted to write about was one that his side won, and The Mittani, famous among EVE players for his ego, was likely going to be the main character. The final straw was when he renamed his gaming organization to ‘The Imperium’, because ClusterFuck Coalition wasn’t advertiser friendly. The events surrounding the failed kickstarter are immortalized in one of /r/eve’s greatest post

The EVE community was ready to revolt, but it took the richest person in EVE Online to get them all together into a cohesive coalition capable of defeating The Imperium/CFC. That person was Lenny, who ran a wildly successful casino website where players could use ISK to play. Bank Rolled with virtually infinite money, the newly formed Moneybadger Coalition absolutely steamrolled the Imperium in a few months, taking every single piece of land they owned. The Imperium retreated out of their territory, and most of the Moneybadger Coalition was content to let them run away, satisfied that if the Imperium ever threatened again that Lenny would be there to throw money at the problem.Rock Paper Shotgun wrote a good summary of the war

Then, the CS:GO Gambling scandal happened, and the company that makes EVE Online, CCP, became scared that lawsuits could start coming their way if they continued to allow a giant casino website to run using in game money. This was exacerbated by the Imperium publicly whining and complaining about the casino website for weeks, until CCP made an announcement. The announcement declared that gambling was no longer allowed with ISK, and that they had identified one player who was trading ISK for real life currency against the rules. Though Lenny still denies it and no concrete evidence was ever provided, Lenny was banned from the game and all of his in game assets frozen. Moneybadgers bank disappeared in a single day.

It was August 2016 by the time the dust settled, nearly 10 months after the failed kickstarter, and the galaxy slid into a semblance of peace. But The Mittani swore revenge (publicly on his twitch channel), and what followed was the game’s greatest arms race, with the Imperium/CFC and the former Moneybadger forces each building massive super capital fleets. Over the past few months the Imperium has been hinting at a major invasion, even feigning a few attacks north into Moneybadger space. But that time is now over. Suddenly and without warning, the Imperium turned a harmless border skirmish into a full scale invasion, catching the Moneybadger forces with their pants down. Tomorrow is the first decisive battle of this new war, it could potentially dwarf the famous battle from four years ago.

So what will actually happen?

In all likelihood? Nothing. And it’s at this point that I must reveal the reason for typing this post. You may be thinking, “Wow, EVE has a really engaged community for someone to take the time to type up a post like this”, but oh how naive you are. The purpose of this post is to point out that the fleet commanders on both sides of this battle are nothing but complete cowards.

I’ll tell you exactly what’s going to happen. The Mittani will hype his people up for hours, and the Moneybadger people will do the same. Then their fleet commanders will get their fleets onto the field of battle and place them into their “safe zones” that they’ve setup for themselves (it’s a dumb new game mechanic). Then, they will stare at each other for literally hours, and send out NPC drones that they barely control that mostly do nothing, while leaving all of their Titans in complete safety. They will then each make up a bunch of excuses, declare the other side as “cowardly” for not directly charging into their defensive position, and tell everyone to log off from the game. Don’t believe me? Everyone in EVE knows this, even the players involved in tomorrow’s battle. I’m serious, here was the top post on /r/eve for most of today from a group within the Imperium

Don’t let these people tell you it’s “the game’s fault that they can’t fight each other”, it’s no one’s fault but their own. I’m just hoping that both sides don’t end up staring at their computer screens for 8 hours tomorrow doing nothing, but that all depends on the fleet commanders.

P.S: www.dredditisrecruiting.com

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Hard level

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I give you, one of the first screenshots I took on Halo 3, back in 2008.

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Linus Torvalds declares Intel fix for Meltdown/Spectre ‘complete and utter garbage’

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by Plymouth03 http://ift.tt/2Bja129

What do penguins do in a race!!! ?

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by PurpleSweetz http://ift.tt/2BlUf6j

at my local fry's..sad times for people wanting to build a pc

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by Speed009 http://ift.tt/2F3LSyT

Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal

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I´m a monster!

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by Nacho1404 http://ift.tt/2rA09l1

Its a damn shame we still don't have such lighing effects in every FPS.

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by krkon http://ift.tt/2DVZ7lD

Scientists unveil world's most powerful tractor beam

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Planned Piracy Upload Filters are ‘Censorship Machines,’ MEPs Warn

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Facebook: we were too slow to recognise our 'corrosive' effect on democracy.

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by AdamCannon http://ift.tt/2G5tW83

Having The Worst Connection in the Squad!

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by SamEdit1 http://ift.tt/2Dx0sT3

No evidence to support link between violent video games and behaviour - Researchers at the University of York have found no evidence to support the theory that video games make players more violent.

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by mvea http://ift.tt/2DCffen

Starter Pokémon

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Kaspersky Unveils New Facebook Phishing Scheme

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EFF Asks Ninth Circuit Appeals Court To Strengthen Privacy Protections Of Smart Phones At The Border

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New Bill Would Stop States From Banning Broadband Competition

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FCC Backs Off Plan to Weaken Broadband Definition, But Still Can't Admit Limited Competition Is A Problem

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Accurate

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Nier: Automata 2B Cosplay

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by rocketeer475 http://ift.tt/2mZ0SGx

My Dude!

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by pray_for_kekistan http://ift.tt/2rs4Ixv

The Cleaners is a riveting documentary about how social media might be ruining the world

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by Benjaminsen http://ift.tt/2ruuhy0

I’m ready

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Canada trialing use of Ethereum blockchain to enhance transparency in govt funding

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by mvea http://ift.tt/2DxT1tY

You've entered the wrong swamp.

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by undertaker5647 http://ift.tt/2n1uWSV

Deloitte - Sustainable Development Goals. What do the SDGs mean for TMT in 2018?

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by mshanga http://ift.tt/2G36qsv

This is why gamers hate miners so much...

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by SkoivanSchiem http://ift.tt/2mYkVVE

The GPU crisis, shortage and inflation is real.

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by bronzin54 http://ift.tt/2Du5bEZ

Smut site fingered as source of a million US net neutrality comments - Bad news for the FCC because the site has 55 staff and doesn't hand out email addresses

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by mvea http://ift.tt/2F3kPmZ

Was playing Plague, Inc. when this piece of news popped up

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by Mx_Silent_Heart http://ift.tt/2rshn3A

This is what's wrong about head bobbing in most video games.

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by a_wild_meowstic http://ift.tt/2G5UDty

The Legend of Zelda Cube

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by MaGuishi http://ift.tt/2G2OsWT

Apple Leak Reveals Sudden iPhone X Cancellation

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Amazon’s Checkout-Free Grocery Store Is Opening to the Public

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by False1512 http://ift.tt/2BhnQxL

Sunday, 21 January 2018

My housemate's ps4 controller is next level!

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by IrishViking_ http://ift.tt/2DpsGea

Facwbook VP: We won't use experts to fix fake news because we're worried about criticism - In a completely unsurprising turn of events, the social network’s Elliot Schrage says the company is more worried about how it looks than what it actually does.

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by MichaelRahmani http://ift.tt/2BivtEb

Male Sex Robots With Bionic Penises Will Be On Sale This Year

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by therealslimhacker http://ift.tt/2DVyZY9

No one beats Sub-Zero.

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by MrFieldyField http://ift.tt/2F1oKRu

Early game deaths in PUBG

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by HueMongoose http://ift.tt/2DB3rt2

Those were the days.

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by Strelok92 http://ift.tt/2F2IioD

Peekaboo!

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by Haku111 http://ift.tt/2G1dLJ3

Netflix shares to surge on big international subscriber gains, analyst predicts: The firm's analyst believes broadband internet access is growing faster than expected worldwide, boosting the company's market opportunity.

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by occono http://ift.tt/2DuXVIS

Inside Amazon Go, a Store of the Future

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by porkchop_d_clown http://ift.tt/2F102R0

'Whenever someone finds me in PUBG'

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by G_man252 http://ift.tt/2n0Y10V

He never saw it coming...

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by agentfunkey http://ift.tt/2rwIAlR

Solar-Powered Electric Car Lightyear One Receives Prestigious Climate Change Innovator Award - “the solar-powered Lightyear One can drive for months on pure sunshine, supposedly having 400–800 km (250–500 miles) of range”

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by mvea http://ift.tt/2DxGGH6

Amazon set to open its grocery store without a checkout line to the public

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Microsoft's president says liberal arts majors are necessary for the future of tech - As consumer-ready AI reaches human parity, they say, lessons from disciplines like psychology will be increasingly important.

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by mvea http://ift.tt/2DmMy1F

When you lose a loved one

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Mhm

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Just a matter of time.. 😮

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by AdamRobbinBanks http://ift.tt/2DW2lpd

It has been ten years since Fox News thought Mass Effect was a space sex simulator.

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Metal Gear Survive Will Have Microtransactions and Require Online Connection To Play. This is a huge insult to Kojima's Legacy

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by Beryl_Yaakov http://ift.tt/2DW7dL8

Nintendo’s choice in marketing

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by MagicalScarf http://ift.tt/2mZEehc

Never forget your gaming partner.

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by YoUsEfIsSqUeAkY http://ift.tt/2mXYv73

The best VR peripheral for increased immersion

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Dogecoin inventor thinks the cryptocurrency bubble will blow up in everyone's face

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This made me laugh so hard!!!

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by pabgames http://ift.tt/2Dvq6Yr

This flat earth guy is launching his rocket in February and hopes to find the edge.

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by GeektheElder http://ift.tt/2n0ovzm

Kirby relaxing after a long day of work

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The US government underestimated solar energy installation in the US by 4,813%

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by JenniferJSkelly http://ift.tt/2Du4CdJ

The Non-Video Game of the Week is...MAGIC: THE GATHERING!

The non-video game of the week is back! Everyone's talking about cardboard with the Nintendo Labo, so let's talk about the ORIGINAL cardboard! While M:tG isn't the first CCG to hit the scene, it is the most influential. Spanning over 80 expansions and to celebrate its 25th anniversary in August, it's still going strong. So whether you're an old-school player, you're still picking up expansions, you keep it casual or you're all about the competition, tap your lands and join the discussion!

Possible things you can discuss:

What's your favourite core edition, or which one did you start with? Did the addition or removal of a certain card from one edition to the next really upset you? (Can you believe they removed Serra Angel in Fifth Edition? At least they came to their senses in Seventh.)

What's your favourite expansion? (And why is it Invasion?)

What's your least favourite expansion? (A lot of people immediately jump to "Fallen Empires" and "Homelands." Do they unfairly get a bad rep, or is it totally justified? Is there anything even worse?)

Tournament players, what's your favourite way to play? Standard, or do you not like having to keep up with the expansions? Vintage, or do you not like having to scrounge up the Moxes and such? Are Cube Draft and Commander actually fun?

Or your favourite colour, or planeswalker, or deck theme, or the deck theme that annoyed you the most (did Necro decks ruin Magic?) or...

Show off your deck! It could be competitive, or it could be fun! (I have a deck that features 16 Prodigal Sorcerer-type cards. 4 each of 4 different names. It's like being pecked to death by ducks!)

Maybe even show off or talk about your favourite Magic players on Youtube? Here are some Rooster Teeth employees playing a five-player variant. (Just remember: if it's your own episode you're showing off, keep rule 8 in mind!)

Please resist the temptation to talk about MtG video games. I get it, you loved the old Microprose MtG Game ("Shandalar") and wish they'd bring it back because MtGO stinks, or you want to talk about unofficial MtG games like Forge or Wagic, but seeing as we want to showcase non-video games, please stick to cardboard. Thanks!

Enjoy, and happy stacking!

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Amazon's automated grocery store of the future opens Monday

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by BalkiB http://ift.tt/2Dw0PfH

BMW to switch Apple CarPlay to subscription service

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by Assassassiner http://ift.tt/2DAc0nA

Mass Effect is asking me to do some weird things...

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by Joker-for-Rent http://ift.tt/2Bil3Vb

They predicted the way.

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by Karishad571232 http://ift.tt/2DUh2sN

Tech doesn’t need to be less addictive — it just needs to be better. The real problem with tech products is not that they encourage addiction, but that they're annoying and disruptive — and that's something tech companies need to fix.

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by mvea http://ift.tt/2EYT2nM

Some dude on my FB feed is a genius!

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by The_Beaner http://ift.tt/2DsNfdV

Never would have thought to combine lightsabers and rhythm gaming, but this looks amazing (use sound)

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by RoadtoVR_Ben http://ift.tt/2mUTXy4

UK Government Teaches 7-Year-Olds That Piracy is Stealing

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by BurgerUSA http://ift.tt/2BhJJNm

Autonomous driving: Kill or be killed? - ‘scientists from the University of Bologna in Italy have come up with a truly fascinating device called an “ethical knob”, which would allow owners of autonomous cars to choose their vehicle’s level of altruism.‘

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by mvea http://ift.tt/2FZZRGX

Bitcoin and Ethereum Have a Hidden Power Structure, and It’s Just Been Revealed

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by False1512 http://ift.tt/2DtFtAw

Never thought that would work

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by DeathRaptor007 http://ift.tt/2DuHzjK

Went on Bungie’s website to find my old stats for Halo 3 and found this screen cap i got in 2008 from my first play through of the campaign

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by SlipperyJam http://ift.tt/2Big8U2

NVIDIA Tells Retailers To Sell To Gamers, Not Cryptominers As GPU Shortage Causes Extreme Price Gouging

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by acacia-club-road http://ift.tt/2FYS8sN

This guy gets it.

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by SadisticBiscuit http://ift.tt/2mUlQGw

Dragonborn is a psychopath

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by kkalashnikobe http://ift.tt/2DSyMVw

Tekken cosplay on a budget

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by simpleglasses http://ift.tt/2mYHb1U

Here’s why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy

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by KrishnarajaWadiyar4 http://ift.tt/2DTlU1m

Google CEO Pichai says that AI is like fire: while it is useful, we must use caution

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by Phoenix_ajc http://ift.tt/2DTqSv2

Saturday, 20 January 2018

Finally organized my Nuka collection.

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by snakechopper http://ift.tt/2G1p2ZF

Android fragmentation is worsening. Over half of all Android devices, or a billion, are more than two years out of date

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by SoarinPastTheMoon http://ift.tt/2EZPaDc

After 20 years of Playstation console gaming I'm getting into PC gaming.

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by Steffan514 http://ift.tt/2DjNl3r

Twitter informs Cornyn he interacted with Russia-linked content during 2016 election

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by False1512 http://ift.tt/2n0Mwq7

Google is patching a bug that slows down Wi-Fi networks connected to both Android and Chromecast devices

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by bevmoon http://ift.tt/2mVUb8c

What, why!?

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by seedlessgrapez http://ift.tt/2DVgnrd

Gf saw the game on sale and sent me this.

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by mikeb69420 http://ift.tt/2mZDjyb

Review on Rust

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by Jamaica_Crew http://ift.tt/2FYi6fY

When the teacher thought you were studying

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by xboxfan94 http://ift.tt/2G0xxEj

Twitter begins emailing the 677,775 Americans who took Russian election bait [Updated]

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by ShadowboxingLegend http://ift.tt/2EXeSYI

Most students complain about indoor recess. These decided to play D&D.

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by Thetrutax http://ift.tt/2DyLTgQ

Twitter and Facebook have very different ideas about “fake news.” One of them is terribly wrong. Hint: It’s Facebook.

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by MichaelRahmani http://ift.tt/2DrCEjA

OnePlus got pwned, exposed up to 40,000 users to credit card fraud. A malicious script injected into OnePlus' payment page went undiscovered for two months.

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by Philo1927 http://ift.tt/2rlaFw0

Just finished this monster, began on 1/2/18

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by wumbologist24 http://ift.tt/2rr7x1J

Kobe

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by Mimbles222 http://ift.tt/2Dnhejj

Democrats to propose net neutrality rules at state level

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by mvea http://ift.tt/2DrJ0iF

My 5 year old just finished Mario Odyssey 100% on his own. Seeing his reaction reminded me of the magic I felt at his age playing video games.

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by user3141592653589 http://ift.tt/2DSaafx

I just finished the new prototype for the animal survival game I'm working on. Try it out and tell me what you think!

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by inb5 http://ift.tt/2Do39SZ

I love GTA for its attention to detail

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by mightysandwich12 http://ift.tt/2G0Ge1I

Never forget

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by seerebiifan http://ift.tt/2DoYqAl

Work for video games but have no time for video games.

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by Hyperiongame http://ift.tt/2EYOtdk

Breath of the Wild Link drawing

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by emilymeganxart http://ift.tt/2Dz0Akl

Me playing witcher 3

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by seerebiifan http://ift.tt/2DQWnG6

Twitter Admits There Were More Than 50,000 Russian Bots Trying to Confuse American Voters Before the Election

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by Quiglius http://ift.tt/2EXfttE

Bill Gates and investors worth $170 billion are launching a fund to fight climate change through energy innovation

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by JanelleJWheat http://ift.tt/2ro8qrQ

Audi launches “Smart Energy Network” to compete with Tesla

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by Portis403 http://ift.tt/2Dl8zOk

We couldn't afford an Oculus Rift, so we built one for $100.

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by Maxime-coutte http://ift.tt/2FXWhNK

Noble six, created in forge. (Halo: Reach)

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by Rickmundo http://ift.tt/2F0EHHD

UPDATE: After my 8-year-old's Minecraft T-shirt made the front page last week, Super League Gaming sent her a package full of cool stuff. Here's what was in it.

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by SimonThalmann http://ift.tt/2BgxAsb

Friendship Destroyed

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by simpleglasses http://ift.tt/2DqKTMJ

in madison wisconsin there's a classic arcade called 'geek mania', has tons of games and pinball machines. you pay $15 to get in and then all the games are free and you can stay as long as you want. we need to see more places like this.

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by DrakeyCakey http://ift.tt/2DtEoYG

FTFY Microsoft

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by treynolds787 http://ift.tt/2BgprUF

Twitter to tell 677,000 users they were had by the Russians. Some signs show the problem continues

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by BANANARCHY http://ift.tt/2FXH2UM

Friday, 19 January 2018

The San Francisco Police entered my home with a Search Warrant for an Apple iPhone X I bought at the Apple store.

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by ampsex http://ift.tt/2DSeVFZ

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