Non-IT News Thread
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New ToeJam & Earl game, 8Bitdo controller get Genesis nostalgia right
Sega wasn't involved with game or controller, but its Sega Ages line gets a shout, too.
The result has been a solid few days back in my early-'90s childhood, as if I were firmly planted in front of a massive CRT TV with some of my favorite games of the era. (If you're wondering: this '80s-kid author absolutely had a lengthy "Genesis does what Nintendon't" phase.) My recent feeling may have emerged, in part, because Sega's current handlers left Genesis fans out to dry during the tiny-console fad. The less said about the AtGames Genesis Flashback—an atrocious cash-in that followed the NES Classic—the better.
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Why arcade Pac-Man players literally grabbed onto the game
Investigating the "cabinet grip" that wore down the sides of Pac-Man arcade cabinets.
Did you ever notice that the left-side panel of classic, unrestored Pac-Man arcade cabinets tend to have a distinct wear pattern on their outer finish? Arcade researcher and historian Cat DeSpira did, and she's written a wonderfully detailed examination of the distinct and largely unremarked-upon arcade playing stance that led to this relatively consistent pattern.
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People wonder why I support the initiative to tar and feather ALL politicians...
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@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:
People wonder why I support the initiative to tar and feather ALL politicians...
I don't think all need to be tar and feathered. One a year as a sacrifice to get the others to fall in line should suffice.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Momo challenge: The anatomy of a hoax
Following a flurry of scare stories, some schools have warned parents about the "momo challenge" - but fact-checkers say it is a hoax.
Earlier this week, versions of the momo story went viral on social media. They attracted hundreds of thousands of shares and resulted in newspaper articles reporting the tale.
According to the false story, children are contacted on WhatsApp by an account claiming to be momo. They are supposedly encouraged to save the character as a contact and then asked to carry out challenges as well as being told not to tell other members of their family.
Update A Lot of LDS people here have gone into hysteria about this to the point of removing youtube off their kids phone.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:
People wonder why I support the initiative to tar and feather ALL politicians...
I don't think all need to be tar and feathered. One a year as a sacrifice to get the others to fall in line should suffice.
One per year after all the current ones have been rehabilitated, as a maintenance dose.
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Scientists Just Took a Major Step Towards Injecting Eyes With Night Vision
An incredible new nanotechnology could one day enable us to see in the dark. It works on mice, and there's little to say it wouldn't be equally effective on other mammals. The only drawback - how are you with needles to the eyeball?
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What a time to be alive.
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A new triple-A Star Wars game will be announced at Celebration Chicago in April
The studio behind CoD: Modern Warfare and Titanfall is working on a Star Wars game.
Respawn Entertainment's key people were responsible for many of the most influential first-person shooters over the past several years, from Medal of Honor: Allied Assault to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and even the critically acclaimed but not widely played Titanfall 2. The studio went through a public and ugly breakup with publisher Activision before stepping out on its own to develop Titanfall.
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@mlnews Sounds very interesting
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YouTube bans comments on all videos of children
YouTube will switch off comments on almost all videos featuring under-18s, in an attempt to "better protect children and families".
The BBC first reported that paedophiles were leaving explicit comments on YouTube videos back in 2017.As well as leaving obscene or sexual comments, they were also using the comments section to signal content of interest to other pedophiles.
At the time, YouTube said it was "working urgently" to clean up the site.
However, in February this year advertisers including AT&T, Nestle and Hasbro suspended their ads after more predatory activity was found. -
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
YouTube bans comments on all videos of children
YouTube will switch off comments on almost all videos featuring under-18s, in an attempt to "better protect children and families".
The BBC first reported that paedophiles were leaving explicit comments on YouTube videos back in 2017.As well as leaving obscene or sexual comments, they were also using the comments section to signal content of interest to other pedophiles.
At the time, YouTube said it was "working urgently" to clean up the site.
However, in February this year advertisers including AT&T, Nestle and Hasbro suspended their ads after more predatory activity was found.I heard about this! I also heard that like one Youtuber may have started adpocalypse part2. Basically going on random videos with kids , going to the comments sections and letting the advertisers that were on those videos know what was going on. Which sparked a lot of demonetization.
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HBO boss quits as owner AT&T seeks more shows and more profit
Richard Plepler, 28-year veteran of HBO, was reportedly frustrated by new owner.
Plepler worked at HBO for nearly 28 years, serving as chairman and CEO since 2013 and as co-president from 2007 to 2013. He struck a positive tone in his memo. "Thanks to all of you, we are today churning on all cylinders both creatively and as a business," he wrote. "Thanks to all of you, I can move on to the next chapter of my life knowing that the best team in the industry remains here to carry on our continued progress and success."
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Amazon to open all-new grocery stores separate from Whole Foods
Dozens of new stores are in the works, and the first may open before 2019's end.
Amazon reportedly feels confident enough in its grocery-store quests to branch out into new ventures. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Amazon plans to open dozens of new grocery stores that will be distinctly different from the company's Whole Foods Market stores. The retail giant has reportedly already signed leases for some locations and plans to open the new grocery stores in cities across the country, including San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington DC.
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SpaceX astronaut capsule demo for Nasa lifts off
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Tornadoes kill at least 23 in Lee County, Alabama
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Soon, hundreds of tourists will go to space. What should we call them?
Astronauts or astro-nots?
In the last three months, Virgin Galactic has completed two crewed test flights above 80km. And with its flight-tested New Shepard launch system, Blue Origin remains on track to blast its own people into space later this year. Both spacecraft can carry up to six passengers. Neither company has begun commercial operations, but these flights appear imminent. Later this year, suborbital space tourism should finally transition from long-promised to something you can do if you're rich enough. Next year, we will likely see dozens of commercial flights.
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There’s fresh evidence for what happened to people who survived Vesuvius
Archaeologist studied tomb inscriptions and matched names to historical records.
Modern visitors to the ruins of the two main cities destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD are usually enthralled when they see the site of plaster casts of those who were killed, frozen in the midst of action. The catastrophic eruption wiped out several nearby towns and killed thousands of people. But some survived, and Miami University archaeologist and historian Steven Tuck thinks he knows where they ended up. He created a database of Roman names and matched them with records from other cities in Italy, describing his findings in a forthcoming paper in the journal Analecta Romana.
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The perils of upgrading a particle detector buried in Antarctic ice
We talk to the operations manager of IceCube, Antarctica's biggest physics experiment.
The IceCube neutrino detector was an audacious design. The Super Kamiokande detector had shown that a huge mass of water could act as an effective particle detector. But that involved a giant tank built in a deep mine. IceCube would rely on a massive volume of water, but one that was put in place by nature: the Antarctic ice cap. Its location poses a large collection of challenges, from how to find hardware that can hold up to being buried in the ice, to how to get the data back out and someplace useful.
