Steam drops support of Bitcoin citing volatility making it too risky.

Steam on Linux up slightly in 2017.

Good morning Mangoes!

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/01/see-the-long-lost-nes-prototype-of-simcity/

US' Center for Disease Control gets quite a slap in the face as their director has to step down because of conflicts of interest.

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:

Good morning everybody. Got pretty good sleep last night and I'm drinking my morning coffee.

Wrong thread, I think.

BBC News reports that Coke is going to launch its first alcoholic product soon in Japan. They report that this is their first alcoholic product in their 125 year history. This is odd, of course, to those of us from New York who are aware that Coke is one of the largest wine producers in the state. I guess to the BBC, as was traditionally true in Russia, that wine is considered a soft drink?

Dog owners should talk to pets like babies. Cat owners should just say "yes sir", and bow.

Apple's employees tend to walk into walls.

Oculus Rift headsets worldside stopped working today. Oops.

Scotland's Offshore Wind Farms showing the promise of sea winds.

Bridge at Florida International University just collapsed onto the highway. Many fatalities, unknown numbers of people trapped under the collapsed span. Miami-Dade area.

Ray tracing is all the rage this year.

HTC shows new Vive Tracker 2018 with Steam VR 2.0.

UK, EU, and US all investigating Facebook over selling user data to CA.

Civ 6 out for Linux

Best Buy bails on Huawei

Medical students expose that they are not being taught about nutrition - one of the most fundamental components of healthcare.

Independent Developer Porting Unreal Engine 4 to FreeBSD

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Comcast is gone again. We got ONE MINUTE of uptime on that one.

Shakes fist at sky, longing for new satellite internet.

....Comcast lobbies FCC for giant satellite "shield" to be built over US to prevent "hacking" from sky.