The Perseid meteor shower is rising to its peak, so there’s bound to be some fist-shaking this weekend at that bright moon. But the moon can also guide you to Jupiter and Saturn on August 9, 10 and 11, 2019. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/use-moon-to-find-jupiter-and-saturn…
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Tinder Bypasses Google Play Joining Revolt Against App Store Fee
Tinder has joined a growing backlash against app store taxes by bypassing Google Play in a move that could shake up the billion-dollar industry dominated by Google and Apple. From a report: The online dating site launched a new default payment process that skips Google Play and forces users to enter their credit card details straight into Tinder’s app, according to…
Hacker Who Launched DDoS Attacks on Sony, EA, and Steam Gets 27 Months in Prison
An anonymous reader shares a report: A 23-year-old man from Utah was sentenced this week to 27 months in prison for a series of DDoS attacks that took down online gaming service providers like Sony’s PlayStation Network, Valve’s Steam, Microsoft’s Xbox, EA, Riot Games, Nintendo, Quake Live, DOTA2, and League of Legends servers, along with many others. Named Austin Thompson, but…
Wine Developers Concerned With Ubuntu Dropping 32-bit Support With Ubuntu 19.10
An anonymous reader shares a report: The news that Ubuntu will drop support for the 32-bit x86 architecture was discussed recently by the Wine developers, on the Wine-devel mailing list. The Wine developers are concerned with this news because many 64-bit Windows applications still use a 32-bit installer, or some 32-bit components. “In practice, the only cases where 64-bit only wine…
Siemens Gamesa Unveils World First Electrothermal Energy Storage System
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CleanTechnica: Spanish renewable energy giant and offshore wind energy leader Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy last week inaugurated operations of its electrothermal energy storage system which can store up to 130 megawatt-hours of electricity for a week in volcanic rock. The newly-opened electric thermal energy storage system is billed by Siemens Gamesa as “The Future…
The First Usable Electric Car Was Invented In Britain In 1884
“Thomas Parker, sometimes described as the ‘Edison of Britain’, was a British engineer and electrical technologies inventor working in the 1800s who was also one of the world’s first environmentalists,” remembers Slashdot reader dryriver. Parker had been troubled by the pollution in coal-burning cities around London — and decided to do something about it:
Parker was very adept both at inventing new…
PlayStation Gamers Are Now Authoring Their Own Games With ‘Dreams’ For PS4
dryriver explains the new buzz around “Dreams” for PS4 (now in open access). Created by the studio that made PS4’s Big Little World, Dreams “is not a game. It is more of an end to end, create-your-own-3D-game toolkit that happens to run on PS4 rather than a PC… essentially an easy to use game-engine a la Unity or UnrealEngine.” Dreams lets…
Steam Link Finally Comes To iOS, One Year After Apple Initially Rejected It
Valve’s Steam Link app, which brings streaming games to your mobile device, is now available as a free download for iOS and Apple TV. The iOS launch comes nearly one year after Apple rejected the app due to “business conflicts.” GameSpot reports: The Steam Link app promises to bring “desktop gaming to your iPhone or iPad.” Users can pair a Steam…
Is It Finally the Year of ‘Linux on the Desktop’ ?
“2019 is truly, finally shaping up to be the year of Linux on the desktop,” writes PC World’s senior editor, adding “Laptops, too!” But most people won’t know it. That’s because the bones of the open-source operating system kernel will soon be baked into Windows 10 and Chrome OS, as Microsoft and Google revealed at their respective developer conferences this week……
The myth of rational thinking
Source: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/25/18291925/human-rationality-science-justin-smith…