Thursday, December 10, 2015
How We Finally Figured Out What These Glowing Spots on Ceres Are
Ceres has been home to a lot of strange sights for scientists to wonder over—but nothing has been as confounding as the presence of several strange glowing areas on the planet’s surface. Here’s what they are—and something new that helped confirm it.
An interesting read via Gizmodo
Imperial Star Destroyer: the Christmas tree edition
An interesting read via Boing Boing
Not All Multiplayer Shooters Are Abandoned After 12 Months
Some are abandoned and then picked up again years later, when everyone had forgotten all about them.
There are a lot of things wrong with multiplayer shooters these days, but not all of them are guilty of costing $60 then dying a year later. I mean, look at Tribes Ascend, a game released in 2012.
Three years old, and without an update since 2013, it got one today, and it’s a big one. The game has essentially been reset, with changes across to the board to classes, weapons and vehicles.
Fans seem pleased, and long-time players have had all their in-game currency (it’s a free-to-play gamed) and XP refunded so that they can spend it all over again.
Of course, that long silence wasn’t for nothing; Tribes had been left to die while developers Hi-Rez focused their efforts on Smite, so another way of looking at this is that it’s an...unabandoning?
Wish more games got a breath of fresh air like this, regardless of how minor or trivial it ends up being.
An interesting read via Kotaku
This Artist Is Giving Bratz Dolls an Awesome Feminist Makeover
An interesting read via GOOD
Pranksters Put a Quran Book Cover Over the Bible to Make a Point About Violent Religions
An interesting read via GOOD
Watch The Trailer For One of 2016's Most Beautiful, Mysterious Sci-Fi Movies
Evolution, directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, is as soft, beautiful and mysterious as sci-fi films get. It’s about an island that’s just populated by young boys and their mothers, but the boys are always in the hospital. Why? There are some secrets, to be sure.
An interesting read via io9
Bring Back Victorian Science with this Lego Lovelace, Babbage, and Analytical Engine
You know you want this badass Victorian scientist to glower at you from a corner of your desk accompanied by her massive steampunkish Analytical Engine and an oversized spanner.
An interesting read via Gizmodo
Valve quickly nerfs Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's overpowered new gun
An interesting read via Polygon - Full
Tripwire Interactive talks Killing Floor 2 on PS4
An interesting read via destructoid
Alton Brown hates your dumb kitchen gadgets
https://youtu.be/FgFeVlw2Ywg
I do love my citrus-squeezer and spiralizer, but I'll agree that the badly-designed shitgadgets that author/chef Alton Brown highlights in this Daily Dot viral video are indeed super dumb.
An interesting read via Boing Boing
Who Could Cate Blanchett Play in Thor: Ragnarok?
Variety reports that Marvel is in talks with Cate Blanchett to be in Thor: Ragnarok. Which could be great, but which character do they have in mind?
An interesting read via io9
Star Wars Battlefront In 4k Is Just Hahaha Who Can Even Run This
Regardless of your thoughts on flimsy content, streamlined mechanics and game modes — Star Wars Battlefront is a gloriously pretty video game.
Want to watch some footage of it running in 4k at 60 frames per second with fancy mods? Damn right you do.
It’s legitimately beautiful.
Crank up the resolution, blast it on full screen and enjoy.
This post originally appeared on Kotaku Australia, where Mark Serrels is the Editor. You can follow him on Twitter if you’re into that sort of thing.
An interesting read via Kotaku
An Unusual Commission
An interesting read via Daring Fireball
Yahoo Mail gets multiple mailbox support for Gmail and Google Apps accounts (Ken Yeung/VentureBeat)
Yahoo Mail gets multiple mailbox support for Gmail and Google Apps accounts — Yahoo Mail has expanded its server-side IMAP support to now include Gmail and Google Apps accounts. In doing so, you're now able to further consolidate your emails under one umbrella inbox and service.
An interesting read via Techmeme
Former Oklahoma City police officer found guilty of serial rape of Black women
Late on Thursday, a jury found a former Oklahoma City cop accused of sexually assaulting and raping 13 women guilty of rape and sexual battery.
Daniel Holtzclaw, who turned 29 on Thursday, cried as the guilty verdict was read in the courtroom.
An interesting read via Boing Boing
Kitase speaks about Final Fantasy VII Remake's 'multi-part' format
An interesting read via destructoid
I loved a song on Last.fm: Vocal Point - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
Vocal Point - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
The Apple TV already has over 2,600 apps
It really shouldn't surprise anyone that the new Apple TV is already home to over 2,600 apps. The company that helped launch the entire app-centric industry might have been a bit late to the streaming-media box app store, but according to data collec...
An interesting read via Engadget