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- Go read this CNET story about the Avengers game that wasn’t
- The Aorus 15P is a light gaming laptop designed for esports pros
- T-Mobile’s LG Velvet has a different processor inside, and it’s an interesting choice
- Star Trek cast members will reunite Sept. 8th for a free 24-hour virtual celebration
- Logitech G’s new Playmaster software is here to help you get good at Counter-Strike
- You can now download your Twitter data again and see what hackers could’ve nabbed
- Justice Department reportedly plans to file antitrust case against Google as early as this month
- Proposed COVID-19 testing strategy faces pitfalls
- Facebook is paying people to shut down their accounts ahead of the election
- This music video was shot entirely in Animal Crossing, and it’s great
| Go read this CNET story about the Avengers game that wasn’t Posted: 03 Sep 2020 05:13 PM PDT  Image: Marvel Studios In 2011, before the Marvel Cinematic Universe became an unstoppable box office and cultural force, THQ Studio Australia was hard at work on a video game tie-in for an upcoming movie called The Avengers. Not the Destiny-esque Marvel's Avengers game that's being released tomorrow — an Avengers game that never saw the light of day. A first-person superhero brawler, instead of the traditional behind-the-character perspective. A game on a deadline so stressful that one developer beat up his filing cabinet with an umbrella, and another decided to repeatedly stab his desk with a giant kitchen knife.
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| The Aorus 15P is a light gaming laptop designed for esports pros Posted: 03 Sep 2020 05:00 PM PDT  Image: Gigabyte Gigabyte has announced the Aorus 15P, a portable laptop tailored to professional gaming. It's available now on Gigabyte's online store, starting at $1,599.99. The company says it worked with esports teams, including G2 Esports, to design the new laptop. It weighs 4.4 pounds (2kg) — which is portable so far as gaming laptops go — and it's 0.9 inches thick. Gigabyte says the chassis passed "a series of pressure tests" for durability. Gigabyte is promising up to eight hours of battery life, which is certainly an optimistic prediction for a gaming rig (and this one has a per-key RGB keyboard, which might draw some extra power). |
| T-Mobile’s LG Velvet has a different processor inside, and it’s an interesting choice Posted: 03 Sep 2020 04:30 PM PDT  We weren't huge fans of the LG Velvet, the design-first, specs-second flagship smartphone the company released this summer. The sleek phone felt stuttery in our review. But what if I told you the T-Mobile variant comes with a different chip? Today, T-Mobile announced it's brought an LG Velvet to the United States with a MediaTek Dimensity 1000C processor inside, instead of the mid-range Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 and 765G it usually employs. It's one of the first times in recent memory we've seen a MediaTek chip in a US flagship phone, so it's a significant milestone for a company that generally plays second-fiddle to Qualcomm, if nothing else. The question is whether T-Mobile is now giving you a faster chip than the existing LG Velvet can... |
| Star Trek cast members will reunite Sept. 8th for a free 24-hour virtual celebration Posted: 03 Sep 2020 03:34 PM PDT  Image: CBS On September 8th, CBS All Access is holding an all-day streaming event to commemorate the 54th anniversary of the premiere of the original Star Trek television show. I'll admit I skimmed the email announcement until I found what I was looking for: yes, Patrick Stewart aka Captain Jean-Luc Picard will be part of the Star Trek panel discussions and will even reunite with Jonathan Frakes aka William Riker aka Number One aka Ensign Babyface. You can tell I am a) respectful of Star Trek because I didn't go with a cheap "boldly go" or "engage!" pun in my lede, and b) I have a somewhat limited scope of interest in the Star Trek universe. But I think that's OK! Unlike that other space-related franchise, you can fully enjoy one aspect of the Star... |
| Logitech G’s new Playmaster software is here to help you get good at Counter-Strike Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:25 PM PDT  Logitech G has announced a new esports training program for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive called Playmaster, which is designed to help assess your skills and help you practice specific techniques, like tracking players, moving, and (of course) shooting. The company is taking this seriously, too. It's built custom maps and levels within CS:GO to help both assess players' current skill levels and for practice. It's also worked with the Lero Esports Science Research Lab at the University of Limerick to develop the software — as the company proudly boasts in the announcement, Playmaster is "backed by science." To start, players take a roughly 30-minute skill test that will allow the software to get a baseline reading for where you're at... |
| You can now download your Twitter data again and see what hackers could’ve nabbed Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:10 PM PDT  Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge If you're curious what kind of data Twitter stores on you — and what those hackers could have stolen during their big bitcoin scam — you can now find out once again. Twitter has reenabled the ability to download archives of "Your Twitter Data," nearly two months after shutting off the feature as a precaution against further hacking. To access it, go to Settings > Account > Your Twitter data and you should see a screen like the one below, where you'll need to type in your password to start the transfer. If you're using a phone app, it may shove you over to the mobile website instead. It also might take a while before the archive is ready: I pressed the button an hour ago, and I'm still waiting for the in-app notification so... |
| Justice Department reportedly plans to file antitrust case against Google as early as this month Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:04 PM PDT  Illustration by Alex Castro The Department of Justice is preparing to file antitrust charges against Google's parent company Alphabet possibly as early as this month, The New York Times reported. Attorney General William Barr is moving forward with the case despite the objections of Justice Department lawyers who say they need more time to prepare their case and worry that pushing to file charges this month could weaken the case, according to the Times. The Justice Department opened its probe into Google last June, reportedly with a focus on its massive search business and other parts of the company. The Justice Department also opened another, broader probe last July to investigate whether big technology firms like Amazon, Facebook, and Google were stifling... |
| Proposed COVID-19 testing strategy faces pitfalls Posted: 03 Sep 2020 01:47 PM PDT  A COVID-19 testing site in Flordia. | Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images When someone gets a COVID-19 test, the result does one thing: tells that person if they have the coronavirus in their body. Some researchers, though, are trying to get tests to do more — and reframing the goal of testing as a result. Instead of simply finding people who are infected with the virus, they'd prefer to focus on finding people who are infectious and at risk of spreading it to other people. The proposal offers one possible way to get the pandemic under control in the US. It would allow for a more targeted approach to isolation and quarantine and help give people a better understanding of when they're most at risk to others. It would be a big change in how we think about testing. Clinicians have never used tests for... |
| Facebook is paying people to shut down their accounts ahead of the election Posted: 03 Sep 2020 01:45 PM PDT  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As part of Facebook's latest study on how social media impacts democracy, the company appears to be paying users to log off of its products ahead of the 2020 US presidential election, according to new screenshots posted by Washington Post reporter Elizabeth Dwoskin on Thursday. Earlier this week, Facebook announced that it was partnering with outside researchers to study the impact its social media products have on society during the upcoming US presidential election. Facebook expects around 200,000 to 400,000 users will opt in to the project. Once they've opted in, the company will be able to see how they interact with its products, including both Facebook and Instagram. "To continue to amplify all that is good for democracy on social... |
| This music video was shot entirely in Animal Crossing, and it’s great Posted: 03 Sep 2020 01:23 PM PDT  If you can host a popular talk show in Animal Crossing, why not stage an official music video there? Particularly when, as you'll see in Sylvan Esso's official "Ferris Wheel" music video, the results are excellent. It's a delightful shot of summery goodness, even if it's a little on the nose here and there. Don't have time for the full vid? Here's a Twitter sample:
Artists are having a tough time connecting to their fans during the pandemic, and filming inside the breakout hit Nintendo game seems as good a way as any! This actually isn't the first official music video shot in Animal Crossing, by the way. We did find... |
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