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- The Mortal Kombat movie is at its best when it mimics the games
- Call of Duty: Warzone pulls a Fortnite with the launch of its new map
- Facebook pivots from politics to ‘inspiration’
- Peloton treadmill accidents spark push to change product safety law
- University of Minnesota banned from contributing to Linux kernel
- Snapchat now has more users on Android than iOS
- Twitch chat is getting threaded replies
- College student sues Proctorio after source code copyright claim
- How to watch SpaceX’s third crewed mission to the ISS
- Congress resurrects push to allow thousands more autonomous vehicles on the road
| The Mortal Kombat movie is at its best when it mimics the games Posted: 22 Apr 2021 04:00 PM PDT  For a series about people getting their spines ripped out, Mortal Kombat has a surprising amount of story. Over three decades the fighting franchise has amassed a large mythos, filled with histories, lore, and motivations for its many combatants, which are mostly used to answer the question of why somebody is having their spine and / or arms removed. You wouldn't really know that from watching the new movie, though. The film features plenty of callouts to the games — gruesome fatalities, goofy one-liners, and lots of familiar faces — but it never stops long enough to tell you why you should care about anything. It's also not particularly fun, despite all of the aforementioned ripped-off arms. Mortal Kombat largely follows the same basic... |
| Call of Duty: Warzone pulls a Fortnite with the launch of its new map Posted: 22 Apr 2021 02:48 PM PDT  After launching a little over a year ago, Call of Duty: Warzone is one of the most popular free-to-play titles right now, with 100 million people playing the battle royale shooter. Following a nuclear missile that destroyed the game's map, the in-game city of Verdansk is back with a new map set in the year 1984, as seen in the announcement trailer above. This mirrors a similar move made by its competitor Fortnite, which destroyed its original map and replaced it with a new one in 2019. Despite the shape and layout remaining the same as its predecessor, players will notice changes to most locations along with a 1980s vibe that fits the game's new time period. Verdansk '84, the name of the new map, has some alterations to make it a new... |
| Facebook pivots from politics to ‘inspiration’ Posted: 22 Apr 2021 02:40 PM PDT  Facebook wants to inspire, apparently. The company announced changes to its News Feed today that are supposed to fill feeds with things users like, rather than the content that annoys them. At the end of March, Facebook began introducing filters to allow users to customize their feed, and now, the company is hoping to learn more about what users like and dislike, with what seems like a special focus on moving away from political content and toward "inspirational posts." The company has been under intense scrutiny for helping fan the flames of political division in the US and even playing an outsized role in elections. Facebook's influence on both issues has largely stemmed from the misinformation that's been spread on the platform. It's... |
| Peloton treadmill accidents spark push to change product safety law Posted: 22 Apr 2021 02:20 PM PDT  Congressional Democrats have introduced a bill that would make it easier for the Consumer Product Safety Commission to warn people about unsafe products, by repealing part of a 49-year-old law that limits what information the agency can release publicly. The Sunshine in Product Safety Act (PDF) comes after reports that exercise machine company Peloton "obstructed CPSC's investigation" into its Peloton Tread Plus treadmill, according to the members of Congress. The Tread Plus has been involved in some 39 accidents where children were injured, including one death. The CPSC "was unable to alert the public of the reported incidents related to children, pets, and objects getting pulled under the treadmill until a month later," according to... |
| University of Minnesota banned from contributing to Linux kernel Posted: 22 Apr 2021 02:17 PM PDT  The University of Minnesota has been banned from contributing to the Linux kernel by one of its maintainers after researchers from the school apparently knowingly submitted code with security flaws. Earlier this year, two researchers from the university released a paper detailing how they had submitted known security vulnerabilities to the Linux kernel in order to show how potentially malicious code could get through the approval process. Now, after another student from the university submitted code that reportedly does nothing, kernel maintainer and Linux Foundation fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman has released a statement calling for all kernel maintainers to reject any code submissions from anyone using a umn.edu email address. In addition... |
| Snapchat now has more users on Android than iOS Posted: 22 Apr 2021 02:15 PM PDT  Snap has finally reaped the benefits of building a fully functional Android app. The company announced in its earnings report today that its user base mostly uses Android instead of iOS. That overall user base continues to grow, too. During the first quarter of 2021, Snapchat reached 280 million daily active users, an increase of 22 percent year over year. CEO Evan Spiegel called the moment Android users overtook iOS users a "critical milestone that reflects the long-term value of the investment we made to rebuild our Android application," in his prepared remarks today. As a reminder, Snapchat originally launched only on iOS and released its first Android app in 2012. The team later spent over a year rebuilding the app to bring it up to... |
| Twitch chat is getting threaded replies Posted: 22 Apr 2021 02:00 PM PDT  Twitch users will be able to make threaded replies in Twitch chat starting today, the popular streaming platform announced. Threaded replies could make it a lot easier to have side conversations within Twitch chats, which are sometimes chaotic waterfalls of text with no easy way to tell who might be talking to another. Twitch is calling the new feature Chat Replies. To start a threaded reply, just hover over a message, click the arrow that will appear, and then type your message.
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| College student sues Proctorio after source code copyright claim Posted: 22 Apr 2021 12:46 PM PDT  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the remote testing company Proctorio on behalf of Miami University student Erik Johnson. The lawsuit is intended to "quash a campaign of harassment designed to undermine important concerns" about the company's remote test-proctoring software, according to the EFF. It's the latest legal battle for the software company, which has publicly sparred with online critics throughout the last year. The lawsuit intends to address the company's behavior toward Johnson in September of last year. After Johnson found out that he'd need to use the software for two of his classes, Johnson dug into the source code of Proctorio's Chrome extension and made a lengthy Twitter thread... |
| How to watch SpaceX’s third crewed mission to the ISS Posted: 22 Apr 2021 12:26 PM PDT  SpaceX is slated to launch its third crew to the International Space Station early Friday morning, ferrying two astronauts from NASA, one from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and the first European Space Agency astronaut to fly a private US spacecraft to orbit. The four-person crew will launch atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket at 5:49AM ET on Friday. The mission, dubbed Crew-2, marks the second operational mission under the Commercial Crew Program, NASA's public-private initiative to revive its human spaceflight capabilities after a 10-year dependence on Russian rockets. It will mark the first time NASA astronauts fly a reused crew capsule — Crew-2's ride first flew in May 2020 as SpaceX's first astronaut mission, carrying Bob... |
| Congress resurrects push to allow thousands more autonomous vehicles on the road Posted: 22 Apr 2021 12:17 PM PDT  Robot cars are back in the spotlight on Capitol Hill after previous efforts failed to pass comprehensive legislation allowing more autonomous vehicles on the road. US Sens. Gary Peters (D-MI) and John Thune (R-SD) plan to introduce an amendment to a funding bill that would grant federal regulators the power to exempt tens of thousands of vehicles from requirements to have traditional controls for human drivers, according to Reuters. The amendment would give the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) the power to exempt 15,000 vehicles per manufacturer from certain safety standards, with that number increasing to 80,000 in three years. The effect would be to grant... |
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