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YouTuber Tim Pool Sounds Like He’s Doing Great Except for Alleged Cat Hostage Thing

YouTuber Tim Pool Sounds Like He’s Doing Great Except for Alleged Cat Hostage Thing

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YouTuber Tim Pool Sounds Like He's Doing Great Except for Alleged Cat Hostage Thing Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool’s plan to found a media company is allegedly collapsing amid infighting over footage of the Jan 6. Capitol riots and allegations he held a cat hostage for leverage over one of his partners in the venture, the Daily Beast reported on Wednesday.Read more... Go to Source
Star Citizen Developers Fed Up After Being Expected To Work During Devastating Texas Snowstorm

Star Citizen Developers Fed Up After Being Expected To Work During Devastating Texas Snowstorm

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Star Citizen Developers Fed Up After Being Expected To Work During Devastating Texas Snowstorm Last month, the entirety of Texas ground to a halt after a colossal winter storm pushed the state’s cordoned-off power grid to the brink. Power and heat outages, as well as resulting food and water shortages, led many businesses to temporarily shut down. This included a large number of Texan video game studios. Of…Read more... Go to Source
Star Wars: Republic Commando’s Spirit Still Lives, Even in a Franchise That Killed It

Star Wars: Republic Commando’s Spirit Still Lives, Even in a Franchise That Killed It

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Star Wars: Republic Commando's Spirit Still Lives, Even in a Franchise That Killed It There’s a paradoxical relationship between the legacy of one of Star Wars’ best games and the animated show that became one of the most beloved pillars of the franchise at large. Arguably, Star Wars: The Clone Wars killed Republic Commando at its apex—but without the groundwork it laid, the animated series and its own…Read more... Go to Source

AeroMobil Says Flying Cars Are Still Just Two Years Away

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AeroMobil Says Flying Cars Are Still Just Two Years Away Did you see the headlines this week promising that AeroMobil would be making flying cars available for purchase in 2023? That’s just two years from now, if you can believe it. The company’s latest video even ends with the optimistic words, “coming 2023.” But can they pull it off? Let’s just say we’ve been hearing that…Read more... Go to Source
Facebook’s Dream of Running a Giant Cable From California to Hong Kong Once Again Dashed

Facebook’s Dream of Running a Giant Cable From California to Hong Kong Once Again Dashed

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Facebook's Dream of Running a Giant Cable From California to Hong Kong Once Again Dashed If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again, the old maxim goes, and apparently, that advice counts double if you’re Facebook, a company that has at this point tried a cartoonish number of times to install a high-capacity internet conduit between California and Hong Kong only to be continually thwarted by the U.S.…Read more... Go to Source
This Unassuming Little Device Can Hack Your Smart Home

This Unassuming Little Device Can Hack Your Smart Home

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This Unassuming Little Device Can Hack Your Smart Home This strange little device may look unassuming—after all, it’s a nod to William Gibson’s famous cybernetic dolphin, Jones. But Flipper Zero, a pocket-sized, dolphin-themed hacking tool, can actually open NFD-based locks, hack access points, and even send keyboard commands to unsuspecting laptops and PCs.Read more... Go to Source
THX 1138 at 50: Looking Back at George Lucas’ Dystopian Art Film

THX 1138 at 50: Looking Back at George Lucas’ Dystopian Art Film

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THX 1138 at 50: Looking Back at George Lucas' Dystopian Art Film Say the name George Lucas and people obviously think Star Wars. That tends to happen when you create one of the biggest film franchises of all time. But when Lucas himself thinks of his career, you have to suspect he thinks back to its origins. It all began with a dystopian sci-fi student film that became a feature…Read more... Go to Source
Alien’s In, Metal Gear’s Out, and More of the Latest Gaming News

Alien’s In, Metal Gear’s Out, and More of the Latest Gaming News

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Alien's In, Metal Gear's Out, and More of the Latest Gaming News Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9's column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. This week, there’s bad news for fans of Solid Snake, good news for the fans of Xenomorphs, and downright weird news for the final days of Kickstarter’s third RPG Zine Quest event.Read more... Go to Source
The Roblox Boom Is About to Meet Reality

The Roblox Boom Is About to Meet Reality

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The Roblox Boom Is About to Meet Reality Today, the online children’s gaming platform Roblox is dumping 199 million shares of mammon onto the market through its direct listing, which likely means a Black Friday-level mob and hours of free content for CNBC’s Squawk Box on a yet-unprofitable company. Nothing new there, but it’s also an almost psychedelic…Read more... Go to Source
Cloud Gaming Platform Shadow Has Filed for Bankruptcy, a ‘Victim of Its Success’

Cloud Gaming Platform Shadow Has Filed for Bankruptcy, a ‘Victim of Its Success’

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Cloud Gaming Platform Shadow Has Filed for Bankruptcy, a 'Victim of Its Success' The company behind the cloud gaming platform Shadow has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. and receivership in France, according to 9to5Google. Shadow recently posted an update to its blog confirming that it was undergoing a “reorganization” to get rid of the debt it had amassed building its cloud gaming platform in…Read more... Go to Source
No, Mark Zuckerberg, Virtual Reality Goggles Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis

No, Mark Zuckerberg, Virtual Reality Goggles Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis

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No, Mark Zuckerberg, Virtual Reality Goggles Won't Solve the Climate Crisis The billionaires are once again claiming that tech will save us. In an interview published Monday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that by the end of this decade, he expects we’ll all have access to virtual reality goggles that will allow us to feel like we’re teleporting into other people’s houses and hanging out.…Read more... Go to Source
Samsung’s Galaxy S21 Ultra S-Pen Is a Useful Stylus With an Inconvenient Case

Samsung’s Galaxy S21 Ultra S-Pen Is a Useful Stylus With an Inconvenient Case

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Samsung's Galaxy S21 Ultra S-Pen Is a Useful Stylus With an Inconvenient Case For a long time, if you wanted a phone with a legit stylus—and I don’t mean one of those weak-sauce sticks with a squishy nub on top—your only real choice was a Galaxy Note. However, after adding stylus support to a number of its tablets and laptops, this year Samsung decided to free the stylus on its phones, too, by…Read more... Go to Source