Month: October 2020

The Potatoes of DOOM

Over the years, the 1993 classic Doom has gained an almost meme-like status where it can seemingly run on anything. Everything from printers to smartwatches has been shown off running the now-iconic first level of Doom. Looking to up the bar, [Equalo] set out to run Doom on potatoes. However until we develop full biological

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    • Google has quietly rolled out haircut appointment booking for Google Duplex, its AI chat agent, after demoing haircut scheduling on stage in 2018 (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Google has quietly rolled out haircut appointment booking for Google Duplex, its AI chat agent, after demoing haircut scheduling on stage in 2018  —  Nearly two years after first demonstrating it onstage at Google I/O 2018, Google has quietly rolled out haircut appointment booking for Google Duplex, its AI chat agent.

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    • A surge in worldwide demand by educators for low-cost laptops has created monthslong shipment delays and pitted desperate schools against one another (Kellen Browning/New York Times)

    Kellen Browning / New York Times: A surge in worldwide demand by educators for low-cost laptops has created monthslong shipment delays and pitted desperate schools against one another  —  A surge in worldwide demand by educators for low-cost laptops has created shipment delays and pitted desperate schools against one another. A surge in worldwide demand

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    • Interview with Cory Doctorow about his new sci-fi book Attack Surface, the third work in his Little Brother series that influenced hacktivists like Aaron Swartz (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

    Andy Greenberg / Wired: Interview with Cory Doctorow about his new sci-fi book Attack Surface, the third work in his Little Brother series that influenced hacktivists like Aaron Swartz  —  Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother series has been a young-adult sci-fi bible for teen hacktivists.  But with the latest and darkest book in the trilogy, it’s

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    • As Americans flock to payments apps from PayPal, Square, and Zelle, rates of fraud are also rising according to app reviews, often with little support (Nathaniel Popper/New York Times)

    Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: As Americans flock to payments apps from PayPal, Square, and Zelle, rates of fraud are also rising according to app reviews, often with little support  —  People are getting defrauded as they turn to Square’s Cash App and PayPal’s Venmo to do more online banking in the pandemic. As

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    • OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei is reportedly leaving the company after 7 years to start something new

    OnePlus is a known and respected name in the smartphone industry, and co-founder Carl Pei played a huge hand in it. However, seven years after establishing the company, Pei is leaving to start his own venture. Multiple reports and leaked internal memos suggested that in a company restructuring plan, Pei was missing.. The memos noted that Emily Dai,

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