Author: Zach_Wilson
When They Came To An Oregon Town To Take Pictures Of The Fires, Armed Locals Thought They Were Antifa Arsonists
Deborah Bloom / Getty Images Gabriel Trumbly, a Portland videographer who has spent roughly 90 of the past 100 days capturing the protests, wanted to take footage of the forest fires raging in Oregon. So on Wednesday night, the 29-year-old Army veteran, set out with his partner, Jennifer Paulsen, 24,…
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Xbox Series X and S will be first-ever consoles with Dolby Vision gaming Xbox Series X with Dolby Vision and Atmos
In a first for consoles, the audio-visual pioneers at Dolby have announced that incoming Xbox Series S and Series X will offer both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos for gaming. According to Dolby’s website, Microsoft’s new consoles will offer three-dimensional Dolby Atmos audio for games at launch, with support for…
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GOP Senate Nominee Jason Lewis Founded A Social Network Where People Promoted A Pro-Hitler Documentary
Jacquelyn Martin / AP Rep. Jason Lewis A members-only social media network founded in 2013 by former representative Jason Lewis, the current Republican nominee for Senate in Minnesota, hosted message boards that promoted a pro-Hitler documentary, called for migrants to be put in camps, and raised money for an ad…
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Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi service arrives in Beijing
Baidu launched its Apollo Go robotaxi service in the Chinese cities of Changsha and Cangzhou back in August, shortly after announcing that its autonomous driving computer is ready for use on the streets. Now, Apollo Go has also made its way to Beijin… Source
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Today I learned Google Sheets now lets you link multiple words in a single cell
I find that Google Sheets can be an incredible tool for organizing projects — the endless rows and columns let me track and categorize things to my heart’s content. (You should see my byzantine spreadsheet for my family’s personal finances.) Until recently, though, I’ve run into one major limitation that…
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Go read this Motherboard report on what some people did with the ‘Chinese Mystery Seeds’
To say 2020 is a wild year is an understatement — aside from the obvious thing that’s defined 2020, in July, some people across the US received an unsolicited parcel from China containing seeds. Motherboard’s editor-in-chief went to great lengths to find out what people did with those seeds, and…
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