Day of the Programmer Shortbread

It’s Friday the 13th and the 256th day of the year. Purrfect.

PC hardware, computing, and RGB LEDs

1. MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT Gaming X review @ Guru3D
2. PowerColor RX 5700 Red Dragon review @ Gamers Nexus
3. Philips Brilliance 272B7QUBHEB review @ Hexus
4. Kolink Enclave 80 Plus Gold 700W PSU review @ KitGuru
5. Crucial Ballistix Elite DDR4 4000MHz memory review @ Legit Reviews
6. AMD improves real-world boost and idle on Ryzen 3000 @ Ars Technica
7. Custom Lego server case looks as though it came straight from a data center @ HackADay

Games, culture, and VR

1. 200 GameStop closures planned ahead of “a much larger tranche” coming @ Ars Technica
2. Gears 5 review: UE4 performance, guts and glory explored @ HotHardware
3. I Love You, Colonel Sanders! is the KFC dating sim you didn’t know you needed @ Rock Paper Shotgun
4. Civilization VI adds battle royale mode @ Blue’s News (dubious about the gameplay, but loving the civ names)

Hacks, gadgets and crypto-jinks

1. Warwalking for radiation @ HackADay
2. Rideable tank tread: it’s a monotrack motorcycle that begs you to stop very slowly @ HackADay
3. Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro is triggering ‘fear of holes’ or trypophobia in some @ Slashdot (holes like this?)

Science, technology, and space news

1. SpaceX confirms it’s almost ready to test its orbital Starship @ Slashdot
2. Water vapor detected in atmosphere of Super-Earth in the habitable zone @ New Atlas
3. Taylor Swift reportedly threatened to sue Microsoft over racist Twitter bot @ Slashdot (shake it off…)

Cheese, memes, what have you

1. Kraft Heinz venture fund invests in startup making real cheese… without cows @ foodnavigator-usa.com