It’s Friday the 13th and the 256th day of the year. Purrfect.
PC hardware, computing, and RGB LEDs
- MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT Gaming X review @ Guru3D
- PowerColor RX 5700 Red Dragon review @ Gamers Nexus
- Philips Brilliance 272B7QUBHEB review @ Hexus
- Kolink Enclave 80 Plus Gold 700W PSU review @ KitGuru
- Crucial Ballistix Elite DDR4 4000MHz memory review @ Legit Reviews
- AMD improves real-world boost and idle on Ryzen 3000 @ Ars Technica
- Custom Lego server case looks as though it came straight from a data center @ HackADay
Games, culture, and VR
- 200 GameStop closures planned ahead of “a much larger tranche” coming @ Ars Technica
- Gears 5 review: UE4 performance, guts and glory explored @ HotHardware
- I Love You, Colonel Sanders! is the KFC dating sim you didn’t know you needed @ Rock Paper Shotgun
- Civilization VI adds battle royale mode @ Blue’s News (dubious about the gameplay, but loving the civ names)
Hacks, gadgets and crypto-jinks
- Warwalking for radiation @ HackADay
- Rideable tank tread: it’s a monotrack motorcycle that begs you to stop very slowly @ HackADay
- Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro is triggering ‘fear of holes’ or trypophobia in some @ Slashdot (holes like this?)
Science, technology, and space news
- SpaceX confirms it’s almost ready to test its orbital Starship @ Slashdot
- Water vapor detected in atmosphere of Super-Earth in the habitable zone @ New Atlas
- Taylor Swift reportedly threatened to sue Microsoft over racist Twitter bot @ Slashdot (shake it off…)
Cheese, memes, what have you
- Kraft Heinz venture fund invests in startup making real cheese… without cows @ foodnavigator-usa.com
Day of the Programmer should start with “Hello World”
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I believe you are serious about this.
thedosbox may be gone, but as long as I bake Shortbread, there will be cats.
Dang it, I’d just gotten the theme song out of my head.
Colonel-senpai, please notice me!
CARLOS!
I can haz GIT checkin?
If it fits, I complies
Sigh…just when I thought you were going to paws the bad jokes.