- More blowback regarding the Oculus VR acquisition by Facebook: Oculur VR should refund Kickstarter money opinion piece.
- Gas prices are up, but expectations are they will ease and remain mostly steady for the summer.
The rise in ethanol has added about 7 to 15 cents a gallon to gasoline this week, said Patrick DeHaan, a senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.com. But Jordan Godwin, biofuels editor at energy and commodity data firm Platts, said the fuel’s supply picture has started to look up, and he expects ethanol stocks to replenish themselves in the next few weeks.
- Gameshow Jeopardy is 50 years old.
- Chat with those nearby without using the cellular network.
Random Linkage 2014-03-29
- Oklahoma woman arrested for triple-murder committed 23 years ago.
- Microsoft Office for iPad is getting kudos all over.
- Oculus VR picks up another big name in the form of Michael Abrash.
- Talk of a new planet at the outer reaches of the solar system.
Random Linkage 2014-03-28
- After fires in two of the luxury electric cars, an investigation of Tesla S roadsters finds no general defect in the cars.
- Microsoft agrees to stop snooping on your email, still allows for possibility cops will.
- Report links obesity to increased risk of ovarian cancer.
- A JetBlue plane struck a flock of seagulls on take-off, putting a hole in the nose of the aircraft and forcing an emergency landing.
Random Linkage 2014-03-26
- Study raises questions as to whether e-cigarettes actually help smokers quit.
- Google looks to Ray-Ban and Oakley to help Glass look more stylish and fashionable.
- So stress reduces your chance of getting pregnant.
Random Linkage 2014-03-25
- Google works to dispel top 10 Google Glass myths.
- Ubisoft gives us a look at the next Assassin’s Creed game.
- Gas prices are up again.
- Scary news – Ebola threatening to spread from Guinea to Sierra Leone and Liberia.
- This seems a brilliant idea at first glance: put some airplane black box data in the cloud.
- I thought this wasn’t news, but apparently it is worth pointing out that medical marijuana helps with some MS symptoms.
Random Linkage 2014-03-24
- A billion ton asteroid gets zapped by a pulsar.
- Starbucks app adds tipping to digital payment options.
- Tolkien’s Beowulf translation to be published nearly 90 years after it was finished.
- More competition in the used games market – welcome WalMart to the arena.
- Clever gaming of Gamestop to make the retailer a fee-free, interest-fee bank substitute.
- A recap of 7 expensive to make video games that just weren’t all that good.
Random Linkage 2014-03-23
- Game development engine Unreal Engine 4 now available for a low $19 per month plus 5% of gross sales from any commercial game made with the engine.
- More news and commentary on the Unreal Engine 4 license offering.
- ZDNet asks “Which of these smartwatches will you be wearing this year?“
- Getting rich on the app store is still possible, says Doodle Jump creator Igor Pusenjak.
- Teen arrested for climbing World Trade Center spire.
Random Linkage 2014-03-22
- Ice Age fossils discovered in LA subway dig.
- If your kids love Cosmos, maybe they’ll love these science books.
- Word of a new dinosaur species.
- Get your generation 2 Oculus Rift VR display for around $350.
- Microsoft tracks down a leak of Windows 8 by searching a suspected blogger’s Hotmail.
- WPA2 wireless security cracked.
Random Linkage 2014-03-21
- Rubik’s Cube solving robot does it in just seconds.
- Even more information on detecting the gravity waves which are a holdover from the big bang.
- Crysis engine getting native Linux support soon.
- Facebook takes a new stance on access settings for now deceased members of the service.
- “What happens to life sentences if the human lifespan is radically extended? “
- Why I’m quitting Microsoft Office forever.
Random Linkage 2014-03-20
- A little lesson about how common mispronunciations lead to modern spellings of some words.
- Play The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy text adventure online.
- Making millions playing video games online.
- Living through 26 months of torture and torment as prisoners in Iran.
- More on finding signs of the big bang.