Report from the Front Lines of This Family Group Text
Seth Weitberg writes a satirical report from a very busy family group text.
Nvidia Shield TV gets Amazon Music and a $30 holiday discount
Today Nvidia is releasing version 7.2 of its software for the Shield Android TV box, which continues to receive strong support more than three years on from its initial release. The update is headlined by support for Amazon Music in the US, including both the premium Amazon Music Unlimited service and the regular catalog that comes with an Amazon Prime subscription.
Other upgrades include quick settings customizations, automatic software update installations, and 5.1 audio support for YouTube — which Nvidia says makes the Shield the first streaming box with this capability. The update will also bring the Google Assistant to users in Canada, Germany, and Spain.
Nvidia is also cutting the price of the Shield by $30 for the holidays. The…
Frat Nutritionists Dare Americans To Swallow More Live Goldfish
NORMAN, OK—Claiming that the average person needs to just man the fuck up and do it already, frat nutritionists attending the University of Oklahoma dared Americans on Wednesday to swallow more live goldfish. “We’ve discovered that consuming two to three live goldfish per weekend significantly reduces the risk of…
AT&T Fiber brings gigabit internet service to 12 more cities – CNET
Cities in Florida, Texas and Mississippi are among the new locations.
2020 VW Passat sketched ahead of Detroit debut – Roadshow
Volkswagen’s updated midsize sedan gets a little more style, but largely stays the course.
New ‘True Detective’ Season 3 Trailer Is a Dark, Gripping Return To Form
With each preview, HBO’s True Detective season 3 looks more and more promising, and this new trailer is no exception.
Maybe anticipation for season 3 comes from the optimism of disappointed fans who were dismayed by the mediocre second season after the crime drama’s wildly successful and damn good freshman season, which confirmed Matthew McConaughey was a truly gifted actor and writer Nic Pizzolatto a creative force to be reckoned with.
Maybe that optimism just comes from the fact that this looks like a return to the dark, profound, almost mystical feel of season 1—a mood that owed more to the darkest, most noir moments of Twin Peaks than to a more straightforward crime drama.
Anticipation is rooted at least partly in star and Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali’s intensity, both as a younger man in scenes that are obviously flashing back to the 70s and 80s, as well as the way he convincingly conveys an older man’s confusion in other clips, at one point saying, “My whole brain’s a bunch of missing pieces.”
A synopsis definitely doesn’t dispel anticipation for season 3’s premiere:
Season 3 of True Detective will tell the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods. Ali will play the lead role of Wayne Hays, a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas.
That crime appears to involve children—a natural subject of grim obsession for any cop, real or fictional—and a web of intrigue two-plus minute trailers can only hint at.
As much as many fans and most critics disliked TD season 2, it still did great ratings for HBO. There’s no doubt there will be plenty of subscribers parked in front of the TV and ready to go to some shadowy places when True Detective season 3 premieres on January 13, 2019.
LG Gram 17 and new 14-inch 2-in-1 are coming to CES 2019 – CNET
LG’s ultralight series of laptops grows to a 17-inch model as well as a new convertible design.
Congress thinks Google has a bias problem — does it?
On Tuesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before the House Judiciary Committee, after months of escalating pressure. There were lots of issues to talk about — radicalization on YouTube, the company’s fraught relationship with China, and the staff revolt over Andy Rubin’s severance agreement, for a start — but members of Congress really just wanted to talk about bias.
“Google has long faced criticism for manipulating search results to censor conservatives,” Rep Lamar Smith (R-TX) told Pichai, citing studies by prominent Google critic Robert Epstein. “Those who write the algorithms get the results that they must want….In your opening statement you mentioned your desire to provide information that was without political bias. Clearly…
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, December 12th
In Navied Mahdavian’s Daily Cartoon, the White House ponders how to pay for a border wall.