Pizza Pool Floats Are Here To Upgrade Your Instagram Game
Massive unicorn pool floats are so last year — this summer, the Instagram-friendly pool float game is getting a seriously tasty upgrade courtesy of these giant slices of pizza.
The Pizza Slice Float from Swimline comes with a crust head rest and two drink holders so you can rest your head on a pillow of baked dough and enjoy not just one but two refreshing beverages as you float on.
Plus, you can either float alone or as a an entire pepperoni, mushroom, olive, and green pepper pie as each slice of pizza attaches to another with bungee loop connectors on the sides of each slice.
The Swimline Pool Pizza Slice Float is available from Toy Splash for $24.99 per individual slice, which connect together to form an inflatable pie, or get the whole pie here for $225.55.
Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony commit to disclose drop rates for loot boxes
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The three major video game console manufacturers — Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo —have committed to requiring all publishers of games on their respective platforms to disclose the odds of receiving types of in-game items from loot boxes in future titles on Wednesday.
The video game industry group, the Entertainment Software Association, announced the new initiative at a loot box workshop at the Federal Trade Commission. Along with the top console makers, a number of video game publishers already include drop rates, while others have agreed to do so by the end of 2020.
These include Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco, Bethesda, Bungie, EA, Take-Two Interactive, Ubisoft, Warner Bros., and Wizards of the Coast. According to the ESA, other…
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SimpliSafe’s home security system can be compromised by a $2 wireless emitter
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SimpliSafe’s latest home security system can apparently be fooled by an affordable wireless emitter that mimics the frequency of its door and window contact sensors. The YouTube channel LockPickingLawyer posted a video demonstrating how it can be done, and, unfortunately, it looks very easy to do.
The host explains that SimpliSafe’s sensors communicate with the base on the 433.92MHz frequency, which is very popular among other consumer electronics, like garage door openers, baby monitors, and more. Most of those products aren’t powerful enough to interfere with SimpliSafe’s system, but this emitter apparently is.
When one of these sensors is normally tripped, the system will initiate the alarm process. But as the video demonstrates, a…