Technology and Gaming
There has recently been a lot of chatter about the Nike "self lacing" shoes. The shoes will start selling on December 1, and as many have noted, they are expensive. But at over $700, they're nowhere near the most expensive sneakers available. The title of most expensive sneakers ever goes to an airline -- which sold a one-off pair of shoes for almost $100,000.
There has been a lot of chatter on Reddit and other forums in the last 24 hours about "pre-commitment" and "pre-commitment hashes." The chatter focuses on what Internet users have determined to be "wrong" hashes for Wikileaks publications. But what are these "pre-commitment hashes?" And why is it a problem if they're wrong?
Marvel's Doctor Strange has cast its spell and inspired some magical new content for Marvel Heroes 2016, Gazillion's super-powered action-RPG for PC and Mac. Timed alongside the Marvel Studios film's U.S. release to theaters everywhere this Friday, the new content includes the following:
EA / Electronic Arts has acknowledged that its servers are down and that it is aware of the problem which is affecting a large number of its games, including Battlefield and EA Sports games.
Norwegian DJ, Kyrre G?rvell-Dahll, a.k.a Kygo, unveils the "Carry Me" virtual reality (VR) experience. Set to the hit song 'Carry Me,' this music experience transports users into a visual world where they are immersed in environments of oceans, forests, mountains, skies and a final epic sweep of the cosmos.
Yesterday, Guccifer 2.0 released another set of hacked information -- this time taken from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Although there few political revelations in the release, there was something of interest: the DCCC may have been using research journals such as Lexis-Nexis and NewsBank without properly paying for licenses for all users. Not only would this be against the Terms of Service -- it can, in fact, be a criminal offence.
In today's Nutcase Minute, we have this genius from Madrid, who apparently missed his Ryanair flight, and then made the brilliant decision to run after it.
If you come across a hitchhiking robot would your initial thought be hey lets vandalize it, or would you help the little guy out? Well in Philadelphia the robot known as "HitchBOT" was not only vandalized, but killed. So much for the city of brotherly love.
Hideo Kojima has teased the boxart for the Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain premium package. The sample box was meant exclusively for Japanese consumers, and it contains an accurately scaled bionic arm.
Shuhei Yoshida, the President of Worldwide Studios and Sony Computer Entertainment, has backed Shenmue III on Kickstarter.
