Mythbusters Ending Next Year
This is a bummer. Hey, Jeff Bezos likes snagging up people from popular shows that have been canceled, maybe we'll see the Mythbusters gang on Amazon. Who knows? It worked for Top Gear.
There's no debunking this one: The next season of Discovery's Mythbusters will be its last, EW has learned exclusively. The pioneering reality series, one of cable's longest-running shows, will stage its final gonzo experiment during next year's 14th season after 248 episodes and 2,950 experiments.
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Homeland Security Will Now Get Warrants For Stingray Surveillance
That wasn't so hard, now was it?
The Department of Homeland Security has a new, more constitutional policy for cell-site simulators, also known as Stingrays. Rolled out today, the new policy follows in the footsteps of the previously announced Justice Department policy, requiring explicit warrants for the deployment of the technology, except in exceptions already made by the Fourth Amendment or "exigent circumstances" like threats to human life or destruction of evidence.
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Debunking Myths About Video Game Developers
While I am not sure who actually believes any of these myths are true, the responses from the developers definitely make this article worth reading.
What's more, a lot of what people think they know about game development is actually misconception. We spoke to a number of game developers who told us about the biggest things people get wrong about game development, and below is where, in their own words, these developers debunk common myths.
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WikiLeaks Posts Data From CIA Director's Email Account
If you were hoping for some juicy stuff in the CIA director's emails, you are going to be sorely disappointed. This stuff is a snoozefest. And can we stop calling those kids "hackers" already?
Some of the documents appear to be public domain or at least non-classified, but one document is marked "protected" and "to be disclosed only in accordance with Government Accountability Office protected order." One of the documents purports to be Brennan's draft SF86, a document used to determine a candidate's eligibility to later receive classified material.
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Destiny's Plot Is The Product Of A Last-Minute Redesign
This will come as a surprise to absolutely no one. Well, you might be if you haven't ever played the game.
"The priority was, 'Hey, we have to take a bunch of content that we've spent millions of dollars on, we need to cobble it together in a way that is not going to break continuity, and we've gotta do it quickly.'"
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An Inside Look At YouTube's Subscription Service
I still don' know anyone that would pay $9.99 a month for a version of YouTube free from ads. Do you know anyone that would?
The new option is called YouTube Red. It costs $9.99 per month and will be available for purchase on October 28th, starting in the US, then rolling out worldwide. Along with removing ads, subscribers will be able to save videos for offline viewing, and keep videos running in the background on mobile.
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[H]ot Black Friday Deals
It looks like the Black Friday deals are rolling out early this year. If this advertisment is real, an Xbox One with Fallout 4, Gears of War Ultimate Edition and an extra controller is a pretty sweet deal.
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Fallout 4 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Video Series - Luck
There has been another installment in the Fallout 4 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. video series. This time around the video is an introduction to Luck.
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MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti LIGHTNING Video Card Review
If you are in the market for a finely crafted factory overclocked GPU, you'll definitely want to read our evaluation of the MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti LIGHTNING video card.
We take the MSI GTX 980 Ti LIGHTNING video card and see how it plays the most demanding games. This video card "engineered to perfection" for extreme overclocking and has a TriFrozr cooling setup. We compare it to the overclocked ASUS GTX 980 Ti STRIX DCIII and an AMD R9 390X CrossFire configuration to find its true value.
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Introducing MARTY, Stanford's Self-Driving, Electric, Drifting DeLorean
In celebration of Back To The Future Day, I give you this. It was either that video or this one but, knowing you guys, I went with the drifting DeLorean.
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Apartment-Dwellers Shop Online More
It's been years since I've lived in an apartment, so I could be wrong, but doesn't USPS, UPS and FedEx still deliver right to your door?
This year, college students' use of Amazon Prime reached critical enough mass to create mail center traffic jams. It's not just young adults, though: apartment-dwellers are having so many packages delivered that current systems for managing resident mail aren't working, and landlords are looking for other ways to manage the influx from online shopping.
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Apple Tells U.S. Judge 'Impossible' To Unlock New iPhones
Did Apple just say that it is impossible to unlock new iPhones? Impossible? Really?
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) told a U.S. judge that accessing data stored on a locked iPhone would be "impossible" with devices using its latest operating system, but the company has the "technical ability" to help law enforcement unlock older phones.
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