Tuesday, January 01
Daily News Stuff 1 January 2019
Tech News
- Star Control: Origins has been removed from Steam because - as far as I can tell - the designers of Star Control II are jerks. (OC3D)
Those same jerks are why you can't get Star Control I and II on GOG at the moment, even though they were earning royalties on the sales.
Right now Star Control: Origins is still available on GOG though that may change at any moment. Oh, and also on Stardock's own site, which is less likely to change, since Stardock has already countersued over the DMCA notices.
- Netflix has told Apple to go bite itself. (Tech Crunch)
Apple made around $250 million as its cut of Netflix purchases through Netflix's iOS app in 2018 alone.
- Swarm has been fined nearly a million dollars by the FCC for launching unlicensed space bees. (MIT Technology Review)
What it says.
- First leak of 2019 looks like Nvidia's RTX 2060. (PC Perspective)
I'm not sure what the point of a low-end RTX card is, exactly. The big new feature is ray tracing, and even the 2080 Ti is too slow to do that usefully. But now might be a good time to grab a GTX 1070 or 1070 Ti. (Tom's Hardware)
- Five tech stories you're already sick of hearing about. (Tech Crunch)
- China's Chang'e 4 probe is set to land on the far side of the moon in the next couple of days. (South China Morning Post)
Despite the fact that the Soviet probe Luna 2 first landed - rather hard - on the Moon all the way back in 1959, this will be the first probe to make a landing on the far side.
The Chang'e rover - China's second Moon rover after 2013's Jade Rabbit - will communicate with Earth via a dedicated satellite called Queqiao, or Magpie Bridge.
This being a Chinese mission, many details remain undisclosed, but it has been confirmed that yes, there are silkworms aboard.
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Are we sure that the landing and for that matter, the entire mission, is actually real? We are talking about the national space program that released transcripts of its' astronauts talking to mission control while in orbit - before the launch countdown for said mission had actually begun.
So many things in the PRC are fakes that you can never take anything they claim they do on just their words alone
Posted by: cxt217 at Wednesday, January 02 2019 01:04 PM (LMsTt)
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Pretty sure it's real. If it were fake, they'd likely be claiming something more elaborate than what the Soviet Union achieved in 1970 with Lunokhod 1.
They definitely keep things quiet until they've been confirmed successful though. 100% success rate because all the failures are buried in the dead of night.
They definitely keep things quiet until they've been confirmed successful though. 100% success rate because all the failures are buried in the dead of night.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, January 02 2019 02:55 PM (PiXy!)
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