As the world of cybersecurity becomes increasingly volatile, more advanced solutions to problems like encryption couldn’t come soon enough. This is why everybody’s excited about a team of British physicists’ testing a method that would put quantum cryptology in everybody’s pocket.
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Well, this is certainly a surprise. While the other big names in gaming are rolling out their new home consoles, Nintendo’s bringing a new handheld to the table. Called the 2DS, it looks like a 3DS laid flat without the hinge, and as you might surmise from the name, no three dimensional graphics. IGN reports that the 2DS will come in red and blue (with the front either being black or white, depending upon region) and will cost $129 when it arrives on October 12. For your money you get a handheld that packs dual screens, two cameras round the back, a single speaker and a 3.5mm headphone jack, plus a 4GB SD card.
The new handheld is considered to be a part of the 3DS family, and as such, it can play all 3DS and regular Nintendo DS games, and also provides access to 3DS apps like the Nintendo eShop. Nintendo is positioning the 2DS as a far more affordable option than the $169 3DS, which should make it the more palatable choice for parents with small children. Strong move, Nintendo, get ’em hooked while they’re young.
Filed under: Gaming, HD, Mobile, Nintendo
Via: IGN
Source: Nintendo UK (Twitter)
America’s 60,000 dairy farms produce roughly 21 billion gallons of milk annually, more than 2,300 gallons per year per cow! Getting all that milk out of their udders and into your fridge has always been a bit of a chore for both the farmer and the heifer, but this new, laser-guided milker makes the practice is nearly automatic.
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Rayman Legends is set to be released on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U, PC and PS Vita on September 3, which is officially one week from today. It’s been an exceptionally long wait for Wii U owners considering the game was originally expected to be released in February, but as a result, 30 new levels and additional boss battles were added. Since we’re so close to the launch of Rayman Legends, Ubisoft put together a launch trailer which highlights a number of the game’s environments as well as accolades the game has already received from notable publications.
If you have yet to go out and pre-order Rayman Legends, hopefully its launch trailer will help entice you to pick up the game on your platform of choice. I’ve been playing it for the past couple of days and I can tell you it’s a game I know you won’t regret playing if you’re a fan of side-scrolling platformers. There are tons of levels to play through, high scores to achieve, and content to unlock. The challenges will also keep you busy for quite some time as there are daily, weekly and monthly challenges where you can compete against your friends or others around the world to achieve the very best score possible.
Rayman Legends Launch Trailer Shows Off New Environments, Accolades original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Nintendo will be launching a new portable gaming system in October. It’s called the Nintendo 2DS. It’s a 3DS without the 3D, and it’s shaped like a thin piece of cake.
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Foursquare revealed its plans for a Windows 8 app two months ago, and it’s making good on its promise by launching the software today. This first tablet-specific version of Foursquare offers the check-in and location discovery features we’ve seen in the company’s mobile apps, but in a very photo-centric interface that takes advantage of the extra screen space. Both the map view and location pages also expose more detail at the top level, such as nearby hotspots and associated lists. If you want to check into sushi bars with your Surface, you can grab Foursquare’s app through the source link.
Filed under: Tablets, Software, Microsoft
Source: Windows Store
Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) cautioned against hasty military action in Syria during a Tuesday interview with The Hill, claiming that air strikes would help al Qaeda and lead to much broader conflict.
“So what, we’re about to become Al Qaeda’s air force now?” Kucinich said, presumably referring to reports that the terrorist group has also vowed “revenge” on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. “This is a very, very serious matter that has broad implications internationally. And to try to minimize it by saying we’re just going to have a ‘targeted strike’ — that’s an act of war. It’s not anything to be trifled with.”
The Obama administration has confirmed its belief that Assad is responsible for killing as many as 1,000 innocent civilians in a chemical attack last week. The United Nations also concluded that a chemical substance was used in the strike, but has yet to determine that it came from Assad’s forces, who have accused rebel forces of also using chemical weapons.
A sign of the trending times: popular Democratic Newark Mayor and U.S. Senate candidate Cory Booker told the Washington Post that he doesn’t really care if people think he’s gay. From the Post:
It is to his “great dismay” that “I have not settled down with a life partner.” He tells a story about how, early in his tenure as mayor, as murders continued to mount, he ran bawling past the places where Newarkers had been shot. He called a pastor friend and told him how broken he felt. At the end of the conversation, Booker expected some spiritual advice.
“You need to get married,” the pastor said.
A Minnesota teen has survived what is being called the first confirmed wolf attack in the Midwestern state.
Noah Graham, 16, went camping with family and friends last weekend along Lake Winnibigoshish in the Chippewa National Forest, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. On Saturday, Aug. 24, he slept outside the tents along the lakeshore. At about 4 a.m., he was attacked by a wolf that approached him from behind.
“He had to physically pry the jaws of the wolf open … to get it off of him. And once he got it off of him and he was up, the wolf stood there growling at him,” the boy’s father, Scott, told CBS Minnesota station WCCO. “And he had to shout at it and kick at it to get it to go away.”
As any parent knows, the playground is never just about kids playing. There are issues of race and class that often go unspoken between the parents and caregivers who have gathered to watch their kids. And for parents with a different skin tone than their child, these issues can be even more confusing and uncomfortable. Terry Keleher, a white father whose adopted son is black, shared his story on HuffPost Live.
“I was pretty prepared that we were going to be a conspicuous family,” Keleher told host Nancy Redd. “We would probably stand out, but I wasn’t prepared for how often people would approach me and us and start commenting on you know, ‘whose kid is that? Are you his father?’ That kind of thing.”
Even Keleher’s neighbors were occasionally suspicious of his family. “We’ve actually been stopped in our own neighborhood a few times, where people I think thought I was a child snatcher. Sometimes he’ll be riding his bike on the sidewalk and scootering maybe home from school, and I may be in the car riding along and you know, just keeping an eye on him, but people think I’m a stranger trying to pick him up. So we’ve had people who’ve actually stopped us or stopped him and you know, we’ve had all kinds of interesting interactions over the years.”
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