Rockstar Games, though experiencing a fair bit of issues it has been working to solve, has seen widespread success with its latest game, Grand Theft Auto V. A new snag has entered into its world, however, with producer and rapper Daz Dillinger accusing the game’s maker of including two of his songs on the game’s […]
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on …
Wood-fired pizza is absolutely a slice above the 30-minutes-or-less variety that gets delivered to your door, and it’s pretty common for restaurants that employ the process to make the massive, rustic ovens the visual centerpiece of the room, so folks dining-in can see their pies emerge. Vienna-based creative collective Madame Mohr took a different aesthetic direction for a local pizzeria, turning the oversized kiln into a groovy disco ball—that freaking spins around!
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In the aftermath of a suicide, family and friends of the deceased sometimes turn to social media sites for clues as to why it may have happened.
But on a more hopeful note, the trails left on these sites may also serve as something of an early warning system that could help prevent some of these tragedies, according to researchers at Brigham Young University.
Reporting in the journal Crisis, the researchers say they sifted through millions of tweets gathered from all 50 states over three months, on the hunt for both direct discussions of suicide and keywords that are associated with a range of suicide risk factors.
Out of the millions of tweets on hand, they found 37,717 worrying tweets from 28,088 unique users with some location info available. They then determined each state’s ratio of such tweets, and found that these correlated strongly with each state’s actual suicide rate.
For instance, in Alaska, home to the highest suicide rate in the country, the researchers found 61 at-risk Twitter users, while in Texas, which has a slightly lower rate but a far larger population, more than 3,000 Twitter users were flagged as being at risk.
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We got our hands on Mad Catz’ MOJO Android box this past summer, giving the small device a run through. Earlier this week, both a release date and pricing for the device were announced, with the Android box being slated for release in December a bit before the holidays. Following this, now word has surfaced […]
Julia Mauer has been searching for her long lost brother for five years, but it wasn’t until she took her search public on Tuesday that she was finally able to find him.
According to ABC7, Mauer and her brother, Isaiah Luke (his last name wasn’t reported), share the same mother but have different fathers. Due to repeated incidents of abuse while they were growing up, the pair and their two siblings were removed from their home in 2001 and were sent to live with their respective paternal grandmothers.
Even though it might not look like much when it’s so far away, the Moon is pretty huge. In fact, if it was a little closer—as close as the ISS for example—it would monopolize the entire sky.
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Kelly Clarkson is awesome. Need more proof? The “American Idol” winner and music superstar admits that she wants to be on rival singing competition show “The Voice” — as a contestant.
We’ve got a sneak peek at Clarkson’s upcoming appearance on “The Rachael Ray Show” (airing Mon., Oct. 14), above, where she admits she’d love to try out for “The Voice.”
“I want to audition … I just want to see how many chairs will turn,” she said with a laugh.
Fox’s “Dads” is sticking around at least a little longer.
The network has ordered six additional scripts for the Seth MacFarlane-produced Tuesday night comedy series, a sign that there are no plans to yank the show from the schedule anytime soon.
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