Microsoft is giving away 'Sea of Thieves' with Xbox purchases

Microsoft is gearing up to make playing Sea of Thieves as easy as possible. If you’ve heard all the hype surrounding the cartoony pirate simulator but don’t already own an Xbox (or PC) to play it on, for a limited time, when you buy an Xbox One X you…

‘ARK: Survival Evolved’ brings dinosaurs to your phone this Spring

Open-world survival game ARK: Survival Evolved was one of the bigger early access games back in 2015, eventually launching a couple of years later on PS4, Xbox One and Steam and gathering 13 million players in the process. Now the title is coming to…

Cherish These Moments In ‘Jersey Shore Family Vacation’ Trailer

Like Snooki said, “As we age, we just get more delinquency.”

The New ‘Infinity War’ Trailer Is Here

The (infinite) wait is almost over.

Ohio Legislator Says Students Should Be Able To Bring Guns To School

He has a very open idea of open carry.

Meghan Markle Is One Step Closer To Her May 19 Nuptials

The next frontier for robotics? Jazz marimba

Watch out all you well-paid, fat-and-sassy jazz marimba players: Shimon, the marimba playing robot is after your jobs. Shimon is the brainchild of the Robotic Musicianship Group at Georgia Tech and I’ve been following his career for a few years now. In this video, taken at the Ferst Center Presents as part of Atlanta Science Festival, Shimon and a band led by Zachary Robert Kondak jam out to Kondak’s latest rock opera. That’s Richard Savery on the sax.

Watch it. It’s wild.

The truly amazing part of the show has to be drummer Jason Barnes’ mechanical arm that he uses to play beats live in time with Shimon’s tapping. It’s a melding of man and machine that is truly awe-inspiring.

So you’ve had it good so far, all you jazz vibraphonists. Now that robots are gunning for your jobs the jig might be up.

Xiaomi’s next phone aims for RAZER

A new Xiaomi Blackshark SKR-A0 appeared in a leaked set of specs today, ready to roll for the gaming crowd. The folks at Xiaomi are extremely adept at making devices that pick up on the best features in competing devices, making them their own in their own machines. As such, it makes a whole lot of sense that a Xiaomi … Continue reading

Watch GE’s huge GE9X jet engine ace its first flight test

The world’s biggest jet engine aced its first test flight, with GE Aviation’s huge GE9X looking seriously out of place on the wing of a Boeing 747. Set to power Boeing’s upcoming 777X aircraft, the engine had completed numerous ground trials, but this was the first of many tests which took it airborne. Certainly, the GE9X isn’t going to be … Continue reading

Facebook search briefly suggested sexual content involving kids

Yesterday, Facebook users reported that the website’s search function began suggesting autofills of their searches that included sexually explicit phrases. After typing “videos of,” the predictive search feature suggested phrases like “videos of sexu…