Hasta La Gadget!

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others commemorated 7-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin in a quiet but powerful way.

I loved Skyrim. It was a fun game and I had a great time exploring the world. But after a while, all you had to do to beat the game was use fire in one hand and ice in the other. So while it was entertaining, it could have been more challenging. Regardless, I would love to sample some of the cooking from the game. Sadly, we aren’t there yet with our replicator technology. Fortunately, this cookbook should help.

If you’re a big fan of the Elder Scrolls series like I am, you can now cook up some fancy dinners and treats from Skyrim, Morrowind, and Tamriel with the new official Elder Scrolls cookbook. You immersed yourself in the game, now immerse yourself in the cuisine.

Sample the diverse cuisines of the Nords, Bosmer, Khajit, and more. This book has over sixty delicious recipes, including Sunlight Souffle, Water of Life, Leek and Cheese Crostata, Imperial Mushroom Sauce, Saltrice Porridge and many many more.

Make a meal fit for a Dragonborn. If your mouth is already watering at the prospect, order yourself a copy right now. It’s just $22 over on Amazon, and will start shipping on 3/26/19.

Over the past few years, mattress company Casper has expanded its product lineup to include everything from dog beds to nap pillows. (It’s also opened its own nap store.) The latest addition: the Glow, an $89 light.

While the company has never made this kind of internet-connected hardware before, Chief Strategy Officer Neil Parikh pitched the Glow as part of Casper’s mission to improve sleep. And although there’s already whole categories of sleep-friendly light bulbs and smart lamps, the Glow has a couple of smart touches that could make it particularly appealing.

The basic use of the Glow is pretty straightforward. You turn it on by flipping it over, and it fills your room with warm LED light. The light then dims to darkness over a 45-minute period — as Chief Product Officer Jeff Chapin put it, it’s “mimicking the setting of the sun and it helps you get sleepier as it dims into lower and lower amplitudes.”

You can control and customize the Glow with a smartphone app, but Chapin said, “There are some people who are never going to download the app and that’s fine.” That’s because the Glow can also be controlled by gesture — flipping it to turn it on and off again, twisting it (when it’s set on a flat surface) to adjust the brightness and wiggling it to get a low light.

The Glow is also portable, so if you wake up in the middle of the night and need to get a glass of water or use the restroom, you can just pick it up and carry it with you, rather than turning on a bright kitchen light. You can also set a wake-up time so that the Glow gradually lights up again.

“We’ve leveraged the good and the bad of light so that it would help you fall asleep, stay asleep and go back to sleep into the night,” Chapin said.

In fact, if you’re a frequent traveler who struggles with jet lag, you can even “freeze” the settings, pack the Glow in your suitcase and take it with you to your destination, though Chapin admitted, “We don’t know how many people are going to do that.”

In addition to buying a single Glow for $89, you can also get a two-pack for $169. The light comes with a small base for wireless charging.

The Casper team sent me a couple of Glows to try out for myself. I wasn’t able to download the app, but the Glow was indeed largely controllable by gesture. (My only real complaint is that the wiggle-for-dim-light only worked sporadically for me.)

Keep in mind that I didn’t have a particularly sophisticated or sleep-friendly lighting setup before this, and that it’s hard to know how I would have slept on any given night without the Glow. Still, I can say that I found myself getting sleepier as the light dimmed, and I seemed to pass out more quickly and reliably than normal. And since the Glow is pretty small (five inches tall and three inches wide), it was easy to find room for it in my cluttered bedroom, and to carry it around when necessary.

It sounds like Casper has plans for more products that go beyond bedding, addressing broader environmental factors that affect sleep.

“You can expect a lot more from us in the same vein, trying to help people [sleep] across the board, in a multivariate way,” Parikh said. “It’s a very complicated problem.”

Fake news can spread through various mediums, such as social media. It can also be spread through messaging apps such as WhatsApp, where users can simply forward and pass along fake news to their contacts at a touch of a button. This has presented a problem in the past in countries such as India, where it now appears that the government has had enough.

According to the Indian government’s Union Minister of State for Home Hansraj Ahir, it looks like they are now asking WhatsApp to come up with ways to curb the spread of fake news. “Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued notices to WhatsApp conveying that they need to come out with effective solutions that can bring in accountability and facilitate enforcement of law in addition to labelling forwards and weeding out fake news.”

WhatsApp has in the past come up with several different ways to try and curb the spread of fake news and spam. One of those ways was to limit the number of people that a message could be forwarded to. This would in theory prevent rumors and fake news from being spread too quickly, although at the same time not a 100% solution.

They have also introduced the “forwarded” label where messages that have been forwarded are labeled as such so that users know where the message might have come from, and thus hopefully treat it with a bit more skepticism. It is unclear if there could be a permanent or more effective way of dealing with fake news spread through messaging apps, so we’ll just have to wait and see.

Indian Government Wants WhatsApp To Come Up With A Way To Curb Fake News

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Valentine’s Day is almost here, and if you have a Fallout fan in your life, this Modern Icons #7 Fallout T-51 Power Armor Statue will look fantastic on their desk. It’s ok if your Fallout fan likes Fallout 76, they probably still deserve a gift.

The statue was designed from Bethesda digital assets and looks just like the one from the game. It is painted in a battle-worn and weathered scheme and looks fantastic. The construction is injection molded plastic.

The injection-molded statue stands 9″ tall on a 4″ diameter base and weighs in at one pound. It’s in stock and up for order now from ThinkGeek for $49.99.