Jul 28
He was a founding member of the metal band in its most popular period and helped write many of its best-known songs.
Jul 28
Nintendo transformed its Mario Kart and Pokemon franchises into successful mobile spinoffs, but it looks like another title didn’t fare as well. The company has announced that it’s ending service of Dr. Mario World, a mobile version of its highly successful Dr. Mario NES game, on November 1st. It will also end sales of “diamonds” used to buy buy more time, pills and power-ups starting tomorrow, July 29th.
End of service notice: The Dr. Mario World game’s service will end on Oct. 31, 2021. Thank you very much to the players who have supported the game. For details, please check this link: https://t.co/fC5qnRnLFD
— Dr. Mario World (@Drmarioworld_EN) July 28, 2021
Much like the original, Dr. Mario World is a Tetris-style game that lets you use pills to zap viruses of the same color. Unlike the original, however, everything moves upward so it’s more natural to flick things around with one hand on a mobile screen. The mobile game also has a multiplayer mode so you can get friends involved.
The game was developed by Nintendo in conjunction with Line, Japan’s ultra-popular mobile messaging app. It launched on July 10th, 2019, just a hair over two years ago. Nintendo is keeping a vestige of the game on a web page called “Dr. Mario World Memories” that will allow players to look back on their history once the service ends.
Nintendo launched another mobile, Mario Kart Tour, with multiplayer support in early 2020. That title has reportedly been downloaded 200 million times and seen relatively high earnings for the company. Its most successful mobile game by far, however, is Fire Emblem Heroes, which had reportedly netted up to $656 million as of February, 2020. Nintendo didn’t say why it shut down Dr. Mario World, but it wasn’t doing great compared to other titles shortly after launch, according to a SensorTower report from early 2020.
Jul 28
Rivian reportedly plans to invest $5 billion in its second US assembly plant
Posted in: Today's ChiliLast week, news leaked out that Rivian was planning to build a second US manufacturing plant for its electric vehicles and batteries, and now more details have leaked out. The company plans to invest $5 billion initially in the second plant, dubbed Project Tera, with construction slated to start in the fall of 2021, according to Reuters. The aim is to begin production by the second quarter of 2023.
The second plant will reportedly include a 50 gigawatt-hour (GWh) battery cell production operation and a product and technology center. There’s no word on where it’ll be built, but the company is reportedly looking at land east of Mesa, Arizona, near Gold Canyon, according to Reuters‘ sources. Rivian Chief Executive R.J. Scaringe has reportedly spoken with Arizona Governor Doug Ducey about the project.
Rivian previously acknowledged that it’s looking to expand. “The company has recognized that future production and product plans will not be fully met by the current capacity at Rivian’s Normal, Illinois facility,” it said in the document seen by Reuters.
The plant would supposedly support around 10,000 jobs, though many of those could come indirectly. For a startup that has so far not produced a single vehicle, however, the investment and job figures would be impressive. Rivian is backed by Ford, Amazon and other companies and could reportedly soar to a $50 billion value in a possible public listing later this year, according to Reuters’ previous story.
Jul 28
The DoJ said the Republican’s speech before the U.S. Capitol attack was “not within the scope” of his employment.
Jul 28
Air monitoring demonstrated no levels of concern for the community of La Porte, Texas.
Jul 28
If you’re looking for a place to gather inspiration and ideas, Pinterest is actually a pretty good place to go. If you wanted to, you could even gain a following by curating cool ideas for people, but unfortunately, making a money off Pinterest isn’t exactly straightforward, at least until now where the company has announced monetization features for its users.
According to Pinterest, this will come in the form of allowing users to tag Idea Pins with Product Pins. The company claims that, “We found that Pinners are 89% more likely to exhibit shopping intent on products tagged in Idea Pins than on standalone Product Pins.” Pinterest will also be introducing paid partnership labels to Idea Pins, which will allow creators to disclose their paid partnerships while giving brands more visibility.
Prior to this, creators on Pinterest could make money but it was kind of a manual process. Creators would either have to link their content to their blogs in hopes that visitors would generate Adsense revenue, or they would need to reach out to brands and companies for sponsorships.
This is versus other platforms such as YouTube where there are already monetization features built into it and all users need to do is post videos. In any case, if you are an avid Pinterest user or creator, then these new features and changes might be worth looking into.
Pinterest Introduces Ways For Users To Make Money Off Its Platform
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Jul 28
The official World of Warcraft Twitter account has announced that it will take immediate action to “remove references that are not appropriate for [its] world.” While it didn’t elaborate on what those references are, they may pertain to in-game elements connected to its senior creative director Alex Afrasiabi, as Kotaku has noted. Afrasiabi was singled out in the lawsuit filed by California authorities accusing Activision Blizzard of fostering a “frat boy” culture that’s become a “breeding ground for harassment and discrimination against women.”
A message from the #Warcraft team. pic.twitter.com/3gWCz1gu8T
— World of Warcraft (@Warcraft) July 27, 2021
According to the lawsuit, Afrasiabi is known for hitting on and touching female employees inappropriately in plain view of other male employees who would try to intervene and stop him. He apparently has such a notorious reputation within the company that his suite was nicknamed the “Crosby Suite after alleged rapist Bill Crosby.”(The lawsuit has misspelled Bill Cosby’s name.) In addition, executives allegedly knew about his behavior but “took no effective remedial measures.” Blizzard President J. Allen Brack talked to him a few times, the lawsuit reads, but gave Afiasiabi a slap on the wrist for the incidents.
Activision Blizzard denied the accusations in the lawsuit and said it “includes distorted, and in many cases false, descriptions of Blizzard’s past” in its initial response. Executive Vice President Fran Townsend told employees in a memo that the lawsuit “presented a distorted and untrue picture of [the] company, including factually incorrect, old and out of context stories.”
A group of over 800 Activision Blizzard employees decried the company’s response to the accusations as “abhorrent and insulting.” They wrote in an open letter: “Categorizing the claims that have been made as ‘distorted, and in many cases false’ creates a company atmosphere that disbelieves victims.” At least 50 employees working in the company’s main office in California are now planning a walkout on Wednesday to protest the company’s actions and to demand better working conditions for women.
In WoW’s announcement, it said the decision to remove inappropriate elements was made in order to rebuild trust. It admitted that it must earn people’s trust with its “actions in the weeks and months to come,” though it didn’t say what other steps the company intends to take in response to the lawsuit’s allegations.
Jul 28
The actor’s condition is not yet known.
Jul 28
Tablets haven’t become obsolete in the advent of phablets, as many market watchers and analysts previously predicted. In fact, they experienced a resurgence along with PCs, in no small part thanks to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on life, work, and school. In contrast to the likes of the iPad Pro, however, most Android tablets are often seen mostly … Continue reading
Jul 28
Some Of Dell’s Alienware Gaming PCs Can No Longer Be Shipped To These Six States
Posted in: Today's ChiliCompared to regular computers, gaming computers are more powerful due to the faster processors and GPUs that they use, which in turn also require a PSU with a higher output, Throw in the added RGB that we’ve come to expect from gaming rigs and you’ve got yourself a computer that has a higher energy consumption than a regular workplace computer.
This usually isn’t an issue or one that most people don’t really think about, but it seems that in the state of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington, it looks like some of Dell’s Alienware computers are no longer allowed to be sold. The company has been forced to stop shipping its Alienware PCs to those states due to power consumption regulations that have been adopted by those six states.
For those unfamiliar, the reason behind this adoption of the regulation is based on the findings of a 2015 study by the Semiconductor Industry Association. They found that based on a benchmark system of 10-14 Joules/per bit transition, computer would not be sustainable by 2040 as it would eventually exceed the estimated world’s energy production.
According to Dell, “Yes, this was driven by the California Energy Commission (CEC) Tier 2 implementation that defined a mandatory energy efficiency standard for PCs – including desktops, AIOs and mobile gaming systems. This was put into effect on July 1, 2021. Select configurations of the Alienware Aurora R10 and R12 were the only impacted systems across Dell and Alienware.”
Some Of Dell’s Alienware Gaming PCs Can No Longer Be Shipped To These Six States
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