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Pakistani lawyers go on a rampage after row with doctors
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Ten years ago, DNA tests were the future of medicine. Now they’re a social network — and a data privacy mess
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The curious case of the US Government’s influence on 20th-century design
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Mastodon founder, Eugen, responding to Twitter's Bluesky announcement
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The Game Awards - Megathread
The Game Awards start tonight at 5:30 PM Pacific time (Dec 13, 02:30 UTC). There are a lot of announcements, sales, and events going on associated with it though, so I thought I'd try to collect a...
The Game Awards start tonight at 5:30 PM Pacific time (Dec 13, 02:30 UTC). There are a lot of announcements, sales, and events going on associated with it though, so I thought I'd try to collect a bunch of it here, and then we can discuss and post the actual winners in here later as well.
Sales
Announcements/Releases
- Sayonara Wild Hearts released on PC (20% off)
Events
- "The Game Festival" - 13 first-look demos of indie games available on Steam for 48 hours (announcement post)
Edit after the show: Article on CNET that lists all the winners of awards, as well as having embedded copies of most of the trailers/announcements/etc. that were shown
My original lists (incomplete)
Winners
- Best Community Support: Destiny 2
- Best Score & Music: Death Stranding
- Best Fighting Game: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
- Best Narrative: Disco Elysium
- Best Audio Design: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Best Strategy Game: Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Best Art Direction: Control
- Best Action Game: Devil May Cry 5
- Games for Impact: Gris
- Best Family Game: Luigi's Mansion 3
- Best Sports/Racing Game: Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
- Best Mobile Game: Call of Duty: Mobile
- Best Multiplayer Game: Apex Legends
- Best Ongoing Game: Fortnite
Edit: I'm not going to keep updating the winners, I'm sure there are a ton of lists out there - I'll edit in a link at the end
- Best Esports Coach: Zonic
- Best Esports Event: League of Legends World Championship 2019
- Best Esports Host: Sjokz
- Best Esports Team: G2 Esports
- Best Esports Player: Bugha
- Content Creator of the Year: Shroud
New trailers/announcements
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: X-Men Rise of the Phoenix DLC 2
- Man Eater - Gameplay Trailer
- Humankind - Official "Your Story" Gameplay Trailer
- No More Heroes 3 - The Return
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake - Cloud Strife Trailer
- Xbox Series X - World Premiere - releasing holiday 2020
- Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II – The Game Awards 2019 – Announce Trailer (in-engine)
- Godfall - Official Cinematic Reveal Trailer
- Bravely Default II – Announcement Trailer – Nintendo Switch
- Warframe Empyrean - Official Cinematic Launch Trailer
- Magic: The Gathering - Theros Beyond Death Official Trailer
- prologue - Reveal Trailer
- Sons of the Forest Trailer
- Ruined King: A League of Legends Story - Official Teaser Trailer
- Cyberpunk 2077 - Behind the Music
- Dungeons & Dragons - Dark Alliance Announcement Trailer
- Weird West - Reveal Trailer
- Magic: Legends - Cinematic Teaser Trailer
- Ghost of Tsushima - Gameplay Trailer
- Gears Tactics World Premiere Trailer
- Naraka: Bladepoint - Official Announcement Trailer
Edit: dear god how long is this show? I'll edit in a link to a good summary later, I'm not going to keep watching.
Italicized links probably need a better source
16 votes -
Russian police raid NGINX Moscow office
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Salesforce founder Marc Benioff has donated a fortune to right capitalism's wrongs, and he thinks his fellow billionaires should too. Why can't we just be grateful?
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O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation
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Finland's finance minister deleted an Instagram post and issued an apology after criticism by a human rights group
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Happy Friday the 13th!
Happy Friday the 13th, everybody! ... remember, I'm trying to start a Thing where Friday the 13th is a Good Luck day, 'cuz every Friday is "Good Friday". Henceforth, it's Monday the 13th that's...
Happy Friday the 13th, everybody!
... remember, I'm trying to start a Thing where Friday the 13th is a Good Luck day, 'cuz every Friday is "Good Friday".
Henceforth, it's Monday the 13th that's the bad-luck day ('cuz ... Mondays ... duh).
So anyway, Happy Friday the 13th ... it's gonna be a thing!
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How computers wrote BBC election result stories
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What the British people voted for, and what they received
Just the facts, for now. This election holds huge significance, and the impact of the UK's First Past The Post voting system provides crucial context for understanding the result. Party Share of...
Just the facts, for now. This election holds huge significance, and the impact of the UK's First Past The Post voting system provides crucial context for understanding the result.
Party Share of Votes Total Seats Share of Seats Conservative 43.6% 364 56.0% Labour 32.2% 203 31.2% Scottish National Party 3.9% 48 7.4% Liberal Democrat 11.5% 11 1.7% Democratic Unionist Party 0.8% 8 1.2% Sinn Féin 0.6% 7 1.1% Plaid Cymru 0.5% 4 0.6% Social Democratic and Labour Party 0.4% 2 0.3% Green 2.7% 1 0.15% Alliance 0.4% 1 0.15% Brexit 2% 0 0% Ind 0.6% 0 0% Change 0% 0 0% Other 0.8% 0 0% All data from The Guardian, with 649/650 seats declared (still awaiting St Ives).
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Telenor has picked Sweden's Ericsson as the key technology provider for its 5G telecoms network in Norway
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Golfer Thorbjørn Olesen pleads not guilty to sexual assault on plane – Ryder Cup winner due to stand trial next May on three charges
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Freddie Gibbs And Madlib: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (2019)
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The twenty travel trends we predict for 2020
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Amazon has been given free access to healthcare information collected by the NHS as part of a contract with the government.
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Decidedly Bad - War Of The Spark: The Forsaken - A Magic: The Gathering Novel by Greg Weisman
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The story of Freedom Ship
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Plastic to fuel using sunlight
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'S'vivon' (dreidel) in 4 Balkan styles on the accordion
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Home Alone | Laws Broken
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Musk, Bloomberg, Bezos: America's aristocracy of tech robber barons lives by its own rules
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Roman Castra - How legionaries built and lived in their fortresses
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Megan Thee Stallion: NPR Tiny Desk Fest (Extended Concert Series) (2019)
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The age of Instagram face - How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look
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Are we ready for first contact?
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Amazon just released 'The Expanse' season four a few hours early
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NASA's OSIRIS-Rex team has officially selected the site on asteroid Bennu to collect a sample for return to Earth
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Qantas selects modified Airbus A350-1000 with additional fuel tank for direct Sydney to London flights beginning 2023
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2019 in Review: Gaming industry figures and companies faced a year of PR disasters and missteps with few lasting consequences, but some progress was made
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Day 12: The N-Body Problem
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/12 Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code 730956-de85ce0c. Please post your...
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/12
Join the Tildes private leaderboard! You can do that on this page, by entering join code
730956-de85ce0c
.Please post your solutions in your own top-level comment. Here's a template you can copy-paste into your comment to format it nicely, with the code collapsed by default inside an expandable section with syntax highlighting (you can replace
python
with any of the "short names" listed in this page of supported languages):<details> <summary>Part 1</summary> ```python Your code here. ``` </details>
9 votes -
Copenhagen's new Metro is a thing of beauty
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Why electronic voting is still a bad idea
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US FAA engineers objected to Boeing’s removal of some 787 lightning protection measures
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The IRS sent a letter to 3.9 million people. It saved some of their lives.
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Social media influencer sentenced to fourteen years in federal prison after plotting to hijack internet domain at gunpoint
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FTC weighs seeking preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how its apps interact
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Slayer - Reign In Jazz (Andy Rehfeldt Version)
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The history of Castlevania world records
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What is an accorgan?
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Lorn - ø
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Organisers of Paris 2024 Olympics have chosen Tahiti for the location of surfing events
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Angela Sheehan is developing wearable tech with whimsy
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The Game Festival - A 48-hour event associated with The Game Awards that will make over a dozen first-look playable demos available on Steam
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Burger King Germany offers free food to those who are willing to read The Rise of Skywalker spoilers
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Merriam-Webster singles out nonbinary 'they' for word of the year honors
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Thinking in React Hooks
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What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on. Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just...
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
A list of all previous topics in this series can be found here.
9 votes