Mashable is reporting that Sean Murray told them, “The tweet came from a disgruntled employee” and “We're currently trying to solve the issue internally.”

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Next step: adding a keys bar to an iPad.

Microsoft made their deep learning toolkit open source.

The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit—previously known as CNTK—empowers you to harness the intelligence within massive datasets through deep learning by providing uncompromised scaling, speed and accuracy with commercial-grade quality and compatibility with the programming languages and algorithms you already use.

Get it here and start building sick AI for silly games.

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Disclaimer: never used this piece of software myself, so take it with a grain of salt...

I've heard good things about http://www.sketchup.com/.

The pizza is a lie.

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That reminds me of an old idea of mine that could solve that problem: take a flexible display, put it in a housing that resembles the Torah and you created a universal versatile board game system.  

board games going out of print is mega annoying

Anything you want going out of print is über annoying: was looking for a new skateboard deck the other evening, found one I really liked and then discovered that it's out of print/out of stock/sold out. Some online shops still sell it, but the ones I stumbled upon are sitting in US and ordering a deck from overseas will increase the costs to a level that makes me opt out.

Also: I ordered a physical copy of REZ Infinite b/c I'm afraid they will be hard to obtain once they're out of print (only ima8bit sells the retail copies of this excellent piece of transcendental software).
I don't own a PS4 and I probably won't buy one this year btw. 

I'm curious if Nintendo will continue to make traditional handhelds or if they flipped the switch and will offer just one gaming system to the masses from now on.

probably the latter tbh. i mean i think it's a smart move. handhelds are dying anyway.

I dunno, the lack of kids in the reveal trailer made me think that Nintendo will continue making handhelds tailored to the needs of that demographic: cheaper, but resilient hardware (with the obvious trade off of less performance).

also ppl are saying it's an nvidia shield like that's a bad thing. but nvidia shield minus clunkiness plus Nintendo Magic(tm) sounds freaking amazing to me tbh.

Same.

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I'm curious if Nintendo will continue to make traditional handhelds or if they flipped the switch and will offer just one gaming system to the masses from now on.

Nintendos witch

Wait, today is an NX preview trailer going to be released and the RDR2 trailer, too?

Perfect timing...

[further study the catalyst’s properties and behavior.]

I think they're still researching this:

The researchers plan to refine their approach to improve the overall production rate and further study the catalyst’s properties and behavior.

But here's tiny bit of something to get exited about:

Given the technique’s reliance on low-cost materials and an ability to operate at room temperature in water, the researchers believe the approach could be scaled up for industrially relevant applications. For instance, the process could be used to store excess electricity generated from variable power sources such as wind and solar.

“A process like this would allow you to consume extra electricity when it’s available to make and store as ethanol,” Rondinone said. “This could help to balance a grid supplied by intermittent renewable sources.”

Nano-spike catalysts convert carbon dioxide directly into ethanol

coffee & cigarettes

I am on Mars.

From the mind of Jeff Minter:

People have also moaned about the price, and I guess if you bought it and the lack of a lot of structured gameplay upset you then it wasn’t fifty quid well spent (maybe don’t pre-order and wait to see some reviews before dropping that kind of loot next time?) but for me, judging by the number of hours played I think the only thing I have more time logged on is Skyrim, which also cost me £50. So I don’t begrudge them that, and in fact people shouldn’t be reluctant to set decent price points for stuff anyway or we’ll end up with a situation like the App Store where it’s all a radioactive waste of F2P and only a few lumbering monsters survive with everybody else dying an agonising death, and we don’t want that.

No Man’s Sky, eh. What a load of old smeg.