🤕 Die in the game and this VR headset will kill you, Raspberry Pi projects, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-11
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Geek
- Raspberry Pi Takes Star Trek UI To Red Alert | Tom’s Hardware
- Raspberry Pi Mini PC Beats Commute Boredom | Tom’s Hardware
- Shawn Levy In Talks To Direct A ‘Star Wars’ Film After ‘Deadpool 3’ & ‘Stranger Things’ Final Eps – Deadline
Retro
- Old Vintage Computing Research: Running a pinball game from a disk image doesn’t make me a pirate
- Commodore Datasette Does Its Own Calibration | Hackaday
- Redditor discovers legendary 1956 computer in grandparents’ basement | Ars Technica
Videogames
- Steam on Chromebook, now in beta | ChromeOS for developers
- Sega is keeping mini consoles alive - The Verge
- Netflix Adapting ‘Gears of War’ for Feature Film, Animated Series – The Hollywood Reporter
Technology
- Pantone wants $15/month for the privilege of using its colors in Photoshop | Ars Technica
- Is it goodbye - finally - to the fax machine? - BBC News
- Rebble · Hackathon, App Updates & More
- Why Egypt became one of the biggest chokepoints for Internet cables | Ars Technica
- Palmer Luckey Made a VR Headset That Kills the User If They Die in the Game
- New Go-playing trick defeats world-class Go AI—but loses to human amateurs | Ars Technica
- Ten-year hunt leads to 50,000 stolen Bitcoin stored in a popcorn tin and underground safe - The Verge
- Starlink announces 1TB monthly cap, users who go over will get slower speeds | Ars Technica
- Slingboxes, streaming video way before it was cool, go dark tomorrow | Ars Technica
Science
- A single injection can reverse paralysis caused by severe spinal cord injuries
- Forgetting is natural, but learning how to learn can slow it down • News Service • Iowa State University
- Opinion | Science Has a Nasty Photoshopping Problem - The New York Times
Pop Culture
- How Tom Hanks Became David S. Pumpkins: An Oral History
- ‘Starship Troopers’ at 25: a Cult Classic Ahead of the Curve - The Ringer
- Colin Mochrie says Whose Line Is It Anyway? is ending next year
Pot Pourri
- The mysterious Viking runes found in a landlocked US state - BBC Travel
- Professional cornhole rocked by ‘BagGate’ cheating scandal
- What are two events that took place in the same time in history but don't seem like they would have? : AskReddit
- Stack Ranking: Organizational Cancer
- McDonald’s Created a Grease-Proof Gaming Chair