Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a super fun platforming game. It’s the sequel to the acclaimed Yooka Laylee. I had a great time playing the game. The graphics are great and the gameplay is pretty good. Gameplay In general, the game is great really fun to play. It makes me wish that I was able to play the original. This game is super difficult but that is balanced with level design to keep the difficulty from giving you that ‘I’ll never finish the level’ feeling. The controls are pretty simple but a couple of the more advanced moves … Continue reading Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair Review
Yesterday, Google held their annual Made By Google hardware event. They did the usual in announcing the new Pixel device and also a few other devices. There was a huge focus on IoT.
The Pixel Buds seem to just be a hardware refresh of just making them true wireless. There’s a feature that allows the volume to dynamically adjust. They will talk mare about them in the coming months. The Pixel Buds will release next year for $179 US.
Environmental Commitments
Google is going to be investing $150k into their manufacturing pipeline to catalyze $1.5 million in into renewable energy. They are committing to using 100% recycled plastic in manufacturing of the Nest Mini speaker.
Pixelbook Go
Next, they talked about the Pixelbook Go. They didn’t talk much about the specs (just check the leaks). The Go will have a 2x larger battery than the original. The base model comes with an Intel m3 processor, 64 GB storage, HD display and, 8GB of RAM (up to i9 processor, 256GB of storage, 4K screen and, 16 GB of RAM). You can pre-order now (in the US and Canada, the UK in January) Starting at $649 US.
Nest Home
The Nest Mini is going to come with a wall mount. It will come in a new color option of Sky. It also now has on-device processing. You now can call the Hone devices from your phone. It will cost $49 US and you can pre-order now (Google Store) and will be available at Best Buy, Target, Walmart and other retailers on October 22.
Nest Aware
They are changing the pricing structure. Now all the Home devices will have sound detection and will be able to detect smoke alarms and be able to direct you to call 911 from anywhere.
Nest Wi-Fi
The new Nest Wi-Fi will have a new design. It will also have Smart Hub capabilities and a built-in Google Assistant speaker. You can pre-order it now and it will release on November 4 for $269 US for a one router / one point pack and $349 for the one router / two point pack. It will also release retail at Target, Best Buy and more retailers.
Pixel 4
The Pixel 4 will have Google’s Soli Radar technology. The Soli radar gives the user access to more gestures done in front of the sensor. They talked a little bit about apps and Assistant. The phone has a 90hz refresh rate. When you buy the
Apple Arcade In an unusual turn of events, they went straight into it skipping over the usual business starting with App Store (that’s what Tim said but apple Arcade). Now for game announcements: Frogger from Konami is coming back with a new version. Next from Capcom, some weird diving game. Apple Arcade comes out September 19th for $4.99 US a month. Apple TV+ Lots of talking to start this section, the thing they said that surprised me is that The Morning Show is Entertainment Weekly‘s most anticipated show of this Fall. Next, they showed the trailer for their show See. See is about showing the … Continue reading Apple Event September 2019
On Monday, Apple held their annual developer’s conference at Apple Park. At WWDC they announced lots of info about the next versions of each of their OSs and also some hardware The next thing they talked about was TVOS. They … Continue reading WWDC 2019
This week Microsoft showed off a cool update to Xbox Live, Lots of Apple news, Tesla hosts an event, a couple Interesting Links and, more in the Other News Section Xbox A few months ago there were rumours that Xbox Live was coming to Moblie and Nintendo Switch. Those rumours were kind of accurate. On Thursday, Microsoft announced Game Stack in a press release. This is an important SDK that simplifies lots of stuff for game developers easier. In that announced an SDK that brings Xbox Live to mobile. Apple Spotify submits Antitrust against Apple On Thursday Spotify filed an anti-trust … Continue reading This Week In Tech 03/10-03/16/2018
Started Writing: March 7 2019 (for understanding of wording. The update was written the date of posting.). Wow it’s been a busy week in space with the progress of SpaceX DM-1 and the test of the Crew Dragon (the first anerican manned spacecraft to be tested since the sun setting of the space shuttle). This was an unmanned launch so no one was on the craft. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/NhKFBW3S8Pg The Crew Dragon successfully launched from KSC Launch Complex 39-A at 3:30 Sunday. Crew Dragon was carrying Ripley (an anthropimorphic test dumbie that has lots of sensors) and a few other science experiments. It’s rocket … Continue reading It’s Been A GREAT Week In Space Travel
To preface this review was initially posted to my Letterboxd account (Jammer2001). I originally posted the review in multiple because I got a little bit more information from a review that I watched about an hour ago (I saw the movie a couple of days ago). Review I don’t know exactly what category this movie falls into, but it’s really good. This movie is a combination of the actual tapes from the mission and what seems to be re-enactment film from the days leading up to the launch and mission control. The launch footage was enhanced really well and it … Continue reading Apollo 11 Documentary Movie Review
This week Samsung held their annual Unpacked event, there’s lots of space news, lots of gaming news, some Apple news, Ev is leaving Twitter and more, in the Other News section. Samsung Unpacked 2019 On Wednesday, Samsung held its annual Unpacked device announcement event. At the event, they announced more info about their long rumoured foldable phone that they showed off at SDC last fall. They also announced the Galaxy S10 and a few other products. Galaxy Fold The Galaxy Fold has a 4.6 inch AMOLED cover (phone) display and a 7.3 inch Super AMOLED inside (tablet) display. It also … Continue reading This Week In Tech 02/17-02/23/2019
This week There’s lots of Apple news, lots of Spotify mews, Lots of Samsung news and Apex Legends Apple Angela Arands leaving On Tuesday, Apple sent out a press release saying that Angela Ahrands is leaving the conpany. She is courently the VP of retail, her job was basically running Apple Stores. She will be replaced by Safari Updates In an update to safari announced this week Apple said that they are going to remove Do Not Track mode from Safari/ Spotify Podcasting Aquisitions On Wednsday, Spotify announced that they were aquiring two players in the podcasting business Anchor and … Continue reading This Week In Tech 02/03-02/09/2019
This week was CES, lots of space news, There’s a new Ring Doorbell security flaw, lots of Google news, Bell Canada may be tracking you, some great new in the Cambridge Analytica case, fake 5G, Samsung Unpacked event announced and, more in the Other News section. CES I know that CES was last week but I’m still working on a few articles about CES. Intel talked about their next-gen chips. Lots and lots of TVs were announced some of them with Google Assistant and Alexa. Space News Forming Black Hold Spotted For First Time On Thursday, Raffaella Margutti talked to Space.com … Continue reading This Week In Tech 01/06-01/12/2019
