Wednesday, September 21, 2016

ReCore: The Kotaku Review and other top stories.

  • ReCore: The Kotaku Review

    ReCore: The Kotaku Review
    Irredeemably bad video games are a simple, tidy affair. Their badness is straightforward. The game stinks. It was a waste of time to play. Probably shouldn’t have even finished it. It is different and perhaps more frustrating to play a promising game that starts well, carries many great ideas and then stumbles. The new Xbox One and PC action-adventure ReCore is one of those second types.ReCore starts beautifully, putting its player in control of Joule Adams, the lone woman on an intriguing, d..
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  • Anti-Semitism monitor needed within UN agencies

    Anti-Semitism monitor needed within UN agencies
    Anti-Semitism monitor needed within UN agencies   Speaking at UN High Level Forum on Anti-Semitism, at United Nations headquarters in New York, Mark Weitzman, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Chief Representative to the UN (NY) exhorted the world body “to immediately appoint a special representative on anti-Semitism with the authority to investigate and act on appearances of anti-Semitism in all circles of the UN.”Weitzman also urged the United Nations “to immediately adopt the ‘Working Definitio..
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  • Pokémon Go Plus: This Wearable Was Supposed to Be for Kids, but It's Not Kids Who Are Buying It

    Pokémon Go Plus: This Wearable Was Supposed to Be for Kids, but It's Not Kids Who Are Buying It
    From the 1950s well into the 1980s, the slogan for Trix breakfast cereal was “Trix are for kids.” Ads showed a silly rabbit going through all sorts of machinations to get his hands on the colorful cereal. That, in a nutshell, is the story of Pokémon Plus, the Pokémon Go accessory released today. It was supposed to be for kids, Niantic founder and chief technology officer Phil Keslin told me this week. He says Nintendo pitched it as a low-cost, low-entry augmented reality device for children. Sa..
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  • The Machines Behind NASA's Exploration of the Red Planet

    The Machines Behind NASA's Exploration of the Red Planet
    The Machines Behind NASA’s Exploration of the Red Planet The irresistible appeal of the red planet has kept NASA missions rolling for decades. Among the machines which have contributed to the Martian exploration include the Curiosity Rover, the MAVEN, the Odyssey, the MRO and the Opportunity Rover. Sep 17, 2016 06:11 AM EDT Planet Mars Shows Signs Of Liquid Water Credit: NASA / Handout Editorial #: 490442618 Collection: Getty Images News HALE CRATER, MARS - UNSPECIFIED DATE: In this hando..
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  • What The iPhone 7 Gained By Losing The Headphone Jack

    What The iPhone 7 Gained By Losing The Headphone Jack
    What The iPhone 7 Gained By Losing The Headphone Jack The cool people at iFixit have torn apart the new iPhone 7 Plus. As expected, there are a lot of new changes, like the new camera system, waterproofing and, of course, the death of the headphone jack. Image: iFixit Getting rid of the headphone jack actually meant that Apple had more room for other stuff in the chassis. And in that space is a larger Taptic Engine. There was a Taptic Engine on the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, but the new one is la..
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  • The terrifying moment when a car drove straight at school crossing supervisor

    The terrifying moment when a car drove straight at school crossing supervisor
    A frightened school crossing supervisor was almost run over by a four-wheel-drive, which performed a U-turn, mounted the curb and then drove through crossing flags on a busy school morning, police say.On Friday morning, the last day of the school term, police said a 54-year-old woman was working as a children's crossing supervisor on Moorhead Drive in Mill Park. A lollipop lady was almost run over in Mill Park on Friday.  The lollipop lady told police she saw a silver 4WD turn into Moorhe..
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  • Trad calls on Hollywood star for help

    Trad calls on Hollywood star for help
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  • Josh Frydenberg moves to save Antarctic station

    Josh Frydenberg moves to save Antarctic station
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