Congress Can Shove the Robocall Bill up Its Pork-Fed Ass

Since 1991 , marketing robocalls in the US have been as tightly regulated as medicine , meth , and murder . But ifHR 3035makes its agency through Congress , it ’s go to be open season for the automaton to call your cellphone . Do NOT let this happen . When you think of statute law that blatantly values corporate interests over consumers , you think of pages and page of arcane nomenclature and lingual trickery , right ?...

May 18, 2025 · 7 min · 1318 words · Kendra Black

Deadly Premonition Director’s Cut coming early 2013

Re-release of cult hit to improve gameplay and add new features Rising Star Games has confirmed today their intention to publish a“Director’s Cut” editionof the 2010 small-town suspense thriller,Deadly Premonition, early in 2013 for PlayStation 3. This new version will feature updated controls, new scenarios and “high-definition graphics,” as well as offering downloadable content. This makes me so happy. I might be happier if they just did away with combat altogether in the game, but I’m happy to accept the control improvements....

May 18, 2025 · 1 min · 121 words · Ryan Dickson

Get a Grip: Hairy-Footed Bedbugs Foil Slick Traps

When you buy through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it lick . If you think chinch - proof your bed with hard - to - climb traps would protect you from pesky biting worm , you might have to rethink that . Cup - similar traps that fit over a bedframe ’s peg have a sly internal surface that commonly defeats tiny climbers ....

May 18, 2025 · 4 min · 766 words · Michael Garcia

Giz Explains: Why WiMax and LTE Wireless 4G Data Will Blow Your Mind

3 GB sucks . Yeah I allege it . Try watching YouTube video or hell , lade Giz . tangible wireless , omnipresent broadband for slurping up crazy information anywhere , anytime is come . Soon . In the form of WiMax and LTE . We ’re go to render to keep this pretty simple , as usual , but there are going to be some acronyms and a mo of jargon involve — ourprevious explainer on mobile termsmight be a good place to start , actually , if you ’re walking into this totally oblivious to mobile tech ....

May 18, 2025 · 8 min · 1704 words · Matthew Buckley

Help Us Write the Second Chapter in This Tale of Stealing a Planet-Sized Spaceship

The io9 community and theFramestoreart section are collaboratively writing a story – half in prose , and one-half in images . Now you’re able to help oneself that write up continue . https://gizmodo.com/join-us-in-a-bold-new-experiment-with-storytelling-5936688 https://gizmodo.com/join-us-in-a-bold-new-experiment-with-storytelling-vo-5941229 Then the Framestore artist read Rixomatic ’s chapter and make two new exemplification in reaction ( a item of one is at the top of this post , and both are full size below ) ....

May 18, 2025 · 6 min · 1213 words · Olivia Pham

Here’s Doom 2 but all the sound effects have been replaced with Half-Life’s

It could well be argued that without the originalDoom, there wouldn’t be much of an FPS golden age, and that includes games likeHalf-Life. So, imagine my surprise when it turns out that someone has managed to take the aforementioned titles and package them under one roof. Kind of. If you’ve always wanted to know whatDoom 2would be like withHalf-Life‘s sound effects, then ModDB userDASniperIC(thanks,PCGamesN) has just the thing for you....

May 18, 2025 · 2 min · 247 words · Brandy Williams

Hey, MaybeStar WarsShould Leave Mandalore the Hell Alone

To paraphrase Luke Skywalker , “ If there ’s a nice center to the population , Mandalore is the planet it ’s farthest from . ” The home planet ofJango Fett , Bo - Katan Kryze , and Sabine Wren is a hellhole , and it has been throughout the totality ofStar warfare ’ independent persistence . So much so , in fact , that I do n’t think anyone call for to go back , whether it be character or viewers ....

May 18, 2025 · 6 min · 1213 words · Chelsea Wilson

How Did 6 Feet Become the Standard Grave Depth?

It all started with the plague : The origins of “ six foot under ” come from a 1665 irruption in England . As the disease swept the country , the mayor of London literally laid down the law about how to deal with the bodies to avoid further infections . Among his specifications — made in “ Orders Conceived and Published by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London , Concerning the Infection of the Plague”—was that “ all the grave shall be at least six feet deep ....

May 18, 2025 · 2 min · 366 words · Samantha Harrison MD

Monster Hunter Stories 2 and Rise are now both getting constant free updates

Free is good AlthoughMonster Hunter Stories 2is also on PC, andRiseis coming to PC in 2022, the Switch has a stranglehold onMonster Hunterright now. It’s kind of great, being able to pick up the Switch and play portably and get a fewMonster Hunterquests done across two games. I mean it would be even greater if both of these were on more platforms, but in terms of what we have going on now, the Switch is one of the best ones suited for the job (though I’m sure some of you who aren’t keen on the framerate situation would disagree)....

May 18, 2025 · 1 min · 201 words · James Martinez

This Cosmic Ring Is The Furthest Milky Way-Like Galaxy Ever Seen

Astronomers have reveal a distant galaxy , called SPT0418 - 47 , that looks like a promising ringing to our observatories . The effect is due to a mental process called gravitational lensing that distorts how the coltsfoot appears . In reality , the galaxy is signally similar to our own , the Milky mode – a surprisal considering the light of this extragalactic nebula comes all the way from the former world ....

May 18, 2025 · 3 min · 488 words · Frank Sawyer

Trailer for Crystal Chronicles: Attack of the Stupid Title

The originalFinal Fantasy: Crystal Chronicleson Nintendo’s Gamecube was met with mixed reviews from fans. While some applauded it, a vast majority found Square Enix’s adventure game to be a big pile of sugary lizard spunk. That hasn’t kept theFinal Fantasypowerhouse from pressing onward, first with aDS sequel, now with a brand new console version in the works. Due for the Wii is the abhorrently namedFinal Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers,and you’re able to view the trailerright here....

May 18, 2025 · 2 min · 380 words · Mr. Alec Flowers MD

Valve is letting users test Steam Deck UI in Big Picture mode

A new interface is coming to the PC-TV setup Valve is planning to update its Big Picture viewing mode with the new interface it designed for the Steam Deck. The Steam manufacturer has the new user interface on the beta right now. This update was announceda while ago, but it looks like it could be rolling out soon. Already, the feature is available in the Steam client through its beta options....

May 18, 2025 · 2 min · 302 words · Donna Burch

Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide gameplay video decimates Skaven

Real time… weapon changing IGN have released a video for the upcomingWarhammer: End Times – Vermintide(doesn’t that name just roll off the tongue?), showing interviews with the developers at FatShark, as well as some snippets of gameplay. The developers make it sound fairly bland, withweapon switchingbeing spoken about quite a lot. But despite that, the gameplay we actually saw still looks pretty good. I’m all for smashing my way through an army of Skaven in a grimdark Victorian-fantasy world, and if this can do that well then I am totally on-board with it....

May 18, 2025 · 1 min · 132 words · Sara Mercado