The Morning After: The NES game hiding inside your Switch

It's Monday, September 18, 2017. Hey, good morning! Monday is back, with a vengeance. Over the weekend, people have unearthened NES games inside the Switch, and MIT researchers are cramming a bunch of vaccines into a single jab. So, this morning it’s a little bit of the past and a wee bit of the future, all tied up in a bow.   Tinkerers even managed to play the game using the console’s Joy-Con motion controls.   Nintendo’s Switch is secretly hiding a copy of NES ‘Golf’   Nintendo has promised to revive the NES Classic Edition in 2018, but that Switch console of yours might offer some gaming moments of yesteryear to pass the time until then: Nintendo’s latest console may carry a NES emulator. Hackers have found the system wrapped around an existing game hidden inside the Switch. The title in question is dubbed FLOG, and it looks just like Golf (the 1984 sports sim for the NES).   It struggled to compete with the ‘Overwatch’ juggernaut.   'Battleborn' is winding down months after going free-to-play   Battleborn's move to a free-to-play model wasn’t enough to keep things going. Gearbox has revealed that it’s winding down work on the hero-based team shooter as the studio shifts its focus to a “highly anticipated” (but unnamed) project. No more content, including skins and balance patches, is planned after the upcoming fall update, creative director Randy Varnell says. The servers will stick around “for the foreseeable future,” so you can still play -- it’ll just remain relatively static. Mostly likely, you can blame Overwatch. The streaming music company apparently values its independence.   A Chinese tech giant tried to buy Spotify Spotify allegedly rejected a buyout bid from Tencent, the Chinese internet giant behind WeChat, earlier in 2017. Reportedly, Tencent saw Spotify as an opportunity to expand its streaming music influence beyond China, where it thrives through its own streaming services.   It can release doses in a child’s body months or even years later.   It can release doses in a child’s body months or even years later. Dream of a single childhood jab and all the vaccine benefits? A team of MIT engineers is working on it. They’ve created a method that allows a single injection to carry enough doses for the first one to two years of a child’s life, with each dose released at a specified time. The secret is microscopic ‘coffee cups’ made of PLGA, a biocompatible polymer used in prosthetics.   But wait, there's more... 1. Nikon is making a full-frame mirrorless camera 2. Meet Rembrandt in this Samsung Gear VR experience 3. Recommended Reading: Why Cassini had to be destroyed The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

Editor's Pick: reMarkable's Pricey, Paper-Like Tablet Ready to Ship

reMarkable's Pricey, Paper-Like Tablet Ready to Ship

Richard Adhikari Sep 16, 2017 10:53 AM PT

reMarkable on Monday will begin shipping what might best be described as an "untablet" -- a device that is, essentially, an electronic piece of paper. The company is proud of its paper tablet's simplicity, boasting that no other tablet has fewer functionalities. reMarkable users cannot install apps, watch videos or take photos. What they can do is read, write and sketch on a paper-like surface. [More...]

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The Morning After: Weekend Edition

It's Saturday, September 16, 2017. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Welcome to the weekend. Apple’s big hardware event dominated the week’s news, but it wasn’t the only thing going down. We’re still dealing with the aftermath of Equifax’s leak, and now NBA jerseys come with NFC tags. iPhones, Apple TVs and more. Apple iPhone event 2018 A week flooded with Apple news means that even while paying close attention you could’ve missed something. Whether you’ve already pre-ordered an iPhone 8 or you’re waiting for an iPhone X you can find all the information you need right here. This mess isn’t going away. Equifax's chief security and information officers are out The latest revelation from Equifax is the sudden “retirement” of two executives.  Chief Security Officer Susan Mauldin and Chief Information Officer David Webb had their departures announced Friday, just a few days after the company explained hackers used a security hole that it could have closed with a patch a month earlier.  Are more Great Firewalls on the way? The missing trade war against China’s digital protectionism As China's digital economic power grows, the question is whether that will change, as freedom-of-expression groups and, increasingly, the tech industry have been asking. The goal: ensure that digital trade and information flows as freely in and out of China as do lightbulbs, shoes, or any of the other Chinese-made consumer goods found in stores across the US. Interact with your apparel. Nike's 'NBA Connected' jerseys tap into the game with NFC tags On Friday night Nike officially unveiled new NBA jerseys and included some news for the fans as well. Its replica and authentic jerseys will include NFC tags that bestow digital bonuses to wearers via the NikeConnect app. Tap the correct spot to your iOS or Android phone on game day, and you could see exclusive team-related content, or get a boost for the corresponding player in NBA 2K18. New game? Y/N Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition is coming back in 2018 Nintendo says that due to demand, it plans to resurrect the tiny retro console in 2018. Shipment timings are yet to be announced, but this is big news for fans who thought they were going to miss out after the console began disappearing from store shelves. Until then, you’ll have to make do with that tiny Super NES Classic Edition, which lands at the end of this month. Good news? Chrome will make autoplay videos less annoying in 2018 Starting in January next year, the browser will no longer autoplay videos unless they're muted and don't have sound or you've shown interest in watching them.  Everything Apple. The Engadget Podcast Ep 42 Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that Apple held a keynote at its glass-empaneled new "spaceship" campus this week, during which it announced a boatload of stuff. Join Dana Wollman and Chris Velazco as they talk about the new iPhones (all three of them), plus the Apple TV 4K and LTE-enabled Apple Watch Series 3. But wait, there's more... 1. Bad Password: How Bodega typifies Silicon Valley's cultural ignorance 2. 'Cowboy Bebop' director Shinichiro Watanabe made a 'Blade Runner' animated short 3. BMW unveils the zippy i Vision Dynamics electric concept car 4. Google's next Pixel smartphones arrive October 4th 5. Now the Essential PH-1 phone will work on Verizon too The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.