The Morning After: Remember the Windows 7 Whopper?

It's Monday, October 16, 2017. Hey, good morning! Welcome to the middle of October. As the pumpkin spice lattes floweth over, we’ve taken a look at the ropey world of fast-food tech stunts. There's also the rest of our weekend highlights. From the Pizza Parka to the Windows 7 Whopper.   A ridiculous history of fast-food PR tech stunts   Who doesn’t love a good over-the-top marketing stunt? Recently we’ve seen a lot of those, including Pizza Hut’s Pizza Parka, a coat made of the same insulating materials as its delivery pouches. Because why not? Here are some other terrible / great ones. (Delete as applicable.) Three Texas closures suggest coal isn’t coming back any time soon.   Coal power plant closures are ramping up despite White House plans The Trump administration may hope it can reverse coal power’s decline by ending the Clean Power Plan and other eco-friendly efforts, but the industry’s moves suggest otherwise. Luminant has announced plans to close three major coal plants in Texas (in Freestone, Milam and Titus counties) between January and February 2018. The shutdowns will take a combined 4,200MW of power off the grid -- enough to run over four million homes, as Reuters notes. The news boosts the expected capacity of 2018 power plant closures to over 13,600MW, or a whopping 79 percent more than the known closures for this year.   The cofounders are stepping down from management to create new IPs.   11 years after creating ‘League of Legends,’ Riot is making a new game   The two founders of Riot Games announced that they're handing off the management of League of Legends to other administrators, so they can make a new game -- the publisher's second big video game release in 11 years of operation. But wait, there's more... 1. First-ever negative-emissions power plant goes online 2. The best 4K TV on a budget 3. First 'Rocket League' Halloween event kicks off October 16th 4. Recommended Reading: 'Lore' makes the leap from podcast to TV 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.

The Morning After: Weekend Edition

It's Saturday, October 14, 2017. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Welcome to the weekend. We’ll recap this week’s news highlights, plus big stories from Friday like the Stranger Things season two soundtrack/trailer and, wait one second, did that Twitter boycott actually work? Does it have a mascot? Steve Wozniak just created his own online university Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has just launched Woz U, a new digital institute designed for those eyeing a career in the tech industry. "Our goal is to educate and train people in employable digital skills without putting them into years of debt," Wozniak said in a statement. A modding tool for adding emulated games supports Nintendo’s mini-console. Nintendo’s mini SNES has already been cracked to run more games It appears that Nintendo really doesn’t mind modders cracking open its little retro consoles and using them for more than they were originally intended. Back when the NES Classic Edition was released, it took Russian tinkerer Cluster just a few months to figure out how to side-load additional games on to the system. Nintendo doesn’t seem to have made the process any more difficult on the new mini SNES. Good luck topping ‘League of Legends.’ Riot Games is finally working on a second game The two founders of Riot Games announced that they're handing off the management of League of Legends to other administrators so they can make a new game -- which will end up being the publisher's second big video game release in 11 years of operation. New rules incoming Twitter CEO responds to boycott While many weren't sure the #WomenBoycottTwitter campaign would have any impact, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey posted a thread promising that after a day spent focusing on "making some critical decisions...We decided to take a more aggressive stance in our rules and how we enforce them." Specifically, the exec says we can expect new rules around “unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence.” So, who is going to build the Model 3? Tesla fired 'hundreds' of workers this week The Mercury News reports that Tesla -- which is in the midst of ramping up production of the Model 3 -- fired hundreds of workers this week at its headquarters and factory. In a statement, the company cited performance reviews as a reason for departures from its workforce of more than 33,000 and said that it is continuing to grow.  But wait, there's more... 1. Win a trip to LA and two tickets to the Engadget Experience 2. The future of surveillance is hidden in airport ads 3. Amazon's new Kindle Oasis is waterproof and has a bigger screen 4. Pornhub is improving search with an AI porn addict 5. Watch the 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' trailer one more time 6. Oculus' standalone headsets point to a changing VR landscape 7. An appreciation of 2017's in-game shopkeepers 8. After 10 years, I've finally accepted that 'Half-Life' is dead 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.