The Morning After: We're going back to the moon -- maybe

It's Tuesday, December 12, 2017. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. This Tuesday, one Engadget editor attempted to become an Instagram star. (Spoiler: without money, it’s harder than you’d think.) We have the best gift ideas for the console gamer in your life. We also take issue with the FCC -- and we’re not alone. Have faith? Ataribox pre-orders start this week, without any game details We don’t have a price, release date or list of game titles for this retro console, but discounted pre-orders will start this week. Want to be first in line? Sign up on the site for an email alert and keep an eye on your inbox. Clear as mud. Hypocrisy at the FCC and the illusion of transparency FCC Chairman Ajit Pai trumpets “transparency” at every turn, but only the telecoms seem satisfied by his explanations. Everything new to watch this week. What’s on TV: ‘Mr. Robot’ and ‘PUBG’ This week, it’s time for the season-three finale of Mr. Robot, and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds just launched in the preview program on Xbox One. You can also keep an eye out for the Okami HD remaster, Yooka-Laylee on Switch and Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk. Social media stardom is harder than it looks. I tried (and failed) to become an Instagram guru The rules are pretty simple: Set up an Instagram account and use whatever (legitimate) means to push my following as high as possible. I'll scour every how-to, every online guide, and learn from the master himself, Vaynerchuk, and it'll be a piece of cake. (Narrator voice: It was not.) Make the right choice. The best gifts for a console gamer If you’re in the market for a new system, the Xbox One S, PlayStation VR, Nintendo Switch and 2DS XL all made it into our holiday gift guide, for different reasons. We even dug up the best accessories available, no matter which platform you prefer. Oops. Bungie’s next ‘Destiny 2’ update backtracks on DLC mistakes When Bungie rolled out its "Curse of Osiris" DLC, Destiny 2 players who didn’t pay up found themselves locked out of certain in-game activities. A new update rolling out today is reverting most of those changes and nerfing the Prometheus Lens weapon that has wreaked havoc in PvP. ‘Red Rocks’ - Dave Chappelle. Trump signs directive ordering NASA to return to the Moon Yesterday the president signed Space Policy Directive 1, which orders NASA to lead an “innovative space exploration program” that sends astronauts to the Moon and, “eventually,” Mars. The plan is to partner with aerospace companies who have already begun work on their own, but it may take years to come to fruition. But wait, there's more... 1. Facebook's ticker is no more 2. Tech pioneers tell FCC: "You don't understand how the internet works" 3. Microsoft offers developers a preview of its quantum computing kit 4. Google brings 'Star Wars' and 'Stranger Things' augmented reality stickers to the Pixel 5. New standard sets a baseline for HDR on PC displays 6. Google app experiments push the limits of phone photography 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: The Tech Wars of 2018

The Tech Wars of 2018

Rob Enderle Dec 11, 2017 10:57 AM PT
	We are coming up to the end of the year, and it's a good time to look forward. Stepping outside of politics and the obvious war between the Democrats, Republicans and common sense, there is the war between Amazon and Google, which likely will redefine the growth of digital assistants. There's also the war between Intel and Qualcomm in the personal computing arena. [More...]

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Microsoft Goes All In With Kubernetes Microsoft has launched a raft of new Kubernetes-related projects, demonstrating its growing commitment to the technology. Among them are a new version of its experimental Azure Container Instances for Kubernetes, the Virtual Kubelet. Microsoft also entered a collaboration with Heptio on a new disaster recovery solution. The Virtual Kubelet builds on Microsoft's earlier ACI announcement. [More...]

Cool Effect Dreamforce is a bit like a holiday feast in that there are usually leftovers to savor. One of the stories that didn't get enough attention was Salesforce's path to becoming a carbon-neutral company. Time to savor it. Salesforce has made a monumental effort to switch to green electricity generation and ensure that its buildings and business processes are as light on the planet as possible. [More...]

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The Morning After: Making Google Home Mini sound bigger

It's Monday, December 11, 2017. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Welcome to your Monday morning news missive. A Street Fighter game that crams in 12 (vaguely) different titles, a hacked way of cranking up the sound quality on your cheap Google Home Mini and Welcome To Night Vale gets its own TV show. It’s a good start. The 30th Anniversary Collection arrives in May.   ‘Street Fighter’ anthology brings online play to classic brawlers   Street Fighter turned 30 this year, and Capcom is marking it in -- belated -- style. Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection arrives May 2018 and not only includes a bunch of pre-3D titles but also adds online multiplayer. It'll be available on the PS4, Switch, Windows PCs and the Xbox One. No Street Fighter: The Movie, the game, though. Sad. Pump up the digital-assistant volume.   Mod gives Google’s Home Mini speaker its ‘missing’ line-out jack   Google’s Home Mini speaker has one key disadvantage over Amazon’s Echo Dot: no line-out jack. If you want more powerful sound without buying a higher-priced model, you have to stream to a Chromecast-equipped speaker system. However, that didn’t deter SnekTek -- the site added an aux audio port to the Mini through a clever homebrew mod. To say this required some delicate surgery would be an understatement, however.   Its research has come a long way in a short time.   Apple AI chief reveals more progress on self-driving car tech   Apple is now more than eager to share how much progress it’s making on self-driving car technology. AI research director Ruslan Salakhutdinov made a presentation this week that revealed more of what the company’s autonomous-driving team has been up to. While some of the talk was familiar, there were new examples of how far the fledgling project had come. To start, Apple has crafted a system that uses onboard cameras to identify objects even in tricky situations, such as when raindrops cover the lens. It can estimate the position of a pedestrian even if they’re hidden by a parked car. Other additions include giving cars direction through simultaneous localization and mapping, creating detailed 3D maps using car sensors and decision-making in urgent situations.  The bigger mystery of the project is how Apple will commercialize its self-driving know-how. At the moment, its next goal is to produce driverless employee shuttles. The company isn’t currently expected to sell its own cars, but licensing its work to others would be unusual when Apple typically prefers to develop everything in-house.   But wait, there's more... 1. Recommended Reading: making a shed a top-rated destination on TripAdvisor 2. FX will turn podcast hit 'Welcome to Night Vale' into a TV show 3. New 'Ready Player One' trailer reveals more of the real-world 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.