The Morning After: SXSW ends and Drake plays some 'Fortnite'

It's Thursday, March 15, 2018. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. We’re finally ready to put a bow on SXSW 2018, while the SEC announced charges for the Theranos scandal and Drake logged on to play a little Fortnite with Ninja. Just what we needed. Logitech’s G560 gaming speakers add synchronized ambient lighting Logitech G's latest PC speakers aren't just focused on sounding good -- they can also create a light show around your desk with four RGB LED lighting zones, which can display around 16.8 million colors. Together with Logitech's Gaming Software, the LIGHTSYNC technology will match the colors of what you're seeing on screen, even if you're looking at a movie. Remember those pinprick blood tests? SEC charges Theranos and CEO Elizabeth Holmes with ‘massive fraud’ Theranos, as well as CEO Holmes and former president Balwani are said to have raised more than $700 million from investors through "an elaborate, years-long fraud." This involved making "false statements about the company's technology, business and financial performance." Holmes will have to pay a $500,000 fine and return 18.9 million shares in Theranos that she owned, among other penalties. Everyone is playing ‘Fortnite’ right now. Drake joined Ninja on Twitch and broke a streaming record While you were asleep Tyler "Ninja" Blevins teamed up with Drake, JuJu Smith-Schuster and Travis Scott for some Fortnite, and, shockingly, people wanted to watch. At one point, over 600,000 people were watching live, well above the old concurrent record for an individual streamer that had been set at 388,000 just a month ago. Sponsored Content by StackCommerce Get lifetime access to 700+ hours of design training for $19 Hello? Nest's $229 video doorbell is a useful addition Today, the Hello and the previously announced Nest x Yale Lock are officially available for $229 and $249 respectively. Oh, and there’s the new Nest Temperature Sensor, which helps control the temperature in more rooms around the house. The products are a bit pricey, but our hands-on time showed how well the ecosystem can work with them all put together. Tabletop gaming with a 24-inch tablet and Amiibo-like pieces. PlayTable combines blockchain and board games for peak nerdery Yup, you heard that right. The wrap-up. What we saw at SXSW Interactive While in Austin, we checked out the Bose AR glasses that overlay audio on the real world, the build-a-vibrator workshop hosted by Crave, a rousing speech by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Ready Player One's suite of VR games, HBO's Westworld in real life, Samsung's adorable AI assistants, and much, much more. And that's not even mentioning all the barbecue. But wait, there's more... 1. SXSW 2018: 'GFE' follows a high-end escort through San Francisco 2. Yuri Suzuki mimics 'The Sound of the Waves' with surf data 3. Netflix won't reward kids with 'patches' for watching TV 4. Sushi robots, AI pianos and jump jetpacks on SXSW's show floor 5. Watching 'Annihilation' at home versus the cinema 6. National Geographic built Space Projection Helmets for its new show 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.

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The Morning After: Stephen Hawking (1942 - 2018)

It's Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. RIP Stephen Hawking. Pictured on a Zero Gravity Corp ‘vomit comet’ trip in 2007. Stephen Hawking passes away at age 76 The famed physicist and cosmologist was diagnosed with motor neurone disease 55 years ago, and at the time, doctors predicted he had two years to live. Fortunately that was not the case, and Hawking went on to promote important theories, search for links between relativity and quantum physics and write A Brief History of Time, which went on to sell 10 million copies. In a statement, his children pointed to a famous quote of Hawking’s: “It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.” For Pi day. Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ adds more power For 3/14, the Raspberry Pi foundation is bumping the specs of its DIY computing platform one more time. Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ sports a 1.4GHz quad-core Broadcom BCM2837B0 processor instead of the standard 3’s 1.2GHz chip, plus dual-band WiFi and support for Power over Ethernet. The best news, though, is that the price stays the same: $35/£30. More fitness trackers for you. Fitbit shows off two new wearables When Fitbit said it was working on a "family" of devices for this year, it really wasn't kidding. The $100 Ace is made for kids, matching the existing Alta HR design to a more durable plasticky body and family-ready software. Meanwhile, its new $200 Versa smartwatch puts an aluminum squircle on adult wrists, with an upgraded Fitbit OS and 4GB of storage. It doesn’t have all of the Ionic’s features (no built-in GPS and Fitbit Pay is optional), but it promises four days of battery life on a single charge. And ways for commenters to point out the best parts of a video. SXSW 2018: YouTube CEO talks misinformation, creators and comments YouTube's presence at SXSW 2018 extended beyond its Story HQ, a space where it turned ads into videos that feel more like art. The company's CEO, Susan Wojcicki, was part of a panel at the event titled Navigating the Video Revolution in the Digital Age. The biggest news Wojcicki dropped on stage was a new feature she called "information cues," which will help fight hoaxes by linking viewers to articles on Wikipedia that debunks them. $300 for the ad-free edition. Amazon's gold Kindle Oasis reminds everyone how rich you are The internet giant is taking US pre-orders for a Champagne Gold version of the Oasis, which includes the same seven-inch screen, water resistance and Audible support of the regular black model, just in a slightly garish I-have-money color.  But wait, there's more... 1. QuietOn's new noise-cancelling earbuds banish the sound of snoring 2. WWDC 2018 kicks off June 4th 3. Google built a hardware interface for its AI music maker 4. (Former) Secretary of State Rex Tillerson gets his bad news just like we do: on Twitter 5. NASA's acting chief retires with no obvious successor 6. From the makers of 'Castle Crashers,' 'Pit People' makes turn-based strategy a party 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.