The Morning After: Weekend Edition

It's Saturday, April 14, 2018. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook dominated the news this week, but Friday night Sega took the spotlight with a few announcements of its own. Plus, the other shoe drops on Billy Mitchell’s high scores. It’s real. Sega Japan reveals the ‘MegaDrive Mini’ It looks like all the hype around Nintendo’s classic console releases has nudged Sega back into making hardware. During its Sega Fest event, the company showed off a “MegaDrive Mini” that it says will come out later this year packed with classic games. While others have made licensed retro Sega consoles before, this 30th Anniversary Edition could give some old games the shine they deserve. The only problem? We haven’t heard about any plans for a release outside of Japan. A slight upgrade while we wait for the Zen 2 platform next year. AMD unveils its second-generation Ryzen CPUs The second-generation Ryzen chips are a bit faster and more efficient than their predecessors, with the flagship eight-core Ryzen 7 2700X model leading the way. And, due to fan demand, AMD is also throwing in free "Wraith" coolers with every CPU. Time to refresh your memory before the crowdfunded third game arrives. 'Shenmue' I & II return on PS4, Xbox One and PC this year The other big news from Sega Fest is word of a refreshed release of both Shenmue games on PS4, Xbox One and PC. There’s a trailer showing early versions of the remastered games, which will go on sale later this year. Depends on what you’re looking for. Is Apple’s HomePod failing? Is the first smart speaker with Siri already a failure, or does the HomePod simply need time to find its place? Editors Daniel Cooper and Mat Smith go a few rounds on whether or not the $350 item measures up. In fact, they're not organs at all. Two newly discovered human organs aren't what they seem For a minute there, 2018 was shaping up to be a year of new-organ discoveries. In January, Dr. J. Calvin Coffey, foundation chair of surgery at the University of Limerick, declared that he had "discovered" a new organ, dubbed the mesentery. Then, in March, fledgling science journal Scientific Reports declared the interstitium, a fluid-filled membrane that surrounds the lungs, digestive tracts and arteries, an organ as well. If verified by the rest of the medical community, these findings could potentially revolutionize our understanding of the human body. There's only one problem with that: These biological structures aren't actually organs. Let Senior Editor Andrew Tarantola explain. The enemy of my enemy is my new bundled offer. Comcast is bundling Netflix into cable packages Yeah, you read that right. No Rose or RED here. The FCC leaked pictures of a gold iPhone X As spotted by 9to5Mac, a gold iPhone X appears to have arrived at the FCC offices, which is surprising considering Apple hasn't made an official announcement about the new color on its flagship smartphone. But wait, there's more... 1. Guinness strips Billy 'King of Kong' Mitchell's world records 2. Wireless Android Auto is available for Google phones 3. Police across the US are buying an affordable 'GrayKey' iPhone cracker 4. A look at the ad-targeting tools AggregateIQ left exposed online 5. How to check if Cambridge Analytica may have snagged your Facebook data 6. The Zuckerberg hearings were a wasted opportunity 7. Leaked Apple memo reveals 12 people were arrested for leaking last year 8. You won't have to sign for credit card purchases much longer 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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Lawmakers Lean In on Facebook
UC Has a Bright Future as the Next Generation of Business Communications
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Lawmakers Lean In on Facebook
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House Critics Grill Zuckerberg Over Political Bias, Privacy
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The Morning After: NTSB squares off with Tesla and ESPN+ arrives

It's Friday, April 13, 2018. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Morning! Fortnite is back, and we’ve spent some time with a very special iPhone 8 Plus. It’s RED. And then there’s Vizio’s 2018 TV lineup. Guess what color. Taking a deep look at Apple's Product RED iPhone 8 Plus Since the special edition iPod Nano in 2006, Apple’s continued to sell Product RED versions of its products to raise funds for the fight against AIDS. And here’s the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus in stores today. Chris Velazco ogled, and indeed, it's red. A really nice, deep red.  Its CEO cut a plea deal with federal and state prosecutors. Backpage.com pleaded guilty to human trafficking The Justice Department revealed Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer pleaded guilty to federal charges of money laundering before the site was seized on April 6th. The business entered a guilty plea in Texas to a charge of human trafficking. Ferrer is now facing up to five years in prison and is cooperating in the prosecution of site co-founders Michael Lacey and James Larkin. Good luck telling the difference on that $80 Crosley you bought at Target. Apparently high-definition vinyl is coming next year Austria-based Rebeat Innovation has begun the work to bring vinyl into the 21st century. Of course, that involves lasers. Specifically, converting analog audio information into a digital 3D topographic map of the music, and then etching that into a platter with light. According to Pitchfork, this process will result in around 40 percent longer playing times per side, 30 percent more amplitude and will offer better sound quality overall.  Sponsored Content by StackCommerce Here's how you can master AI & machine learning for just $39 Twin Galaxies proved his performances weren't recorded on arcade hardware. Billy 'King of Kong' Mitchell's 'Donkey Kong' scores were a lie It's over. Billy Mitchell has had his long-contested Donkey Kong high scores stripped from the Twin Galaxies leaderboards and the organization has notified Guinness World Records of its decision. More than that, all of his records have been removed from the forums, and he's banned from TG's competitive leaderboards wholesale.  For $5 a month, the service doesn't get you everything, but it gets you a lot. ESPN+ is the sports-streaming cord-cutters have been waiting for After months of rumors and speculation about what it would look like or how much it would cost, ESPN's standalone streaming service finally launched yesterday. It's called ESPN+ and it's priced at $5 a month, which will get you both live and on-demand content. The first thing you should know about ESPN+ is that it isn't meant to replace the traditional ESPN network but is designed to complement it. There might be too many great TVs to choose from. The real star of Vizio's 2018 TV lineup is value If you're in the market for a 4K TV this year, Vizio's latest lineup is filled with several compelling options. First, there's the new P-series Quantum, which is Vizio's brightest and most feature-packed TV ever. But the rest of the company's P- and M-series sets are also cheaper and better equipped than before. In short, this could be your 4K TV upgrade. Light leaking and excessive noise distract a bit from the excellent picture quality. BenQ HT2550 4K projector review: great value, but not perfect BenQ’s HT2550 is one of the first inexpensive projectors on the market to put a true 4K image on the screen. With a 4K source, the image is noticeably sharper than 1080p source material, though not every viewer might appreciate that. It offers HDR10 with accurate colors, provided you do some minor tweaking first. The biggest downside is light leaking around the edge of the image and, occasionally, excessive noise. Contrast and brightness aren’t as good as some of its rivals, but the HT2550 has sharper 4K than both of those models. A "critical failure with one of [the] account service databases" took the game offline. 'Fortnite' is back online after a day-long blackout Recent gaming hit Fortnite is finally playable again across all platforms after a server outage and emergency update took it offline for almost a day. According to a Reddit post by a company employee, a "critical failure with one of [the] account service databases" made the login and matchmaking systems unstable. To make up for the delay, Epic is giving Battle Royale players a free Back Bling gift this weekend and a pack of Battle Stars next week; those who still load up the game's original Save The World mode will also get some in-game freebies. It'll be months -- if not years -- before Facebook fixes some core issues. Facebook can’t move fast to fix the things it broke Facebook's old motto was "move fast and break things," a sort of hacker rallying cry that put product evolution over basically everything else. Realizing that the demands placed on a massive, publicly traded company required a new outlook, Facebook officially changed that motto to "move fast with stable infrastructure" in mid-2014. For all the changes, however, the company's endless drive for growth continued. After watching Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg get grilled by committees from both chambers of Congress over the past two days, it seems that Facebook can't move fast enough. But wait, there's more... 1. Can Facebook really apply the EU's data-privacy rules worldwide? 2. Hyperloop TT begins construction of its first test track 3. Tesla ends formal agreement to cooperate with NTSB on Model X crash 4. Amazon celebrates its Ring acquisition with $100 smart doorbells 5. How to actually get work done on an iPad 6. White Castle serves up plant-based meat with the Impossible Slider 7. GTA IV will lose some of its in-game music over licensing issues 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.