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Microsoft’s new free racing game for Windows only requires a mouse to play

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by on May 29, 2018 at 7:29 am
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Microsoft just launched Miami Street, a free-to-play racing game for Windows 10 that’s designed to get you tearing up the track without any prior experience. Heck, you don’t even need a keyboard to play. If you’ve played drag racing mobile titles like NaturalMotion’s CSR Racing series, Miami Street’s gameplay will be familiar to you. There’s no steering or braking involved – you only have to use your mouse and time your clicks accurately to hit the throttle, make turns, and use speed boosts to beat your opponents. So yes, it’s not a full-featured racing game – but it doesn’t need…

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Report: Apple’s iPhones are all getting OLED screens next year

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by on May 29, 2018 at 6:05 am
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South Korea’s ET News reports that Apple plans to use OLED displays for all three iPhone models that it’s slated to launch next year. That means their screens should be able to offer deeper blacks and higher contrast than LCD-based displays. For reference, Samsung’s Galaxy S9, Google’s Pixel 2, and OnePlus’ recent models all come with OLED screens. The iPhone X was the first phone from Apple to feature an OLED screen. We heard back in November 2017 that Apple planned to launch three models this year; a report from KGI Securities noted that two of them would feature OLED…

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Life-extending tech will force us to rethink punishment

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by on May 28, 2018 at 9:44 pm
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A few years ago, philosopher and academic Rebecca Roache published a provocative blog post about the future of punishment. At the time she was connected with Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute, a group which includes noted transhumanists looking for ways to extend human life with drugs, robotics, and more out-there concepts like mind transfer – whereby a person’s brain is copied to a computer server in order to live on indefinitely, without a body. Roache argued that such developments might offer all kinds of efficiencies for the prison industry. Robots, for example, could be drafted in to do the often physically…

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