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COMPUTING & GAMES from The Verge - Gaming Posts for 08/30/2018

Excerpts: Pewdiepie's reign as the biggest YouTube channel may soon be over Felix "Pewdiepie" Kjellberg has held the YouTube crown for so long that it...

Computing Reviews from The Verge - Laptop Reviews Posts for 08/30/2018

Excerpts: A screen in your trackpad is more useful than you think But it doesn't make the Asus ZenBook Pro 15 a good computer Continue reading… Read...

WIRED Awake August 31: ISS crew repair meteoroid strike air leak

Your WIRED  daily briefing. Today, the crew of the ISS have patched a leak that caused air pressure to fall across the station, a warmer world means more crop pests, cryptojacking malware makes just $5.80 a day and more. 1. ISS crew repair air leak in Russian capsule The crew of the International Space Station have repaired an air leak caused by a meteoroid strike on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft attached to the space station ( BBC News ). First detected on Wednesday, when a fall in station-wide air pressure alerted the station's crew of cosmonauts and astronauts to a potential leak, the microfracture – just a couple of millimetres in diameter – was repaired by Soyuz commander Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, who used epoxy on a gauze wipe to plug the hole. The Soyuz capsule will be used to return ISS crew members to Earth later this year. 2. Study: A warmer world means more crop pests A new study has found that a rise in global average temperatures will...

COMPUTING & GAMES from The Verge - Gaming Posts for 08/29/2018

Excerpts: LG's new ultrawide gaming monitors have up to 144Hz refresh rates LG announced a new line of gaming monitors this week at IFA in Berlin. These UltraGear ...