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*sips tea*

It’s an interesting turn of events in the life of Oculus VR. Earlier this week The New York Times confirmed that the lawsuit accusing Oculus VR of stealing trade secrets and code for the development of the headset would not be thrown out.

So what the heck is going on here, exactly? More after the jump.

The lawsuit was instigated by ZeniMax Media, a game publisher that sued Oculus earlier last year in the aftermath of the Facebook deal. According to ZeniMax, Doom honcho John Carmack – at that point a ZeniMax employee – had provided help to Oculus founder Palmer Luckey during the VR platform’s early days. Carmack would later go on to join Oculus as the company’s chief technolgy officer.

So ZeniMax is contending the help Carmack gave to Luckey was illegal.

The ruling – which occurred late last month by Jorge A. Solis, a judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Dallas – denied a request by defendants Luckey and Oculus to dismiss the lawsuit. It’s worth keeping in mind that this doesn’t suggest a slam-dunk win for ZeniMax. The judge writes in his ruling that ZeniMax merely had to show enough fact to make a plausible claim. In other words, it isn’t the court’s job “at this juncture to decide whether defendants would prevail on the merits of the case.”

Oculus, of course, denies this. Last year, the company issued a statement calling out the lawsuit as having no merit “whatsoever.”

“As we have previously said, ZeniMax did not contribute to any Oculus technology,” it reads. “Oculus will defend these claims vigorously.”

A jury trial is scheduled for the 1st of August, 2016.

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WE CAN’T PROVE THEY WEREN’T HUGE FATBIRDS

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Watch: ‘The Today Show’ cut off Janelle Monáe in the middle of a vital message about Black Lives Matter

and that right there is America for you.

honestly what kinda dystopian shit

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fetty wap talking about his eye 

Shout out to Fetty Wap for not hiding his disability.

There are a few quick ways to my heart. Food, Blizzard games, Magic cards, but cats is probably the easiest. The Cat Machine [official site] has discovered this great secret, combining easy to learn puzzle mechanics with cat trains. Cat trains which you must direct onto the right tracks so that they can take off into space and stop the Earth from falling into the sun. As solo developer Matt Luard put it, “it’s all very scientific.” It came out yesterday, so launch trailer and speedy thoughts after a few minutes with the game below.

That trailer fails to tell you what the game is but gives a perfect impression of it anyway. You have to build tracks to direct cat trains around a map. Each cat and track is colour coordinated. A train will go down the track that is of the same colour as its lead cat, who will then fire off into space. You have to clear all the cats out and direct the final one to the white lane, which is always in a static position.

There’s humour here in spades. Beyond cute kitties typing at laptops and donning science glasses, every bit of text is filled with jokes. Not all of it hits the mark, but it’s exactly as irreverent and fun as the concept itself, so if it looks like your bag then chances are the writing will be too. If it isn’t then at least it never seems to get in the way of the puzzles.

Those puzzles, at least in the early game, are both satisfying to complete and complex enough to require a bit of thought, though judging by the menu there’s only a few dozen of them.

It’s fun, fast, colourful and costs a bit over £6 on Steam or the The Cat Machine site.

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Oh my god this is so fucking tight!

I didn’t know what this was about, so here’s an excerpt from an article on HuffPo:

“The area known as Oak Flat is part of Arizona’s Tonto National Forest, and the Apache have used it for generations in young women’s coming-of-age ceremonies. In 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower removed it from consideration for mining activities in recognition of its natural and cultural value. But in December 2014, during the final days of the previous Congress, Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) added a rider to the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act that opened the land to mining conglomerates Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton.”

Guys… It’s the 21st century and we’re still fucking doing this. We’re still robbing native peoples of their lands. Call your senators and representatives.

Article is here: http://ift.tt/1Jk8Odw

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What Taraji P. Henson Dislikes About Cookie!

People LOVE doing this to WOC, especially black women. People don’t call Anne Hathaway Princess Mia. They call her by her damn name. Don’t get me started on “Precious” and “Crazy Eyes”.

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Or Annie instead of Quvenzhané….

We're expecting a double-dose of Nexus phones this year—a smaller (5.2-inch) phone from LG and a larger (phablet) device from Huawei. Over the weekend, a real-life picture that purports to be of the LG Nexus surfaced on Google+. The image matches up with renders released earlier by uSwitch.

The picture supposedly shows the back of a white LG Nexus. Centered below the camera bump is a silver circle for the fingerprint reader, which has been described as a "secure halo" by leakers in the past. Android M adds support for a fingerprint reader API, so naturally both Nexus phones should come equipped with the necessary hardware.

The one piece of hardware on the back that is a surprise is above the dual-LED flash. There's a dark oval, which is most likely LG's laser autofocus system. This has been present on the LG G4 and enables the device to quickly lock on to the correct focus for close-up objects.

It’s Sunday, it’s a nice day outside, and we’ve realized that we’re having a hard time deciding if it’s funny or not that Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers is now a beekeeper. See, his name is one kind of insect, but now he has picked up a hobby that’s related to a different kind of insect, and we’re just not sure if that counts as irony. He’s worried about the world’s population of honeybees dying off, so he decided to raise some bees and help the environment. Also, his name is Flea. Is there even anything funny about that?

Maybe if his name were “Fleakeeper” and he became a beekeeper, then we’d have something. Or, better yet, what if Sting became a beekeeper? That’d be Newswire gold. We could make so many jokes about Sting and bees ...