Epic Games’ Fortnite has reached 8.3 million concurrent players worldwide (or about 0.1 percent of the human population) after finally making its debut in South Korea earlier this month. From a report: Because Internet cafes still play a large role in Asian countries, VG247 reports that players were encouraged to play Fortnite at PC bang…

Vendor loyalty for maintenance and support in Australia is declining, Rimini Street managing director for Asia-Pacific and Middle East has said. …read more Source:: ZDNet

[Integza] built a Tesla turbine and wanted to know how fast it was spinning. However, he didn’t have a tachometer, and didn’t want to buy one. After a false start of trying to analyze the audio to measure the speed, he decided to use a tried-and-true method. Let the wheel break an infrared (IR) optointerruptor…

The hybrid variant gets a pretty solid boost in output over the regular gas version. …read more Source:: CNet

Hello new nightmare fuel! Updated child android boy Affetto smiles and looks surprised thanks to advanced facial robotics. …read more Source:: CNet

Ryan Holmes, writing on Medium: Back in March of last year, Conde Nast Traveler did something a little unusual in the social media universe. They played hard to get. Instead of courting new followers with clickbait and promo codes, the company required that interested people apply to get into their closed Facebook Group, focused on…

Of all the big box Black Friday stores, Best Buy has the most good deals available now online. And even more coming soon. …read more Source:: CNet

A month after Apple’s new iPhone XR release, the company is set to discount the device in Japan, The Wall Street Journal reports. From the report: Less than a month after releasing the iPhone XR, Apple is moving to offer subsidies to mobile-network operators in Japan to shore up sales of its least expensive new…

All USPS.com account holders could view each other’s details, according to a Krebs report. …read more Source:: CNet

Outgoing comms chief post gets FB treatment Facebook’s outgoing public policy chief, Elliot Schrage, appears to have fallen on his sword, taking the blame for smearing critics of the company.… …read more Source:: TheRegister