The annual Game Awards ceremony awarded this year’s “Best Direction” award to Naughty Dog studio’s The Last of Us Part II — provoking a strong reaction from Kotaku’s staff writer. “I think it’s pretty obvious that no game that required its developers to crunch, like The Last of Us Part II did, should be given…

We took Amazon and Google out of the running (just this once) to see what other great smart home devices are out there. …read more Source:: CNet

We’ve become used to finding models on websites such as Thingiverse and downloading them to print. After all, whose hackerspace doesn’t have a pile of novelty prints? How about printing them on paper? For the plotter enthusiast that can be particularly annoying. Never fear, [Trammell Hudson] is here with an online 3D to 2D converter…

The Australian not-for-profit has managed to achieve AU$5 million in savings over five years. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Hackers monitored staff email at the department, Reuters reports. …read more Source:: CNet

In The Believer, the Star Wars show forces our hero and an old frenemy to infiltrate the Empire, and we get a Baby Yoda first. …read more Source:: CNet

Reuters reports that “a sophisticated hacking group” backed by “a foreign government” has stolen information from America’s Treasury Department, and also from “a U.S. agency responsible for deciding policy around the internet and telecommunications.” There is concern within the U.S. intelligence community that the hackers who targeted the Treasury Department and the Commerce Department’s National…

Remote work “is here to stay,” argues a new article in Silicon Valley’s newspaper The Mercury News (also re-published in the East Bay Times). But they’ve also asked industry professionals around Silicon Valley whether this will hurt our ability to innovate. Software engineer/entrepreneur Joyce Park (who’s worked in Silicon Valley over 20 years): “Fast feedback…

The Theragun Pro is $499, and you can also get the Theragun Elite for $349. …read more Source:: CNet

Nathan Myhrvold is a former CTO of Microsoft, co-founder of the equity company Intellectual Ventures, and the founder of “food innovation lab” Modernist Cuisine (which among other things resulted in book of remarkable food photography). But he’s now photographing the intricate designs of snowflakes, reports Fast Company: Over the span of 18 months, Myhrvold built…