Month: February 2016

Samsung's Galaxy S6. (credit: Ron Amadeo)

Samsung has announced that it will ship its first Android 6.0 Marshmallow update today. The newest version of Android will be coming to the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, with the announcement saying that "other Galaxy devices will soon follow."

Samsung doesn't explicitly say so, but we would guess today's rollout is only for unlocked, "International" devices. The announcement cryptically states that Samsung will "make separate announcements on details of OS updates schedule for each market according to market situation and carriers’ requirements."

Last year, Samsung started rolling out Lollipop to the flagship Galaxy S5 just 31 days after launch. For Marshmallow, that delay increased to a whopping 133 days. Of course, this number only pertains to unlocked devices. If you bought a device through a carrier, it's up to the company to stick its fingers in the update pie.

Capcom

This white fireball is full of hurt.

15 more images in gallery

With each new Street Fighter game comes an intense amount of scrutiny from fighting-game fans who are eager to see how new characters and mechanics have shaken up world's most popular quarter-circle-motion fisticuffs series. That scrutiny only intensifies in the case of a big, fat number bump. This isn't just the "Super Ultra Turbo Chibi-Sumo Edition," this here's one louder, isn't it?

Street Fighter V will certainly have fans talking, what with its new "V-Trigger" system and other noticeable tweaks throughout its roster of old favorites, peculiar returners, and weird new brawlers. But for the first time in a new-number Street Fighter game, people will almost certainly talk more about what's missing.

Capcom has advertised this as the first, last, and only retail edition for Street Fighter V—meaning, the game will supposedly live on as a constantly updated service, complete with free balance patches, free mode updates, and not-quite-free content purchase options. What Capcom hasn't advertised is the fact that the game, as it's launching on Tuesday, is already in desperate need of those updates.

One of the problems with much of science is that it is often a quasi-sedentary profession. Apart from those lucky few who have to trek through muddy fields in Vietnam or scale icy cliffs in Antarctica, the rest of us mostly took the job because it was indoors and required no heavy lifting.

That said, scientists get a lot of exercise. Usually, this involves energetically jumping to conclusions—there is nothing quite like seeing two data points, fitting a straight line and yelling, “We understand this COMPLETELY.”

The newest craze among the more energetic set is aquatic: shark jumping. Science is undergoing a cultural change at the moment, thanks to the Open Science movement, an idea that I am broadly supportive of. But some of the latest goals and statements seem a little… unrealistic to me.