Roll The Radioactive Dice For Truly Random D&D Play

When you have a bunch of people today collected all around a table for a “Dungeons & Dragons” session, you have to count on that issues are not constantly likely to go easily. Immediately after all, persons who willingly create and immerse on their own in an alternate reality where by 1 terrible roll of the dice can lead to the virtual demise of a character they’ve put in months or several years with can be traumatic. And with that trauma will come the search for the guilty — it’s the dice! It is often the dice!

Doing away with that justification, or at least earning it statistically implausible, is the notion powering this radioactively random dice roller. It arrives to us from [Science Shack] and takes advantage of radioactive decay to create really random quantities, as opposed to the pseudorandom range generators baked into most microcontrollers. The layout

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Google Play apps with >20M downloads depleted batteries and network bandwidth

Google Play apps with >20M downloads depleted batteries and network bandwidth

Google Play has given the boot to 16 apps with more than 20 million combined installations after researchers detected malicious activity that could cause the Android devices they ran on to drain batteries faster and use more data than normal.

The apps provided legitimate functions, including flashlight, camera, QR reading, and measurement conversions, security firm McAfee said on Wednesday. When opened, however, the apps surreptitiously downloaded additional code that caused them to perform ad fraud. From then on, infected devices received messages through the Google-owned Firebase Cloud Messaging platform that instructed them to open specific web pages in the background and select links to artificially inflate the number of clicks ads received.

“Mainly, it is visiting websites which are delivered by FCM message and browsing them successively in the background while mimicking user’s behavior,” McAfee’s SangRyol Ryu wrote. “This may cause heavy network traffic and consume power without user

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Texas Tech, UT plan to play annually as non-conference foes

Texas Tech and Texas have met in football every year since 1960. The series was jeopardized by Texas' choice to soon leave the Big 12, but Tech athletics director Kirby Hocutt says he and Texas AD Chris Del Conte have discussed the two schools playing annually in all sports for the next 20 to 25 years.

The College of Texas shortly will be absent from the Major 12, but the Longhorns will never be forgotten in Texas Tech circles.

Nor are they possible to vanish from venues such as Jones AT&T Stadium, United Supermarkets Arena and other Tech stadiums.

Tech and UT have experienced severe conversations about continuing to perform each year as non-meeting opponents following the Longhorns go reside as associates of the Southeastern Conference, Tech athletics director Kirby Hocutt explained to A-J Media on Friday.

Pink Raider Sporting activities first documented the advancement.

“We have experienced conversations with the University of Texas about continuing to perform them once they go away the Massive 12 Convention, on an annual foundation, in all sports,” Hocutt told the A-J, “and we have received affirmation from management at the College of Texas that they agree that would be a beneficial issue and have pledged that they will work

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