On 6-29-2019 at 3 pm est BoomTV ran a tournament for Call of Duty players with a $40,000 prize pool. From the start of the tournament, some competitor kills were not getting counted. This was a widespread issue that even caused BoomTVs services to go down. It took a while to fix but BoomTV finally
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Misc
Riad Kilani from ModCrash Coming Back
Hey guy’s, as many of you know, ModCrash started more as a hobby site that kind of blew up over night. ModCrash really started taking off! In February 2014 Riad had been involved in a pretty bad car accident that ended up needing 4 cervical surgeries. After the 3rd surgery Riad immediately started suffering from a seizure
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Lenovo Recalls Certain ThinkPad Batteries Due to Fire Hazard
All laptops heat up during use, but if you are using one of Lenovo’s recalled batteries you may notice a bit more than normal heat. The company is recalling certain ThinkPad series batteries that shipped worldwide between October 2010 and April 2011 due to extreme overheating and a possible fire hazard. This overheating can also cause damage
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Operation Supply Drop Charity
Naughty Dog, Wargaming America, Rooster Teeth and ASTRO Gaming will join gamers May 17-18, to help raise funds for the military-focused video game charity Operation Supply Drop.
Funds and donations raised during Operation Supply Drop’s 2014 8-Bit Salute, a 24-hour gaming marathon, will be used to create care packages full of video gaming gear for
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Google Fiber Expansion Include Up to 34 Cities
Its been awhile since any real news about where Google Fiber may strike next for a while. With Google Fiber in the works for Austin, Texas and already in Kansas City and Provo, UT . AT&T has promised a gigabit internet service in Austin to compete with Google in its own backyard. While the list of
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DARPA & IBM Making Self Destructing CMOS Chips
It seems with any spy movie of the past couple decades and with computers in some form becoming more and more ingrained in our everyday lives we see some sort of electronics needing to be smashed in order to keep it for the bad guys or vice versa and out of the hands of the
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EA Madden 25 Predicts Who Will Win the Super Bowl
So apparently, Electronic Arts can predict the Super Bowl. They have been correct 8 of the last 10 times, so that has to be worth something. Every year, EA runs a simulation of the game on its current Madden game; this year should be exciting as the results came out to the Seattle Seahawks winning in overtime by a field
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