How to Play One of the Games From Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Bandersnatch, the new, Choose Your Own Adventure-style installment of Black Mirror out today, is (as you might expect) a twisty bit of interactive fiction. And Netflix has further tied the metatextual knot by building out a real website for the episode’s fictional games studio Tuckersoft, where several of the…

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Author: Bryan Menegus on io9, shared by Virginia K. Smith to Lifehacker

The Kir Péttilant Is the Perfect New Year’s Eve Drink

Call me basic if you must, but I love New Year’s eve. Whether you’re dancing yourself clean or just hanging at a house party, getting dressed up in shiny, sparkly garments and drinking shiny, sparkly drinks is fun, damn it. Not only is the Kir Péttilant as fancy and festive as they come, it’s extremely easy to make,…

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Author: Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Claire Lower to Lifehacker

Make Quick, Vibrant Infusions by Blending Leaves Into Booze

Some leaves taste like nothing, but then there are other leaves that taste very, very good. Using leaves that taste good to flavor spirits is smart and correct but, unless you have an immersion circulator or fancy siphon, it can take days, which is too long. Luckily, you can speed up the process significantly with a…

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Author: Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Claire Lower to Lifehacker

How Chip Makers Are Circumventing Moore’s Law to Build Super-Fast CPUs of Tomorrow

The elephant in the room has been, for a very long time, Moore’s Law—or really, its eventual end game. Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted in a 1965 paper that the number of transistors on a chip would double each year. More transistors mean more speed, and that steady increase has fueled decades of computer…

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Author: Alex Cranz on Gizmodo, shared by Virginia K. Smith to Lifehacker