VR's killer app has arrived, and it's Google Earth
Enlarge / Don't you even think about not dragging the Earth, son. Google's telling you to.Sam Machkovech reader comments 5 I stood at the peak of Mount Rainier, the tallest mountain in Washington State. The sounds of wind whipped past my ears, and mountains and valleys filled a seemingly endless horizon in every direction. I'd never seen anything like it—until I grabbed the sun. Using my HTC Vive virtual reality wand, I reached into the heavens in order to spin the Earth along its normal ..>> view originalSpaceX just asked permission to launch 4425 satellites — more than currently orbit Earth
Flickr/SpaceX SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by the Mars-hungry tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, just made a big move to enshroud the planet in high-speed internet coverage. On November 15, the company filed a lengthy application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch 4,425 satellites. (We first heard about the filing through the r/SpaceX community on Reddit.) That is a hell of a lot of satellites. According to a database compiled by t..>> view originalFacebook won't call itself a media company. Here's how it can still support journalism
In the days leading up to and following this election, Facebook has been called lots of things — "a website," "an internet company," "a major player in the media universe," "a strange new class of media outlet," a "tech behemoth," a "cesspool of nonsense." Vox cut to the chase, calling on Facebook to "admit that it is, in fact, a media company" observing "that the design of its news feed inherently involves making editorial decisions, and that it has a responsibility to make those decisions res..>> view originalApple has a secret team working to make the iPhone's camera a portal to augmented reality
Apple CEO Tim Cook. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Apple is integrating augmented reality technology into the iPhone’s camera app, a person familiar with the matter told Business Insider. The effort, which involves teams from several acquired startups, reflects Apple’s near-term desire to put augmented reality technology into consumers' hands even as it develops special glasses that could eventually change the way people perceive their surroundings. Apple also recently hired an..>> view originalChina tells Trump climate change is not a Chinese hoax
The tweet has been referenced during a presidential debate, retweeted more than 104,000 times and drawn hundreds of replies. Now, President-elect Donald Trump’s four-year-old Twitter claim that China created the “concept of global warming” to render U.S. manufacturing noncompetitive has elicited a response from the Chinese government. China’s Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin repudiated Trump’s accusation on Wednesday, telling reporters at United Nations talks in Marrakesh, Morocco, that U.S. ..>> view originalMicrosoft joins the Linux foundation and blows everyone's mind
Microsoft, the monolithic force in the land of software licensing and exclusivity, has joined the Linux Foundation. Yes, you read that correctly and no, this isn’t a joke. At the company’s Connect conference today in New York, the house that Gates built revealed that it is joining the Linux Foundation as a platinum member. The non-profit organization has three tiers of membership, with platinum being the highest, followed by gold and silver. As a platinum member, Microsoft has committed to dona..>> view originalAdvertisers want Facebook to stop 'grading its own homework'
Earlier this fall, the ad industry gathered in New York City for one of its biggest annual trade conferences. The topic on everyone’s mind: How do you fairly measure video views? News that Facebook had long oversold a key metric in how it quantified video views had shocked marketers, and the social network had deployed some of its most prominent executives to do damage control. But despite the mea culpas, there was a pervasive sense that a reckoning was only just beginning — not just for Facebo..>> view originalPluto's Wandering Heart Hints at Subsurface Ocean
Pluto's famous heart-shaped feature caused the dwarf planet to roll over the eons, and this reorientation probably wouldn't have been possible without a subsurface ocean, new research suggests. The left lobe of Pluto's "heart" is a 600-mile-wide (1,000 kilometers) plain called Sputnik Planitia (formerly known as Sputnik Planum), which astronomers think is an enormous impact crater. This basin has been filling with nitrogen ice over the years and now contains huge amounts of the stuff. I..>> view originalLinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
After a tense stand-off and attempt at negotiations, Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor has started to enforce a proposed block of LinkedIn in the country, after the social network failed to transfer Russian user data to servers located in the country, violating a law instituted in Russia requiring all online sites to store personal data on national servers. The order against LinkedIn was issued in a short statement on Rokomnadzor’s site (in Russian) that cited the original Moscow ..>> view original
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