By Angela Chen
Finally, the rumor we’ve been waiting for: Google is …
Report: Google Wants to Release Its Own Phones By End of Year
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Monthly Archives: June 2016
Oculus Backtracks on DRM and Allows the HTC Vive to Play Rift Games Again
By Darren Orf
Games exclusivity is common place for consoles. Master Chief is on Xbox and Nathan Drake is on PS4. That’s the way it is. But for VR, many fans and developers want things to be more open, so gamers can able games on any headset they want. Today, Oculus’ latest update removes a perviously controversial DRM rule
, making that idea much more possible.
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Game of Thrones, You Magnificent Bastard(s)
By Rob Bricken on io9, shared by Rob Bricken to Gizmodo
So it finally came down to this: an unbelievably epic battle between Jon Snow and Ramsay Bolton for Winterfell, the North, and maybe even all of Westeros. But which bastard reigned supreme?
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Are You Going To Read This Story, Or Just Share the Link?
Secret’s out, readers: we know you don’t read our stuff. You just look at our headlines and share our links, but you don’t click on our stories. You don’t read our words. Do you care about us at all?!
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Sunday’s Best Deals: Chromecast, Simplehuman, Working Hands
Watch the Painstaking Art of Making Movie Sound Effects
By Casey Chan on Sploid, shared by Katie Drummond to Gizmodo
I’m not sure what I love most about foley artists: is it their wildly creative ways to recreate sound? The totally locked-in concentration they have to follow a scene? The all-around goofiness of the gig?
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New Calculation Shows We’ll Make Contact With Aliens in About 1,500 Years
The disturbing Fermi Paradox suggests we should have made contact with an extraterrestrial civilization by now, yet we haven’t. By applying a 500-year-old philosophical principle, a Cornell University researcher has shown that the Great Silence is not unexpected—we just need to give it more time.
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Here’s What Happened To All 53 of Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo Acquisitions
Yahoo, the once-vaunted internet giant, is in shambles. Its revenue is in …
ICS Insight Blog: Beautiful But Dangerous: Cinematic Interfaces in the Real World
When I was an engineering student at WPI, one of the non-technical classes I took required us to read Mary Shelley’s classic book Frankenstein. As a young geek, I had already read it, but not with the intent of analyzing the very important theme running through it that all technologists should consider: just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should do something.
Victor Frankenstein was so obsessed with conquering death that he didn’t stop to think through the repercussions, and the results…. Well, if you don’t know, read the book.
iOS apps will require secure HTTPS connections by 2017 – CNET
By Luke Lancaster Apple announces the move to mandatory use for the secure internet protocol for iOS apps at WWDC 2016. …read more
Source:: http://www.cnet.com/news/ios-apps-will-require-secure-https-connections-by-2017/#ftag=CAD590a51e