1 | TITLE: Oculus Rift Is Virtually Here! * 1225 | CO-ANCHOR: Mashable Senior Tech Analyst Christina Warren | ||||
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3 | 03/27/2015 - Facebook virtually says something real about Oculus Rift, Google's Ingress might become a TV Show, BlackBerry posts a profit, and more... | |||||
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12 | I'm Mike Elgan. | |||||
13 | Co-anchor: Mashable Senior Tech Analyst Christina Warren | |||||
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22 | Oculus Chief Scientist Mike Abrash gave a long keynote yesterday at Facebook's F8 conference about how the human brain will be tricked into believing what it sees in virtual reality. He also gave a few more details about the upcoming Oculus Rift product. | http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/26/oculus-chief-scientist-says-were-all-going-to-care-about-virtual-reality/ | ||||
23 | Dean Takahashi is the lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. Q: Did it make sense that Abrash spent his time on stage talking about and showing optical illusions? How did this benefit developers? Q: Can you talk about the Crescent Bay demo, specifically the need and challenge of refreshing at 90 hertz? Q: What did Abrash say about haptics? Q: Abrash was preceded on stage by CTO Mike Schroepfer, who seemed to imply that Oculus Rift would ship this year. He later clarified that he meant no such announcement. Do you have a sense when Oculus Rift will be available to the public? Q: What kind of team does Facebook have working on Oculus? Q: What is Facebook Teleportation? | Dean Takahashi Lead writer for GamesBeat, VentureBeat @deantak | ||||
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25 | Dean Takahashi * venturebeat.com * @deantak | https://youtu.be/UDu-cnXI8E8?t=42m28s | ||||
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29 | The Information is reporting that Google might be working on an Ingress TV series. The site says Ingress developer Niantic Labs has partnered with the Sean Daniel Company, which is the producer behind SyFy's upcoming miniseries The Expanse. What's really interesting about this news is that Niantic sees the TV show having an influence on actual game play. | https://www.theinformation.com/Google-Takes-Its-Web-Game-to-TV | ||||
30 | Tom Dotan is a Reporter for The Information and he co-wrote the story with Amir Efrati. Q: Before we get into your story, can you talk about what Ingress is and where it came from? Q: Who's involved in this project? Q: How might the TV show influence game play? | Tom Dotan Reporter, The Information @cityofthetown | ||||
31 | * Flint Dille, Ingress' creative lead and a longtime screenwriter, has reportedly also been helping to develop a TV show * Ingress launched as a closed beta in 2012 and opened up in 2013. * Players join one of two factions and vie for control of real-life locations, collecting resources and capturing "portals" for their side | |||||
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53 | An exclusive on The Verge by Spencer Woodman says that Amazon makes even temp warehouse workers sign an 18-month non-compete contract. | http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/26/8280309/amazon-warehouse-jobs-exclusive-noncompete-contracts | ||||
54 | Spencer joins us to talk about it. Q: How did you learn about Amazon's employment contracts? Q: The contract prohibits workers from working at any company that "directly or indirectly" supports any good or service that competes with Amazon. But doesn't Amazon sell everything? Q: Aren't non-competes normally associated with developers and others who create trade secrets or intellectual property? Q: What is Amazon afraid of? How do they benefit from having $12-per-hour employees work somewhere else? Q: What do experts say about the legality and enforceability of these contracts? | Spencer Woodman Reporter @spencerwoodman | ||||
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64 | Google lost an appeal in a British court today over tracking browser users, and now faces a lawsuit there. A group called Safari Users Against Google’s Secret Tracking accused Google of over-riding security settings in order to track users via cookies in order to serve up personalized advertising. | http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/27/google-loses-uk-appeal-court-battle-clandestine-tracking | ||||
65 | * in 2012, the FTC fined Google $22.5 million * in 2013, Google paid another $17 million to settle a U.S. court case * Google wanted the case moved to California, saying UK law doesn't apply * appeals court ruled that claimants may recover damages under U.K. Data Protection Act * lawsuit over “clandestine” tracking and collation of internet usage between summer 2011 and early 2012 * claim it led to "distress and embarrassment" among UK users. | |||||
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88 | A new update to Instapaper adds a speed-reading option, and also an option to save text as an image to Twitter. * * * | https://www.instapaper.com/ | ||||
89 | Google and Bitnami launched today a new feature for Google’s Cloud Platform, enabling developers to deploy more than 120 open-source applications to the platform with just a few clicks. These include WordPress, Drupal, Redis, MongoDB, Gitlab and Django. * * * | https://google.bitnami.com/ | ||||
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100 | Amazon is in talks to buy the London-based online luxury retailer Net-a-porter, according to a report in Women's Wear Daily. Talks are in the early stages. Forbes values the company at $2.16 billion. * * * | http://www.net-a-porter.com/?cm_mmc=GoogleUS-_-US%20-%20Brand%20-%20USA_c-_-ALONE-_-net-a-porter_e&gclid=CNGf68LsyMQCFY2Ufgodv7AA5g | ||||
101 | Microsoft bought the Microsoft Office collaboration tool maker LiveLoop. The terms were not disclosed. * * * | http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-buys-office-collaboration-tool-maker-liveloop/ | ||||
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121 | HTC's lead designer, Jonah Becker, is leaving the company. He didn't say why. * * * | http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/26/htc-jonah-becker-resigns/ | ||||
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125 | BlackBerry today surprised everyone by posting a $28 million quarterly profit. Revenue, however, came in at $660 million for the quarter, well below expectations. The company also revealed that it sold only 8.5 million phones in the entire year last year. Compare that to the 74.4 million iPhones Apple sold in the 4th quarter alone. * * * | http://business.financialpost.com/2015/03/27/blackberry-ltd-beats-expectations-on-bottom-line-but-revenue-falls-short/?__lsa=e7ba-8209 | ||||
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133 | 2.76 billion * That's how many dollars the business messaging maker Slack is worth, according to a new funding round. * * * | https://slack.com/ | ||||
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141 | Godwin's law has come to smartphone advertising. A Chinese company is advertising its new smartphone by comparing Apple to Hitler. The company is called LeTV, the new ad ad for the LeTV X900 smartphone shows a cartoon Adolf Hitler wearing an Apple logo instead of a swastika. The text on the ad says that Android represents crowdsourced freedom, while iOS represents arrogance and tyranny. | https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/jNleTAFl8VyYzeNDZ6jvas_3Cow=/1400x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3547356/hi_res_apple_hitler_full.0.jpg | ||||
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