The goal: Try to make VR more social.
Source: CNET
Facebook and the MLB announced today a new live streaming partnership that will bring 20 live, regular season games to the social network. The games will air weekly on Facebook, with the first – Rockies at Reds – showing tomorrow night at 7:10 PM ET on the official MLB Facebook Page. Additional games and times will be announced later on. The weekly broadcasts on Facebook will come… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
As Google looks for ways to keep people using its own mobile search to discover content — in competition with apps and other services like Facebook’s Instant Articles — the company is announcing some updates to AMP, its collaborative project to speed up mobile web pages. Today at the Google I/O developer conference, Google announced that there are now over 2 billion AMP… Read More
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During Google I/O, Mike Jazayeri provide additional information about the upcoming stand-alone VR headset and the Daydream 2.0 platform. It will be able to cast to Chromecast devices and send captured content to social networks.
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Source: Digital trends
A French researcher says he’s found a tool that could help some fraction of victims running that older Windows version. Just don’t reboot! The post A WannaCry Flaw Could Help Some Windows XP Victims Get Files Back appeared first on WIRED.
Source: Wired
Medium has launched a new feature that could add more incentive to its paid membership program: audio stories. The paid member exclusive offering will provide an audio version of every story created specifically for its members, and will also be made available for some of the best posts on Medium, as selected from the company’s own staff. These aren’t just text-to-speech… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Today the FCC voted to officially propose an order that would eliminate net neutrality rules as we know them. To be clear, the rules are not being adopted today — that vote will be about three months from now, during which time the proposal is open for comment. Read More
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While it might not surprise many people to find out Google is rolling out a version of Chrome built for VR, the amount of support and rich feature set that’s coming is bound to cause some excitement.
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Source: Digital trends
At the I/O developer conference on Thursday, Google unveiled a bold new technology to bring desktop-grade graphics capabilities to your smartphone — using a few clever behind-the-scenes tricks.
The post Google wants to Jedi-mind trick your phone into a powerhouse with Seurat appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital trends
Facebook’s family of apps are moving in together. Facebook, Messenger and Instagram are each testing a feature that shows notification counters from the other apps and lets you instantly switch between them. Read More
Source: TechCrunch