Pokémon Go-maker Niantic says it has driven 500 million visitors to sponsored locations like McDonald’s Japan where gamers can score a special virtual good. But it never said how much those sponsors paid per visitor delivered by the game.
But in an interview published yesterday by Brazil’s Globo newspaper, Niantic VP of strategic partnerships Mathieu de Fayet said (translated)… Read More
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Early this morning President Trump tweeted a fake word. Social media’s reaction is a prime example of how language travels online. The post The Internet Defines ‘Covfefe’ appeared first on WIRED.
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Microsoft today announced the launch of Draft, a new open-source tool that helps developers streamline the processes of developing container-based applications that are meant to run on Kubernetes clusters. Read More
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CoreOS is hosting its user conference in San Francisco today. Unsurprisingly, the company had a few announcements to make at the event. Most of these centered around its Tectonic platform for managing Kubernetes-based container infrastructures. For the most part, these updates are pretty straightforward. Tectonic now uses the latest version of Kubernetes, for example (1.6.4), which the… Read More
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Microsoft is exhibiting upcoming additions to the Windows Mixed Reality platform at Computex 2017, including affordable new headsets from major manufacturers that are set to be available this year.
The post Asus, Dell, Lenovo show off Windows Mixed Reality headsets at Computex appeared first on Digital Trends.
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You probably still get plenty of snail mail at your home — whether that’s wedding invitations, bills or advertisements for new credit cards. But despite all the efforts to kill that snail mail and get it sent directly to an inbox, there really doesn’t yet seem to be a replacement to that experience of getting home and stepping over those letters from businesses (important… Read More
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The system can warn a driver when it may encounter an issue with red-light timing.
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Oculus is continuously looking to make it easier to show what VR is like to people that aren’t experiencing it at the time.
In March, the company introduced Facebook live-streaming to the platform, and today, the company is making it even easier for you to locally share your experiences inside the Gear VR with those around you thanks to added support for Google Chromecast.
To get to… Read More
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Today there are multiple flights that will leave you in the air for 17 hours or more. Here’s where they go and what equipment they use to do it.
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The virtual reality headset goes completely wireless with Intel’s new WiGig tech.
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