Sunday, May 15, 2016

Acer Partners with Starbreeze to Design and Manufacture StarVR Headset and other top stories.

  • Acer Partners with Starbreeze to Design and Manufacture StarVR Headset

    Game developer Starbreeze has announced a new partnership with consumer electronics firm Acer to further the development of its high FOV, high resolution VR headset, StarVR. Starbreeze made a sizeable splash at E3 last summer when the unveiled StarVR, their 210 degree, high resolution VR headset born from project InfinitEye. Coupled with a dedicated VR experience based on their Walking Dead franchise, the headset received quite a bit of attention. Since then however, things have gone a littl..
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  • Battlefield 1 Historical Trailer Analysis Reveal The Game Creators Did Their Homework

    Battlefield 1 Historical Trailer Analysis Reveal The Game Creators Did Their Homework
    Battlefield 1 is one of the most anticipated games to come out this year, and the historical trailer recently launched fanned the flames. History experts from The Great War took to analyzing the recent video trailer and discovered that Battlefield 1 creators paid a good amount of attention to historical accuracy. Little factual errors and fantasy elements garnish the otherwise realistic first person shooter. The Great War takes the cinematic trailer apart shot by shot and concludes that the tec..
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  • Zuckerberg will now meet with prominent conservatives over Trending News controversy

    Zuckerberg will now meet with prominent conservatives over Trending News controversy
    Thomson ReutersFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks on stage during the Facebook F8 conference in San Francisco, California (Reuters) - Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg will meet this week with prominent conservatives in the media, a spokesman said on Sunday, to address allegations of political bias at the popular social networking site. Some 12 "conservative thought leaders" will join the meeting with Zuckerberg on Wednesday, a Facebook spokesman said. Among the invitees are media pers..
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  • National project to harness microbes for health, environment

    National project to harness microbes for health, environment
    WASHINGTON — We share our bodies and surroundings with teeming communities of microbes that are crucial to the health of people and the planet, and now the Obama administration is beginning a major project to better understand those invisible ecosystems — and even control them.The National Microbiome Initiative announced Friday at the White House aims to bring together scientists who study the microbes that live in the human gut and in the oceans, in farm soil and inside buildings, to speed ..
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  • Researchers Publish Data Set of 70000 OKCupid Users

    Researchers Publish Data Set of 70000 OKCupid Users
    How public is public? Depends who you ask. But in the greater scientific community, we would think that practices of consent—even for data that is somewhat-public—likely trump one's arguments that it's OK to publish whatever just because it's easy to get to. At least, that seems to be the arguments surrounding a data set published on May 8 by a team of Danish researchers. To create it, the researchers used a browser-based Web scraper to pull down information from around 70,000 or so OKCupid p..
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  • Massive Earthquake Could Create Tsunami With Potential To Devastate Hawaii

    Massive Earthquake Could Create Tsunami With Potential To Devastate Hawaii
    Massive Earthquake Could Create Tsunami With Potential To Devastate Hawaii Researchers have determined that there is a nine percent chance of a massive earthquake hitting Hawaii's Aleutian Islands, which could create a mega-tsunami that could threaten the state's inhabitants. By Tyler MacDonald | May 15, 2016 03:39 PM EDT Researchers have determined that there is a nine percent chance of a massive earthquake hitting Hawaii's Aleutian Islands, which could create a mega-tsunami that could threa..
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  • NASA Is Investing in Growable Habitats and Sleep Chambers

    NASA Is Investing in Growable Habitats and Sleep Chambers
    Image: NASASelf-assembling space habitats and a deep sleep chamber for long-duration space missions sound like ideas ripped right from the pages of a science fiction novel, but these are some of the visionary projects NASA is currently developing.Through NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program (NIAC), the agency invests in many seemingly impossible technologies. Known for taking out-of-the-box concepts that seem like science fiction and turning them into science fact, the program is changin..
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  • Online privacy fears: Is there a path forward?

    Online privacy fears: Is there a path forward?
    Nearly half of Americans refrain from online activities such as banking or shopping out of security and privacy fears, according to a survey released Friday by a federal telecommunication agency.  Forty-five percent of households surveyed said that security and privacy concerns – including identity theft, fraud, data collection, and loss of control of personal data – discouraged them from conducting online banking and shopping or posting about controversial or political matters on social networ..
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Celestial navigation: Dung beetles navigate by 'snapshot' of the stars .White House Goes With Its Gut, Backs New Microbiome Project .
Butterfly recovery receives blow from winter storm kill .Facebook's Bias Is Built-In, and Bears Watching .

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