Month: December 2021
Google is taking another shot at making an AR headset
Audio player loading… Google is once again dipping its toes into the world of augmented reality as a series of new job postings have revealed its intentions to create a new “Augmented Reality OS” for an unspecified “innovative AR device”. The search giant’s last foray into AR may have been…
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AWS went down again and took down a whole host of websites – now we know why
Refresh 2021-12-15T22:29:07.417Z 2021-12-15T22:29:01.877Z With all systems now green, at least according to the AWS dashboard, AWS added a bit of context to the second major outage in as many weeks. The US-WEST-1 and WEST-2 regions were impacted by identical issues. We’ll let them explain it: “Between 7:14 AM PST and…
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Hulu’s Theranos miniseries ‘The Dropout’ premieres March 3rd
As with many wild and dramatic stories, the tale of Theranos and its former CEO Elizabeth Holmes is getting multiple adaptations. The Jennifer Lawrence-led Bad Blood, which was just snapped up by Apple, will likely get the most attention. (Expect it to get plenty of Oscar love, like Adam McKay's…
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Amazon Luna runs on Windows — and yet it’s hiring Linux gaming engineers
When Amazon’s cloud gaming service Luna launched last October, the fact it ran on Windows set it apart. Unlike Google Stadia, it wouldn’t necessarily need to convince developers to painstakingly port their games to an unproven platform. But it now appears that Amazon is considering a shift to Linux-based servers,…
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Ray-Ban Stories get software update adding Facebook Messenger support
The Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses are getting the ability to let you send and receive Facebook Messenger messages right from your face, according to a Wednesday post by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He says that the features being rolled out are just the beginning for the product, which was made…
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Hosting firm scores vital victory in VPN piracy battle
Audio player loading… The web hosting company Quadranet has scored a victory in a VPN piracy lawsuit filed by several film companies after a Florida federal court dismissed their complaint with prejudice. As reported by TorrentFreak, earlier this year a group of independent film companies behind a number of popular…
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