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22:04 13.04.2016

Apple releases first Safari Technology Preview update with Web Inspector, ES6 enhancements

Apple today released the first update to its Safari Technology Preview version of Safari designed for software developers. This second release (version 9.1.1) comes with several changes that have to do with JavaScript, CSS, accessibility, the browser’s Web Inspector feature, and most generally, the latest from the WebKit open-source browser engine. With respect to JavaScript […]... →

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22:00 13.04.2016

Google should revise its Android update messaging strategy

ANALYSIS: Samsung and Verizon have finally gotten on the same page and pushed out the long-awaited Android 6.0 Marshmallow update to Galaxy S6 handsets — my own included. Only two weeks prior, I had rhetorically questioned the status of the update on Twitter, only to receive a canned response from Verizon support informing me how exciting […]... →

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22:00 13.04.2016

Naughty America tries to get VR porn just right

Believe it or not, the porn industry is having a bit of a hard time with virtual reality. VR is all about immersing you in the middle of a virtual place, setting your imagination loose and making you feel like you are right there with what you are seeing. Sounds ideal, right? But Ian Paul, […]... →

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21:51 13.04.2016

Regina Dugan exits Google to lead Facebook’s Building 8, a new R&D lab

Talent wars may never cease in Silicon Valley. Facebook today announced it has hired former Google Vice President of advanced technology and projects, Regina Dugan, to head up a new group dubbed Building 8. According to a company statement, Dr. Dugan’s department will combine R&D with product development, and focus on technologies that “fluidly blend physical and digital… Read More... →

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21:41 13.04.2016

Facebook wants to make social VR indistinguishable from real life

Facebook is conducting a lot of research into how to capture social interaction in virtual reality so that it will seem real. In addition to a demo on how to do selfies in a 360-degree VR photo, Facebook showed how researchers are trying to make social interaction in VR indistinguishable from real life, so that […]... →

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21:39 13.04.2016

Veteran Apple designer leaves for GoPro to be VP of Design

Longtime Apple industrial designer Danny Coster is joining GoPro. Coster had worked at Apple since the early 1990s, and helped Apple re-establish itself after Steve Jobs returned. Now he has to do that to GoPro. GoPro’s stock popped on the news and is trading up on the day. The news comes from The Information and an internal email sent from GoPro’s founder and CEO, Nick Woodman and… Read More... →

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21:21 13.04.2016

Facebook’s latest AI experiments: generating captions and recognizing faces in videos

At its F8 developer conference in San Francisco today, Facebook demonstrated its latest in artificial intelligence (AI) research efforts. Not surprisingly, they are about video. Video implies a whole bunch of individual images put together. So it logically flows from Facebook’s progress around object recognition and image caption generation using AI. “You can imagine us […]... →

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21:20 13.04.2016

Star Wars: Battlefront’s next expansion adds Cloud City and Lando

OK, this sounds a bit more exciting for Star Wars fans, even if one addition has us a little perplexed. EA has released details for its next Star Wars: Battlefront expansion, the second of five planned as part of its season pass. Titled Bespin, the new content includes four maps based around Cloud City, the […]... →

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21:19 13.04.2016

Facebook will soon be able to automatically tag your friends in videos

Facebook is making big strides in using its artificial intelligence systems for image recognition, but it’s also working on bringing this technology to video. As the company demoed at its F8 developer conference in San Francisco today, it has a team working on automatically tagging people in videos. As Facebook’s director of machine learning Joaquin Quiñonero Candela said during… Read More... →

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21:17 13.04.2016

Android N Developer Preview 2 hits with Vulkan, shortcuts, less ‘generic’ emoji

Developers, start your fastboots! Android N’s Developer Preview 2 is now live for OTA updates or manual flashing. This update brings a mixed bag of features and fixes. Read More... →

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21:10 13.04.2016

Facebook назначил дату эвтаназии своей ненужной системы электронной почты «Титан» — она умрёт первого мая

6 лет назад Facebook пытался доказать инвесторам, что его надо сравнивать с почтовыми системами. На практике почта в домене @facebook.com оказалась никому не нужна и соцсеть не испытывает от этого проблем.... →

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21:05 13.04.2016

Microsoft on causing Oculus Rift delays: ‘This is false’

If you preordered the Oculus Rift headset, you might still be waiting for it — but that’s not because of the Xbox One controller. Microsoft has debunked allegations that it is responsible for the delays customers are experiencing with their Oculus Rift headset orders. Yesterday, a post on Reddit from someone claiming to have “insider” status at Oculus […]... →

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21:00 13.04.2016

Legal health isn’t easy for digital health companies

With the recent announcement of the Apple CareKit, an open-source platform to simplify the development of healthcare apps for iOS devices, it appears that the digital health industry is primed to become even more robust in 2016. As the convergence of healthcare and technology continues, technology companies (and investors) are increasingly finding themselves lost in a thicket of unique… Read More... →

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20:55 13.04.2016

Microsoft adds Universal Windows Platform support to Facebook’s React Native

Microsoft and Facebook are announcing today that the Facebook-led React Native open-source software for native mobile app development is getting Universal Windows Platform (UWP) support. The new UWP development software is available now. But Microsoft will be sharing the code as part of the React Native project, said Christine Abernathy, developer advocate for Facebook’s open-source […]... →

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20:48 13.04.2016

Google launches Android N Developer Preview 2 with new 3D rendering API, launcher shortcuts, and Emoji Unicode 9

Google today launched the second release of the Android N developer preview. You can start testing your apps against this release by downloading the new preview from developer.android.com/preview. Google launched the first Android N developer preview just over a month ago. In past years, Google has unveiled the next Android version and released the accompanying […]... →

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20:41 13.04.2016

Работники неохотно помогают равным по статусу — исследование Университета Огайо

Исследование, проведенное в Университете Огайо, показало, что люди наименее охотно помогают тем коллегам, играющим схожую роль в компании. Об этом пишет Fast Company.... →

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20:39 13.04.2016

Facebook demos taking selfies in VR

Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, just showed how to take a selfie of yourself and a friend inside a virtual reality 360-degree photo. He showed off the demo during a keynote at the F8 event in San Francisco today. It’s part of Facebook’s plan to make VR, which can be a solitary experience, more […]... →

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20:32 13.04.2016

Facebook unveils antennas for improving Internet access in cities and rural areas

Facebook today is showing off its latest unconventional equipment for bringing better Internet connectivity to more people. There are two new projects: the Terragraph antennas for distributing gigabit Internet in densely city environments using both Wi-fi and cellular signals, and the Aries array of radio antennas for delivering wireless signals to devices in rural areas […]... →

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20:30 13.04.2016

Facebook’s Terragraph and ARIES antennas bring Internet to underserved areas

Probably the most impressive of Facebook’s connectivity projects is its solar-powered Aquila drone for enabling Internet access in remote areas. But while the technology behind Aquila is impressive, more traditional terrestrial connectivity systems are often still more practical. Today, Facebook announced two new connectivity projects at its F8 developer conference, Terragraph and… Read More... →

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20:26 13.04.2016

Oculus demos VR selfie sticks and 360 photo spheres and

Oculus wants to let you go anywhere in the world instantly and even take a photo while you’re there, and today it demoed how at F8. Facebook’s CTO Mike Schroepfer show how 360 photos will appear as handheld sphere in Oculus’ social den, and when smashed against your face, you’ll instantly teleport there. With a VR selfie stick, you’ll be able to take a photo of… Read More... →

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