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How two Valve engineers walked away with the company's augmented reality glasses
— Three months ago, celebrated video game publisher Valve did something completely out of character: it fired up to 25 workers, in what one employee dubbed the “great cleansing.”
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Google gets people ready for Glass with new how-to video
— Google's Project Glass is still exotic, futuristic, and distant — it's available only for extremely early adopters, including “creative individuals” who were let in through a Twitter and Google+ contest.
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google Glass code hints at spatial gestures, including two-finger browser zoom and winking to take a photo
— Google appears to be planning an interesting set of gestures for its Glass project, letting you use your fingers, head, and eyes to perform certain functions.
| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
Google Glass developers prohibited from using ads or charging for apps
— Google has released documentation for the Mirror API, the interface that programmers will use to write services for Glass. The contents include everything from quick start guides for Java and Python to in-depth developer guides …
| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Watch Google's full rundown of Project Glass and the Mirror API from SXSW
— Google has posted a video on YouTube of a presentation Developer Advocate Timothy Jordan gave at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive conference. In this video, he gives the audience and viewers a preview …
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google Glass Will Be Made In The U.S.A., Report Claims, At An Assembly Facility In Santa Clara
— Google Glass, the advanced head-mounted computing project the company is gearing up for a possible launch later this year, will be assembled in the U.S., according to a new report from the Financial Times today.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google confirms Project Glass will support prescriptions ‘later this year,’ but not in its Explorer Edition
— A prescription version of Google Glass is coming in 2013. Google's project Glass is a pair of glasses at the end of the day, so it follows that you'll be able to order a pair personalized to your prescription preferences.
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google reveals Glass apps: New York Times, Evernote, Gmail, and Path
— Developer advocate Timothy Jordan highlights the ways your favorite services might integrate with Google Glass — We're watching Google's Project Glass developer panel live at SXSW Interactive, and the company's showing off …
| Brian Heater / Engadget: |
Google shows off hacked speaking shoe at SXSW, promises it's not getting into the footwear business
— All the hype of Google's presence at this year's SXSW has, not surprisingly, largely revolved around the company's Glass project, but much to our surprise, the software giant used the show to take the wraps off yet another wearable.
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.