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Snap Inc., formerly Snapchat, unveils Spectacles, sunglasses that record 10 seconds of video at a time with a tap of a button, to be sold this fall for $130 — IN AN UNMARKED BUILDING on a quiet side street just off the beach in Venice, California, 26-year-old Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel stands in a small conference room.
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The potential opportunities and pitfalls of Snap's new Spectacles — Snapchat is the only company cool enough to possibly dismantle the Google Glass stigma. Awkward, useless, and a threat to privacy are how many think of computers you wear on your face. Can Snapchat show off … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
How Snap's Spectacles work: 115-degree lens shoots circular videos up to 30 seconds long that are wirelessly transferred to the app, lights indicate recording — Your questions answered — The company formerly known as Snapchat surprised the world last night by unveiling Spectacles, its first hardware product.| Palmer Freeman Luckey / Facebook: |
Palmer Luckey says he contributed $10K to Nimble America, but isn't employee or founder of organization and isn't “NimbleRichMan”, doesn't plan on giving more — I am deeply sorry that my actions are negatively impacting the perception of Oculus and its partners.The recent news stories …
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| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Sources: Google to launch $129 Google Wifi router; one source says several units will be able to link together to form a larger wireless mesh network — OnHub-schmonhub: two sources are now telling us that Google will introduce an own-brand Wi-Fi router called Google Wifi, and that the device will cost $129.
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| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Sources: Google Home will cost $129, Chromecast Ultra with 4K support will cost $69 — Speaking to Android Police, two sources claim that Google will announce its Google Home and the 4K ‘Chromecast Ultra’ devices will be priced at $129 and $69, respectively, at its October 4th event.
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| Kevin Hartnett / Quanta Magazine: |
DARPA prevented hackers from taking control of an unmanned drone using “formal methods”, a technique that can verify whether programs are error-free — In the summer of 2015 a team of hackers attempted to take control of an unmanned military helicopter known as Little Bird.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
The Verge founding team member Chris Ziegler took a job at Apple two months before leaving the website; internal review finds no impact on editorial decisions — Hey everyone — there have been questions about Chris Ziegler and his absence from The Verge in the past few weeks.
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Thanks:@navesink. See also Mediagazer| Michael del Castillo / CoinDesk: |
Bank of America, Santander, and the Royal Bank of Canada partner to create a global blockchain payments network using Ripple's distributed ledger technology — Bank of America, Santander and the Royal Bank of Canada have today announced they've joined forces to create a global blockchain … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Sony says Xperia XZ available in the US from October 2 starting at $699, Xperia X Compact available September 25 starting at $499 — If you reside in the Sates, it's probably best not to get your hopes up when it comes to Sony handsets. Availability has been, at best, spotty.
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| Steven Melendez / Fast Company: |
Companies like ApolloShield and Battelle are developing hardware and software that can disable drones without destroying them — On the margins of technology and the law, companies and governments are hacking unmanned vehicles and putting up their drone shields.Thanks:@annelisemcgough
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
nuTonomy partners with Grab to expand its self-driving car trials in Singapore — Fresh from raising $750 million in new financing this week, Uber rival in Southeast Asia Grab is now making a move into the self-driving car space after it agreed to a partnership with NuTonomy, the MIT spin-out that is developing autonomous vehicles.| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: Twitter is looking for a price of at least $30B in sale discussions — Could it fetch up to $30 billion, as some sources suggest? — How serious is this Twitter sales effort? According to sources we've spoken to, it's more of a soft outreach and inbound than a formal … | TechCrunch: |
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