Monday, July 25, 2016

'Pokémon Go' Delayed in Japan Due to Leaked McDonald's Sponsorship Details and other top stories.

  • 'Pokémon Go' Delayed in Japan Due to Leaked McDonald's Sponsorship Details

    Niantic has decided to postpone the launch of Pokémon Go in Japan today, due to an unexpected email leak that revealed details about the company's rumored sponsor partnership with food chain McDonald's. A source close to the company confirmed the delay to TechCrunch, referring to a specific email chain between Pokémon Go's creators and McDonald's as the reason behind the move. The two companies -- in addition to The Pokémon Company and Nintendo itself, presumably -- believed that the all-but-..
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  • Facebook wants to use fluorescence to make its laser drones work better

    Facebook wants to use fluorescence to make its laser drones work better
    A team of physicists and electrical engineers at Facebook published a new idea for using luminescence to improve signal detection in free-space optical communication today. Facebook, in a partnership with Internet.org, has been developing drones to deliver basic internet access to remote locations around the globe. Last year, the company came out with a plan, codenamed Project Aquila, to use lasers to deliver information across long distances. Most people are aware of fiber-optic cables used f..
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  • The fourth 'Kentucky Route Zero' chapter is finally here

    The fourth 'Kentucky Route Zero' chapter is finally here
    When my coworker Jessica Conditt spoke with developer Jake Elliott earlier this year, he hinted that episode four would shake things up quite a bit. Entirely new settings with new characters are on tap alongside some new gameplay elements. That's in addition to a bunch of backend improvements."It's hard, having been close to it for so long, this time there's some anxiety about whether it's going to land the way that we hope it will," Elliott said. "That anxiety has had a lot more time to build ..
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  • The new 'Overwatch' hero is causing all kinds of trouble

    The new 'Overwatch' hero is causing all kinds of trouble
    On Sony's latest console, following the update that added the maternal support character into the fracas, players have seen a number of issues crop up. Experience levels, rankings, cosmetic skins and in-game currency bought with real money have disappeared, according to IGN's sources. From the looks of it, this is a separate problem from the similar one that reared its head last week. A Blizzard customer support agent told IGN that it's a platform-specific bug and that the development team was ..
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  • Uber will use high-res satellite imagery to improve pickups

    Uber will use high-res satellite imagery to improve pickups
    DigitalGlobe was the company that convinced the US government to lift its image resolution restrictions on private satellites. Shortly after, it launched its WorldView-3 constellation that can detect images as small as 12 inches (30cm) across. It can also scan short-wave infrared frequencies, letting it see forest fires through smoke that would block other satellites, for instance.There's no mention of Uber's ambitious self-driving vehicles in relation to the high-resolution imagery, but mappin..
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  • Android Nougat's Easter egg is a feline-catching frenzy

    Android Nougat's Easter egg is a feline-catching frenzy
    Google's Android operating system, aside from being widely used all over the world, is also pretty much known for having Easter eggs inside the system. These things appear in Developer Previews, as well as final releases. This tradition has been observed ever since the days of Android Gingerbread, up to the latest version. Its latest version, recently dubbed as Android Nougat, isn't an exception. While the past two versions of Android, namely Lollipop and Marshmallow, featured Flappy Bird-insp..
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  • Car sharing increases mobility, decreases greenhouse gas emissions

    Car sharing increases mobility, decreases greenhouse gas emissions
    Drive, ride or share? It's a question more people are asking themselves as transportation options are rapidly evolving. But what does it mean for road congestion and the environment? In the first-ever North American one-way carsharing impact study, the ...
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  • Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elephant in the room

    Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elephant in the room
    The new UWP Skype client. reader comments 3 It has been a slow transition, but Skype is finalizing its move away from a peer-to-peer system to a cloud-based one. When it was first created, the Skype network was built as a decentralized peer-to-peer system. PCs that had enough processing power and bandwidth would be elected as "supernodes" and used to coordinate connections between other machines on the network. Similarly, text, voice, and video traffic would flow between peers, directly..
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  • Windows 10 Build 14393 goes live, may be last before Anniversary Update goes RTM

    Windows 10 Build 14393 goes live, may be last before Anniversary Update goes RTM
    Microsoft has been pushing beta builds of Windows 10 at a rapid-fire pace in preparation for the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, which arrives on August 2. The latest build, 14393, adds a few new reliability updates, a slew of mobile fixes, and at least one significant bug for Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 users.Let’s hit the bug first, since that’s an issue that could cause some problems. The first version of 14393 that rolled out yesterday contained a faulty camera driver that could cause blu..
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