Oculus Go performance ‘significantly better’ compared to Galaxy S7, says John Carmack

If you have any technical questions about the Oculus Go headset, just tweet John Carmack, Oculus Chief Technology Officer, and he’ll probably have an answer.  In a Twitter exchange with a curious Samsung Galaxy S7 owner, Carmack assured them that the Oculus Go mobile VR headset will perform “significantly better” than an S7 in a … Read more

Fra neve e ghiaccio c’è chi lavora da ore: una lettrice ringrazia la Protezione Civile

VASTO. In questi giorni di emergenza neve sono tanti i gruppi di operai e dipendenti che instancabilmente hanno reso praticabili le nostre strade rispondendo alle esigenze di chi sollevava un problema o metteva in risalto una condizione particolarmente … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #thisisnews

Amazon Prime Video will now show pay-per-view UFC fights

If you’re a UFC fan you’ll now have another place to watch fights – Amazon Prime Video. The online retailers just announced that starting with UFC 222 on March 3rd, all pay-per-view UFC fights will be available to buy and watch on Amazon prime. Fights can be preordered and also purchased up to four hours … Read more

You Can Find the Gravitational Constant with String and a Mountain

There are quite a few fundamental constants. These are things like the speed of light (c) the charge on an electron (e), and the Planck constant (h). These constants are determined with some type of interesting experiment. The first values of these constants were often difficult to find—the speed of light, for example, was calculated … Read more

SFGATE: Analysis: Trump’s gun meeting went off the rails quickly

Analysis: Trump’s gun meeting went off the rails quickly Published on February 28, 2018 at 10:39PM by Aaron Blake, The Washington Post Less than half an hour into his meeting with lawmakers on Wednesday, President Donald Trump urged the illegal confiscation of guns, told a Republican (to his face) that he was scared of the … Read more

Researchers may have detected signals from the universe’s first stars

Researchers have theorized that we might be able to see when stars began to form by looking for a dip in the intensity of the CMB. The reasoning is that once stars started forming, they would have heated up the hydrogen gas permeating the universe. When that gas heated up, it would have absorbed radiation … Read more

Going public pits Spotify’s suggestions versus everyone

The secret to Spotify’s public market debut is actually an acquisition it made in 2014. The Echo Nest was powering music recommendations for Beats Music, Rdio, Vevo, and iHeartRadio too before Spotify pulled it out from under them by buying it for a reported $100 million — 90 percent in Spotify equity. That deal paid off … Read more

Project Alice lets you walk on the moon in a motion-tracked VR headset

A human has not walked on the moon for almost 45 years, and that’s not going to change anytime soon. So why not take a virtual trip? Designed by Beijing-based virtual reality (VR) tech company Noitom in conjunction with Huawei and TPCast, the Project Alice demo at the Mobile World Congress this year is as … Read more

Kushner bombshell: Fox buries unflattering story for Trump White House…again

Jared Kushner’s downgraded security clearance is the top story for nearly every major news organization in America, but on Fox News, the stunning development has itself been downgraded. On Wednesday morning, as other outlets continued to go big on the story, which broke Tuesday afternoon, “Fox & Friends” discussed it only once during a 20-second … Read more