Blue Origin's Rocket Factory Breaks Ground
An aerial view of the site of Blue Origin's new facility, where the company will manufacture, process, integrate and test its orbital vehicle, unofficially referred to as Very Big Brother. Credit: Blue Origin Jeff Bezos is building a home for his Very Big Brother. The Amazon.com founder and CEO's private spaceflight company, Blue Origin, has stepped into the spotlight this past year thanks to dramatic videos that show the organization's New Shepard suborbital rocket launching and the..>> view original7 totally unanswered questions about Twitter's new virtual reality project
Twitter recently hired former Apple designer Alessandro Sabatelli to run its fledgling efforts in augmented reality and virtual reality, the company confirmed to me today. As first noted by Upload VR, Sabatelli was previously the CEO of IXOMOXI, a small startup whose first product created visual filters for VR devices. As the company's LinkedIn page put it: "Targeting millennials at music festivals, our mission is to make fun more fun." If you've ever gone to Coachella and wished you could filt..>> view originalWindows 10 upgrade: Fixes for error code 0x80073712 and missing or damaged files
Although Microsoft is trying its hardest to force people onto Windows 10 before free upgrades end on July 29, some PCs just won’t budge. Even if you want the free upgrade, it’s possible that errors are getting in the way. Error code 0x80073712 seems especially troublesome, as it means a file needed by Windows Update is damaged or missing. While there are plenty of possible solutions to this problem, none of them are guaranteed to work. Here’s a rundown of what you can try to do to make th..>> view originalSick Burn! NASA Fires Off Test of Next-Generation Rocket Engine
Thousands of onlookers gawked as a column of flame exploded across the desert floor outside Promontory, Utah, today (June 28) during a test of the engine that will help power NASA's next-generation rocket. Lying horizontally, the engine for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket booster released a massive blast of flame and a wall of black smoke for two solid minutes during today's Qualification Motor-2 (QM-2) test (see photos of the test here). This is the last engine test before NAS..>> view originalSystem Shock's Remaster Already Has A Playable Demo (And It's Great)
Night Dive Studios is asking for $900,000 on Kickstarter to fund its proposed remaster of the first-person sci-fi classic, System Shock. Better yet, they’ve released a playable demo that nicely demonstrates how they might do it. If there’s one lesson that Kickstarter backers are learning the hard way, thanks to projects like Mighty No. 9, it’s to be especially wary of games peddling little more than ideas and concept art. Whenever I’ve talked with developers who are mulling crowdfunding projec..>> view originalFacebook from other sites with new Save and Share Chrome extensions
Facebook colonized the internet with its Like button that sees 10 billion views per day around the web. Now it’s getting a makeover for mobile alongside the launch of two new Save and Share Chrome extensions that let you capture content from any site. Together, these updates should help fill the News Feed with news stories from around the web, and turn Facebook into a more full-fledged Read-It-Later service that competes with Pocket. By rooting itself deeper into people’s browsing habits, Face..>> view originalToyota recalls 3.37 million cars over airbag, emissions control issues
WASHINGTON/TOKYO Japan's Toyota Motor Corp has recalled 3.37 million cars worldwide over possible defects involving airbags and emissions control units.The automaker on Wednesday said it was recalling 2.87 million cars over a possible fault in emissions control units. That followed an announcement late on Tuesday that 1.43 million cars needed repairs over a separate issue involving air bag inflators.Some of the automaker's gasoline-electric hybrid Prius models contain both of the potential def..>> view originalHuawei MateBook review: this tablet wants to be a PC, but misses the basics
Huawei MateBook review: this tablet wants to be a PC, but misses the basics Huawei's got all the pieces, but can it figure out the puzzle? By Dan Seifert on June 28, 2016 08:00 am @dcseifert 38 In the world of tablet computing, there are two camps. There’s the Microsoft Surface (and its clones) camp, which attempts to make hardware that transforms from tablet to laptop and back again. Then there’s Apple’s take, which is to just make its iOS platform powe..>> view originalFacebook says it's not making friend suggestions based on your location after all
Does Facebook suggest new friends based on your location? The answer seems to change day by day. Yesterday, Fusion reported that Facebook uses location data to make friend suggestions and pointed out that this could lead to unfortunate privacy mishaps. Users could find themselves outed in situations that ought to be anonymous (for instance, Facebook might recommend that a user add a friend from an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, or suggest your profile to a creeper ogling you on public transit)...>> view original
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