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Entries from May 2017

The Future of VR for Google is on the Open Web with WebVR & WebAR | Voices of VR Podcast

May 23rd, 2017 · No Comments

Except currently it is completely shit. I tried a few weeks ago to get Chromium working and gave up. You would think it would be straight forward but its not as you have to make a couple of special changes to Chromium settings which either didn’t work or don’t work as advertised. I gave up […]

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Category: Technology · Virtual Reality

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Excellent Amazon Web Services Support

May 16th, 2017 · No Comments

Had an issue recently with Amazon AWS billing because I rebuilt an instance and mistakenly created it in another zone. What I didn’t realize is that Reserved instances have a zone designation to them so they only apply to instances in the same zone. So, my newly created instance was being charged at the On […]

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Category: Amazon

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Ultrasonic Beacons Are Tracking Your Every Movement | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

May 9th, 2017 · No Comments

More than 200 Android mobile applications listen surreptitiously for ultrasonic beacons embedded in audio that are used to track users and serve them with targeted advertising. Source: Ultrasonic Beacons Are Tracking Your Every Movement | Threatpost | The first stop for security news

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Apple Named Worlds Largest Wearables Vendor With an Estimated 3.5M Apple Watch Shipments in Q1 2017 – Mac Rumors

May 6th, 2017 · No Comments

For those saying the Watch is a failure I give you this: Source: Apple Named Worlds Largest Wearables Vendor With an Estimated 3.5M Apple Watch Shipments in Q1 2017 – Mac Rumors

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Category: Apple iOS · General

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