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Report: Chinese Hack of Federal Employment Database, Disclosed in 2015, Was a Disaster for the CIA

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government nearly a decade ago, as well as other hacked or leaked data sets, Foreign Policy reported on Monday. China’s efforts to purge its government of CIA moles has been aided significantly by a massive database of personnel information stolen from the U.S. Read more.

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Glue Collaboration to Shut Down, Operating Firm Declares Bankruptcy

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Moreover, Meta has also removed all user data related to these features. A new tool to download data was made available on April 1, 2024, for demo users and subscribers. Microsoft bought the service in 2017, following its debut in May 2015. In March last year, Microsoft shut down its AltSpace platform.

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Meta is Deleting All Old Oculus Accounts by Month’s End, Severing Another Tie to “the good old days”

Road to VR

Even after being acquired by Facebook in 2014, early adopters were offered the ability to make Oculus accounts tied to email addresses, which notably didn’t attach any sort of user-identifying data. You may not realize it yet, but believe me. These are the good old days.”

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Super Data Report: 6.3 Million Virtual Reality Headsets Shipped in 2016

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A new report from Super Data offers new estimates for the market size of virtual reality in 2016, suggesting 6.3 Last November, before the figure was released by Samsung, Super Data estimated the company would sell far fewer headsets in 2016. mobile gamers from July 2016, data collected from partners in the VR Data Network.”

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Interview to Eduardo Siman: virtual reality makes data visualization fun, we should all work together to make AR and VR to succeed

The Ghost Howls

It started with big data , and I started blogging about that at the end of 2015 basically because I couldn’t find anyone to talk about it with (laughs). In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind.

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Samsung Files Patent For Galaxy Ring And AR Glasses

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In October, a rumor emerged claiming that Samsung was working on a smart ring that uses multiple sensors to give you important health data throughout the day, much like a modern smartwatch. Back in 2015, Samsung filed a different patent for a smart ring that never came to be.

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5 Minutes of Blistering ‘Raw Data’ Gameplay, Steam Early Access July 14th

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Survios, the developers behind the multiplayer action game Raw Data , have released a of new gameplay from their upcoming HTC Vive powered hack and slacking, dual-wielding, slow-mo VR bullet-fest – here is in all its glory. Raw Data – Steam Early Access.

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