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Employee Indicted for Hacking Kansas Water Utility and Trying to Shut Down Key Systems

GizModo VR

Dude allegedly hacked into a computer system that controls a rural water utility in Ellsworth County, Kansas, then messing with the virtual processes that affect procedures for cleaning and disinfecting… Read more. A federal grand jury is indicting a 22-year-old guy over accusations that he tampered with a public water system.

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Tesla’s data advantage. Can Apple, or others, keep up?

Robert Scoble

I’ve listened to EVERY analyst and NONE except for Wood’s talks about the data the car is collecting. She says that the data leads Tesla to doing Robotaxis, which will be highly profitable. She’s right, but that’s only one possible business that Tesla can build off of this new real-time data.

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Snap Launches Long-Anticipated Custom Landmarkers Tool

ARPost

This and other updates that year developed the ability of the Snap Camera to learn about the environment in real time rather than relying on asynchronously collected data as Landmarkers had. The following year at the 2020 Snap Partner Summit , the company released “Local Lenses” which were among the first multi-user real-time AR effects.

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Intel & Major League Baseball Partnership Will Bring Free Weekly Games Streamed in VR

Road to VR

The virtual view will also offer “up-to-the-moment player and team statistics throughout the game, including pitcher and batter data, and […] exclusive in-app commentary.” Kansas City Royals vs. San Francisco Giants. Photo courtesy Intel. June 6 at 8:40PM ET / 5:40PM PT. June 13 at 10:15PM ET / 7:15PM PT.

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Suzanne Borders: BadVR is mixing art and technology to innovate data visualization

The Ghost Howls

But it is very interesting , because it will touch a lot of hot topics, like: Data visualization in XR; Magic Leap; Being a woman working in XR; How is XR in Asia. You don’t need to have these condensed summary views of the data, you can actually see your real data set and that’s where our expertise comes in.

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Vigilant amateur asteroid hunters keep watch for menacing space rocks

Mashable VR

His club's facility in Northeast Kansas, Farpoint Observatory , is about 20 or 30 miles away. Gary Hug photographed the sky from his backyard in Kansas. He rushed to submit his data to the Minor Planet Center, which beat the Catalina Sky Survey , a NASA-funded program based at the University of Arizona, by several hours.

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How scientists find the big asteroids that can threaten Earth

Mashable VR

Crucially, even a smaller asteroid, some 100 to 170 feet across, could destroy a place like Kansas City , home to half a million people. Someone always has eyes on the data coming out of the telescopes." So the surveys for rocks large and "small" are vital. They send interesting new candidates to the Minor Planet Center.

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