Don’t panic when school is closed. Here’s how to minimize the damage and recapture some of the fun.
When you’re a kid, snow days are awesome. As a working parent, though, that dreaded robo-call or email from the school district can set off a panic. School is delayed or closed. How are you supposed to get your job done and deal with the kids’ disrupted schedule?
Virginia Tech professor Doug Bowman was recently awarded a grant by Microsoft for the HoloLens research project.
Out of all the big tech companies—Microsoft, Facebook, Google, just to name a few—Apple is the only one that hasn’t publicly announced an interest in virtual or augmented reality technology. All the others listed above are known to be currently working on AR and VR tech.
Apple and Google rushed to keep the information from going public.
Court documents have revealed that Google paid Apple $1 billion dollars in 2014 to be iOS’s default search engine, reports Bloomberg. The sum was revealed in court transcripts of a copyright lawsuit that Oracle brought against Google in which it alleges the search giant used its Java software without paying for it to build Android.
Homeownership has become the great American (pipe) dream but Jonathan Tate thinks there’s a more inclusive way to build.
Sandwiched between a nondescript duplex and industrial warehouse in the Irish Channel neighborhood of New Orleans, a modern, two-story home stands out from its neighbors thanks to a slender profile, angular roof, and corrugated-metal cladding. With an area of 975 square feet, the structure is diminutive, but this is no flavor-of-the-month tiny house: it’s the proof of concept for architect Jonathan Tate and developer Charles Rutledge’s Starter Home* program—a model of infill development that turns underused, unbuildable lots into entry-level residences.
The new phone, which may be called the “iPhone 6c,” appears to be targeted at specific foreign wireless markets.
Those constant rumors about a new 4-inch iPhone just may be true, sources tell Fast Company, and it could be arriving in stores this spring.
You will have to pry the word “stock” from my cold, dead hands.
Eating food is a critical part of every man’s self-care routine, but did you know there are so many other things you can do with food besides put it in your lower facehole? You can read about it, you can talk about it, you can watch people make and/or consume it on TV. You can argue about it, read about other people arguing about it, and watch people argue and/or compete over it on TV! Rumor has it that you can even make food yourself, but this seems unsanitary and probably dangerous. Today, bringing us a sampling of tabs about the wide world of food activities that are not actually eating is Helen Rosner, from the sarcastically named website Eater.
The electronics giant is hoping to inspire the creation of more and better independent VR content.
Samsung today crowned the first set of winners in its ongoing virtual reality content competition.
But both say first large-scale commercial version will be built overseas
The Hyperloop might be the brainchild of billionaire inventor Elon Musk, but if it is to become a reality it will be one of two other companies that first brings the futuristic transportation system to the world, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Raytheon, the giant military contractor, claims the armor could save lives by reducing the military’s need for fuel convoys.
Raytheon, one of the world’s-largest military contractors, says it has developed a new type of vehicle armor that also doubles as a battery.
Many investors are nervous about reports that iPhone 6s sales are softening.
Next Tuesday Apple is likely to report solid numbers for its December-ending quarter, but company execs and investors may be anxious over possible weakness in sales of the iPhone.
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