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NBA VR on Google Daydream takes Spectators Courtside

By |February 18th, 2017|Categories: Economy, Featured, Film News, Google, National News, Pop Culture, Sports, Tech News, United States, Virtual Reality, YouTube|Tags: , , , |

NBA VR is now available on Samsung Gear VR via the Oculus Store and on the Google Play Store with the Google Daydream View. NBA is partnering with NextVR, a premiere broadcaster of live events in virtual reality, to bring NBA LEAGUE PASS subscribers one game every week of the 2016-17 regular NBA season live, and on-demand. Browse over the NBA VR viewing schedule. Watch over a preview of the excitement and intensity of NBA VR with the Google Daydream on YouTube. 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Snapchat IPO Estimated with a $20 Billion Valuation

By |February 18th, 2017|Categories: Economy, Entertainment, Featured, Music News, National News, Pop Culture, Tech News, United States, YouTube|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Technology companies that have been able to secure a stable user base have been able to turn their private companies into large-scale, public corporations. Snapchat is scheduled to take their company public in the near future, and estimates for the valuation are currently close to $20 billion. In perspective, Facebook first went public with a valuation over $100 billion. That translates into Snapchat having 1/5 overall value in comparison to Facebook when it first started selling stock in 2012. CNN Money reported: 'At this level, Snapchat is a far cry from Facebook, which had 1.23 billion daily users in

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‘Extreme Weather’ by National Geographic Becomes Reality with the Oroville Dam

By |February 17th, 2017|Categories: Denver, Economy, Entertainment, Environment, Featured, Film News, Global, National News, Reviews, World News, YouTube|Tags: , , , , |

National Geographic and Sean Casey worked together on an environmental documentary titled Extreme Weather. The project has been released in IMAX theaters, and has a 3D viewing option. The beautiful piece of work captures the beauty within nature, as well as the destruction it can cause globally. Two of the topics they cover is global warming and climate change. The documentary does an excellent job of displaying the differences in weather patterns in correlation to climate change. Recently, the Oroville Dam experienced damage from flooding on February 11, 2017. The dam reached capacity and forced nearly 200,000 people to evacuate. The dam is

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Verizon Wireless Unlocks Unlimited Data for Users in 2017

By |February 13th, 2017|Categories: Advertising, Economy, Entertainment, Featured, National News, Pop Culture, Tech News, World News, YouTube|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Verizon Wireless customers can rejoices with additional data being offered by the company for $80 a month. Users do have to sign up for auto pay to connect with the unlimited data plan. Their 'unlimited plan' is limited though, just like the other major communication companies. That being said I still find this opporunity to be useful for many Internet users. It depends on where you live, but when I was staying in Southern Illinois, Mediacom was supplying my Internet, and it was moving slower in comparison to using the Hotspot feature with my Verizon data. Also, when I

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Abstract: The Art of Design Now Available on Netflix

By |February 12th, 2017|Categories: Economy, Entertainment, Fashion, Featured, Film News, Global, National News, Netflix, Non-Fiction, Pop Culture, Reviews, Sundance Film Festival, United States, YouTube|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Netflix has just released a new series titled Abstract: The Art of Design featuring industry leaders in design. Each of the eight episodes in the docuseries contains valuable interviews and points of view from established designers from different parts of the United States. The first season was launched on Friday, February 10. The following designers were featured in the first season: Christoph Niemann, Tinker Hatfield, Es Devlin, Bjarke Ingels, Ralph Gilles, Paula Scher, Platon and Ilse Crawford. When I first heard about Abstract: The Art of Design I was interested in the designers that Netflix selected. The first two episodes of the series were

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The Cross Section Between Violent Gaming and Virtual Reality

By |February 12th, 2017|Categories: Augmented Reality, Economy, Entertainment, Featured, Fiction, Film News, Gaming, National News, Non-Fiction, Politics, Pop Culture, Tech News, United States, YouTube|Tags: , , , , , , |

The Valve platform is launching a series of virtual reality games, and with both the hardware (the Vive) and distribution (Steam), the company is looking to take gaming to the next level. "Right now we're building three VR games." Gabe Newell, Valve founder These new games will have a great deal of influence over the users. I wanted to share and review some of the current VR games to give some insight on the direction gaming should be heading in for the future. As I reviewed different virtual reality games, I found a YouTuber, SayItsBradley that does demos of video games

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United Automobile Workers Negotiate with Tesla Motors

By |February 11th, 2017|Categories: Clean Energy, Economy, Environment, Featured, National News, Politics, Tech News, Tesla Motors, United States, YouTube|

Tesla Motors has been fortune enough to build as a company for the past several years in Silicon Valley. With that growth comes the responsibility to fairly compensate workers for creating and producing that growth. One Tesla Motors employee, Jose Moran, wrote a Medium post displaying some reasons why he thinks the company should unionized. He wrote: "A few months ago, six out of eight people in my work team were out on medical leave at the same time due to various work-related injuries. I hear that ergonomics concerns in other departments are even more severe. Worst of all,

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Jack Johnson Tours with The Avett Brothers, Donavon Frankenreiter, G. Love, ALO

By |February 10th, 2017|Categories: ALO, California, Canada, Chicago, Economy, Entertainment, Environment, Featured, G. Love, Jack Johnson, Los Angeles, Music News, National News, Pop Culture, Previews, San Francisco|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Jack Johnson has released a string of live concerts for this summer in connection with a release of the song 'Fragments' from the film The Smog and the Sea. The tour this summer will feature opening acts including: The Avett Brothers, Lake Street Dive, Bahamas, JAMTOWN featuring Donavon Frankenreiter, G. Love & Cisco Adler, ALO, and John Craigie. Stream the latest song on Soundcloud below. 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 Johnson's management pointed out how this upcoming tour gives back to different communities, as well as the environment: Johnson's All At Once campaign, the summer tour will support over 140 non-profit partners and will engage fans to take action

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Hulu Updates their Gear VR and Rift Apps to Add Functionality with Oculus

By |February 9th, 2017|Categories: Augmented Reality, Economy, Entertainment, Featured, Film News, Google, National News, Pop Culture, Previews, Tech News, Virtual Reality, YouTube|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Hulu announced recently that they plan to expand their 3D functionality with Oculus products. The online entertainment company has noted that Hulu VR will add social features for Oculus headset users. These social features will include creating and customizing an avatar that will represent you in virtual settings. When watching film and television via the Oculus headset, users will be able to interact with friends and family in different parts of the world. Currently, Hulu offers 3D viewing environments for the Sony PlayStation VR, Google Daydream, Oculus Rift, and Samsung GearVR with Galaxy S6, S7, Note 5 Phones. The social

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Live Nation Entertainment Goes to Amazon Web Services for Cloud Infrastructure & Data Management

By |February 8th, 2017|Categories: Amazon, Clean Energy, Economy, Entertainment, Featured, Music News, National News, Pop Culture, Tech News, YouTube|Tags: , , , , , , |

Amazon Web Services and Live Nation Entertainment announced today that the online ticket and entertainment company will be using AWS for cloud computing starting in 2017. AWS and BusinessWire reported: "We have been working closely with the AWS team, and we are impressed with the superior security, performance, and reliability of their products. We look forward to the positive impact that going all-in on the AWS Cloud will have on our IT infrastructure across our key business divisions." - DAVID HUCKABAY, CIO, LIVE NATION Amazon have noted that the Ticketmaster websites will be migrated to a series of AWS servers including: AWS

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