Virtual reality is — as many have learned the hard way — nothing without content. There are a number of solutions on the market at present, but many are unweildy and/or prohibitively expensive for many content creators. Taiwanese 3D imaging company eYs3D announced this week that it’s teaming with Lucid to create the Axis, a…
via eYs3D and Lucid are teaming to release a handheld 3D camera — TechCrunch
Don’t worry, it’s splashproof. Sony is gunning for the weirdest portable speaker of 2019 award with its new GTK-PG10 model, which features its own fold-out cup holders. If you’re as horrified as we are at the practicalities of putting beer on top of a Bluetooth speaker in a party situation, Sony says there’s no need to…
via Sony’s new Bluetooth party speaker has its own cup holders — FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music.
IBM on Tuesday unveiled a global weather modeling system that will combine data from smartphones and aircraft to produce what it says will be hyper-accurate local forecasts. The system, called the IBM Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting System, or GRAF, will create a one-day forecast updating every hour at a resolution of 3 kilometers, or about…
via IBM Wants to Use Your Data to Create Hyper-Accurate Weather Forecasts — TIME
Seeking the Fabled City by Allan Levine is a warts-and-all account of the Jewish experience in this country dating back nearly 250 years.
via Brownstein: Book on Canadian Jews reveals Quebec mobsters’ distinctness — Montreal Gazette
I AM MORE OF A “don’t fix it if it isn’t broken” type of guy. As long as the item is meeting my expectations/needs, then I am fine with it. If you recall in one of my recent reviews I said, “Just because something is new does not make it better.” This is true to me […]
Gun violence during Prohibition gave rise to the 1934 Federal Firearms Act.
via Guns in America: Prohibition and Gun Control — off the leash
Notorious mobster James “Whitey” Bulger was found dead in a federal prison in West Virginia on Tuesday, according the Associated Press. Sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Boston Globe that Bulger was killed at United States Penitentiary Hazelton, where he was serving a life sentence. The FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern […]
via Notorious Mobster Whitey Bulger Found Dead in Prison — Variety
Delighted to welcome a new author to the shelves of the Cafe and Bookstore today. Fascinating New Yorkers: Power Freaks, Mobsters, Liberated Women, Creators, Queers and Crazies by Clifford Browder. About Fascinating New Yorkers A prostitute’s daughter who got to know two ex-kings and a future emperor; a cardinal archbishop known in certain circles as […]
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