Google Voice remains a popular service that gets far too little attention. Users have been waiting months for a promised voice-over-IP (VoIP) feature, which entered beta testing around a year ago. Google was quiet on the test during that time, but a recent tweet prompted an update from the company: the new VoIP support is starting to roll out and … Continue reading
As Donald Trump’s government shutdown over a border wall dragged on earlier this month, one of his exclusive golf clubs quietly went about the business of firing undocumented employees, many who had worked there for several years, The Washington Post reported.
If I had to be reborn as any person, I’d pick Gerard Way. Great writer? Great musician (if you’re a Millennial, anyway)? Dude is unstoppable lately. And the song he put out for the newest wave of Umbrella Academy promotion just totally rules.
Companies like Apple tend to shut down the companies and services that they acquire and fold it into their own products and services. They did this with Workflow, Beats Music, and Texture, just to name a few. Facebook on the other hand seems to be more than happy to let their acquisitions continue operating as it is.
However it seems there is a chance that could change because in a report from the New York Times, it appears that Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is looking to unify its services. No, it does not mean that Facebook’s services will all be merged into one, but rather the infrastructure will be unified so that they share underlying principles across the various apps like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger.
One of the things that Zuckerberg is hoping to see is the inclusion of end-to-end encryption across the board. It is unclear what the goal is by unifying the infrastructure, but it has been speculated that it could potentially be to help make these services tied to Facebook even further so that it’s harder for users to quit its platform.
A good example would be WhatsApp, which for the most part has allowed users to use the app/service without necessarily being linked to Facebook. Facebook reportedly plans to complete this by the end of the year or early 2020.
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Donald Trump tries to do the same thing.
Are you a DOOM fan? Of course, you are. Do you own a Roomba? Of course, you do. Now you can combine two of your favorite things into one new cool thing. DOOMBA is a script written by programmer and designer Rich Whitehouse for his 3D model and animation conversion program Noesis that allows you to create playable Doom maps from the data collected by your Roomba. How cool is that?
Now your little robot vacuum cleaner is helping you in a whole new way. Now we just need to be able to put our Roomba in the actual map that it generates so that it can play a fun game of DOOM while we watch.
I’m eagerly awaiting that Black Mirror episode. Mostly because I can’t wait to see a gun-toting Roomba going crazy on some demons. Actually, I’d like to see that turned into a product. A robot that cleans my floor and secures my home? Hell yeah! Now that’s a DOOMBA. It would be the best security guard ever.
You can read more about the process and download the program from Rich’s website HERE if you’re interested in trying DOOMBA out for yourself.
[ via Polygon via Geekologie]
Google Voice remains a popular service that gets far too little attention. Users have been waiting months for a promised voice-over-IP (VoIP) feature, which entered beta testing around a year ago. Google was quiet on the test during that time, but a recent tweet prompted an update from the company: the new VoIP support is starting to roll out and … Continue reading
If I had to be reborn as any person, I’d pick Gerard Way. Great writer? Great musician (if you’re a Millennial, anyway)? Dude is unstoppable lately. And the song he put out for the newest wave of Umbrella Academy promotion just totally rules.
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