Market Reality: Who Are the Most Active Investors in AR/VR?
While many analysts predict that the market for augmented and virtual reality will continue to grow over the next five years, now is the time for investors to get in on the ground floor.
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News: WittyThumbs Offers Online Advice for Online Dating
A new dating advice site, WittyThumbs, launched today that lets users offer advice to others as well as seek it; the site combines that collaboration with advice from designated dating experts.
Not Hotdog: Try the Silicon Valley SeeFood App on Android
If you're a tech enthusiast, there's no way you're not watching HBO's Silicon Valley. So you surely know the Pied Piper crew's latest shenanigans involve an app that uses a phone's camera to find facts about food items — a sort of Shazaam for food, if you may.
Market Reality: Analysts Continue to Paint Rosy Picture for Augmented Reality Industry
While the numbers may not always seem to agree, the message remains the same: augmented reality is a growth segment. This week's edition of Market Reality starts with two new reports outlining the expected good fortunes for the industry and concludes with an example of a company capitalizing on their own growth.
Market Reality: PTC Stock Rising on Augmented Reality
Every Friday, Next Reality reviews the latest headlines from the financial side of augmented and mixed reality. This weekly Market Reality column covers funding announcements, mergers and acquisitions, market analysis, and the like. This week's column starts with a stock price that's performing well for one company — one that HoloLens developers should know quite well.
PSA: Dangerous Fungus May Be an Uninvited Guest at Your 4/20 Celebration This Year
Every party has a pooper, and that's why you're reading this article. We don't mean to be a downer on such a fun day as 4/20, but it's important to make sure you know about the source of your pot, especially if you're one of the 2,299,016 people who use medical marijuana in the US.
News: This App Notifies You Every Time a Trump Tweet 'Triggers' Your Stocks
Every time Donald Trump tweets about a stock you own, Trigger Finance, or just Trigger—the app founded on the "if this, then that" rule to track and invest in the stock market—alerts you with a notification for real-time analysis of financial data.
News: Reputable Analyst Predicts Apple's AR Ambitions Are Heading to Cars
Google and Microsoft have both established platforms and hardware for emerging digital realities, but Apple, true to form, hasn't had much to say on the subject. They've shown interest in augmented reality, and we've seen patent filings that indicate research and development, but a recent rumor points to that research ending up in your car instead of a rose gold headset.
How To: Cast a Spinning Rod Backhanded
When fishing with a spinning rod, you may encounter a situation that does not allow you to cast off the side of the body that is holding the reel, like sharing the bow of the boat with another angler. In such situations, it is easier to cast backhanded or with the tip of the rod on the left side of your body if you are a right handed caster. This video demonstrates the backhand cast for spinning rods and reels.
How To: Check for the Stagefright Exploit on Your Android Device
When security firm Zimperium discovered Android's biggest security risk in years, it sent shock waves through the ecosystem. As a result, Google, LG, and even Samsung decided to change the way they issue updates to their devices, by pledging to release monthly security patches to plug up loopholes exactly like this one. Yeah, it's that big of a deal.
How To: DIY Alternating Half Hitch Knot for Hemp Jewelry
This video tutorial demonstrates how to tie an alternating half hitch knot. Use this knot when you want a thin chain like effect for your hemp necklaces and bracelets.
How To: Add a Bead onto Hemp Square Knot Jewelry
This video tutorial demonstrates how to add beads onto hemp jewelry with square knots.
How To: Tie a Figure 8 Knot for Hemp Macrame Jewelry
This video tutorial demonstrates how to tie a figure eight knot. You can use this knot as an alternative to the overhand knot for starting and ending your hemp jewelry pieces such as necklaces, bracelets, chokers, and anklets.
How To: Make a Hemp Necklace with Wood Beads
A video tutorial that demonstrates how to make this hemp choker necklace with square knots and wood beads step by step.
How To: DIY Colorful Hemp Bracelet with Red and Green Beads
A video tutorial that demonstrates step by step how to make this hemp macramé bracelet with a half square AKA spiral knot and beads.
How To: Purge Your Inbox of Account Passwords with Dashlane's Email Security Scanner
With troves of sensitive information, like receipts and password reminders, hiding in your email, your inbox can become a sort of Holy Grail for hackers—or anyone with your password. Although my crazy ex-girlfriend had no hacking experience, using my email login, she was able to find a lot of account information with just a general search for "password" in my inbox.
Dating by Profession: Retailers Don't Say No; Students Can't Get a Date
Are you a lawyer who's married to a computer programmer? Chances are you might not have even dated if you first met online.
How To: Apply Silicon Caulk to a Bathtub or Shower Surround
This tutorial will demonstrate how to apply silicon caulking to a bathtub or shower surround, so that it's waterproof, and will not leak.
How To: Apply and Block Sand Body Filler
In this video I am going to demonstrate how to mix, apply, spread, and block sand body filler.
News: The Government Is Stealing Your Data from Angry Birds, Candy Crush, Facebook, & Other Mobile Apps
If you're spending hours on your phone playing games like Angry Birds and Candy Crush Saga, or posting online to Google+ and Pinterest, you're probably being spied on. The latest releases from NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden reveal that the National Security Agency, and its UK counterpart, GCHQ, are mining the ad networks utilized in these apps to collect a trove of information on you.
How To: Make a Macrame Spiral Earrings
in this video tutorial I demonstrate how to make a macrame spiral earrings, easy to follow, step by step. You can use this spiral for earrings, pendants, decorations or anything else..
News: How to Speed Up Your Computer Before Upgrading RAM
Thousands of history files, cookies, other unwanted files stored in your system as logs and other formats. To manually check each one is difficult. New computers are too fast by processor behavior, after some times of working it comes to slow performance.
My OS: Bugtraq II Black Widow
Welcome back my precious hackerians. Today i would like to promote an OS which i have been using for the past couple months. I'm not talking about Backtrack 5 or Kali Linux. Something even more promising:
How To: Install Firefox in Windows 8
This video demonstrates all the steps for how to install the popular Firefox browser in Windows 8. It will guide you throughout the final installation procedure.
How To: Spray Chip Foose's Signature Bronze Paint
This video demonstrates the steps to take using Chip Foose's signature bronze base coat. Once the base coat is sprayed, we'll spray clearcoat.
How To: Demonstrate the Reverse Park Manoeuvre on a Driving Test in England
Here we see how to do the reverse park manoeuvre to driving test standards. There is an explanation of the manoeuvre followed by an in-car demonstration. You will need to be diplomatic about where you practise this, and try not to annoy local residents by using their cars to park round too often. Keep the car slow and make sure you look all around for other vehicles and pedestrians.
How To: Mix Drywall Joint Compound. SECRET REVEALED!
How to mix joint compound: Uncle Knackers demonstrates the perfect way to mix plaster / cornice cement / joint compound for plasterboard / drywall without making a great big mess and along the way creating a beautiful creamy mix. Speaking of creamy, he also shares with us one of his award winning recipes.
How To: Paint a 3D Portrait
Toronto artist Julia McNeely, demonstrates the basic techniques of creating a 3D Painting.
How To: Stop the New Java 7 Exploit from Installing Malware on Your Mac or PC
UPDATE: A patch to fix the exploit has been released. Download it here.
Photo Forensics: How to Check If a Picture Has Been Photoshopped or Not
Considering how easy and convenient Photoshop has become, even for the average computer user, it's nearly impossible to tell whether a photo is authentic, or if it's had some "improvements."
How To: Jump into deep water and swim as a Boy Scout
Second Class Boy Scouts work on building their outdoor survival and camping skills. Compass work, nature observation, camp tools, and swimming are areas where new skills are mastered and demonstrated. A second class scout, having completed all the requirements, should be able to lead a hike, care for his own equipment, set up a campsite, and perform basic first aid.
How To: Prepare for the challenging pilates teaser exercise
The pilates teaser exercise is tough. This pilates how-to video demonstrates some prep exercises to help you master this challenging exercise. Do the prep work for the teaser on a regular basis to work your way up to the full version of the teaser movement.
How To: Find light photons with LEDs & photosensitive paper
In this video Dr. Carlson demonstrates the properties of light. Light is like a wave and it is also like a particle, which means that it comes in small packets. To demonstrate how we know that light behaves like packets of energy, he uses LED’s in different colors and a sheet of phosphorescent paper. When light with a high enough energy shines on the paper it will cause the paper to glow.
How To: Clean dirty coins using multiple methods
Kevin demonstrates multiple methods to clean dirty coins.In the first method he takes some coke in a glass and hangs a dirty coin in it with the help of a string. This coke technique takes a few hours.In another faster technique which takes only 20 to 30 minutes he takes table salt and food vinegar. He takes the table salt and dissolves it in vinegar in a bowl. When most of it is dissolved he drops a dirty coin in it and waits about 20 minutes.Another method is to rub toothpaste on the coin f...
How To: Stitch a bland hem
This video demonstrates how to stitch a blind hem. A blind hem does not show stitching on the outer side of the garment, like a pair of pants or a shirt. If you turn the garment you do see the stitching. The reason you don't see the stitching on the outside of the garment is that it's not complete stitching. Depending on your machine it is actually a half of a zigzag stitch and then 3 or 4 strait stitches repeated down the seam. The only stitch that shows is the half a zigzag stitch. Before y...
How To: Make Thai iced tea
This is a video demonstrating how to make Thai Iced tea. The presenter explains that Thai tea mix can be bought at a local Asian market. She explains that it costs about 5 dollars. She says that one package can last a long time. Sugar and boiling water, ice and half and half is also necessary. A large pot is then filled with water and boiled. The tea leaves are then placed in the boiling water and are then mixed with a large spoon. The heat is on high and the tea is allowed to boil for 15 min...
How To: Make a catapult in Little Big Planet
This video is by chilled chaos demonstrates how to make a moving catapult in LittleBigPlanet. In materials first use the cardboard to draw and two legs at the bottom. Detach it from the ground. Take the rubber tool from the tool box and make two wheels. Take bolts and attach to wheels. Make the switches on it and set the right and left direction. Do the setting for the wheels. Make a basket and attach it with the previous structure that it can move up and down. Set the timings to set the spee...
How To: Depot powders and creams
This video explains how to get powder or cream make-up out of the plastic container that it comes in. You can condense your products to take up less space if you remove them from the pots and put them in palettes. The tools you need are a flat iron or other heat source, parchment paper to cover the plate of the flat iron, an X-acto knife, alcohol, cotton pads, make-up in pots, self-adhesive magnets and a palette. First use the X-acto knife to pull the plastic pot out of the container. Set the...
How To: Do the Leidenfrost Effect w/ methyl alcohol & a penny
This how-to video is about demonstrating the Leidenfrost effect with methyl alcohol and a penny. To demonstrate the Leidenfrost effect the following items are required:
How To: Wear a sarong
Our fashion expert will demonstrate how to tie and wear a sarong or pareo. She will demonstrate several ways to incorporate sarongs into women's clothing, including using a sarong as a long skirt, a halter top and a jacket. Using step-by-step instructions, you will learn how to tie a sarong in a cascade method, a pleated skirt, a criss cross method, and even make a handbag with your sarong.