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The hype around Virtual Reality has been building steadily, hitting a new highs this week after Facebook’s earnings report. We’ll take a look back at the previous VR boom of the early 90s & ask if history is repeating itself.

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The World’s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke – ProPublica

The man who built the free email encryption software used by whistleblower Edward Snowden, as well as hundreds of thousands of journalists, dissidents and security-minded people around the world, is running out of money to keep his project alive.

Werner Koch wrote the software, known as Gnu Privacy Guard, in 1997, and since then has been almost single-handedly keeping it alive with patches and updates from his home in Erkrath, Germany. Now 53, he is running out of money and patience with being underfunded.

Update, Feb. 5, 2015, 8:10 p.m.: After this article appeared, Werner Koch informed us that last week he was awarded a one-time grant of $60,000 from Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative. Werner told us he only received permission to disclose it after our article published. Meanwhile, since our story was posted, donations flooded Werner’s website donation page and he reached his funding goal of $137,000. In addition, Facebook and the online payment processor Stripe each pledged to donate $50,000 a year to Koch’s project.

Late last year, Keurig announced a new machine, the 2.0, calling it the “future of brewing” and touting its ability to make both small cups and large carafes. But another, less-publicized feature has been getting most of the attention: the brewer’s advanced scanning system that locks out any coffee pods not bearing a special mark. It’s essentially a digital rights management system, but for coffee, and it’s proving to be the brewer’s downfall.

On an _earnings call Wednesday_the company announced that brewer sales fell 12 percent last quarter, the first full quarter for which the 2.0 was on sale. “Quite simply our 2.0 launch got off to a slower start than we planned,” said CEO Brian Kelley. _He said_the company had been too slow to get 2.0-compatible cups onto retail shelves and “confusion among consumers as to whether the 2.0 would still brew all of their favorite brands.”

2 New Samsung Gear VR Ads Introduce VR to the Masses (video)

The ad uses actual content from the Gear VR headset which is a smart choice, though, curiously, no games are featured. Instead, the ad focuses on 360 video—clips from a helicopter over a city, elephants roaming in their natural habitat, a CGI Pacific Rim experience, and a moment from Cirque du Soleil.

What Facebook’s Oculus Rift movies means for ads | The Drum

Facebook is out to prove that virtual reality is more real than its detractors think, erecting an in-house studio to create fully immersive films on its Oculus Rift platform. If the medium is to be widely accepted by advertisers then the social network needs to show how the learnings can convey a more tangible form of the brand experience.

Virtual Reality : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Virtual reality started out as a science fiction concept in the early 1950s. Now, VR has become a kind of holy grail – lots of promises and claims, few results delivered. This program looks at the state of virtual reality. Demonstrations include the Talking Glove, AutoDesk’s Cyberspace project, the Virtual Hand, GestureGlove, CyberGlove, CyberCAD, Virtus Corporation’s WalkThrough. Also a visit to the Virtual Reality Showcase at the Software Development Conference in Santa Clara, California. Originally broadcast in 1992.

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Data Breaches often result in the companies attacked playing the victim & shrugging off responsible network management.

Samsung reveals new VR gear, a 3D camera with 16 HD cameras & a bunch of other goodies that promise to bring the virtual world to you.

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Samsung unveils Project Beyond, a 3D-capturing camera for Gear VR

Samsung has just unveiled a sneak preview of a new camera called Project Beyond, which is a 3D-capturing 360-degree camera designed to capture videos and stream them on the Gear VR. Pranav Mistry, Samsung’s VP of Research, says that Beyond is a “new kind of camera that gives a new kind of immersive experience.” The camera (which apparently houses 16 full HD cameras) shows a 360-degree panoramic view and captures everything in 3D, collecting a gigapixel of 3D data every second. It promises high-speed connectivity, adaptive stitching, ultra wide-angle optics and stereoscopic depth. And, this isn’t just a concept. It’s actually a fully working device.

Samsung launching Gear VR ‘Innovator Edition’ in early December for $199 | The Verge

You’ll be able to get your hands on Samsung’s Gear VR in early December. Today the company announced that it will launch the Gear VR Innovator Edition — essentially what amounts to developer preview hardware (that’s available to everyone) — next month.

Gear VR: $199 for the headset alone, or $249 with one of Samsung’s Bluetooth gamepads. Add that to the cost of a Note 4 — $700 or more, unsubsidized — and it’s not one of the cheaper VR headsets on the market.

91% of US adults say consumers have lost control over how their personal info is collected and used by companies | Pew Research

Some 43% of adults have heard “a lot” about “the government collecting information about telephone calls, emails, and other online communications as part of efforts to monitor terrorist activity,” and another 44% have heard “a little.” Just 5% of adults in our panel said they have heard “nothing at all” about these programs.

• Public Perceptions of Privacy and Security in the Post-Snowden Era | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

Widespread concern about surveillance by government and businesses

Perhaps most striking is Americans’ lack of confidence that they have control over their personal information. That pervasive concern applies to everyday communications channels and to the collectors of their information—both in the government and in corporations. For example:

• 91% of adults in the survey “agree” or “strongly agree” that consumers have lost control over how personal information is collected and used by companies.
• 88% of adults “agree” or “strongly agree” that it would be very difficult to remove inaccurate information about them online.
• 80% of those who use social networking sites say they are concerned about third parties like advertisers or businesses accessing the data they share on these sites.
• 70% of social networking site users say that they are at least somewhat concerned about the government accessing some of the information they share on social networking sites without their knowledge.

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A new cybersecurity bill is working its way through the system looks a lot like previous attempts and raises the same privacy concerns, we’ll cover the details.

Plus Samsung gets into VR and the Potato Salad Kickstarter that’s already earned $70k USD.

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Senate Panel Passes Cybersecurity Bill Despite NSA Fears

The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, advanced in a 12-3 vote, would make it easier for businesses and the government to share information with each other about cyberattacks. Business groups argue that legal barriers are preventing them from getting the information they need to stop hackers.

But the privacy groups are still worried that the legislation could encourage a company such as Google to turn over vast batches of emails or other private data to the government. The information would go first to the Homeland Security Department, but could then be shared with the NSA or other intelligence agencies.

“Instead of reining in NSA surveillance, the bill would facilitate a vast flow of private communications data to the NSA,” the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and dozens of other privacy groups wrote in a letter to senators last month.

Exclusive: Samsung’s virtual reality headset will be called Gear VR, launch at IFA 2014 | SamMobile

A month ago, Engadget exclusively reported on Samsung’s upcoming VR device, which is being developed in collaboration with Facebook’s Oculus VR. Today, we can confirm that Samsung is indeed working on a virtual reality device, and it’s called the “Gear VR”. Samsung will be announcing the device, alongside the Galaxy Note 4, at IFA 2014.

Instead of making a completely standalone virtual reality headset, Samsung has developed a modular design, which allows the user to dock in a Galaxy device into the Gear VR using USB 3.0. Virtual reality effect is achieved through head tracking, and instead of equipping the headset with sensors, Gear VR makes use of the smartphone’s accelerometer, gyroscope and processing power to track head motion.

You might say that this is exactly like Google’s Cardboard VR headset, which was handed out to I/O 14 attendees, and you would be right! The main concept behind Gear VR is the same. However, the Gear VR is much more comfortable to wear, thanks to the elastic head band and soft padded cushions on each side of the device, and Samsung’s implementation is also much better than that of Google’s Cardboard.

The hardware of the device is being developed by Samsung alone, but the software is being developed in cooperation with Oculus VR

Potato Salad by Zack Danger Brown — Kickstarter

• Potato salad on Kickstarter: The project has raised more than $40,000.

Last week, Zack Brown posted a Kickstarter page titled simply “Potato Salad.”

“I’m making potato salad,” Brown wrote. Then, in case anybody was confused or skeptical or more inclined to support the preparation of a German-style potato salad than a mayo-heavy American version, he clarified: “Basically I’m just making potato salad. I haven’t decided what kind yet.”

His goal: $10.

Manjaro Linux Developers Experience A Mass Exodus

• Follow up: Manjaro Linux Developers Experience A Mass Exodus

Feedback:

• Waze claiming anonymize user data is probably arguably laughable.

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Angela and Chris reveal their BIG plans to kick off 2014, find out the new and fun ways Jupiter Broadcasting will grow in the new year, and when you can visit the Jupiter Base Station.

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• Lot of work to do on sound, electric, lighting. Know anyone handy in our area?
• Open to studio guests
• A place to work, and play with new ideas.
• Possible new sets, ideas include “living room set” “Howto set” in garage, etc.

• Back yard big enough for BBQ.

• Someone wise once said:

“I think that JB is awesome and independent broadcasting on an unmoderated medium is something that is needed and the people that make JB happen are some of the best people i\’ve ever met and i\’m happy i\’ve been able to help out and hope to be able to help out even more in the future.”

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• rikai, he is a 27 year old redhead with a magnificent beard.
• www.rekd.net
• Found us through LAS, then IRC, then came back because of Allan

The power of staff:

• rikai will be taking on post production and posting duties from Chris.
• After many years of spending hours after each show, Chris will have that time available.
• New show concepts are in the works, hopefully with fun on-location tie ins.

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