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Facebook shuts down friends data API to generate more trust among users

Apr29
by on April 29, 2015 at 1:02 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev

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When signing on to a new app, Facebook users are often confronted with a disconcerting choice — let Facebook access information about hundreds of your closest friends without their knowledge or permission — or perhaps just give up that particular product or service. It’s surprising that such a policy did not generate more of a squeal, but maybe that’s because many apps let you opt out of revealing the most intrusive information. Today, Facebook announced it is shutting all that down with its migration to the Graph API 2.0. Changes take effect on April 30th. Companies did have fair warning. Facebook had already…

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GoPro acquires a virtual reality company that focuses on 360-degree media

Apr29
by on April 29, 2015 at 12:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

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It’s been a few years since GoPro announced a major acquisition, but today that changes with its purchase of Kolor, a French virtual reality company specializing in capturing and sharing “spherical media.” The acquisition takes extreme action videos to the next level, turning GoPro videos into a 360-degree motion capture experience. Previously, photographers were only able to do so using six GoPros simultaneously. Along with the announcement, GoPro also released an interactive YouTube clip that allows users to drag and explore the video, viewing from any variety of angles. The video, of course, is available in 4K (but not slo-mo!) Terms of the deal were not disclosed…

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xxArray full body scanner will turn you into a playable video game avatar

Apr28
by on April 28, 2015 at 11:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Fact: The selfie generation can’t resist photo booths. It’s even more fun when our simple photos get turned into an interactive experience, like Fiverr’s custom portraits or the strange dancing characters from the MyIdol app craze last week. But before all that there was xxArray’s massive photo booth which employs several dozen Nikon DSLRs to turn you into a playable video game character. We got to experience this first-hand at CES 2014, and now, the xxArray team wants to bring this scanning technology to you. In the company’s new Kickstarter campaign, the team aims to stuff 90 Nikon D5200 and D5300 cameras (along with other studio scanning gear) into…

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Apple Watch faces will be a new cash cow, that’s why developers have to wait

Apr28
by on April 28, 2015 at 8:22 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Opinion

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You might have heard a bit of upset over the last few days from the development community, because Apple has quietly updated its guidelines to specifically ban apps that tell the time. Naturally, a lot of people are upset about this. How dare Apple not allow us to customize our Watch?! How can they be so controlling? Keeping in mind that this is the first time Apple has ever made available preview development software kits ahead of the release of a piece of hardware, there’s something larger at play here: watch faces are Apple’s next big cash cow. Watch faces are a big deal…

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