1Password extension is finally available for Microsoft Edge

You don’t have to make do with LastPass on Edge anymore if you like 1Password better. The password manager’s Edge extension is finally available on Windows 10 a year after a preview came out for Insiders. Based on its developers’ posts on their forum, Redmond approved the extension on October 3rd and it popped up on the Microsoft Store a short while later.

Like the 1Password extension for other browsers, it shows up as an icon somewhere on the upper right-hand part of Edge. It saves your existing passwords and credit card info so it can auto-fill forms, and it also generates complex and unique passwords you can use for each application and website. As the note the Microsoft Store said, you’ll need to install 1Password for Windows 6.7+ before you can add its extension. But once that’s done, all you need to do is download it on your computer.

Via: Windows Central, Windows Blog Italia

Source: Microsoft Store, AgileBits

Facebook aims to balance its fact-checking with a right-wing magazine

Facebook made much ado about bringing on third-party fact-checkers to curb fake news. However, it has faced accusations that the fact-checkers themselves are biased — allegedly, too many of them skew to the left. And it appears that Facebook wants to alter this perception. Quartz sources claim that Facebook has signed on conservative magazine Weekly Standard as one of its fact-checking partners. Reportedly, this is a bid to “appease all sides” by picking a publication that combines a right-wing bent with an attention to accuracy.

The Standard isn’t a shoe-in. Experts at Poynter still have to verify that the publication meets guidelines for not just fact-checking, but its transparency about sources and willingness to accept corrections if it ever makes a mistake. This could take several weeks. We’ve asked Facebook for comment on what’s happening and will let you know if it has something to add.

It’s easy to see some complaining that Facebook is including a different point of view for its own sake, aiming for perceived neutrality above all else. After all, existing partners tend to be sites dedicated to fact-checking (like PolitiFact or Snopes) while the Standard is a magazine that uses fact-checking to serve an agenda it wears on its sleeve.

With that said, the Standard may be one of Facebook’s better choices. It hired a new fact-checker in September, and Quartz’s industry contacts understand the recruit was brought on with the Facebook partnership in mind. The magazine also tends to defy the party line when it doesn’t believe the facts line up, such as when it refuses to deny climate science (although it downplays doom-and-gloom predictions). In other words, this doesn’t appear to be an arbitrary pick — Facebook wants to be sure its media outlet choices can survive scrutiny, wherever they fall on the political spectrum.

Source: Quartz

Remember GeoCities? 9 tech titans that fell from grace

Why it matters to you

Not every tech company can be a winner, and not all of those that become winners can stay that way forever.

Whether you’re talking about Facebook, Google or Apple, there’s no doubt that Silicon Valley is capable of producing some big winners. It’s also capable of producing plenty of companies you’ll never hear about, which fizzle out without ever making much of an impact — or a return for their investors.

There’s also a third category: the companies that appear to be set for superstardom, only to plummet back down to earth. Reasons can vary from bad management to failing to deliver on promises to, sadly, just being way ahead of their time. Here are eight failed tech companies that rose to power and fell from grace — in a big way.

AOL

Remember when we spent hours chatting on AOL Instant Messenger, AOL’s once groundbreaking instant messenger service that, for many of us, was the first experience we had of speaking to folks over the internet? Remember when having an AOL email wasn’t something to be horribly embarrassed about? That time was the late 1990s.

Then AOL merged with Time Warner for $164 billion, in what is possibly the worst ever business merger. A few years later, the “declining value of [the] America Online property” led to a giant $100 billionr yearly loss, more and more people moved away from AOL’s dated service, and services like WhatsApp and Messenger stole AIM’s audience — leading to this week’s announcement that the AIM service is being shuttered.

Our biggest question in all this: what happened the gazillions of AOL trial CD-ROMs that are still presumably floating around somewhere?

Pets.com

If there’s a posterchild for the stratospheric rise and meteoric fall of would-be dot-com giants in the late 1990s, Pets.com has to be it. With the idea of selling pet food and accessories online, Pets.com would today make for a very healthy eBay business. Of course, back in the decade of Bill Clinton, Nirvana and the first PlayStation, venture capitalists decided it could be a whole lot more than that, and pumped in upwards of $100 million worth of funding.

The company went public in February 2000, had its own (well-received) Super Bowl ad, bought out its main competitor and then rapidly deflated as the dot-com bubble burst. Within a year, its share price fell from $14 to under a dollar. Losing money with every sale it made, Pets.com was eventually put down in November 2000.

Flooz

In its early days, Bitcoins were worth a quarter of a cent each. Today, they’re worth $4,300. Great deal, right? Quite possibly, but if you’d have had that same early adopter mentality for online currency in the 1990s, you may well have sunk all your savings into Flooz.

A voucher-like alternative to regular money for online purchases, Flooz was widely publicized during the dot-com era of tech exuberance — with none other than Whoopi Goldberg acting as its spokesperson. It collapsed in 2001 after allegations that it was being exploited by Russian criminals, who stole credit cards and used Flooz’s currency to launder their ill-gotten gains.

GeoCities

If you’re old enough to remember the connecting sound of 56K modems and seemingly every website having a constantly-looping MIDI track playing in the background, you’ll probably remember GeoCities. In a time before we all had social media profiles, blogs, and eschewed local storage for keeping our files in the cloud, GeoCities’ novel promise was giving everyone their own personal part of the internet.

Sensing that GeoCities was tapping into something that appealed to large numbers of users, Yahoo bought it for a massive $3.5 billion in 1999. Unfortunately, it was quickly supplanted by early social networks like MySpace. Before long, having a GeoCities page looked more like an embarrassing admission than a sign that you were ahead of the curve.

It was eventually closed down in the United States in 2009, although continues to live on in Japan. And speaking of MySpace…

MySpace

Consider this crazy statistic: back in June 2006, more people visited the social network MySpace than visited the Google homepage. Jump forward today and, well, frankly we had to visit MySpace’s website to remind ourselves of whether or not it’s still going. (It is, but in much the same way that we might consider the undead zombie version of a person you once loved to be still going.)

For a short time, however, MySpace was brilliant. Then it began to flood its page with ads, while reminding us with every garish homepage that 99.9 percent of people are not supposed to be designers and should never be given the ability to skin their profile by combining leopard skin backdrops with barely-visible neon writing. Facebook took what worked about MySpace, tweaked it, and found the winning formula.

eToys

People love toys. People love ordering things over the internet. Put the two things together and what do you get? Well, yet another dot-com bust, to be perfectly honest.

Before that, however, eToys.com was one of the world’s most visited websites, and a genuine disruptor which challenged the might of existing toy retailers like Toys R Us. Unfortunately, it grew way too quickly, while continuing to lose a whole lot of money. It eventually died a death in February 2001.

Jawbone

Jawbone, a company which made everything from Bluetooth speakers to fitness wearable devices, announced that it was throwing in the towel earlier this year. Despite having some success with its UP series of wearables, Jawbone struggled to keep pace with the competition — especially the heavy hitters like Fitbit and Apple.

Its owners are now in the process of setting up a software platform company, but the days of Jawbone wearables is, it seems, over.

Netscape

The Netscape Navigator browser was the Google Chrome of its day. Created by Marc Andreessen and Silicon Graphics’ Jim Clark, it quickly established itself as the primary portal for accessing the internet in the mid-1990s. It was also one of the first big dot-com era IPOs, when it went public in August 1995.

Unfortunately, Microsoft had a Netscape-killing ace up its sleeve with Internet Explorer, which shipped with Windows 95. The two companies went back and forth over market share for some time, before Netscape seemingly dropped off the map by failing to launch a new updated Netscape refresh in a timely manner.

Internet Explorer overtook it in popularity, and things gradually fizzled until new parent company AOL put it out of its misery in 2008.

Theranos

You’ll notice that most of the names on this list come from the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s. After that bubble burst, venture capitalists assured us they would never again fall for companies buoyed by massive amounts of hype with few tangible results. Theranos was a reminder that this isn’t true.

A health tech company which claimed to have created blood tests which required only a tiny blood sample, Theranos carried an estimated $9 billion valuation within its first decade. It also made a celebrity out of its youthful founder Elizabeth Holmes.

The problem? A series of damaging reports in the Wall Street Journal, which revealed the technology didn’t actually work as described. The company is still going, but it’s a shadow of its former self. CEO Elizabeth Holmes also had her personal fortune downgraded from $4.5 billion to $0 by Forbes. Ouch!

Remember GeoCities? 9 tech titans that fell from grace

Why it matters to you

Not every tech company can be a winner, and not all of those that become winners can stay that way forever.

Whether you’re talking about Facebook, Google or Apple, there’s no doubt that Silicon Valley is capable of producing some big winners. It’s also capable of producing plenty of companies you’ll never hear about, which fizzle out without ever making much of an impact — or a return for their investors.

There’s also a third category: the companies that appear to be set for superstardom, only to plummet back down to earth. Reasons can vary from bad management to failing to deliver on promises to, sadly, just being way ahead of their time. Here are eight failed tech companies that rose to power and fell from grace — in a big way.

AOL

Remember when we spent hours chatting on AOL Instant Messenger, AOL’s once groundbreaking instant messenger service that, for many of us, was the first experience we had of speaking to folks over the internet? Remember when having an AOL email wasn’t something to be horribly embarrassed about? That time was the late 1990s.

Then AOL merged with Time Warner for $164 billion, in what is possibly the worst ever business merger. A few years later, the “declining value of [the] America Online property” led to a giant $100 billionr yearly loss, more and more people moved away from AOL’s dated service, and services like WhatsApp and Messenger stole AIM’s audience — leading to this week’s announcement that the AIM service is being shuttered.

Our biggest question in all this: what happened the gazillions of AOL trial CD-ROMs that are still presumably floating around somewhere?

Pets.com

If there’s a posterchild for the stratospheric rise and meteoric fall of would-be dot-com giants in the late 1990s, Pets.com has to be it. With the idea of selling pet food and accessories online, Pets.com would today make for a very healthy eBay business. Of course, back in the decade of Bill Clinton, Nirvana and the first PlayStation, venture capitalists decided it could be a whole lot more than that, and pumped in upwards of $100 million worth of funding.

The company went public in February 2000, had its own (well-received) Super Bowl ad, bought out its main competitor and then rapidly deflated as the dot-com bubble burst. Within a year, its share price fell from $14 to under a dollar. Losing money with every sale it made, Pets.com was eventually put down in November 2000.

Flooz

In its early days, Bitcoins were worth a quarter of a cent each. Today, they’re worth $4,300. Great deal, right? Quite possibly, but if you’d have had that same early adopter mentality for online currency in the 1990s, you may well have sunk all your savings into Flooz.

A voucher-like alternative to regular money for online purchases, Flooz was widely publicized during the dot-com era of tech exuberance — with none other than Whoopi Goldberg acting as its spokesperson. It collapsed in 2001 after allegations that it was being exploited by Russian criminals, who stole credit cards and used Flooz’s currency to launder their ill-gotten gains.

GeoCities

If you’re old enough to remember the connecting sound of 56K modems and seemingly every website having a constantly-looping MIDI track playing in the background, you’ll probably remember GeoCities. In a time before we all had social media profiles, blogs, and eschewed local storage for keeping our files in the cloud, GeoCities’ novel promise was giving everyone their own personal part of the internet.

Sensing that GeoCities was tapping into something that appealed to large numbers of users, Yahoo bought it for a massive $3.5 billion in 1999. Unfortunately, it was quickly supplanted by early social networks like MySpace. Before long, having a GeoCities page looked more like an embarrassing admission than a sign that you were ahead of the curve.

It was eventually closed down in the United States in 2009, although continues to live on in Japan. And speaking of MySpace…

MySpace

Consider this crazy statistic: back in June 2006, more people visited the social network MySpace than visited the Google homepage. Jump forward today and, well, frankly we had to visit MySpace’s website to remind ourselves of whether or not it’s still going. (It is, but in much the same way that we might consider the undead zombie version of a person you once loved to be still going.)

For a short time, however, MySpace was brilliant. Then it began to flood its page with ads, while reminding us with every garish homepage that 99.9 percent of people are not supposed to be designers and should never be given the ability to skin their profile by combining leopard skin backdrops with barely-visible neon writing. Facebook took what worked about MySpace, tweaked it, and found the winning formula.

eToys

People love toys. People love ordering things over the internet. Put the two things together and what do you get? Well, yet another dot-com bust, to be perfectly honest.

Before that, however, eToys.com was one of the world’s most visited websites, and a genuine disruptor which challenged the might of existing toy retailers like Toys R Us. Unfortunately, it grew way too quickly, while continuing to lose a whole lot of money. It eventually died a death in February 2001.

Jawbone

Jawbone, a company which made everything from Bluetooth speakers to fitness wearable devices, announced that it was throwing in the towel earlier this year. Despite having some success with its UP series of wearables, Jawbone struggled to keep pace with the competition — especially the heavy hitters like Fitbit and Apple.

Its owners are now in the process of setting up a software platform company, but the days of Jawbone wearables is, it seems, over.

Netscape

The Netscape Navigator browser was the Google Chrome of its day. Created by Marc Andreessen and Silicon Graphics’ Jim Clark, it quickly established itself as the primary portal for accessing the internet in the mid-1990s. It was also one of the first big dot-com era IPOs, when it went public in August 1995.

Unfortunately, Microsoft had a Netscape-killing ace up its sleeve with Internet Explorer, which shipped with Windows 95. The two companies went back and forth over market share for some time, before Netscape seemingly dropped off the map by failing to launch a new updated Netscape refresh in a timely manner.

Internet Explorer overtook it in popularity, and things gradually fizzled until new parent company AOL put it out of its misery in 2008.

Theranos

You’ll notice that most of the names on this list come from the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s. After that bubble burst, venture capitalists assured us they would never again fall for companies buoyed by massive amounts of hype with few tangible results. Theranos was a reminder that this isn’t true.

A health tech company which claimed to have created blood tests which required only a tiny blood sample, Theranos carried an estimated $9 billion valuation within its first decade. It also made a celebrity out of its youthful founder Elizabeth Holmes.

The problem? A series of damaging reports in the Wall Street Journal, which revealed the technology didn’t actually work as described. The company is still going, but it’s a shadow of its former self. CEO Elizabeth Holmes also had her personal fortune downgraded from $4.5 billion to $0 by Forbes. Ouch!

Rumors and speculation swirl around the upcoming ‘Pokémon Go’ Halloween event

Why it matters to you

Dust off your Pokémon Go game this Halloween if you want to score some rare Pokémon.

A few days ago, the Pokémon Company teased a bunch of tricks and treats that are on the way for a special Pokémon Go Halloween event. Details are scarce, but that didn’t stop the avid trainers across the internet from parsing every single word and engaging in some speculation about what we might see at the end of the month. You may already have your costume picked out, but what will your favorite Pokémon be wearing?

“Plenty of good stuff is coming to the game later this October, and we can’t wait to get out and about to see what sort of excitement we can scare up while catching new Pokémon to fill out our Pokédex,” the post read.

Online sleuths were quick to jump on the phrase “new Pokémon” as meaning that new Pokémon would be introduced into the game as part of the event. The Silph Road group at Reddit is always a good place to start, as intrepid data miners tear into each new update to see what they can uncover. The fact that the newest update includes preliminary support for Generation 3 Pokémon points to a major new unveiling coming soon, perhaps with the Halloween update.

A year ago, we got an increase in Ghost Pokémon such as Gengar, Ghastly, and Haunter. The Daily Star speculates that this year we’re likely to see the addition of the Generation 2 Misdreavus. If Generation 3 Pokémon were included, we might see Ghost Pokémon such as Shuppet, Banette, Mega Banette, Duskull, and Dusclops.

SlashGear argues that the game is going Dark this year, and we’re more likely to see scarier Pokémon such as Houndoor and Houndoom. They also note that “Dark-type Pokemon that’ve appeared in Gen 2 since last year’s event include Sneasel, Murkrow, and Umbreon.”

As with last year’s event, we’re also likely to get some Candy multipliers and the event will probably last for several days, rather than one night.

Other Halloween promotions that were given more details include two episode collections of Pokémon the Series, Pokémon pumpkin stencils, and Marshadow coming for your Pokémon Sun and Moon game. To unlock that mythical Pokémon, you’ll have to stop by your local GameStop between October 9 and October 23 to grab your free code.

More will be revealed as we get closer to Halloween, so in the meantime keep guessing away and check the Pokémon Go Event Calendar for the latest updates.

Rumors and speculation swirl around the upcoming ‘Pokémon Go’ Halloween event

Why it matters to you

Dust off your Pokémon Go game this Halloween if you want to score some rare Pokémon.

A few days ago, the Pokémon Company teased a bunch of tricks and treats that are on the way for a special Pokémon Go Halloween event. Details are scarce, but that didn’t stop the avid trainers across the internet from parsing every single word and engaging in some speculation about what we might see at the end of the month. You may already have your costume picked out, but what will your favorite Pokémon be wearing?

“Plenty of good stuff is coming to the game later this October, and we can’t wait to get out and about to see what sort of excitement we can scare up while catching new Pokémon to fill out our Pokédex,” the post read.

Online sleuths were quick to jump on the phrase “new Pokémon” as meaning that new Pokémon would be introduced into the game as part of the event. The Silph Road group at Reddit is always a good place to start, as intrepid data miners tear into each new update to see what they can uncover. The fact that the newest update includes preliminary support for Generation 3 Pokémon points to a major new unveiling coming soon, perhaps with the Halloween update.

A year ago, we got an increase in Ghost Pokémon such as Gengar, Ghastly, and Haunter. The Daily Star speculates that this year we’re likely to see the addition of the Generation 2 Misdreavus. If Generation 3 Pokémon were included, we might see Ghost Pokémon such as Shuppet, Banette, Mega Banette, Duskull, and Dusclops.

SlashGear argues that the game is going Dark this year, and we’re more likely to see scarier Pokémon such as Houndoor and Houndoom. They also note that “Dark-type Pokemon that’ve appeared in Gen 2 since last year’s event include Sneasel, Murkrow, and Umbreon.”

As with last year’s event, we’re also likely to get some Candy multipliers and the event will probably last for several days, rather than one night.

Other Halloween promotions that were given more details include two episode collections of Pokémon the Series, Pokémon pumpkin stencils, and Marshadow coming for your Pokémon Sun and Moon game. To unlock that mythical Pokémon, you’ll have to stop by your local GameStop between October 9 and October 23 to grab your free code.

More will be revealed as we get closer to Halloween, so in the meantime keep guessing away and check the Pokémon Go Event Calendar for the latest updates.

Google Fiber won’t offer TV in San Antonio and Louisville

It’s no secret that Google Fiber is struggling. Its CEO George McCray stepped down in July, only five months into his term, and parent company Alphabet has yet to announce a replacement. On top of that, Fiber’s rollout hasn’t gone as planned, with the company reportedly running up the budget and having to compromise on the products it offers consumers. And things don’t seem to be getting much better. Google Fiber has now revealed that when it launches in Louisville, Kentucky and San Antonio, Texas, it will only focus on providing high-speed internet and not a TV add-on.

In a blog post, Google Fiber said that this strategy shift is about “trying something new,” pointing to video-streaming services like Hulu, Netflix and YouTube as examples of how watching television has changed. It added that people in existing markets with a Fiber TV add-on shouldn’t worry, since there aren’t any plans to get rid of that right now. “As customers look for new options that better reflect what they value in their entertainment, sports and news,” the company said, “Google Fiber will also experiment with new ways to deliver that value and opportunity.”

Via: 9to5Google

Source: Google Fiber

Car makers ask US officials to loosen fuel economy requirements

It’s no secret that automakers believe the US’ recently-instituted fuel efficiency requirements are too stringent, but now they’ve made those views official. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which includes companies like GM, Toyota and VW, has made official comments to both the EPA and NHTSA asking the regulators to loosen Obama-era rules intended to raise a fleet’s average fuel economy to 51.4MPG by 2025. They don’t object to the targets as such — rather, they don’t like the projected costs of reaching those targets.

The brands contend that the previous administration made mistakes forecasting the cost of hitting that fuel economy target. There’s a “misalignment” between the ever-tougher requirements and a car market that’s skewing toward less fuel-efficient vehicles, the Alliance claims in its comments to the EPA. Companies contend that previous officials overestimated the ability to hit goals using “conventional technologies.” In other words, they believe that they’d have to use exotic designs to achieve their objectives.

The Alliance also calls for increased flexibility in the rules’ credit system, which lets manufacturers offset low-efficiency cars by producing hyper-efficient cars (including EVs and hybrids). Just what that flexibility entails isn’t clear, but it’s implied that companies would like either more opportunities to earn credits or for their achievements to count more.

Whether or not they’ll get any changes in the rules is another story. The current EPA leadership is close to the fossil fuel industry and has a deregulatory bent, but that won’t matter much if California continues to resist attempts to soften regulations. Like it or not, automakers have to honor the state’s rules if they expect to succeed — if they don’t, they give up sales in California and the 12 other states that follow its lead. As it is, the gripes may not amount to much. Auto giants like GM have already promised an abundance of electric cars over the next several years. They may not need to worry about reaching the 2025 goals if large portions of their lineups are fuel-free before that time.

Source: Reuters

Thousands of cheaters taste the wrath of the banhammer in Battle Royale

Why it matters to you

Just a couple of cheaters can ruin an entire 100-player match, and Epic is aggressively rooting them out and booting them.

Although Epic Games only released its new Battle Royale mode in the free-to-play (FTP) shooter Fortnite a couple weeks ago, it’s already had to unleash a new weapon – the banhammer.

On its game site, Epic Games Community Coordinator Nathan Mooney pulled no punches with a blog post about maintaining the integrity of their online matches. “Let’s be straight for a second, nobody likes playing with cheaters. Not you, not me. Nobody,” he wrote. “We’re exploring every measure to ensure these cheaters are removed and stay removed from Fortnite Battle Royale and the Epic ecosystem.”

Mooney was vague about the actual tools and methods Epic is using to identify cheaters, but he did confirm that thousands have already been booted “and we have no plans to stop!”

Fortnite Battle Royale, built using Unreal Engine 4, is a new free-for-all style multiplayer frenzy, where all 100 players begin on a massive map in a floating bus with a glider and a pickaxe. From that point on, it’s every man or woman for themselves. There are weapons to discover, traps to set, and the last one standing is declared the winner of the match.

Epic also announced that it’s rolling out Account Progression in the next few weeks, letting you earn (and presumably accumulate) items as you play. It also encouraged using its contact form to provide any info about possible cheaters, including any video or screenshot evidence.

Over 1 million players have partied on the Battle Bus during the first day of Battle Royale! Thank you and party on! ???????????? pic.twitter.com/Tdqnk8YClb

— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) September 27, 2017

The game has become insanely popular in just a short time, surpassing seven million players as of this writing (that figure includes all Fortnite players, not just the FTP Battle Royale mode). In addition to the emphasis on cheaters, Epic also released Duos (letting you play Battle Royale with a partner) and Supply Drops (“the best loot you can find” dropping randomly from the sky).

But wait a minute – isn’t there another very popular multiplayer game out there using Unreal that’s quite similar? Indeed there is, and there have been grumblings from PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds about that issue. In a rather rambling interview with PC Gamer, the Bluehole developers seemed to indicate that it was not the style of the Battle Royale mode they objected to, but the fact that Epic implied some sort of endorsement by PUBG in their announcement.

“It was in their promotional video that was posted on Twitter and they would openly mention that they were fans of PUBG,” said Events Manager Sammie Kang. “That kind of gave the impression that we were officially involved in this.” Bluehole also vaguely threatened some sort of “action” against Epic, but it’s not clear what that means.

Epic has announced plans to make the campaign mode of the game free-to-play at some point in 2018. Fortnite is available now on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, and Mac.

Sinot Nature superyacht redefines ‘ocean view’ in a yacht for the century

Why it matters to you

The big question is whether you have enough friends and family to fill the guest list.

This is the day when the ultimate boutique hotel and spa transformed into a magnificent 120-meter luxury vessel. The Sinot Nature superyacht concept defies simple definition because of its atypical design goals.

As we watched the video just above and looked through Nature’s slide deck, the yacht’s spaciousness and open ocean views commanded our attention. While luxurious and designed with impressive entertainment areas, Sinot’s focus on tranquility and peacefulness is foremost. Notice the absence of water toys or people swimming off the aft water-level deck. Nature has space for plenty of toys and has an over-sized beach club, but neither are emphasized in the concept marketing materials. What sets this superyacht apart is its use of vast spaces.

The company’s full name is Sinot Exclusive Yacht Design. Founded by designer Sander Sinot, Sinot’s marine designs emphasize natural and artificial lighting and space, detail, comfort, and fully customized furniture. Nature exists as a concept only today. Sinot presented the design at the Monaco Yacht Show in late September to VIP guests of Sinot’s longtime partner Feadship Royal Dutch Shipyards.

With its 120-meter (394-foot) length and 50.5-foot beam, Nature has an abundance of space on four main decks. The most noticeable single space is the 9,687-square-foot panorama deck. And believe it or not, that’s just one area on the ship.

The owner’s deck has a climate-controlled interior garden and retractable platforms that open to serve as semi-private beach clubs above the main deck. In addition, the forward space in the owner’s suite serves as an observatory for those who wish to search the stars without going out on the deck. The solid outer wall of the observation area retracts to allow the owner and especially fortunate guests an unobstructed forward view.

According to Yachtemoceans, Nature has a toybox with room for a full continent of ancillary transport including a 10-meter limo tender, a 10-meter sport tender, a luxury tender, two crew tenders, and eight WaveRunners.

The yacht can accommodate 18 guests in six guest staterooms, two VIP staterooms, and the owner’s suite. Guests can find their own peace and tranquility on the spa deck or hit the gym, swimming pool, sauna, waterfall, or one of the expansive sunbathing lounges.

Two decks have vast expanses of continuous windows for ocean views inside the superyacht. In many of the interior spaces the glass “walls” slide to open to the outside decks. Movement between decks is made especially elegant via a massive circular staircase in the center of the ship that reaches from the main deck to the top panorama deck.

Nature can carry up to 50 crew members to ensure that guests are well served. Crew accommodations include two double staff cabins, 18 double crew cabins, two triple crew cabins, two officer cabins, one first officer cabin, and the captain’s cabin.