How to watch porn on Google Daydream [NSFW]

Watching porn on Google Daydream doesn’t take much at all.

Porn in VR is popular for plenty of different reasons, not the least of which is being able to experience your adult entertainment in an immersive way that puts you in the middle of the action. If you’re new to VR, or you’ve just picked up that awesome new Google Daydream headset, you may be wondering how it is you actually get to watch porn. After all, it isn’t as though you can search for it in the Play Store.

Well, have no fear, we’ve got all the details for accessing porn on your Daydream headset.

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OnePlus limits the data it collects from your phone

Many OnePlus owners were more than a little upset when they found out that the company is collecting gobs of user data from its phones without asking, including personally identifiable info. It’s no surprise, then, that OnePlus is taking quick steps to avert (or at least, minimize) a backlash. Carl Pei has told customers that his firm will both limit the data it collects from OxygenOS phones and make it clear what you’re sending OnePlus’ way. Devices will stop sending phone numbers, WiFi info and network MAC addresses. And by the end of October, every OxygenOS device will have a prompt that asks you if you want to join the user experience program, with a setup process and terms of service that explain just what you’re sharing.

Pei stressed that OnePlus isn’t sharing the data third parties. The user analytics are to understand and improve your experience, he said, while device info is useful for post-sales support. And if you opt out of the analytics (which you could already do), anything you share in that space won’t be linked to your phone-specific data. However, it remains true that OnePlus was scooping up personal info without making it patently clear what was taking place. While the company didn’t intend anything sinister, there was the chance that a data breach could do tremendous damage without customers even knowing what was at stake.

Via: NeoWin

Source: OnePlus

Amazon is reportedly developing its own sportswear line

Amazon is reportedly getting ready to take on sports apparel giants like Nike and Lululemon. According to Bloomberg, the e-retail giant is even working with known sportswear-makers’ suppliers and manufacturers to challenge them in an increasingly crowded industry. The publication says the project is still in its very early stages — Amazon hasn’t signed long-term contracts yet, but it has already started ordering small batches of products as part of a trial. The first batches were shipped to the company back in August.

One of its suppliers is Taiwanese vendor Makalot Industrial Co., known for making clothes sold by Uniqlo, Gap and Kohl’s. The other Taiwanese company it’s working with sounds a lot more interesting though: Eclat Textile Co. also manufactures clothing for Nike, Lululemon and Under Armour. This is far from Amazon’s first foray into clothing and fashion. It already has several clothing and accessories labels, including one that focuses on women’s bags and shoes.

As Bloomberg notes, the e-retail titan usually looks into making its own merchandise whenever it wants to fill the gaps in its inventory. Some brands choose not to sell certain items on Amazon, and the company wants to be able to offer those to customers, so they won’t have to shop anywhere else.

Source: Bloomberg

Supersonic passenger jet prototype completes first unmanned test flight

Why it matters to you

Long airline flights may be a thing of the past in the near future, thanks to enterprising startups like Spike.

You may soon be able to travel from London to New York in just three hours on a supersonic passenger jet capable of speeds up to 1,354 miles per hour. A prototype for the Spike Aerospace S-512 just completed its first unmanned test flight, and commercial versions may be able to take to the skies as early as 2021.

The company said the maiden voyage was “a huge success,” according to the Daily Star. “The SX-1.2 test flights were conducted in a real world situation, and provide significantly more data than wind tunnel tests done in an artificial environment,” said CEO Vik Kachoria. “We were able to test not only handling, but also a range of other considerations.”

Spike didn’t provide any pictures or video of the exercises, but said seven short flights were conducted to test the overall design and flight controls of the aircraft. The tests were performed at a private airfield in New England.

The S-512 Quiet Supersonic Jet seats 18-22 passengers with a range of 6,200 miles and a cruising speed of Mach 1.6. “the new delta wing of the S-512 delivers high aerodynamic efficiency and improved flight performance in both low-speed flight and supersonic cruise,” said Senior Engineer Dr. Anutosh Moitra. “The highly swept leading-edge reduces wave drag and consequently reduces fuel burn and increases range.”

The aircraft also has no horizontal tail, which reduces the drag and weight on the plane in flight. There are no windows in the plane – instead, live video from outside can be viewed on thin display screens embedded into the cabin walls to create a panoramic image, or passengers can even opt to watch movies or share family photos.

All this cool stuff doesn’t come cheap, however. Each jet will run you between $60 and $80 million.

The Concorde jetliners, only 20 of which were ever built, ruled the skies in the ‘70s but were discontinued in 2003, following numerous safety concerns and a 2000 crash in Paris which killed 109 people.

But now several companies are also developing supersonic passenger vehicles for the 21st century. A startup called Boom wants to build a quiet jet with no supersonic boom. NASA has partnered with Lockheed-Martin for a new X-plane jet airliner. Elon Musk wants to basically launch people into space and land them on the other side of the globe in less than an hour.

International travel is poised to take a big leap forward in the next few years, so buckle your seatbelt and go along for the ride.

The Mooz is a 3D printer that also serves as a carver and engraver

Why it matters to you

Why settle for just one functionality when you can have three? The Mooz asks the same question.

The 3D printers of 2017 aren’t just bringing your ideas to life in multiple dimensions — they’re engraving and carving those dimensions as well. Meet the Mooz, a 3D printer that is not only fully modular, but can also operate as a CNC carver and laser engraver. Because everyone is expected to be a jack of all trades these days — even our machines.

Thanks to the easily constructible design of the Mooz, you can quickly vary the shape of the modular device, allowing you to adjust the speed and resolution capabilities of the printer. Depending on how Mooz is oriented, you can either go for cost-effectiveness in your printing, precision and stability, or speed and color-mixing. What is color-mixing, you ask? As the name suggests, this practice combines colors together to help you create an imaginative 3D printing, rather than the traditional monotoned models we’re more accustomed to.

Constructed with solid aluminum alloys, an all-metal hot end, and precision acme lead screws, this printer promises precision quality and consistent performance each and every time. And thanks to the printer’s straightforward software, you need simply to drag and drop your design into the interface, and Mooz will take care of the rest.

If you’re not interested in printing something, but need to leave your mark on an existing piece, you can turn to the machine’s CNC capabilities. With an adjustable depth of zero to five millimeters, you can carve artwork with precision and speed. The Mooz also comes with a laser engraving head. So whether you’re looking to print a logo or some text, you can use Mooz to engrave wood, corks, or even your food.

To take advantage of these two functionalities, simply swap out the 3D printing head for either the CNC carver or the laser engraver. With a month left in its campaign, the Mooz has already raised well over $100,000 from nearly 300 backers, a promising start for the Kickstarter project. If you’re interested in buying one of these combination 3D printers yourself, prices start at $239. If you’re interested in purchasing the complete set (with all the various functions), prices begin at $429.

Is any phone actually worth $1000?

Are we crazy, or can something really make a phone worth the same amount as a used Honda?

Welcome to 2017, when the best phones from almost every company that makes high-end smartphones will cost just shy of $1,000. And plenty of people are buying them.

Samsung and Google tend to be pretty firm on the price and aren’t going to haggle with you.

I’m not wondering why people are buying them. If you want to play, you have to pay and it’s not like you’re going to be able to call up Samsung or Google and make a deal. The phones themselves are better than ever, the parts inside of them are better than ever and even the way you can buy them — 0% interest for 24 months, anyone? — is better than ever.

Enthusiasts, as well as people who need the features that come with a top-of-the-line phone, have to pay the sticker price. I get that. Heck, I’m one of the people buying them, just like many people reading this are. If we want the flagship model with the most memory and biggest display, we’re paying for it.

I just can’t shake the feeling that paying $1,000 for a phone is crazy. Even while I’m doing it and can honestly recommend you do it, too.

Let me stop for one second and call out LG. We don’t know when an unlocked V30 will be sold in the U.S. but we do know places like B&H already have a listing for it. We also don’t know the price, but most people are assuming it will be in the vicinity of $750 or so. We do know what U.S. carriers are going to charge (right around $850) and LG usually sells an unlocked model just a bit cheaper than a carrier does. $750 is a lot of money, too, but it happens to be about 75% of the price everyone else making a superphone at the end of 2017 is charging. And it’s just as feature-packed and awesome as any of the others.

Where to buy the LG V30

And yes, there’s an LG V30+ that’s just the LG V30 with an extra 64 GB of storage. (Why, LG? Just stop.) Of course, you can only buy it through Sprint ($900) and U.S. Cellular ($800) because LG just does things like this. If you count those, and I don’t because even LG knows that hardly anyone will be able to use them and nobody is switching to Sprint for 64GB of storage, then LG is creeping up on the $1,000 mark, too.

I’m not saying any company is trying to play a bit of the price gouging game. I sincerely don’t believe that and don’t want to believe that. But I know that I can buy a 2000 Honda Accord V6, with a warranty, for the same price as a new Note 8. I’m pretty sure the Honda uses even more premium metal and glass and a whole lot of Gigabytes would fit in the trunk. All that’s missing is an S Pen.

13-inches of OLED, glass, and aluminum is cheaper than six-inches. ಠ_ಠ

While comparing a Note 8 (or any of these phones) to a 17-year-old Honda is silly, you can make the same comparison with a laptop. While you can spend $2,800 on a Surface Pro or $4,200 (WTF?) on a MacBook Pro, you can also buy a really nice Dell XPS13 for about $850. It can do everything your new Note or Pixel or iPhone can do, has an even bigger QHD+ display and is made of “premium” materials to be thin, light, and beautiful. Even the new Pixelbook, which everyone says is outrageously priced, is nicely spec’d at $1,000.

Anyway, let me circle back around to the beginning. I know why we pay so much: we have no choice. I know why we want to pay so much: these phones are really cool and we want or need the best. I just don’t know what makes them worth the prices being charged.

Maybe someone out there can make a case better than “small stuff is more expensive” and help me figure it out.

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First-ever ‘negative emissions’ power plant goes online

Unfortunately, it’s no longer enough to cut CO2 emissions to avoid further global temperature increases. We need to remove some of the CO2 that’s already there. Thankfully, that reversal is one step closer to becoming reality. Climeworks and Reykjavik Energy have started running the first power plant confirmed to produce “negative emissions” — that is, it’s removing more CO2 than it puts out. The geothermal station in Hellsheidi, Iceland is using a Climeworks module and the plant’s own heat to snatch CO2 directly from the air via filters, bind it to water and send it underground where it will mineralize into harmless carbonates.

Just like naturally forming carbon deposits, the captured CO2 should remain locked away for many millions of years, if not billions. And because the basalt layers you need to house the CO2 are relatively common, it might be relatively easy to set up negative emissions plants in many places around the world.

As always, there are catches. The Hellsheidi plant capture system is still an experiment, and the 50 metric tonnes of CO2 it’ll capture per year (49.2 imperial tons) isn’t about to offset many decades of fossil fuel abuse. There’s also the matter of reducing the cost of capturing CO2. Even if Climeworks improves the efficiency of its system to spend $100 for every metric ton of CO2 it removes, you’re still looking at hundreds of billions of dollars (if not over a trillion) spent every year to achieve the scale needed to make a difference. That will require countries to not only respect climate science, but care about it enough to spend significant chunks of their budgets on capture technology.

It could be a long while before you see systems like this implemented on a global scale as a result. With that said, the very fact that CO2 capture prices are falling so sharply (they were estimated to cost several hundred dollars per ton in 2011) is important. It’s now realistic enough to use capture technology that it’s being used at a real-world power plant, and it’s easy to see countries like China adopting this to tackle smog and the other immediate short-term effects of runaway CO2 emissions.

Via: Quartz, Popular Mechanics

Source: Climeworks

Amazon drops big-budget series following Weinstein scandal

The sexual assault claims against Harvey Weinstein and Amazon’s Roy Price are having repercussions for The Weinstein Company’s involvement in online video. Amazon has dropped a TWC-produced drama series that would have starred Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore, and it’s wresting control of its period piece The Romanoffs from TWC. The internet giant didn’t detail its reasons for severing ties, but De Niro, Moore and director David O. Russell said they backed Amazon’s decision “in light of recent news and out of respect for all those affected.”

The assault allegations may have served as an opportunity to jettison a show that wasn’t going very smoothly and would have been costly even if successful. Hollywood Reporter sources have claimed that the unnamed De Niro/Moore series struggled to get off the ground thanks to scripting trouble, and that the deal would have cost $160 million over two seasons. The Romanoffs, meanwhile, cost Amazon ‘just’ $75 million and is believed to be progressing well. In short: why carry on with a flawed, expensive series that could be tainted by association when taking control of The Romanoffs is a much safer bet?

Amazon’s rapid about-face underscores the dangers of betting its future on international blockbusters and scoring A-list actors. While it’s doubtful that the online tech giant could have anticipated the scandals, that eagerness to score top-tier projects makes it relatively vulnerable to incidents like this. It’s not going to have as many big-name projects lined up as a conventional studio, so it’s more likely to be left scrambling if it has to make sudden cancellations.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Project Loon might soon become its own company as per an FCC filing

Why it matters to you

There have been plenty of successful Alphabet spinoff companies already, and Project Loon could be joining their ranks.

Project Loon, Alphabet’s balloon-based internet service, might be taking flight in a new way. As per a recent FCC filing, it would appear that Project Loon is being spun out into its very own company. This marks an upgrade from its research lab project status, and could make Project Loon the latest business to come out of the Google parent corporation.

For years, the high-flying project has been housed under Alphabet’s X division, which is home to many of the company’s more outlandish and creative endeavors. But now that Project Loon has truly proven its mettle (it was recently deployed in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria to help restore cell service), it looks like it’s being given more latitude to do its own thing. Previously, Project Loon balloons were deployed over Peru, where they provided LTE coverage to the nation following a major flood. By relying on a telecom provider, the balloons were able to beam signals down to the ground.

Given these successes, it comes as little surprise that Project Loon is being given the opportunity to spread its wings even further. As per regulatory filings, the company would be named Loon Inc. As per a Business Insider report, Loon has long been a strong contender for being the newest spinoff from Alphabet’s X business. Just a few months ago, Project Loon got a new CEO, which already seemed to signal preparations for a more mature business.

When Alphabet allows a project to become its own business, it generally indicates a certain degree of confidence that the venture is ready to be commercialized. Loon would be able to set its own business objectives, but would become independently responsible for its well-being (something it doesn’t necessarily have to worry about while still under the wing of X).

In any case, plenty of Alphabet spinoffs have met with success, including smart home company Nest and navigational app Waymo.

While nothing is entirely official yet, we could soon be seeing more of these internet-beaming balloons in the sky. We’ve reached out to Project Loon for comment, and will update you with any further developments.

Stay safe with the best Google Pixel 2 XL screen protectors

Google’s Pixel 2 XL packs in a class-leading camera, a big battery, and the latest tricks Android has to offer, but the real star of the show is that 6-inch P-OLED screen. With a resolution of 2,880 x 1,440 pixels, this vibrant, sharp display is a dream come true for movie-watching and games. But it may not stay that way. An encounter with keys in your pocket or bag could lead to scratches and scrapes. A fumble could lead to a shattering sidewalk collision. We’ve looked at the best Pixel 2 XL cases already, now it’s time to think about the best Google Pixel 2 XL screen protectors.

Griffin Survivor Glass Screen Protector ($35)

Tempered glass is your best for solid screen protection and Griffin is a name you can trust. This screen protector scores 9H on the hardness scale, it’s only 0.5mm thick, and it has been subjected to keys and hammer impact testing. It should fit with most cases and it also sports a special coating to repel fingerprints and smudges. It’s quite pricey, but you get a decent application kit with it and it will keep your Pixel 2 XL screen in tip-top condition. It comes with a lifetime warranty, too.

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Griffin

AmFilm Tempered Glass Screen Protector ($15)

At only 0.3mm thick and with curved edges, this screen protector has a small footprint that makes for easy pairing with a case. It is 9H tempered glass that’s scratch resistant and it sports an oleophobic coating to shrug off smudges. The design is a bit different than you might be used to, because only the black frame edges are adhesive. According to AmFilm this allows for greater sensitivity on the touchscreen and bubble-free installation.

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Amazon

Skinomi TechSkin Screen Protector ($8)

If your budget is blown, then you might consider this reasonably priced two pack from Skinomi, but be warned – this is a TPU screen protector and plastic won’t safeguard your screen as well as tempered glass. It will provide a bit of impact absorption and guard against small scratches. It also has UV protection, so it shouldn’t yellow, and there’s a lifetime replacement warranty. If you already have a case with a decent bezel or extended frame to protect the screen, then this might be enough.

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Amazon

Incipio Plex Plus Shield Edge Screen Protector ($50)

You may recoil at the $50 price tag here, but replacing your Pixel 2 XL screen is going to cost north of $200, so it may prove worth it. This screen protector has everything – tempered glass, curved edges, and precise cut-outs. Your 6-inch screen will be safe from scratches and cracks, it won’t impact touch sensitivity, and there’s a one-year warranty to cater to problems.

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Incipio

Power Support Brilliant Tempered Glass ($40)

For a perfect fit, this completely clear tempered glass screen protector for the Pixel 2 XL might tempt you. It has accurate cut-outs to ensure there’s no interference with normal phone usage. It’s just 0.3mm thick, so it doesn’t add much to the profile of your phone. Not only will it guard against cracks and scrapes, it should also keep smudges at bay thanks to a special coating. It’s quite expensive, but the fact that it’s on sale at Google’s store is a vote of confidence in its protective capabilities and fit.

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Google

Check out our best Made for Google accessories roundup for more ideas on the best Pixel 2 XL screen protectors.