October 2016 News Wire

Interesting stories about computer science, software programming, and technology for October 2016.

Meet Terrifying Dinosaurs with Google Cardboard

https://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/an-extinct-world-brought-back-to-life.html

Take a 360 VR Tour Inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture

http://abcnews.go.com/US/360-vr-tour-inside-national-museum-african-american/story?id=42319929

A massive attack that may have hijacked online cameras will soon be “the new normal”

http://qz.com/789970/krebs-ddos-akamai-akam-a-massive-attack-that-may-have-hijacked-online-cameras-could-soon-be-the-new-normal/
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/why-the-silencing-of-krebsonsecurity-opens-a-troubling-chapter-for-the-net/

Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ozmarecords/voyager-golden-record-40th-anniversary-edition
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html

Amazon Says It Puts Customers First. But Its Pricing Algorithm Doesn’t.

https://www.propublica.org/article/amazon-says-it-puts-customers-first-but-its-pricing-algorithm-doesnt

Exclusive: Listen To ‘Alchemy,’ Simonne Jones’ Song Made From Physics Data

http://www.popsci.com/simonne-jones-alchemy-particle-physics-song-exclusive

VR goggles and giant touchscreen tables: How Audi explains new car technology

http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/09/vr-goggles-and-giant-touchscreen-tables-how-audi-explains-new-car-technology/

Hospitals Try Giving Patients a Dose of VR

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-29/hospitals-try-giving-patients-a-dose-of-vr

Augmented reality makes prototyping easy on Shaper’s Origin CNC machine

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/22/shapers-ar-makes-cnc-prototyping-easy/

The New Easy Way to Print Topographic Maps for Free

http://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoors/news/a22313/national-geographics-website-print-topographic-maps/

Bike share mapping creates beautiful portraits of London, NYC and Berlin

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/09/bike-share-mapping-gps-data-interactive-london-nyc-berlin-cf-city-flows

What Facebook Knows About You

https://www.propublica.org/article/breaking-the-black-box-what-facebook-knows-about-you

The Most Popular Programming Languages of 2016

http://www.builtinaustin.com/blog/most-popular-programming-languages-2016

ESLOV Internet of Things (IoT) Modular Invention Kit from Arduino

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iot-invention-kit/eslov-iot-invention-kit
https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/29/arduino-unleashes-a-serious-internet-of-things-system-for-hardware-hackers/

First look: The PlayStation VR headset arrives at Ars

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/09/first-look-the-playstation-vr-headset-arrives-at-ars/

Unity at 10: For better—or worse—game development has never been easier

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/09/unity-at-10-for-better-or-worse-game-development-has-never-been-easier/

Restoring the first recording of computer music

http://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2016/09/restoring-the-first-recording-of-computer-music.html

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