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Google Search now uses Service Worker for repeated searches
Venture Beat - 2 Sep 2018 02:23
Google Search is now using Service Worker to cache repeated searches, loading results twice as fast. The tidbit was shared this week by Dion Almaer, Google director of engineering, and Ben Galbraith, Google senior direct...
Could 'community apps' built on blockchain solve Facebook's existential crisis?
Venture Beat - 2 Sep 2018 19:25
GUEST: "We came here for the friends." In the face of a reputation crisis, Facebook is investing heavily in a nationwide advertising campaign to remind us that it is a community first, a business second. The campaign has...
Haptic armband lets you feel the sensation of stroking in VR
Venture Beat - 2 Sep 2018 17:35
Virtual reality has a long way to go before it feels like reality. The visual part is getting more immersive with the new VR headsets, but things like the sense of touch are missing. Heather Culbertson hopes to change th...
13 of this fall's biggest VR games
Venture Beat - 2 Sep 2018 12:34
Can you believe it's nearly September already? It seems like it was only yesterday that we were looking ahead to 2018 and imagining all the great VR gaming we were going to be doing. Now most of it's behind us. Fortunate...