Fri. 05/17 - Is Minecraft Earth The Killer App For AR?

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🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Can Minecraft Earth be the killer app for AR? Are the best and brightest shunning working at Facebook? Has drone maker DJI beaten GoPro at its own game? And do I have some killer weekend longreads suggestions? You better believe I do. Sponsors: EthosLife.com/ride WeWorkRemotely.com Links: Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy supercomputer maker Cray in $1.30 billion deal (Reuters) MINECRAFT EARTH GOES A STEP BEYOND POKÉMON GO TO COVER THE WORLD IN BLOCKS (TheVerge) Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to recruiters who worked there (CNBC) Alphabet’s Wing will kick off Helsinki drone deliveries in summer 2019 (VentureBeat) DJI is out-GoProing GoPro with its own action camera (TechCrunch) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: How the Promise of a $120 Billion Uber I.P.O. Evaporated (NYTimes) WHY I (STILL) LOVE TECH: IN DEFENSE OF A DIFFICULT INDUSTRY (Wired) Editorial: Why Apple created Apple TV+ rather than buying Netflix (AppleInsider) The Pivot (Asymco/Horace Dediu) AS COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT TAKES OFF, THE AVIATION INDUSTRY GETS PROTECTIVE OF AIRSPACE (The Verge) The Fusion Reactor Next Door (NYTimes) Subscribe to the ad-free premium feed here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, May 17th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.4	Today, can Minecraft Earth be the killer app for AR are the best and brightest shunning work at
0:17.0	Facebook?
0:18.0	Has DroneMaker DJI beaten GoPro GoPro at its own game?
0:22.0	And do I have some killer weekend long read
0:24.2	suggestions you better believe I do here's what you missed today in the world of
0:28.2	tech.
0:30.2	Hewlett Packard Enterprise is buying Super Computer Maker Cray in a deal valued at 1.3 billion dollars or
0:37.9	35 dollars a share which represents a premium of 17.4 percent to Cray's closing share price yesterday.
0:46.0	Weren't we just talking about Cray building the world's fastest
0:49.6	supercomputer for the US Department of Energy, quoting Reuters, as part of the deal,
0:55.4	HPE expects to incur one-time integration costs that will be absorbed within its
0:59.6	fiscal year 2020 free cash flow outlook of $1.9 billion to 2.1 billion that remains
1:06.8	unchanged. Seattle headquartered Cray has US-based manufacturing operations and
1:11.3	about 1,300 employees worldwide.
1:13.7	It earned 456 million in revenue in its last fiscal year.
1:18.0	Cray's supercomputing systems can handle massive data sets,
1:21.0	converged modeling, simulation, artificial intelligence, and analytics
1:24.8	workloads, end quote.
1:30.8	This is potentially huge gaming news.
1:34.0	Microsoft has officially announced Minecraft Earth, a real world AR version of Minecraft.
1:40.0	Available in closed beta on iOS and Android later this summer.
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