The Morning After: Closet VR is here

It's Wednesday, August 16, 2017. Hey, good morning! Welcome to Wednesday! Virtually creep inside Kendall Jenner’s closet, watch a drone chill on the UK’s biggest warship and hear about a smart-lock update that bricked said locks. Whoops. The series was shot with Google’s new Jump cameras.   Google’s latest Daydream VR series puts you in Kendall Jenner’s closet   The latest Google Daydream series will give you a VR look into the closets of supermodels like Kendall Jenner and Cindy Crawford. The series is imaginatively called Supermodel Closets and was made in partnership with Vogue and Condé Nast Entertainment. It's one of the first projects to use Google’s newest Jump camera -- the Yi Halo -- which allows for 360-degree views and 4K images. Google notes that the cameras were even able to give great images in tight closet spaces, but these closets are larger than most Manhattan apartments. It touched down and lifted off with nobody batting an eyelash.   A drone landed on Britain’s biggest warship and nobody cared   The Pentagon has already approved a policy giving military bases the right to shoot down drones that get too close. A lot of other countries’ governments and militaries, however, are still figuring out how to deal with them as they become more common. A photographer operating under the name Black Isle Images, for instance, landed a drone aboard Britain’s biggest warship, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, and nobody seemed to care.   The subscription doesn’t include 3D or IMAX screenings, though.   The MoviePass $9.95 ‘unlimited’ deal is one movie a day   Going to the movies isn’t cheap and MoviePass wants to fix that. The company has just announced a $9.95 no contract subscription plan that’ll grant subscribers access to one movie a day in a theater without blackouts. Previously, users were limited to two movies a month for $15, and in Los Angeles and New York that price bumped to $21. As Variety notes, the deal won’t apply to 3D or IMAX screenings, but how it’ll actually play out and what any other restrictions might entail aren’t clear at the moment.   It promises to virtually eliminate wait times for the basics.   Amazon Instant Pickup service offers you basics in two minutes   Amazon’s Prime Now usually does the job if you need something in a hurry, but what if you can’t even wait a couple of hours? If you happen to live in the right city, you might now have that quick fix. Amazon has launched an Instant Pickup service that lets Prime subscribers grab food and other essentials (and, logically, Amazon devices) at a staffed pickup location within two minutes of ordering them from the company’s mobile app. You probably won’t have an urgent need for an Echo, but Prime Now could be helpful if you lost your headphones or want a snack while you’re in the area.   But wait, there's more... 1. GoFundMe shuts down campaigns for Charlottesville suspect 2. DJI drones are getting an offline mode for secret flights 3. Qualcomm's new depth-sensing camera is surprisingly effective 4. Smart locks rendered dumb by automatic update fail The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

The Morning After: Delorean's next car is a flying one

It's Tuesday, August 15, 2017. Hey, good morning!  What happened? DeLorean’s making a flying car, that’s what. Well, it has a render and plans. There’s also a ready-for-swimming wearable for Samsung and Mewtwo wants to fight.   Where we're going, we won't need roads, but we will need sophisticated air-traffic control.    DeLorean's next car is a flying one   Didn’t the DeLorean always fly? Oh wait...   It can also play your offline Spotify songs.   Samsung's next Gear Fit will track your swimming   The Gear Fit 2 Pro appears to look much like its predecessor, complete with a tall, curved display, but with some big design upgrades. Most notably, it would add 5 ATM water resistance and that hoped-for swim tracking. It may just be a leak for now, but if you’ve missed aquatic-fitness metric tracking -- this could be the (niche) wearable for you.   Buyers can see how much they'll save with solar panels and a Powerwall battery.   Tesla's Tiny House roadshow demystifies its energy tech   Renewable energy is good for the planet, but it can be great for consumers -- depending on your location, you can actually make a profit using solar panels and backup battery storage. Those benefits can be hard for consumers to grok, however, so Tesla has launched the Tiny House tour in Australia with all of its latest technology in tow (literally).   I’m glad I walked away from it.   A break from Twitter showed me how broken it is   Senior Editor Daniel Cooper decided to take a week-long break from the platform to see if, like all those other quitters, he’d find life is happier on the other side.    The psychic cat for only the very best.   Fighting Mewtwo in 'Pokémon Go' is invite-only   Mewtwo finally made an appearance in Pokémon Go today in Japan. The legendary pocket monster helped show off the new Exclusive Raid Battle system in Japan, and soon will be making its way to domestic shores.   But wait, there's more... 1. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich drops out of Trump council 2. Get Google's own contacts app on any Android phone 3. Softlab transforms 'empty' space with light and mirrors 4. What we're playing: 'Tacoma,' 'Final Fantasy' and 'A Dark Room' The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

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How Tech Could Help Creators Look Before They Leap
CTO Heather Wilde: Making the World More Like Star Trek Than Skynet
Is the Path to Secure Elections Paved With Open Source Code?

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How Tech Could Help Creators Look Before They Leap
The folks who made The Emoji Movie apparently were worried about its
Rotten Tomatoes score -- it had earned a 0 percent rating at one point,
based on a scattering of early reviews -- so they stopped critics from
publishing further reviews until just before previews began running. The
result was a great opening day, but attendance fell off sharply because,
well, the movie sucked.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84733.html

CTO Heather Wilde: Making the World More Like Star Trek Than Skynet
"I care about helping more women get into technology, so I spend a lot
of time teaching girls from sixth grade to high school so that they're
more educated about STEM fields," said Heather Wilde, CTO of ROCeteer
and TWIP. "I'm also chair of the engineering school's advisory board at
the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to help steer the school toward new
directions."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84705.html

Is the Path to Secure Elections Paved With Open Source Code?
Increased use of open source software could fortify U.S. election system
security, according to former CIA head R. James Woolsey and Bash creator
Brian J. Fox. The two made their case for open source elections software
after security researchers demonstrated how easy it was to crack some
election machines at the recent DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84730.html

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