News of Note for the Internet-Minded – 7/7/16

Snapchat announces a seismic shift, Microsoft looks to DNA for your long-term storage needs, and authorities try to get out ahead of some of the predictable consequences of Pokémon Go’s arrival. (Please look where you’re walking as you try to catch them all.)

• • Oculus’ haptic project looks to provide glove-free VR. (Rachel Metz, MIT Technology Review)

 

• • Microsoft looks at DNA for long-term data storage. (Andrew Rosenblum, MIT Technology Review)

 

• • Pokémon Go has arrived … and Australian police want all those Pokemasters to be careful. (Daniel Van Boom, c|net)

 

• • Etsy’s payment processor experiences a service outage. (John Mannes, TechCrunch)

 

• • Manchester City signs 18-year-old e-sports player to represent the club at e-sports tournaments. (Jane Wakefield, BBC.com)

 

• • Snapchat transforms itself with the introduction of Memories. (Karissa Bell, Mashable)

 

• • Will the fatal Tesla Model S collision cause the company to reconsider the use of Lidar? (Olivia Solon, The Guardian)

 

• • The Rio Olympics will feature virtual reality coverage. (S. Garrett Shaw, Sports Illustrated)

 

• • The era of quantum computers continues to inch its way toward the present. (ScienceDaily, via Penn State)

 

• Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang invests in virtual reality. (Joe Durbin, UploadVR)