E3 Opens To The Public For The First Time, Early Bird Passes Cost $150 and other top stories.

• E3 Opens To The Public For The First Time, Early Bird Passes Cost $150

  

  The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or more commonly recognized for its shorter grab-bag moniker, "E3," has so far in its history only been very welcoming to media personnel and white-collared gaming industry people, often closing its gates to the common person who, despite possessing rabid interest of attending the event, has no actual ties to the gaming industry. That changes now. Going against tradition, E3 will officially open its door to the general public, and yes, that means even those wh..

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• Facebook is closing hundreds of its Oculus VR pop-ups in Best Buys after some stores went days without a single demo

  

  A man demos an early Oculus Rift prototype headset at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Facebook is closing around 200 of its 500 Oculus virtual reality demo stations at Best Buy locations across the US, Business Insider has learned. The scaling back of Facebook's first big retail push for VR comes after workers from multiple Best Buy pop-ups told BI that it was common for them to go days without giving a single demonstration. An inte..

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• Israel finds cave said to have contained Dead Sea scrolls

  

  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Hebrew University says archaeologists have found a cave that once contained Dead Sea scrolls. The university says Wednesday that while no texts were found in the cave near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, findings indicate that scrolls were once stored there. Storage jars, fragments of a scroll wrapping and a string used to tie the scroll were all found in the cave. It is the 12th known cave said to have contained scrolls. The university says the scrolls are bel..

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• Newly Discovered Gecko's Giant Breakaway Scales Help It Flee Predators

  

  Geckolepis megalepis can shed its skin and scales — the largest of any gecko — in order to flee a predator. PeerJ hide caption toggle caption PeerJ Geckolepis megalepis can shed its skin and scales — the largest of any gecko — in order to flee a predator. PeerJ This newly discovered gecko sp..

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• Google plans purge of Play Store apps without privacy policies

  

  Stock photo Google has been sending notices to developers across the world revealing plans to penalize Google Play Store apps which do not have valid privacy policies.As reported by The Next Web, the Mountain View, CA.-based firm intends to "limit the visibility" of applications which do not adhere to current User Data policies -- or remove the worst offenders altogether.When you consider how many Android apps ..

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• Windows 10 Creators Update To Come With Picture-In-Picture Mode

  

  Windows 10 is about to gain one of the best features of Android and iOS: a picture-in-picture mode. Microsoft's stashing it in as part of the Creators Update due for rollout in April. Compact Overlay The picture-in-picture mode, or "Compact Overlay," as Microsoft calls it, will be available to all app developers creating apps from the company's Universal Windows Platform. Stock apps such as Movies & TV or Skype will soon also integrate Compact Overlay via future updates, allowing users to conti..

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