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Oculus is hosting free World Cup viewing parties in VR

The World Cup begins today and you can watch it in VR if you have a mobile Oculus Go or Samsung Gear VR headset.  Facebook’s Oculus Venues app, a place for watching live events in VR, is adding free livestreams of selected World Cup games via Fox Sports for US viewers over the next couple of weeks. The Venues app projects these matches into …

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Google’s new Ad Settings show how dumb targeted ads still are

I’m as scared as anybody that all of my oh-so-personal data is being turned into a giant dossier that’ll help companies and governments target me in all kinds of seminefarious ways. Shadow profiles and the like.  But if Google’s just revamped Ad Settings tool is any indication, those potentially privacy-penetrating algorithms are still pretty dumb.  So dumb that I’m happy …

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