Slashgear

APRIL 20, 2022

In 2012, scientists announced they'd found a planet potentially made of diamonds, one of several known exoplanets that may be home to the valuable gemstone.

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JUNE 19, 2022

Neil Armstrong's 1967 Corvette Sting Ray is now in the care of a restorer who preserved it after not leaving a garage from 1981 to 2012.

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MARCH 14, 2022

In the year 2012, the Gates Foundation awarded a grant to Cranfield University for a toilet that's ecologically friendly and requires no water to operate.

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Next Reality AR

APRIL 3, 2018

2012, about two years before the company would unveil the device to the public in Jan. In a blog post on Tuesday, Microsoft's Bay Area Team posted images of the early prototype devices that led to the eventual release of the HoloLens. Accompanying the images are direct accounts from the team who worked on the device beginning in Sept.

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VRScout

JUNE 27, 2023

Despite having launched all the way back in 2012, Subway Surfers remains one of the most popular mobile games currently available on iOS and Android devices. Interact with your favorite characters IRL for the first time.

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VRScout

JANUARY 27, 2022

Ever since Psy graced our ears with his now-iconic song ‘Gangnam Style’ in 2012, the popularity of South Korean music, film, and television has skyrocketed in places like the United States. It’s hard to ignore the growing rise of South Korean media and culture in Western countries.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Before Fez (2012) , before Limbo (2010) , and before Minecraft (2009) , Braid (2008) was one of the breakout successes in the formative years of indie game development and distribution. Jonathan Blow, the creator of one of indie gaming’s fomative successes, Braid , has begun hiring a team to develop his first VR game.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

One of those men is director Roland Emmerich , whose career mainly consists of disaster movies both large ( Independence Day , 2012, The Day After Tomorrow ) and small ( Midway, White House Down , the godawful 1998 U.S. Or tear itself to pieces. Or explode several million times. Read more.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2023

Google Glass Explorer Edition | Image courtesy Alphabet Starting in 2012, the company was hoping to seed the device among prosumers with its Glass Explorer Editions, although public backlash spawned the term “glasshole,” putting a severe dent in Google’s ambitions to launch a more consumer-focused version of the device.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Pioneering VR developer Sean Edwards, well known in VR’s early days as the mind behind Lunar Flight (2012) , has announced his second ever VR title. A substantial pivot from space landing sim to arcade FPS, Dead Second promises high octane action and sharp visuals on Quest and PC VR.

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Road to VR

JULY 21, 2021

Founded in 2012, Sketchfab plays host to over 4 million 3D assets, all of which are accessible through its web-based platform across PC, mobile, and immersive headsets.

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Tech Trends VR

JULY 31, 2019

Back in 2012, a starry-eyed young entrepreneur called Palmer Luckey announced a new and improved head-mounted display that would be better than pretty much everything on the market at the time, and affordable for gamers to boot. He built the first prototype of his VR headset in 2011 and announced it on Kickstarter in 2012.

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ARPost

AUGUST 17, 2021

During the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games, Holiday Inn used AR to create immersive experiences for guests around the hotel. Without even setting foot in the bedrooms, guests can inspect them thoroughly. This virtual tour can help them decide which rooms to book. How Are Hotels Using Augmented Reality Technology?

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2021

Check out the gameplay trailer below: Founded in 2012 as an entertainment and media company focusing on music and storytelling, Ionia will be Rotu’s first game for consumers as well as the first in what promises to be a continued Rhythm of the Universe series of VR titles.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 9, 2024

Check out the this year’s most anticipated VR games below: Aces of Thunder (PSVR 2, PC VR) Created by War Thunder (2012) studio Gaijin Games, Aces of Thunder promises to bring a host of WWII combat airplanes across 15 maps representing three key theaters: Western, Eastern and Pacific Fronts.

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Road to VR

JUNE 30, 2020

Founded in 2012, North (ex-Thalmic Labs) first set out to create Myo, a gesture-based armband. Google today confirmed in a blog post that it’s acquired North, the Canada-based smartglasses maker behind Focals. The acquisition price wasn’t disclosed, however early reports suggested it was around $180 million.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 10, 2021

For years, Alex Jones, the proprietor of far-right internet hellhole InfoWars, was able to monetize disgusting lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, where a gunman shot and killed 26 people including 20 children before dying by suicide. Jones was particularly obsessed with selling the idea that… Read more.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 18, 2022

Curiosity is the largest rover ever sent to Mars, arriving on the desert planet in August 2012. Launched from Earth in 2011, Curiosity is the largest rover ever sent to Mars, arriving on the desert planet in August 2012. Credit: NASA.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2018

Mojave will launch publicly in the Fall as a free update for Macs introduced in mid-2012 or later, as well as 2010 and 2012 Mac Pro models with recommended Metal-capable graphics cards. A preview of MacOS 10.4 Mojave is available to members of the Apple Developer Program today, with a public beta beginning in late June.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 9, 2022

In 2012, only three years after Kickstarter first launched, Jamie Chambers successfully ran a crowdfunding campaign in support of a new edition of the classic science fiction RPG, Metamorphosis. Kickstarter has been used as a crowdfunding platform for tabletop role-playing games almost since its inception. Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 4, 2022

After all, the defamation trial itself is over him lying to his massive audience about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, claiming with full-throated zeal that the… Read more. Alex Jones, the mouthpiece of the unhinged conspiracy site InfoWars, has been called a liar in court. It really shouldn’t surprise anyone.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

InfoWars blowhard Alex Jones has lost another set of defamation lawsuits brought by the targets of his bogus conspiracy theories about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, this time in Connecticut. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 2, 2022

On July 4, 2012, scientists at CERN confirmed the observation of the Higgs boson, an elementary particle first proposed in the 1960s. The boson’s discovery was a momentous occasion, as it meant physicists were a step closer to probing the field associated with the boson, which gives particles mass. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 28, 2022

Here are 10 of the very best horror-adjacent docs dating from 2012 until now. There are some all-time classic documentaries that every horror fan has likely already seen: Best Worst Movie , American Movie , and Terror in the Aisles , to name a few. But what about more recent entries into the genre? Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 7, 2022

It’s been a few years since the anime based on creator ONE’s 2012 manga aired, but absence often makes the heart grow fonder, particularly in… Read more. The new season of Studio Bones’ Mob Psycho 100 is a couple months away, and soon, fans will be reunited with Mob, Reigen and the rest of that show’s lovably strange cast.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 18, 2022

Now he’s likely growing purple holding his breath, trying to avoid paying out for consistently claiming that the 2012 Sandy Hook school… Read more. It’s easy to imagine Alex Jones, the host of the rambling, right-wing hate channel InfoWars, turning as red as an inflamed pimple at the thought of having to pay for his lies.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

In 2012 he became Apple's SVP of Hardware Engineering, joining the executive team. Dan Riccio is retiring, Bloomberg reports. Riccio joined Apple upon Steve Jobs' return in 1998, serving as VP of Product Design, and was heavily involved in the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad.

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GizModo VR

JULY 30, 2022

Though the original 2012 film was where that first batch of movies was building up to, and ended Phase One, the same couldn’t be said of its sequels. The Avengers sub-franchise of the MCU occupies a strange spot in the larger series. 2015's Age of Ultron released mid-Phase Two, and though the duology of Infinity War … Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 3, 2021

Not to be outdone by the young upstart Perseverance, NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent recent days imaging interesting rocks at the base of Mount Sharp on Mars, near which the rover landed in August 2012. One of those features is an arch, similar to some of the towering geology present on parts of Earth—but this arch… Read more.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

While we wait (and feverishly hope it’s a return to form after 2012's regrettable Dracula 3D ), we’re looking back at 10 films that have defined his career so far. Italian horror legend Dario Argento ’s 20th movie, Dark Glasses —his first feature in 10 years—will be arriving on Shudder this fall. Read more.

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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

TSMC has collaborated with IMS Nano since 2012, and this investment is expected to deepen their partnership. "TSMC has been working with IMS since 2012 on the development of multi-beam mask writers for advanced technology nodes," said Kevin Zhang, senior vice president of business development at TSMC. "This

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GizModo VR

MAY 17, 2022

The second-largest fire was 2012's Whitewater-Baldy burn, which swept through 297,945 acres. In northern New Mexico, the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak fire is now the single largest in state history, blazing through more than 298,060 acres so far. The ongoing fire has led to widespread evacuations and the destruction of… Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Less common are films about people counting down until the end of the world —though they certainly exist, with approaches as varied as Roland Emmerich ’s big, loud disaster flick 2012 and Lars von Trier’s pensive, nihilistic Melancholia.… Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The first V/H/S movie came out in 2012, arriving at the tail end of the low-budget found-footage horror craze ( Paranormal Activity and REC came out in 2007; Cloverfield was 2008) and capturing the last moment in culture before VCRs became totally obsolete. Two sequels followed, with 2014's V/H/S: Viral embracing phone… Read more.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 21, 2023

EA deprecated online support for a number of MoH titles in February 2023, including Medal of Honor (2010) , Medal of Honor: Warfighter (2012) and Medal of Honor: Airborne (2007)— all of which benefitted from wide support across PC, Xbox and PS consoles throughout their tenure.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 6, 2021

The superhero movie landscape was markedly different back in 2012. The MCU’s Avengers teaming up on the big screen was a fresh, exciting idea at the time, and the world had not yet gotten its first taste of the DCEU. But while the major studio franchises that dominate the box office were still ramping up somewhat,… Read more.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 25, 2022

inch Apple iMac from 2012 is available at Woot for only $174.99. inch iMac from 2012 that's technically " obsolete " (meaning Apple has discontinued hardware service and third-party providers can't order parts for repairs). 2012 Apple iMac (21.5-inch, TL;DR: As of March 25, a refurbished 21.5-inch A $175 Apple iMac?

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