Up close with Microsoft’s HoloLens headset

Microsoft isn’t letting the media take pictures of the HoloLens experience itself, but we just arrived at the company’s demo station here at Build and there’s a unit under glass. It looks identical to the press photos we’ve seen before, with a futuristic looking visor and the transparent glass that lets you see your environment while holograms project around you.

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Roman schoolkids give the pope a drone of his own

From pizza to Fiats, people love giving gifts to Pope Francis. Most recently, students from a Jesuit school in Rome presented the Holy See with a customized quadcopter painted in the colors of the Vatican flag and replete with the Papal emblem. Accor…

A Facebook bug stopped users from posting anything with a link

A new Facebook bug caused major problems for users today, with posts disappearing and new links apparently blocked from posting. The bug only affected posts containing links to content outside of Facebook, but as of press time, it appears to have been at least partially resolved. „An error in our system that helps block bad links on Facebook incorrectly marked some URLs as malicious or inappropriate,“ said a Facebook spokesperson. „As a result, some existing posts were hidden, while other posts were blocked completely. We’ve resolved the issue and the remaining affected URLs are being unblocked. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.“

The problem seems to have begun last night with issues in Facebook’s image-scraping…

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