It's Thursday, January 26, and if you had any questions about whether Facebook was serious about VR outside of Oculus VR, well, wonder no longer. As they brought Hugo Barra into the fold to head up their VR efforts, who is Hugo Barra, well, he's a former Google exec who jumped ship to Chinese tech firms Yami and then built Johnny into a smartphone powerhouse with sales of a billion dollars just in India alone.

In a Facebook post by the man himself, Luck said that he and Barbosa aren't worried about VR being the next big texting. Barra says his goal is to make VR mainstream, what will that take? Well, probably swimming down the nerdy headsets and making them wireless for one or two, along with rapid software development, hardware development, market development, and hopefully cutting the price eventually. It's a big job but one it would seem Barra is cut out for. Luck you go.

More Facebook news now, and this time it's about fake news that tender topic that was the focus during the last election. Facebook is giving its trending topics section on your page a makeover with some new rules about what bubbles up to the top. No longer will topics be ranked by how many people are reading about them, so instead, they will be parsed by the numbers of publishers publishing about them. Also, instead of just a word or hashtag for the topic, there will be a short headline, a quick blurb, or a more shall we say curated descriptive word for the topic. Finally, trending topics will be regionalized instead of personalized, so everyone in your area sees the same list of topics which may be a move to get people out of their news bubbles of repeated false information.

Luck has also made some more key hires in the news department, it's a link below for more details, some more moves and rumors in the Restless cable and internet TV field now. The Wall Street Journal reports that Verizon may be looking at reeling in Charter, the nation's second-largest cable provider. Verizon is the nation's largest cell phone provider, and if it did walk in on Charter, that would give it a massive distribution network to work with as we sail into what is likely going to be a highly deregulated and anti-neutrality world of internet. This rule will mean for consumers ultimately remains to be seen but suffice to say the cable internet chessboard is going to remain busy for a while.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enit's Thursday January 26 and if you had any questions about whether Facebook was serious about VR outside of you know they're buying oculus VR and so forth well wonder no longer as they brought Hugo Barra into the fold to head up there vr efforts who is Hugo Barra well he's a former google exec who jumped ship to chinese tech firms yami and then built Jonny into a smartphone powerhouse with sales of a billion dollars just in India alone in a Facebook post by the man himself luck said that he and Barbosa ain't VR is the next big texting and Barra says his goal is to make VR mainstream what will that take well probably swimming down the nerdy headsets and making them wireless for one or two along with rapid software development hardware development market development and hopefully cutting the price eventually it's a big job but one it would seem Barra is cut out for good luck you go more facebook news now and this time it's about fake news that tender topic that was the focus during the last election facebook is giving its trending topics section on your page a makeover with some new rules about what bubbles up to the top no longer will topics be ranked by how many people are reading about them so instead be parsed by the numbers of publishers publishing about them also instead of just a word or hashtag for the topic there will be a short headline a quick blurb or a more shall we say curated descriptive word for the topic finally trending topics will be regionalised instead of personalized so everyone in your area sees the same list of topics which may be a move to get people out of their news bubbles of repeated false information luck has also made some more key hires in the news department it's a link below for more details some more moves and rumors in the Restless cable and internet TV field now the wall street journal reports that verizon may be looking at reeling in charter the nation's second largest cable provider verizon is the nation's largest cell phone provider and if it did walk in charter that would give it a massive distribution network to work with as we sail into what is likely going to be a highly deregulated and anti neutrality world of internet this rule will mean for consumers ultimately remains to be seen but suffice to say the cable internet chess board is going to remain busy for a while that's it for dt daily check out our facebook page and youtube channels we'll be back again tomorrowit's Thursday January 26 and if you had any questions about whether Facebook was serious about VR outside of you know they're buying oculus VR and so forth well wonder no longer as they brought Hugo Barra into the fold to head up there vr efforts who is Hugo Barra well he's a former google exec who jumped ship to chinese tech firms yami and then built Jonny into a smartphone powerhouse with sales of a billion dollars just in India alone in a Facebook post by the man himself luck said that he and Barbosa ain't VR is the next big texting and Barra says his goal is to make VR mainstream what will that take well probably swimming down the nerdy headsets and making them wireless for one or two along with rapid software development hardware development market development and hopefully cutting the price eventually it's a big job but one it would seem Barra is cut out for good luck you go more facebook news now and this time it's about fake news that tender topic that was the focus during the last election facebook is giving its trending topics section on your page a makeover with some new rules about what bubbles up to the top no longer will topics be ranked by how many people are reading about them so instead be parsed by the numbers of publishers publishing about them also instead of just a word or hashtag for the topic there will be a short headline a quick blurb or a more shall we say curated descriptive word for the topic finally trending topics will be regionalised instead of personalized so everyone in your area sees the same list of topics which may be a move to get people out of their news bubbles of repeated false information luck has also made some more key hires in the news department it's a link below for more details some more moves and rumors in the Restless cable and internet TV field now the wall street journal reports that verizon may be looking at reeling in charter the nation's second largest cable provider verizon is the nation's largest cell phone provider and if it did walk in charter that would give it a massive distribution network to work with as we sail into what is likely going to be a highly deregulated and anti neutrality world of internet this rule will mean for consumers ultimately remains to be seen but suffice to say the cable internet chess board is going to remain busy for a while that's it for dt daily check out our facebook page and youtube channels we'll be back again tomorrow\n"