Tech News Today 1614

The Oculus Rift will FINALLY get controllers so you can use your hands in VR. Oculus Touch will be available on December 6th for $199.

Snap Incorporated, parent company of Snapchat, is prepping for a 25 billion dollar IPO, according to rumors.

Yesterday, news broke that Google isn't interested in buying Twitter, and now ReCode reports that Disney is also no longer interested. And that leaves Salesforce, according to sources, although neither Marc Benioff nor his representatives have confirmed their interest.

According to Quartz, battery researchers are up in arms that John Goodenough, inventor of lithium cobalt oxide cathode, has again been denied the Nobel Prize for chemistry.

The Next Web says Netflix will soon start streaming their original movies in luxury theaters on the same day you can stream them on Netflix. The partnership with theater chain iPic Entertainment is only one of many recent threats Netflix has posed to the traditional entertainment industry.

And Iain Thompson from The Register is here to talk rockets, British AI, and Spotify malware.

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Links

• Snapchat Parent Working on IPO Valuing Firm at $25 Billion or More
• Disney isn’t going to bid for Twitter, either
• The pioneer of lithium-ion has been denied a Nobel yet again, and battery researchers are not happy
• Netflix Original films soon to hit the big screen (where they belong)
• Samsung gobbles Siri maker
• Amazon supremo Bezos' Blue Origin blows its top over Texas desert
• Spotify ads briefly served malware to your PC
• Can a chatbot teach you a foreign language? Duolingo thinks so