Tech News Today 1614: Mad as a Sack of Badgers

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. Hosts: Megan Morrone and Iain Thomson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-today. Thanks to CacheFly for the bandwidth for this show. Sponsors: BLUEAPRON.COM/TWIT Confidentcio.com QuickenLoans.com/tnt