Morning Updates: Boost for Google Cardboard, a spelling bee T-I-E
Good Friday morning, Boston. Here are the stories you need to know to get your day started.
Google’s virtual reality device is mostly just a piece of cardboard. It’s called Google Cardboard, and it got a big boost at this week’s Google’s I/O developer conference in San Francisco. “It is a comically simple contraption: A smartphone slips into the front so it sits just inches from a user’s eyes. Peering through a pair of cheap, plastic lenses renders the images on the phone’s screen in 3-D. It costs around $4.’’ (The New York Times)
Tie… T-I-E… Tie (ding): For the second year in a row, the Scripps National Spelling Bee concluded with co-champions. “Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul Venkatachalam were the last two standing Thursday after exhausting the 25 words reserved for the final three spellers without stumbling. Before last year, there hadn’t been a tie since 1962. The Associated Press
Brookline’s just not that into you, Boston2024: Brookline’s Town Meeting voted last night to formally oppose Boston’s bid to host the Olympics. “The late-night vote came after those opposed talked about the financial liability associated with hosting an Olympic Games, and complained that the town was never consulted about hosting events that were included in a bid submitted last year by Boston 2024 to the United States Olympic Committee.’’ (The Boston Globe)
The (Red Sox) kids are all right: Making his Major League debut, pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez threw 7.2 scoreless innings for Boston in a 5-1 win over the Rangers in Texas. “Boston’s No. 4 prospect, Rodriguez struck out seven while allowing just three hits. “I wasn’t nervous after the first couple of pitches,’’ Rodriguez said after the game, via The Associated Press. “I went out and saw the lights and saw the stadium, and said, ‘This is what it’s like.’’’ (Boston.com)
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The Goodbye: Some Friday morning music, courtesy of the early 1990s:
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