Sentences with phrase «no skyboxes»

Skybox Imaging, based in Mountain View, Calif., makes satellites similar to those of Planet Labs, though they are significantly larger.

What It Is Most college basketball fans would salivate over a day that starts with a pickup game on the court at New York's Madison Square Garden and ends with watching Duke play St. John's from a luxury skybox during the 2k Sports Classic.

Last year's third place finisher, satellite imaging company Skybox Imaging, reached an agreement with the search giant last August to be acquired for a whopping $ 500 million.

In a phone interview this week, Samuels told me that Google's acquisition of Skybox confirms a hypothesis he developed in the course of his reporting last year.

Stanford grads weren't far behind, with 32 startups on the list — including video streaming company Viki, satellite imaging company Skybox, mobile startup Karma Science, student loan refinancing company SoFi, and genetic testing startup Counsyl.

But Skybox has found a way to make them cheap and light, using ingenious image - processing software to cover the hardware's shortcomings.

That doesn't mean Google is bent on rivaling the NSA as a surveillance agency, even if Skybox does sound a little like Skynet.

With enough resources, though, Skybox could launch dozens of them, generating near - real - time images of any spot on the globe throughout the day.

Skybox ranked No. 1 on Inc. magazine's 25 Most Audacious Companies in 2014 and was acquired by Google for $ 500 million in June.

In 2009, she co-founded Skybox Imaging, a data and aerospace startup that designed, built, and launched the world's largest constellation of high resolution imaging satellites.

As the Director of Business Operations and Customer Relations, she was responsible for growing a stealth company into an industry - defining brand, driving new global business opportunities with strategic partnerships, and playing a critical role in securing Skybox's venture capital financing from leading investors and eventual acquisition by Google in 2014 for $ 500M.

Planet Labs, for instance, makes smaller satellites than Skybox, so while it can send more «birds» into space, its imagery will never be as good.

First, Skybox's satellites capture video — the first commercially available, high - resolution video of Earth.

Many of Skybox's competitors only aspire to medium - or high - resolution still photography.

His wife of 41 years would be in the club's «skybox» that evening to watch the show.

And earlier this week, Google announced that it plans to purchase Skybox for $ 500 million.

Just two days after its announcement that Google plans to acquire satellite imaging company Skybox, Google is at it again.

When I was required by my job to introduce Hillsong at a sold - out concert in Chicago, I retreated to a skybox and scanned Twitter for the show, barely glancing up at the stage, as others poured their hearts out to God.

There were no air - conditioned skyboxes in those days; there weren't even seats, but rather wooden benches.

The family had a skybox perch on the 16th on Sunday.

«I guess something like 24 skyboxes are going in.

What was once an organic gathering is now a «Coliseum» of grandstands and skyboxes surrounding the entire hole.

The hole is completely surrounded by multi-level skyboxes and grandstands.

Memo to Mayor Harold Washington: Forget the skybox shenanigans.

He said opening the ramps would mean that 40 skybox patrons would have to park their cars in a park district lot east of district headquarters.

Terrence K. Hegarty charged that the park district had closed the ramps behind the north bleachers so 120 skybox patrons could use a parking area between the stadium and park district headquarters.

The proposal includes thousands of new seats, more skyboxes, a new scoreboard, and a glass - enclosed restaurant and lounge.

Last year the team prevailed on the Chicago Park District to install a natural grass playing field and to let the Bears build 54 skyboxes atop the stadium «s south rim.

Under the terms of the rental contract, the park district keeps 12 percent of gate receipts, a $ 1 per ticket surcharge, 20 percent of skybox lease revenues, and all proceeds from food and drink concessions.

One Midwest broker said a skybox ticket could have been worth $ 10,000 to $ 15,000.

I asked Schumer about Giuliani's attack on Biden when the senior senator sat down with me in our skybox at the Time Warner Cable Arena last night before the president's speech, and also inquired what the vice president brings to the table.

The always colorful former US Senator Al D'Amato swung by our skybox before the convention festivities got underway on Wednesday, and talked to us about the presidential race and also about the US Senate race taking place back in New York.

In 2012, the committee spent $ 204,000 to purchase a luxury skybox at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.

Such riches enabled the purchase of a skybox at MetLife Stadium, where Walker's favorite football team happens to play, and allowed the club to grow a war chest that gave him outsized political influence.

But those days are behind him, the Long Island lawmaker told me during a CapTon interview last night in the YNN / NY1 skybox at the Tampa Bay Times Forum.

Several of the governor's aides rented out a skybox behind home plate; one of them caught a pop foul.

We'll be leaving tomorrow afternoon and, weather permitting, bringing you our first live show Monday night at 8 p.m. from the Tampa Bay Times Forum skybox we'll be sharing with NY1 and other YNN outlets during convention week.

The TU's Casey Seiler chides Cuomo for failing to attend his own bobblehead night at The Joe — especially when Cuomo aides rented out a skybox, and one caught a pop foul.

Nevin said money raised by Mangano from skybox events has been properly reported.

The Associated Press reported recently that 23 Sandy contractors including Looks Great contributed more than $ 144,000 to Mangano's campaign in the 11 weeks after the storm.Jacobs raised questions about the use of the skybox.

He alleged that Mangano and Walker had illegally used the Hicksville committee and the skybox to funnel money secretly to Mangano's campaign.

These companies are joined by Skybox Imaging — which was acquired by Google for $ 500 million last year — Planet Labs, and DigitalGlobe.

We sat in a skybox at Reliant Stadium in Houston, overlooking that year's First nationals — a hullabaloo of gadgetry and unbridled teen energy set to throbbing pop music piped in over the stadium's speakers.

Meanwhile, Skybox Imaging, a satellite company created by former students of Twiggs, was recently bought by Google for $ 500 million.

Whereas most of the nine spectral bands of imagery captured by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Landsat 8, launched in 2013, for example, are delivered at 30 - meter resolution, other commercial providers of remote - sensing images, such as Skybox Imaging and BlackBridge (formerly RapidEye), have the capability to deliver much higher resolutions — as fine as one meter per pixel.

Maybe not in the next few days, but for sure when I get back from Texas (I got an invitation to the Skybox to watch the Cowboys play!)

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The remaining game modes comprise a long list of pond hockey, the Skybox, tournament, party mode with 15 mini-games, mini-rink and old - school season mode.

The game looks good and textures are filled with grimy detail, even if geometry is rather basic by modern standards and was already a few steps behind the curve at its original release, but it's a shame that they haven't gone back and redone the backdrops and skyboxes.

The biggest improvement to the XBLA remake is the solid 60 frames per second and the upgraded skyboxes.