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Media accreditation now is open for U.S. and international news media interested in covering the launch of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California -- the second of NASA's five Earth science missions to launch in 2014.

OCO-2 is scheduled to launch at 2:56 a.m. PDT July 1 from Space Launch Complex 2 on a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket. U.S. Air Force policy requires that international media apply for accreditation at least 30 days before the launch.

News media should contact TSgt Vincent Mouzon in writing at 30th Space Wing Public Affairs Office, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., 93437; by phone at 805-606-3595; by fax at 805-606-4571; or by email atvincent.mouzon@us.af.mil.

International media are required to submit full legal name, date of birth, nationality, passport number and media affiliation. Information required for U.S. media includes full legal name, date of birth and media affiliation. A valid legal form of photo identification will be required upon arrival at Vandenberg.

OCO-2 is NASA's first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide, the most significant human-produced greenhouse gas and the principal human-produced driver of climate change on Earth. OCO-2 will provide a new tool for understanding the human and natural sources of carbon dioxide emissions and the natural "sinks" that absorb carbon dioxide and help control its buildup. It will map the global geographic distribution of these sources and sinks and study their changes over time.

The OCO-2 project is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The agency's Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center in Florida is responsible for management of the launch vehicle program for the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket.

For more information about the OCO-2 mission, visit:

http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov

For more information about NASA's Earth science activities in 2014, visit:

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Social media marketing firms Spredfast and Mass Relevance announced a merger today. Spredfast, whose CEO Rod Favaron will lead the joint company, helps brands manage their social content and plan engagement with their fans and followers.

Mass Relevance is a firm that helps brands curate social media content and display it on TV and on screens out of home. Mass Relevance recently committed to displaying strictly Twitter content on major network broadcasts, a deal that speaks to the social media rivalry for control of the TV.

We built Mass Relevance to connect relevant conversations from social networks and fuse them into a customer's brand story, CEO Sam Decker said in a press release today.

The companies shared an investor in Austin Ventures. The merged company will retain the Spredfast name.

The social media management space has been in consolidation mode with firms uniting to offer all the monitoring, activity and data needs in one place for advertisers. In another example, Sprinklr bought Dachis Group earlier this year.

Last month, Google shut down Wildfire, a social management platform that left a number of brands looking for new partners to help store troves of consumer data, which they harvest during digital marketing campaigns.

Brands increasingly need to take control of their social channels, which are ever changing and sometimes throwing up challenges, such as Facebooks evolving News Feed, which now limits the spread of unpaid messages.

The social media technology companies help brands manage the data about fans and followers in ways that make advertisers less beholden to a single channel to reach consumers.

Spredfast and Mass Relevance have worked with brands, including AT&T, Target, Whole Foods, Pepsi, GE, Campbells, Warner Bros. and Walgreens.

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Over the course of the next month, Microsoft plans to roll out a series of updates focused on the Xbox One's media playback functionality. Most notably, select Xbox One users will get the chance to test a new suite of Smartglass controls.

Later this week, the first wave of updates will arrive and bring with it universal media playback on Microsoft devices. Now, users will be able to view Xbox media content on any Microsoft device, whether it be an Xbox One, Xbox 360, Windows 8 PC , Windows Phone or even online at Xbox Video. Alongside this, Microsoft will update the Xbox One Smartglass companion application to feature easier navigation options, mobile Xbox Live alerts and Snap functionality.

In an effort to "explore some new ideas," Microsoft will also be debuting new Smartglass media controls. Explicit details are currently unavailable, but these new controls should allow users to control a TV, Xbox One, and set-top DVR directly from a tablet or smartphone. Unlike the rest of the aforementioned media playback update, this Smartglass addition will initially be rolled out to a small group of testers, then released to the general population once Microsoft has fixed any kinks.

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