Step away from the charging pad. Powercast said Tuesday that it’s won FCC approval for its PowerSpot transmitter, which can deliver over-the-air charging to electronic devices two or more feet away and, in some cases, as far as 80 feet (24 meters). The idea is that charging certain devices could work a little like Wi-Fi …
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It’s another shot fired in a showdown between Amazon and Google. On Thursday, four days ahead of a deadline imposed by Google, its YouTube app has apparently been deactivated on Amazon’s Fire TV devices. People who want to use Fire TV to look at YouTube are being directed instead to a pair of browsers, including Amazon’s own Silk. It’s not …
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T-Mobile wants to remind you that it’s serious about our 5G future. On Thursday, CEO John Legere offered up a series of reflections on 2017 and predictions for 2018, with T-Mobile front and center. In the case of 5G, he expects the year ahead to be a stepping-stone as T-Mobile builds on the wireless spectrum it just acquired. “We will …
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Whether it’s balmy where you are or bitter cold, Google has a doodle to suit your climate. With the holiday season reaching its peak, Google on Friday has posted a pair of doodles, one for the Northern Hemisphere, where winter has just begun, and another for the Southern, where summertime is getting under way. The northerly doodle celebrates wintertime caroling, …
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The view of the Tibetan river is wiggly, the one of the Antarctic glacier subtle. The look at Bolivia’s Nuflo de Chavez province is downright kaleidoscopic. Welcome to the latest enhancement to Google Earth Timelapse, satellite images of our planet showing changes over time, which Google calls its largest update yet. Tuesday’s update adds four more years of imagery and …
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Sometimes it’s not what you say that matters, but what you don’t say. That seems to be the case with the latest transparency report from the popular community site Reddit. Released Thursday, the report documents the number of requests the website received in 2015 from governments around the world seeking information on users or the removal of content, as well …
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Regulators in India want to pull the plug on Facebook’s controversial Free Basics service. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has requested that the sole company in that country to offer Free Basics, which provides rudimentary access to the Internet, put a halt to the program, according to a report in the Times of India. It’s unclear whether the service …
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Joe Paradiso chuckles at the unexpected growl of a small aircraft engine. The airplane isn’t overhead. It’s 50 miles away, passing over a former cranberry bog that Paradiso and his research team are monitoring. Microphones planted there have relayed the sound to his workspace here at the MIT Media Lab as we look at a computer screen …
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Enlarge ImageThe Moto 360 Sport was on display earlier this month at the IFA electronics show in Berlin. Sarah Tew/CNET By the end of this decade, the battle between the Apple Watch and rival Android smartwatches will be a much tighter one. That shift will come as consumers get more familiar with smart wearables, still a very new type of …
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Taylor Swift during her June 19 performance in Cologne, Germany, at a stop on “The 1989 World Tour.” Sascha Steinbach/Getty Images for TAS When it launches next week, Apple Music will be minus a blockbuster album from one of today’s hottest pop stars. On Sunday, Taylor Swift said that she will withhold her album “1989” from Apple’s new streaming-music service, …
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