We entered through the gift shop. The convenience-store glare of Omega Mart greeted us like a 7-Eleven: bright rows of generic snack foods, souvenir knickknacks and a beverage case in the back. Standard Vegas vibe. But look closer. The display case near you advertises “Emergency Clams.” A pile of soup cans, attended to by an …
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I wish life could be simple. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. When it comes to Apple’s iPad lineup, which used to have just one model called the “iPad” back in the day, picking which one to buy has become a strangely entangled process. Somewhere between every single model Apple offers is the perfect iPad, but it doesn’t currently exist …
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The PSVR 2 is light. Surprisingly light. If there’s one thing that immediately hits me when trying on the PlayStation VR 2 – Sony’s upcoming immersive headset for its still hard-to-buy PlayStation 5 – it’s that compared with the popular Meta Quest 2, it feels like barely anything at all. The other big thing I notice comes later. Riding down …
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This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Apple’s most popular product. The Apple Watch Series 8, starting at $399 (£419, AU$629), joins the temperature sensing wearable pack with a new temperature sensor of its own. Temperature-sensing wearables have been a trend these past few years, from the Fitbit Sense to the Oura Ring, …
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This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Apple’s most popular product. The Apple Watch Ultra, announced alongside the Apple Watch Series 8 at Apple’s “Far Out” product event, may be the biggest change we’ve seen to Apple’s watch line-up in years. It arrives Sept. 23, a week after the Watch …
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This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Apple’s most popular product. “Dynamic Island” is the most Apple name of all Apple names. The feature, a part of the upcoming iPhone 14 Pro announced at Apple’s latest product event, was maybe the most surprising feature on Apple’s next phone: The little …
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My wedding ring, dull platinum, sits on the ring finger of my left hand. A black ring, titanium, sits on my right. The Oura Ring has been part of my hand for over half a year now — longer if you count the previous version I reviewed. I sleep with it. I shower with it. I don’t think about it …
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We don’t know a ton of details about Meta’s next VR headset, expected this October, but we do know it’ll feature a Qualcomm chip inside… and so will the company’s headsets for years down the road. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the news during a press conference at Berlin’s IFA tech show. Qualcomm’s already made …
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Apple has been integrating augmented reality into its devices for years, but the company’s next big product looks like it’ll be leaping right into the territory of Meta, Microsoft, Magic Leap and others, with a long-expected mixed-reality headset likely arriving within the next year. The target date of this headset has kept sliding, and we’re now at the point where every Apple event …
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Apple doesn’t have an AR headset yet, but Lenovo just announced a pair of display glasses that will work with iPhones via a Lightning adapter. The Lenovo Glasses T1, one of a handful of computer products announced Thursday by Lenovo at Berlin’s IFA tech show, aren’t AR-enabled. But they could be a second display for your computer or phone. Wired …
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