Now playing: Watch this: IMAX bringing VR to movie theaters 1:05 GoPro was the first camera to hop onboard Jump, Google’s design for an array of cameras that provide 360-degree virtual-reality video. But it won’t be the last. Two new partners were announced Thursday during a VR keynote at Google’s I/O developer conference in Mountain …
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I don’t like to make a lot of decisions. That’s why Apple’s laptops always appealed to me. This, or this. This, or this. Like an eye exam. Two options, maybe. A product line that’s polished. I’m picking the right tool. I understand the rules. It got more complicated last year. The new MacBook emerged: 12 inches, thin. As opposed to …
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Slowly but surely, Pebble’s year-old Time watches keep getting fitness boosts. The latest Pebble Health update, part of a firmware and Pebble app update that arrived today for Android and iOS, adds some welcome features to Time watches (Pebble Time, Time Steel and Pebble Time Round). Automatic tracking of runs and long walks now gets logged in Pebble Health, and …
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When it comes to artificial intelligence and digital assistants, Dag Kittlaus brings a lot of gravitas to the table: he co-created Siri, which Apple later purchased and made the “voice” of iPhone. And now Kittlaus has co-created what may well be the next generation of Siri: Viv, a new AI startup that aims to replace the app world as we …
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Hasbro is pushing Nerf’s radio-controlled toys into video-equipped territory. Nerf has crawling robots that shoot foam things. Nerf has cameras to record you shooting these foam things. And now, Nerf has an RC vehicle that shoots foam things and records video of it at the same time. Hasbro’s Nerf N-Strike Elite Terrascout RC Drone Blaster, coming in the fall, looks …
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Windows 10 has been a critical success, and it looks like a lot of people are upgrading, too. After a six-month check-in, at which point 200 million active devices had upgraded, Microsoft announced Thursday that the number’s now up to 300 million devices worldwide. That tally includes PCs, phones, and also the Xbox One. In a blog post this morning, …
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A mystery continues. Craig Wright, the latest person who has claimed to be the creator of the electronic currency Bitcoin, won’t provide the evidence he said he would. Turns out he got cold feet after heating up the rumor-and-rebuttal mill. “I believed I could put the years of anonymity and hiding behind me,” Wright said via a blog post this …
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Look on Twitter for the hashtag #AirbnbWhileBlack, and you’ll find a number of protests that racism is alive in the sharing economy. A Harvard Business School study published earlier this year found that having a “distinctively African American name” led to being 16 percent less likely to be accepted at Airbnb, The Guardian reported on Thursday. And there are a …
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“Best product of the year.” So said just about everyone I asked about Amazon Echo. So it went as I read review after review. I finally bought one when it went on sale recently. I’d been hovering around the idea, but I don’t need another gadget in my life, and I already have plenty of things that listen to me…or …
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Google might be ready to launch a whole new vision of VR. And honestly, in a year filled with big VR hardware all over the place, I’m more interested to hear about what Google’s got in the works than anyone else. Google’s I/O developer conference is just around the corner. There are a lot of VR-targeted developer sessions this year, …
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