Now playing: Watch this: Meet Daydream, Google’s vision for virtual reality 2:25 Google was widely expected to introduce the “Nexus” of virtual reality headsets at this year’s developer conference. That’s not exactly what happened. Instead of creating a single standalone piece of VR headgear with its own built-in computer, Google is launching a hardware and …
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Now playing: Watch this: With Android Instant Apps, you can use a program without… 1:30 You can load nearly any website on your phone, but apps generally offer a better user experience. Now Google has found a way to bridge the two. Google on Wednesday showed off Android Instant Apps, a way to turn any Android program into a website …
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Now playing: Watch this: Here’s how Google will tempt smartwatch fans with Android… 2:26 If the next version of Android Wear does its job, you’ll be futzing with your smartwatch a lot less. Google on Wednesday unveiled Android Wear 2.0, an update to its wearable software that promises a streamlined experience focused on what it believes watch users really need. …
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Now playing: Watch this: Oculus Rift vs. HTC Vive 6:02 Sure, you can play around with VR on your phone, or wait for the PlayStation VR to hit later this year. But for the best stuff, the jaw-dropping, bleeding-edge VR stuff, you’ll need one of the big rigs. You’ll need a good PC, with some serious graphics and a major-league …
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Now playing: Watch this: HP kills the bezel on this sleek iMac competitor 1:30 Slowly but surely, computers are melting into the world around us. And I’m not talking about fancy holographic glasses or roll-up, newspaper-like screens. Thanks to razor-thin bezels, even an ordinary flatscreen computer display can feel like it’s floating on air. Dell’s new XPS laptops use the …
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Virtual reality is amazing, but there’s not a lot to do in VR quite yet. Now the maker of the HTC Vive virtual-reality headset is doing something about that. HTC is launching a global startup accelerator with $100 million in funding, with the hopes of investing in ambitious software and hardware ideas for virtual reality. The pilot program will begin …
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The FBI spent over $1.3 million to unlock the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook — and reportedly found nothing important inside. Now Apple wants to find out how the phone got hacked, but the FBI doesn’t plan to share. According to The Wall Street Journal, the FBI will argue that it doesn’t know enough about the mysterious third-party …
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Imagine if you could be on the set of the next Star Wars film. Imagine if you could watch as Star Wars: Episode VIII director Rian Johnson trains Daisy Ridley to (maybe) become a Jedi. Star Wars owner Disney is now working on the next best thing. Today, Disney announced a deal to use Nokia’s $60,000 (roughly £43,000 or AU$78,000) …
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I’ve wanted to use The Force since I was a little kid. Pull things towards me, push them away, with a mere wave of my hand. This week, I got to try something a lot like that. Don’t get too excited: we haven’t developed human tractor beams quite yet. But remote-control cars, drones and light bulbs could totally be within …
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A standing desk is a great way to avoid sitting on your rear all day — but many standing desks don’t have a great place to put your PC. Taiwanese case manufacturer Lian Li has an intriguing answer: a motorized standing desk that brilliantly doubles as a unique case for all your PC components. Enlarge Image Lian Li The Lian …
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