ANYmal robot dances to its own tune

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This robot flips burgers

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Apple Watch rainbow

Not only does this look cool, it supports inclusion and tolerance. Apple will release a new watch face inspired by the rainbow pride flag for the Apple Watch, reportedly available on Monday, June 4, according to 9to5 Mac. 9to5Mac The special pride face was first hinted at in the iOS 11.3 beta version of Apple’s iPhone and iPad operating system. With …

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The NBA’s new AR app lets you step into a portal to the Finals

You can’t teleport to a pro basketball game — yet — but the NBA is doing the next best thing: Using an augmented reality app to bring you courtside at the NBA Finals. A new update to the NBA’s AR app adds a way to create doorways where you can step into 360-degree snippets of the NBA experience. Consider it …

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Type ‘the1975..com’ into your Google app. It’s weird

If you have an Android device and you want to see something weird, type “the1975..com” into your Google app.  Seriously, try it.  What you’ll see is quite puzzling: a list of your recent texts.   A Reddit user discovered the glitch after typing “the1975..com” in the search bar on the default Google Pixel launcher. They were trying to type the …

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Indoor skydiving in VR: As good as the real thing?

I’m in a plane 10,000 feet above Hawaii when a skydiver gives me the signal to jump. My heart skips a beat as I fall out of the plane and suddenly, with the wind rushing around me, I’m hurtling toward Earth.  Now playing: Watch this: Skydiving in VR is ridiculous and fun 3:23 Being too scared to actually throw myself …

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Google AR Expeditions just arrived on iOS and Android

I remember using a selfie stick to try out Google’s educational vision of AR, and it was impressive. My son tried it in his school one day, and felt the same way. Google’s AR Expeditions initiatives were originally designed to be used in classrooms, and still are, but before now schools had to be part of a pilot program to try …

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Google takes aim at China’s smartphone market with country

Google is ramping up its efforts to return to the world’s biggest smartphone market. The search giant launched Wednesday a China-specific version of its storage management platform, Files Go. The app can be downloaded from third-party app stores hosted by Chinese tech mammoths, Baidu, Huawei, Tencent and Xiaomi. Called “Google Wen Jian Ji Ke” (roughly translated as “Google Files Geeks”), …

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Project Fi to carry LG V35 ThinQ, LG G7 and Moto G6

Project Fi is expanding its phone lineup just a tad. The Google phone network announced Wednesday that it’s adding the LG V35 ThinQ, the G7 ThinQ and the Motorola Moto G6 to its services. Announced earlier Wednesday by AT&T, the V35 is a half-step update to February’s V30 ThinQ and features a 6-inch OLED display, the Snapdragon 845 chipset and 6GB of RAM. Similar to …

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Bang & Olufsen’s speakers will work with Airplay 2 and HomePod this fall

Bang & Olufsen is ready to take full advantage of the new features of Apple’s Airplay 2.  The high end speaker maker announced it would work with Apple’s audio streaming system in January. After Apple officially launched Airplay 2 on Tuesday, Bang & Olufsen made the integration official Wednesday and announced it would roll out to 10 of the company’s …

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Google’s iPhone

Maybe you didn’t catch the news at this year’s Google I/O conference, but Google’s developed a fascinating tool for enabling multiplayer AR on phones called Cloud Anchors, which syncs positions across devices. It even works across iOS and Android. The Just A Line app already existed on Android, and is a doodling app in AR. But the app just went …

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Rumored Motorola One Power could be the next Android notch phone

Another day, another Android phone with a notch.  A rumored upcoming Motorola phone called the Motorola One Power will feature a near bezel-less display with a notch at the top and a vertical dual-camera setup, according to Android Headlines, which cites unnamed sources.  It also would mark the return to use of the Motorola brand — as opposed to Moto …

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AT&T CEO says he would have cancelled Roseanne too

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson praised the cancellation of the popular ABC sitcom Roseanne after its star posted a racist-filled Twitter rant on Tuesday. Stephenson was asked about the controversy Wednesday during an interview at Recode’s Code Conference. AT&T is in the midst of trying to buy Time Warner, one of the biggest media companies, which owns cable channels such as …

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Tobii Pro’s new eye

The next generation of VR headsets will most likely all have eye tracking built in. And in the meantime, eye-tracking technology company Tobii is developing ways to analyze where our eyes go in VR, and learn from it. I tried Tobii’s eye-tracking tech in an HTC Vive VR headset a few months ago, and it was astonishingly good. But what’s …

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Oculus Venues brings VR crowds to real

It’s pretty clear what Facebook wants with Oculus: for you to use VR to socialize with your network when you’re not physically with your network. Sound creepy? I hopped around a virtual arena and sat with other avatars during a VR broadcast of a basketball game last week for an hour, and I didn’t hate it. Oculus Venues is the …

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