Google just rebranded its Android Wear watch platform with a new name: Wear OS. This news arrives less than two months before Google I/O, the annual developer conference in which Google announces its new initiatives and software broad strokes. New Google hardware generally (though not always) hits around October. Maybe Wear OS is an indicator …

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With their cold beer, baskets of french fries, and multitude of TVs that show every game, sports bars are great for March Madness. The one item missing most of the time, however, is game audio. It’s missing because TVs in bars are usually muted or, worse, the bar is piping out audio for the biggest game but you can’t hear …

Get ready for less Facebook in your life. That’s not a typo. The world’s largest social network said Thursday that it’ll be releasing Facebook Lite, its pared-down app designed for people in developing countries with limited data plans, to the wider world, including Australia, Canada, Germany, France, the UK and US.  Facebook is making the app only available on Android …

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Now playing: Watch this: Trump blocks Broadcom-Qualcomm merger 1:24 What would have been technology’s biggest merger is no more.  Broadcom, which makes chips for everything from TV set-top boxes to servers, said Wednesday it has withdrawn its $117 billion bid to acquire Qualcomm, the world’s largest maker of chips for smartphones. The move comes two days after US President Donald …

Last year, I played Super Mario in AR on a Hololens. The maker of that game, Abhishek Singh, told me he would be focusing on mobile games and ARKit in the future. Now he has another AR gaming idea he’s brewed up: Street Fighter II in AR, using ARKit on an iPhone, so you can literally fight in the street. …

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If you’ve got your eye on LG’s new phone but aren’t a fan of its much-rumored iPhone X-like notch, this might please you: It appears to be optional. Ever since Apple released its iPhone X in November with a black notch above the screen that houses the phone’s front-facing camera and other sensors, a gaggle of Android phone makers has been rumored …