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Smartphone-based VR headsets like Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear VR are some of the most affordable ways to experience virtual reality, but they lack the advanced motion-tracking controls of high-end headsets like the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. However, if a YouTube video from Israeli gesture control company EyeSight Mobile Technologies is to be believed, that might not always …
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Hey, playa, think you’ve got the digital skills to make a basketball hype video? Then the NBA is looking for you. The league said Tuesday it is launching NBA Playmakers, an online video network focused on basketball and basketball culture that will feature content created by fans around the world. The league, along with partner BroadbandTV, will promote the best …
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Can you see it? Look again. No, really. Look closer. See it now? Yes, it’s a brick wall. But it’s also something else. The latest optical-illusion challenge to sweep the Internet is a seemingly dull photo of a pretty ordinary brick wall. UK resident Arron Bevin posted it to his Facebook page on Monday with the message “This is one …
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Apple plans to expand support for iOS app development and startups in India, a phone market that has grown increasingly important to the iPhone maker, the company said late Tuesday. The company said it will build an iOS design and development accelerator in Bengaluru, considered home to India’s startup scene. In addition to providing specialized support to developers, the center …
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Back in January at CES Speck showed off its take on Google Cardboard, a pocket-friendly virtual reality viewer with a compact and collapsible design that it calls Pocket VR. It’s now shipping and I got my hands on an early sample. What’s nice about Pocket VR is that it’s both slim and durable and also easy to set up and …
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Apple may introduce a third variant of the iPhone 7 this year. The company has already begun production of its 2016 iPhone lineup, tech blog site Mobipicker said Monday, citing information from an anonymous source. A screenshot shared by the tipster showed three iPhone models slated for this year: an iPhone 7, an iPhone 7 Plus and an iPhone 7 …
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SoundHound’s song-identifying app has always had a good ear for music. Today, it wants to be an even better listener, with a new, hands-free “OK Hound” feature for its iOS app that’ll let you control the app using voice commands. That includes the ability to add songs to your playlists wherever possible in apps like Spotify, Pandora and Apple Music. …
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Filming for the next season of “Sherlock” is well under way at 221B Baker Street. Actor Toby Jones, best known for playing Truman Capote in the biopic “Infamous,” will guest star in the British mystery series as a new enemy to the Great Detective. “I’m excited and intrigued by the character I shall be playing in ‘Sherlock,'” Jones told BBC …
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The Windows 10 Anniversary edition will roll out July 29, according to a Microsoft document. The July 29 date appears in slides for Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2016, blog site NokiaPowerUser said Monday. One slide points to July as the Windows 10 release-to-manufacturing (RTM) time frame. A second slide sets the start of the key 90-day RTM phase …
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Legacy file-sharing client BitTorrent is making a move into media with a new BitTorrent Live TV streaming app, laying the groundwork for a new BitTorrent TV streaming service. The app will be available on Apple TV, Mac OS computers and iOS devices later this week. With it, you’ll be able to watch free streams from 13 content providers. None of …
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The LG G5 is a different kind of phone, and that’s exactly how LG wants it. In an industry where nonremovable batteries are increasingly the norm, the G5’s battery slides out, allowing you to replace it. Even more wildly, that battery attaches to modules you can swap in to give the phone better audio and a sturdier camera grip. And …
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YouTube Red, the subscription offering of the popular video sharing service, is now available in Australia and New Zealand, along with the separate (but closely related) YouTube Music. YouTube Red launched late last year in the US, and ANZ is the first new region to get access to the service. At its most basic, YouTube Red lets you pay to …
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Show your work. The US Supreme Court kicked a contentious privacy lawsuit back to a lower court on Monday, essentially telling the 9th US District Court of Appeals it hadn’t answered all the necessary questions when ruling that people search engine Spokeo had harmed a user by displaying inaccurate information. In a 6-2 decision, the Supreme Court said the lower …
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Companies love to cash in on American patriotism. Last week, Anheuser-Busch said it will repackage Budweiser cans with the label “America” from May 23 through November’s election season. Now, Michigan’s Saugatuck Brewing Company is poking fun at Anheuser-Busch’s flag-waving campaign with one of its own. “We’re here to make beer named after America great again,” Saugatuck Brewing Company posted on …
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