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GoPro has a new 360 VR camera that you can’t have

GoPro’s been deep into developing commercial VR capture systems for a couple years now. First, there was the large Google Jump-optimized Odyssey, then the significantly smaller Omni and now, the wearable Fusion. Unlike the Omni with its synchronized array of six GoPro Hero4 Black cameras and the Odyssey with its 16 cameras, the Fusion is …

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How to increase battery life on the Samsung Galaxy S8

Now playing: Watch this: 4 ways to improve battery life on the Galaxy S8 2:01 Samsung’s Galaxy S8 doesn’t have issues with battery life, at least not yet, but if you find yourself needing to top up the device throughout the day, there are a few settings you can adjust to prolong a single charge. Disable the Always-On Display Enlarge …

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The first item in Microsoft’s new To

In case you were wundering what would happen to Wunderlist since it was bought by Microsoft, wunder no more: It’s being replaced by a new app called To-Do. Microsoft acquired the popular mobile task management app Wunderlist in 2015, at which point it had more than 13 million users. But today in a blog post Microsoft announced that it’s retiring …

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Samsung’s new HD TV format targets arch

Samsung, the biggest TV maker in the world, is also the only one that doesn’t support Dolby’s high dynamic range format. Its solution, this year at least, is to introduce yet another competing HDR format. HDR10+ is its name. And only Samsung’s 2017 HDR TVs are compatible as of today, including QLED models such as the Q7. A software update …

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FCC chairman pitches net neutrality reform to Silicon Valley

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai met with executives at Facebook, Cisco, Oracle, Intel and other major tech companies this week as the federal agency considers rolling back controversial net neutrality rules. Pai traveled to Silicon Valley Monday to talk to companies that participate in the “internet economy,” he told reporters at a news conference following the Federal Communications Commission’s monthly meeting. …

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