For $250, you can now express your Dwayne Johnson fandom on your head while you work out. The new UA Sport Wireless Project Rock Edition over-the-ear wireless headphones are rated IPX4 — that means they’re spray- and splash-resistant for up to 5 minutes. They have washable, breathable and fast drying earcup fabric, slip-resistant headband. Really, …
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When it comes to navigation, we live in an age of miracles. Speak a few words to your phone and it’ll lead you to your friend’s house. But there’s still room for improvement. What3words CEO Chris Sheldrick What3words How do you tell your sister where to meet at the concert festival? Where along that dirt road is the trailhead? Today’s …
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How can Facebook expand past its 2.2 billion monthly active users? Perhaps by bringing the internet to more places. Facebook has tested one method that uses plane-mounted lasers that can shoot a high-speed internet connection through the sky, according to a February 2018 paper seen by Business Insider. With the lasers, the company was able to create a wireless link between …
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Instagram Lite launched on the Google Play Store without announcement Wednesday, offering users a cut-down version of the photosharing app. The Lite app is just 573KB, compared to the regular Instagram’s 32MB. Users can post photos, add filters, view stories and use the Explore tab. The ability to message friends and share videos will be added later, the Google Play …
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Walmart added a 3D virtual shopping tour to its website Wednesday, giving customers the chance to explore a nonexistent apartment filled with products they can buy. The tour showcases about 70 items from various brands and Walmart’s own offerings. Customers can click their way around the one-bedroom apartment and click on products to buy them from the site. The items …
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Verizon’s Go90 is going away. The wireless carrier said Thursday that it’ll shut down the ads-supported mobile video app on July 31. Launched three years ago, Go90 offered anybody, regardless of wireless carrier, a mix of traditional TV; live programming like NFL and college football games; and shorter clips commonly associated with sites like YouTube. But Go90 has been taking …
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Over the next few weeks, YouTube will run an experiment where 0.3 percent of its viewers will see automatically generated video thumbnails, rather than the images YouTubers created. That may not sound like much of a reach, but given that the service pulls in 1.8 billion viewers each month, the auto-generated thumbnails could be seen by more than 5 million …
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Amazon wants you to think of your Fire tablet as not just a tablet but a full-fledged Alexa-enabled device — or more precisely, a slimmed down Echo Show. It’s called Show Mode, and it’s coming as a free software update for current generation Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 tablets. Like the Echo Show, the new mode serves up …
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Amazon’s ambitions to become an online pharmacy are finally coming to fruition. The e-commerce giant on Thursday said it agreed to buy the online drug store PillPack. The startup, which was founded in 2013, ships medications to people in the US in presorted dose packaging and caters to people who take multiple prescriptions a day. The deal gives Amazon pharmaceutical …
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Motorola is hosting an event at its headquarters in Chicago on Aug. 2 at 2 p.m. local time, and it’s announcing… something. Motorola posted a mysterious teaser for the event on YouTube. The video is 11 seconds with no sound and doesn’t share any specifics about what it’s announcing — only the time and place of the event. You can …
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