Elsewhere, a startup you’ve never heard of, wants to crack 3D video for phones where giants have failed. A wife-and-husband team, Wendellen Li and Aza Raskin, on Thursday launched Elsewhere’s namesake product for sale. The $50 black plastic glasses attach to your iPhone and, working with Elsewhere’s free app, make any video appear three-dimensional, whether …
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New ‘Magnum P.I.’ series in the works, with daughter as star
Fans may not see Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum racing after criminals in his Ferrari 308 GTS, but they will see Magnum’s daughter Lily solving mysteries in a new “Magnum P.I.” TV sequel in the works. The new series, for ABC, is helmed by “Leverage” creator John Rogers and Eva Longoria’s UnbeliEVAble Entertainment production company. Related stories Game of Rumors: …
Read More »A pro surfer rips it with the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus to see which fares best
The new water-resistant iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus have made waves this month, and now we can finally see how they survive actual waves. Pro surfer Kai Lenny took both the new iPhones, as well as the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, to see how they fared after some quality time with the salty, unforgiving waters of the Pacific …
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We can learn a lot from a 6-year-old boy, says President Barack Obama. After seeing the heartbreaking photo of Omran Daquneesh, a shell-shocked 5-year-old boy who was wounded in an airstrike in Syria, a 6-year-old from New York named Alex wrote President Obama with a request. “Can you please go get him and bring him to [my home]?” he said …
Read More »Apple rumored to launch first Korean Apple Store near Samsung’s HQ
Apparently, Apple’s been sniffing around Samsung’s home turf. The iPhone maker is rumored to be scouting property for its first Apple Store location in the South Korea (and the whole Korean Peninsula), according to the Wall Street Journal. Specifically, in Seoul’s Gangnam neighborhood, which is home to Samsung’s three-story D’light store and one of its main office buildings. (Samsung also …
Read More »Halfway there: 500,000 Galaxy Note 7 phones returned in the US
Half of Samsung’s defective, potentially explosive Samsung Galaxy Note 7 batteries are now safely out of US consumers’ hands. Just two days after Samsung shipped 500,000 replacement Galaxy Note 7 smartphones to US retailers — to begin replacing the 1 million sold — the company says that one-half of existing Note 7 owners in the US have returned their original …
Read More »Instagram doubles advertisers in six months
Instagram has 500,000 advertisers on its platform, the company said on Thursday. Owned by Facebook, the photo-sharing social-media network offers an advertising platform that tailors ads to specific types of users. San Francisco-based Instagram has 500 million monthly active users, making a tempting target for advertisers. The network said that since it launched its advertising platform in September 2015, Instagram …
Read More »Flybrix Lego drone is built for crashes
Now playing: Watch this: Flybrix is a crashable Lego drone 1:13 You never forget the first time you crash a drone. Or the second. Or the third. Fortunately, Flybrix makes every crash a learning experience rather than a lingering bad memory. It’s a build-it-yourself toy drone that’s made from Lego bricks, though the company is not associated with Lego. Each …
Read More »Beats won’t have a new Studio Wireless headphone in 2016
With the launch of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, Apple-owned Beats announced four new headphone models: The Solo3 Wireless, an update to its popular on-ear model, the Powerbeats3 Wireless, an update to its wireless sports headphone, the all-new Beats X neckband-style headphone and an entry-level wired headphone, the Ep. Conspicuously missing from the roll out was a new …
Read More »Samsung Note 7 faces more battery checks in South Korea
The fallout over Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 phone continues, with a new agreement between the electronics company and the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards. This agreement, which covers phones to be sold in South Korea, requires that every new battery for the Note 7 be x-rayed by the battery supplier, and then additionally tested by Samsung before being used …
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