March, 2019

• 22 March

  The 10 coolest mobile games we saw at GDC 2019

  

  PC and console developers were showing off their AAA games in giant booths from Microsoft, Sony, Epic Games and others on the show floor at this week’s Game Developer Conference. Not to be left out, casual games for mobile devices played a key role at GDC, too.  We found a bucket of engaging games that …

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• 22 March

  Google VR controller patent adds location, orientation tracking

  

  A Google patent application published Thursday gives us a look at the way VR systems could improve their understanding of where your hands are. The patent, uncovered earlier by Patently Mobile, lays out a “VR Arm Model,” which allows a system to supplement the tracking information for a controller’s location in space and the orientation in which you’re holding it. …

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• 22 March

  Firefox Send file

  

  Owners of Android phones now also can use Firefox Send, the Mozilla service that lets you send 1GB files with a simple website address. The Android app, released Friday, works the same as the browser-based version of the service that the nonprofit organization formally launched earlier in March after months of testing. It lets you share 1GB files that are protected …

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• 22 March

  Apple’s news subscription likely won’t include New York Times

  

  Apple’s new digital news service won’t be welcomed by everyone. The New York Times, one of the biggest and most prestigious newspapers in the US, will likely not be featured in Apple’s subscription news service, expected to be announced on Monday. “We tend to be quite leery about the idea of almost habituating people to find our journalism somewhere else,” …

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• 22 March

  AT&T’s fake 5G E is slower than Verizon’s and T

  

  AT&T’s wannabe 5G network, 5G E, might actually be slower than its competitors’ 4G LTE networks. Opensignal, a company that looks into mobile network performance, on Friday published a study comparing the speeds of AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile. Though there wasn’t a raging gulf, 5G E clocked in slower than services from Verizon and T-Mobile that use the comparable …

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• 22 March

  Facebook doesn’t waste time, it wastes attention spans. That’s worse

  

  It’s a chilly winter night in Munich, Germany. I’m alone in an empty hostel dorm, basking in the warmth of the heater and the hostel’s surprising hygiene, trying to watch Mad Men on my MacBook. I say “trying” because this is proving to be a peculiarly difficult task. Watching 50-minute episodes of Mad Men is taking anywhere between one and …

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• 22 March

  Microsoft headset patent puts a new spin on mixed reality

  

  A Microsoft patent application published Thursday (and initially filed in 2017) shows a freaky-looking reinterpretation of a mixed-reality head-mounted display. Rather than using fixed screens in front of your eyes, which can limit the field of view, the screens could rotate, orbit your head or move back and forth to simulate a 360-degree field of view in any direction without …

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• 22 March

  The Lamborghini LM002 was Rambo’s Lambo

  

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• 22 March

  Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: What’s your relationship with them like?

  

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• 22 March

  Facebook blunders password management, AT&T and Comcast take on robocalls

  

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