Facebook on Wednesday laid out a compelling vision of the future where the physical world blurs with the digital world. With augmented reality, or AR, glasses, which overlay digital graphics on top of what you already see in real life, you could avoid the social pitfalls of forgetting someone’s name. The glasses would show you …
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19 April
Newest Firefox browser bashes crashes
Nobody likes it when a web browser bombs instead of opening up a website. So if you’re a Firefox user, you should be happy with Tuesday’s release of Firefox 53, which cuts down browser crashes by 10 percent for most people on Windows computers. The improvement comes through the first big debut of a part of Project Quantum, an effort …
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19 April
Sling TV app heads to LG Smart TVs
Sling TV, the streaming service from satellite company Dish, will now be available as an app on LG Smart TVs, Sling said earlier this week. Sling TV starts at $20 per month for about 30 live TV channels, including ESPN, AMC, Disney and the History Channel. You can pay more for additional or different channels, like regular cable. This is …
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19 April
iPhone chip suppliers are ramping up, report says
It can be tough figuring out future iPhone demand, especially five months before September, when people expect Apple to introduce three new models of its most important product. Now word comes that chipmakers will “step up their pace of inventory building,” and that chip demand for the iPhone “will exceed 50 million sets per quarter during the second half of …
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19 April
Facebook wants to bring AI to your phone with camera apps
Facebook is bringing some cool tricks to its camera apps using machine learning technology. The social media giant is building features into the camera apps on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger that could let you shoot 3D pictures with a single lens and apply different artistic styles to videos, the company said Wednesday at F8, its annual developer conference. Powering those …
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19 April
Get these Bose SoundLink On
Bose appears to be discontinuing its on-ear wireless headphone, the SoundLink On-Ear Bluetooth, and is selling the white version at a “last chance” price of $150 in its online store. It carries a list price of $250. Except for that clearance listing, the headphone has disappeared from Bose’s online store. The black version is still available on Amazon for as …
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19 April
How emerging companies develop salable software
With technology increasingly intertwined with all aspects of business, CNET@Work can help you — prosumers to small businesses with fewer than five employees — get started. You’re a small business owner and you have an idea that you want to turn into a marketable software product — but you’re not a software developer. How do you get your idea launched? …
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19 April
Facebook’s new Surround 360 cameras will get you moving
Imagine you’re watching a butterfly as it flits through the air and into the foliage. Normally, as it disappeared into the leaves, you’d bob and turn your head trying to see if you could catch one last look from a different angle. But in a movie, you can’t do that. Think again. Facebook has created new designs for its professional …
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19 April
CNET asks: Do you still use Uber?
Now playing: Watch this: Uber CEO fights with driver over low fares 2:11 There’s no shortage of negative news about ride-hailing company Uber, from sexual harassment allegations to a dashcam video of the CEO telling off a driver concerned about falling fares to the DeleteUber hashtag that sprang from the firm’s response to President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. And there’s …
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19 April
‘We’ll Skype you into the funeral’
I had about an hour to make the decision. I was packing my bags for a three-week trip to Asia when the call came. My grandmother — Mom’s mom and our family’s shining light — had undergone emergency surgery. Doctors addressed one problem only to discover more. My grandma’s frail body was riddled with so many tumors that even if …
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