January, 2017

• 9 January

  Google’s project Tango AR lets museum visitors delve deeper

  

  Ever seen an ancient mummy in a museum and wanted a closer look? I mean a much closer look. Google said Monday it is letting you do that and more through partnerships with museums around the world using its augmented reality platform Tango. By tapping the location and augmented reality capabilities of Tango, part of …

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• 8 January

  Twitter gives Martin Shkreli a timeout

  

  Twitter suspended Martin Shkreli’s account on Sunday following harassment of a freelance journalist. The pharmaceutical executive began trolling Lauren Duca after she wrote an opinion piece for Teen Vogue in December under the headline Donald Trump is Gaslighting America. Shkreli, a Trump supporter, soon began peppering Duca with messages of faux attraction, including an invitation to be his date at …

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• 8 January

  If you bring a new laptop to CES 2017, better make sure it’s a two

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Meet the coolest laptops of CES 2017 9:11 There seems to be two big ways to get some attention for your new PC at CES 2017. One is to make a bold, powerful gaming system like the triple-screen Project Valerie from Razer. The other is to bring a new two-in-one hybrid that blurs the line between …

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• 8 January

  Best home audio products from CES 2017

  

  Though there are dozens of gadget shows around the world each year, there are probably only three that are worth following for audio-visual tech: IFA, CEDIA and CES. CES is the biggest. At the close of the last day of 2017, we look back on the last week and pick out some of our personal highlights: From Atmos sound bars …

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• 8 January

  NBA to stream game on Facebook Live in India

  

  For the first time ever, the NBA is streaming a regular-season game on Facebook Live for basketball fans in India. The league said it will stream Sunday night’s matchup between the Golden State Warriors in Sacramento against the Kings. The game between All-Stars Stephen Curry and DeMarcus Cousins and two of the NBA’s most tech-savvy teams at the new high-tech …

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• 8 January

  If you’re going on a Samsung VR flight, don’t wear a dress

  

  If you’re going to soar over Sydney in a plane, don’t wear a dress — at least not if your flight is one of Samsung’s wild 4D VR demos. I learned that the hard way when I showed up this past week at the Las Vegas Convention Center during CES. I wanted to try out Samsung’s demos that have seemingly …

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• 7 January

  Google adds Huawei, Asus and ZTE phones to the Daydream VR lineup

  

  When Google revealed its Daydream View in October, it was announced alongside the Google Pixel and Pixel XL. These two “phones by Google” and headset were a match made in VR heaven in some ways, but that also meant you could only experience Daydream by using a Pixel. After that, Google added compatibility to the Moto Z. Now it’s expanding …

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• 7 January

  Prepare yourself: Vibrating, augmented reality porn is on its way

  

  It’s been a full year since CNET saw a big dose of adult entertainment delivered via a VR headset. Naughty America, one of several studios delivering wraparound 3D video content for VR, is back in Las Vegas and CES with a meeting room and demos of its films. Not much has changed, based on a quick demo I tried. It …

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• 7 January

  All the robots of CES 2017

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Robots everywhere at CES 2017 19:07 CES 2017 will always be remembered as the show where we met our future robot overlords — and were foolishly disarmed by how darn cute they were. Even when, back in December, we predicted the robots were coming, we didn’t realize quite how many bots we would encounter. The droids …

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• 7 January

  Qualcomm shows what it’s like inside a VR Power Ranger Zord

  

  I felt like a dancer in the dark of a Las Vegas patio lounge, ducking, swooping, leaning and spinning. But I was actually trying to get a closer look at the Red Ranger. I was testing the full-motion tracking capabilities of Qualcomm’s mobile VR headset during a demo at CES 2017. Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragon 835 processor is designed for headsets …

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